“I Didn’t Vote to Lose My Job”: DOGE Destroys $1.2 Trillion Industry as Rural Workers Bear the Cost
Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents
Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer base—and his livelihood—vanish before his eyes.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forests” (1).
https://thedailyadda.com/2026/01/11/i-didnt-vote-to-lose-my-job-doge-destroys-1-2-trillion-industry-as-rural-workers-bear-the-cost/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
Right. You voted for other people to lose their jobs. In reality you voted for and deserve exactly what you're getting.
Ha, I grabbed that quote too.
Narrator Voice: But He did. He actually did vote for this.
honestly, what I hear when these nitwits say this is "I spent all my time being told what to think by people on TV (famous celebrities! Ooooo!) in the media that I was easily impressed by..."
It's the full flower of the Southern Strategy that Lee Atwater leveraged in 1980 to help Reagan take the election. The early 80's was also when Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater - broke into politics in the biggest way and cemented lying and couched racism as right wing political tools..
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/75/creatures-of-the-swamp/
It's been all downhill for the US since then.
1642?
Charles the First Attacked Parliament?
Ugh, I was going from memory and was pretty sure I got it wrong.
Oh, Columbus.
Rats!
I was hoping it was some cool hithero unknown historical fact regarding the English Civil War you knew of.
Well yeah. That.
LOL!
Naw he voted to hurt black and brown people. But didn’t realize he was voting for classist as much as a racist.
especially a classists, that has been constantly calling the voters, dumb and stupid, and low class.
Just because you're too dumb to understand the consequences doesn't mean you're shielded from them.
So his business is built around serving federal government employees and federal spending, he voted to reduce federal spending and is upset that it negatively affected his business.
Whhhhhaaattt????
doge pretty much eliminated most if not all the federal employees and spending.
Of course not. He voted for other people to lose their jobs.
Maybe he should reflect on what it's like to be "other people".
If they had empathy, they wouldn't be conservative.
His situation is a mistake that needs to be rectified, everyone else deserved it.
Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.
Edit:
Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"
"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"
Conservatives: "We voted for the child rapist."
God people in rural communities are so stupid when they vote. I live in a very lopsided state. Just for ease of understanding, about 80% of the state is rural, but also 80% of the people live in the cities. Rural folks often forget just how many more people live in cities.
So they get resentful and say "why are MAH tax dollars going to all them city folks"! I've had this talk so many times with them, why should they pay (like pennies or their salary) to my city improvements just because they're state taxes?
Well, rural guy, because in actuality "us city folk" subsidize all of the rural state. They think they're paying for our stuff but turns out density is way cheaper and way more economically viable than rural. So we subsidize them all the time. I always remind them who do they think pays for the roads, the infrastructure, their state parks? It's not them and their low tax income. Their life depends on the city people
And then they vote to hurt us by cutting programs... And forget that we were paying for them to be on those programs.
Same! They're absolutely terrified of my city and to me it's like, what the place where I walked to get my bagel this morning?
its a hellhole and fire, says fox pundits. in hindsight, the homeless problems, drug addicts are brought on by the gop truncating these 2 groups to liberal cities, its not by accident you see an increase every few years, they are being bussed or given a ticket here. MSM/fox will never report on it, because it just makes the gop states look bad.
It's nothing new that we are forced to deal with their problems
mostly fox news for conservative milleneals and older, and now with NEWSMAX/OAN right wing grifters, and consistent convincing them into the manosphere.
We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now it's open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.
We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didn't. Heil Trump.
We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now it's open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.
We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didn't. Heil Trump.
As LBJ famously stated back in the 60's to his then-press secretary Bill Moyers: "If you can convince the lowest white man, that he's better than the best black man, he won't notice that your picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll open his pocket for you.."
This is exactly the classism couched in racism that took our erstwile Mr. Rural for a ride. All them "blacks" on welfare taking their tax dollars.. (because the unspoken bit is, ONLY blacks and minorities and uppity unwed women that breed like rabbits - the welfare "queens" don'tcha know.. are on welfare..)
Every goddamn decade these poorly educated idiots fall for it.
There is a grain of truth in that rural areas get worse government service. Power outages last for longer, often they don't even have sewer hookups and have to maintain septic systems, roads are maintained at a lower level, etc. They really do get less benefit (in outcome terms) than city folk.
