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Voting for Trump is about to cost this Maga county billions

www.telegraph.co.uk

Darren Bullock, 40, is a Trump voter who switched from the Democrats in 2016.

He is likely to lose Medicaid coverage because of the new requirements, although he is not hopeful of finding adequate employment.

“If they want people to work 80 hours a month, they’d need to bring in a lot more jobs,” he says.

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“If they want people to work 80 hours a month, they’d need to bring in a lot more jobs,” he says.
Who is exactly is the “they” in this sentence?
If you want the government to provide you with employment opportunities and free healthcare, then you should consider not voting for the team that is privatizing every public (government) sector.
- It's worse. They mean the 1%

Of the 200 counties with the highest proportion of voters reliant on public health insurance, a staggering 84pc voted for Trump in last year’s election.
Nowhere exemplifies this contradiction more than Knox County, where 72pc of people backed the Republican presidential candidate.
Here, 68pc of the population use some form of public health insurance, and of the 3,142 counties in America, it is one of the top 20 poorest
- There’s stupid and then there’s USA stupid. A very special breed of moron because of how obvious it is that they’re fucked, how they have the money and resources to fix it, and how they refuse to do the right thing so hard that they actively shoot themselves in the feet, legs, arms, torsos, and just about everywhere to avoid even needing to consider thinking about helping other people.
  Like, at least the right-wingers in better countries are living in the good world that more leftist policies have built. They’re dumb as hell but at least they’re not steeped in the thick shit of the right to the point where it should be too bad to ignore.
  
  It's not like they haven't already tried it either. We've been doing the same policies since Reagan and they continue to fail and continue to be doubled down on. Hell, Kansas was touted as the example of what conservative policies could do under Brownback. They created their conservative utopia and it crashed hard. They couldn't even afford to keep their schools open for the full school year.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
  Conservatives looked at that massive failure and said they wanted more.
  
  They’re dumb as hell but at least they’re not steeped in the thick shit of the right to the point where it should be too bad to ignore.
  Propaganda works. If you believe any country is immune, you’re wrong. Heads up. CPAC is already in Canada, the UK and Poland. Murdoch sewers are everywhere.
  
  I read an article once about a guy who grew up in a poor rural area in the US that changed my opinion a bit. He talked about how progressive and left leaning people want to help the poor and uneducated, but typically only in major city centers.
  Poor people in major cities are seen as victims of society. Socioeconomic forces beyond their control have caused them to fall behind and they need help! Rap music is the voice of the oppressed! Poor people in rural towns are seen as hillbillies who should have paid more attention in science class instead of playing football and taking their cousin to prom. Country music is for hicks! Combine this with the stats that inner city poverty is mostly minorities and rural poverty is mostly white people and you get a sense as to how rural people can see progressive programs as "racist". It certainly doesn't help that this idea is beamed into their heads by billionaire funded propaganda like Fox News.
  A tech company lays off 1,000 employees and there's rage, but a coal mine shuts down putting 1,000 people out of work and there's cheers. Biden telling rural Americans facing the loss of their livelihood "learn to program" is pretty rich coming from a wealthy successful man who likely doesn't know how to work a computer, let alone know how to program one. Republican politicians at least pretend to care about run down rural towns. And if they don't do that, at least they pledge to knock those smug city slickers down a few pegs! Send the Marines into LA!
  Hopefully the US can fix its urban-rural divide. I have no idea how that would happen, but it seems to be a major hindrance to class consciousness.
  
  Americans will shoot anything
  
  MAGA - Morons and Genuine Assholes
  
  And then there's Brexit.
- Why is The Telegraph using "pc" instead of "%"?
  
  No idea. Honestly surprised they put an otherwise legible article together
  
  Maybe they want people to think that 68pc means 68%, while in reality it means something like 68 People who Care. You know, a sneaky way to make people think you’re writing about something big, although all you really have is one big nothing-burger. A clever legal loophole that allows the paper to get away with anything.
  Well, who knows what that actually is, but that’s the feeling I get every time newspapers do something weird like that.

Not voting for anyone also did this.
Remember, Jill Stein's exact words were 'We can deny votes to Kamala Harris.' Not 'We can deny votes to Donald Trump.'
Every single one of you white lily fuckfaces who chants 'both sides' brought this on yourselves.

- I'd be a lot more sympathetic if they weren't all still blaming everyone but themselves. Like that Florida congresswoman punished by her own party's bills over women's healthcare somehow still blaming liberals.
  Take responsibility for your fuck up, admit you were wrong, and I'm absolutely willing to work with them to fix these problems.
  
  See, this guy right here is what politics should be.
  The democrats should say "This problem should be tackled THIS way!"
  And the republicans should say "I disagree. I think the problem should be tackled THAT way!"
  And then you, the american voter, should then go to your local polling booth, and cast your vote for whom you think is right.
  But that's not what this is.
  Politics, for at least my entire lifetime, has been a bunch of weak men and women grasping at straws, trying to consolidate power for their individual selves. The DNC is quite frankly a corrupt shitshow. They don't know who they want in, but they have a long list of whom they want to keep OUT.
  And the RNC isn't much better. They have solidarity. That's it. They will all agree with the plan, regardless of if that plan is stupid or not. They will just line up to kiss the ring, and provide a united front. In their own minds they think that makes them strong.
  But at no time are either of these groups worried about the american people. They're worried about their own careers. They're worried about their status in the political world. They're worried about their ego.
  That's what's missing in this country. A leader who cares about the nation. The whole nation. Not just their career. Not just their side. But EVERYONE.
  Politics should be two opposing ideas that differ from each other on the best way to serve the country. Instead, somewhere along the way it became two sides that are enemies.
  I lean left, and more democrat on many things. But republicans SHOULDN'T be the enemy. And if you're a republican, democrats SHOULDN'T be the enemy. These two sides may be opposite sides, but they're meant to be two sides of the same coin. That coin being america.
  So the poster above me, even though they didn't call any of that out specifically, they do embody the spirit of what I'm saying. Someone leaning to the left, seeing a right wing person feeling the ill effects of their own choices.
  And their response is "if you can own up to your own mistakes, I'll help you dig out of them."
  THAT is whats missing in this country.

The "more jobs" they are bringing is the reason they're deporting all the migrant workers.
Have fun being an indentured servant to a plantation owner & get "paid" via a discount on medical bills...

Trillions over the long term.
- And it will be long term. It's far easier to destroy than to build, or repair.

“If they want people to work 80 hours a month, they’d need to bring in a lot more jobs,” he says.
Why 80 hours? Is that a threshold that has taken on a specific meaning in the US political discord? Otherwise it seems a little random, that's like a 50% employment, right?
- They're being generous to the elderly and disabled people who can't work by only making them work half time.
  
  Shouldn't be an issue for the average Alzheimer's victim.
  /s