Does he ever not have a shit-eating smirk on his face? That’s gotta be the most punchable face in the world.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be! We know things are bad — worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest, I don’t want you to riot, I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad! [shouting] You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!’ So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
I think we need to understand that this speech is exactly how republicans see themselves. Notice the focus on violent crime, something which is not actually rising, and inflation. These are the kinds of issues that Republicans have used to gather support. As far as they are concerned, Trump is the TV personality who has gone rogue and started yelling.
No America won’t. Every bad thing that results from his reelection will be someone else’s fault or declared fake. The people that voted for him will be thrilled and vote straight R again come 2028. Democrats,for their part, will put forward someone endorsed by Bush Jr. and wonder why they lost again.
conservatives are still dodging the blame for shooting down that bipartisan border bill. a lack of accountability is a very core republican value.
This was mostly sexism, straight up. If it had been Obama, he would have won by a landslide.
I was listening to This American Life where they were interviewing the Muslims in Michigan (*could have been another state, not sure). They said they were going to vote for Trump, … because? They said it was because Harris didn’t speak to them, but surely they remember the Muslim ban or the Gold Star family getting shit on by trump. I had a strong feeling then, they were just looking for an excuse. If that could happen to them, it could happen to all of the other men in America. Cuz less face it, we’re more sexist than we are racist because it’s across all demographics. Racism is categorized into departments.
sadly I have to agree with this, I definitely think its a mix of both sexism and racism. For many that was a “quiet part”. I also had that experience, being an independent has let me talk to both sides since I was swaying either way and well, that was a reoccurring trait that I saw when asking friends who voted for trump why they did.
For democratic voters it was always “I can’t let Trump win because he’s an offensive racist prick” and for republican voters if it wasn’t abortion first thing, it was generally a no statement, usually it was a “i don’t actually like trump, but I can’t vote for the other side, she doesn’t follow my values” or something similar, but if you actually pushed for said values, no value was ever provided.
This doesn’t help the fact that many people are just so sick of mainstreamed politics that they are actively ignoring it. Which means that they just fall into whatever name they have heard in their experiences. unfortunately that is not something that is going to be able to be fixed by either side. Many friends who were unable to give reasons were also part of that category. The “I hate politics, everyone sucks and I am either not voting, or just going to vote what I’m used to voting” Many of them have no clue about half of the stuff that he did in the first place so theres nothing for them to dislike. They just don’t watch anything political, so their news sources are twitter, and ads that appear as they surf the web.
Many of them have no clue about half of the stuff that he did in the first place so theres nothing for them to dislike. They just don’t watch anything political, so their news sources are twitter, and ads that appear as they surf the web.
How is this part happening? It really is our media being taken over by billionaires and product placed into echo chambers.
I can’t wait for the tears of his voters when his own policies destroy them
It’s all Obama’s Hillary’s emails Pizzagate’s Hunter Biden’s Laptop Biden’s fault. If Biden hadn’t got in the way of Trump’s beautiful perfect plan that is the most perfect in the history of the universe, then his policies would have resulted in paradise on earth for his voters. But of course Biden and the Democrats messed it all up, so you better be sure to vote Red again next election!
It’s common for the people who support leopards eating faces to not even recognize the leopard when it is their own face which has been eaten. They point to someone whose face they want to be eaten by a leopard and then blame them for it. I hope I didn’t get too lost in the metaphor here.
Yeah… I know they’ll blame someone else. That won’t save them though, will it? Their face still got eaten. At this point, I’ll take that.
To these people it’s fine if they get fucked as long as the person they don’t like gets fucked harder. It’s insane.
And I can’t wait to tell them shut the fuck up you voted for this! I hope every one of us does that.
Can’t wait for the inflation to go through the roof. And the global financial crisis he’s going to trigger.
Reminder that Inflation peaked in June 2021, immediately following the last Trump admin, and declined since then.
But republicans still think Joe Biden causes inflation.
That’s the way it always works. The Republicans come in and give massive tax cuts to the wealthy. They cut a bunch of education and healthcare programs because they gave that money to people that don’t need it. Then they deregulate everything and let the corporations go crazy with price gouging. Then things look like they’re improving for a minute because corps start buying back all of their stocks, driving the prices up, and giving the appearance of a strong economy. But it’s not strong, it’s a consolidation of wealth at the top.
Eventually as prices rise and wages decrease, people get fed up with the mounting pile of bullshit and vote for Democrats. The Democrats, for all their fecklessness actually try to fix some of those problems, but the problems don’t go away overnight. They continue escalating for 4 years because that’s the pace economies move at. The voters completely forget who put them in this position to begin with and blame the Democrats, so they vote Republican again.
Right about the time the Republicans take office, the work of the Democrats starts producing results and the repubs ride that wave of success for a time, taking full credit, while rat fucking everyone except the 0.1%.
The cycle repeats ad-nausium. People are fucking stupid.
