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The idea of voting for a candidate with whom you disagree on things upon which you depend for your livelihood or survival is just wild to me.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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They don't think about any of the social programs that they depend on. It's about hurting the right people. A platform built on hate. Then they wonder why the leopards ate their face.
People vote based on what they think the person is like. Harris is boring and the same old. Trump tells it like it is, that's exciting!
Nevermind that boring is what you want for government, you want everything to just work. But no, gotta be emotional about it.
"I didn't think it would hurt me." - Trump voters for the next four years.
As a school bus driver, I work with a bunch of older people who are already utterly dependent on social security and medicare to have any semblance of a life that doesn't involve living in a tent in the park and dumpster diving for dinner. They are mostly trumpers. We're all Teamsters as well, and a few are married lesbians (and these are the most rabidly pro-trump of all). I have made a few attempts to convince them that trump (and Republicans for fucking decades) are out to destroy social security, medicare, unions and gay rights (among lots of other things) - but they reacted to me like I had grown an extra head. Somehow they've convinced themselves that the GOP is the original source and the protector of these things.
They are mostly trumpers.
Spend all your time on a bus listening to AM Talk Radio year after year after year and see what happens to your brain.
Somehow they’ve convinced themselves that the GOP is the original source and the protector of these things.
Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth.
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Just like the first 4 years.
"I didn't think leopards would eat MY face"
-Leopard Eating Faces Party voter-
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The best argument against democracy is a 5-minute interview with an average voter.
What do you do for the remaining 4-1/2 minutes?
Go to your happy place
The assumption to make here is that Trump is willing to try to do everything he's said. This is a guy who literally tried to ban Muslims after all.
Personally, I think that the tumult of his administration is going to get in the way of its own agenda, as evidenced by his first presidency. Half of the people on his staff will be gone before the first year is out, and Trump is going to spend more time golfing than he will actually governing. His biggest focus will be on monetizing the presidency, and he surrounds himself with incompetent sycophants.
These and other factors make it difficult to say what he will actually achieve.
As for the ACA, it was a conservative court that stopped him the first time, so the SCOTUS is no slam dunk. I don't think anyone can definitively state what will happen with regards to health care in this country.
JD Vance was made his running mate cause JD Vance is down with project 2025 and will be doing the actual running of things.
So it doesnt matter what Trump is off doing. JD Vance will be back at the office, doing the nasty work that trump will rubber stamp.
You can speculate on that, but history would demonstrate that you're probably wrong. Hell, Trump tried to get his own VP assassinated last time.
I'm sure they think they can control Trump, but as we saw from 2016 to 2020, they can't. That's especially true at Trump's age and with his cognitive decline.
Trump also famously told his VP picks in 2016 that they would run the country, he just wanted the title and perks of the presidency.
That was 8 years and 3 swaying Ave Marias ago, I doubt he is more motivated to do the job now.
Fair point.
JD Vance is down with project 2025
He was one of the authors, even.
Normally I would agree with you but I think Donald has lost touch with reality and we are letting a dementia patient run the country. I don't think we could be in more dangerous territory. I mean, he isn't even playing golf anymore.
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Just start laughing about loud and point at them with your arm fully extended. We should start shaming people in a more direct primal way again. Shame is probably the most powerful feeling (maybe second to "ahh oh my god I'm dying??!!!!!!!??" however you want to call that)
I agree. Tolerance of such extreme idiocy is unhealthy for society.
Shame is a paralyzing emotion. It does not bring change. Guilt does.
I could not agree more. This is the same bunch that tries to make being liberal a dirty word. They use liberal as epithet, along with things like environmentalist, community organizer, social justice (SJW), or veg*n ("soy boy"). Also: being educated, or in fact, aspiring to anything more than just being a huckster, a sportsball star, or, more recently, an "influencer".
About time to start shaming THEM.
it's been 9 fucking years and we can't take Trump at his fucking word?
They will get what they deserve
Nah, somehow it'll be Biden's fault... google backfire effect, the more you challenge their beliefs the more they fight for them, even when proven wrong. They do not learn. They will not ever learn. They do not want to learn.
No they won't. That's a big reason why they never change.
I have a feeling this channel is going to get a lot of content in the next four years...
Didn't they have control of the House and Senate last time and still couldn't get it repealed before? Do they have the votes to get rid of it this time?
Assuming they get rid of it, assuming Trump actually steps down in 4 years, and assuming we ever have another election (big ifs, I know), could this actually help Democrats for the next few election cycles?
This was the one reason I wasn't cheering for the filibuster to be repealed. The 60 vote threshold was the only thing that saved it last time. They will only be able to realistically get rid of it if they abolish the filibuster. Which would be a net win for Democrats, so they likely won't do it.
Didn’t they have control of the House and Senate last time and still couldn’t get it repealed before?
Repealing the bill would mean revoking tens to hundreds of millions from various states. A lot of the healthcare and health insurance industry (which is dominated by right-wing financial interests) sees ACA as a valuable income stream. Its hard to uproot for the same reason Social Security and Medicaire/caid are hard to uproot. There's simply too much money running through the system and too many private interests invested in the flow.
The leopards are eating well. I'm actually worried about leopard obesity. So many faces to eat.
But they still get to PWN DUH LIBZ, though, right?
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