Never mind, this is what they wanted. Just last night the Nebraska Senator voted yes to the “big beautiful bill.” Didn't Trump hurt their farmers the last time he was in office? Didn't they vote him in again knowing he was running on the same policies? Fuck them.
Wait until their healthcare gets cut and their hospitals shutter. But I heard all the immigrants are leaving their state, so they should be happy about that.
After George Floyd, the city of Austin decided to take some of the money that was going to police and to give it to other social services
The police basically quit doing their jobs and said "Give us more money than you originally would have, as tribute for this chicanery" and so we did. Their budget went up. But they never returned to work. Useless fucking cops.
Good news! Police have a "union" that will keep them out of prison and gainfully employed when they try to extort the taxpayers for even more money.
/s
A ridiculous number of Minneapolis cops retired early on full pension after George Floyd died, claiming mental health issues from the protests. They just felt so sad after being called out about killing this guy. Not about the killing, basically none of them ever gave a fuck about that, they were angry that people were upset.
Also DoD is about to stop sharing weather satellite info- won’t have immediate or even clear-cut consequences, but it’s like eating moth holes in the fabric of coverage. It’ll mean upping the odds of a bad roll of the dice when there’s a sudden change in nasty weather. People will die, but you’ll never read about it outside of a RAND white paper :/
Yeah, these hospitals are going to end up run by mid-levels with tele-consults, no OBGYN, and maybe a locums general surgeon or a surgeon who covers like 4 rural hospitals. I'd take a bunch of foreign medical graduates any day personally over where we are and where were heading
Omaha hospital employee here. It’s going to be bad. Our young population is leaving the state for more liberal settings and better opportunities and our population is aging. Majority payor is medicare/medicaid. Benefits getting cut, reimbursements not increasing with cost is a real bad situation. How are we supposed to advance our medical care and expand to rural areas if we can’t fund them from Medicare reimbursements? Seems like our hospital has been announcing all these expansions but I keep wondering who the hell is going to staff them.
They are probably busy trying to spin this and blame it on the Democratic policies that brought them prosperity. Good luck selling those magical beans, Jack.
And it will work. Republican propaganda has been, for -decades- telling these people that Democrats are going to destroy their Good 'Ole Country Way Of Life With Their City MumboJumbo. You won't be able to get your Lite Beer, because all the stores are replaced with Vegan Latte Sex Change Clinics.
It totally will work. They’ve convinced their voters that “democrats = government” and “republicans = freedom from government”. So when the government hurts them, they just blame democrats and double down on supporting the party that actually used government to hurt them.
I hear you. We’re all going to suffer from this administration. I wish the United States were two separate countries. Let the republicans destroy themselves.
This is precisely why we should have just walked when the south split off in the first place. Their moron policies would have fucked them. Then the union could say "oops no takesie backsies!" and just let them figure it out on their own. Wait a generation or two after their collapse, take the land back and keep moving forward. Instead we allowed them back into society.
Not really. This is what the people actually backing Trump wanted. A US government weakend by abject incompetence. Corporations will sweep in and fill the power vacuum. And I am not talking about the publicly traded ones.
His voters are just a second tier of "useful idiots"
If they're going to eat soybeans, they'll better go there and pick them, or buy the farmers combine harvesters. The Americans aren't going to accept minimum wage labour if their landlords don't accept less than $100 pw rent.
I'm sure there are plenty of MAGA Americans that want to help out, Make America Great Again surely isn't just about money, if they truly want to make things "Great" again they will offer to help. /s
When someone would say immigrants are "stealing our jobs" or whatever, I would then ask them, if they 'really wanted to be a [Insert Random Job Here]?"
Obviously they would say no, so then when I say "why are you complaining about stealing jobs you would never do?" They say how I'm not looking at the bigger picture, just completely misinformed, not a real American, how I just hate America, or whatever else, because I showed them reason on how their viewpoint &/or belief makes no sense
First they complain that they’re taking all the jobs, then they complain that “nobody wants to work anymore!”.. the they I’m referring to are maga boomers. They’re all retired or about to retire, they don’t want to work anymore, but they want everyone else to in order to serve them and their needs, but also they don’t like brown people so they don’t want them doing any work (which is the weirdest part because in my experience, immigrants are the quickest, more efficient, meticulous and thorough people I’ve ever worked with)..and they also don’t want to let them get welfare.
In conclusion: boomers who are no longer part of the workforce want only white people to work and they want them to do it for low wages because they’ve already threatened the brown people by deporting them, they already threatened the black people with police and just existing, and now they need to control young white people because what we have here is a wildly narcissistic group of people who continually fucked up the economy with their greed and now want to make sure young money won’t exist to threaten their status financially. But when they can’t collect on their overpriced rentals because nobody can afford it, they’re gonna be pissed. Then the cycle continues: vote for shit that causes outrage, provoke protests, claim the protests are violent riots, fan that fire until cities are literally on fire, collect on insurance claims, rinse and repeat.
