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slightlv

(5,254 posts)
22. Hea Autumn!
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 04:54 PM
Mar 29

I live on red states KS and I voted and gotv for Harris/Walz. SSA is all our income... so there's no moving... unless someone wants to sponsor us and help get us set up afterwards!

Or are we suppose to just suck it up and die fast, like our reps are saying. Do you just blow us off? We've been Dems all our lives... and we vote every election.... local city county state and fed. Are we just white trash now?

Im so disappointed at you guys reactions. But it feels good to get one over on one of those old rednecks, doesn't it. I scream, I yell, I cry in my own home. But I'm not to.begrudge the senior couple across the street who flew a trump flag while I planted Harris signs on my yard and up and down the block. He also helped get my car out of a snowball on the day of my mom's funeral.

Let me clue you in to just one red state senior family here. My husband has at least bronchitis but is afraid of the money drain if it's more than that... we have MA.. Humana. Ive been thinking of ways to end my life and trying to come up with reasons not to do it. My anxiety and terror of what's ahead is too much to bear. It falls on me to figure out how to keep our heads above water, and its getting harder and harder to do. And believe me... whether red or blue in this state, you're on your own.

So give your blue red staters a little love and thought. We're stuck and just trying to help each other through this.

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Again................... Lovie777 Mar 29 #1
If it's true, good...They got the gov't they deserved. Vote for a felon and get robbed... nt mitch96 Mar 29 #12
South has large Black population voted Democratic delisen Mar 29 #13
18+ months before the '26 midterms. Callie1979 Mar 29 #2
But will they remember come election time? Prof. Toru Tanaka Mar 29 #4
Hold town halls in the Repug districts with an empty seat for their House rep. Speaks volumes. dutch777 Mar 29 #7
No... the question is really slightlv Mar 29 #21
Alive? Maybe not according to Social Security Born Free Mar 29 #25
FAFO we can do it Mar 29 #3
Most of them watch Faux Noise exclusively, and Faux never told them FakeNoose Mar 29 #5
If they don't hear it on Fox they think it didn't happen Farmer-Rick Mar 29 #9
Okay. It makes me happy when people get what they vote for. Autumn Mar 29 #6
Hea Autumn! slightlv Mar 29 #22
You do know my post is aimed at the republican voters? Your vote didn't change the red states to blue. Autumn Mar 29 #24
Yeah... we were getting really friendly with our neighbors across the street slightlv Mar 29 #28
ME Too! I understand how you feel.... Granny Blue Mar 29 #27
Granny... I feel for you and your back!!! slightlv Mar 29 #29
Yeah, FMS with a screwed up spine is the pits Granny Blue Mar 29 #32
"Have the day you voted for..." nt EarthFirst Mar 29 #8
Let the red state riots begin. They'll be acomin fer yer gunz. Clouds Passing Mar 29 #10
I weep for all of Dems who are being subjected to this horseshit!!! wolfie001 Mar 29 #11
As Hunter S. Thompson would say.... the_liberal_grandpa Mar 29 #14
Well, Republican states could have avoided this by not, you know, Aristus Mar 29 #15
There's many black Democrats in the South who didn't vote for the Republican. Elessar Zappa Sunday #33
Good republianmushroom Mar 29 #16
Who could've ever guessed that a real estate developer from New York and a Canadian/South African billionaire Ol Janx Spirit Mar 29 #17
One word......G..O..O..D....... Butterflylady Mar 29 #18
I won't be one of those people to say "I told you so". I will say "WTF did you expect?". twodogsbarking Mar 29 #19
They shit their beds. They can sleep in them. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 29 #20
I really am worried about the disabled and elderly with no savings who may not get a check. Cruelty is the point. Evolve Dammit Mar 29 #23
MAYBE a few red staters will figure out REPUKES DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEM Skittles Mar 29 #26
If my neighbors are any indication, slightlv Mar 29 #30
one thing I have noticed though Skittles Mar 29 #31
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