Leopards Eating MAGA Faces (The Trump Policies Being Implemented Thread)

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this whole "I dont feel empathy, until I am affected" reeks of some sort of macro level sociopathic instincts.

Most people are like that. I have been convinced that empathy is taught, and too many people found social media before they learned how to empathize.
 

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Most people are like that. I have been convinced that empathy is taught, and too many people found social media before they learned how to empathize.

Honestly I think it's the opposite, social media causes people to dehumanize other groups and remove any natural empathy they would have.
 

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Honestly I think it's the opposite, social media causes people to dehumanize other groups and remove any natural empathy they would have.
yeah it's like social media has allowed them to see that they aren't weird if they don't have empathy, there are many like them. before social media those types might have pretended to be normal because all the people they wanted to hang out with in real life were normal. they've found their community online and don't have to pretend anymore.
 

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https://bsky.app/profile/‪Chris Dunker‬ ‪@chrisdunker.bsky.social‬/post/3lkuayvkysk24
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🇺 joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Nebraskans voted for Trump over Harris 59.32% to 38.86%. Here’s what that got them.
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🇺 ‪Chris Dunker‬ ‪@chrisdunker.bsky.social‬
Just as we move into severe weather season, the National Weather Service announces it will no longer send up weather balloons out of its Omaha office due to staffing issues.
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🇺 pauldu.bsky.social
The empathy jar is almost depleted but the schadenfreude jar is still well stocked

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🇺 birdiebean.bsky.social
Same

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🇺 jjjessee.bsky.social
Alexa.

Give a list of states that chose to stab themselves in the eye rather than vote for a black women.

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🇺 timcon8.bsky.social
Truth

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🇺 martingiannini.bsky.social
Congratulations, 59.32 😀

Sorry, 38.86 🥲

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🇺 marytetris.bsky.social
Thank you for the sympathy-

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🇺 davidsp72.bsky.social
The best snow job in the history of the world is the GOP convincing tens of millions of Americans that the United States is too poor to afford weather balloons. 🤦🏼

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🇺 abbie4science.bsky.social
Omaha voted for Harris/Walz (just saying)

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🇺 marytetris.bsky.social
And the maga-converted unicameral is currently trying to pass a bill to take away the blue dot.

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🇺 techno-oenophile.bsky.social
FAFO
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🇺 angegen.bsky.social
Not only that, Trump left o Mahans stranded in freezing weather
You would think they would remember that

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🇺 empatheticahole.bsky.social
They f#ck around, and we ALL get to find out

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🇺 ohsewnice.bsky.social
FAFO. Good luck, red states.

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🇺 civetduty.bsky.social

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🇺 grannypiper.bsky.social
😅🤣 ♥️🤍💙 "bless your heart" part! I say that all the time!

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🇺 stonemom.bsky.social
Yep. Texan for "f--- you."

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🇺 petshots.bsky.social
They deserve what they get. It's a shame for the 38.86%.

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🇺 shorepatrol.bsky.social
Nebasskkka
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🇺 barbiewilliams892.bsky.social
I’m done
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🇺 jacksonscafe.bsky.social
it's not helpful to look at whole states like this. nebraska is not a winner take all state. ne-2 gave their electoral vote to harris. lots of good bluesky folks here are dems living in so-called red states. it's not state against state. it's us against nazis.

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🇺 savingdemocracy101.bsky.social
They voted for the mango mobster because of the hate, the racism, the misogyny, the anti gay, anti trans, anti environment, anti humanity. They got EXACTLY what they voted for. Leopards eating your face party is going to need some Ozempic.

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🇺 carriesweet.bsky.social
It's a small price to pay to have white supremacy rule America, I guess. They probably think it's patriotic to go without weather alerts.

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🇺 antidictatorship.bsky.social
They do. They do.

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🇺 barbiejo1.bsky.social
Thoughts n prayers, Nebraska.
You will need it.

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🇺 henryrdog.bsky.social
And a blizzard just came through on Wednesday after having a day in the 80s. Nothing to see there...

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🇺 mrsteddyhickok.bsky.social
Thoughts and prayers.

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🇺 instafritando.bsky.social
It’s not due to staffing issues.
It’s due to “Decisions made by this #Republican Party to fund a Tax Cut by ending services for states. @nebraskadems.bsky.social @accountablegop.bsky.social
Bluesky

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🇺 ntrias.bsky.social
Stupidity is usually painful.

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🇺 bluedotredwithrage.bsky.social
Farmers there are going to be bent over. Ag and meat-packing is huge there - many immigrants work in meat-packing and may come under attack.
About 20% of their population is on Medicare. About 12% on Medicaid. About 10.5% below poverty level. Nearly 20% of total population eligible for SSI.

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🇺 mrtoads.bsky.social
Back to Aunty Em warnings at a time when giant wedge tornadoes are tearing through cities. Well, I’m sure MAGAs will be protected by their righteous faith in Mad King Elon.

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🇺 kebidoor.bsky.social
They will vote against their interests as long as they believe “the others” will get it worse.

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🇺 ccpeters.bsky.social
They fail to realize the russian felon considers his base "the others". He hates democrats because we won't buy his bullshyt.

