How will a Trump presidency affect you?

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EyeballKid said:
IOn a personal level, here are a few things I expect to impact me (I’ll add more to this list as I think it over):

1. No further hope of student loan forgiveness. Potentially an end to the PSLF program I’ve been enrolled in for 7 years. Dashing any notions of buying a home.

2. My job will be in danger. I work for a nonprofit research org—the bulk of my work is funded through federal grants from CDC, CMS, etc. The funding always dips during R administrations, but there’s a high likelihood that much of it will dry up entirely with Trump, Musk, and RFK Jr at the helm.

3. My girlfriend’s career (and mental health) will be greatly impacted. As noted in another thread, she’s an immigration attorney who’s worked in nonprofits for a couple decades, helping underprivileged and abused women and children. So…yeah.

How about you?
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My job also depends on research funding. It could very easily lose my job.

As a parent of a special needs child, I could lose protections for him. I wouldn’t put it past Republicans to repeal the ADA. I might find that school is not longer available for him. Traditional public schools might be a thing of the past.

My only consolation is that people who support Trump will likely pay a big price for this.
 
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PTOHeel said:
I'm a little worried as a federal employee, but we're fully fee funded, so hopefully will be ok.
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And Jesus-the end of civil service protection is very likely Hopefully your work is non political-like say fees that pay for airports
 
Medicare and to a lesser degree SS. I'm long retired and fairly well set financially. But no or greatly reduced Medicare and all it takes is something like cancer and suddenly tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars are going to pay for treatment. Add to this that the ACA/affordable insurance will most likely be gone and god knows what insurance companies will try to change about covering existing conditions, age, etc.

Used to think these were holy grail and even the hard core right understood it was to their political benefit to not screw with them. Now, I just don't know.
 
dukeman92 said:
Hard to answer this question. In the short term, probably not much at all. The economy is better than it has ever been, despite what the mouth breathing electorate were led to believe. But long term... I'm afraid we will all suffer greatly.

The Supreme Court has already started to dilute constitutionally based Miranda protections. They've also decided that civil rights laws, at least to the extent they prohibit sexual orientation discrimination, must sometimes yield to religious objections. They're already rejecting efforts to keep church and state separate. The law of the land is already profoundly different than it would be... and it will only get worse. We likely won't know the entirety of this outcome in our lifetime.
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2026 Supreme Court is going to be telling 2022 Supreme Court to hold its beer.
 
Higher education will suffer greatly...but at least we have basketball and a 12 team playoff in CFB, amirite?
 
I’m a primary care physician - at a minimum my job will just be much harder (sheer exhaustion having to convince people about vaccines, whatever the hell he does with insurance, RFKs role)
We have 2 kids under 6, pretty worried about their future. My oldest is a girl and she was devastated this morning (we really tried to insulate her from this but being in chapel hill in kindergarten she learned a fair amount)
Financially is probably a wash- though i’m sure his tariffs will increase my berry budget. We currently don’t own a home (we just moved cross county back from seattle and wanted to sell our home there and settle first) Won’t be buying in the near future that’s for sure and i’ll be cutting a lot of people out of my life that I’ve just tolerated despite them being awful
 
UNCRx85 said:
With 2 kids under 5 in NC, I feel good about Stein having veto power and Hunt/Jackson/Green winning their races. As a state employee, I'm worried about Briner winning Treasurer - he's on record believing we put too much into the state pension. After years of Folwell overseeing it, holding a ton of it in cash, and the resulting low returns (worst in the country, I believe...), I’m gonna start saving like it won’t be there for me in 20 years.

Question is, what to do with market investments before these tariffs hit. My dad’s, especially, as he’ll be retiring in a year or so.

And I fear all the international ripple effects of another Trump presidency are impossible to overestimate - Russia taking Ukraine and possible war in Europe, Trump pulling the plug on NATO, Xi having a green light on Taiwan, and the overall switch from democracy to corrupt oligarchic kleptocracy.

It’ll probably be really, really bad.
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Anyone retiring in the next year should definitely be shifting money out of the market by the end of the year, IMO
 
Excited to start treating polio and measles patients in a few years. /s

Hope my pension is still a thing in the future. Literally the biggest reason I have stuck with this job for so long at the expense of doing what my heart is in. Also cashed out the 401k to buy a house in 2020 so without a pension I’ll probably just be broke when I retire.
 
I work in higher Ed in a red state. It probably won’t be great. Especially since I’m in a non teaching, administrative type role. That’s always on the chopping block.

My wife works in k12 public education. Also non teaching role, that she moved to a couple years ago. Support role working with kids with behavior issues, the type of things moms for liberty rails against here. She’s definitely fearful her job will be cut.

My father in law is also not a citizen. Here on a green card. So we don’t know what the deal with that will be.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
Would think mass deportation would also devastate the construction industry.
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You dont really think theres going to be a mass deportation do you? He will round up a few thousand disposable ones and make a huge spectacle out of it then we wont hear anything more about it. Trump is 99% all show and his flock dont care. Their hatred for your side is the only thing they care about. They want a 1950 America again.
 
OGtruthhurts said:
You dont really think theres going to be a mass deportation do you? He will round up a few thousand disposable ones and make a huge spectacle out of it then we wont hear anything more about it. Trump is 99% all show and his flock dont care. Their hatred for your side is the only thing they care about. They want a 1950 America again.
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Just said this to coworkers. They will do it fast and early, but only an unlucky few thousand will be deported. "Oh look at all we did" and then go on to the next episode in the series
 
aGDevil2k said:
Just said this to coworkers. They will do it fast and early, but only an unlucky few thousand will be deported. "Oh look at all we did" and then go on to the next episode in the series
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Agree. He'll have a PC at the border, make a spectacle and then show some sort of "magical drop" in immigration and that will be that. And the media will eat it up and everyone will believe it.
 
Speaking of the media - the democrats need to go after that and start to take on the fake news mindset. The NYT, Post, etc are not your friends. Hell even ABC/CBS/NBC are not your friends. They sanewash everything and normalize him
 
OGtruthhurts said:
You dont really think theres going to be a mass deportation do you? He will round up a few thousand disposable ones and make a huge spectacle out of it then we wont hear anything more about it. Trump is 99% all show and his flock dont care. Their hatred for your side is the only thing they care about. They want a 1950 America again.
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Yes, think he will do this but agree not millions all at once but thousands in waves. You have some in his inner circle that are salivating at the opportunity to make this happen. Then his voters want this too.
 
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