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I'm thinking if they saw Trump's record and still voted for him, this isn't gonna be the first time they get duped.
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IMHO, people hyper fixated on the first couple years of Trump 1 where the economy was ok, he had experienced government officials putting up guardrails, and he coasting on what past administrations put in place.
They thought Trump’s was blowing bow air and they thought they were going to get 2017 again.
They are not getting 2017.
And also forget that little thing known as COVID-19...
I wouldn’t be surprised if, given the rich disinformation landscape in America, covid was destined to be an utter shit show in the USA.
Trump sure as shit didn’t help.
My peers are not your rich country club conservatives. They are scrappy guys who liked Trump because he wasn’t polished or predictable. To them, he was a rebel outsider who would fight “the swamp” with all he had. I remember heated lunchroom debates where they’d argue about whether or not he could truly upend our system and its backers.
What a bunch of fucking losers.
"Predictable" is quite literally the one quality you want the leader of the biggest military on the planet to have.
"Give the demented wildcard control of the nukes"
— MAGA
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What???
They feel duped? We been knew Trump was in kahoots with him. He's a sexual predator, a liar, and a shitty business man. I feel like saying you've been "duped" shifts blame. You were not duped, you just didn't realize you'd have to suffer with the rest of us, LIKE WE FUCKING TOLD YOU. Admit you made a selfish, shitty decision and do better.
If their only source of media was manosphere podcasts or FOX News, I can absolutely believe they were duped. It still doesn't absolve them of being regessive dumbasses that lack critical thinking skills, though.
Dumb fucks.
Kids are fucking stupid, and everyone under 25 is a kid, cmv
Hey, if you support a syphilitic pedophile rapist lying grifter, you deserve all the shit he unleashes on you.
42 year old millennial here…
This was all public knowledge before the election.
But I guess you didn’t hear about that on TikTok and YouTube shorts.
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Seriously. For all the bitchinv about boomers, it was gen z and millenials that gave us Trump. Xers didn't want him and the boomers aren't as large a population slice as they once were
But y'know.. Old....
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There's no reason to believe trump would do anything good. The republican party is just full of bad ideas. What kind of false reality are these people living in?
This is their after the fact justification. You are entirely correct. Anyone with functioning eyeballs and the ability to put two brain cells together knew he wasn't going to drain any fucking swamp or be making any fucking thing better.
2016 Trump voters I will give benefit of the doubt to. If you voted Trump in 2020 you knew what you were getting, and if you voted Trump in 2024 you even had a road map.
There is nothing I want to hear from these apologetic Trump voters besides "Yes, I was some combination of racist, hateful, and ignorant, and now the entire nation is suffering for my bullshit." There is no way they didn't know what they were subjecting the nation to, and I will not pretend that somehow they didn't. Don't want a Trump voter as a friend, and wish I could boot them out of my family. I sure as hell am not going to entertain their fucking platitudes.
Trump declined to release the Epstein files because he said it would falsely incriminate innocent people. But that has left them wondering: Is Trump just the swamp?
YES, FUCKING YES. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SWAMP. And the fact that this is the moment where you are wondering this proves my point above. Everything up to now was all good.
This whole turnabout is a personal one for my friends. They didn’t like Trump because he was a Republican; they liked him because he would be a “disrupter in chief.”
TURNABOUT??!! He has been the same person literally the entire time.
OMFG I think I have just realized. The only way out of this is if we all pretend we swallow this bullshit from bashful Trump voters, isn't it?
Look at this shit:
They wonder: Is Trump just a showman who lied to us and deceived us this whole time?
Entirely too credible, too wide eyed. This article and articles like it are just another kind of ruse. One where we all pretend we haven't learned something dark and horrible about 77 million of our fellow citizens, so we can throw them a bone after what they have voted in for all the rest of us. 🤮
Where do they go now? One obvious possibility is to the Democratic Party. But Democratic leaders would need to do more than act like they care about people like my friends. They need to offer a clear, transparent alternative that can successfully brand Democrats as more honest and authentic.
So the problem isn't Trump folks, and it's not Trump voters, either. Republicans? Nah. It's actually Democrats. Huh.
Eli Thompson is an 18-year-old
Oh Jesus. The author thinks all this is normal.
Their idea of swamp was just democrats/city folk. They would just never believe that putting in there people would be just as swampy if not worse.
They might not like the Epstein shit but they’re not asking for all those bureaucrats and judges he placed to be removed. They’d still vote for Rubio, or whatever racist corpse gets the next nomination.
Glad they’re free of this particular blindness but they’ve got a long way to go.
Tired of hearing "Demographic Group X did Y" when these analyses fall apart at the state line.
There's no chromosome that explains your vote.
Speak for yourself. I got more chromosomes than any of you motherfuckers.
I mean...they were 19, at the oldest, when the first Trump term began. Now they're between 13 and 28. So I understand being ignorant of what came before.
But seriously...if you don't know what came before, don't vote.
I'm pretty sure I had learned about 1930s-40s Germany before I was old enough to vote.
Our public education system has been purposely broken. The fascists have sabotaged our own future and ability to innovate and compete on the world stage in any way... But hey, they don't know about Nazis anymore, so it's a lot easier for them to take power. That's what matters.
Gen Z 🤣🤣🤣
If only there had been a sign that it wasn't a good idea to put these clowns in office. Just one more sign, on top of the million-or-so that I thought were common knowledge.
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To be fair, thats only because those voters are deeply stupid.
Dumbasses
This is an opportunity for organizers. Trump is teaching them a valuable lesson and we should be there to help them take it further.
Stupidity is a very costly liability.
A slumlord not wanting to drain the swamp but become Lord Swampington. Who could've seen that coming. 🙄