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🇺 pearlmygirl.bsky.social
Truth

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🇺 jimmybne.bsky.social
But Joyce, Omaha, which had a tornado problem last Spring and Summer, went to Kamala. Nebraska02=Blue

To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
 

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Tech leaders are turning on Trump and Musk: 'Everyone is annoyed'​


Zoë Bernard

12–15 minutes



Even conservative executives are fed up with tariffs, DOGE, and "crypto bro schemes."

A melting bitcoin wearing a MAGA hat.


Dough Chayka for BI

Mar 25, 2025, 4:06 AM ET

Two months into Donald Trump's second term, conservative leaders in the tech industry — some of whom are advising the administration — are in a state of turmoil. They are bristling at how the president's chaotic governing, unusual even by the standards of Trump 1.0, is making it increasingly difficult to run their companies.

"None of my friends who voted for Trump are happy right now. Everyone is annoyed," says Reggie James, the founder of Eternal, a new-media company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. "When tech people got involved in the government, they thought Trump was going to take more of a surgical approach and act less like a wrecking ball."

Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment, in particular at the havoc the Department of Government Efficiency has wreaked throughout the federal government. "We were all on board for a more business-friendly presidency, but in the end, the whole industry of crypto and AI got rug pulled," says the partner of a top-tier venture firm directly involved in the Trump administration. "The people surrounding Trump are all scamsters. They are getting rich off our votes, our dollars, and our time."

While the tech industry at large remains relatively liberal, especially among rank-and-file employees, many influential players warmed to Trump in recent years. They include high-profile venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, the hosts of the popular tech podcast "All-In," as well as billionaire CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, who donated to and had prime seating at Trump's second inauguration. But in recent weeks — amid herky-jerky tariffs, mass government layoffs, and a shaky stock market — some influential pro-Trump players are growing impatient and disenchanted.

The consternation is especially pitched among startup founders, many of whom are bracing for an economic downturn. "There is a lot of uncertainty right now, and it makes people nervous," says Sara Mauskopf, the founder of the venture-backed childcare marketplace provider Winnie. Many founders, she says, are deeply worried over whether "they're going to be able to raise funding."

Others are exasperated with what they see as unscrupulous dealings with cryptocurrencies. The tech industry itself has a fraught relationship with crypto: Investors were burned by Sam Bankman-Fried's fraudulent FTX, and many tech leaders regard cryptocurrencies as Ponzi schemes with little functional value that stain the tech industry at large. Where the Biden administration took a hard-line approach to crypto, Trump has enthusiastically embraced the crypto community. Days before he was inaugurated, he launched $Trump coin, a memecoin that reached a market cap of $14.5 billion before immediately plunging in value; today, it hovers at $2 billion. As president, Trump has appointed the venture capitalist and "All-In" cohost David Sacks as the country's "crypto czar," hosted a Crypto Summit at the White House, pardoned the Silk Road founder and crypto folk hero Ross Ulbricht from serving double life sentences, and signed an executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve and US digital asset stockpile.

On X, the Palantir cofounder and vocal Trump supporter Joe Lonsdale compared creating a digital currency reserve with taxpayer dollars to theft: "It's wrong to steal my money for grift on the left; it's also wrong to tax me for crypto bro schemes," he wrote. Lonsdale told me over email that he objects to the administration naming individual coins in "a way that moved markets and meant people could trade them ahead of time." The executive branch, he said, shouldn't be in the business of "picking winners and losers."

"The crypto stuff smells weird," says a venture capitalist who is a major backer of conservative news networks. "Both AI and crypto are fields that require a specialized, technical skill set, and just because David Sacks is a podcaster doesn't mean he's qualified in AI or crypto."

None of my friends who voted for Trump are happy right now. Everyone is annoyed. Reggie James, founder of Eternal

That same venture capitalist who is advising the Trump administration also claims that crypto founders are using their proximity to Trump for personal gain. Steve Witkoff, for instance, a longtime Trump associate who was appointed as the United States special envoy to the Middle East, has been cashing in on his proximity to Trump to secure private deals, this person says. Witkoff's son, Zach Witkoff, is the cofounder of World Liberty Financial, the crypto banking platform that launched Trump's memecoin. Early in March, Steve Witkoff sent cryptocurrency advocates to the Middle East to promote World Liberty Financial's latest stablecoin project, The Wall Street Journal reported. "Steve Witkoff is calling every sovereign government and saying, 'You need to support this coin if you want to be in good standing with Trump,'" the person says. Witkoff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

One conservative entrepreneur suggests that the relationship between Trump and the technology industry was never destined to last. "Tech people don't get politicians, and politicians don't understand tech," he says. "Some of this is because tech people don't really have an ideology. They operate in a globalist, new world order. Trump is only interested in deals for America."

This America-first mindset still resonates in the country's more resolutely conservative tech enclaves such as El Segundo, California, an area dedicated to building American manufacturing and defense technology companies. "One thing that I appreciate about Trump is that it's all pretty public," says Isaiah Taylor, an El Segundo-based founder of the nuclear energy company Valar Atomics, who in January presented a briefing on nuclear energy for the president at Mar-a-Lago. "People are concerned about Elon and how his companies might benefit, but the reality is that everything Elon does is out in the open so it's under scrutiny all the time."

