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Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

What a dumba$$, thinking that Feds only exist in DC.

The federal government is by far Kansas City’s largest employer and a major economic engine, with agencies like the IRS, EPA, Social Security and more in town. Experts warn the region’s economy will feel the pain when jobs disappear.

Almost 30,000 federal employees in the Kansas City area are caught in the chaos that has defined President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

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Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

interesting as my hair dresser said people are finally doing more highlights and expensive treatments now because they are more optimistic. She is closed Sunday like most hairdressers she takes Sunday/Monday off.

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m petty. I saw a compilation of MAGA who FAFO. White woman (in what looked like big, nice kitchen) losing SNAP. A farmer losing $ due to USAID closure. A woman from Venezuela whose entire community supported Trump.

I know, innocent people are being hurt but except for the white woman (with clothes with no holes and a nice looking house) they should know! A farmer who doesn’t know who he’s selling to? Sounds like a bad business person. He deserves this. Or the Venezuelan who thought she would be an exception but was fine with Africans and other Latinos to be deported? Idiot.

I’m not on ticktock where most people are posting. Please share. Yeh, I’m petty.

Keep in mind, the farmer sells his grain or soybeans at the elevator. It's not some USAID employee coming to his farm with a truck. They issue procurement invites and companies like Cargill, I imagine, bid on them. And to do so you have tons of paperwork to be enroll in such programs, I imagine it's similar to getting set up to be able to bid on federal contracts (I did Hubzone setup for my son last year, and it was a project getting all the documentation they required compiled specifically according to their requirements).

There's ripple effect. USAID sends millions of dollars worth of grain and other things all over the world to aid in building American soft power. That gets cut off, and the contracts get canceled. A USAID contract was probably with someone like Cargill but then Cargill in turn buys from a slew of local farmers. Cargill's contract gets canceled and in turn they cancel their contracts with local farmers and boom. So even though the farmers didn't directly contract with USAID they lost their contract.

Americans really need to start doing a lot more critical thinking and start learning to understand the big picture of how everything connects. This is why they think the government is bloated, wasteful and doesn't do anything - because they take a lot for granted and don't actually understand the big picture of everything the government actually is doing. Is there waste in government? Is there layers of bureaucracy? Sure, but there's actually more accountability and oversight in government than there is in the private sector, and the private sector certainly also has its layers of bloat and bureaucracy, waste and fraud, sometimes worse than government.

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Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

We were going to do a $150k renovation and I told my MAGA contractor in December we had cold feet because of the tariffs. Sad!

DP.

Same. I was planning to do a 300k addition. Not happening until Trump leaves office. Things are too volatile now. I am thinking of investing the money in another country to spread the increased risk that this one crashes.

I know of a couple of maga builders, I warn people away when folks reach out to the neighborhood for advice.

Same. We did a kitchen renovation past year and one of the builders recommended to me was MAGA. Went to his website. The banner photo was him posing with an AK-47 and flag. Instant nope. Our decision was validated a few days later when I was driving my son to jazz band. He tailgated me in his contractor truck, then angrily passed on a double yellow line and cut me off. It turned out he was also dropping his son at jazz band 🙄

Ever since, I’ve been warning people off him. Why would anyone hire an angry, heavily armed man to come into their house and work on their kitchen?

Cool story bro. Plenty of those same stories in the reverse over the past 8+ years. But what does that have to do with FAFO for MAGA supporters?

Right now it's too early to see what the impact of DOGE will be. There will be collateral damage to MAGA supporters, but for now the damage is being done to the established system (and there are few MAGA supporters complaining).

As an aside, I thought Democrats were in favor of dismantling the current institutions because they were systemically biased? If this is (still) true, why don't Democrats embrace DOGE and help remake those institutions more fair? Why fight so hard for the status quo? Democrats should be much more targeted in their attacks to rebuild credibility. Hyperbolic claims aren't helping their cause, especially when numerous examples exist of fraudulent and wasteful spending.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

We were going to do a $150k renovation and I told my MAGA contractor in December we had cold feet because of the tariffs. Sad!

DP.

Same. I was planning to do a 300k addition. Not happening until Trump leaves office. Things are too volatile now. I am thinking of investing the money in another country to spread the increased risk that this one crashes.

I know of a couple of maga builders, I warn people away when folks reach out to the neighborhood for advice.

