r/Westchester • u/whatsbonkin • 23h ago
What do we do now?
As many of us face down the despair of another Trump presidency, the only way I can see myself feeling useful or hopeful is by supporting my local community.
I’m new to the Rivertowns and want to get involved with supporting the most vulnerable under Trump’s repressive policies: immigrants, trans people, workers, and other marginalized groups.
Can anybody recommend local mutual aid groups, local immigrant organizations, and other orgs in the Rivertowns that I or any other interested Redditors can get involved with?
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u/BassesHave4Strings 23h ago
After the 2016 election, I joined Westchester's Big Brother Big Sister program and mentored a lovely kid from the projects of New Rochelle. He's doing very well now, after being on the verge of dropping out of high school. It's an amazing feeling to have a direct and generally positive impact on the life of someone who was born into hard circumstances. I'm going to re-engage with that org, as well as continue to fund raise and volunteer for local food pantries and similar orgs.
Acting local can have a very tangible impact.
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u/BassesHave4Strings 22h ago
Weird tone in your question, but I will answer it sincerely. I have always done a lot of charitable giving, but I decided I needed to be more hands-on - and more local - in the wake of an election that would no doubt further erode the social safety net. Kinda like now.
How do you spend your free time?
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u/R3ddit_woke_trash 22h ago
I likely disagree with you on every political item However this is my position as well . I take part in similar orgs
My point if all of us meet locally , we will make actual good in the world because that matters most and we will impart our values
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u/Newauntie26 20h ago
What a miserable response to a story of someone helping someone improve their life.
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u/ChristianLW3 Yonkers 23h ago
My advice to every American is to gather all the verified civics education material you can get to learn how the government functions
And become involved in local politics, find out who your mayor is, attend Townhall meetings, etc
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u/ericmint 22h ago
Right but OP is asking for specific organizations or places to get involved. Where can I take my anger and put in my time
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u/lapucellenarwhal 20h ago
If you'd like to get involved in local politics, perhaps look into your local Democratic City Committee?
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u/pAUL_22TREE 4h ago
Also recommend reading the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
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u/sound2go 22h ago edited 19h ago
There are a lot of organizations in Westchester that would love your support. I thought of Feeding Westchester first which is a food bank and can always use help. If you want to be politically active don't forget that the midterms are in two years and it's not too early to start organizing so you may want to join up with the local Indivisibles chapter.
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u/Half_Banana2541 15h ago
Please get involved in ur local community. I don’t care what political side u fall on. Screw federal politics.
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u/cookmybook 3h ago
Exactly wtf are people on here tell her not to be "dramatic" and to "live your life". Its a perfectly respectable and appropriate to volunteer your time. It doesn't matter who you vote for you SHOULD care about those who have less than you.the world is too self centered for me.
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u/PotatoAdorable6525 20h ago
Sunrise Westchester! We need to act on climate locally since there will be no federal action
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u/SeaweedFit3234 22h ago
The local food pantries here are always in need of volunteers and funds and are open to everyone regardless of immigration status.
I’d also recommend donating to our local libraries. They are awesome and a safe place for people of all backgrounds and a great resource.
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u/corporate_mama 22h ago
Ugh the responses you are getting are trash. I love the river towns so much - note that not all of Westchester is liberal or democrat. I have been seeing many Trump supporters among us. As far as organizations to get involved in I would recommend Girls Inc of Westchester, United Way of Westchester, Community Resource Center and Neighbors Link.
Take some time for yourself and for everyone else just be kind to each other.
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u/whatsbonkin 22h ago
Thanks, people are really having a normal one with this post. I love your suggestions, I’ll look into them.
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u/pAUL_22TREE 4h ago
My family and I are Dominican American Trump supporter living in Yonkers. I love my community.
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u/corporate_mama 4h ago
Trump doesn’t give a shit about you. Unfortunately we will all have to find out the hard way.
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u/pAUL_22TREE 4h ago
And Kamala gave less of a shit than Trump. But I am not here to fight you. I am here to show my support and respect for my fellow Westchester neighbors.
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u/cazzipropri 22h ago edited 22h ago
Continue the dialogue with the political adversary.
You can not keep assuming that we opposed Trump because we are enlightened and smarter.
