i can understand being a median voter in 2016 and not regretting your vote for trump but i’m baffled how this happened again. he was literally president recently. we know he believes the insane shit he and the people he surrounds himself with say. how could you possibly be fooled a second time - ThreadSky

junlper.beer • 1 day ago

i can understand being a median voter in 2016 and not regretting your vote for trump but i’m baffled how this happened again. he was literally president recently. we know he believes the insane shit he and the people he surrounds himself with say. how could you possibly be fooled a second time

Reposted from Catherine Rampell

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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kerouac666.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm tellin' ya, it's a trauma response to leadership not properly recognizing COVID trauma and demanding people move on immediately for the sake of the "economy." Grief has a way of working its way out in illogical ways, and people want to pretend it's 2019 again, so many picked the 2019 president.

idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social•1 day ago

The constraints on Trump's first term made him more or less a normal president. I think a lot of people either assumed that those would continue to constrain him or didn't realize how much work they were doing. It's also impossible to understand what low information people think or why.

lockewick.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is why I want nothing to do with the people who voted for him this time around.

I don’t care for any reason, there was absolutely zero reason to vote for that piece of shit. He sucked his first term and the second time he ran, his entire base was Nazi shit.

Fuck them all.

69sobersally.bsky.social•1 day ago

also a complete fail on the dems. their messaging was so poor that these people fell into the trap again

blueground.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'd like to see a mathematical formula on how many potential 3 time trump voters there would be left.

mabber23.bsky.social•1 day ago

You mean 4-time. Many voted for him all three of his past attempts.

votecnp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Never forget how stupid and ignorant at least half of America is 🤷‍♀️

gem-art.bsky.social•1 day ago

god i fucking hate these people

maybeyoushoulogoff.bsky.social•1 day ago

I want to know the last time they bought an NFT

sp1nda.bsky.social•1 day ago

Conservatives genuinely want the government purged and believe that Trump/Elon know things that they don’t, so they trust his leadership. Not really sure why. I think it comes down to fearing immigrants as a core issue for them, and democrat campaigners haven’t had a strong stance on it to sway them

tomfenny.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's because theyre deeply conspiratorially minded. Those stupid theories are not harmless. Believing a conspiracy theory makes them special because they "know" something that nobody else does. It makes them feel like they have control and power. And, they believe that trump/musk are in on it.

sp1nda.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah god it’s so gross. Watching an important political speech where they reference the deep state *unironically* was rough

umberhulk.bsky.social•1 day ago

My uncle voted for Trump, and I asked him about this. His answer was he truly didn't know Trump wanted to do these things and when I asked if he watched any speeches he said no. He only learned anything about Trump's agenda through other people posting on Facebook and from coworkers

thewilliamgeorge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bigotry is a hell of a drug.

lordmcpee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Crazy they think RFK Jr. Is the bright spot.

mosphotos.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just didn't think the leopards would come back for seconds

p0usr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thinking about shitcoins as a model

Somehow, some way, ppl pour life savings into this crap thinking theyll make out like bandits, knowing FULL well theyll fuck anyone who bought in later, and then panicking when they get got. It’s only self-preservation. Theyre still all about shitcoins in the end

foolishandle.bsky.social•1 day ago

The average american is pretty sure that this time lucy won't pull away the football.

happymemeco.bsky.social•1 day ago

They aren't fooled. They knew bad things would happen. They were just too short sighted to realize it would also hurt them. They're just hoping people will feel sorry for them because they didn't realize purposefully voting for suffering would mean their own suffering.

endblock.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/endblock.bsky.social/post/3li65lr5l5s2k

happymemeco.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. I'm all for forgiveness, but not without taking responsibility. You want to come over? Fine. Here's some literature and some ways you can start helping. First, you have to take full responsibility and admit you did something wrong. That you only care because it's hurting you isn't enough.

micahfolsom.bsky.social•1 day ago

"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again" -George W. Bush

jerry-lundegaard.bsky.social•1 day ago

hedging my bets in public about accidentally revealing something horrible about the inner workings of my psyche

syrsly.bsky.social•1 day ago

You *can* fix stupid... but unfortunately, it requires education, something U.S.A. is terrible at.

