Dark, soulless, cruel energy taking over the USA

[Anonymous]

DP
Many protests all around the country on Presidents’ Day.

Half the country does not agree with the current cruel, reckless chaos that is being unleashed by DJT and EM.

I hope it does not end up in civil war or a fascist state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP
Many protests all around the country on Presidents’ Day.

Half the country does not agree with the current cruel, reckless chaos that is being unleashed by DJT and EM.

I hope it does not end up in civil war or a fascist state.

The “eat the rich” revolution is next. Anytime in history when there has been this much inequality, heads end up on pikes. I’m not sure there will be violence but the billionaire class is in for some changes. Right now, the billionaires are battling on who gets to control the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Biden had a low approval rating because he was a poor leader of the people at his elderly age. Obama faced the similar ridiculousness during his presidency. Remember, he was accused of being an America hating Muslim with a fake birth certificate... none of the silly rhetoric prevented him from having a 50% approval rating and easily winning a second term. Plug Obama into the exact same 2021-2024 political and economic landscape and he certainly does not exit the race for a second term 3 months prior to Election Day. He beats the weak and very flawed GOP candidate in a landslide victory.

Quality of candidate is more important than anything else- by far!

As much as Biden had his issues, he never had protests like Trump's already starting to get.

I think those of you who think everything is great with Trump need to get out of your bubble a bit more and start reading the room.

Biden was just an angry elderly man who made for a poor leader. He did nothing to make us go hog wild protesting.

Trump is a divisive know-it-all with zero integrity and he's proven to be a threat to our foundations of government. He's done plenty to make people feel the need to protest.

There is a big difference between a not so good president and a dangerous president.

The difference between who is in power is that democrats wear pink pussy hats and protest outside Tesla dealerships.

Republicans unite and get representatives elected.

If you really wanted to be part of change, elect good people instead of propping up whoever the DNC should be next in line.

This is true. If you don't want to lose to Jokers, you need to nominate Batmans; not elderly robins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Strawman. I am not “talking endlessly about how Trump is Hitler”.

It’s insane to pretend like everything is normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel the opposite. I felt like this country was sinking and I was already looking abroad and considering whether this was really the place for us long term. Now, I’m excited and hopeful for the future.

What is it that you like about Hungary and North Korea?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Biden had a low approval rating because he was a poor leader of the people at his elderly age. Obama faced the similar ridiculousness during his presidency. Remember, he was accused of being an America hating Muslim with a fake birth certificate... none of the silly rhetoric prevented him from having a 50% approval rating and easily winning a second term. Plug Obama into the exact same 2021-2024 political and economic landscape and he certainly does not exit the race for a second term 3 months prior to Election Day. He beats the weak and very flawed GOP candidate in a landslide victory.

Quality of candidate is more important than anything else- by far!

As much as Biden had his issues, he never had protests like Trump's already starting to get.

I think those of you who think everything is great with Trump need to get out of your bubble a bit more and start reading the room.

Biden was just an angry elderly man who made for a poor leader. He did nothing to make us go hog wild protesting.

Trump is a divisive know-it-all with zero integrity and he's proven to be a threat to our foundations of government. He's done plenty to make people feel the need to protest.

There is a big difference between a not so good president and a dangerous president.

The difference between who is in power is that democrats wear pink pussy hats and protest outside Tesla dealerships.

Republicans unite and get representatives elected.

If you really wanted to be part of change, elect good people instead of propping up whoever the DNC should be next in line.

Still triggered by those pink pussy hats, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Dude studied Hitler in college but doesn't understand what's going on with the Sieg Heil or the man who publicly compliments Hitler and has a Mein Kampf souvenir book.

I guess Vance was right about how terrible universities are.

Did PP go to college in the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is false. It wasn't "close to a million" - it was tens of thousands, tops, due to layoffs by Musk at Twitter, as well as some from Amazon and Meta and a few others in 2022 and 2023. Most of them found jobs elsewhere in the tech sector, or in other types of consulting. But since you think this is a huge problem, what do you think of the mass layoffs that Musk is doing, which includes thousands of government tech workers, scientists, and so on?

And no, there weren't millions of out-of-work blue-collar Americans because of illegal workers, either.

And meanwhile grocery prices have increased at an accelerated pace since Trump took office, he doesn't even have a plan to deal with it, and will probably make prices go even higher as he deports ag workers and imposes tariffs.

For all the harm you want to yell about Biden doing, you should be concerned about the fact that Trump is going to be a lot worse harm.

Here’s a bit of news for you: meta, twitter and Amazon aren’t the only tech companies in the US.

Hundreds of thousands, very close to a million white collar jobs were eliminated during the Biden administration. That you won’t acknowledge that reality is why people here have zero empathy with what is happening now with Feds.

Explain how the Biden administration is responsible for the loss of those tech jobs. For example, some foreign billionaire AH buying a functioning tech company and subsequently laying off most of its workforce out of spite isn’t the fault of the Biden administration, even if it occurred during the Biden administration.

A counter example (in which the job losses ARE the fault of the contemporaneous administration) would be a sitting President appointing some foreign billionaire AH with explicit instructions to lay off X% of the Federal workforce out of spite.

