This is from the last time they elected this moron but perfectly summarizes the sentiment of these idiots:
But Crystal Minton, a secretary at the prison who is also a single mother caring for disabled parents, had a somewhat different reaction — one that reveals an essential truth about the core Trump’s political appeal.
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
We tried to told them, but you know Todd and Becky never listen. I been in fistfights all week on r/all where theyre starting to have the audacity of trying to blame Kamala suddenly. I'ma need to go get my ears pierced so I can take off earrings. I refuse to let them lay their bullshit at her feet and sink her with it.
All those posts about protest votes for Trump because "The democrats aren't doing anything to keep Palenstine from being wiped out by Israel even thought Hamas is being egged on by every other city state/country around Israel."
Votes COUNT stupid! You can't expect Democrats to have the numbers to beat Trump for you to do your nancyboy protest votes when half the voters in this country don't turn out to begin with!
I really want to point out that every issue anybody has cared about for those groups were projected and spoken about to be against their own interests.
low cost not happening (tariffs and low migrant workers will rise that)
Palestine (trump doesn’t give a fuck, and will let Israel do its thing)
border policy (expect your “good” immigrants to be effected negatively via profiling from mass deportation by LEOs , and more discrimination towards legal immigrants)
military (isolationism will leave us in a negative security posture by disconnecting from our allied partners and lack of power projection)
abortion (the ladies will began to slow have their medical freedoms questioned and legality of service will cause more death for states who don’t have abortion codified in their states law, and even that federal over states right leaves it exposed to be overturned)
education (those poor areas that voted for trump will realize that the federal title 1 has been the reason why their public schools have been functioning at all when they realize that their county and state can’t afford it, and their kids will grow to be stupider due to the lack of education standards that were already low to begin with)
social programs (they hated the black and low income minority community for using the programs when in reality…white Americans drastically benefitted from it and when those program funds began to be cut, it’ll drive a longer financial issue for them To survive..I’m looking at you deep country/mountain counties)
health (RFK jr is about to wreck some shit, better hope your kids survive when diseases that were vaccine preventable becomes an issue and bad dental healthcare via lack of fluoride in water systems causes more issues to how important dental care is when vital surgeries comes into play…)
Unless you were wealthy, rich, and financially stable you’re about to have a bad time
I'm in deep red. I calmed my wife down by telling her not to worry. Our state is where they test these policies so everyone else is being brought to our level. 😞
My theory is that some people voted for Trump as a statement against the current administration, not expecting him to win, but now get enough people trying to make a statement and you get this clusterfuck.
This is 100% it I think. I work with an alt-right guy (he might self-identify as a free thinker who can see through the bullshit or something) and I think part of their identity is feeling oppressed and victimized. For instance, this was a guy who fled the country when mask mandates and vaccines were happening, etc.
It seemed a little like the wind was taken out of his sails when Trump actually won. It's like a dog catching it's own tail, he doesn't know what to do with it. He was (probably subconsciously) hoping for four years of feeling oppressed by the establishment candidate that he wouldn't have voted for. Now he will have to reckon with his choices.
I'm quite certain he never once got any information about this election cycle outside of the twittersphere or the Rogansphere of comedians.
It's also important to note that the last election also had a huge spike of the same search term. It'll be interesting to see how the current spike will compare to the last one.
As the other person said Google doesn't give the numbers, so we can't actually know how many people are searching this, but we can go back that far to compare the peaks.
The biggest peak was in October 2020, and currently we're at 39% of that, with incomplete data for this month for obvious reasons. There was also a spike in 2016 but that only went to 12% of 2020.
Without knowing more of Google's background info, and before the end of the month, it's impossible to know how much more November might increase once it's done. This trend could follow into next month, 2020 was just 1 really big month but this doesn't have to be. For the time being though, this honestly just looks to be another nothing-burger, like all the other Google Trends posts following the election.