what-ish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because it didn't affect them (or their circle), personally. That's it.

kkleinwi.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are just really, really, really dumb.

larunasoftpaw.bsky.social•1 day ago

"I feel so stupid" yes. Yes, you are stupid. Probably not ready to get off the train to Stupid Town, either, if she's happy with RFK Jr.

pumpkinpal.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean she still likes the rfk appointment so clearly there's room for all kinds of wacky thoughts in there

knightwriter.bsky.social•1 day ago

All this shows is this person has no coherent politics and an even less coherent sense of morality. She calculated the effects of her decision and has residual guilt but she'd do it again. Lifelong Democrat votes for Trump? Bullllllshiiiiit.

screamingcactus.bsky.social•1 day ago

My boss was surprised when I said I didn't vote for Trump, he genuinely thought he was going to fix the economy. A lot of people just have not been paying attention for the last decade.

ezenbaklattan.bsky.social•1 day ago

My definitive take is that if you want to fight back against Trump’s policies, then nobody’s stopping you, but the left and marginalized communities are under no obligation to assuage you of your guilt, forgive you for ignoring their warnings, or alter their policies for your comfort.

lydzrose.bsky.social•1 day ago

I guess she likes the idea of labor camps?

Sorry, wellness farms.

forevertrans.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s “accomplished” more in one month than he did in his entire first term, so if you enjoyed having him sit around doing nothing except making everyone more angry and insane for four years then I could see why you’d have wanted him back and why you’d already have regrets. He’s competent this time.

sunsetdenizen.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Supports RFK Jr" is a pretty big hint

stymiedthoughts.bsky.social•1 day ago

They should have listened to GWB.

Fool me can't get fooled again.

cristallineclarity.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wyte supremacy is a helluva drug IJS.

chrids.bsky.social•1 day ago

i think voting for trump dumb as shit but the democrats literally offered nothing as the alternative. we will do nothing is their ideology (i know im screaming into da void)

redicnomad.bsky.social•1 day ago

These dumb fucking clay heads

pixiemuledonkey.bsky.social•1 day ago

These people are making me feel like a fucking super genius. i need to be more self-confident

endblock.bsky.social•1 day ago

I always feel a little bad about the fact I feel like I'm smarter than everyone else, but its REALLY hard not to feel that way when everyone else is so fucking stupid.

nerd7132.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same

knightwriter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nobody is stupider than the reporter and the editor who published this nonsense. They put a mic in front of someone who is either dishonest or ludicrously stupid (or both) and then sent it out for the world to see as if it's some kind of legitimate political opinion.

nerd7132.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not an accident. It's on purpose

walterpeck1.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's doing wonders for my Impostor Syndrome these days

crowtpotkin.bsky.social•1 day ago

cloudyobsession.com•1 day ago

She should also feel embarrassed for falling for RFKs nonsense health rhetoric. "Toxins" aren't anything, anyone using the word "toxins" with regard to health is trying to sell you something.

endblock.bsky.social•1 day ago

Toxins are a very real thing that a real doctor would talk to you about. But the thing is that when they do, they are talking about an actual substance that can be quantified and identified. Usually some kind of heavy metal.

cloudyobsession.com•1 day ago

Any decent doctor or health professional wouldn't use the word "Toxins" they'd tell you something specific that you could actually research yourself. "Toxins" is an intentionally nebulous and effectively meaningless HBC marketing word. It's vague on purpose so it can't be legally disproved.

dorko.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hi, I'm the local wallet inspector...

papabearpacheco.bsky.social•1 day ago

The median voter believes that Lucy will let Charlie Brown kick the football for real this time

realeric4real.bsky.social•1 day ago

Goldfish memory

johnsakon.bsky.social•1 day ago

at least next time she’ll know better

size13stilettoheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

People really think they can vote for just one policy they like and not have the rest of the insane shit that was promised by the person saying they will do that happen

mattferrel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just wanted him to fix the old bowling alley. I don’t know how this other stuff happened…

