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Voting for Trump is about to cost this Maga county billions (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Darren Bullock, 40, is a Trump voter who switched from the Democrats in 2016.

He is likely to lose Medicaid coverage because of the new requirements, although he is not hopeful of finding adequate employment.

“If they want people to work 80 hours a month, they’d need to bring in a lot more jobs,” he says.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago (26 children)

There’s stupid and then there’s USA stupid. A very special breed of moron because of how obvious it is that they’re fucked, how they have the money and resources to fix it, and how they refuse to do the right thing so hard that they actively shoot themselves in the feet, legs, arms, torsos, and just about everywhere to avoid even needing to consider thinking about helping other people.

Like, at least the right-wingers in better countries are living in the good world that more leftist policies have built. They’re dumb as hell but at least they’re not steeped in the thick shit of the right to the point where it should be too bad to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's not like they haven't already tried it either. We've been doing the same policies since Reagan and they continue to fail and continue to be doubled down on. Hell, Kansas was touted as the example of what conservative policies could do under Brownback. They created their conservative utopia and it crashed hard. They couldn't even afford to keep their schools open for the full school year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

Conservatives looked at that massive failure and said they wanted more.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We've been doing the same policies since Reagan and they continue to fail and continue to be doubled down on.

You say "fail" as if they aren't working exactly as intended.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on perspective. They failed for the 99% of us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well of course, but they're a roaring success for the people the instigators of the policies actually give a shit about.