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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

Sorry, what’s your point?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

Explain how the Biden administration is responsible for the loss of those tech jobs.[/quote]

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