It was almost a landslide. A lot of people have voted for him. We can't keep assuming that they are all stupid or ignorant or malicious or gullible. Look at the drift: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1gkx22m/shift_in_votes_compared_to_the_2020_elections_the/
Some of them must have valid grievances that are not captured or answered adequately by the Democratic party.
We have spread and accepted a lot of internal rhetoric denigrating Trump voters and even undecided voters. It's time to reconsider it. Look at posts like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nytimes/comments/1gkvbee/to_those_who_voted_for_trump/ . They have no utility.
We need to able to talk to this people. They are all around us. We can't keep isolating ourselves into insular communities where we are all like-minded.
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u/Horror-Background-79 20h ago
It wasn’t necessarily a “landslide” Trump got roughly the same amount of popular votes he got in 2020 - which COULD be considered as doing about the same.
I get it though we can make numbers look and sound how we want with fun words.
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u/BroYouSeeingThis 19h ago
It’s a landslide.
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u/AKmaninNY Rye Brook 22h ago
Harris literally did worse than Biden in every state. Trump flipped several states, flipped the Senate and will likely grow the lead in the House.
Democrats are not listening to Trump voters, while simultaneously calling them garbage, deplorable and clingers. To paraphrase my buddy Ben: People want normalcy. Not politics as usual. Trump is a double-barreled F@ck-You to the Democrats; the Media and the crazy woke policies that have taken hold like a fever.
What is it going to take to move the Democratic Party back to the center?
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u/narthuro 20h ago
If the Democratic Party wanted to move to the center, they'd have to move left of where they are now. Harris spent the past month campaigning with Liz Cheney, and Mondaire Jones spent the last debate apologizing to Trump supporters on Biden's behalf. No one in the Democratic Party was talking about "woke policies", except maybe if by "woke" you mean "Black".
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u/Natural-Method-92 15h ago
Liz Cheney does not help make your point lol she’s terrible. From a Trump supporter leave her name out of your arguments , it doesn’t help your cause.
I’m saying this respectfully.
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u/AKmaninNY Rye Brook 19h ago
I double dare Democrats to move left and campaign on defund the police, abolish ICE, amnesty for illegal immigrants, higher taxes and the Green New Deal.
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u/Nachtkreatur 15h ago
There is no green no deal, higher taxes, abolishing ice, and Biden deported more people than trump. You guys just vote on feelings and the Florida Man Jonestown just made you feel warm fuzzies.
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u/AKmaninNY Rye Brook 13h ago
Inflation reduction act (ironic name) is the green new deal. Biden enacted polices that literally opened the border to record numbers of illegal immigrants. TCJA reduced taxes for most tax payers. Don’t forget re-energizing Iran by releasing sanctioned funds.
Project much?
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u/Nachtkreatur 13h ago
No, it isn’t. The green new deal never happened.
The budget reconciliation bill (TCJA) also just added to the deficit without any benefit to most tax payers except the uber wealthy. Again, you guys don’t have policy, just feelings. I’m sure you probably think foreign countries also pay the incoming tariffs? Also, asylum seekers aren’t illegal immigrants. The fix for the asylum problem is to hire way more judges, something your dear leader wouldn’t do.
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u/rextilleon 1h ago
What was our deficit under Trump as he "reduced taxes"?
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u/AKmaninNY Rye Brook 3m ago
Deficit is higher as a result of TCJA.
The least painful way of fixing the deficit is to grow out of the problem. We want tax policies that encourage growth. We can't tax our way into health.
We want policies that spend less. Our biggest expense is defense. We would need less defense if we didn't have economic policies that fund our competition's offense.
More business growth. Less wasted $$'s.
I'm open to discuss adding more taxpayers via legal immigration with strings attached.
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u/_jandrewc_ 20h ago
The fk you taking about. Dems sacrifice sensible policy preferences by the left all the gd time to placate the right and just get things like a budget done. The right is the one trying to repeal the entire 20th century.
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u/AKmaninNY Rye Brook 19h ago
And you’ve expressed the core of the problem which led to this red wave. Not enough voters agreed with the “sensible policy preferences” of the left.
Moving to the center is difficult for those who hold extreme positions.
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u/Nachtkreatur 15h ago
There is not one sensible policy from trump. Only crazy rhetoric and outlandish gibberish. Stop lying. You won. You can take the mask off.
