Do you finally regret supporting Donald Trump?

Government officials openly calling for the political capture of entire platforms but at least we don't have to give Mexicans Loritabs in the ER after they shoot a nail through their hand

Actual kids destroying the world order to appease a bipolar billionaire drug addict. But at least we can watch cruelty theater on the news as ICE agents execute citizens in the streets

Maybe think about the actual state of things for a moment before you say we deserve this for having a sliver of humanity

coordi, as a successful person, you're pretty insulated from the flights of the lower and middle class who've seen their jobs go oversees, seen the low skill alternatives never pay enough to earn a living wage because there's always an illegal immigrant who'll happily bunk up with 10 other people in a 2 bedroom apartment living off beans and rice to make $8 an hour

they are getting squeezed

meanwhile salary growth is stagnant and things like the cpi are misleading because they are heavily scaled by things like electronics which are getting cheaper and not scaled enough towards housing, education, & food - which have all exploded vs the earnings

fact is a generation ago a janitor at a high school could afford to buy a house

now the teachers can't even afford to buy a house, only the top level administrators can do that

they've seen a government make promise after promise to change things and make them better but never deliver, obama's healthcare plan did nothing except making it illegal to not have healthcare

and then... these people who've done nothing at all to help working class americans, then proudly declare mission accomplished, it's now time to dedicate our resources on the illegal immigrants for who a lot of these people feel are weighing down wages and thus a major part of this problem

we've already seen how low skill jobs are rapidly raising pay since covid and government policy began targeting illegals

but sure, continue to bury your head in the sand and act like people voted for trump not out of frustration and being desperate to try something new but rather because they are hateful bigots

There’s no evidence that’s why Trump won. And Democrats aren’t “refusing to provide Americans healthcare” that is absolute nonsense. Democrats expand healthcare access every time they are in power and Republicans do the opposite.

Every metric you've listed is objectively worse under Trump, so there is that.

What the fuck are you talking about rick, the Dems have been pushing for universal healthcare since the 90s.

you oddly think i'm a fan of his or think he's not objectively the worst president we've ever had

there's a difference between understanding sentiment and agreeing with it

you can study and understand the holocaust and read mein kampf without wanting to exterminate all jews

about a million americans file for medical bankruptcy each year - these are often people who had insurance

we have by far the most broken healthcare system of any wealthy nation

and yet instead of focusing on fixing that, the messaging is "it's so great and wonderful, mission accomplished, now we gotta focus on providing free healthcare to illegals"

lololololololololol

and you guys call yourselves progressives

feels like i'm one of the few actual progressives here as i care more about output than party loyalty and rhetoric

Its weird to say the left has done nothing for normal people when things like student loan forgiveness are politicized and Republicans not only actively shut down the forgiveness, but attack income based payment plans that **** over the educated work force. We have the palantir psychopath directly stating that the end goal of his technology is to take away political power from educated women and you are like "bOtH SiDeS"

There are endless examples. I could go on and on and on about how actively antagonistic the Right is towards me and you are literally dying on the vine because the left wants to help people

Nobody is focusing on giving illegals healthcare.

"The ACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20 to 24 million additional people covered.[5][6] The law also enacted delivery system reforms intended to constrain healthcare costs and improve quality. After it came into effect, increases in overall healthcare spending slowed, including premiums for employer-based insurance plans.[7] "

coordi, you're acting like it's right wing people who determine elections

if the democrats were better able to communicate they would have won every election

instead they do this

reminds me of whenever a poster mentions he's still undecided anywhere here leading up to the elections and are immediately met with ridicule and insults by the left, same as how i respond with facts and get nothing but "omg you idiot you don't get" all while failing to explain why the democrats somehow lost to the worst person on earth twice

you attack me but fail to acknowledge that what i'm describing is all factually true and genuine grievances and pain points for americans

it sounds really tone deaf, i mean we literally have people shooting healthcare ceos in the street and they get celebrated as heros

agreed, which makes those moments all the more absurd that they cosplay as if they are anyway - both infuriating their base who will be upset when it never happens and all the others struggling to pay their medical bills wondering why the focus isn't instead on helping them

Rickroll has joined the trumpers believing welfare moms and immigrants are taking resources from hardworking Americans while corporations get billions in subsidies and tax breaks from the government and funnel the wealth of our nation straight to the top <1%. Which is exactly why we have trump and the rest of the elite grifters in charge. The reason we don't have universal Healthcare has never been nor never will be immigrants. The elite class does not need it or want it.

The ability for democrats to effectively communicate has been kneecapped by relentless right wing propaganda. The right controls all of the information flows and you are just another victim of the machine

May god have mercy on our souls

I don’t call myself a progressive and often criticize progressives on this forum. You must be talking about someone else. As far as I’m aware coordi doesn’t either.

It’s not about party loyalty, you just have the facts wrong. The last time a Republican president expanded healthcare access was under Bush, and it was spearheaded by a Democrat congress. Obama and Biden both expanded access to healthcare during their presidency, and we recently had Trump and the Republicans take away ACA subsidies.

All very well said.

But I do agree with coordi that we're cooked, but not (solely) because of Trump.

I have to admit coordi is a far more entertaining rage poster than SRM imo. Probably because coordi is actually an intelligent person.

Neither Joe Biden or Kamala Harris did and Gavin Newsom campaigned on it the last state election and caved on it

this response is evergreen, shows how tribal this is, if someone acknowledges there are reasons why someone won a popular vote other than "racism" they are called supporters of that person

The right controls CNN and MSNOW and all the other left leaning news outlets

The View is controlled by the right

i'm also explicitly mentioning voter sentiment - not arguing whether it is accurate or not

I suppose the right controls the universities and the entertainment industry as well.

I saw photos of Whoopi and Joy together at a TurningPointUSA conference.

full disclosure: jk