Low Income trump Voters Entering the FO Stage

[Norbert]

From low-income voters who supported Donald Trump last month, a plea to the president-elect: don’t cut our benefits.

Trump has frequently made grand promises to protect Social Security, Medicare and other benefits. But with a growing list of billionaires on his cabinet, a vow to quell spending and a slim Republican coalition in Congress consisting of some anti-spending hawks, his voters aren’t so sure.

Pennsylvania Trump voter Lori Mosura described the billionaire as “more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich” in an interview with the Washington Post. She lives below the poverty line, receiving $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security benefits.

But she has a message for Trump.

“We helped get you in office; please take care of us,” Mosura said, shifting the conversation as though she were speaking to Trump. “Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable.”

Some Trump voters who rely on benefits, like Steve Tillia, who receives $1900 in social security and food stamp payments, are more optimistic about cuts to the departments that help them make ends meet.

“It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” Tillia told the Post. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get.”

Meanwhile, local Republican officials are begging the incoming Trump administration to leave benefits alone. New Castle City Administrator Chris Frye told the Post he expected some benefits tweaks at a federal level, but hoped they wouldn’t be catastrophic.

“I think it would be stupid to just take something away… we would have mass chaos. Mass homelessness,” Frye told the Post. “Nationally, I don’t think it is going to be a situation where they are taking away from people.”

Some are worried, some are still in the denial stage. They were gullible enough to vote the orange malignancy back in. Excuse me for not giving a rat's ass about them.

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[Walleye]

1. Doesn't think they will take anything away huh? Don't forget loyalty with Trump is a one-way street, that goes for you.

[3catwoman3]

38. "Don't forget loyalty with Trump is a one-way street..."

Precisely. He demands 100% loyalty and gives back exactly 0%.

[Walleye]

41. Well, people thought it would be a good idea to have a "businessman" run the country. Go figure.

[3catwoman3]

45. Puzzling, isn't it, that people don't seem to feel that relevant experience is important...

...for governing, for one of the most important jobs on the planet. And he's not even that good a business man, by most accounts.

No matter how good they were at their jobs, I wouldn't hire a plumber to cut my hair, or a soccer coach to teach me how to swim, or a lawyer to manage my atrial fibrillation, or a theoretical physicist to tune my piano, etc, etc, etc.

[CrispyQ]

64. I was told they don't teach social studies anymore.

If that's true, then there are a ton of people who don't understand the difference between government & business & why you don't run your government like a business. Some things should never be done for profit.

I know a lot of repubs think Roe v Wade was the beginning of the downfall of America but IMO it was when we put "In God we Trust" on our money. Am I the only one who finds that hysterically ironic? When your religion states that love of money is the root of all evil but you print "In God we Trust" on your money, I gotta wonder, who is your god? 💵💵💵

[3catwoman3]

67. And while we are on the subject of religion, I propose a change to the statement that...

...no religious test shall ever be required to hold office. I think there SHOULD be one - only atheists and agnostics should be allowed to hold office, as we would not try to force our way of thinking on everyone else.

If all Christians lived their faith the way Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden do, there wouldn't be so much intolerance.

[magicarpet]

52. A failed business man, with six (6) bankruptcies,...

... who is a known fraudster and a conman.

[CrispyQ]

62. Because private industry can do things so much better & cheaper.

What a fucking myth. Like being private can overcome human incompetence & greed. Sure business can & some of them do, but it's no guarantee just cuz they're private. Government, same thing. I always figured at least we can control who runs the government but unless you're a shareholder you have no say in who runs a company. Sadly, that horse is out of the barn, now. Equating money with speech, opening our electoral process to rivers of cash, it's hard to see a way back from that, when the very people who can change it also benefit from it.

[dweller]

2. And

The price of groceries aren’t coming down either
He lied , duh



✌🏻

[JI7]

3. There seems to be less excitement oversell

Right after the election there was talk about things getting better with him . How prices will go down and other shit.

But now there is almost nothing being said. No.more mention about ending the wars .

[LisaL]

21. Because their hero (Trump) already admitted

he can't actually lower the prices (it's hard). Dah.

[Deep State Witch]

4. Leopards Eating Faces

"Oh, but we thought that he would cut benefits for THOSE people, not us!

[Irish_Dem]

16. "We're white, they won't cut our benefits."

Sure.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. These idiots are going to find out how trump really feels about them

[Meadowoak]

54. Like the mob boss that he is, he'll keep his hands clean,

And have Elon and Vivek do the cuts, then Trump will claim, he didn't know anything about it.

[Trenzalore]

6. That is some helluva propaganda/marketing campaign they had

One of the least charitable man on the planet is going to take care of the poor.