Others, like Erik Kriessmann, a board member of the defense tech company Anduril, say that the current moment of pain and uncertainty is only temporary. He says of Trump: "I genuinely believe he has surrounded himself with highly competent people who are doing what they believe is best for America and we should be patient as they execute their plan."

Still, there's the reality that defense tech companies like Anduril and Palantir, which rallied around Trump given his outwardly steadfast support of the defense industry, are now reeling as Trump proposes dramatic cuts to the military budget.

"Democrats think that Trump wants to help billionaires, but that's not the case," says Noah Smith, an economist who writes a popular Substack called Noahopinion. "Trump is kicking the shyt out of America's billionaires. To be a billionaire who continues to support Trump even as your entire portfolio plummets would mean that you're an insane cultist who loves having your wealth destroyed, and you don't become a billionaire by being an insane cultist who loves having your wealth destroyed."

Smith believes that Chinese tariffs are already causing one of Trump's wealthiest supporters, Jeff Bezos, to sour on the administration. Roughly 25% of items on Amazon come from China. In late February, Bezos announced that the opinion page of The Washington Post, which he owns, would now be dedicated to the "support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." While many saw the move as kissing Trump's ring, Smith has a very different — and unusual — interpretation. "This was Bezos' declaration of war against Trump but not conservatism. Trump is anti-free enterprise. So if you want to be in with the business people but against Trump, you say, 'I am for free enterprise.' Just look at what the Post is publishing: They are going hard against Trump. And they are writing, 'Screw tariffs.'" (Bezos did not respond to a request for comment.)

"The people that are very unhappy right now — the people who should have been the staunchest supporters in the tech world — are getting the rug pulled out from under them," Smith continues. For now, the tech industry is clinging to the hope that any economic setbacks will only be temporary.
 

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Tech leaders are turning on Trump and Musk: 'Everyone is annoyed'​


Zoë Bernard

12–15 minutes



Even conservative executives are fed up with tariffs, DOGE, and "crypto bro schemes."

A melting bitcoin wearing a MAGA hat.


Dough Chayka for BI

Mar 25, 2025, 4:06 AM ET

Two months into Donald Trump's second term, conservative leaders in the tech industry — some of whom are advising the administration — are in a state of turmoil. They are bristling at how the president's chaotic governing, unusual even by the standards of Trump 1.0, is making it increasingly difficult to run their companies.

"None of my friends who voted for Trump are happy right now. Everyone is annoyed," says Reggie James, the founder of Eternal, a new-media company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. "When tech people got involved in the government, they thought Trump was going to take more of a surgical approach and act less like a wrecking ball."

Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment, in particular at the havoc the Department of Government Efficiency has wreaked throughout the federal government. "We were all on board for a more business-friendly presidency, but in the end, the whole industry of crypto and AI got rug pulled," says the partner of a top-tier venture firm directly involved in the Trump administration. "The people surrounding Trump are all scamsters. They are getting rich off our votes, our dollars, and our time."

While the tech industry at large remains relatively liberal
, especially among rank-and-file employees, many influential players warmed to Trump in recent years. They include high-profile venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, the hosts of the popular tech podcast "All-In," as well as billionaire CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, who donated to and had prime seating at Trump's second inauguration.
:mjlol:When has the tech industry ever been liberal these tech bros have always been on :mjpls: time.
 

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[Big brain energy] I thought he would be good for economy but I am losing so much right now



Posted on Sat Mar 29 12:15:15 2025 UTC

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Commented on Sat Mar 29 12:26:44 2025 UTC

Oh look, it's time for the old republican FAFO playbook to come out.
I wonder what stage he's at?


│ Commented on Sat Mar 29 17:22:40 2025 UTC

│ Next stage is blaming Hillary again




Commented on Sat Mar 29 13:13:26 2025 UTC

The United States actually did have the world's best economy at that point. People didn't stick around to hear the next part, which was that prices are still way too high. They just shut down when the first part didn't align with what they thought.


│ Commented on Sat Mar 29 13:48:26 2025 UTC

│ WSJ in October: https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/u-s-economy-again-leads-the-world-imf-says-39578275
 

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[Big brain energy] I thought he would be good for economy but I am losing so much right now



Posted on Sat Mar 29 12:15:15 2025 UTC

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Commented on Sat Mar 29 12:26:44 2025 UTC

Oh look, it's time for the old republican FAFO playbook to come out.
I wonder what stage he's at?


│ Commented on Sat Mar 29 17:22:40 2025 UTC

│ Next stage is blaming Hillary again




Commented on Sat Mar 29 13:13:26 2025 UTC

The United States actually did have the world's best economy at that point. People didn't stick around to hear the next part, which was that prices are still way too high. They just shut down when the first part didn't align with what they thought.


│ Commented on Sat Mar 29 13:48:26 2025 UTC

│ WSJ in October: https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/u-s-economy-again-leads-the-world-imf-says-39578275

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