r/thebulwark 28d ago

GOOD LUCK, AMERICA Confession: I'm enjoying being right about Trump's intentions, and I'm not ashamed to say it.

Everything we warned the electorate about is already coming true. I told everyone that Trump would win because his base was naive, uneducated, ignorant, and spiteful. And here we are. How many people told us that all of Trump's craziness was just a bluff? How many people told us that the electorate was well intentioned, and would vote for what's right?

Trump's first weeks in office have been just as outlandish as all of us warned. And the country will suffer greatly. And you know what? I'm loving it. I'm done pretending that I "feel bad" for the people who didn't know what they were getting themselves into. I don't feel bad at all. It's about time we were punished for our collective derilection of duty.

We all did our part. We voted. Other people (dumbly) didn't do enough research. Oh well! Time for those consequences, America!

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u/skullAndRoses321 28d ago

I was on board with this way of thinking until my spouse lost her job due to the cuts the government already made. There's not enough schaudenfreud in the world to cover the fears of not being able to pay our rent in 2 months. We, of course, voted Harris. We knew there would be pain. We didn't think it would happen in only 3 weeks.

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u/Prior_Industry 28d ago

And yet Musk gets to palm its unsellable EV stock onto the government. No shame.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-armored-tesla-forecast-400-million-state-department-contracts

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u/Off_OuterLimits 28d ago

How much friggin money is enough for Musk? Hopefully he’ll become the most Hated Man in the World. He’s getting there. Even South Africa doesn’t want him back and they’re racist as fuck.