[LisaL]

22. My mind is actually boggled.

As to why they think that Trump who constantly surrounds himself with super rich individuals, cares about the poor. That's some amazing campaigning for sure. Obviously none of it is true, which they will figure out soon enough. But shouldn't his first term given them a clue?

[Shipwack]

33. As someone (I can't find out who, at the moment) said...

"Apparently 'They're eating our pets' was a better campaign slogan than 'I'll help you buy your first house'".

Or words to that effect...

[Trenzalore]

37. In PA it was transgender and illegal immigration

They ran very few ads on the economy.

[magicarpet]

55. Manufactured hot button social issues is what motivates MAGA Meatheads to get out and vote for their Messiah/Fuhrer.

Blow an issue way out of all proportions is the recipe for a winning pResidential campaign with MAGA Nazis.

[Deep State Witch]

7. Let's Take All of Them

and put them on buses to go to work picking fruits and vegetables for 12 hours a day with no breaks. Or working in slaughterhouses with no safety protection - or unions. I'm sure that they will be happy to take the jobs that the "illegals" were working.

[gab13by13]

8. Yup, TSF told them,

illegals are taking your jobs. Once they leave or are deported, all of those great jobs will open up for Magats.

TSF also told the blacks who voted for him that illegals were taking black jobs.

Unwashed Magats must not be hearing what TSF told them?

[Tarzanrock]

9. The Shitstorm begins on January 20.

The price of eggs went up 90 cents in 2024 so you Shitheads elected a 34 times convicted felon, criminal rapist, Billionaire who doesn't give a fuck about you nor your pitiful family. Guess what, Republican Nazi assholes, things are going to get pretty rough out there for you when it comes tumbling down for you! Sorry about all those "tariffs" and that 10% - 15% consumer taxes which they will cause you but Billionaires need the new tax cuts so that they can purchase more of those $100,000 Bitcoins. The "concept" of the "plan" for your Healthcare will be in the splendid care of a man who had his brain eaten by a parasite worm, who drinks "raw" milk and doesn't believe in medical vaccinations. Did I mention that Brainworm's Aunt was "lobotomized" because she was an uncontrollable mental "nutcase?" Hey, since the Turd will be busy playing golf or imagining his global conquests of Greenland, Canada and his Mexican Wall -- maybe Eloon Mu$krat will help you running his DOGE post slashing the government and government benefits?

[yardwork]

13. Not to mention avian flu gathering steam.

The price of eggs and chicken (not to mention lots of other things) are going to go sky high if we don't get control of avian flu, and Bob Kennedy shows little interest in regulating the dairy farms that are the biggest driver of this new epidemic.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

39. There are a lot of indications the American farmer is about to be screwed

1) Dairy and poultry growers are facing another year of avian flu. Prices will likely rise but that won't mean higher profits.

2) Trump has signaled more oil and gas drilling. This likely means an end to ethanol mandates and subsidies. These subsidies are essentially a corn subsidy that also supports cattle through byproduct distribution. The result could be devastating to farmers in places like Iowa.

3) Proposed tariffs would likely blow back on American ag exports, such as pork shipped to China.

[yardwork]

40. Plus, the fear of deportations alone will mean fewer farm workers.

Even if Trump doesn't follow through, a lot of damage is already done.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

42. That's going to hit the West Coast and South hardest

Anywhere that fruits and vegetables can't be harvested mechanically.

[Aristus]

10. I don't really consider the prospect of people suffering to be cause for celebration.

But these Trump voters, by their idiocy, fecklessness, and desire to hurt other people, are going to cause many, many people to suffer who didn't vote for Trump.

So guess what, assholes: Fuck around and find out.

Maybe those of us with functioning brains can do something to help those experiencing undeserved suffering.

[akbacchus_BC]

49. Help Democrats only and if you have magas in your family, help them if you can. The whole

working and middle classes will be suffering for the next four years.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

60. The MAGAs deserve no help

They can wither on the vine.

[GP6971]

59. Morning Sunshine!! Did you have a nice Holiday?

Today’s pizza is the Manager’s Special. Do you prefer Large or Extra Large?

[FSogol]

63. LOL, you're going to be really disappointed. Better get your excuses ready now. Bye!

[CTyankee]

11. Will they FINALLY admit they made a terrible mistake in trusting this guy?

Many will learn the hard way, though. We aren't mean and judgmental but we told them so.

[gab13by13]

12. They will try to funnel money away from blue states

and send it to red states.

Yeah, I know, but don't tell me they can't until they actually can't.

[Think. Again.]

56. They already do that.

[yardwork]

14. Nope. They'll blame Obama.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Or Hunter Biden and Hillary.

[akbacchus_BC]

50. No. They voted for the pos in 2016. Now they will learn the hard way! nt

[ornotna]

15. It's hard to have sympathy for these people

They screwed you, me and every senior citizen that relies on SS benefits.

