I know it's tempting to dunk on these people, but if you know anyone like this, tell them to call their Senator and voice their displeasure. They probably won't listen, and they deserve their, "leopards ate my face," moment, but trying to mobilize them would be far more productive than saying, "told you so."
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Strange, because it’s EXACTLY what they signed up for.
Trump voters don't care about these things. they have a completely different rhetorical frame. this article is bullshit. trump voters are liking the chaos a lot because they think its good because they think liberals are bad. all you need to do is follow the usual conservative talking heads if you want to know what they're thinking.
I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit. it doesn't do any good to anyone. this article was only written to keep leftists stupid. downvote this fake garbage.
I am adjacent to a lot of Trump voters through my wife relating conversations from her 95% Trump voting company. Other than having to stamp out some offensive exuberance, there has been no reaction to any of it. They are just excited about the ascendency of the right and waiting for the "benefits" to percolate through society.
Despite having gay kids they support, etc. Any doubts or second thoughts they are having are not being shared. Could be the network effect of not wanting to be the first to break faith, but that could just as easily be wishful thinking.
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The media is publicizing these lies to keep people from getting the idea that they need to do something.
"Oh good his voters are turning on him" helps placate the opposition. It keeps people from wanting to do something.
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No they aren't angry. They give zero fucks and just pull an RFK on Samoa. They will simply not to pay attention to "MSM" if it gets inconvenient, and any present change will be chalked up to Kamala.
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"This chaos isn't what I signed up for" says people who voted for chaos goblin who told people he wanted chaos
Get entirely fucked trump voters. As well as the people who told me that BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE and TrUmP wIlL nOt Be WoRsE tHaN GeNoCiDe JoE oR KiLlEr KaMaLa
The "I told you so"s will never be worth it.
To be honest, I expected it to be bad. But this right now? Oh my gosh. He really out-trumped himself.
Narrator: “it was exactly the fuck what they had voted for”.
- read by Morgan Freeman
Ron Howard, actually.
The meme is a reference to Arrested Development where Ron Howard is the narrator.
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“this isn’t what we signed up for”
literally everyone has been trying to tell you it is
They signed up to make everyone else suffer and now they're shocked and dismayed that they're probably going to suffer too. I feel for everyone that has to share a country with people that would throw them to the wolves first chance they get while demanding unearned respect for themselves. But if I were religious, I'd tell these people to rot in hell.
Seriously, if sanity ever returns to the world, I hope that the lesson we walk away with is that right wingers, conservatives and religious fundies should never be allowed anywhere near positions of power again. Because when they have it, their whole aim is to uplift themselves and only themselves while fucking over everyone else in society.
Throwback to his first term when one of his supporters said "He's hurting the wrong people!"
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Do we really think there's a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?
It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. "Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden's fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills."
Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can't imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.
Probably one day they will have a regret, but now as you say so...
That's when you tell them about deflation and the fact that the State will never let it happen.
Get used to it bitches, prices aren't coming down, it would create a spiral of economic chaos!
I agree with you. People should see Trump's approval rating. He is doing well so far.
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Dumbasses voted for a clown and didn't expect the inevitable circus.
Womp womp.
With all due respect, this is exactly what you all signed up for you stupid fucking pieces of shit.
This is not only what you signed up for, but you signed the rest of us up for it too.
Thanks.
With all due respect
Which is about Zero.
I never thought the leopards would eat my face...
Don’t worry there’s only forty-seven and a half months left.
1441 days, 11 hours, 4 minutes
There’s a part of me that hopes it’s much less but that couch fucker is a smart guy which is scary.
I'm hoping that Vance won't be able to hold MAGA together. The thing about cults of personality is that when the dear leader is gone they tend to fall apart. Fingers crossed.
Explain North Korea then.
North Korea is lot further in terms of keeping political power by force. Not that orange cheeto wouldn't like that, but you guys are nowhere remotely close to that.
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I'm tired of hearing this. These people need to be shunted from our narrative.
Chaos was the main constant his entire first presidency.
Fuck. Does nobody remember infrastructure week?
Infrastructure Week lasted four years and was always two weeks away. This term is apparently Executive Order Day, every day that ends in a "why".
How many more people do you think will accept this… harm… if the eggs were down?
A depressing amount.