The trick for the Republucans will be to find something else to unite them. A common enemy is generally a good option to distract the masses. Time will tell.
Do most people in the red states realize that they live in the poorest states? I do understand that it is more complicated than just answering that question.
Rs have never cared about poor people. The red states have already eviscerated the safety nets & healthcare. They still win those states because they've gerrymandered them & have passed voter suppression laws. Texas is a great example. The Rs have been in power for 27 years & Rs still win.
It’s same as Latino’s voting for Trump who have undocumented relatives or friends but believe that they won’t be “rounded up and deported” because they are “not criminals”. They may be suprised
I can't tell you how many people don't know how to properly use Google. They'll search for something and go with the first result without checking the source, which all too often is just someone repeating something from the right wing echo chamber.
Yeah, sadly Google's monetized now, 😒algorithms grrr (I fondly remember research with google in the 2000s)
"How to use the internet" is gradually beginning to be taught in schools by teachers who know about critical thinking (better late than never I guess)
Got a friend just waiting on his disability to go thru voted for the group wanting to get rid of social security, Medicare etc cuz he’ll have medical and income from disability 😑
Would now be a good time to point out that it was Republicans who demonized the ACA and dubbed it Obamacare? Also, many red states refused the Medicaid expansion, an ACA provision that allowed states to extend coverage to more low-income people by giving states a higher Federal matching rate.
People vote against their own self interest without even knowing they are doing so. Right wingnuts call it "Obamacare" (meant to be derogatory) for just that purpose.
I like you on Twitter, but you always lock your tweets, so I can't reply unless you follow me. How can you follow me back if I can't reply to you? So basically I like you less because you don't trust me.
The depths of damage misinformation and propaganda have done have become so enormous that I struggle to wrap my mind around it. How does this country even begin to undo this? I can only imagine like serious deradicalization programs
These people are truly stupid. They are going to find out real quick how his policies are going to hurt them OR people will get them pissed when he doesn't do what he promised. MAGA gonna be pissed regardless
Blame the Democrats for YOU being a Gullible uninformed voter, this is the way... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm disabled you need to know how to vote?? Ask me.
I'll Google shit and tell you good or bad for everyone if you don't have the time nor mental fucks.
Yep, and I have decided to shut out as much as I can. We argued for 8 years to convince people how bad he was.
It didn't work.
Suffering personally is the only way a group of people with no empathy will learn.
And a story a couple days ago about a boss explaining to his majority MAGA staff (like they're 5 year olds) how tariffs actually work and that there's no Christmas bonus this year due to impending Trump tariff's and a need to stock up before their implementation.
Again we need to learn how to speak economics to people who can't understand fine details of policy. We also need to start working on the branding game.
They just want to stop the fraudsters...
They mean you.
They just don't want illegals getting...
They mean you.
They see a lot of people misusing...
They mean you.
You can thank Fox and the talking heads for the final brain washing of folks that already have heard from their racist family and friends that just affirmed what they already believed. They can’t fathom the fact that (D) policies are to help folks and especially a black man. ✌🏻
We laugh but this is sad… they tricked people who didn’t have the brainpower to avoid being tricked. It is sad and alarming the sheer number of them in the US….
If you're going to be mindlessly angry about something, at least have the decency to know what the fuck you're being angry about before you get angry at it. Christ. Anon 1 deserves his fate.
FAFO time. It is happening so fast. I wish it felt better, though. Doesn’t change a damn thing, other than watching idiots getting hurt as a new pastime.
They're so dumb it hurts. My 62 year old maga neighbor who had two minor heart attacks in the last 12 months wants the ACA killed because "premiums are too high" and "it's a total mess". He's covered through his job but they've been letting people go left and right...
This is different from MAGA I think, these are people who got hoodwinked by some specific lie that convinced them that voting for him was not completely insane even though they probably don't like him so much really
In my experience, it’s the opposite—people believe the (dis)information they want to believe, and when it comes to Trump voters, they’ll latch onto whatever semi-reasonable explanation they can find to justify voting for him so they don’t have to confront their real motives, which are…bad.
There's that too to be sure, but I think there's a lot of "wait I voted for what?" on the way, similar to Brexit. The "he said he'd lower the cost of gas" and "he said he'd protect abortion by letting states decide" (actual trump voter quote!) types
Low information voters, easily influenced in bits and pieces, but otherwise turned off by 24/7 news, turn up in basically the same numbers as last time, and vote for the same guy, having no real idea what he is planning, but, "democrats bad" because they got their message across on the wrong news
Remember, in America, no matter what it is, no matter who actually did it, it's somehow only the Dems' fault and they should be the only ones punished for it. That's the cardinal rule of American politics.
They voted for it they get what they deserve. I have good healthcare don't need ACA & never will neither will my kids I am all good but I want other people to have it too but when you vote against your own interests sorry you get what you voted for. I am here to watch the show unfold.
The stupidity of these people is astounding. They blame Biden for high groceries and the rich oligarch grocery companies are making billions off the ignorant idiots. It makes me so furious!
THAT is why we are in the situation that we are. SO MANY DAMN UN/MISINFORMATED PEOPLE. They don't even understand what they've wrought upon not only themselves, but the rest of us. "FOX-ADDLED" should be an actual term, because that describes much too many people in this country.
I work in an oncology office in western PA. Many of our patients get their insurance through the marketplace…and a bunch of them are members of the red hat club. They do not have a clue.
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They believed the rhetoric he spewed and RW media.
Wilfully uneducated is… a choice
"How to use the internet" is gradually beginning to be taught in schools by teachers who know about critical thinking (better late than never I guess)
And I still use the critical thinking course I went on for information vetting etc
I wish more people did
And I’d go further- since he likes the ACA and hates Obamacare - what part did he hate?
It's a new kind of math
I keep hearing these stories.
The amount of uneducated, “did my own research” skin bags is very alarming.
I'm disabled you need to know how to vote?? Ask me.
I'll Google shit and tell you good or bad for everyone if you don't have the time nor mental fucks.
It's these blatant morons that ruin it for the rest of us.
#MAGAtsArentBright
It didn't work.
Suffering personally is the only way a group of people with no empathy will learn.
Crucial life and healthcare decisions?
Hell yeah, why bother going the extra mile when you can simply believe the FOX nonsense.
The closest I can get to is 'rage-pity'.
Y'all keep workin' on it
No other way though.
They mean you.
They just don't want illegals getting...
They mean you.
They see a lot of people misusing...
They mean you.
They ALWAYS mean you.
Em
Gee
How stupid are so many of our fellow ‘Mericans ? 🤯
Says they hate Democrats
Gud jorb
Where did you find this? Reminds me of how most Kentuckians don’t know that KYNECT is the ACA.
… or in modern parlance, FAFO.
Nothing about that is surprising.
Yes it does go very far back.
Dang!! 😄
It's FAFO time for those people.
I guess it will.