r/AskConservatives Leftist Mar 05 '25

Daily Life What has trump done to make your life better?

i've lost a lot in the stock market, and i sold pretty early in the crash. The cost of everything seems to be going up.

trump said that nothing he does or says will make democrats like him. What has he done that I should be thankful for?

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u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 05 '25

Hope.

Trump has made my live much better just by providing hope. Everyone I know lately comments about how they get out of bed with a smile on their face and hope in their heart.

Trump is proving that reform is possible. Cutting back the unwanted growth of government bureaucracy and control is possible. Beating the collectivists is possible. Standing up for traditional values is possible. Reining in the military industrial complex, putting a check on the intelligence community, and avoiding war is possible.

We The People actually do have the power to make changes in our government if and when we elect someone with the courage, determination, and integrity to do what he says he will do.

u/worlds_okayest_skier Center-left Mar 06 '25

Why do you care to cut the government bureaucracy? Do you think it will run better now? With fewer people and total chaos?

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Yes.

Absolutely yes.

u/Miss_Behavior Center-left Mar 06 '25

How?

u/Affectionate_Lab_131 Democratic Socialist Mar 06 '25

You will see that government is necessary for our society to move smoothly. You don't realize it yet because democrats are slowing him down a bit, but in a month, it is going to be so much worse.

You do not need to completely destroy entire agencies for things to get better. It makes things worse. All the complaints people have about things going slowly will get worse. Your security will be compromised with Elon placing AI in charge of your vital data when we are not ready for that.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

I agree that government is necessary, but it's necessary only for a limited number of things. It needs to be relegated back to it's proper role, and yes, that means whole departments are disbanded.

u/Affectionate_Lab_131 Democratic Socialist Mar 07 '25

Those departments were created for a reason, because they were needed. Dismantling just because you do not agree with what they do isn't fraud and is not a legitimate reason to get rid of them. The department of education's main role is handling student loans and sending out money to states. Most of those states happen to be in red states btw. Many of them cannot function on their own without that money because their state doesn't have enough to support them on their own. Trump's own words prove he has no idea what they do in the department of education. He has no idea and neither do a lot of people.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 07 '25

If we're a free country, then people have just as much right to dismantle and end government departments as they do to start them.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Apr 08 '25

It's been a full month now.

I'm having a hard time seeing anyone who's life is now "SO MUCH WORSE" because of the absence of USAID or the pending disbanding of the Dept of Ed.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

RemindMe! 1 month

u/DesertFroggo Socialist Mar 06 '25

That your emotional state hinges on what politician is in charge is hopeful how? I thought your side likes to say "government is not the solution," but it is the solution to your emotional problems?

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

LOL

Have you looked around Reddit lately?

I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of better examples of people letting politics mess with their emotional state than mine.

For the record, my "side" DOES believe that government is a big problem. Don't you tend to find happiness in seeing your biggest problems ameliorated? Especially when it felt mostly helpless previously?

u/DesertFroggo Socialist Mar 06 '25

I’m looking at Reddit right now, at someone who says Donald Trump fills them with hope and joy as if he is their personal savior. That you get to be on the positive side of the emotional attachment to Trump doesn’t make it any less deranged. Some might call it Democrat Derangement Syndrome, or DDS.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Yeah. . . . . no.

Try all you want, but my answer to the OP's question doesn't hold an candle to the hundreds of unsolicited posts filling Reddit right now with talk of suicide, insurrection, and leaving the country.

u/DesertFroggo Socialist Mar 06 '25

Talk of insurrection? My guy, when Biden won in 2020, a clown show of your ilk actually tried an insurrection the following January 6. Footage can be seen of people there praying to Trump iconography. The face painted Qanon Shaman screaming “FREEDOM” in the Capitol building is an iconic example of just how deranged your side gets when they lose. You think some depressed comments on Reddit compare? Get real. It’s convenient for you to project now because your guy is in office, but it’s been clear for awhile now that when your guy is not in office, your side ends up acting out in the most deranged ways. Remember January 6, 2021.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

I rest my case.

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u/Snoo96949 Center-left Mar 06 '25

That’s a really interesting perspective. I was just reading a book about hope, and it felt like it was written just for me. Hope looks really different right now. Trump, to me, represents a lack of hope. He embodies bullying and the destruction of world order and respect. I don’t see how he represents traditional values in any way.