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/voting-for-the-mayor-who-promised-to-blow-up-the-city-doesnt-mean-i-approve-of-the-mayor-blowing-up-the-city

melancholymonarch.bsky.social•1 day ago

We were screaming for 8 fucking years how much of an awful person he is, I have no sympathy for anybody that voted him back in, they were ignorant, purposefully or otherwise.

wefeelgroove.bsky.social•21 hours ago

how tf do you work with disabled people for a living and think rfk is anything but the devil

donkeykonga.bsky.social•1 day ago

You’d be shocked how short most peoples’ memory spans are. My dad legit thought Biden was the president in 2020

alech.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

mabber23.bsky.social•1 day ago

The denial is next level. One day there will be a new entry in the DSM (outline of all mental disorders) for this.

joekalicki.bsky.social•1 day ago

Racism isn't a dealbreaker for them

maws.guru•1 day ago

i think in general people vastly underestimate how unaware (intended or not) the average voter is when it comes to what's going on in politics. i recall one voter saying she didnt vote for biden because she thought he was anti-abortion

richarddoom.bsky.social•1 day ago

“I’m so embarrassed I voted for Trump.” - person who wanted to vote for Kennedy

bidexualenby.bsky.social•1 day ago

OK but maybe it's the woke mind virus that made them vote? Haven't you ever looked into it?

oscaropossum.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… uhh… won’t get fooled again

cjtheran.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean the woman in question in this story thinks RFK's ideas for health sound great, so clearly she is a woman who you can make believe that it's not your thumb but that you do in fact have her nose.

lezoe.bsky.social•1 day ago

don't ask that woman what her opinion is on trans people

lezoe.bsky.social•1 day ago

so many suburban middle class people voted for trump, expecting "liberalism, but no trans people"

gert001badger.bsky.social•1 day ago

She's an anti-vaxxer.

The "wellness" industry makes nearly a trillion worldwide and is a complete scam.

She's part of it.

ryanjames7.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s like sideshow bob and the rakes.

muad-lib.bsky.social•1 day ago

Said person was a RFK supporter, there’s no understanding loonies

patring30.bsky.social•1 day ago

Something has to be said about the genuine belief in the US that we can “never” fall to fascism. And since half of Trump’s appeal is thinly veiled fascism, it’s like people short-circuit at the idea that someone like him could get this far

justleanin.bsky.social•1 day ago

The secret is that they're lying lmao

baronbucket.bsky.social•1 day ago

American voters have the memory of a goldfish. Trump’s economic policies in his first term as well as his poor response to the COVID pandemic are largely responsible for the current recession, but because Biden was the most recent president half the country thinks it was his fault.

thryse.com•1 day ago

Gosh this is so surprising

https://bsky.app/profile/thryse.com/post/3lifx7h67mc2e

optimusviktor.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think you're right about it being a knee-jerk compulsion for a lot of folk.
I've had conversations with people who know Trump is bad & will disagree with him but then go & vote for him anyways.

Like an addict who knows their addiction is hurting people & themselves but they just can't help it.

donkeykonga.bsky.social•1 day ago

My dad in 2017: “That Trump guy is a jackass but I hate Hillary”

My dad in 2020: “That Trump guy is a jackass but I hate Biden”

My dad in 2024: “USA USA TRUMP FOREVER LOCK EM ALL UP BEST PRESIDENT EVER *insert vaguely racist remark*”

8 years of him has melted the brains of this country

optimusviktor.bsky.social•1 day ago

This was my parents except they weren't even MAGA. Well informed w/ adv. degrees. Said they disagreed w/ Trump on basically everything & couldn't articulate a single thing they liked.
Voted for him anyways (likely b/c racism/misogyny).

Finally cut them out b/c we don't fuck with Nazi apologists.

optimusviktor.bsky.social•1 day ago

They support unions, education, socialized healthcare.
They're "good" Christians who find Trump's behavior abhorrent.

