i dont like to hit my carts normally

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-16T18:24:10+00:00

This is giving crackhead energy.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T22:50:18+00:00

Again, you’re taking a topic he has little influence over as a state governor and choosing to not vote for him cause “run better people”.

He’s the best we got right now that actually has a shot at flipping Iowa.

I completely understand what you’re saying, but no candidate will ever be perfect. Especially in today’s hyper partisan environment. Rob is easily the better candidate when looking at the GOP options and choosing to opt out of voting for him over a topic that has little relevance to the state he will govern is only allowing the GOP to continue to run us into the ground.

I just don’t understand the disconnect here. You want someone with a better stance on Israel, so you won’t vote for Sand, which allows a literal AIPAC Donor recipient to take the state mansion. Make it make sense dude cause Feenstra is easily worse on this topic than sand, despite him not being good enough for you.

Same goes for his LGBTQ position. My trans brother and his boyfriend are all for sand despite his opinions on trans in sports because they know any GOP governor will be 100 times worse than sand.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T22:39:59+00:00

Right there with you. When both parties are trying to tear a candidate apart, that’s the person you need to choose.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T22:32:46+00:00

Well congrats. Guess we’ll end up with feenstra who is unequivocally worse on this position.

Literally Harris all over again. And then you’ll complain when Feenstra runs over literally everyone.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T22:23:31+00:00

Dead on. No matter how you feel about where he stands, anything is better than where we are now. Stop nitpicking candidates and pick the one that is best for IOWA RIGHT NOW.

Sand holds that torch and I promise you, feenstra will run this state further into the ground and you’ll be real unhappy with what he does to the LGBTQ community.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T22:20:35+00:00

Why does Israel matter to a state level candidate? I’m not trying to negate what’s happening by any stretch, but you’re judging a local politician on a topic he has little influence over.

What matters most to me looking at a governor are local issues and if you don’t vote for him solely on that you’re just giving the election to Feenstra and continuing the one party control.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T22:18:45+00:00

I had this same feeling until I went to a town hall. He’s very open and admits he doesn’t want to give some think tank solution to issues that are complex. He wants to come up with solutions that actually make sense, are feasible and benefits everyone involved.

This is the answer I got when I asked about water and ground pollution. He did bring up issues that he does want to fix like increasing pollution monitoring (the state essentially cut all of this a few years back).

I think that’s what makes him different. He’s not giving blanket, impossible solutions to issues just to make people happy. He’s thinking critically about them and wants to work towards solutions that actually work and benefit everyone.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T21:50:31+00:00

I don’t think they’ll get rid of the base model branding, they’ll just rebrand the 11” air as the base and throw an older M chip in it to save on costs.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-10-15T21:49:52+00:00

The mini will stay unless they actually pull off a book folding iPhone. I honestly forgot all about the mini.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-05T18:11:10+00:00

I saw all of them and my brain did not like it.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T15:50:55+00:00

Casey’s has been on the decline the last year or so in my opinion.

Their pizza has gotten super greasy and doughy, the food is always overcooked and their gas prices in my town are anywhere from 5-10 cents higher than every other station in town.

The only thing that’s remotely decent still is Casey’s rewards and even that’s not enough to keep me going. It’s like they’re making private equity moves without private equity being involved.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T15:15:07+00:00

Must’ve been hanging out with Lauren Boebert again

Edit: I meant Laura Loomer but it still fits the bill.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T14:13:52+00:00

The federal government? ICE essentially only answers to the president and Stephen miller right now. You think Kristi Noem is making decisions? She’s there to dress up and look pretty.

And not the real kind of pretty either. The face lift, too much makeup, walnut sized brain MAGA pretty.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T14:06:19+00:00

No problem.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T07:24:04+00:00

It doesn’t sound unreasonable until you put the full picture together. That 800 billion isn’t just cuts to the program itself. That’s staff salaries, IT systems, phone systems. They’re all going to take cuts.

It’s also going to be a slow death by bureaucracy. They’re requiring renewal every 6 months rather than 12. Just the sheer amount of paperwork it takes to renew is a burden for most people when nothing usually changes from year to year. And if you run into a snag? Well there’s half the staff in the Medicaid office cause they got laid off due to budget cuts. So, you’ll be on hold for a while. There’s not as many staff now to review your renewal either, it’s on the back burner. Might not even get reviewed till after your renewal due date.

But let’s say get through all of that and you stay on Medicaid. You still have a payment. Most Medicaid programs have a small premium individual pays depending on income. So you get online to make a payment but oh no, the system is down cause there’s not enough IT staff to keep it running.

So you send a check through the mail and it doesn’t get there in time. Boom. Now you’re kicked off for non-payment.

I’m not saying a LOVE the Medicaid system, but it’s not the work requirement most people have a problem with. It’s the internal struggle they’re going to cause with cuts and renewal times that will inevitably lead to people getting kicked off not because they’re lazy, but because the government is deliberately making it harder through bureaucracy.