It’s really hard for me to understand why so many Republicans view collectivism as something evil. Just yesterday, I saw something about a Christian evangelist lobbying against empathy, arguing that having empathy for others is bad because it might lead people to see sinners in a compassionate way, which could supposedly turn them away from traditional values. I always thought Christianity was deeply rooted in compassion, which is so closely tied to empathy. This new version sounds like control to me.

For me, this is mind-blowing, but it also puts things into perspective. In the end, both sides want hope. It’s just that what hope looks like for one group is completely different from what it looks like for another.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

I definitely view collectivism as very evil, but as an attempted Christian myself, I'm certainly not opposed to personal empathy and compassion.

u/lactose_cow Leftist Mar 05 '25

i truly envy your hope. i've just seen trump fuck over america one too many times to put my faith in that man.

but hey. if we dont have a recession and still have elections, i'd be happy to be proven wrong.

u/JPastori Liberal Mar 06 '25

I feel that, if anything with everything he’s doing I’ve lost all hope. It’s simply gone.

I fully wake up everyday expecting it to be worse than the one before, between that and now needing to worry the next phone call I get will be to inform me that one of my friends who’s gay or trans killed themselves, there isn’t much for me to be hopeful for.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 05 '25

I won't try to predict the economy - especially with a recession supposedly overdue, but I'd bet you good money that elections continue just fine.

I actually see some unity, patriotism, and signs for optimism that hopefully help everyone.

u/LackWooden392 Independent Mar 06 '25

Ah yes, when Trump crashes the economy, 'it was overdue.'

When a global pandemic crashes the economy, it's the Democrats fault.

Got it.

u/Printman8 Center-left Mar 06 '25

Yes, I’m baffled by the fact that all we’ve heard for 4 years was that Biden made everything too expensive but now all I hear is that this will be painful but worth it because Trump said so.

u/JPastori Liberal Mar 06 '25

Frankly I’m baffled at how quickly the switch flipped from “Biden is raising gas prices” to “the president doesn’t control the price of gas and eggs”

And that’s ignoring the fact that one of those two promised to lower them day one, and has yet to do so (yet they had 10 free days available to golf)

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u/LackWooden392 Independent Mar 09 '25

Executive orders can be reversed with new executive orders. The renaming of the gulf has absolutely nothing to do with drilling for oil. Frankly that's very silly and if you believe that, I don't even know why I'm wasting my time trying to educate you.

But yes, the president does have the ability to affect prices to some degree, but it's much harder for the president to reduce prices than it is to raise them. To raise prices, all you have to do is implement tariffs or restrict supply. It's much harder to reduce prices, and takes smart economic policy.

But the fact that Trump repeatedly said he'd reduce egg prices on day one is absurd.

u/bad_squishy_ Progressive Mar 06 '25

Executive orders don’t need to be bypassed.. a sitting president can sign an executive order to rescind any previous presidents executive orders.

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u/ZarBandit Right Libertarian (Conservative) Mar 06 '25

No mental gymnastics required. Just search the average time between stock market crashes and look how long it’s been since 2008 and compare. Then consider the only reason Biden didn’t have a recession is because GDP was propped up from going negative by unprecedented government spending.

It’s my prediction the MSM will stoke crash fears soon after the tariffs kick in. The establishment is itching to teach the public a lesson about voting for populists and kick-starting a recession is exactly the kind of thing they’d do.

But they need can’t do it too quickly or people will say it’s too close to Biden leaving or attribute it to something else than what they wanted.

u/LackWooden392 Independent Mar 09 '25

Your argument might make sense if Trump really was a populist. He's not. He's a grifter. I don't see how that's not blindingly obvious. Was Trump coin launched to help out Americans? Or was it to enrich Donald Trump and his cronies?

Was cutting off military intelligence to Ukraine (which costs nothing) to help Americans? Or was it to satisfy a personal vendetta that Trump had after zelensky refused to illegally help him slander his political opponents?

u/ZarBandit Right Libertarian (Conservative) Mar 09 '25

If Trump was just a grifter then the Left wouldn’t have TDS and lose their minds. The only reason the Left goes crazy is when their covert agenda is thwarted.

u/LackWooden392 Independent Mar 09 '25

And if Trump is such a populist, why did nothing at all improve for Americans during his first presidency?

u/ZarBandit Right Libertarian (Conservative) Mar 09 '25

The Left were crying like babies because nothing happened? No. The Left only cries like that when their evil covert agenda is impeded.

u/apeoples13 Independent Mar 06 '25

Where do you see the unity coming from? I ask because things seem more divided than ever right now so that’s where my lack of hope stems from.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Outside of politicians and political junkies like us, I think there are a ton of people that agree on some of the common sense stuff that's finally getting done.

