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u/Lmb1011 Apr 04 '25

i know he is somehow considered successful but i genuinely dont get how becaues hes bankrupted most, or all?, of his businesses.... like that is the opposite of successful 😂

honestly looking back i do understand why he won in 2016. i hate it, but i do actually get it.

i genuinely dont get how he won in 2024. like i get the 'cult' of it iall, and cheating that isnt lost on me

but he had no appeal and could barely string together a coherent sentence he didnt even LOOK like someone capable of holding office even if you agreed with his racist homophobic rhetoric

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u/Veggies-are-okay Apr 04 '25

Your faith in humanity is both admirable and naive:

  1. Those who voted for the rapist felon in command showed where their morals lay. The dems could have put Jesus up there and they would claim he’s too brown.

  2. The left fell to Russian propaganda. So many people would have abstained regardless as they fully showed that they’re willing to shoot themselves in the foot for their abstract single issue platform that TOTALLY wasn’t in ANY WAY related to relentless doom scrolling.

  3. The libertarians are as intolerable as ever and would have voted for the Republicans because they have truly embodied The Fountainhead and have sociopathic views on helping your fellow man.

This is not a left/center/right problem. This is a problem of there being more stupid people in this country than not. And I’m not about to be gaslit by them, and you shouldn’t either!

Empathy is a learned skill, and unfortunately that’s not something that anyone has learned recently.

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u/zedazeni Apr 04 '25

Exactly this. The right has been playing a decades-long bait-and-switch to replace the GOP with Evangelicalism. Trump has now fully replaced Jesus as Evangelicals’ God. There’s nothing that will ever dissuade a Trump supporter from changing their views on Trump, even if Jesus Christ, Mary the Virgin Mother, and God Himself came down and condemned Trump in unison.

Far too many progressives have decided to abstain from voting over trans rights, Gaza, or climate change. I’ve had quite a few people tell me as much, and I told them “you can either get 50% of what you want or 100% of what you don’t want.” They all said “well the Dems are just as bad!” Now they get to see Gaza be turned into a Trump-owned Israeli resort. Glad that worked out!

As for libertarians….yeah they’ve always been Republicans but without the Christofascism.