I really thought after 9 years and all the crimes and horror they'd finally come around but they just... didn't.

thryse.com•1 day ago

They knew what they wanted from the beginning but still felt public shame

wasteti.bsky.social•1 day ago

100%, and Republicans lying for sympathy isn't a new thing. But we treat it like it is every time. That's why Dems keep loosing because they appeal to this imaginary I regretted voting for Trump voter.

cynbelterreus.bsky.social•1 day ago

People memory-holed shit so fucking hard.

rockthekoopa.bsky.social•1 day ago

i have worked in tourism in areas where 95% of all costumers are american. The median american is very, very stupid

erinerex.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, but it's a grave sin to even suggest that in American politics

leboism.bsky.social•1 day ago

To quote the late, great George Carlin: think how stupid the average American is, and realize that half of them are dumber than that

couragethecat.bsky.social•1 day ago

fell for it again !

wasteti.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because they're lying lol. Nobody was tricked or fooled they just thought they were in the IN and reality is they're on the OUT. But nobody wants to be a bad person. And it's easier to gain sympathy if people think you were taken advantage of because now you're a "victim"

cloudblood.music•1 day ago

You underestimate the stupidity of Americans. They are so fucking dumb I hate this country so much lol.

jfeej.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you live in a woo-woo bubble wrapped in a "politics is icky, just show me funny videos" bubble you might think all this is just normal

mugrimm.bsky.social•1 day ago

All indications from 2020 analysis is that the 2016 mission of getting moderate republicans to vote for Trump less was a success, and that after they saw Trump in office they realized he was basically their guy and were no longer afraid of him holding power.

mugrimm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Both times Trump was a weak candidate, the major distinction was who he was up against.

dajaca.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump also runs better as a challenger than an incumbent

cooldouglove.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe they thought he learned his lesson after fucking up the COVID response and trying to do a coup. Surely this time, he'll run a competent government that always follows the law

sl33peragent.bsky.social•1 day ago

This lady sounds like a prime example of a median voter who is only "median" because she is insane in so many contradictory ways that it averages out to the middle in opinion polling

badstatistics.bsky.social•1 day ago

To be fair, there is CONSTANT propaganda in the US.

Even the outlets that aren't basically GOP Pravda just report 'one side said this, the other said this' even when one side says "windmills cause earthquakes"

dajaca.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's odd that people invoke Pravda as an insult when the political party it represented was superior to both major American parties

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•1 day ago

"I like brutal authoritarianism but only when my side does it" is quite the take here

badstatistics.bsky.social•1 day ago

Regardless, it was comic propaganda, right?

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was and he fell for it...

localcheese.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's not odd at all when you consider most people do not long to live in the USSR ???

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•1 day ago

You know though it is pretty funny and very American that he is starting to slip in the polls because he has spent a month doing the things he said he would do. "I can't believe a politician is actually fulfilling his agenda, this sucks!"-Americans

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even some of the accelerationist leftists I know are starting to go "hey wait death to America sounds good and all but I actually live in America and it turns out this is gonna suck actually."

shuchancellor.online•1 day ago

hi, i think this all sucks for all of us but i didn't get a choice in whether or not there was another way, so, la lucha continua

7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social•1 day ago

I voted Harris, and I wanted to end the American empire, but not by replacing it with a Chinese Russian one.

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•1 day ago

In all these articles there's a common thread of "but I thought he would only do the good things I liked and not the bad things!"

shuchancellor.online•1 day ago

thats what fascism is as an ideology

kindraf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or I thought the bad things would harm others not me and mine

mr-hamm.bsky.social•1 day ago

The face eating leopards never came around to eat MY face last time. How embarrassing

mbrzz.bsky.social•1 day ago

covid completely cooked peoples brains and memories

i-laugh-at-morons.bsky.social•1 day ago

COVID may have cooked some gen Z white male incels, but many Gen Xers and boomers in particular were already nasty, vile trash in the aftermath of the 9/11/01 with a renewed sense of hatriotism. They are all just completely down the rabbit holes in the Age of Grift.

mbrzz.bsky.social•1 day ago

i dont like to split it based on generation because thats just not how a debilitating virus works, but its likely it impacted everyone. something like 90% of americans have been infected at least once with it and it directly affects cognitive abilities.