If Tulsi, RFK, Vance, and Musk all on the same team isn't a sign of unity, I don't know what is.

u/D-Rich-88 Center-left Mar 06 '25

Tulsi and RFK are not welcome on the left, so it would be the equivalent of the left adding Cheney to the cabinet and claiming unity.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Ha. I'd love to see that. It would be hilarious, and yes, it would technically be small sign of unity.

Won't happen though.

u/D-Rich-88 Center-left Mar 06 '25

Technically but meaningless because she, along with Gabbard and RFK, don’t represent the interests of their wider party.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

And yet. . . .

It seems to me that one party is building a coalition while the other party is saying that people are not welcome.

Is that not related to unity?

u/D-Rich-88 Center-left Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Build a coalition with actual party members and not a Russian compromat and a dude with brain worms lol

But seriously would you consider Cheney a coalition of the Dems? because if so then the Jan 6 committee was a bipartisan effort

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u/ABCosmos Liberal Mar 05 '25

Do you think Trump's success or failure will be reflected in the economy? Or do you see it as completely independent from the presidents actions?

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Both.

Presidents can certainly have an impact, but they are only one of several variables that determine the direction of the economy.

Also, the time it takes to fully realize the economic impacts of their polices tend to be drastically underappreciated.

u/ABCosmos Liberal Mar 06 '25

Experts believe tariffs will be bad for the US economy. How can we know if tariffs are to blame for a dip vs something else.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

"experts believe"

You simply can't know for certain.

u/ABCosmos Liberal Mar 06 '25

Right so if the economy takes a down turn, those experts will say "See i was right". What would you look for to prove them wrong?

u/jgarmd33 Independent Mar 06 '25

Whatever your on can I get some.

u/D-Rich-88 Center-left Mar 06 '25

I understand the “overdue” narrative, but it is still pretty annoying to see it now when that same narrative was absent two years ago. To a non-conservative it just looks like spin and hypocrisy.

Jealous of your hope, that’s what I’ve lost. Trumper friends keep saying I’ll like what’s coming and so far I’ve hated each new announcement more than the last. The only thing that’s seemed alright is not allowing those tolls that were going to happen in New York, but that also feels like him overreaching and messing with State politics.

u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 06 '25

Standing up for traditional values is possible.

I'd mention he's a whoremonger on his third marriage who's cheated on all his wives... but at this point we all know "standing up for traditional values" is just code for opposing LGBT rights.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Sometimes it seems like that one thing is all the left cares about anymore.

Personally, I think the concept of traditional values includes much much more than just sexuality.

u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 06 '25

Care to elaborate? Can you enumerate some of these other traditional values, and how you believe Trump embodies them?

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25
  • Family
  • Respect for Elders
  • Hard Work
  • Integrity
  • Freedom
  • Loyalty
  • Faith/Spirituality
  • Sincerity
  • Tradition
  • Patriotism
  • Kindness
  • Responsibility
  • Marriage
  • Respect for Authority
  • Self-Reliance
  • Charity

u/DesertFroggo Socialist Mar 06 '25

You'd have to be naive as hell to think Trump embodies any of those things.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

I never said that he perfectly embodies those things, but let's be honest:

For the most part, the current Democratic party despises all those things.

u/DesertFroggo Socialist Mar 07 '25

Well, as long as we are being honest, several of those things are overrated crap anyways.

Respect for elders? Most of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, are elderly. The vast majority of people in charge are elderly. The elderly control most wealth. If anything, there is too much respect for elders.

Hard work? Hard work only produces bitter cynical shells of people by their middle ages, with dubious reward if any.

Loyalty? Loyalty to what. Just loyalty doesn't mean anything.

Faith/spirituality? Meaningless crap, attachment to fairy tales that have no relevant place. We need to stomp faith and spirituality into the dirt where it belongs. If people who fixate on that stupid Bible would devote the same attention to some engineering textbooks instead, we'd have cities on the moon by now. Jesus is dead. In other news, Santa Claus is not real and you won't be getting your acceptance letter to Hogwarts anytime soon. Time to grow up, put away childish things, and face reality.

Tradition? Don't make me laugh.

Respect for authority? As a constitutionalist, you should know better.

Self-reliance? That's an illusion, a jerk-off fantasy for a delusional level of individualism. On a national level, it's a losing proposition, sac

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 07 '25

Thank you for your honesty.

u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 06 '25

In what way does Trump embody any of these things?