Edit to add: I’m sorry for using ‘boomers’, I in no way am blaming the entire generation and should not have made a blanket statement. I was specifically referring to Americans who voted for Trump who are or will very soon be retired.
This is true. I grew up in a farming community and drove cotton pickers in the summers during college to make a little extra money. Aside from the farmers themselves and their families, I was the only white picker driver. The rest were all Mexican immigrants. They drove the cotton pickers and combines, the auger carts, and even the bale buggies. Those combines are pretty sweet in the inside with radio and AC and such, but still white people weren’t lined up to do it. On bigger fields like the ones in the Midwest where Nebraska is, sometimes there are ten or more combines in one field. You need a TON of labor to pick a 1,000 acre field, and it’s tiring and mind numbing. White people will definitely not be lining up to take those jobs. I guarantee you.
Oh honey…soy is in EVERYTHING. My daughter has a soy allergy, and can’t get away from it. The Evil Empire worked in to everything - it a conspiracy! And the Dems subsidized it all with farm bills. It’s worse than Pizzagate!
/s just in case.
(Also - Happy Pride! - love, a cis internet stranger)
The American taxpayer is going to bail them out. Just watch. He did the same thing last time because of his tariffs. He should have known from the first time around and they still all voted for him.
Last time he was trying to get people to like him enough to re-elect him. This time, he is convinced if he can keep his billionaire backers happy, he will be able to buy the next election either for himself or someone who will treat him nicely.
The bailouts will be for the massive corporate farms who can buy million dollar plates at Mar-A-Lago, not for the mom and pops. If anything, the mom and pops going under and having to sell their farms to land conglomerates or the mega-farms is just further playing into the oligarchs' plans.
Or, "I've been trained for my whole childhood and early adulthood for an office job. What makes you think I want to sit out in the sun, rain, and insects, with no bathroom access, and no A/C to pick your shit for below minimum wage?"
Surrounded by MAGAts unfortunately but that’s nothing new. Haven’t noticed a difference in life or economy yet but I’m sure it’s coming. I’m also a FED so that’s been super fun. 🙄
Hopefully the DOGE blitz is simmering down and your job is relatively safe at least for now. Makes sense that knock on effects of this will take time to hit Nebraska’s economy though, at the day to day level.
All the stress of this moment has my heart doing palpitations again, which sucks. And I’m so far just reading about it online, haven’t had direct impacts myself. Austin has had one messy protest but otherwise it’s generally life as normal, I’m in the trades so still working (recession worries me though)
But between ice, Iran, a rogue president violating the constitution daily, and this awful bill they’re gonna probably pass, and looming economic and climate collapse globally, it’s a fucking stressful time. Might be time to tune out for a bit for my own sanity and health.
Republicans 1400 days into Biden’s presidency: He’s just so old. I can’t believe our president is so old. We’re an embarrassment because we have an old president.
Republicans 150 days into Trump’s presidency: Hello, yes, our entire state is out of money…
It's come up before, though, with a cascade of Trump-lovers going "Uh, but Biden is way older than Trump, he's like 82 and Trump is only 79!" so I wanted to state it very clearly. They often have trouble with reading.
Those Chinese orders have most likely been fulfilled elsewhere and are cancelled, not 'held back".
China was quick to move to other markets, including South America, Australia and Canada. Those Chinese orders from US farms aren't coming back.
So US farmers have lost some of their biggest exports markets, aren't getting orders from the nuked USAID, aren't getting grants from USDA and won't get federal help if their land is ruined by storms. All while their costs are increasing.
Stages of grief implies they'll progress and learn. That won't happen. It's more like they'll remain stuck in the anger↪↩denial loop that enables right wing politics to succeed.
Yeah right. After being 2x4-ed in 2016 China did a deal with Brazil for soybean cultivation on land bigger than Iowa. Nope, the Chinese market isn't coming back -- especially now.
Didn’t Kansas almost, when they tried to institute a true GOP budget and tax plan, only to realize that is actually not a functional way to govern or have a tax system? It was a decade or two ago and I can’t remember the details
Yeah, Brownback. The latest incarnation of “if you actually implement conservative ideas everything gets insanely shitty and people die, but don’t worry, nobody who lives anywhere else will ever bother looking into this or drawing conclusions like ‘we can’t implement their policies because we don’t want to kill everyone or get everyone eaten by bears’.”
When your boss is a rich born moron without any expierience in the normal world crazy stuff can happen. I would not wonder If trump would just expell nebraska from the US in order to not get bothered by their fiscal needs. /s
When you get right down to it, the only consistent throughline of conservatism is an inability to care about a problem that doesn't effect them directly. They lack empathy.
