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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    He didn’t win the popular vote the first time. He lost by 3 million votes, but a Democrat has to win by a lot more than that because of the handicap set up by Republicans to favour Republicans. He lost by 8 million to Biden and that was enough for a Democrat to be appointed by the “Electoral College”.

    George W. Bush also lost the popular vote in 2000, but was appointed.

    I don’t know if Trump actually won the popular vote in 2024. At this point it doesn’t really matter. The rich and powerful are just going to appoint who they want, they don’t give a fuck what the people vote for. The popular vote is an opinion at best, and it’s not considered. Americans don’t elect presidents, the ruling elite does.

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      I don’t know if Trump actually won the popular vote in 2024.

      Trump - 77,302,580

      Harris - 75,017,613

      Yes, he did. “He didn’t win the popular vote” was a cold comfort I told myself often the first time, but this time there was no such thing. I had to accept that America is just made up of a larger than average percentage of horrible people.

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        Thanks. Crazy that “only” 2 million over means a Republican can win, but “only” 3 million over means a Democrat doesn’t have enough to win.