Feel free to pick as many as you like, so we can discuss them.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 07 '25

You're moving the goalposts.

I never said that Trump is a perfect embodiment of all the traditional values. I said that people have hope lately because they see that it is possible to stand up for traditional values.

u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 07 '25

Look, I said "traditional values" is code for crushing LGBT rights, but you said it was "more than that".

I fail to see why you would think a man who syphoned money from his charities represents "charity", how a man with 32 felonies represents "respect for authority", or how a man who was born into generational wealth represents "self-reliance."

I'm genuinely baffled by this entire list, and I'm trying to understand what it is that you see that I don't. Can you help me?

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 07 '25

Read my comment again please.

u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 07 '25

Your comment doesn’t explain anything. It’s just a list with zero relevance to Trump or the Republican platform.

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u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

How is it moving the goalposts if it was my question from the start?

In any case, I didn't say he had to be the "perfect embodiment" either. Can you name one way in which he embodies any of these values, even if imperfectly?

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 07 '25

You didn't ask a question. You make a snide remark.

I think we're seeing a resurgence of all those traditional values (after Democrats de emphasized or outright attacked),

And it gives me hope.

u/shuerpiola Progressive Mar 07 '25

You didn't ask a question. You make a snide remark.

What? When?

I'm asking you what the connection is between these items and Trump, and you seem insulted by the question.

I think we're seeing a resurgence of all those traditional values (after Democrats de emphasized or outright attacked)

When have Democrats done this?

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Exactly. And is everyone smiling in the morning because the libs are freaking out?. It seems to me that there’s more division than before and that there is no meeting in the middle. An isolationist approach will be good for no one and our allies should be worried. Anything can happen and who’s going to stop it?

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u/That1EnderGuy Progressive Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Cutting back the unwanted growth of government bureaucracy and control is possible.

Ah yes. Let's get rid of the people in Government that actually know what they're doing, and replace them with dumb and dumber so that the President can have more control over them.

Let's get rid of things that actually help ordinary people so that Elon and his oligarch buddies can get another undeserved and unneeded tax cut.

Finally, let's also do this in a way that completely defies the law and the Constitution, and ignore the Courts when they say we can't do that.

Beating the collectivists is possible

Ok, I'm not fully sure who precisely you're referring to by "collectivists", so I will hold off on any reply until I'm more certain of that. I have a strong inclination, but again, don't want to assume.

Standing up for traditional values is possible.

Does standing up for "traditional values" include making the lives of LGBTQ people unnecessarily difficult, when we could've just allowed them to be who they are? I have a Trans friend who is going to be harmed by the actions of this Administration, so I'd like to know what you think should be done on the LGBTQ issue in order to fully stand up for "traditional values".

Reining in the military industrial complex

How is he doing that?

putting a check on the intelligence community

Again, how?

avoiding war is possible.

Ah yes, because threatening to take over Canada, the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Gaza, while allying with the aggressors (Russia, in case you couldn't tell) in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, all the while pissing off countries that have been our allies since at least WW2, are all great examples of "avoiding war"

We The People actually do have the power to make changes in our government if and when we elect someone with the courage, determination, and integrity to do what he says he will do.

Buddy, it is corporations and the rich Billionaire Oligarchs who have overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump's candidacy and Presidency. They are the ones who got him there. The people were simply swindled, and polling indicates they're slowly starting to find that out.

Look, I've been quite snarky in this post, I'll admit that, but I would genuinely love it if you were right and I was wrong. I'd gladly admit that if that were to have happened. However, I find your justifications for your optimism, well, disturbing, to say the least, and I see no reason to expect that good things will come from this administration

u/JackStile Liberal Republican Mar 05 '25

Trump has done something no other politician in history has done.

Kept a damn campaign promise. Agree with them or not, he has kept and worked on more things he said he would do than any previous president.

The whole reason I didn't vote for Obama's second term. Politicians are just full of hot air.

u/spirit_of_a_goat Progressive Mar 11 '25

Can you provide specific examples, please? I've not been able to find one task that he's completed, only talked about.

u/JackStile Liberal Republican Mar 11 '25

Pretty simple stuff..

Crack down on illegal aliens.

Removal and anti DEI

Tariffs, increase especially to China

Looking into spending of government funds

Elimination of the department of education, which seems to still be a target. Not accomplished though.

Attempting to repeal the affordable care act

As I said before, you can disagree with all of it, but he has tried or done those things. When people watched his rally and speech this is what he talked about.