I think @[email protected] hit on the information environment as the reason they can't see that that lower service level comes at a way, way higher monetary cost. Our information aggregators are in the business of making money from engagement, and telling people things they want to hear that sound true is the most effective engagement tool. I don't see the problem getting any better unless we figure out a better information model.
It is true, and I counter that with if you choose to live far away from people then you will be prioritized less. Things get fixed faster when there are more people affected, so when you choose to live miles away from anyone, when your power goes out it's not a high priority. I argue that that's their choice, and that it's deserved when it also costs much more for that one person to have power compared to thousands of people getting power for relatively the same cost in an urban area. Harsh I know, but that's how the money flows. They can always move to an urban area if they choose that services are more important than living rurally. More or less I agree with you, but I would tell them "you chose that".
"I love the poorly educated"- TRUMP and ever GOP ever.
"Smart people don't like me" -- Donald J Trump
also after the 1/6 attack, i only "see low class people"-trump
they love vice signalling as well as virtue signalling.
You consistently voted for this. Every time conservatives are in power they cut services and environmental protections. You voted for it over and over again but this time it actually hurt you and you're sad.
this time it hurt you in a way that you noticed
also cut TAXES for actual rich people, not for poors whom seem to think they will benefit from such tax cuts for the rich somehow.
According to the american exceptionalism, you are not poor, you are a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire.
It's all actual work. The relentless assault on all federal institutions for the last half century had the initial effect of making the vast majority of them the most efficient systems in existence. Both political parties initially agreed they should not be wasteful, and through several rounds of reform they became more efficient than private organizations doing the same job can even theoretically be. But it's never actually been about "waste," and they stated cutting bone by the early 2000s. The only federal jobs left do actual work, and better, more important work than the vast majority of private sector jobs.
The waste is in private contracts that don't fund public sector jobs. But DOGE didn't go for those.
That's what I meant by "private contacts." They don't outsource every single possible federal job, otherwise there would be no executive branch left. So the public sector jobs are highly efficient, and the waste has been outsourced to the private contracts where it's more obfuscated.
We could do those jobs much more cheaply and efficiently by nationalizing them, but then that would be "big government," even though it would be saving tax payer dollars when all the accounting was said and done. So 🤷.
Have you thought about getting consultants in to get their institutional knowledge? They hote lots of recent grads who theoretically know what to do..they work them hard and then churn through more, overcharging for their time and underpaying them. Some progress to become senior consultants. Not many.
Yes. I was making a joke. Consultants often are inexperienced and just make cuts, not improvements. Most of the work is done by cheap grads, who compete for few roles in the hope they make it. Most don't. The customers get overcharged for poor advice.
Usually, they are just a way for management to have someone to point to for the decisions they make that negatively impact people or the business.
Yes you did.
Trump has shown who he is. Year after year, after year. We can't blame it on folks not being educated anymore. They liked what he did when he did it to people they hated. That's it...
You did vote for this & you were also warned.
You're just a sucker.
'I didn't vote this." Yes. Yes you did. You didn't want to hear others tell you what you were voting for. You wanted to believe your own fantasy version. Even now, most MEGA voters want to believe their own fantasy of what Trump will do for America over the truth of what he is actively doing.
thats why they fall for scams quite easily, they trump is just kidding or he suddenly reverses what he does, nope he doesnt. only the 1st term he had people preventing him from doing too much damage, this time no one is going to stop trump and his cronies, conservatives also want to blame democrats, but dems arnt in power anymore.
Awww is someone having a hard time finding his bootstraps? 😁
Edit: Pardon the comma splice. I found such cheese.
Oh my god yes that's what I was trying to think of but couldn't remember what it was from
You LIBTARD RAPISTS need to have Compassion! He THOUGHT that only Brown and Gay people would be Effected! If he had KNOWN he would ALSO be Effected he would have STILL voted for Trump! So have some COMPASSION RAPIST LIBTARDS!
We should ban all of the dumb fucking apes who voted for Trump from voting again
They've made it incredibly obvious they're completely fucking incompetent, and don't actually care about society, but instead just want to hurt others. That level of stupidity shouldn't be tolerated
all the tourism in those conservative states mustve dried up, but fox will never report on such a thing to scare the voters.
OBAMA broke the minds of moderate republicans, and liberterians. cant have a black man as a president, this ensure also no woman will be a president ever in america too.
Terry, Sarah, this is what you get for voting for a hateful monster. Twice. You can starve for all I care. Your choice has led to death and destruction.
