• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    This is exactly who you voted for.

    It just didn‘t matter to you because he was shitting on poor people, minorities, foreigners, disabled people, smart people, etc. He on more than one occasion made offhand comments about how stupid he thought his voters were. He has repeatedly made financial deals to serve himself, and repeatedly made geopolitical moves that do nothing but harm America and its citizens.

    But you what…ignored that? You licked the boot and kissed the ring! He couldn‘t possibly be ignoring your particular needs?

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      If the Democrats had any sense, they’d run that clip in ads for Democrats in every race later this summer.

      They won’t, but they should.

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      And likely thrice, at that.

      At least when and if this is ever over, researchers will have a literal goldmine of data on mass psychosis and the effects of a nationwide death cult on society to research.

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      It objectively is not, even on the issue of affordability. One good example is COVID aid, where the Republicans passed more aid at the federal level than Democrats. (And people didn’t forget when Biden did a rugpull with COVID checks after the two Georgia election wins either.)

      Though, with both parties being so eminently shitty on affordability, it really doesn’t matter. Biden gave lots of speeches about how much he cared about people’s cost of living but didn’t do anything meaningful to improve it, even with the cost of food becoming prohibitive.

      Donald’s dementia is clearly getting worse. I would attribute it to Donald’s fear of being outed for his crimes, which I imagine is extraordinarily stressful. Kind of a bummer that it’s rotting his brain but not giving him cardiac failure.

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        I guess you are forgetting that Republicans blocked bills in the Senate and after 2022 in house where they got majority. The bills that Biden managed to get through (for example Build Back Better) were illegally destroyed by DOGE by cutting funding.

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          After 2025 and 2026 you no longer get to argue that Biden had insufficient power. That simply isn’t true, as evidenced by Donald. Biden’s actions demonstrate that he did not care about his constituents.

          But feel free to lie to yourself. You can’t gaslight me.

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            That’s because trump just decided to ignore every law and running he doesn’t like, and Republican controlled House and Senate and Republican controlled SCOTUS allow him to do it.

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              So we agree then.

              I don’t care about civility and I’m not going to use it as an excuse for Joe Biden letting his constituents go homeless and starve. I’d think someone who actually cares about the things they say they care about would be willing to fight for it.

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                The problem is that if Biden overstepped his authority, he would get barbecued by his own party. Trump does it and they fucking cheer.

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                  No, he wouldn’t.

                  They’d cash in too. And I wouldn’t even mind it if Biden did what he actually promised and Americans weren’t going homeless at lightning speed.

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                  Or, instead of that, you can remind me how little you care about egg prices. Because, I gotta say, that last presidential campaign where I was repeatedly told ‘it’s not that bad’ was a whole lot of fun to listen to when I had two elderly parents stuck working for DoorDash.

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        No, more people felt the need to cover for him. He’s always been as subtle and as intelligent as a brick.

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    This is exactly what they voted for.

    They are just hurt that its affecting them.

    If everything happened the same way, without affecting them, they’d still be cheering it… because they cheer anything that hurts the “right” people… I.E. people that arent them.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    the pedophilia was OK, the bombing little girls was OK, sending masked goons to disappear brown people by the thousands was OK. but groceries went up a bit and now they have a spine?

    they are the scum of the earth, and the world will begin to heal once they have their funeral

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      We must never forget that this is who they are inside. When establishment Dems try to pull the “now it’s the time for healing and unity” shit, talk about turning the other cheek and other inappropriate nonsense, we’ll all know no one is letting this go. Ever.

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      Also just to OP point, never in his life did he demonstrate any care at all about regular people. That’s why trump can just say that, it’s always been true he’s never tried to pretend it wasn’t and these people are fucking stupid if they think he’s saying something new.

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    This won’t have any affect on them. If anything they will call it fake news. His base will fight each other to change this man’s diaper.

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      I think it will over time and has. There are explicit examples of it. The problem is that the ones who will be moved against him are not doing it from a change of heart.

      They’re still selfish, hateful, and greedy. Its just eventually they reach a point where Trump doesn’t serve them in a way that sates those sociopathic traits. They’re upset that their shitty political project has hurt them, not that its hurt anyone at all.

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        funny you say that. Theres actually a billionaire cult which is trying to “create a worthy successor for humanity”

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    The group whose identity is hating those they perceive as beneath them are shocked to find the man above them hates them.

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      Nah, the unspoken truth is that they know he hates them and they like it. They hate themselves for being poor as much as they hate everyone else. That’s what MAGA is built on: For every rich prick that is prioritizing their own business interests, there are a hundred thousand myopic fucks who know that they have failed under the current socioeconomic system, and believe wholeheartedly that they would rise to the top if we could reset to a more violent system. The only reason he’s losing support now is that his supporters are finding out in real time that they still fucking suck in their preferred system, or at best they’re malding “NooOOoo, you were supposed to break it all in the way I fantasized myself succeeding, not like this!!!”

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    Perhaps this will finally make them wake up

    Unfortunately it didn’t. Conservatives were immediately telling each other that “it wasn’t that bad and tHe RaDiCaL lEfT were just taking it out of context.” But as is often the case, the context does not make it any better.

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      “Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran—they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing—we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.” - Donald Trump, military.com, USA Today

      He’s a narcissistic psychopath who chose to break the Iran deal, but the context shows that preventing a nuclear-armed Velâyat-e Faqih is more important.

      Also, “It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin, YouTube

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      It makes it a little bit better. This was definitely a gotcha sound bite, but it did make me spurt out my drink when he said it that way. Lol.

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    What?! The crooked conman (who literally embezzled his own children’s charity) doesn’t actually care about the wellbeing of the citizens under his care??

    Seriously, how often does he have to openly and blatantly betray his voterbase before they get the hint that maybe what he’s telling them is bullshit?

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      He could get every single Maga hat wearing simpleton, line them up, personally shoot every 3rd one in the head, and the other two would be going “oh, good choice, sir.”

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      He’s told them multiple times, they just do not listen, or they hear it and insist its a self-deprecating joke and he’s “…such a card…”

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    “It was finally after trump cut off the baby’s head and drank it’s blood live on TV that I started to think ‘Hey, I may have backed the wrong guy’”. Meanwhile, your inner quiet voice said, ‘let’s wait and see’.