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This is not what I voted for
"I voted for other people to suffer, and now I'm suffering. Is there no fairness in this world?"
Either that, or:
"When Donald Trump mentioned what a fine man Hannibal Lecter is before shuffling around to the YMCA, my brain registered that as him telling me everything that I wanted to hear because I'm a delusional psychopath with no grip on reality that thinks the world revolves around me."
The Hannibal Lecter thing drives me nuts, because Trump clearly heard someone mention immigration from political asylum and confused that with mental asylums.
I wish the press would have picked up on it and called him out.
I'm pretty sure he praised OJ Simpson at some point in the middle of all of that as well. He was also very concerned about offshore wind farms killing whales in record numbers. And there was that one incident where he just stood around on stage saying and doing nothing for an hour while golden oldies played.
The press was too busy printing headlines about Trump calling Biden "sleepy Joe" though. And honestly I'm not sure if an honest and fair press would've even helped in this case. It would've just been librul deep state propaganda. And they would've just gone on with their decorative diapers, foam fingers and Trump bibles regardless.
I wish the press would have picked up on it and called him out.
There are so, so, so many instances of this. If they'd picked up on a few more we wouldn't be in this mess. But they ignored them all because they're complicit in all of this.
It all boils down go "I voted for them to hurt people" and then they act surprised when they're the ones being hurt.
If Trump actually falls out of favor with the Right I fully expect these kinds of people to try to blame all of this on him alone so they check the box for the next R who will enable them to continue to be shitheads.
That's how they got over Bush II very quickly too.
Yeah, my friends from 20 years ago that fucking LOVED Bush now pretend they want nothing to do with him. Trump will be the same way. Set a reminder for 2045 to ask your favorite Republican what they think of Trump.
Oh, these modern Republicans think that Reagan was a cuck, and Jesus is a woke pussy.
I remember sitting there, being embarrassed that W was the face of our country. I was thinking to myself, how did we let this happen, policy aside, he's really not a capable president and its horrific in speaking.
G'DAM if i don't miss that whyly bastard. I'd rather have someone with some actual moral values, but jesus i don't know how much worse it could get.
I mean, we're getting for it regardless of who we voted for. That's the magic of singular senior executive in a three-branch government where the executive branch has functional dictatorship of the bureaucracy.
If Harris had won (perhaps by not pissing off big chunks of the Midwestern Arab population by repeatedly endorsing the genocide of their families) then she'd have been spared the indignity of getting what she asked for. But the wind was with the Republicans, so now we all get to hang out in the crumbling dystopian hell-hole together.
If Harris had won (perhaps by not pissing off big chunks of the Midwestern Arab population by repeatedly endorsing the genocide of their families)
Or perhaps by the Democrats taking economic inequality seriously and actually moving the needle on helping the working class.
If those Arabs thought that trump would in any way reduce the genocide, well... I will point them to the image above.
this is not what I voted for
Nah, dipshit it's EXACTLY what you voted for.
It's too bad these morons are illiterate, and allergic to anything that isn't low-IQ misinformation
She didn't realize that she fits into the "expendable peasant" tier to Trump, and his ilk.
"Expendable peasant": Anyone who isn't a billionaire willing to throw money at L'Orange.
Great phrase, BTW. I'm brand new around here and I already like the place!
This person knew what Project 2025 was and just refused to believe it. This is exactly what they voted for.
"This is not what I voted for."
I voted for him to hurt immigrants, the poor, the gays, women, workers, non-whites, Democrats, progressives, liberals, intellectuals, drag queens, the woke, and DEI, not white Americans!
and DEI
White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they're the ones that benefited the most from DEI.
Everything about conservative American women was explained in Dworkin’s Right Wing Women.
Women who grow up in shitty sexist communities (eg, imagine being a teenage girl growing up in fucking Disney, Oklahoma.) You have no future. You are supposed to find a guy to marry yourself off to. You are promised this is the greatest thing ever, taught to fantasize about your wedding, to imagine you’re happily ever after.
Then you get married to some guy. Maybe he’s great, maybe he’s not. But you never got to be a person. You were never taught that you could be something more. You feel bitter and powerless in your community - you’ll never be the deacon, but you’ll always be cleaning up after the potluck.