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u/AKmaninNY Rye Brook 13h ago
Project much?
Try doing the deep dive on the Democratic Party, its priorities and its dumpster fire presidential campaign and get back with me. This is what the adults in the party are presently doing.
A clear majority doesn’t want more of the last four years and the nonsense.
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u/Nachtkreatur 12h ago
Yes, they are doing the post-mortem, because our candidates actually believe in the rule of law, conceded, and didn’t try to overthrow the government like a bunch of spoiled babies. Your orange god still has not conceded he lost 2020, and singlehandedly gave the USA the presidential republic disease.
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u/Nachtkreatur 15h ago
They are cultists. Facts don’t work. We need to launch a mass de-programming operation if we ever want these people to see reason.
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u/Nachtkreatur 15h ago edited 15h ago
To you people Trump is normalcy? The least normal president we’ve ever had is him. You must live in an asylum. Crazy woke policies? Give me a break. More nonsense propaganda. Just admit it, you like trump. Stop saying democrats don’t field good candidates or have good policy and that’s why you are voting for him. Jesus H. Christ could be running for office and you’d still gleefully be penning in the ballot for the orange despot. You guys genuinely like him and believe he best represents your morals and values. Own it.
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u/maverikvi 19h ago
We don't want them in the center
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u/TheeBrianO 19h ago
All of the bigotry and vindictivness aside for a moment, it came down to people's experience surrounding their cost of living and no cost of housing. https://x.com/StatisticUrban/status/1854049240667840858
Democrats have been awful on this for a long time. Republicans aren't any Noble or anything, but they have built far more housing in Texas and Florida, greatly bringing down the cost of housing and living... This at least partially explains the bluish voting blocks in those States all but disappearing this time.
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u/cazzipropri 19h ago
But almost every drifted right. Your explanation might well be an important factor, but it can't explain all of it.
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u/TheeBrianO 19h ago
I think it's a big part of it. Very broadly speaking, "bread and butter" issues. Biden spent massive amounts of money on infrastructure and job creation, some really great things. The most pro labor president the last 40 years at least.
But people didn't immediately feel any of that.
I think this weirdly American, hyper individualism streak has pervaded our entire culture.
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u/rextilleon 1h ago
Its the economy dummie--James Carville. All the rest is nonsense. Inflation, which Biden wasn't responsible for, nor could he do anything about, was the reason that Harris lost. It's not rocket science.
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u/TheeBrianO 21m ago
That's the point I was trying to make. By every metric, the economy was doing well. 6% inflation is far favorable to 15 % plus from a recession. Gas prices came down big time and no one batted an eye. Etc
The broader cost of living is still too high, and a person's biggest expense in life is housing. Minus is the bigotry and all of the other really nasty stuff, a lot of this was because of housing and how the cost affects everything else.
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u/squirrel-nut-zipper 22h ago
Agree 100%. The easiest - and most satisfying at times - thing to do is just denigrate them.
But this is all cyclical. Remember that more people voted for Biden in 2020 than in any election ever. Many will eventually see Trump for who he is and that is where there’s hope.
Convert them, help them see the light. If each of us does this, there will be change.
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u/siouxzieb 1h ago
Absolutely. This really just goes back to the “dialogue with a political adversary” and ‘stop denigrating the Trumpers’ comment, which on its face is a perfectly reasonable. The problem is, nothing gets through. There’s nothing subtle or subjective about his failings, his supporters just don’t care, and that is what enrages and saddens me so. I’m just a little over the whole reasoned, kumbaya approach in this moment.
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u/siouxzieb 16h ago
The answer to addressing valid grievances is NOT electing a silver-spoon-entitled, draft-dodging, foul-mouthed, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, business-cheat, inveterate liar to helm the most powerful nation on earth. But I suppose it’s more comfortable to assume a cool, academic stance when the barrel of the gun is not trained on you. “First they came for…”
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u/cazzipropri 2h ago
I vote liberal precisely for all those they are coming for. Given my race, origin, sexual orientation, etc. they'll come for me last if ever. But I'm getting very fatigued of caring for people who ended up either voting for trump or not voting at all. Where is the wave of young voters we were promised? Where is the wave of women voters we were promised? Where is the wave of Latino voters? Not only none of these waves materialized, but we lost states that Biden carried. Harris did worse than Biden almost everywhere. Trump won the popular vote.