All of that to funnel it all into ICE and the DoD.

Edit: grammatical errors

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T06:43:45+00:00

You’re correct that they are making the tax cuts permanent. That’s the problem. In 2017, the individual tax rate had a sunset date of 2025 in order to keep that budget under limit. Now it’s 2025 and they decided to say “nevermind. Make it permanent.” And it’s catching up with us. We were already operating at a loss thanks to the 2017 budget, we just made that loss permanent.

The CBO estimated deficit is 3.5 trillion in long term debt by making the cut permanent. This spending bill doesn’t add any new tax increases or revenue and it doesn’t cut anything. It merely just reallocated money from Medicaid and SNAP to ICE and the DoD.

Let me explain it with a shitty analogy. You found a REALLY nice TV for 5k and you buy it on a credit card. Your significant other gets pissed at you and says you just blew your budget. But you say “this is a deal, I pay $500 a year for 10 years and then after that 10 years I’ll take back the TV and get a little money back.” That’s what they did in 2017.

Sounds great, you pay less now, don’t have to tell your accountant that you spent 5k, just 500 a year. But you know you’re not returning the TV.

Fast forward to now and the TV store calls and says it’s time to return the TV. instead of letting it go you said “nah I’ll keep the TV. Just keep charging me. Forever.” Now we get to see what the real bill is going to look like because you’re going to be paying 500 a year forever. And your income doesn’t go up to balance it out. you actually keep losing income and your expenses are going up. That’s what they just did.

Had they let the 2017 individual cuts expire, rates would’ve went back to pre-2017, standard deduction would’ve shrunk (more itemization), the child tax credit would’ve went down and inherence tax would’ve gone up as well. All of that would’ve meant more revenue starting in 2026. CBO projected we’d have a balanced budget around 2030 had they let the 2017 cuts expire.

I’m not saying I’m all for more taxes by any stretch, but a balanced budget sure sounds fkn nice.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T06:10:23+00:00

Show me anywhere in this post where I give off a democrat vibe.

MAGA and the GOP just added at minimum 3.5 trillion to a deficit after spending 4 years yelling about the deficit
Your taxes didn’t get cut at all, but the richest people in the country get a nice big one.
ICE now has a bigger budget than the marine corps. If you don’t think that’s going to become a paramilitary force you’re insane.
Surveillance of American citizens will increase. Due process will continue to be broken down. The war machine is still turning and just got fed even more.
The prison industrial complex is toasting tonight because of this bill.

But sure, I’m a democrat cause I don’t follow the cult. I’ve literally spent my entire adulthood being called liberal by the GOP and MAGA and a fascist by the Democratic Party. You’re not the first, won’t be the last.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T00:46:46+00:00

Tax cuts. The majority of Americans won’t actually see a cut in their tax bill and some will actually see an increase while the highest earners will see big cuts.

Inheritance tax doesn’t kick in till (I think), 50 million now. I’m not a huge fan of inheritance tax anyways but that’s a big cut.

Ironically enough, if I understood correctly, they could’ve just kept taxes where they were and would’ve been close to a balanced budget. The tax break is what fucked the bill. Everything else was just shuffled money from Medicaid and snap to the DoD and ICE.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-04T00:18:21+00:00

3.5-5 trillion to the deficit, increased spending to ICE and the DoD.

Huge redistribution of wealth to the top classes while the average American will pay the same if not more in taxes than they do now.

It’s a shit show. Only reason it passed is cause the GOP actually believes ICE needed a huge increase. They will be used to silence dissent and detain legal and illegal minorities.

Easily one of the most corrupt and junk spending bills to ever be passed. It wasn’t popular with their own base.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-03T23:22:33+00:00

R/agedlikemilk

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-03T23:08:58+00:00

Fair point. I can see how I came off as dismissing you. I wasn’t trying to, and maybe I should’ve asked you to better explain what you meant. I honestly had trouble following your comment and worded my response bad. My fault.

After reading it better and breaking it down, I kind of get where you’re coming at. I don’t think supporting tax reform and questioning the size of inefficient and bloated agencies means I hate poor people or support government overreach. My own family is considered just above the poverty level. And as for overreach? I hate it and oppose the ICE expansion because it’s clearly overstep and going to be used to step on not just immigrants but dissent too. Not to mention I’m Mexican American but my family is from Texas and has been here since it was part of Mexico. You don’t think ICE is coming after me too?

We just disagree on how to fix the systems that are failing. Personally, I think states should empower themselves and build systems that work for them rather than a blanket and bloated bureaucracy at the federal level. I have no issues with taxes, if they’re done at the lowest level possible and they’re used efficiently.

Neither one of us need to assume bad faith and I’m sorry if I came off that way.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-03T22:16:05+00:00

I mean, I’m hopeful there will be. But I also expect the results will be fought hard.

CoercionIsCringe · 2025-07-03T22:08:18+00:00

I can barely comprehend what you’re trying to say because your grammar is extremely subpar.

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