That is an occasional roundup of people that voted for Donald Trump and are shocked to search out out nobody is immune from the harm and ache he causes. Many at the moment are grappling with the results of their alternative because it impacts them and their family members—and probably regretting their vote.
Oh boy, the leopards really feasted this previous week as even die-hard MAGA supporters started questioning if perhaps, simply perhaps, they voted for the flawed man. I already wrote in regards to the rank disgust in MAGA land over Donald Trump’s weird Gaza video, however there was far more. Let’s get to it!
On Thursday, Day by day Kos coated the blowback to Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi’s launch of closely redacted Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata, recordsdata that included a number of mentions of Trump himself (not new info, although conveniently ignored by MAGA). Our story has loads of conservative freakouts, however there may be so, so, a lot extra. For instance, right here’s right-wing bro Dave Portnoy, proprietor of the conservative website Barstool Sports activities, on X:
If I’m gonna be honest these questions must be requested at present.
Why is the discharge of the Epstein listing at all times a shit present?
What’s the purpose of booting out illegals and criminals whereas in some way changing into a protected haven for the Tate brothers?
Why is Crypto in the bathroom if Trump is crypto king?
How far does Tsla inventory should crash earlier than Elon goes again to work?
Perhaps these questions might’ve been requested earlier than the election? Or maybe Portnoy might’ve paid consideration the final time Trump was president, and realized that 1) every thing having to do with Trump is a shit present, 2) Trump isn’t simply accountable for sexual abuse but in addition surrounds himself with accused predators, and three) Trump has used crypto to rip-off his supporters. As for Musk, who is aware of the final time he truly confirmed as much as work at his firms.
The crypto bros are actually having a tricky one.
Ideas and prayers.
Let’s head on over to Oklahoma, the place former Republican state Rep. Sheila Dills, a virulent transphobe and Trump supporter, was outraged by Trump’s cuts to the Nationwide Institute of Well being and their affect on Oklahoma universities. On a now-deleted touch upon native station KOTV’s Fb web page, she wrote:
The tales I’m listening to first hand are devastating. I’m all about environment friendly authorities and general assist the present administration, however environment friendly authorities would not matter if we do not fund LEGITIMATE analysis that protects us from lethal toxins. I do know a younger girl who has achieved every thing proper, poured her coronary heart and soul into her training, has gained each award attainable, is the highest of her PHD class at OU and whose analysis as a STUDENT will result in therapeutics for lethal illnesses. BUT, now she has watched fellow Doctoral college students be stripped of their funding (far more than “back office” prices, we’re speaking total fellowships)and fears on a regular basis she might be subsequent and the intense future she has earned at Vanderbilt for her Submit Doctoral research via complete sacrifice might be taken away. A robust financial system and navy don’t matter if we’re all useless from infectious illnesses! That particular analysis pupil is my daughter!
It’s at all times “spending is bad unless it helps me” with these folks. All that different analysis? Illegitimate. The stuff she cares about as a result of it impacts her daughter? Official. Similar to all these MAGA federal staff getting fired. Everybody else’s jobs? Inessential. Their very own jobs? Important.
What makes MAGA so harmful is its utter lack of empathy. We will’t get a strong progressive majority till we work out find out how to train those who we’re all on this collectively.
Talking of, let’s go to Don Shotwell of Blue Mound, Texas. He’s an America-loving patriot. Loves Donald Trump. And fears “America is under attack by Marxists!!!” in accordance with his cowl photograph on X. His bio there says, “2A Advocate, Anti-Marxist, Anti-Woke, Anti-Identity Politics, Anti-Establishment, Anti-Left.”
Boy, he certain should hate something remotely smelling of socialism, proper?
He posted this on Fb (now deleted):
I’m a conservative, and a Republican.
• • I voted for Trump in all three of the presidential elections that he is gained.
I even backed his cupboard picks, together with RFK. That being mentioned, I DISAGREE 100% with the proposed overhaul of the SNAP program. Why? Properly, it is easy…
On common, research present that more healthy meals prices MORE than different choices some could contemplate “unhealthy.” People who find themselves on the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP, colloquially known as, “food stamps”) are on this program as a result of they need assistance affording groceries on account of the truth that they’re, let’s assume, “financially challenged.” I occur to be a type of folks, and I am on SNAP. So, I communicate from expertise. We’re counting EVERY penny. Lengthy story quick: if the federal government desires the folks on SNAP to purchase more healthy meals, then it must INCREASE the quantity we obtain in order that we are able to ACTUALLY AFFORD mentioned “healthy food.”
It’s a HUGE downside while you proceed to obtain the identical quantity of help, and but it would not purchase as a lot meals anymore. At that time, folks begin lacking meals, and that REALLY is not wholesome.
Rant over. All the pieces else…DOGE, no males in ladies’s sports activities, America regaining respectect from different nations, Gaza, Russia, and many others…sustain the GREAT work.
Principally: “I hate socialism, but I’m white, unlike those other people, so give me my free government money so I don’t starve, but fuck everyone else.” Has there ever been something extra “Republican” than this put up?
Fortunately, he’s in Texas. I’m certain he’s acquired some bootstraps mendacity round. He can pull himself up by them.
Right here’s one other a type of ”I voted to screw everybody else as a result of Trump promised to assist me” tales. This story, printed by The Washington Submit, is actually heartbreaking: A younger lady in an economically depressed a part of Michigan is attempting to get pregnant and is suckered in by Trump’s promise of free IVF. Now her authorities job has been eradicated, and about that IVF …
4 days after Trump fired her, Cooper was in mattress along with her husband. She picked up her cellphone and noticed the information.
There was a brand new govt order to develop entry to IVF. She learn the White Home truth sheet, which talked about Trump’s request for coverage suggestions to scale back prices of the service.
But it surely nonetheless wasn’t free, and she or he was out of a job and out of a plan.
“Delivering on promises for American families,” learn the White Home’s announcement.
“That’s bulls—”, she recalled pondering, and put down her cellphone.
Keep in mind again in 2016, there have been folks on the far left who needed Hillary Clinton to lose as a result of it might imply that individuals would get up to the horrors of conservatism and usher within the superb employees’ revolution?
You suppose they’d have discovered their lesson, however they have been again in 2024, like author Sean Padraig McCarthy. Days earlier than November’s election, he tweeted, “I’ll be voting third party but it’s true that either Kamala or Trump wins. I have a slight preference for a Trump victory. This last year of genocide amid near total public indifference has broken something in me. At least him being there would wake some people up to the horror.”
After Home Republicans handed a finances blueprint that may intestine Medicaid, McCarthy had the gall to tweet, “$880 billion in Medicaid cuts is insane. A lot of people are going to die.”
Folks are waking as much as the horror, but it surely’s not the horror he imagined. This notion that “if people are exposed to the worst Republican excesses, it’ll help our cause” is so past misguided. I can’t even start. Elections have penalties.
I actually have over a dozen tabs open with extra examples, however I must wrap this up, so I’ll simply finish with this:
Okay, yet one more:
Fuck these folks.