But then you see other women who don’t have to live like that. This is a societal threat to these communities. That there are clearly women in the world who are happy and fulfilled in an office or a field, while you will never be anything more than a church secretary or PTA mom.
So the propaganda is always that these women are lying. They aren’t actually happy. They aren’t actually competent - they only got their jobs through “DEI.” They aren’t better than you, it’s a liberal plot.
This is also connected to the fear routine - see how the right wing women sphere is the TERFs. They whip up a history to aim the real anxieties and fears related to a culture that covers up sexual violence against women (how many youth pastors have we never heard about?) and redirects it to an acceptable target. Women who perform this well enough are even rewarded with having their voice recognized - that Phyllis Schafly made a career of telling other women to not have careers, that Rowling has defined the exclusion of trans women as a prime most important feminist feat (while women in the US die of lack of access to reproductive health care…)
They don’t benefit from DEI because they’ve been told not to want careers, and they are mad at the wrong people.
Vote republican, and have a worse life
I don't get why people haven't learned that one yet
How would someone who is convinced they are a temporarily embarassed millionaire learn a lesson like that.
Conservatives always think they're part of the in-group.. until they're not.
Way too many dumb fucks on this planet.
Is Cj going to vote Dems or someone else at the next election? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Most likely another republican. Surely things will go right this time they vote red
"I'm so angry that I have to vote for this [pedophile / nazi / conman] because the democrats are so much worse, I've been told!"
"This is not what I voted for" is starting to become just as cliché as "I didn't sign up for this shit!" (the thing that Hollywood soldiers say when they find themselves fighting in a war).
I love this community. It sucks people need to suffer but when you're this dense, some pain is the only thing that'll make them pay attention.
"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
Sorry, psychopaths. You elected him president. After he showed everyone exactly who he was. The why doesn't matter. He'll continue to be who he's always been, but now he's actively making the world worse...
Fuck you CJ it's exactly what you voted for, so fuck you again
The problem with choosing your own reality is that when it doesn't bear any resemblance to actual reality, you will inevitably be forced to face up to it at some point.
Humans generally hate to admit when they are wrong so creating a version of events where you didn't make a mistake is easier.
I don't really get the hostility towards the person. It is good to relize and even admitting you were wrong. We should encourage that nd not give shit. Important are the person's future actions.
I mean, they are still likely OK with everything else the republicans stand for. This self realisation is most likely temporary because it affected them personally. They probably still are OK with trans/homophobia, bigotry, and authoritarianism
which is 'what they voted for'.
I mean, they didn't admit they were wrong. They're saying they were basically "totes bamboozled" by Trump once he was elected, which we know is horseshit because half the country apparently did see this coming (and was quite vocal about it).
It shifts the guilt for what is going on entirely on Trump rather than taking an ounce of responsibility for their own role in the whole ordeal.
The post didn't admit she was wrong. She merely said the particular harm she suffered was not what she voted for.
This person is a horrible narcissistic fascist. Not until he harms them does this person admit they were wrong. This person would never have changed position otherwise.
Let’s not fool ourselves: Donald’s blatant sexism and racism wasn’t going over this voter’s head. Not even for a second. So I wouldn’t insert the complexity of empathy and understanding the effects of responsibility of choice where someone hasn’t exercised it yet.
everyone has the right to change their own mind but it’s another to start inserting trust and faith in them.
this looks more like regret for their own misfortune (not for anyone else’s). This doesn’t mean their racism and sexism they got on board with that lead to this decision in their life magically vanished or that they wouldn’t hesitate at the chance another president with the same ideas. They merely gained the ability to not deny it has provided a different problem altogether that affects them personally now. Which is ok, great. step one. They hit a bottom. They got to the point they admit there’s one problem. Many refuse to even go there for their thirst of revenge on ‘woke’.
At best at this point you could only expect they could at least understand to vote in their own interest and not just to vote as a form of revenge. Perhaps they found Donald is a bigger enemy than DEI. I just wouldn’t mistaken that as them suddenly seeing everyone around them as equals just yet or that pain is universal
Time for the ye olde rugged individuals to pull themselves up by their bootstraps
You do have to poses some strong repression skills to look at trumps platform and think "this is good for the common American". CJ, you voted for this. You willfully ignored what he was saying and drank the orange monster.
The Fox made him choose the Leopard
Because something about hunter Biden, I guess. Also something about her e-mails.
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