Yes you did. You absolutely voted for this exact thing.
We knew it, and we tried to warn you over and over again.
"what did you vote for then?" name a Trump policy that influenced your vote, please!
I bet he loves the burning cities and innocent people getting shot in the face because those things don’t affect him personally
The one where we kill all the brown people and that magically makes my gas cheaper.
"i voted for that abstract thing, that will hurt the people i dont like, but if it hurts me i think trump will come around or say just kidding"-the voter probably.
I also voted against the other guy because harmful stereotypes reinforced by my echo chamber, and without learning any actual facts
You mean "I ignored anyone who told me anything I didn't want to hear" right?
Yes, you did. Fucking idiot. Enjoy being homeless.
Especially in a country where criminalizing homelessness is literally a bipartisan issue.
try doing that without desk-bound administrators and see how it goes
isn't this the same group of people who claim that minimum wage is too high?
do you wanna stop fascism? want to see trump and elon musk lose power?
working class solidarity is the first step
our entire lives, we’ve been tricked and manipulated into fighting among ourselves, because they know if we worked together, we would be able to take them down.
why do you think, every time that something bad happens, there’s all the media spin about who we should blame?
they love to do this for age, think about all the boomers vs. gen X vs. gen Z articles and social media posts you’ve seen
but they do the same shit all the time with different things. their aim is to split the working class into as many splinter groups as possible.
we need to stop letting the assholes in power divide us like this.
unfortunately, that means extending solidarity to people who haven’t earned it, including people who chose to vote for Trump.
most of these people were tricked and manipulated. many of them have been fed a steady diet of misinformation. many of them are proud, insufferable bigots.
but being smugly superior, insulting, rude or intolerant isn’t how we change people’s minds. the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.
we are all so busy yelling at eachother. it doesn’t work. we need solidarity.
That is true, but it is also fair to point out that you are proposing solidarity with someone who voted for fully supporting these negative things happening to other people, even if there was only a vague sense of what that might mean, and is specifically upset now that it unexpectedly turned around on him and his circle. We have to stand with and support someone we might have to fully expect to continue doing the exact same thing as the opportunity arise.
It's true his interests overlap our own, and raising everyone up is in our best interests, but just realize that we want to give liferafts to people who would prefer to poke holes in the liferafts of others. We want to save people who are acting like spoiled, entitled children and who we have no reason to believe will act any different after they've been saved. Just understand that afterwards we need a system that will survive this type of behavior.
The mistake you're making here like in the other thread is that fascists do not see themselves as the working class, but the ruling class. They believe they are better, and should be rewarded for being better. They are the manipulating class, the dividers, the media spinners, the oppression.
How do you do solidarity with the folks that want to oppress us?
They tricked themselves a SECOND TIME, after we WARNED THEM. How do you warn someone a third time? Do you see them extending their hands and help us?
Solidarity they never give.
Solidarity they destroy once it's convenient.
Trump should have been rotting in prison, not lauded and praised.
My bet is that Trump will throw the biggest fascist - Steven Miller - under the bus at the point another suburban soccer mom gets killed, or some ICE agent with a hardon to be John Wayne loses it like the Minneapolis jackass did and shoots into a car with small children in the back seat and kills one or two.
Trump cares only about Trump (fuck America, the US is filled with rubes and marks perfect for his con-man ass to scam) and whoever he can use to make himself even bigger, he will.
The dude is massively insecure but knows how to sell and market his "brand". And he did and the weak minds in the conservitve, poorly educated corners of the country bought the slick sales pitch.
The rest of us are fucked, but at least seeing the pricks in Washington DC for what they honestly are.
Oh, the shit the country's got to endure because a child fucker is willing to burn the nation to the ground so as to stay out of jail.
This is wishful thinking tbh, I think the more likely outcome is that things escalate to the point that protests become widespread and radical enough (maybe becoming riots) that Trump suspends elections citing the riots as his reasoning, meanwhile ICE is used to round up and silence the opposition, until the protests/riots escalate and the national guard are brought in to "restore order". If I was a betting man, I'd put money on it. It's probably the goal.
Suspending elections? Yep. That is EXACTLY the agenda, which is why cooler heads on the street need to be the rule and really, REALLY folks instead need lean into a Democratic wave at every level of government come the mid-terms.
