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My sense is Trump will try to make Snap benefits permanently end during the shutdown,” she said. “I’m dumbfounded by the cruelty.”

That's the inevitable outcome of what they are doing, less money for billionaires is thier concern.

Grand Rapids, Michigan resident Bill predicted he “will have to go without many things that I ordinarily purchase” and borrow money from his family.

“How do I feel about it? I curse Donald Trump and his entire party of sycophants and lickspittles to the seven[th] circle of hell, now and for all time,” the 71-year-old said.

I like Bill's attitude :)

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In theory, maybe.

In practice, it has the same result. If everyone who did not vote for Trump, voted for Harris, we would not be where we are.

Most people who voted for Trump stand by their vote, for one reason or another. You can ask them to apologise but they won't. It's the ones who didn't vote for Harris and hedged their bet and are now saying "not my fault! I didn't vote for him!" who are the real problem. Because they didn't want Trump but they also laid down and let Trump have the victory, for some reason or another.

Look, for fucking decades my mother would not vote. She saw Kennedy killed (and/or heard about it) when she was 9 and she swears he was the last good president. (I didn't like Kennedy all that much. My "last good American president" was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.) Anyway, after Trump's first term, she voted in both the last elections. For Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024. She wanted Clinton to win in 2016 but did not go vote, she figured enough people would vote for her over Trump. When Trump won, she stopped sitting on the fence and started getting out and voting. And she's like 70-something. Granted she's retired. But if you have the legal right to vote, you should. I strongly believe that. And if you don't vote, I absolutely believe you don't get to sit there and say "well I didn't vote for the guy who won."