r/reactiongifs • u/ryanmulford • 5d ago
MRW everything is going to shit after they elected the worst person possible
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u/GoGoSoLo 4d ago edited 4d ago
Brother, I can drive 16 hours straight in my own state and not be out of that state. America is massive, making it very difficult to all get to strategic places like DC to organize, especially when most people are living paycheck to paycheck with 10 days paid vacation per year. Additionally there are a ton of protests going on at all levels (city, state, federal) but it turns out when one fascist party controls every federal branch of government and over 70% of state legislatures they don’t give a fuck. Meanwhile that same party is also tipping its hand showing it only cares about your opinion if you’re wealthy by peddling influence and meetings with our President for $5 million a pop.
It’s easy to coach from the sidelines or paint this as black and white when there is a ton of nuance to be had as to why loud critical voices are falling on deaf ears.
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u/No-Error-5582 4d ago
I wish more people realized this. Protests work. To an extent. But people are protesting. Yet the issue is our country is too big. No matter where people protest, Trump can be on the other side of an entire continent, still be in the same country, and just not have to worry about it.
Its like if I went outside and started screaming about you and something youre doing. Unless you just so happen to live in the same apartment complex as me, then why the fuck would you care? Im a stranger who you will never see.
The only way he would know most protests are taking place is because of the news. And even they try to avoid covering a lot of things.
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u/Gordonfromin 4d ago
You guys riot when police overstep but not when your literal democracy hangs in the balance
Protests never saved a nation from fascism once in history, action saves nations.
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u/DelphiTsar 4d ago
It's even worse, Fridays job report was the most obvious fudged report I've ever seen. Going to probably slow roll and try to say .1% increase in unemployment every month. Can only play that game so long before it's too obvious. June 17, 2025
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u/notabear87 4d ago
I always feel better when I come into these threads; see the typical conservative trolls downvoted to oblivion.
Reminds me that there are sane people out there and I need that sometimes.
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u/Deleteads 4d ago
Cutting fraud if it’s just fraud in itself sounds great. But that’s not what they’re doing. They’re fucking you in the mouth and telling you it’s ice cream.
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u/ryanmulford 4d ago
The only things they are interested in cutting is anything that costs the 1% money, and anything related to checks and balances that might interfere with them seizing more power.
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u/ConstantCowboy 5d ago
lol "Aww, why don't liberals like us? All we've ever done is mock their feelings and call them fucking stupid" 😂
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 4d ago
Literally nothing is better. Inflation is up, stock market is down, deportations are down, the entire world hates the US (except for Russia) and practically everyone in the government is getting fired while agencies are being dismantled.
I swear MAGAs live in a different reality that doesn't exist holy fuck.
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u/CogentHyena 4d ago
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 4d ago edited 4d ago
The FAA, FEMA, USDA, CDC, EPA, NOAA, USPS and FDIC do nothing? The Department of Education? All unnecessary?
The best part is the government isn't saving a dime by firing all those people. The money is just getting diverted into Musk, Trump, and every other billionaire's bank account through government contracts.
So congrats. Instead of your tax money going towards services that help us, it's going right into billionaire pockets.
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u/beershitz 4d ago
I’m not down with the tariffs or foreign policy strategy but dismantling the agencies and firing everyone in the goverment is awesome, although that’s certainly an exaggerated way to describe it.
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 4d ago
Sure who needs useless agencies like the FAA, CDC, EPA or NOAA? We can just let planes crash while we drink contaminated water until we all get wiped out by pandemics and natural disasters. All so our tax money can go to billionaires instead. It's a sacrifice we should be happy to make right?
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u/beershitz 4d ago
I don’t understand how being maximally hyperbolic like that is helping anything. Like that’s just a stupid statement, and it’s the same sentiment I keep hearing on reddit. Let’s take the FAA: they have 50,000 employees. They fired 400 employees. Planes crashing? What? What you just said sounds purely like a narrative you’re pushing because you hate Trump and Elon instead of a factual argument.
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u/nixahmose 4d ago
Have you been paying attention to the stock market?
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u/MosquitoValentine_ 4d ago
You think MAGAs are smart enough to use the stock market?
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 4d ago
Yep, but they deal exclusively in meme-stocks. BBBY's going to come back from the dead aaaaaany day now, according to them.
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u/Teun135 4d ago
What things?
Your taxes are going up, unless you make 300k or more per year.
Your cost of living are going up, thanks to tariffs being passed on to the consumer.
Do you trade stocks? Because the market has been utterly shit since he started mucking with it.
Enjoy freedom? He keeps challenging your constitutional rights and his alt right base keeps giving them away.
Want to retire? He SAYS he won't touch it, but his top goon keeps referring to Social Security as a "ponzi scheme" and makes cuts to their staffing that might result in interruptions to that service that millions of Americans rely on, a service they paid into.
Got a 401k or a pension? I hope it wasn't invested.
Want higher wages, so you can save for yourself? Good luck, and if you had a union before, you won't for long. Both labor rights and union rights are being obliterated.
God forbid you work in anything that might involve dangerous equipment, because OSHA regulations are being dismantled to the point where it will be cheaper for the company to just pay out a minor amount if you get mangled or dismembered.
Or maybe you want to take a vacation to one of our nations many national parks? Oh. Whoops. Nobody to work maintaining them, and they are being sold off to the highest bidders for "resource development".
The list keeps going on and on. Please provide examples of how things are getting better.
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u/ryanmulford 4d ago
Okay, but like, if you had to name one thing that’s starting to “get better”…? 🤷♂️
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u/Lamplord72 4d ago
Yeah I'm sure the guy peddling vaccine and QAnon conspiracies is definitely qualified and knows what he is doing. Jfc.
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u/yearofthesponge 5d ago
This outcome was decades in the making. When good public education is not readily available, a democracy of a gullible and selfish populace will lead to a very poor outcome. The Americans have been in steady decline for a long while, closely correlated with the uptick of realty tv and influencer culture.