The biggest rebuke will be undermining his authority by removing those who are appeasing his increasingly erratic EO's. Businesses are pulling back from investing in US factories because EO's aren't LAW so much as any given President's whims, and they can be swept away by the next adminsitration. This is something business understands with crystalline clarity. And they're not wrong about it. Shit's slowing down in the economy and all the gaslighting coming from the government won't stop it.
I mean already the govermnet is looking at temporarily reinstating the ACA subsidies (likely for a year or two - just long enough to keep the GOP in power through the mid-terms) because not having them.. well it's in the process of fucking over meemaw and pawpaw and the kids as we speak..
FFS, even that gorgon, Marjorie Taylor Greene saw the writing on the wall once her kids lost their affordable coverage. Maybe she can give them money from the millions she already has? It's not like she can't swing their insurance costs.
But she doesn't want to, I'll bet.
Fun times ahead.
It's that last part that fascists do not comprehend why we despise them so much: “I am willing to rape and groom children to make it to the top. Fuck compassion and solidarity, all children are mine to exploit.”
Indeed.
That's a typical conservative, religious viewpoint that sees women and children as property to be used by men.
It's a man's prerogatvie, after all to put his dick wherever he wants. Whenever he wants. It's a potent heady power trip for men that are single and lonely and feel powerless.
Vile nonetheless, lest you think I make excuses for it.
Yeah he won’t throw Miller under the bus. Miller is running the execution pogrom.
Ultimately, Trump wants to be popular.
If people start to say he's a child fucker and a crook and will go down as the worst President ever ad he hired a murderous prick to do his hatchet work.. and he hears it often enough.. he is just capricious enough to give Miller the heave-ho.
Nup. Millers in there harder than people think. He’d have to cross Trump significantly and personally.
Welp.. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-2675036080/ The clock is ticking, because Miller is pushing Border Patrol and ICE to move faster than they are capable, hence the ill trained, aggressive 20-something goons being hired to meet quota.
Addendum for Tuesday afternoon 1/27/26:
Hmmm. Things are starting to look rather bus-like for Mr. Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxFlrGNDfnDEEVhiUZBqgcF-UKFDtWtp3p
One hopes it arrives on schedule and is not late.
I'm not making any mistakes. I know they want to be the oppressor, they feel justified in oppressing us, I see and recognize all of that, and it changes nothing about my position or my reasoning.
The reality is that the average fascist is a loser with literally nothing going for them. That's what appeals to them about fascism, they get to feel big, strong and powerful, vicariously, through state violence.
I understand how you feel, and I sympathize with you that they don't deserve to be treated with respect and compassion. I don't care at all about their feelings, honestly, or their suffering.
But the reality is that their suffering doesn't stay isolated to them. They lash out, they harm others, they drag everyone and everything down with them, all the way to hell.
All I am saying is "be compassionate". That's all. I'm not saying you should tolerate them, or their opinions, or even be nice to them. I am asking you to recognize their humanity, realize that you could be in their position, and think positively, in terms for how we can improve the world, long term.
Lashing out at these people, calling them names, dunking on them, being cruel to them, I understand that they deserve that, but it doesn't actually HELP anyone. It doesn't improve material conditions. It only makes things worse.
That's literally my entire point, and I really don't think you've even really addressed it. You just wrote a lot about how nazis suck and they can't be redeemed -- but that is all beside the point. We should show compassion towards everyone, no matter who, simply as a matter of harm reduction if noting else.
also, lowkey laughing that a self-described anarchist thinks we should send trump to prison. what do we do when we abolish prisons, comrade?!
It should. Otherwise you're making the exact mistake they repeatedly make. Voting to oppress, divide, and deceive is precisely why we’re here. Unless you don't learn how they learn, and fall into propaganda, you will never be able to solidify against the elite.
No you don't.
You are miscomprehending me completely. In order to break fascist propaganda, you need to break them down to their roots. Respect for them means “authority,” not “dignity.” “Compassion” “another try!” They are not aware compassion means “lending a hand.” We need to teach them by violence what that means: because that is the only language they know. They do not talk like you and I. They talk through fists, guns, and boots. Once you get a true white flag, THEN you can teach them what it means to lend a hand.
YEAH, THAT IS THE EXACT PROBLEM. They do not know compassion, and we have to teach to them the hardway. Tantrums are the language of the undisciplined. We have to rediscipline them from the bottom.
They don't have that. How do you teach a monster to not be a monster?