mbrzz.bsky.social•1 day ago

its likely that yeah boomers and genx where already cooked but i dont buy into that. had trump gone as overtly facist as he is today in say 2019 or 2018 that wouldnt have flown, but the slow drip of conservative media dominance (like on twitter) plus covid cognition issues where a perfect storm.

i-laugh-at-morons.bsky.social•1 day ago

These people have long held fascist, bigoted views. All the Orange turd had to do was give them the validation they long sought from other right wing politicians in the past. Right wing conquest of MSM began back in the 90s with media deregulation.

i-laugh-at-morons.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can't blame COVID for all or even most of the behavior of some folks who were already more susceptible to conspiratorial thought/neuroticism, or we would have 90% of the country losing their minds right now.

pazuzuzu.bsky.social•1 day ago

The arguments of "well Trump wasn't great but at least groceries were cheap" and "the mainstream media is exaggerating the situation" seemed to loom large in conservative spheres in the last four years

tubbles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not just fooled a second time, they were fooled a third time. He never shut the fuck up over the past 5 years about how completely and utterly insane he was, but his number of voters essentially never changed.

ptibz.younghorses.com•1 day ago

The people in my life who voted for him each have a life long record of poor choices under their belts. They’re just not smart and frequently self sabotage themselves while blaming it on others.

nerd7132.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why does our country have this problem?

kindraf.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wish that was my experience. The people in my life who voted for him are just normal average people, no more prone to poor life choices than the folks I know who voted Biden/Harris/Clinton. And to me that's the scary part. I wish I could point to their stupidity and avarice, it would be easier

realroffs.bsky.social•1 day ago

That she backed RFK Jr. before he dropped out says it all.🤷‍♀️

xdresstera.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because he was stopped from actually doing the insane shit he said last time so this time around a lot of people didn't believe he'd actually go through with it.

crypticplant.bsky.social•1 day ago

I literally had a friend, similar age. Literally say the same thing.The amount the disconnected voter knows is disgustingly little. “Nothings gonna happen, like every president, I don’t like that Kamala wasn’t elected”

I told him a bunch of shit and he was like

“Oh, I didn’t know that” 🤦‍♂️

lilinravenholm.bsky.social•1 day ago

So it turns out people are just stupid and have goldfish memories.

notaskaven.bsky.social•1 day ago

We taught a monkey to understand the median voter and yeah you know the meme by now

deusexjuice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Credit where it's due: Americans can and will get more stupid

mikollopria.bsky.social•1 day ago

Humans are very gullible and have short memories

drdietcoke.bsky.social•1 day ago

I genuinely think there are a lot of people who cannot remember clearly more than like 5 years back. If they are also the kind of person who cannot draw their own conclusion from information presented to them you can get this

natewittles.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm trying to cope and say it's the dumb fucks who were too young to know what happened under Trump the first time, but this man is 30. People really did just Fall For It Again.

hugothepinkcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because they're really really stupid.

itshard.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well, she says she feels stupid. So she’s at least approaching awareness that she is in fact stupid.

mack.gg•1 day ago

I work at a pretty progressive tech company. I’d venture the vast majority of people I work with have no idea what goes in DC/Government; unless they’re on a team that interacts with it.

Most people are wildly uninformed about politics in any meaningful way.

whatroughbeast.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it's hard to overstate how stupid social media has made people. Like there's no way you could be dumb enough to think "I like RFK because he'll protect me from toxins but he's gone so I'll vote for his friend Trump" without your egg having been completely scrambled by Facebook and TikTok.

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•1 day ago

She wasn’t fooled. She wanted some semblance of this

aubydauby.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think a lot of this is just cope, too. Until Trump's approval rating tanks, these articles don't mean anything to me. They're only gonna stop if the base universally opposes something

juleswinnfeild.bsky.social•1 day ago

The stupidest people in the world.

vigiluncle.bsky.social•1 day ago

He was literally the worst president ever, recently

iansyt.dev•1 day ago

like 50% of voters dont actually pay attention to anything, they just see whatever their preferred parties candidate says on the news

thehellcurve.bsky.social•1 day ago

One HR federal employee that got canned voted for him three times. You’re a federal employee why would you vote for any Republican lmao

kaizakobold.bsky.social•1 day ago

knightwriter.bsky.social•1 day ago

They always believe they see things "from the inside" and how corrupt it is. But for some reason, they choose not to believe it can become even more corrupt.