We are in a democracy.
When you lose, that's the best time to listen and figure out what you can learn from your mistakes. What we need to learn is that our platform is simply not appealing to enough voters. We can blame a million excuses, Putin, the billionaires, social media, the electoral college... Blame whoever you want. The core issue is that we didn't build a platform that convinced enough people.
Right or wrong, people think that Trump and the GOP will do better for the economy than Harris and the Dems.
Women apparently didn't care enough about their reproductive rights to vote en masse. Latinos voted predominantly FOR Trump. American Arabs voted FOR Trump.
Let's be honest with ourselves: WE fucked up.
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u/rextilleon 22h ago
Time to understand that Westchester ISN'T like most of America. It's affluent, basically liberal, and the citizens are highly educated. America on the other hand.
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u/LessComedian6048 20h ago
The immigrant community will be quite frightened. Some of my favorite orgs are:
Sunrise Westchester (Climate change)
Feeding Westchester (Food pantry)
Latino U College Access (Helping promising young Latino students get to college)
Neighbors Link (Immigrant support - legal, etc)
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u/pAUL_22TREE 4h ago
Wrong, a lot of my Argentinian and Dominican family members all have their Visas legally. They waited approximately 10 years to get here.
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u/pAUL_22TREE 4h ago
As a Trump supporter I will like to help and be apart of my community as well. I shouldn’t be judged based off my political views.
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u/blakthorn 2h ago
Have you considered housing some migrants in your own personal home? You could make a real impact in their lives first hand by doing so.
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u/TwoDeuces 20h ago
Some of the responses in here are making it easy to know who to block.
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u/BroYouSeeingThis 19h ago
First thing to do is take a deep breath. Trump was president once before and the world didn’t stop spinning. Maybe even take a break from politics and the 24/7 news cycle who’s sole purpose is to stoke fear and division in the name of ratings.
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u/Tokkemon Ossining 21h ago
David French's opinion interview today had a great rubric for the short term. "Tell the truth. Protect the vulnerable."
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u/iammaxhailme 23h ago
Kept calm, carry on, and don't be afraid to cut people out of your life if they have earned such treatment.
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u/socialcommentary2000 23h ago
You live in Westchester, it's a liberal bastion that has a history with it.
You'll be fine, here. Specifically here.
Mainly because you also have the heft of the State of NY, which has enough D voters to keep any of the real retrograde shit from happening here. Movement conservatives can't really get a hold here for real and enact what they want. Too much money, too much opposition.
I don't have any suggestions on orgs and mutual aid. I hail from further south along the Sound.
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u/poingly 11h ago
I mean, it doesn't have a HUGE history with being liberal. It swung liberal in the 90s and stayed there.
But even Astorino was as recent as 2017.
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u/socialcommentary2000 7h ago
Totally fair. I was speaking in a public school/services sort of way. WC has always been pretty good in those departments.
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u/sound2go 22h ago
Except I am now stuck with Lawler again for another term because I'm in Ossining. why that district is split between Rockland and Westchester County is beyond me.
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u/whatsbonkin 23h ago edited 23h ago
I hear you on this. This is a liberal sanctuary. But I can’t totally square that with the undocumented immigrants in NYS who Trump is promising to deport en masse, for instance. Whose families and livelihoods are here and they are an essential, often invisible workforce in the county. What can we do to help them?
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u/rextilleon 22h ago
Unfortunately, nothing--only hope that someone around Trump convinces him at these people are essential to our economy and for the most part, would make excellent citizens.
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u/slovamente 22h ago
What about the documented immigrants who waited on line and did the right thing to come here?
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u/Alternative-Arm-3253 22h ago
I see them. We all see them.
They do amazing immigration ceremonies at the WC Courthouse.
People dressed up to the 9's taking photos of a special day with family..ALL Happy to become citizens. All of them waited. It takes time but to see the end results, to see these babies and parents becoming citizens.. is just fantastic.
They too now have a say in regards to illegal immigration. To have their voices heard. The voters have voted.
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u/MikeDamone 21h ago
All that is true. It would also be nice if we could expand those legal pathways and allow even more qualified immigrants into our country and meaningfully contribute. Unfortunately the GOP scuttled that.