Someone needs to go to deconstruction school. I suggest you get your psychiatric studies up in order. Humiliating and punishing wrong doings is part of teaching how to be human. We are not lashing out, we are reeducating them.
NOPE. Get this fascist narrative out of here. I said they need to be retaught HOW TO BE COMPASSIONATE, HOW TO INTERSECT, HOW TO SOLIDIFY. Lashing out is what they do. We humble them, punish them, and teach them how to be human again.
Rehabilitation is required to reintroduce members into society that have wrong us. If they can't be reeducated, what should we do?
Can you provide any evidence that supports your claim that humiliation and punishment is a more effective way of educating people than compassion?
Sure. It's so effective, the 🇺🇲 has employed if for a century now.
Compassion much like learning to share, is a discipline that needs exercise.
...and now you're linking me to AI slop blogspam. Okay, I'm done. You're wrong about many, many things. I'd strongly encourage reading through an anarchist FAQ as a starting point.
You should click profiles of people. I show the anarchist Faq all the time.
Denying operant conditioning doesn't work is like denying eating doesn't work. But you do you.
Dehumanizing people and calling them monsters is unironically nazi shit.
So you do recognize how fascist see us brown people.
Now, how do rehumanize that illogical thinking?🤪
By recognizing that they are flawed people who grew up in an environment who taught them it was normal and good, and rewarded them for behaving that way. They are just humans, like us. We would have been the same as them if we were in their place. Only by recognizing that, and seeing them as humans, can you stand any chance of actually defeating fascism. If we just follow in their footsteps, answer violence with violence, dehumanize them in the same way they dehumanize us, we just lay the seeds for them to rise again.
This is not the case, because I was able to estrange my conservative upbringing by educating myself and being kind to others. I was able to recognize the harms I made, and went through deconstruction to be able to help others too.
Fascists do NOT want to recognize they are flawed. They do not want to recognize they are wrong. They want to be wrong, and make others fall in their misery.
They are humans that fail to recognize their humanity. And need to be retaught, from the bottom what that entails.
::: spoiler Reread carefully, again. Maybe three times.
They refollowed those steps. They reanswered in violence. They re-dehumanize us, again. They reseeded fascism, and want a third reseed.
Compassion-focused therapy only works on those that are capable communicating in other languages than violence; that fascists rechoose to recommunicate with. :::
Man I hate to tell you this, but here's how that's going to go.
"You want my help dismantling the Trump regime and the oligarchy? Ok, I'll help, but only if you agree to criminalize being gay, trans, black, or brown."
"Good, so first step- wait, what's that? A LIMITED EDITION TRUMP 2028 HAT??? Sign me the fuck up!"
"Then get fucked shitlib, I'm calling ICE and telling them to fuck you up."
"See, you get it! The globalist Jews..." He carries on and you pretend not to listen. "But when I become a billionaire, I'm gonna do it right!"
Yeah, that's how the first few conversations tend to go. Then some time later, can be weeks or months later, they notice something that resonates with something you said to them, and it's the first crack in their absolute belief in their world view.
people rarely, if ever, change their views from a single interaction, but they can change, and all it takes is for us to hold back our impulses to rub their noses in the mud and the time/patience it takes for us to show them an alternative in a way that they don't immediately reject.
with trump, the epstein stuff, and affordability crisis, right wing ideology has never been more exposed and vulnerable in my entire life.
Can you tell them to “hold back [their] impulses” from going door to door and shooting us in the face, pretty please?
You’re too nice for this time, ay. I have a heap of admiration for your viewpoint.
Unfortunately, here, it’s naive. Very few change, it’s never by ‘reaching out’ and it’s only ever driven from within themselves.
The truth is, it’s not worth seeking the few out, because the movement is vast and abhorrent and like what’s been pointed out, it only understands ne language.
I’m actually not interested in beating it out of them, I prefer to disregard, defend against them if necessary then apply accountability as per damage done, once they no longer hold power. I guess that’s why I admire your kindness because quite frankly I’d be a bit more ruthless in sentencing than a persuasive hiding.
Nah there’s another way without having to come together with them.
There’s enough good people to effect an extended shutdown to force the Houses to act. You don’t need to extend an olive branch, again, to people who will just stomp on it anyway.
It means a lot of hardship until it’s seen through but it’s the best option now.
You're right, I think. All the smug schadenfreude has always felt hollow to me. Where does it get us, anyway? Just another distraction from the goal of worker solidarity, fostering an attitude that's actively harmful to that goal.