abw56.bsky.social•1 day ago

Granted I'm from a red state, but the number of public school teachers I've known who consistently vote Republican is off the chart

They always think that, when the time comes, they'll be protected as one of the "good ones"

In the end it's all dumb grievance and professional jealousy

dashwallkick.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think people really just thought covid was an unstoppable event that he managed well don't they

astralocale.bsky.social•1 day ago

COVID was just flu so ignoring it is better than being annoying saying "wear a mask" "COVID is airborne" "have a basic level of respect for your fellow citizen". that sort of thing just reminds ppl that they're selfishly ignoring a major risk and nothing is worse than that, not even death by disease

zeeb64.bsky.social•1 day ago

covid is fake, but it was planned by the democrats (communist), and the media is lying about how threatening it is, but it was created to kill off the GOP base, and we could have eliminated it in a couple weeks, but the democrats (fascist) wouldn't let us leave our houses for fresh air and sunshine

totaltim.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not even confident that the majority of current Trump voters believe covid is real.

n122333.bsky.social•1 day ago

And here I am thinking about how Kenedy is one of the top 3 worst parts of the trump admin...

brandtran.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is what perplexes and disappoints me.

halzaldivar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Covid deleted like 3 years from memory, by the time they knew what month they were in, all they understood was "Biden printer go brr $420.69 for a dozen eggs"

williedustice.bsky.social•1 day ago

By being the type of person who still thinks RFK jr is the right guy for a health services position

tangledlion.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'll do you one better. How the fuck is RF "Let's put all the Neuro divergent in work camps" Kennedy a bright spot?

cowardlylyons.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean they're stupid or ignorant is the reality but you just have to grit ur teeth and say "He tricked a lot of people but he doesn't care about you, billionaires never do" bc we need gullible dum dums on our side too😭😭

shuchancellor.online•1 day ago

no, not really, it's not a numbers game in the way one might think

cowardlylyons.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't mean trick gullible ppl into switching parties or cater to that demo but there's a large amount of ppl who will never be very informed. You either reject them entirely unless they beg for forgiveness or you're just glad they came around at all and hope they keep educating themselves.

shuchancellor.online•1 day ago

we can't really rely on any strategy that says "hope people get woke" because planet's burning, so the former strat is what we have to plan around

cowardlylyons.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean its more than hope like ofc Dems need to adapt their messaging and policy goals and stop hoping their lukewarm actions will win ppl over eventually. I actually think that's been a huge issue reaching uninformed voters on things they actually care about. But all elections run on some hope

jonnyjonman.bsky.social•1 day ago

spaced-cherries.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really think people just hear “disrupt and flip the system on its head” and project whatever they think that means onto him and ignore everything else. On the other hand it gives me some hope people who may have voted for him are turned off by the brazen cruelty of this admin.

matwinser.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean she still thinks Kennedy is a good choice so I’m not sure I believe her regret to be honest.

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is literally just "I want people to die from measles, not have them deported"

optimusviktor.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's like an alcoholic who regrets/swears off drinking when they have a bad hangover but then goes right back to the bottle once it wears off.

escmike.bsky.social•1 day ago

The vast majority of human beings are just a collection of impulses and then poorly constructed excuses and apologies papered over on top.

They talk endlessly rationalizing their actions and making promises in order to make sense/be polite but tomorrow they just do the fucking thing again

the-night-queen.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wasn’t folded. I knew this nation for what it was.
When genocide was a line that was easily crossed.
When I have given to people who wanted to live, they paid the price. And now you ask what more justice can be given?
I think you should step aside and let justice show itself.

itsatastymeal.bsky.social•1 day ago

she was cooked from the start if she was an rfk head purely on the make america healthy again stuff and somehow missed the hitler stuff

theahaykid.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm almost impressed by how people can understand so little about politics and still insist on voting.

andys311.bsky.social•1 day ago

It blows my mind too how anyone could watch him vs Kamala in that debate and think he’s the better pick to be in charge of nukes

alajon.bsky.social•1 day ago

biden was making me pay 12 dollars for hamburger

cofusedrobot.bsky.social•1 day ago

How can anyone agree with Kennedy after he has not demonstrated the basic knowledge of health.

scot-f.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean first she was going to vote for a dude with a brain worm...

funkpower.bsky.social•1 day ago

Part of me thinks people like this are just lying.

