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Quiet Em

(2,483 posts)
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 12:23 AM 3 hrs ago

The shutdown is over but the economic hardships the con is enacting on the people isn't

Flights should return to normal soon, Federal workers will be paid. Republicans in Congress will finally return to work.

But not all food assistance will be restored. The con will continue to to look for cruel ways to kick people out of receiving assistance and set unreasonable and inhumane restrictions.

Millions of people will be without health care because they won't be able to afford it.

Grocery prices won't go down because the con's says it's a hoax and the prices are fine.

Housing and rent prices are still too high and far out of reach for people and his 50 year mortgage plan is an insult.

Women's reproductive health and women's worth will continue to be eroded.

White Supremacists are still going to be marching in the streets and posting on Elon's X.

The con will still focus on what team a 13 year old is playing wiffle ball on in gym class, instead of the 13 year old's education.

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The shutdown is over but the economic hardships the con is enacting on the people isn't (Original Post) Quiet Em 3 hrs ago OP
Agreed...and BeerBarrelPolka 17 min ago #1

BeerBarrelPolka

(2,088 posts)
1. Agreed...and
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:24 AM
17 min ago

There is simply no telling what else he will conjure up. None of us are (I Hope) dark enough to think of the ugliness he is capable of. If things truly go south for him (which I'm unsure of), he'll blow the whole damn thing up. This is how narcissists are. While many are looking rightly at SS and Medicare/Medicaid, he may also go in a complete different direction in addition. And it may be a direction that none of us see coming.

Who would have thought "fat people" can't get a visa?

https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity

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