The layoffs happened because tech companies over hired and became bloated.

Does that sound familiar?

Same thing is happening with the federal government. It became too bloated, too much waste and now it’s time to cut it back.

Explain how the Biden administration is responsible for the loss of those tech jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Great. Then, if you are not a POS liar, you can easily list out the key ways that the current situation in the US is both similar and dissimilar to Germany in the 30s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s the United Stated darkest era that we’ve entered into. Half the people don’t care, of course. But it’s bad. The rug has been pulled out from all of us and most are too ignorant to notice, or won’t put down their social media apps to really research and figure out the truth and the propaganda aimed at manipulating how they think. And the right has hijacked every single notion about the United States. We are unrecognizable to the world. The economy is tanking. Job losses. AI taking over. An autistic, narcissist has taken over the government without repercussion. It’s also too expensive to live unless you are a millionaire or billionaire and all of those people couldn’t give a rats ass about the rest of us. How nice it must be to not care, eh? To live in those gilded cages (and underground bunkers btw) while everything else suffers. Unless a miracle happens, the United States and any ethics, morality, diplomacy, is gone. But that’s the the maga way, isn’t it. Blind everyone into stupidity. Push the hate narrative. The fake narrative. Push the Propaganda 101 of repeating narratives non-stop, even though they aren’t true, every though they hurt us all, because in the end people start believing them and questioning anything else but that. We’ve been check-mated. The right is complicit. SCOTUS is of no use and on maga’s side. We are never coming back from this. So buckle up America. Or prove me wrong.

Go back to 1990 Bush Immigration Act when they sold out our youth to import millions of cheap desperate h-1Bs. That wasn’t enough so they created OPT to replace US entry level workers.

The dark soulless happened 35 years ago. You just didn’t care.

Like the admin on this forum, you think billionaires should be able to replace US citizens with cheap foreign labor.

Holy dramatic, Batman. Do you know how old today’s 40 year olds were 35 years ago? Does your 5 year old care what’s happening politically and economically right now?

Use your brain, please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Great. Then, if you are not a POS liar, you can easily list out the key ways that the current situation in the US is both similar and dissimilar to Germany in the 30s.

Ooo! I’ll start:

(1) Former world power suffers humiliating defeat in a long running war that cost many lives and treasure
(2) period of stability and relative prosperity with an angry right
(3) Global economic turbulence
(4) Right wing thugs attempt to overthrow the government, are imprisoned briefly but not executed, later venerated as heroes
(5) right man strongman gets elected and promptly begins work to dismantle government from inside, people cheering, Germany needs a change
(6) propaganda/disinformation machine running full blast, dissenters attacked and imprisoned. Key feature is that the Jews/Roma/other are responsible for all that ails the good Aryan German
(7) invasions of neighbors begin
(8) Nazis co-opt art and cinema,” degenerate art” banned
(9) Jewish and other citizens stripped of status, those who don’t deport are forced into ghettoes, people have jobs and property stolen
(11) abortion banned for white Aryan women, demanded of everyone else
(12) elderly/infirm executed
(13) work camps/Final Solution implemented

I also forgot incompetents at all levels of the government who didn’t trust each other.

Timeline probably a bit off. I hear Musk wants Medicare Death Panels so there’s #12. The others are well underway.

[Anonymous]

Yes, trump and musk

[Anonymous]

Don’t blame the administration thats cutting the fat and glut of the government and in turn many jobs that existed for wasteful projects. Blame the administrations that hired them. That is where the failure lies.

Incredible amount of brainwashed dems on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t blame the administration thats cutting the fat and glut of the government and in turn many jobs that existed for wasteful projects. Blame the administrations that hired them. That is where the failure lies.

Incredible amount of brainwashed dems on this forum.

The federal job cuts have not been targeted in any way. They’ve simply been the low hanging fruit of probationary employees with less rights. Fired Nuclear weapons and CDC Bird Flu experts is not cutting wasteful programs. Each agency was forced to make cuts. No thorough analysis was done in such a short period of time. Just knee-jerk firing to gain political points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t blame the administration thats cutting the fat and glut of the government and in turn many jobs that existed for wasteful projects. Blame the administrations that hired them. That is where the failure lies.

Incredible amount of brainwashed dems on this forum.

You are a cult follower but it does not explain or forgive your total ignorance. For years the Republicans have cut every democratic program well growing their make work for RWNJs departments.

Here is your fat and glut government that has not been cut in 40 years. These are the largest departments employee, contractors and spending. Yet you people have not touched these departments. Just like you have not arrested and deported immigrants in red states and rural areas.

Department of Veterans Affairs
486,522
Department of Homeland Security
222,539
Department of the Army
221,037
Department of the Navy
216,537
Department of the Air Force
168,505
Department of Defense
156,803
Department of Agriculture
92,072
Department of the Interior
62,890
Department of Heath and Human Services
91,058
Social Security Administration
59,227
Department of Justice
116,614
Department of the Treasury
108,869
Department of Transportation
55,806
Department of Commerce
47,650