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Serious answers only. For over a year I was told that trump "doesn't have anything to do with that".

I honestly need to know from an actual Republican who believed trumps words and is now witnessing p2025 almost hit 50% completion with the department of education getting dismantled.

And with that; how do these people feel that public schools, daycare centers and tech schools all going to cost 3-6x as much as it does now for tuition?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I don't know any republicans personally but I would not be surprised if, given a choice between admitting fault and feeling bad, or literally any other option including lying or violence, they won't admit fault. If they weren't emotionally stunted, they wouldn't be conservatives.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they're not going to "snap out of it". what he does for them isn't the point. he could personally fire each and every Republican and fuck every one of their wives but as long as he's a big tough guy triggering the libz, it's all fine. this is just 21st century politics now.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to my neighbors on neighborhood.com, it's fake news. Seriously. They simply don't believe Trump has anything to do with it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (31 children)

I still don't see them as Trump's actual plan.

I'm like one of three conservatives here, do you really expect a response?

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Just for some perspective: in 2009 I was a Christian nationalist and I thought Obama was going to use FEMA to imprison conservative dissenters and would turn the US into a communist dictatorship. I hoped and prayed for an explicitly Christian government and an end to most federal programs. If I had the same worldview now, I would be orgasmically happy with the way things are going.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ask the guy who had his wife deported and is still supporting Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you think that Project 2025 isn't what a bunch of conservatives want? It didn't just come from one person. A bunch of people wanted to vote for this.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

They don't think Trump and Musk are doing anything wrong. When quizzed they'll ask you to name anything they've done wrong.

Everything Trump and Musk are doing is guised in Libertarian and Conservative values.So nothing wrong has been done on their eyes.

If you go places like r/JordanPeterson (to ask) and r/Conservative to observe the media landscape - you'll see that "The Woke" are wrong and have turned violent against Tesla. You'll see Trump and Musk are thought of as doing great things.

That's how they think. They're not in the same media landscape as everyone else is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s how they think. They’re not in the same media landscape as everyone else is.

This is literally the cause of all our issues. Fucking propagandists creating an alternate "reality" for Magoos to exist within where they are the good guys fighting the evil evil communist far left scum.

I can blame a Magoo for being so susceptible to hate filled ppropaganda, but I really REALLY fucking despise the propagandists with every fiber of my being. If there were ever a group of people that deserved a firing squad it would be those like Sean Hannity who know exactly what they're doing...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Why do you ask this question here? Do you actually want to know?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Religious conservatives love project 2025. Most Republicans are Religious, so they love it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The person i was talking to about it said that he doesn't want Project 2025 put in place, but also voted Trump and (as you said) said Trump "doesn't have anything to do with that".

When I went to talk to them again after the election, he had either deleted his account or blocked me after I ask about Trump appointing many involved with Project 2025.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

i am guessing this would the case on an average. thanks though

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The older ones are hearing stories of social security being canceled on people like them and they are getting nervous. My vehement Trump supporting co-workers are having trouble backing things he does. The cracks are small and slow but the confidence in their statements of support are getting weaker. I think some support is eroding, but it’s slow. It’s really going to have to affect them more directly for it to fully erode sadly. Though I think it will, the damage the right will inflict in the mean time will change this country for generations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wait till they officially start calling for a constitutional amendments and they suddenly start losing some of their own rights. But by then who knows what it’s gonna look like.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

You can tell it's hitting, every repub that was loud af about trump this trump that good idea this good idea that. The only thing I've heard lately is the CRT stuff that they just don't understand because they're unable to see anything from anyone else's perspective and one of their buddies kids asked their parents about the racist comments they were making and if they were racist.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Serious answers only.

The worlds too dark to take anything too seriously right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just meant like no "Kamala Harris genocide derrererre" comments or someone changing the subject because libs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're not gonna get an answer here. Try asking on a random Instagram APNews thread. Most of the answers you'll get are from bots, but Republicans are taught to parrot whatever they say, so it's basically the same thing

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

However they’re told to feel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly we knew that, even if Trump wasn't involved, the people around him were. Y'all are too gullible. Even today I see posts on Lemmy about "Elon did this, Trump did that", pure noise draining out the real news that happens once or twice a week.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Schools won't cost 3-6x as much stupid LIBTARD! Schools will cost 3-6x as much and your Taxes will be Raised to pay for the CEOs Mansion STUPID COMMIE!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds about right

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans lie. As any fascist party, they don't have any consistent ideology beyond hurting people. They'll invent whatever reasoning and justification they need to justify their bullying, and they'll immediately abandon that reason for another convenient excuse when necessary.

Republicans lie. They knew damn well what Project 2025 was, and they were in favor of all of it. When they said Trump had nothing to do with it, they were lying. Republicans ultimately don't care what happens to society, or even themselves personally. They would gladly vote to lower the quality of their own lives, as long as the undesirables were hurt in equal measure.

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