Dark, soulless, cruel energy taking over the USA

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Anonymous wrote:I give up. Keep losing, Democrats. You would be better off if you could pull yourselves together and stop sounding insane. Criticize Trump like a normal person — there is plenty to go on. But no, you want to go as insane as absolutely possible.

Pointing out facts is not insane. Pretending what is happening isn't happening is the definition of insane.

You mean like my 11 year old son making me call him his trans name and making me buy him tampons for his period

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Anonymous wrote:I give up. Keep losing, Democrats. You would be better off if you could pull yourselves together and stop sounding insane. Criticize Trump like a normal person — there is plenty to go on. But no, you want to go as insane as absolutely possible.

Pointing out facts is not insane. Pretending what is happening isn't happening is the definition of insane.

You mean like my 11 year old son making me call him his trans name and making me buy him tampons for his period

More like electing people to office who claim to hear God’s voice and know that Trump is God’s will.

Or putting faith in people who believe a man in a dress can conjure up an unlimited supply of Zombie Jesus meat to serve out every day and 3 times on Sunday.

Now THAT’s insane.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

What a depressingly cynical view of the world. People have agency. Democrats made policy choices and voters have responded to it. The same will be true when the pendulum swings the other way.

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Anonymous wrote:The blue hysteria is caused by the fact that the posters or their families are fed/ngo/501c3 grifter(s). These posters have let their selfish personal interest block their connection to reality and apocalyptic musings are nothing more than a smoke screen to block the reality of the grift. DCUM: the 325 million Americans who live outside the DMV, red/blue/purple, are ENRAGED by spectacular fraud, waste and abuse that has been going on in DC for generations in DC (by both parties, btw), they aren't going to pay for all of the fed/ngo/501c3 & defense contractor bullshit anymore, and they are thrilled that Elon, Big Balls and the others are stopping as much of this theft as possible. Good luck with telling the country they are misinformed- they have had it with all of you selfish, entitled people and even though I live here, and am friends with a lot of fed/ngos/501c3 people, I fully understand the country's rage with what goes on here.

This is partly true. Much of the country is fed up with government bloat and waste and they have a right to be. There is something to appreciate in a major party politician pointing this out and making campaign promises to address it. The problem for the country in this case is how the elected leader goes about addressing the issue. Closing down agencies and terminating hundreds of thousands of people without due process in audits and investigations is not the way a truly presidential leader and their administration addresses such complex issues. It's lunacy.

I seriously doubt the average American could even give any coherent, truthful or accurate detail of what they consider to be the "government bloat and waste" that they are so "fed up with." Sure, I bet a handful of them might be able to rattle off some salacious thing they were told by conservative media, but I doubt even that would be accurate or truthful. And now we have Elon Musk "enraging" people by posting gross misrepresentations and AI-generated gobbledygook about "spectacular fraud." Yes, you ARE being misinformed. And you're about to go through some things as you learn things the hard way.

You are correct except for your last statement. These MAGA dipshits won’t learn a GD thing.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

This is all very true and the sad part of all of this is the fact that all Dems had to do was have a normal/average nominee capable of serving two terms in 2020 and a Trump second term would have never been possible. At least we know that reinventing the political wheel isn't necessary to keep awful people like Trump away from power. We just need normalcy out of at least one of our major parties. Power vacuums = Trump presidencies.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

What a depressingly cynical view of the world. People have agency. Democrats made policy choices and voters have responded to it. The same will be true when the pendulum swings the other way.

No, people actually have a lot less agency than you think. Humans are animals and react predictably to fear filled propaganda. Conservatives and old people in particular are particularly susceptible to being duped. Dem policies are a whole lot more popular than “cut everything that benefits working people to give Elon a tax break”, but those scary dog-eating trans Haitians in locker rooms get them every time.

This just helps you understand, it doesn’t mean they should be exempt or immune from what comes next. You touch a hot stove, you’re going to get burned. It doesn’t matter if you were told and believed your hands were fireproof.

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The public wanted the cuts and its being done. You all know full well that a small fraction of the waste/fraud/abuse would end up being cut if it done through endless audits of audits of audits and endless grandstanding bs hearing after hearing kabuki theater. That's one of the many legitimate reasons that the public despises Congress- nothing ever gets done.