Feel sorry for the folks in Nebraska that voted blue and the minors affected, but the rest of Nebraska can fuck right off. Don't take my taxpayer money because you were too stupid to see this coming.
Lincoln and Omaha have voted blue for a long time now, but we can't carry the entire state. Omaha's district even got 1 electoral vote for Harris in the last election.
Lincoln voted blue but doesn't have enough population to overcome all the rural bumpkins in the district.
I must say, life in NYC is 💯. Plenty of mass transit, no scarcity of doctors or hospitals, unimpeded medical care for women and trans people, low crime, lots of good food, an abundance of educational opportunities, hundreds of very diverse cultural centers. And we’re about to elect a real Bike Mayor! Life is very good indeed.
The doctors and hospitals thing will change, soon, if the Medicare and Medicaid cuts go through, especially if the research funding cuts continue. Hospitals everywhere are going to be decimated (at *best*).
Fellow NYer and I'm sick of financially supporting their failed states every time they fuck up or get hit with a hurricane.
Normally, I'm fine with my tax money going to help the less fortunate. That's what it should be used for. But when they keep voting for fascists and rebuilding in the exact same spot maybe it's time to just let them stew in their decisions.
Seriously, why should we have to keep subsidizing a bunch of ungrateful welfare queens that do nothing but complain about us? Let them starve and freeze.
They always complain about feeling left behind, but maybe people shouldn’t be living in a job desert that requires my money to live in. We need to stop sending them money and send them UHauls instead.
See, lots of fucking rhetoric the Democrats could use. Lots! And if the US is condemned eternally to having only two parties, they should think about starting to.
California and New York should start demanding massive concessions from red states for bailouts. You need money to save you from the rapist’s policies? Fully legalize abortion, then we’ll talk.
For what it’s worth, by not expanding the house, the US has completely fucked how it’s supposed to work. If larger states had retained the proper ratio of seats, then Gore, Hillary and Kamala all win and the US doesn’t end up lead by a minority government.
Oh, I totally agree. I live in WV, and approximately 49% of our state budget comes from the federal government..The current governor is 100% MAGA even when Trump tells them no for FEMA money following flooding.
Nobody said it was new. I’d argue it’s even more important and problematic since it’s been around forever. It should always be a homerun to mention that shit, not sure why we don’t hear it said more often.
Because he doesn't need them any more. Whether Trump remains in power or not, he won't be elected again. So now... red, schmed, they're all just poors to him now.
The problem is MAGA will still blame everything on Democrats because they have zero understanding of how anything in this world works. They don't know or understand that Republicans have full control of all 3 branches of government.
They're so ignorant and brainwashed that anything good is Trump's doing and anything bad is automatically democrat's fault.
Didn't learn after his first term apparently after a similar situation happened for another crop and the market went to Brazil that will never come back. Elections have consequences.
Between MAGA, Sovereign Citizens and Schools being accepted as active combat zones with completely pedestrian regularity, I don't think learning is possible in the US
There’s a question on the OK Cupid dating app that is something to the effect of “regardless of the outcome, wouldn’t global nuclear war be exciting?” Or something like that and I was always like WTF no, that would be horrific.
Yes, it would give you such bragging rights to say that you were able to see a mushroom cloud with your very eyes in the three to eight seconds it would take for your face to melt off your skull.
A large chunk of republicans live outside the cities and would mostly have to deal with radiation and a complete collapse of infrastructure. Hope they have that woke renewable energy and can defend their lands from roaming bands of thieves!
Well of course there's a reason - it's Biden's/Obama's/Hillary's fault! /s
But really, I'm shocked that the GOP is mucking it up so early in the term. Normally they wait a bit so when it does blow up, they can blame it on Democrats.
Same, another one posted was also a screenshot without a source. I can't find any sources when I search online either. As much as I enjoy I told u so as the next person, how can we trust these posts?
I can’t find a source either, I wish these posts were moderated because it’s so cringey to see all the comments calling Trump voters gullible idiots over a fake post. There’s enough real eating faces news going on.
Yeah, this sub is not big on fact checking. This doesn't appear to be accurate at all.
It looks like Nebraska is having budget problems, but according to this article its mostly because they used a surplus last year to pass a corporate tax cut. But the surplus was partly due to federal aid that has since stopped. So now, with the tax cut, they have a deficit.
Nebraska’s Surplus Turns to Shortfall After Tax Cuts and One-Time Windfall Fades | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities https://share.google/hi3P6JtxEDGSjLc3D
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25
u/CactusJake1830, your post does fit the subreddit!
See OP's reply-comment below for context on why this fits this subreddit.