cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/107526

Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee released a report Thursday detailing how much more the average American family in every US state is having to spend monthly to cover the rising costs of food, shelter, energy, and other necessities under the leadership of President Donald Trump. The panel released its report on the same day the Trump administration was supposed to…

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[+] -45 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I voted Trump because I trust him with the economy over that woman.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I downvoted you because your blatant sarcasm wasn't punctuated with a "/s", so there was a 0.007% chance you were being sincere.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How is it blatant sarcasm when it’s literally what magas say?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Context maybe, and a bit of critical thinking?

    Look at the subject of the thread, and look at what they said. It's clearly not something a MAGA on Lemmy would post in response to a news article critical of Trump, but a parody of what a MAGA would have said that led to the situation being described by the article.

    But shit, for whatever reason people on Lemmy see a few downvotes, immediately take that as evidence that it's a serious comment, and don't give it a second thought. It's all over the place here.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Average Trump voter would be cold, hungry, and sleeping in a gutter and still not admit they made a mistake.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    This quote has stayed with me for years now:

    “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People in this thread are not picking up on the sarcasm here...

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