The US citizens are smart enough to know that they are done with paying hundreds of billions to illegals while our own citizens lack health insurance and live in the streets. They know that DHS and Pentagon regularly hand out no bid contracts to unethical, opportunistic defense contractors that have cost them more than a trillion dollars in overpayments, terrible work product, not to mention the enrichment of these defense contractors from the taxpayer's money. And the public is appalled that 2.7 trillion of Medicare payments were paid improperly to non-residents and that SS hasnt even de-duped ssns and that decades-ling deceased people are still receiving checks.

They find it outrageous that USAG hasnt been back in the office since covid started almost five years ago and that something like 3% of fed workers of all agencies were back in the office (other than building security/maintenance) since covid stated 5 years ago. It's more proof that the gov is orders of magnitude too large.

Only DCUM could read the details of the billions in bs programs USAID was funding and respond, yeah, that's good. The overwhelming majority of people outside DMV have an extraordinarily negative reaction to that kind of spending when they are busting their butts just to buy groceries.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

What a depressingly cynical view of the world. People have agency. Democrats made policy choices and voters have responded to it. The same will be true when the pendulum swings the other way.

No, people actually have a lot less agency than you think. Humans are animals and react predictably to fear filled propaganda. Conservatives and old people in particular are particularly susceptible to being duped. Dem policies are a whole lot more popular than “cut everything that benefits working people to give Elon a tax break”, but those scary dog-eating trans Haitians in locker rooms get them every time.

This just helps you understand, it doesn’t mean they should be exempt or immune from what comes next. You touch a hot stove, you’re going to get burned. It doesn’t matter if you were told and believed your hands were fireproof.

lol... you people are still yammering about how policies may have impacted in the 2024 election. Sure, policies may have accounted for a drop or two in a bucket of reasons why Trump won. The rest of the drops in that bucket all have to do with an incumbent party having an incumbent with a sub 40% job approval rating backing out of the race 3 months prior to Election Day.

An incumbent with a sub 40% approval rating NEVER wins a second term and likely never will. An incumbent party that has to replace their unpopular incumbent with that unpopular incumbent's VP at the last minute has a zero chance of winning. ZERO! But sure, yea, it was "policies".....

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Anonymous wrote:The public wanted the cuts and its being done. You all know full well that a small fraction of the waste/fraud/abuse would end up being cut if it done through endless audits of audits of audits and endless grandstanding bs hearing after hearing kabuki theater. That's one of the many legitimate reasons that the public despises Congress- nothing ever gets done.

The US citizens are smart enough to know that they are done with paying hundreds of billions to illegals while our own citizens lack health insurance and live in the streets. They know that DHS and Pentagon regularly hand out no bid contracts to unethical, opportunistic defense contractors that have cost them more than a trillion dollars in overpayments, terrible work product, not to mention the enrichment of these defense contractors from the taxpayer's money. And the public is appalled that 2.7 trillion of Medicare payments were paid improperly to non-residents and that SS hasnt even de-duped ssns and that decades-ling deceased people are still receiving checks.

They find it outrageous that USAG hasnt been back in the office since covid started almost five years ago and that something like 3% of fed workers of all agencies were back in the office (other than building security/maintenance) since covid stated 5 years ago. It's more proof that the gov is orders of magnitude too large.

Only DCUM could read the details of the billions in bs programs USAID was funding and respond, yeah, that's good. The overwhelming majority of people outside DMV have an extraordinarily negative reaction to that kind of spending when they are busting their butts just to buy groceries.

And yet, what has MAGA offered these uninsured homeless? A “concept of a plan”? A path to homeownership?

Nope, they’ve offered them some convenient scapegoats. Anything to distract from the fact that MAGA intends to take even the crumbs they get and give it to the billionaires.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

What a depressingly cynical view of the world. People have agency. Democrats made policy choices and voters have responded to it. The same will be true when the pendulum swings the other way.

No, people actually have a lot less agency than you think. Humans are animals and react predictably to fear filled propaganda. Conservatives and old people in particular are particularly susceptible to being duped. Dem policies are a whole lot more popular than “cut everything that benefits working people to give Elon a tax break”, but those scary dog-eating trans Haitians in locker rooms get them every time.

