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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wether or not you believe in empathy, one big problem right now is that people are already at a breaking point.  People are struggling and suffering, because their cost of living is too high, food costs, housing costs, healthcare costs - especially healthcare.  And we saw that with Luigi, who snapped.  And now another - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/man-arrested-molotov-cocktail-trump-treasury-scott-bessent.html

But what is Trump doing to help them?  Trump RAN on fixing inflation and bringing down the cost of groceries and housing and promised  "phenomenal" healthcare.  But what is he ACTUALLY doing?  He's on some deranged rampage over things demonizing federal employees and weaponizing the government against his political opponents and all kinds of other things that don't help the average American.

But now it's getting far worse than that.  He's shut down grants and funding for a whole range of programs. He's shut down Medicaid, he's cut hungry people off from SNAP, he's terminated housing subsidies, and on and on and on.

That will break people.  It will make people homeless, hungry and desperate.

This is YOUR guy Trump.  He did this.[/quote]

No.  Your bureaucracy is NOT there to help people.  It is there to protect itself.

The first and foremost rule of any bureaucracy is to protect the inefficiency of itself.

"He's on some deranged rampage over things demonizing federal employees and weaponizing the government against his political opponents and all kinds of other things that don't help the average American.  "

Hilarious statement based on just what you democrats did the last four years.  You must be self-identifying.[/quote]

You have so much hatred that it blinds you. Bureaucracies are not perfect but they serve a valid purpose. You speak in simplistic slogans that don’t show any real world understanding of the issue. You are just parroting the words of other people who have a personal motive to manipulate you. You are serving the interests of bad people who want to pillage our government. [/quote]

+100.  And as for "weaponizing the government" is the PP COMPLETELY BLIND to the massive escalation of weaponization that Trump is engaging in right now?

It's also astounding that they are still wrapped in some delusion believing Trump did absolutely everything above-board, that there was absolutely nothing wrong with maintaining multiple sets of books for his businesses to lie to banks with one set and lie to agencies and tax collectors with the other set, there's absolutely nothing wrong with cheating on your wives with porn stars, paying them hush money, lying about it, having your attorney be the middle man to do the pay off and falsely claim it to be "campaign legal expenses" - nothing wrong with defrauding contractors and vendors and not paying bills, leaving classified documents lying around in unlocked closets and bathrooms in your country club where random guests among which we KNOW there were spies foreign agents had unfettered access, nothing wrong with his campaign staff and senior advisors violating multiple laws, being on the payroll of foreign governments, nothing wrong with casino money laundering and questionable real estate deals with Russian oligarchs, nothing wrong with his history of discriminating against black casino workers and other employees, nothing wrong with any of that whatsoever????  Somehow it's the fault of the liberals that he's surrounded by criminals and has been for decades?  It's all just a bunch of false accusations and a witch hunt that Joe Biden started against him going back to the 1970s???[/quote]

I am not the PP.

Let me be clear: I absolutely and totally agree with you on what Trump is and has been doing. I think he is corrupt to the core. You aren’t wrong about anything you’ve written here.

I [i]also[/i] think Biden has been corrupt to the core. I think the[b] Democrats been interested solely in preserving the pipeline of tax money to their allies, cronies, and political donors.[/b] I do not think Biden is a good person, I do not think he was a good president, and I think we as a nation are going to suffer for years because of Biden’s self-serving corruption, selfishness, and venality. And part of that suffering is Trump in the White House. The Democratic collective refusal to deny truth, to obfuscate in order to keep the money tap open, to suppress language, to make criticism of Biden and the rapacious organizations to whom he funneled money into a moral issue: this chaos and devastation under Trump is our punishment.

What I object to most strongly in this thread is not the observation that MAGA has contempt for empathy. That’s true. What I object to is this conceit, this astonishing lack of self-awareness, that allows OP and apparently others to believe Democrats do not also have a deep contempt for empathy. I find that lack of introspection actually a little scary.

Be honest, Democrats. That’s all you had to do to win. But you could not be honest, so you blew it and based on what I see in thread, are going to keep blowing it. [/quote]

The Biden administration made disaster declarations to Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina shortly after Hurricane Helene.  FEMA response is to provide money and services to those areas directly affected. Those states are not solely Democratic "allies, cronies, and political donors".  Your arguments are faulty so your conclusions are unfounded. [/quote]

Making disaster declarations for political expediency is not remotely equivalent to [i]actually helping[/i] people impacted. There is plenty of evidence that victims were not helped at all. But what those declarations did to is market to the egos of people like you, e.g. “allies, cronies, and political donors.”

Marketing that you are a good person is not the same as actually being a good person. [/quote]

Shifting the goalposts! A clear sign that you are winning!  A snippet of FEMA aid to North Carolina:
[url]https://wlos.com/news/local/fema-in-north-carolina-by-the-numbers-look-help-helene-survivors-rural-government-assistance-hurricane[/url]

I suppose next you'll say that Biden and the Dems should've been out there with a shovel? [/quote]

There was no shifting of goalposts. You don’t understand how to use that phrase. Your link doesn’t show what you think it does, either.

All you are doing here is unconsciously demonstrating the alarming need of Democrats in this thread to desperately believe they have more empathy than Republicans, but not actually have more empathy. You have a deep-seeded need to believe your own hype, rather than being honest, something you might consider addressing with a therapist.

In short, Biden was not and is not a good person. His government was not a good one. Trump is not a good person, and his government is not a good one. Your fanaticism doesn’t allow you to see that all those statements are true, and that’s a problem to fixing our larger issues. [/quote]

Your claim (paraphrasing) was that Biden/Dems want only to send money to close allies. Counterpoint was Biden admin sending FEMA aid to mostly Republican states. Your response was "but did the aid REALLY help people?". You put forth a demonstrably false claim. It appears you are not interested in sincere dialogue.

Thanks for psych exam though! I will probably get a second opinion though.

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