Selfish ignorant assholes.

[Irish_Dem]

17. "They're only going to cut staff, not the benefits."

Benefits don't magically get placed into accounts or checks written, etc.

[gab13by13]

19. I think Shrub used a commission

to try to gut Social Security and Medicare.

I expect that this will be a repeat of that, a commission that doesn't involve Congress, done secretly.

This Musk/Trump administration will be the most secretive in our history. Plenty of shit being done behind closed doors.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Yes some of the the theft will be done covertly.

We will only find out about it much later.

Some will done right out in the open.

[TBF]

23. That's how most things are done in Washington -

the meetings before the meetings.

We probably won't hear half of what they actually try to do. And it's still going to be brutal.

[patphil]

24. To all those who voted for Trump and are now worried about what he plans to do.

You should have thought about that before you decided to choose a monster as your president.
He got your votes, and he doesn't need you any more.
He's got billionaires lining up to help him line their pockets with even more money than they have now, and they'll do that by seeing to it that he is well compensated for his efforts.
He'll want them to help him stay in power indefinitely, and they'll do that for him.
Your pleas for help fall on deaf ears.
There is no greater truth regarding President elect Trump than the simple understanding that he doesn't care about you, or your needs.
Not one bit.

[jayschool2013]

25. I'm tired

I'm tired of people trying to rationalize what was an irrational decision by 75 million Americans.

They have no excuses. They deserve what they get.

We don't.

[perdita9]

26. Actions have consequences

Especially when you make stupid choices like putting a convicted felon in the Oval office.

[rhiannon55]

27. We live in an Idiocracy

“It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” Tillia told the Post. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get.”

Oh dear. Common sense tells us that the opposite is true.

I have been a state government worker and I know for a fact that fewer workers will slow down the process of getting the work done. I mean, damn. How are fewer workers going to "increase the amount of programs that we get." The guy's got it completely backward. And he fully believes what he's saying. Wow. What a dumbass thing to think and say.

His FO moment is coming.

[travelingthrulife]

31. they simply can't do basic math.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

46. Seems part of the anti-expert attitude that's

become so prevelant. The anti-intellectual crap steroids. They want to suggest that that staff doesn't know what they're doing, so we can do without them.

[struggle4progress]

28. "It's cheaper to give more money away to fewer people! Giving money to billionaires instead of poor folk

iis a cost-saving move!"

[Just Jerome]

29. Went through this

raising five kids.

Kids learned ( one took too long, but figured it out. )

No fucks, nor rats’ asses, nor shits, nor hoots nor flying French farts,

NOTHING TO GIVE!

Except, perhaps, fiscal and/or physical health.

[Afrocat]

30. These programs are sorta understaffed as is.

“It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” Tillia told the Post. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get.”


Do they ever wonder why its takes so long to get any help? Now you want to take away people from that AND somehow weed out all the "people commit fraud (i.e. brown people). How many people should they get rid of to still have the programs work? Enough so you can get another .50 cents? A dollar perhaps. Fuck you Tilla.

[Dave Bowman]

32. "please take care of us"

Lol, dream on. He doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself and never "helps" anybody unless there's something in it for him.

[Katcat]

34. Mass homelessness?

Nah, I’d move into one of those rich people houses after I removed them.

[Clouds Passing]

35. Dumbos!

[Demobrat]

36. They ain't seen nuthin' yet.

What these brain dead mouth breathers have yet to figure out is that the orange anus does. not. give. one. fuck. about them.

He doesn’t need them anymore. He used them and now it’s throw them away like used Kleenex time.

[Blue Owl]

43. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Haven't these stupid fucks learned anything from when the warnings were sounded back in Dickensian times, over 150 years ago?

Pro tip: ignorance ain't bliss, motherfuckers.

[0rganism]

44. Behold the mighty dildo of consequences! Per usual, it arrives unlubed...

MAGAts gonna bend over for it with the rest of us.

[Emile]

47. Stupid people voted for Trump.

[Southern_gent]

48. Isnt Joe Biden still President?

While I don't pretend to know what will happen, but as of today, nothing has changed so reality no-one has "found out" anything. The president can only do what the congress will allow him to do. We cant necessarily change the future president's mind but we can sure change the minds of congress.

[Think. Again.]

58. ....

[Historic NY]

51. Suckers

[hatrack]

53. And now they get to start paying Stupid Tax . . .

Oh well.

[LeftInTX]

61. Reagan was reelected after he created a horrific

economy. Then they elected Poppy Bush. They may have found out, but they voted them back in. I don't think they cared. "Morning in America" commercials were more important.

[Bluethroughu]

65. How about they cut trump voters benefits first.

All the Republicans can send their checks back or just elect to stop payment in their accounts immediately.

[keithbvadu2]

66. "attuned"? - tone deaf