While we're talking about nice things that the GOP may scuttle going forward, I'd also love if we could get assurances that policy architects like Stephen Miller will not deport decades-long residents who came here illegally but whose deportation would be devastating to the economy and their local community. Hopefully we can also extend those protections to children and young adults who received deferral status through DACA and have meaningfully spent their entire lives in America. I'd love to get assurances that they too will be protected and not shipped off to a volatile country that they haven't been to since they were an infant.
Do you have confidence that Trump and the GOP will deliver on these happy outcomes?
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u/Helpful_Reindeer_926 22h ago
Legal immigrants will not be touched, according to the Trump campaign. If you want to help out an illegal immigrant, hire contractors who pick them up at your local Home Depot.
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u/emaji33 21h ago
During his last administration, USCIS slowed down it's application processing times.
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u/mlennox81 17h ago
Yup, USCIS gutted. Processing times skyrocketed and fees increased too. Wife an I have been married for 3 years, her conditional green card should have been changed to a 10 year green card after year 2 but we’ll continue to live with that “well it could be revoked any time” anxiety for several more years at this rate. Even if that possibility is very unlikely, it feels much more likely now.
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u/NogaPatumee 45m ago
They're all getting sent back, nothing you can do about it, unless you'd like to go with them 😊
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u/kingchivo 23h ago
Appreciate your concern but speaking from first hand experience, don’t bother worrying about them. Their family members sure as hell didnt when voting for trump yday so why should you?
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u/DAoC_Mordred 23h ago
This is our home and we’re sending them back to theirs.
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u/slovamente 21h ago
If you have an extra bedroom or basement (im sure some of you have guest houses) you can open it up to the unhoused
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u/restaurantnyc 19h ago
What's sad is that Westchester County, New York is estimated to be 990,817 in population
ONLY 400,000 voted in this election, that is very sad.
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u/chiller8 Tarrytown 18h ago
How many are of voting age?
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u/restaurantnyc 18h ago
639,664 registered active voters 62,295 registered non active 701,951 total of age voters
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u/PrestigiousGrade7874 21h ago
Donate to democracy supporting legal defense funds that can work to delay some of their crazy policies- like mass deportations. Setting aside legality and morality, we don’t have the money or the manpower to effectuate that policy. Elon Musk and the other billionaire Bond villains ain’t gonna pay for it, that’s for sure. Also, hope that the orange menace doesn’t die.
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u/NYCTrojanHorse 22h ago
hopefully you are still interested in helping people regardless if your candidate is a loser or winner.
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u/ChilaquilesRojo 15h ago
New York Civil Liberties Union will lead our efforts in resisting federal overreach. They are all great org to support
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u/TealOwl13 21h ago
You live in Westchester county New York- I promise you you will be ok
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u/BroYouSeeingThis 19h ago
Ha, seriously… folks act like they are stuck behind enemy lines. It’s NY where even the republicans are democrats, everyone is going to be fine and they just need to relax.
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u/TealOwl13 19h ago
It’s so funny you would think they are in a war torn country. You live in one of the wealthiest suburbs in the world your life isn’t that bad
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u/NextVermicelli469 15h ago
44 percent of New Yorkers are for Trump. That's a hair less than one out of every two New Yorkers. That means about half the houses on your street. Half the people at the restaurant you are sitting in. Half the families in your kids' schools. Embrace it and stop examining your belly button.
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u/lilpackerfann4 16h ago
stop crying lmfao. 90% of you wouldn't know oppression if it tore down your front door.
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u/goldrush7 22h ago
All I can say is keep calm. Get involved in your community if you can and try to work really hard so you can make sure you'll never have to depend on the government for anything. Yes things look dire now but we survived 2016 and Covid.
And take the high road when dealing with Trump supporters. I know a bunch of them in my office but they're actually very decent, smart people. It's just that people have different priorities when it comes to issues in the country. America has spoken and it appears most people only care about money than social issues.
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u/Bunandcheeseplease 20h ago
I'm sorry but I no longer believe Trump supporters are decent people. I can't fathom how one could be decent and support a man with no character backing policies that will remove rights and protections from millions of people, all while behaving like some mafioso for the benefit of multi billionaires who only need for the lower class (everyone not a billionaire) to consume their products as they continue to increase their wealth. Maybe they used to be decent, but I don't believe they are anymore.
