An electorate who thinks it’s OK to vote for a man who has zero interest in public service but just exploiting public office to enrich himself is a broken electorate.
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The MAGA voter saw hurricane Trump coming, voted in favor of hurricane Trump, & watched as it destroyed everything. As the eye passed over they looked up, saw blue sky, left their shelter & proclaimed "See, he's the best POTUS EVER!" They'll be the most devastated as soon as the eye passes.
What about this for winning elections (not trying to be ironic or pissy):
1. We drop all internal candidate labels (neo lib, lib, moderate, etc. and name calling in general.)
2. We look at each candidate with a list of our own pros and cons
3. We vote in primaries
4. We support the winner.
Identity crisis??
He is talking about his own constituents... They think they are rich but are as poor as dry brown dirt!!
His constituents should be voting BLUE, but Josh convinced them to vote for Republicans and medicare cuts!👇 They are doing it. https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
I still say Congress’ inaction to write new regulations after his first”term”shares an enormous part of the blame. AG Garland’s inaction.Then SCOTUS.Then the Democrats for being so proud of the”peaceful transfer of power”. BS they should have locked the White House down before they let them back in.
Indeed it is. I see few stories stating what is being done to stop any part of this. These people will truly ‘OWN THE LIBS’ if they don’t already. Please be sure to keep focus on bathrooms & not voter suppression, the constitution, the rule of law. Who pees where is much more important, right?
I’m a black man with a Puerto Rican family. Me and my whole family voted for Trump! So happy he grabbed this election by the pussy. I hope Tom Holman deports the illegal alien scum fast, find it hard to sleep knowing they are here.
Broken?
More like dimbed-down, ignorant, madochistic, stupid.
If not, they have vested interests in pursuing the ruin of their own country and the society they live in.
Not broken so much as delusional, in the same way that a bunch of Catholics last week wept when they saw the white smoke and immediately started kissing the hands of some dude in a dress. The Great Orange Saviour is supposed to save them from all that ails them! Faith is key - they're not broken
I wished that Biden had spoken out about how 1/3 or more of the country had been indoctrinated into a RW cult by decades of lies & propaganda. It was the elephant in the room IMO. If he wouldn't say anything I knew there'd be no effort to fix it. Thanks for calling it out. This is the real problem.
The breaking done with big assists from Rupert Murdoch, Vlad Putin, Heritage Foundation, Mitch McConnell, NRA, fake Christians and numerous others in the oligarch-funded underworld of anti-democratic toilers.
Please feel free to add your favorites to the list...
Broken, poorly educated, lacking in critical thinking skills, lacking compassion, bigoted, misogynistic...shall I go on? That is 'Murica. Mainstream media, along with an eviscerated education system lacking actual standards or reasonable funding got you here. Oh, and it never taught truthfully.
Unbelievable in 2025 a United States judge say djt can used the Alien Act of 1798, on immigrants, wtf is wrong with this picture, a 34 count convicted felon is president, and can use a law from 1798 to harm people that have not committed no crimes, make this make sense.
People are waking and saying NO to GOP agenda locally - Omaha mayor race, Texas school board races all show this.
Keep voting! PA - you're up next week!
There is some apathy, but GOP has been doing voter suppression for years, media is run by right wing crazies, Sinclair took over all local states. Its the slow creep of RW Heritage Fnd that has done this.
Every election, every legislative vote by your reps, local, state, or federal, especially budgets, reveal priorities & values, & as a society, they are the primary way that we care for one another, especially the vulnerable.
Dems, the media & the electorate allowed Rs to define issues for decades.
#AmeriKKKuh 's lauded #Constitutional system is corrupt. Only a #corrupt system could not only elect ☣️45/47☢️ but 1. elect him TWICE even after he was adjudicated a #felon & (for all intents & purposes) a #rapist. 2. Even worse, he & his creatures remain while he flaunts his corruption day after day.
Damn right it is! Many have been brainwashed into believing truth isn't truth and that corruption and rule of law only applies to those who aren't Republican or wealthy.
Taught the Gettysburg Address today. Lincoln said, “…testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” We endured the Civil War. It’s sad that I’m not sure if we can endure the fake tough guy and his flock of moronic sheep
This is the wrong approach. Even if the electorate is ‘broken,’ we have to address its needs. The best way to do that is through a worker-focused political agenda.
A nation cobbled together from various broken systems, long nurturing tendencies toward anti-intellectualism and various authoritarianisms, and with an enduring hostility toward universal suffrage seems to be a fruitful set of conditions to break an electorate. Questions of character seem secondary.
