• espentan@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    It boggles the mind that this sack of shit is even in the running.

    He has the charisma of a wet sponge (and the appearance of someone you’d think twice before buying a used car from), he can hardly string together a sentence (let alone hold a speech), hi lies, he commits fraud, he’s a convicted felon…

    That’s hardly brushing the surface, yet people go “fuck yeah, this guy should run the country”.

    Jeebuz fuckin christ… what’s happening?

    Unless you got home schooled by Heinrich Himmler, there’s no excuse. You can’t possibly offer your political support to such a scumbag.

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      18 days ago

      I was at a pumpkin patch 25 minutes out of Chicago on Saturday and there was a man proudly wearing a shirt with Trump on it and the shirt said, “I’m voting for the convicted felon”. His voter base does not fucking care, at all.

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        18 days ago

        They are under the assumption that both sides are equally bad and want to see it all burn down I think. They don’t think much further however.

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          18 days ago

          I know a lot of Trump supporters. Without fail their support is based on hate. LGBTQ, immigrants, the belief that Democrats are child molesters, etc. I’ve heard it all. They don’t know what his policies are, nor do they care.

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      18 days ago

      I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I don’t see ads much, but just saw an ad from the turnip who was railing against they/them pronouns…the level of hate from the turnips is insane. It’s like if Hitler was running and railing against jews. How is this shit allowed on tv…next he’s gonna be saying minorities should be hung.

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        18 days ago

        President Camacho legitimately wanted to find solutions to the problems his constituents faced, AND he had the wisdom and self-awareness to know he needed someone smarter than himself in order to achieve that. He’s willing to try things and change his mind when he is presented with new information. Furthermore, when he is successful, he shares the credit equitably with the other people involved.

        We’re doing much worse than Idiocracy.

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          Idiocracy was a movie working from the naive assumption that people are greedy and shortsighted, and that these attributes lead to social (and eventually genetic) decay.

          Americans have to deal with a much harder truth. That being smart doesn’t make you virtuous and lust for power more than simple hedonistic greed is what cultivates the worst social policies. Our story is a story of pure hubris. Its a story of reasonably intelligent and educated people gaming a system that causes pain in order to pay them a profit.

          We’re doing much worse than Idiocracy.

          America’s sins aren’t sloth or lust or gluttony nearly so much as they are wrath and pride.

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      18 days ago

      When a society puts money above all else Donald Trump is what happens. He was a celebrity failed businessman long before he became president, he knows what gets Americans excited.

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      I was talking with my mom the other day and apparently their neighbors, who up until now had never shown any political affiliation at all, put up a Trump flag. They’ve been neighbors for like 20 years haha, my mom was shocked.

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        17 days ago

        I’m willing to believe someone could have voted for Trump the first time in good faith. Voting for him again after seeing the shitshow of his first term, however…

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          Plenty of vote with middle finger in 2016 to DNC over the Bernie betrayal. I doubt those people are voting Trump or third party again. However, I know people who just want to see “the trans out of bathrooms” and that’s it.

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      18 days ago

      That’s hardly brushing the surface, yet people go “fuck yeah, this guy should run the country”.

      Only the stupid people say that. The smart people say that the woman running against him is just as bad as him despite being measurably better in literally every conceivable metric.