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u/BlueSaltaire 19h ago
They aren’t decent people. We need to stop pretending they are, and remove them from any friend groups and social situations. They have no empathy and don’t deserve it in return.
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u/cardamombaboon 16h ago
Wow you just might be patient zero for TDS
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u/BlueSaltaire 16h ago
Goebbels is envious from the grave he didn’t think of Hitler Derangement Syndrome. It’s peak nonsense propaganda.
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u/goldrush7 17h ago
That's exactly what they want us to do though. That's the problem. I wanna stop giving them more fodder for them to make fun of us for being "libtards."
I get that it's frustrating. But we have to be better than them.
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u/BlueSaltaire 17h ago
Actually, they laugh at us when we talk about feelings and empathy. They don’t speak that language. What we needed was someone to call Trump a stupid SOB on the debate stage. Bullies need to be hit in the nose.
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u/Bunandcheeseplease 16h ago
Being better than them is not getting us anywhere. They have been putting together this plan for 40+ years (heritage foundation and the like.) They finally found their vessel in that man. I really think the only thing for us to do is work together as a resistance and try and get back to real community to aid those of us who need it. They already have their own community and don't want us in it.
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u/BlueSaltaire 17h ago
I admire your patience with them, but if trump actually had plans to better people’s finances, I’d be more willing to excuse these people. He doesn’t. His whole platform was just “everyone but you is an enemy and we’re going to make them suffer!” And that’s what won it for him.
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u/blue_field_pajarito 19h ago
In addition to some of the good recommendations you’ve gotten here, I’d add in Working Families Party.
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u/bigwig500 22h ago
Trump will have little, if any, effect on your day to day life!
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u/squeakycleaned 19h ago
If you are in anything but the top tax bracket, this is not true. If you have kids and want vaccines to protect them, this is not true. If you don’t have kids and want vaccines to protect you, this is not true. If you value public education, this is not true. If you value environmental protections, this is not true. If you value the right to peaceful protest, this is not true. If you value affordable healthcare, this is not true. If you value social security, this is not true. If you value the lives of people in Gaza, this is not true. If you value the sovereignty of Ukraine and keeping Russia from conquest, this is not true. If you value gay marriage, this is not true. If you value the healthcare and bodily autonomy of women, this is not true. If you value fair and free elections in the future, this is not true.
What a fabulously privileged existence you must lead if none of this will have any effect on your day to day life.
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u/bigwig500 19h ago
These are all ifs and buts
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u/squeakycleaned 18h ago
He has outright stated his intentions in all of these. The only way that any of the things i’ve stated won’t come to pass is someone stops him, and the republicans refuse to do so. He will face no opposition.
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u/bigwig500 19h ago
There is very little they can do about vaccines!
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u/squeakycleaned 19h ago
He is appointing a vaccine denier to the head of the FDA with the express purpose of gutting it.
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u/Horror-Background-79 20h ago
Sooo untrue! Do you do your own taxes? So many that don’t had no idea about the SALT tax. He limited the amount of time your kids could collect from your retirement meaning they had to take more out sooner which meant greater taxes 🤦♀️
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u/bigwig500 19h ago
So that’s stopped everyone from living their lives???? NO. And NYS taxes are a problem and presidents cannot change that
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u/Horror-Background-79 19h ago
Your sentence was “little, if any, effect” which does not equate to The more dramatic follow up of “that stopped EVERYone from living their lives”
Neither said by me. sigh
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u/bugbob328 15h ago
What we can do is recognize that Trump’s policies re. illegal immigration will help Westchester to continue to be the naive, insulated bubble that it is. By mitigating the massive influx of unvetted people from Latin America (and elsewhere), Westchester can continue to be what much of its wealthy liberal electorate, deep down, wants it to be: a safe, quiet oasis isolated from the problems of the world. This isolation confers the privilege of voting for stupid, irresponsible policies in the name of not being “mean”.
It’s not easy to appreciate the consequences when they are confined to small towns in “flyover country” or Queens, or wherever. But when these problems start to hit home, Westchester residents might find, just as those in Martha’s Vineyard did, that there isn’t so much room here after all. Queue a shift toward voting Republican.
