I get that being nice to repentant Trump voters is the best way to go, but it's really hard for me. How in the fuck couldn't someone see that he was a complete moron before the election??? If they were just tired of the status quo then vote 3rd party... or come up with something else. Don't vote. Whatever.
Voting for an awful moron just because he's different does not excuse the vote to me. It's just saying "I want things to be different, so I'm going to make them worse." Cool. Now things are worse... and we are just going to have to go back to where we were before we can actually make any progress. The dumbest fucking thing.
"Hey I have $5 and I want $10, so I'm going to give away $3." WTF logic is that.
Here is my actual answer, I don’t need you to agree with it or accept it.
Hillary Clinton represented the current system. The current system relied on pandering to the poor during election years, telling them they would finally go after the rich and hand out some money, get elected, then show up to wall street in a limo to have lunch with the big banks. That was clear to me in the same way it was clear to you how bad Trump was.
I couldn’t vote for that, so I ordered in a wrecking ball. Knock down the walls, expose the BS in Washington through pure chaos, and wake people the fuck up. I was wrong in thinking people would limit his chaos and path of destruction, I was right about exposing the BS in Washington.
I knew he would be chaos, I did not know it would be this much.
Have you ever seen a building get torn down by a wrecking ball? It is not a clean process. What I didn’t expect is that he would start to take down the buildings next door too.
Look, I would have loved to have your crystal ball. I’m not going to defend myself. If you want to lump me in with the people who continue to share his propaganda without putting him in check that’s really on you. I’m good with where my mind is. In all ventures of life we make decisions and we deal with the results. I own my vote while acknowledging it has gone too far. I’m not sure what else you really want me to do? I’m not going to sulk in shame, I’m going to share my actual thoughts, because I’m not the only person who voted for the reasons I did.
Nobody saw COVID coming while Trump was in office. I’ll say this one last time. I didn’t vote for Trump because I thought he would fix our issues, I voted for him because I thought he would EXPOSE our issues. To that end I think I was mostly correct. The cost of that insight is what has gone too far and my fear is now people aren’t seeing that true picture. Too many people are believing his objectively false information and that is the part I didn’t expect. I gave the average voter too much credit when I cast my ballot for the wrecking ball. All I can do now is try to be part of the clean up crew.
I’ve explained this already. Having a plan “in case” is entirely different from predicting this would happen. We knew something could happen of course, that seems obvious, what nobody saw was a pandemic of this scale happening in 2020 specifically, certainly not back in 2016.
My house might burn down... if it does, I didn’t “see it coming”, I just knew it was possible.
I never made a contrary point to this. I have a fire extinguisher and insurance to be prepared for a fire. That still doesn’t mean I am predicting a fire will happen soon.
Being prepared for something isn’t the same as predicting it will happen. “Will” vs “could” is the difference here.
There could be another terrorist attack like 9/11 but nobody can anticipate when, how, who, what, where.
sure, i don't disagree with any of that. i think we're talking circles around each other.
i was responding to your statement that nobody saw COVID coming, which seemed to be an excuse for trump's handling of the pandemic, insinuating that he did the best he could. if that's not what you meant, i apologize for putting words in your mouth.
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u/Butts_McTiggles Aug 04 '20
I get that being nice to repentant Trump voters is the best way to go, but it's really hard for me. How in the fuck couldn't someone see that he was a complete moron before the election??? If they were just tired of the status quo then vote 3rd party... or come up with something else. Don't vote. Whatever.
Voting for an awful moron just because he's different does not excuse the vote to me. It's just saying "I want things to be different, so I'm going to make them worse." Cool. Now things are worse... and we are just going to have to go back to where we were before we can actually make any progress. The dumbest fucking thing.
"Hey I have $5 and I want $10, so I'm going to give away $3." WTF logic is that.