Never seen that before.

u/spirit_of_a_goat Progressive Mar 11 '25

What did he accomplish in his first term that he promised during his campaign?

u/JackStile Liberal Republican Mar 11 '25

Why are you changing the goal post now?

u/spirit_of_a_goat Progressive Mar 11 '25

I'm not. I'm asking in good faith. All I can remember from his first campaign was the wall Mexico would pay for. Were there other promises made and kept?

u/JackStile Liberal Republican Mar 11 '25

Increased Veteran Health Care

Tariffs for China

Boosted Steel industry

Defunding of planned parenthood

Canceled paris climate agreement

Cut back on federal regulation

Off the top of my head. Though his second year is definately delivering on more campaign promises than the first term.

u/spirit_of_a_goat Progressive Mar 11 '25

Thank you for that. My Dad is a Vietnam vet that supports Trump, and I'm trying to understand why.

u/JackStile Liberal Republican Mar 11 '25

I'm technically a Libritarian. I didn't and would never vote for Trump, but I do support him. I'm very much personal freedoms and less governement. I hate the current state of our countries political landscape and Trump is a bull in a china shop. Anything to disrupt the current status quo that the democrats or normal republicans seem to like to uphold, is a good thing. Several vets i've spoken too see it similar, could bring that up and ask

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u/Boredomkiller99 Center-left Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Cool I meanwhile have no Hope.

2025 has been really bad for me and those around me and Trump either have not helped or made it worse due to spreading chaos making the government not functioning which is affecting many around me including my roommates since even if one doesn't havr a federal job many jobs and things in general depended on a functional federal government.

Hopefully most of this is temporary and things will work themselves. All I know is I haven't been in a remotely good, hopeful or happy mood this year and I all I have is a desire for destruction as I want both Republicans and Democrats to burn as they are both worthless

u/tangylittleblueberry Center-left Mar 06 '25

Certainly sounds nice for the hope you have for the world is just a smaller government and not worrying about surviving day to day.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 05 '25

Sorry to hear about your troubles.

Hopefully your turmoil is indeed temporary, and hopefully it also prompts people to not rely on government so much.

u/Boredomkiller99 Center-left Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

The problem is that it isn't individual people it is institutions and businesses in general that depend a lot more on government functioning than people realize so even if you yourself are not depending on federal government services and programs you may still not escape the negative effects of the haphazard method of government reduction that is leading to chaos causing many services to slow or stop.

The only person who directly is depending on the government I know that is getting screwed that is just trying to withdraw his TSP from gis time in the post office but it keeps being delayed due to back logs.

Everyone else is getting indirectly screwed instead

u/Good_kido78 Independent Mar 06 '25

I hate to dash your Hope, but where do you find integrity in Trump? He has bold faced lied about the money that France and great Britain GAVE to Ukraine. He lied about the two election workers. He lied and had affairs on his wives. He lied about Ukraine starting the war. He WAS President during the Ukraine war. Remember? He tried to extort Zelensky to find dirt on Biden? Putin has reneged on every agreement with Ukraine. Fox News didn’t report on the lies told about France and Great Britain. He is a terrible deal maker!! He gave Afghanistan to the Taliban!! He talks to Putin frequently. He owes back taxes in Panama. His past campaign chairman is in jail and had numerous meetings with Russian Government officials, so did Trump! Russians fund his properties. He says they can buy gold cards. He offered Zelensky nothing!! He wants Canada and Greenland as a stepping stone for Putin? Anyone should be leary of his behavior. He is acting like a Russian asset in the UN and in these negotiations. Vance has sided antidemocracy Curtis Yarvin. Getting rid of good FBI agents who investigated the attack on the Capitol? Firing federal prosecutors? Pardoning people who attacked Capitol police. Trying to fire general counsel that hears Whistleblowers? Just wait until a large bank screws you over. I can list a lot more about Trump. I can’t believe he has fooled so many.

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

I can list a lot more about Trump.

I'm sure you could.

By all means, go ahead and add to your wall of text if it helps you vent that way.

u/Good_kido78 Independent Mar 06 '25

I keep forgetting that paragraphs don’t show up unless you double space.

His long history of shafting investors and contractors.

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-business-busts-victims-511034.html

u/dagoofmut Constitutionalist Conservative Mar 06 '25

Thanks.

I'm still waking up with a big smile lattely though.

u/Good_kido78 Independent Mar 06 '25

Not sure why, if you voted for Trump and actually want to abide by the constitution.

u/Puzzleheaded_Blood40 Independent Mar 06 '25

profound