This just helps you understand, it doesn’t mean they should be exempt or immune from what comes next. You touch a hot stove, you’re going to get burned. It doesn’t matter if you were told and believed your hands were fireproof.

lol... you people are still yammering about how policies may have impacted in the 2024 election. Sure, policies may have accounted for a drop or two in a bucket of reasons why Trump won. The rest of the drops in that bucket all have to do with an incumbent party having an incumbent with a sub 40% job approval rating backing out of the race 3 months prior to Election Day.

An incumbent with a sub 40% approval rating NEVER wins a second term and likely never will. An incumbent party that has to replace their unpopular incumbent with that unpopular incumbent's VP at the last minute has a zero chance of winning. ZERO! But sure, yea, it was "policies".....

You’re just reinforcing my point. Why did Biden have such a low approval rating? Because they truly believed dog eating trans Haitians in locker rooms were taking their entitlements, in between showing young girls their male genitals in locker rooms and conspiring with the Jews on their DEI space lasers. After that mess, no intelligent thought was ever going to cut through the mess of emotions and noise.

Plus, people didn’t want to make love to Kamala. Maybe if she died her hair blonde, stuffed her lips full of fillers, and wore clumpy mascara she would have stood a better chance.

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Anonymous wrote:I give up. Keep losing, Democrats. You would be better off if you could pull yourselves together and stop sounding insane. Criticize Trump like a normal person — there is plenty to go on. But no, you want to go as insane as absolutely possible.

Pointing out facts is not insane. Pretending what is happening isn't happening is the definition of insane.

You mean like my 11 year old son making me call him his trans name and making me buy him tampons for his period

More like electing people to office who claim to hear God’s voice and know that Trump is God’s will.

Or putting faith in people who believe a man in a dress can conjure up an unlimited supply of Zombie Jesus meat to serve out every day and 3 times on Sunday.

Now THAT’s insane.

Or listen to a man that can’t spell “stolen” and says Haitians are eating pet cats and dogs.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

NP

Sorry, what’s your point?

NP the people who say this are the ones out of touch. Biden did more to help the masses than Trump ever did. He did amazing things for the unions, rail workers, auto workers. Biden was actually trying to help the lower middle class and they shived him for it.

Close to a million tech jobs were lost under Biden. There were also 8 million illegal workers that flooded in and took blue collar jobs.

Add in the 20% increase in grocery prices and 30% in rent and Biden did far more harm than good.

That’s why republicans own the presidency, house and senate.

That’s half of it. The bigger half is that the GOP echo system has been duping Americans citizens for the past 2 decades. The right wing media machine has galvanized Americans against Democrats, using wedge issues like trans in ladies bathrooms or sports to drive voters to Trump.

Trump & Musk know their voters are stupid and they know how to play them. It worked beautifully. Behavior is predictable. Republican voters will sign off on anything Musk & Trump do. No matter what.

What a depressingly cynical view of the world. People have agency. Democrats made policy choices and voters have responded to it. The same will be true when the pendulum swings the other way.

No, people actually have a lot less agency than you think. Humans are animals and react predictably to fear filled propaganda. Conservatives and old people in particular are particularly susceptible to being duped. Dem policies are a whole lot more popular than “cut everything that benefits working people to give Elon a tax break”, but those scary dog-eating trans Haitians in locker rooms get them every time.

This just helps you understand, it doesn’t mean they should be exempt or immune from what comes next. You touch a hot stove, you’re going to get burned. It doesn’t matter if you were told and believed your hands were fireproof.

lol... you people are still yammering about how policies may have impacted in the 2024 election. Sure, policies may have accounted for a drop or two in a bucket of reasons why Trump won. The rest of the drops in that bucket all have to do with an incumbent party having an incumbent with a sub 40% job approval rating backing out of the race 3 months prior to Election Day.

An incumbent with a sub 40% approval rating NEVER wins a second term and likely never will. An incumbent party that has to replace their unpopular incumbent with that unpopular incumbent's VP at the last minute has a zero chance of winning. ZERO! But sure, yea, it was "policies".....

You’re just reinforcing my point. Why did Biden have such a low approval rating? Because they truly believed dog eating trans Haitians in locker rooms were taking their entitlements, in between showing young girls their male genitals in locker rooms and conspiring with the Jews on their DEI space lasers. After that mess, no intelligent thought was ever going to cut through the mess of emotions and noise.

Plus, people didn’t want to make love to Kamala. Maybe if she died her hair blonde, stuffed her lips full of fillers, and wore clumpy mascara she would have stood a better chance.

