The pile of national reporting on “pregretful” Trump voters from the last two months like that MAGA Latino dipshit who thinks Trump somehow won’t order “family-oriented” illegal immigrants to be deported, the farming lobbyists terrified their workforce is about to be deported, the Trump-loving workers at that corn syrup mill slowly realizing that Bobby Brainworms is coming for their jobs, and so on continues to grow as a dirt poor 55 year-old single mom in Pennsylvania tells the Washington Post she’s worried that the convicted felon president-elect she voted for might end up cutting the $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security she and her son rely upon to survive.
“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” said Lori Mosura, 55, who told the Post she rides a bicycle to go buy groceries to save on gas for her Ford pickup truck and often has decide between buying milk or toilet paper for herself and her 17 year-old son. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”
“We helped get you in office; please take care of us,” Mosura said, addressing Trump himself as if he’s going to read the Post’s article. “Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable.” Well that’s kind of a switch from “I think Trump is going to do more to help us,” right?
Steve Tilla, a 59 year-old public benefits recipient who lives in the same rotting rust belt town as Mosura, is confident that the whole DOGE circlejerk won’t affect the $1,900 he and his son need to get by. “It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” he said. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get,” Tilla, a diabled stroke victim who has a Trump flag on his pickup truck, continued.
At no point did Tilla or his neighbor, Dawn Simmons, $1,071 a month in food stamps and Social Security, tell the Post specifically why they believe that or where they got that idea. Simmons said it could even lead to increased benefits because Trump is supposed to “put Americans first.”
In completely unrelated news, three weeks ago MAGA Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany said Republicans are looking at cutting spending on food stamps and imposing work requirements.
Back to the Post article: Retiree Kathy Davis, who gets by on $1,300 in Social Security and $75 in food stamps per month, was sitting in her apartment complex’s “smoker’s patio” outside of her $375 a month studio when she declared that Trump wouldn’t dare impose cuts that would “wipe out half of the population” of the crumbling town. “We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of, and Trump has too much common sense, so I don’t think he is going to do anything to hurt us.”
In more completely unrelated news, six years ago a Florida woman, Crystal Minton, was staring down being forced to commute seven hours to her job at a federal prison because the one she worked at had been destroyed by a hurricane weeks earlier. All the inmates, guards, and staff had been transferred to a facility in Mississippi – workers commuting long distances without a paycheck because the fat fuck shut down the government in a tantrum over funding for his stupid wall. “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told the New York Times about Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”