So they were fine with internment camps and mass deportations. Toots sweet with women losing rights, stealing classified documents and swaying on stage for 39 minutes, 12 minutes of Arnold’s giant dick and fellating a mic?
I will never forgive those who heard what Trump wanted to do, and voted for him anyway. That includes my mother and brother. I’ll always love them, but cannot respect them.
All the information was there and available for voters. In this age of 24/7 news, there is no excuse for not knowing what a Trump win would do. Absolutely none.
Waiting for someone to plant the seed that in a parliamentary democracy you can generally get rid of these oafs before they do too much damage in the American psyche.
Lloyd Cutler wrote about that roughly 40 years ago. The assumption has been that the US benefitted from its relative stability, but that was bf Gingrich/McConnell/GOP’s strategy of burning the Republic down. Maybe time to think about it. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20040733
paywalls are bad and weren't here till just recently. People here won't pay for media who are partial cause of all this shit, but for last two days it's all I've seen. Please stop shilling for them
They never looked for information to begin with. Low-information voters overwhelmingly went for Trump. They also seemed to forget that Trump was President and they have completely memoryholed the pandemic. To quote someone I know, “The economy was great from 2017-2020.” Willful ignorance won.
"Most participants said they want President-elect Trump to focus on improving the economy and countering inflation when he takes the White House in January — and not to pursue retribution against his adversaries as he's foreshadowed."
All they had to do was look at what seems to be literally almost anything and they would have seen this happening. So no, they dint get to express regret. Best they can do is say something like ‘sorry, we f**ked up. This is all on us.’
I hope they all survive (I mean that in the literal sense) the Trump reign so they can vote for someone who isn't crazy next time. If there is a next time.
Right. It usually takes X amount of time for regret to set in but we’re not going to address any of the factors that lead our citizens to vote against their own interests.
I think he means those voters have no reason to be surprised at either the Trump-Musk relationship or the hideous appointments and announcements he’s made. He was crystal clear about his views and intentions.
“It doesn't follow any of our principles we're supposed to have."
(Sorry in advance for shouting but WTF!!!)
WHEN HAS TRUMP EVER SHOWN A WILLINGNESS TO FOLLOW THE PRINCIPLES OF THE UNITED STATES 🇺🇸?!?! Did this person not follow what Trump did/didn’t do in his first term?
You underestimate the info bubbles and lack of engagement. It’s simply a fact that they don’t see it that way yet.
Vent here but if you encounter a T voter be sure to channel the anger onto their own party by agreeing with them instead of giving them another reason to be upset with a liberal.
What is the point of this? People are again trying to convince themselves that Trump does not have support. Why?
Trump has support. Trump has excellent, excellent polling. The moment his polls show that his voters don’t like this relationship he will either change it or drop Musk. It is that simple
The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
So they seem okay with voting for a rapist and twice impeached convicted felon, but worry he's mixing with the wrong crowd in the shape of an entrepreneurial fellow narcissist with similar abhorrent views to #TrumpBaby's own? 🤣🤣🤣
Lots of “blame the voters” comments popping up here; I guess there are people who find this sort of thing cathartic. I find it really tiresome and unproductive.
no, "regulations" stop the predations of the rich and powerful against the little guy--they are fundamental to the idea of "of the people, for the people, by the people"
I for one - will not be will not fall down the corporate media rabbit hole of ad nauseam 2024 swing voters thoughts and concerns - like the 24/7 tr*mp voter panels of 2016...
It's insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but every swing voter who chose Trump deserves a lifetime of regret at the least. It'd barely scratch the surface of the karmic punishment they deserve.
This will in all likelyhood become a theme that will grow! Many voters did not take the time to understand the issues or they were unable to understand them! I'm being polite! 😀The USA is in for a rough ride & many Republican voters have zero clue!
I doubt it. but, I wonder if this will kick people in a way where they say "hey, maybe I should inform myself differently and try to truly understand what my vote means, and how the two parties are actually different"
So many people ignored or dismissed what he was saying and voted for a fantasy Trump. Now they’re unhappy that he’s doing what he constantly said he would do. I have zero sympathy for them. The harm they’ll experience is exactly what they voted for.
Only 5/14 of these people voted for Trump in 2024, and the article doesn’t give us a lot of information on whether they were among the critics for most of these things.
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We all warned them. Republicans, Democrats, Moderates, unaffiliated, you name it. A total coalition of sanity. They ignored it.
Their suffering will be my sugar now. For 2 years at least.
Assholes.
Good to know the line is Elon.
I hate them.
Doesn't mean Jack, damage is done..
It does remind me of waking up from a cult tho.
They will have at least 4 years of horror, and then some more decades of subsequent consequences to contemplate.
(Sorry in advance for shouting but WTF!!!)
WHEN HAS TRUMP EVER SHOWN A WILLINGNESS TO FOLLOW THE PRINCIPLES OF THE UNITED STATES 🇺🇸?!?! Did this person not follow what Trump did/didn’t do in his first term?
Vent here but if you encounter a T voter be sure to channel the anger onto their own party by agreeing with them instead of giving them another reason to be upset with a liberal.
Your advice is noted.
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Trump has support. Trump has excellent, excellent polling. The moment his polls show that his voters don’t like this relationship he will either change it or drop Musk. It is that simple
This is a protest...
fck them.
"It normally takes months or years for voters to express regrets about their choice -- as opposed to a week"
By which I mean the most absolutely brain-dead organisms ever to have evolved on this benighted planet.
"destruction of the regulatory state" is the goal
oooh, "regulations bad !"
no, "regulations" stop the predations of the rich and powerful against the little guy--they are fundamental to the idea of "of the people, for the people, by the people"
ooohhh !?!
America was one country where you had the luxury of never having to spend much time worrying about your government