The ruling class are not the workers.
The “smug” class has distracted us for far too long.
This is the class we are dealing with.
I choose not to make the same mistake I did in 2021. Compassion is for those that earnestly seek it.
Terry Zink hasn't.
Whoa whoa whoa, don't lump Colorado in with those states. We absolutely did NOT vote for that piece of shit - 3 times in a row.
Idk how they got Colorado in there
he said "real" jobs.
Here champ, you dropped this.
I moved to Wyoming about a decade ago. Never in my life have I met more hardcore and practical environmentalists in my life. These people spend a lot of money, time, and effort making sure that their rivers, forests, and wildlife are and remain healthy. It is a monumental task.
I will never understand how their mental gymnastics work in order to reconcile their vote for a man who made his money in New York real estate and reality TV.
No one except law enforcement would know Trump's name if he hadn't been born rich. At best he'd be working at a used car lot wearing a cheap toupee and polyester suit.
No one except law enforcement would know Trump's name outside of New York if Mark Burnett hadn't put him on TV.
I blame that prick.
There was a real reason that Trump picked his skirts up and left for California to get on TV after he lost the Resorts Internation Hotel and Casino to Merv Griffin in the late 80's. The Trump Taj left a ton of people holding the bag and he had to leave. Got himself TV famous so as to make sure no one - least of all the gangsters of the Philly mob he stiffed - could touch him.
(he owed Nicky Scarfo a lot of money..)
How can I jump to that timeline?
He made a lot of headlines over the years we gaudy gold embellishments, plastering his name everywhere, and a long history of reneging on contracts by making the lawsuits more expensive to run than the money he owed people. He’s always been a con artist with no legitimate business talent , and I don’t see how anyone missed that.
But yeah he never could have done that if he hadn’t started rich
"They're hurting the wrong people"
Do people just not understand how voting works, or what the word means? Do they maybe think it's short for Devote?
They can get fucked. You wanted this. You got it.
Yes the fuck you did, dipshit
More like “I refused to believe I was voting for this”
Fuck the irony is delicious. I love that.
It's like signing a contract, you have only yourself to blame if the contract sucks but didn't read it before putting your signature on it.
and this time it wasn't even like those EULAs that are dozens and dozens of pages long legalese that nobody understands, it was up front and clear and repeatedly announced
When you vote without thinking of consequences, you did vote for that.
If the failure and stupidity of DOGE isn't hammered into people for generations to come then a gross failure will have taken place.
They claimed to want to cut waste but they have destroyed so much revenue it isn't funny.
You wanted fascism, Zinky. Well, you got it. And you better thank Dear Leader and Jesus. You live in the Greatest Country In The World, and God gave you bootstraps!
Quit crying and get a job, weakling. Hail Trump.
Oh, Terry, you sweet summer child.
What did you expect would get cut when Donald told you he was going to take a saw to our government?
Why does he need you guys to do controlled burns? Can't he just take some of the concentration camp inmates to rake all of Yellowstone?
"Dog ate my homework" ass motherfuckers
trump ate your home and job.
Thanks obama
Just saying "I didn't vote for this" won't make it better sadly for this stupid fuck.
Dear Terry: you're starting to come a looooooooooong long way. Seriously!
I think I might write this fellow a strongly worded letter.
he submit a draft to SCHUMER AND HAKEEM.
Yeah you did. You voted for the richest of us to feast on everyone else. That was explicitly why every mega rich motherfucker threw their salt behind Trump
Hey, everyone. I enjoy the schadenfreude as much as everyone, but don't blame the conned. Blame the con men
Blame culture isn't a way forward, both the con and the conned hold partial responsibility. Power doesn't come from thin air, and those who voted for this regime helped empower it.
Well, not everyone sees it that way. For example, in Germany, there is the criminal offence of Volksverhetzung. It's a bit hard to translate but it roughly means "incitement of the people" or "instigation to hatred". Why Germany has that criminal code is probably obvious. The point is, the one doing the inciting is criminalised, not those falling for it.
If someone is incited to commit political violence, then the person who committed the violence is held responsible.
What if 35% of the population of a country participated?
like comfy replied: how do you get conned twice by the same man?
How the con worked is worthy of a sociological study. To massively simplify: they play into the hopes and fears of the uneducated.
Some even want a third con!
Three times, really
Shithole country strikes again