Like, they would vote for Trump again and again if they could because they agree with the shit he's doing, but they just don't like the embarrassment that goes along with it.

livinginjeopardy.bsky.social•1 day ago

yeah exactly why I can't bring myself to sympathize with any Trump voters this time around. you fucked us over

veruncurio.bsky.social•1 day ago

Think of how dumb the average American is.
Now remember that half of them are dumber than that.

komrade.systems•1 day ago

the woo woo crunchy mom demographic was ripe for the taking tbh

thedimpsler.bsky.social•1 day ago

The easy answer is Anderson is full of shit and is trying to get back whatever personal relationships his dumbfuckery exploded or fishing for sympathy.

escmike.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. It’s not that he didn’t expect this, he didn’t expect how embarrassing it would be. He literally doesn’t care about the outcomes he cares about how it makes him look. He’ll say whatever, he’s reacting not thinking. Reflexive, like an invertebrate.

mrbaskerville.bsky.social•1 day ago

Surprised that the guy running on mass deportation would do mass deportation. How could anyone have missed that, it was his whole thing.

aveiras.bsky.social•1 day ago

Read as Emily Anderson from Delooloo

hazardrider.bsky.social•1 day ago

I still don't understand backing Kennedy, do even the tiniest bit of digging and you'll see the dude is crazy and has insane plans to ruin Americans health

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•1 day ago

She is also crazy and likes those insane plans

The alternative health to fascism pipeline that happened during COVID was...not something I expected. But I was definitely there

tehdeminz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I imagine all the "sensible" outlets like NYT and The Atlantic, and cable news doing everything in their power to sanewash and downplay all his worst impulses and actions went a long way to making people conveniently forget.

nerd7132.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're an active part if the Nazi regime, working a slightly diffrent angle than fox

keithdonovan.bsky.social•1 day ago

The left wasn't [taking toxins out of food] so I changed all of my opinions about the economy, social issues, systemic racism, healthcare, and history

mandatoryusername1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was the median American back in 2016, but in that case it was Obama's genocidal actions that broke my brain for a while. The Drone Papers, designating 14 year old boys as enemy combatants by default, and finally the support for Saudi terror bombing in Yemen made be an accelerationist for a while

mandatoryusername1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've gotten better since but the process took about 6 years

mabber23.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for being open to growing.

seanoconnor.bsky.social•1 day ago

There was this shit during the elections where the media and the right wingers were treating him like he'd never been president before. It was baffling. Until you realized there is no left wing media and they were trying to get him elected.

rat-carpet.yeen.wang•1 day ago

i have had to come to the inescapable conclusion that a good quarter of american society genuinely consists of mouthbreathers with severe lead poisoning

dajaca.bsky.social•1 day ago

She's 30, she probably doesn't even have the lead poisoning excuse

rat-carpet.yeen.wang•1 day ago

florida, illinois, and ohio are currently the states with the highest prevalence of lead in the water supply

runawaycornpop.bsky.social•1 day ago

20-25% stupid whackjobs is normal

The US' problems are much more acute than that

bill-of-lefts.bsky.social•1 day ago

If I had to be more charitable than I’m inclined to be —

They saw Trump I as a guy who said a lot of crazy things but was ultimately constrained by the adults in the room. They didn’t anticipate in Trump II there would be no adults left in the room.

bill-of-lefts.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t know how you can be a thinking person and believe this after Trump tried to overthrow the govt but whatever

premarital-mathers.bsky.social•1 day ago

The guys at my work only listened to the policies that they liked. Everything else was shrugged off as “fake news”.
Shits sad.