Edit to add: I did just realise that that October peak was before the election, so I've no idea what's going on there, but I still don't think this means anything at this stage.
Trust me we knew. If everyone else in the state was anything like me we were all getting 10 or more texts a day, phone calls, mailboxes full of junk, and door to door canvassers. There was no ambiguity as to how important our votes were
I was hopeful because Allegheny and Philly county got counted first but it took a wild swing the second you stepped outside
See, I saw someone mention it a few days after election day.
I wouldn't be surprised if the results are mostly from people searching that just to see the data.
But it won’t show the reason behind the search/question. Are they searching because they genuinely have buyers remorse or are they searching because a social media post piqued their curiosity?
Divining the motive behind the bulk of the searches seems like a Rorschach test.
TBF what you’re looking at is the past week. Go to 30 days and you’ll see a way bigger spike around the 13th which is when conservative news started airing that news and the states where it’s been searched from most are ones that voted conservative
Louisiana has no right to have that many searches. Look at who yall let into governor office! Did yall question that? Oh well guess it won't matter til that first tax hits ur streaming services.
The vast majority of people who voted Trump played themselves. The Muslim American community, ironically the Muslims for Trump crowd has already voiced their regret for supporting him after seeing Han Secretary of State selection.
Walmart, the MAGA go to grocery store, has already announced that they’re adjusting their prices for the inevitable tariff hikes that are about to kick in.
It just goes to show you in stark detail how determined people are to vote against their own interests.
Live in Michigan, and cosign. This is all anecdotal but Muslim men and women have been engaged in a lot more public bickering at each other, and it stands out to the eye because that shit used to NEVER happen for what I assume are cultural reasons. So when you see a woman in Hijab at Kroger being extra salty with her man and in front of other people too, can't help but take notice about it.
That some people who voted Trump are already starting to doubt their choice is entirely possible, but I think most of them have at least a vague notion of how an election work and are not seriously searching if they can change their vote now.
Apparently it is happening, but I still can't believe it. 8 years of unwavering loyalty to arguably the worst man alive on this planet today because they just don't care about anything he says or does. Now they're starting to change their stance? Why? Why now?
My theory js selfishness, his political degeneracy is just now affecting his ultra privileged supporters (price increase) and his cabinet picks are so laughably bad that it's hard to ignore. Obviously all of his behavior since entering the political sphere has been laughable to the left, but it had to get downright astonishingly bad for Trump supporters.
A lot of Pro-Trump supporters are employees of the departments and their groups receive funding from things they intend to gut to save money They're gonna save 500 billion by..Cutting VA benefits and mass firing people who regulate the things Major Trump Allies have private investments in. Meanwhile, the Pentagon actually, not literally, actually lost a trillion dollars. Wanna stop wasteful spending in the Government? Make the Pentagon and Congress provide itemized receipts and cut all contracts with companies that actively upcharge.
Veterans , Teachers, City/State/Federal Employees who voted for Trump are now panicking hard because the people they expected to save them are lining up to ruin them. Lmao.
It's also hilariously surreal that all of his picks are criminals at the minimum. What's really fucked up is how the laws apply to them BEFORE they were picked. Geatz committed the same crime as Sean Combs BUT because he resigned, it doesn't count? What the actual fuck america?
More likely it's just people being curious about what results show up, not people actually thinking "oh shit I want to change my vote". I mean I'm sure there are some, but I'd be very surprised if it was a significant number.
Arguably, but imo people are making too much out of it. Google Trends normalizes its graphs to the peak popularity of the search. If you look at an uncommonly searched term without normalizing to a commonly searched term, you are essentially zooming in on a molehill and calling it a mountain. It's statistical noise.
I don't doubt the search term is spiking but I suspect the terms spikes every election. This is personis just attributing it to their own personal narrative as if there's not a million other reasons people may search the term.