Why is no one investigating Trump, jr and Eric and their grifting off their father’s position. They were so hell bent on prosecuting Hunter Biden and that whole family, can you tell me the difference? The hypocrisy is jaw dropping. Where are our representatives and why are they so scared.
There are always some foolish people. It's a little like waves in the ocean. Mostly average and then from time to time several combine and you get a really big one. We are in a stupid Tsunami, not unlike WWI when it was a crime to point out how unnecessary it was.
You have to remember that 51% did not vote for Trump. And the Democratic Party needs to stop blaming Biden, move on, and talk about lowering high prices and the cost of living. That works, the voters will hear that. Democrats are against these tariff taxes. Freaking say that!
The founding fathers wanted an informed electorate, an educated one, and Republican policies have paved the road for poor public schools, unregulated misinformation and full blown agitprop, it’s almost hard to blame so many people for being so freaking stupid. Great ROI (or lack thereof).
It's like the latest iteration of “I don't want higher taxes on the rich because someday I'll be rich” except now it's pipe dreams of being supreme leader.
Likewise the largest voter block who had just watched deadly malfeasance during a pandemic, a wrecked economy, and a violent attempt to overthrow the elected government by the Republicans Party, and couldn't be bothered to cast a ballot one way or the other.
A bit broad in your brushstroke, but this does characterize today’s GOP voters. Grievance, greed, avarice are the valued aspects not public service or the public good.
They didn’t vote for public service and they don’t care about being exploited. They voted for cruelty and hatred. MAGAts could not be happier with their choice. Filth. 🤬
The voters used him to change SCOTUS last time. They feel successful - he gave them what they wanted. 1/3 of American pregnancies are now dangerous and terrifying. They saved the babies!
Now they are using him to institutionalize racism.
Many White Americans are trained by the media and social media to be terrified of minorities as criminals and of being replaced by minorities as the majority. They want the US to stay majority White.
They are using djt.
We are all more prone to this dynamic than ever before. We are users.
In Nuremberg they convicted a man like this 1946: Hermann Göring!
That's the type of corrupt Nazis who exploit their political position to receive private possessions.
The lyrics from a 80’s song come to mind when the president and his sycophants are speaking.
That's not honest
Nothing you've said
Why don't you tell someone
Who'll believe you instead?
'cause i got this feeling
Is it what they call deja vu?
I'm nodding my head yeah
But i don't believe you
He has no idea of the definition of service. Service is from the heart. Leadership is based on the definition of service. Otherwise it is only self-serving.
A predominately unintelligent electorate fueled by ignorance, personal greed, insidious racism and retribution at the end of the movie and against all non-believers.
Of course they're broken after decades of Republican Communist fear-mongering, Trickle-down scams, convinced to believe Universal Healthcare is bad and Free College is bad Education, America has become part 3rd World Nation with sick poor homeless people thanks to Republican policy.
About 70 million of us (if we believe not manipulated..) are this awful. So what is the plan to beat this back? I cannot just give in and accept that the rest of us are so incompetent that we cannot beat this back.
Many of his maga supporters are ok with him burning the US to the ground if it means "owning the libs." The fact that their own homes will be list in the inferno is a small price to pay. They have nothing so little less won't matter.
With any hope, trump
may realize that he can make more money, cozy up to dictators, and accept any gift he wants if he would just step down and get out of politics.
If you tell the lies often enough and loud enough that he's the only one who can help you then you start to believe it. Trump wouldn't know the definition of public service. Everything he does is to benefit him, his family or the people who contributed money to get him elected.
Yep! Reason no. 1,569,932 why we should ignore the barrage of articles & op-eds that solicit sympathy, while continuing to center the misguided logic of the demographics that continue to vote for him. They are sheep voting for wolves…Trees voting for the axe, b/c the wooden handle “looks familiar.”🤦🏽♀️
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social , let’s not pretend that election interference didn’t happen. It’s time to shine a light on @electiontruth.bsky.social and their findings.
We have a dictatorship of dolts that nobody wanted that is going to destroy us all unless military or civilian coup! Dictatorship of billionaires who decided to de populate us instead of living in space.
Hopefully, this period of true disaster may inspire many nonvoters to now register to vote. The apathy and cynicism that caused so many to not vote in the past may be overcome by the sheer insanity of a truly failed Presidency like this. I am suggesting to all nonvoters in real life to register now.