crabby-phatty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because it's not stupidity it's hatred, bigotry and childish cruelty that attracted their vote. They thought those other people would be tortured so they could laugh in comfort.

bone2meetu.bsky.social•1 day ago

The average voter is a moron that doesn’t even have object permanence or the ability to form a coherent thought, this is why we need single party communist rule

smsbrk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well she backs Kennedy still so how much clarity does she really have…

hellmark.org•1 day ago

I'm willing to forgive people who voted for Trump in 2016 and regretted it. Buying into a con once but learning is an unfortunate thing that everyone has happen. Those who voted for Trump in 2024? Fuck them with the fury of a thousand suns.

cuw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Long Covid.

firebel.ly•1 day ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again.

buhsephine.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fucking wild that she went on the record.

tparabola.bsky.social•1 day ago

Victims of scams tend to be more susceptible to further scams for some reason

o76923.bsky.social•1 day ago

The crunchy granola woo woo to nazi pipeline doesn't have enough off ramps.

chadradish.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm really not getting the "leopards" vibes off of someone who's an avid Kennedy supporter, this cunt is an antivax freak and her children are going to die covered in boils and sores holding crystals within the next few years

largefatherv.bsky.social•1 day ago

She would get fooled for a 3rd time/4th time/5th time. She fell off the turnip truck.

shortfuse89.bsky.social•1 day ago

The average person is more apolitical and more uninformed, and frankly probably more dumb, than your assumptions

jp0rp.bsky.social•1 day ago

At this point I'm pretty sure Americans on average don't have object permanence

malikijuarez.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think Will Stancill said this but its because of ironic detachment. They dont really accept that he is a real person with his own interests and instead just project whatever they want on him.

zealousagain.bsky.social•1 day ago

People don’t pay attention unless they’re personally effected. If they spent most of the first term not caring, I could see being ignorant enough to vote for him again.

sorryitsandy.bsky.social•1 day ago

having a political long-term memory feels like a superpower somehow. it makes me feel insane because it's just the minor hurdle of "remembering 8 years ago"

julze.bsky.social•1 day ago

Viewing RFK as the only bright spot when you're someone who works with disabled adults is even more mind-boggling to me. I cannot believe it (except I totally can).

lauowolf.bsky.social•1 day ago

the literal stupid here is blinding

endblock.bsky.social•1 day ago

For some reason, the Healthcare industry is absolutely CRAWLING with wellness types and medical conspiracy theory types.

There's a reason they stereotype exists of the meanest girl in your high school going to nursing school and coming out selling essential oils.

michael.is-post.ing•1 day ago

unfortunately a lot of caretakers hate disabled people

donkeykonga.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nurses too, you would be shocked to hear just how often nurses will treat their patients like animals

crabby-phatty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Part of the problem with nurses is how badly they are treated at hospitals. Overworked and stressed, part of that is poor working conditions. Because it's a traditionally feminine job, conservatives are horrible to workers and women as well as queer folks and people of color.

drewbiedrew.bsky.social•1 day ago

It doesn't help that the profession is filled with literal high school mean girls. All of the biggest bullies from my schools became nurses

kindraf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good pay and benefits with lower upfront investment in schooling, plus a hefty dose of base authority. It's the equivalent adult job for mean girls as police officer is for mean boys. To be clear, I work in healthcare I'm saying this as someone inside the house

toowoke2joke.on.computer•1 day ago

Well maybe she'll connect the dots when Kennedy guts Medicaid that pays for her to care for these disabled adults.

beatlenumber9.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because Americans are a special breed of troglodytes.

fnord3125.bsky.social•1 day ago

“trump is terrible but at least he put a lunatic who doesn’t believe in vaccines and thinks raw milk is healthy and drinks water with blue dye in it in charge of the nations health. that part is good. that’s the good thing trump did. i LIKE that bit.” -a real human person with a brain, allegedly

mutant.pizza•1 day ago

I feel like I’m talking crazy pills

rurirkid.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hope she never knows a moment of peace. Hope the stupid Little Eichmann feels the same apprehension and terror that all the minority groups she threw under the bus feel currently.