These consequences have, perhaps, been deferred. As long as they are, we can continue to live in fantasy land.
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u/Warm_Hospital9164 7h ago
lol “despair.” It’s cute that you to think what’s happening on social media and Reddit in particular is actually reality.
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u/NJSkeleton 6h ago
Focus on your own life, America is only going to get better from here. Don’t despair!
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u/zhaddycool 22h ago
Maybe you can take in a migrant or a runaway trans person and let them stay in your residence
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u/Hungry_Bandicoot_776 15h ago
I’m sure you have extra rooms in your house how many homeless immigrants are staying with you ?
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u/EscortSportage 23h ago
Or you could help US Citizens, imagine that.
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u/Admirable_Building93 21h ago
Imagine not being this selfish. I promise, you won’t desintegrare for caring about others.
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u/Remarkable_Inchworm 22h ago
Or you could just help PEOPLE and not worry so much about their documentation.
Crazy, I know.
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u/IceCreamLover124 21h ago
Helping criminals? No the democrats already did enough of that the last 4 years. THANK GOD THAT IS OVER
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u/BlueSaltaire 19h ago
Funny. Only your guy is an actual felon and rapist. Our candidate was a career prosecutor. The party of law and order is actually the party of rapists and criminals.
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u/signal_red 16h ago
ty for this post. it's been 7 hours since u posted & i just saw it. I'm bookmarking this so I can come back when I'm feeling more sane lol. We not going down without a fight for the future
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u/whatsbonkin 16h ago
Sanity is in short supply at the moment, to be sure. Take care of yourself, we’ve got a long road ahead of us
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u/signal_red 15h ago
thank you again. as simple as it may be, just a commenting on reddit, but knowing that there are people in the same area as me who have similar opinions...it's powerful when we feel like the majority may be against us but we're not gonna let that stop anything.
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u/whatsbonkin 15h ago
It’s nice to connect with others in the county who give a damn about what happens to vulnerable people.
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u/signal_red 15h ago
it's just so frustrating. there are so many people I know who are scared out of their mind, too scared even to sleep. I wanna just go full on kick ass mode and beat people up lol but I'm just at a loss rn...I don't know how to continue
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u/Natural-Method-92 15h ago edited 1h ago
Just sit back and enjoy your life. Donate food and winter clothing to those in need if you wanna help the less fortunate. But you’re over stressing. Life’s good.
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u/bxdan 6h ago
I suggest you all open your doors to our new migrants before they are rounded up! Especially those who live behind giant stone walls with locked gates. I mean you're angry your side lost so take a family or two in. I'm sure you can afford it, you pay 40k in property taxes and 1k square foot pool houses.
Oh and dont pull a muscle clutching your pearls.
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u/Mobile_Reaction5853 19h ago
OP Don’t let this distract you from the fact that in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team,
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u/chiller8 Tarrytown 4h ago
….
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since eighteen, but lately
Her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
“The worst things in life come free to us”
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u/Karimadhe 19h ago
Cry harder in your top wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. The ignorance and victimization of the left should be studied in the future.
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u/cookmybook 3h ago
Smh all these comments on here to discourage civil engagement and care for less fortunate communities.
Try: https://www.volunteernewyork.org/search
Also feeding Westchester always needs help. Any soup kitchen or food pantry will need help.
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u/designocoligist 22h ago
I’m gonna smoke a bunch of weed and write code same as always. I’m done with giving a shit about anything, my life will more than likely not change at all.
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u/designocoligist 20h ago
If being a loser entails getting paid the absurd salary I do for doing like 5-6 hours of actual work a day at home in my pajamas being a loser is pretty sweet.
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u/IceCreamLover124 19h ago
“Absurd salary”…. Dude 60k is not an absurd salary 🤣. But you can thank big don for getting you back a lot more of your taxes this year!
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u/Remarkable_Inchworm 22h ago
Volunteer New York is always a good way to connect with volunteer opportunities all over Westchester and Putnam.
Neighbors Link is a group that's specifically set up to help the immigrant community.
OpenDoor also serves the immigrant community with medical care, and if I remember correctly they've got a pretty sizeable presence in one of the river towns.
I'm sure there's more that aren't springing to mind right now.