Same. We did a kitchen renovation past year and one of the builders recommended to me was MAGA. Went to his website. The banner photo was him posing with an AK-47 and flag. Instant nope. Our decision was validated a few days later when I was driving my son to jazz band. He tailgated me in his contractor truck, then angrily passed on a double yellow line and cut me off. It turned out he was also dropping his son at jazz band 🙄

Ever since, I’ve been warning people off him. Why would anyone hire an angry, heavily armed man to come into their house and work on their kitchen?

Cool story bro. Plenty of those same stories in the reverse over the past 8+ years. But what does that have to do with FAFO for MAGA supporters?

Right now it's too early to see what the impact of DOGE will be. There will be collateral damage to MAGA supporters, but for now the damage is being done to the established system (and there are few MAGA supporters complaining).

As an aside, I thought Democrats were in favor of dismantling the current institutions because they were systemically biased? If this is (still) true, why don't Democrats embrace DOGE and help remake those institutions more fair? Why fight so hard for the status quo? Democrats should be much more targeted in their attacks to rebuild credibility. Hyperbolic claims aren't helping their cause, especially when numerous examples exist of fraudulent and wasteful spending.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

We were going to do a $150k renovation and I told my MAGA contractor in December we had cold feet because of the tariffs. Sad!

DP.

Same. I was planning to do a 300k addition. Not happening until Trump leaves office. Things are too volatile now. I am thinking of investing the money in another country to spread the increased risk that this one crashes.

I know of a couple of maga builders, I warn people away when folks reach out to the neighborhood for advice.

Same. We did a kitchen renovation past year and one of the builders recommended to me was MAGA. Went to his website. The banner photo was him posing with an AK-47 and flag. Instant nope. Our decision was validated a few days later when I was driving my son to jazz band. He tailgated me in his contractor truck, then angrily passed on a double yellow line and cut me off. It turned out he was also dropping his son at jazz band 🙄

Ever since, I’ve been warning people off him. Why would anyone hire an angry, heavily armed man to come into their house and work on their kitchen?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

We were going to do a $150k renovation and I told my MAGA contractor in December we had cold feet because of the tariffs. Sad!

DP.

Same. I was planning to do a 300k addition. Not happening until Trump leaves office. Things are too volatile now. I am thinking of investing the money in another country to spread the increased risk that this one crashes.

I know of a couple of maga builders, I warn people away when folks reach out to the neighborhood for advice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

What a dumba$$, thinking that Feds only exist in DC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m petty. I saw a compilation of MAGA who FAFO. White woman (in what looked like big, nice kitchen) losing SNAP. A farmer losing $ due to USAID closure. A woman from Venezuela whose entire community supported Trump.

I know, innocent people are being hurt but except for the white woman (with clothes with no holes and a nice looking house) they should know! A farmer who doesn’t know who he’s selling to? Sounds like a bad business person. He deserves this. Or the Venezuelan who thought she would be an exception but was fine with Africans and other Latinos to be deported? Idiot.

I’m not on ticktock where most people are posting. Please share. Yeh, I’m petty.

Keep in mind, the farmer sells his grain or soybeans at the elevator. It's not some USAID employee coming to his farm with a truck. They issue procurement invites and companies like Cargill, I imagine, bid on them. And to do so you have tons of paperwork to be enroll in such programs, I imagine it's similar to getting set up to be able to bid on federal contracts (I did Hubzone setup for my son last year, and it was a project getting all the documentation they required compiled specifically according to their requirements).

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Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My massage therapist voted for Trump because of low taxes, I went there the other day and the place was practically empty on a Sunday ( which has NEVER happened before). She said people are cutting back and she has no customers, I thought to myself that well this takes care of the income tax problem, no income so no tax.

I can’t believe the stupidity of small businesses and non fed people, they didn’t bother to think that if their clients lose jobs then they lose business, but here we are. I have a couple of relatives in Baltimore who voted for Trump and their business sales are in the dump. I have zero sympathy.

Btw, I am not a Fed but I have 2 brain cells to figure out that pretty much everything in DC is tied to the Federal government.

We were going to do a $150k renovation and I told my MAGA contractor in December we had cold feet because of the tariffs. Sad!

DP.

Same. I was planning to do a 300k addition. Not happening until Trump leaves office. Things are too volatile now. I am thinking of investing the money in another country to spread the increased risk that this one crashes.