Or a misdirected electorate.
Pundits never want to acknowledge the bigotry in this country. Time to factor it into the Democratic strategy as if it’s going to change a certain percentage of votes. Republicans have been doing this since Nixon. And they create media to increase that percentage.
This is the most depressing realization about the US election of 2024. It’s not about the politicians anymore: the electorate is broken. I cannot see how the country recovers from this.
the one he helped destroy as a yeltsinite in the 1980s and 90s, the one he handed over to private ownership, the one he rules over without the USSR's democratic oversight.
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218 Republican oath-breakers.
1. We drop all internal candidate labels (neo lib, lib, moderate, etc. and name calling in general.)
2. We look at each candidate with a list of our own pros and cons
3. We vote in primaries
4. We support the winner.
So-called red states are nuts and this corrupt Republican Senator knows it.👇 Nutting people voted for him and Josh supports the hammer that will crack them into little pieces!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/josh-hawley-republicans-medicaid-cuts
He is talking about his own constituents... They think they are rich but are as poor as dry brown dirt!!
His constituents should be voting BLUE, but Josh convinced them to vote for Republicans and medicare cuts!👇 They are doing it.
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-plane-gift-qatar
Who'd a Thunk that guys huh 😵💫🌹
“I love the poorly educated” (and easily distracted)
More like dimbed-down, ignorant, madochistic, stupid.
If not, they have vested interests in pursuing the ruin of their own country and the society they live in.
Please feel free to add your favorites to the list...
Brainwashed is how this happened.
And we let it
It's like one of those cheesy late night sci-fi movies in the 70s about a corporate run government and "order" in society.
Those movies were a warning, you know?...
COVID then scrambled most of what was left . .
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-lawsuit-exposing-magas-voter-suppression-machine/
Keep voting! PA - you're up next week!
Dems, the media & the electorate allowed Rs to define issues for decades.
Greed and refusal to educate has taken its toll
And it will only get worse.
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
just the MAGAts
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
1) Restore and expand the Fairness Doctrine
2) End Citizens United ruling
3) Federal funding of schools
Great fuel for chaos creation; chaos the needed smokescreen.
Now this👇 on behalf of the wealthiest and most educated.
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
Exactly what do you do to fix broken people?
We are witnessing the continued dumbing down of America every day.
Because so very many Trumpers believe that their birthright has been stolen from them, by their inferiors -
And that bullshit is so much more comforting to believe than it is to accept that they refused to keep up with a changing world.
https://vimeo.com/1083801361?share=copy
An electorate who thinks that a man who exploits public office to enrich himself is someone to admire is a broken electorate.
They not only vote for him, they think he’s fabulous for breaking rules and laws.
Because 50% of voters are dumbass, MAGA cultists.
Too lazy to think.
No one currently represents us, so everyone is desperate.
Lesser evil went from a necessary choice to a deliberate strategy.
The voters used him to change SCOTUS last time. They feel successful - he gave them what they wanted. 1/3 of American pregnancies are now dangerous and terrifying. They saved the babies!
Now they are using him to institutionalize racism.
1/2
They are using djt.
We are all more prone to this dynamic than ever before. We are users.
2/2
That's the type of corrupt Nazis who exploit their political position to receive private possessions.
That's not honest
Nothing you've said
Why don't you tell someone
Who'll believe you instead?
'cause i got this feeling
Is it what they call deja vu?
I'm nodding my head yeah
But i don't believe you
House Majority leader Mike John Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune!
Be specific. They are busy cutting grandma a new one!👇
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
* 15% of U.S. adult population they comprise about a 1/3 of all Republicans. (Per data set included w/ 2022 NIH study - link available upon request.)
Politics, itself, is like chess in that if you make too many mistakes even against a flawed opponent. You will lose.
Biden should not have been running.
And then they wonder why voters - who otherwise agree with them - are angry and want to see elected officials removed from their positions.
Mistakes, that's why.
may realize that he can make more money, cozy up to dictators, and accept any gift he wants if he would just step down and get out of politics.
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/thune-on-spending-cuts/
https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis
Pundits never want to acknowledge the bigotry in this country. Time to factor it into the Democratic strategy as if it’s going to change a certain percentage of votes. Republicans have been doing this since Nixon. And they create media to increase that percentage.
Still the best system I am aware of in practice, but that’s definitely a glaring weakness.
https://bsky.app/profile/brat2381.bsky.social/post/3lp3gtku3p22n
what a fucking weird thing to think.