I did, still do.

Anyway, MAGA is just DEI for stupid people.

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Anonymous wrote:The blue hysteria is caused by the fact that the posters or their families are fed/ngo/501c3 grifter(s). These posters have let their selfish personal interest block their connection to reality and apocalyptic musings are nothing more than a smoke screen to block the reality of the grift. DCUM: the 325 million Americans who live outside the DMV, red/blue/purple, are ENRAGED by spectacular fraud, waste and abuse that has been going on in DC for generations in DC (by both parties, btw), they aren't going to pay for all of the fed/ngo/501c3 & defense contractor bullshit anymore, and they are thrilled that Elon, Big Balls and the others are stopping as much of this theft as possible. Good luck with telling the country they are misinformed- they have had it with all of you selfish, entitled people and even though I live here, and am friends with a lot of fed/ngos/501c3 people, I fully understand the country's rage with what goes on here.

You seem to hold the mistaken belief that Musk and his minions are doing this in any sort of thoughtful or knowledgeable way. How do you feel about the fact that some actual important stuff is going away as a result of this effort? Why would you want the cuts to be done so haphazardly? It doesn’t have to be done like this no matter what Musk is saying. Just because he is smart at certain things a doesn’t mean he has any idea what he’s doing with this DOGE effort. He seems to operating with a lot of hubris, unaware of the limits to his own understanding.

If you are cheering at how this is being done, it seems like you’re more interested in watching certain people you have deemed as “the other” suffer than you are in actual effective trimming of government fat.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

I absolutely understand it. I share some of the concerns. But I am not having apocalyptic fantasies about what is going on like a lot of people in this thread. The level of panicking in this thread (and on DCUM in general) does not match what the rest of the country is experiencing. It just doesn’t. And the sooner DCUM’s out-of-touch wealthy liberals can understand that, the closer we are to a Democratic Party that might have a chance of ever winning an election again.

What you do not seem to understand, what a lot of DCUM doesn’t understand, is that much of the country, including blue states, are doing okay right now. And this constant doomerism is just shutting down discussion. Plus, the DCUM Democrats are just too much like the boy who cried wolf. You have been calling Trump “Hitler” for eight years now. Normal people just tune you out at this point.

I think there are serious issues going on with Trump. But DCUM’s brand of solipsistic and indulgent screaming about Hitler is useless.

We’re more panicked because we’re more informed. It will take decades to undo this damage if we recover at all. SO much waste.

Just because Joe Smith in rural Kansas doesn’t understand that DOGE isn’t a real thing and Elon isn’t allowed to hack our systems doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Even now, so many people saying “I didn’t see this coming”. How? Lots of us did. Because we are informed and we read history and real news. So maybe stop writing these people off as “screaming” and listen to them.

You are hopeless. The Democrats are just useless at this point. It is utterly depressing how the party loyalists cannot see how out-of-touch they are with the country.

In 1939 there was a motto, "Germany is Hitler, Hitler is Germany.” I bet that they wished that more “out of touch” Germans had spoken up.

Oh for Pete’s sake. Seek help.

WTF is it going to take for you people to wake up? Literally starving? Because that's coming. What do you think tariffs, deportations, mismanagement of bird flu, firing of farm inspectors and sudden lack of potash is going to do to our food supply? I hope you like to garden.

For how many years have you been telling us Trump is Hitler now? Has it been nine full years yet?

You sound insane to normies, you know. And I no Trump fan. Just a Democrat that actually wants to win an election again.

DP. People who live in other parts of the world are finally paying attention to US politics and have compared the US today to 1930s Germany.

It’s not “insane” to anyone who is assessing current events critically.

If you are talking endlessly about how Trump is Hitler, but have not made any move to immediately leave the US, you are perceived as a hypocritical nutcase. Sorry to break it to you, but those of us who have actual war refugees in our families despise people like you who cosplay totalitarianism to satisfy your untreated anxiety disorder.

Example 38373662637484 of these people showing their absolute ignorance of history outside of 1944. You don’t get the reference because you blew off history, psychology, anthropology, and literature as “a waste” in college.

PP here. I graduated with a degree in history specialized in World War Two Europe, particularly fascist states such as Germany.

Your self-centered and embarrassing hysteria is absolutely insulting to people who have survived actual fascist regimes. Stop cosplaying. It’s truly pathetic behavior.