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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

Wow, at the end, she says, you'd expect "government" to do better. Not Trump.

These people like the abuse.

I hope no one tells her that they're gunning for HUD next so that could be the end of her Section 8 senior housing. Good luck, lady!

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

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Anonymous wrote:I am visiting family in a deep red southern state and went to the local hardware store today. As I was getting stuff out of the car, I heard two 60ish good old boys talking about how they didn't vote for Elon Musk and generally expressing consternation---one said, "I voted for Trump because I thought he'd make things better for people---but this isn't looking like it."

Maybe I have some tiny flicker of hope.

They'd still vote for trump

It's only been a month. Things are going to get bad. Like really, really, catastrophically bad. They will see the light soon enough.

This is precisely the kind of stupid and dangerous naivety that got us here. It's like some of you white liberal leaning people ( I know you're white) are so oblivious to the importance that these people put on their bigotry that you think you're dealing with rational and objective people.They weren't rational in 2016 and you think they'd be today ? You're fantasizing in your little out-of-touch corner that they'd come to you and say: 'You were right and I was wrong?'

You seem to forget that Trump LOST after his first terrible term. This time he is term limited but if you think folks don't change their mind about this jerk then you are not paying attention.

There will no exodus of MAGA to the democratic party. The most likely scenario is, they sit out the mid terms( if at all there will mid term elections) whilst the dems have an energized bloc show up and win resoundingly , that's it. I'm very much paying attention and that's why I think (and reiterate) that people are very dangerous. You sound an awful lot like the ones who were adamant that white women were going to overwhelmingly reject Trump. We know how that turned out .

It turned out a super old decrepit dude wouldn’t put his ego aside for the country and then a Bond villain bought social media and radicalized young men.
MAGA isn’t maga without a demagogue. I live in “real America” and plenty of my neighbors won’t be swayed, but they also won’t show up after Trump is gone.

There's no shortage of people vying to take the Maga mantle.

Yes, but CAN they? I will never understand Trump's appeal, but whatever it is, I don't think any of them have it.

I hate Donald Trump but he is charismatic and interesting, even in a nauseating way. The leeches on his ship are just that - faceless and unlikeable goons

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

You’ve posted this exact sentiment across a dozen different threads, nearly verbatim. Has your understanding improved? Feel free to put your answer in five bullet points and send them to someone you don’t work for.

This actually doesn't happen in the private sector "all the time." If a private sector employer has a policy and procedure for terminating employment, and the good ones all do, they will follow that policy and procedure. The government has policy and procedure for terminating employment, Trump is not following those policies and procedures.

Also, private sector employers do not try to fire other companies' employees nor send them directions to "do this or I will assume you resigned." Not everyone in the building works for you, dummy.

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I suspect what you really can’t grasp is public service and the concept that running a government is not at all like running a business.

Which still doesn’t entitle you to lifetime employment

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

You’ve posted this exact sentiment across a dozen different threads, nearly verbatim. Has your understanding improved? Feel free to put your answer in five bullet points and send them to someone you don’t work for.

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I suspect what you really can’t grasp is public service and the concept that running a government is not at all like running a business.

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

Wow, at the end, she says, you'd expect "government" to do better. Not Trump.

These people like the abuse.

I hope no one tells her that they're gunning for HUD next so that could be the end of her Section 8 senior housing. Good luck, lady!

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Anonymous wrote:I am visiting family in a deep red southern state and went to the local hardware store today. As I was getting stuff out of the car, I heard two 60ish good old boys talking about how they didn't vote for Elon Musk and generally expressing consternation---one said, "I voted for Trump because I thought he'd make things better for people---but this isn't looking like it."

Maybe I have some tiny flicker of hope.

They'd still vote for trump

It's only been a month. Things are going to get bad. Like really, really, catastrophically bad. They will see the light soon enough.

This is precisely the kind of stupid and dangerous naivety that got us here. It's like some of you white liberal leaning people ( I know you're white) are so oblivious to the importance that these people put on their bigotry that you think you're dealing with rational and objective people.They weren't rational in 2016 and you think they'd be today ? You're fantasizing in your little out-of-touch corner that they'd come to you and say: 'You were right and I was wrong?'

You seem to forget that Trump LOST after his first terrible term. This time he is term limited but if you think folks don't change their mind about this jerk then you are not paying attention.

There will no exodus of MAGA to the democratic party. The most likely scenario is, they sit out the mid terms( if at all there will mid term elections) whilst the dems have an energized bloc show up and win resoundingly , that's it. I'm very much paying attention and that's why I think (and reiterate) that people are very dangerous. You sound an awful lot like the ones who were adamant that white women were going to overwhelmingly reject Trump. We know how that turned out .

It turned out a super old decrepit dude wouldn’t put his ego aside for the country and then a Bond villain bought social media and radicalized young men.
MAGA isn’t maga without a demagogue. I live in “real America” and plenty of my neighbors won’t be swayed, but they also won’t show up after Trump is gone.

There's no shortage of people vying to take the Maga mantle.

Yes, but CAN they? I will never understand Trump's appeal, but whatever it is, I don't think any of them have it.

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

So who’s fault is it?

“The government” of course.

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

So who’s fault is it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job