Summary

Rep. Chuck Edwards’ North Carolina town hall erupted in chaos as constituents furiously protested DOGE, a Trump administration initiative tied to mass federal job cuts and Elon Musk’s growing influence.

Attendees, including laid-off government workers, jeered at Edwards over employment losses and reduced federal funding.

Constituents raised concerns about federal job cuts affecting veterans’ services, national parks, and Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.

Edwards struggled to respond but remained unfazed. The GOP downplayed the unrest, calling it staged, though independent voters like veteran Martin Downie say they feel directly targeted by their own government.

  • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Where the fuck was all this rage in November, my fellow Americans? We already had four years of Trump, January 6 insurrection, a disastrous reduction in foreign relations. But I guess that wasn’t enough???

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      I’m told it’s all the Democrats fault that the Republicans are fucking awful people trying to steer this country into a fascist dictatorship. I mean, just LOOK at what the Democrats made the Republicans do!

      If the DNC and the candidates had only listened to these arbiters of wisdom, all would be well, I am told.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        If you think that Chuck Schumer selling us out to the Republican double-hitler funding bill this week isn’t on some level indicative of the DNC putting a ball-gag in our mouth and bending us over, I really don’t know what to tell you.

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      10 hours ago

      Most Americans have little clue what’s going on in government. They just know they’re angry about things and blame whoever they perceive as being in charge.

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      23 hours ago

      These are MAGA morons, deplorables if you will, who are now upset that they’re being affected by project 2025 because they had it in their heads that they would be spared as being good whites and it would only affect minorities and liberals because they’re racist deplorables.

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          But this is what I don’t get - Trump isn’t even good at lying. Practically every word is a lie but fails on logic and he’ll usually say the opposite soon enough. How do people even fall for it? Do they actually listen to him?

          It must be just cherry-picking: if he says enough lies you can usually find one you like. But how could you reconcile that one thing you think you agree with out of a vast ocean of lies?

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          24 hours ago

          I know a ton of people died, and countless more where hurt, and it hurt the economy, but as an introvert hermit, GOD DO I MISS LOCKDOWN.

          I do my best to keep up the life style, but I’m still expected to go into the office every once in a while for my wasted day as we all call it.