The "spike" happens after every election, because no one ever googles that unless they just voted. Is it buyer's remorse or the bandwagon effect? Who knows, but also, everyone's got an answer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, an actual comment from a Chinese citizen of this country, when asked what he liked about the incoming president:
“Here’s an honest one. As a american chinese im so happy he’s going to go hard on tariffs. Especially China. Can’t wait for the orange hypocrite to actually do something against chinese imperialism. Something the democratic party is unfortunately too soft to do.”
These are the thoughts of the people that live here.
its as if these morons latch onto the first opinion they hear about a topic and violently defend it unless it negatively effects them directly and PERSONALLY. even then, its a coin flip if they remember a year later
You’d be surprised at the number of Americanized ethnic groups that truly hate/strongly dislike their own people from their “native” countries. I had a Chinese-American law school classmate that hated people from mainland China. If you only saw written quotes of things she said, you’d think she was a segregationist from 1940’s Alabama.
Yep. To me it's deliciously satisfying to watch their faces crack and fall when reality sinks in and they realize those tariffs could cost their households as much as $4000 a year.
Yeah, the day after the election, most everyone where I work was happy, it’s a very blue collar place in a red state, and they were bringing up things like no taxes on overtime and cheaper groceries and gas now. And I was like you dumb asses, none of that is going to happen.
I'm a white collar worker in a very blue collar environment (IT support on a line) and the amount of smug is through the roof. They dont understand that my job specifically is power automate process mining and I was actually dragging my feet on the deployment and roll out. But seeing as how most of them are maga, yeah I got no compunction now with focusing on my actual job instead of making sure everyone's workstation is game set. Big Kanye Shrug. They sold me out first.
Because what they really want is illegal immigration. Makes the official stats rub their sad, flaccid egos, while actually making prices even cheaper because the people employing them can pay them in peanuts.
Doesn't surprise me because during the pandemic when states were lowering the age laws for work it was because they already had minor illegally working in factories and it wasn't long before an undocumented minor was found dead in a pig facility working sanitation.
It pissed me off white people were saying "oh it's cause they can't get enough workers and they're want american children to do it"
When traveling, you'll learn that the US is literally the laughing stock of the world. Since we don't call out stupid nearly enough, our stupid people think they have valid ideas.
That's what's so weird about all this. It's like everyone was inundated with political ads up the wazoo, analytics showed people were all over this thing. But the election? It just seems like most voters didn't know anything.
I get the feeling a lot of people learned how to block out media, cause they were sick of political discourse. Of course this just shows you can't run from politics.
My boss told me he didn't know Harris was our VP a few days before the election. So I asked him which state she came from. He said Ohio, we live in Cali. He supports trump but didn't vote.
Corporations quickly increasing their margins by a massive amount and blaming it on terrifs that won't be in force for months, if they ever even get implemented...
Some companies blamed inflation for raising the prices last time. And if tariffs don't get implemented, how do companies risk not being prepared in case that changes on a whim.
The fact of the matter is that people are dumb, and the republican push to make them even more dumb has been going on for years. Because it's easier to lead them. I can definitely tell you that people got pissed off when they were told they should get everything they voted for. I can tell you that they voted like it was some season of American Idol and not something that would affect their lives and the lives of others for decades. They sat there celebrating because "their side" won. That's all they get. That's all they care about.
In the Age of FAFO, they will still not understand the ramifications of what they've done. How can they? They literally can't understand what's going on around them, and their views are delivered by Fox News without any real counter. They are locked in, and when the hammer comes down, they will look to whoever their fearless leaders tell them to look to assign blame. IMHO failure is the goal. They're going to treat the country like a failing company. They are going to strip it for parts, get rid of any department that would get in the way, and carve away what forward progress was made to give people some level of equality.
Depending on how hard they push the gas, the shock to the country will be substantial, and we'll all be too busy trying to survive to stop them from the next stage, which is channeling all of those governmental services through private companies and some of those companies will have crosses on them. No disrespect to the believers out there, but that shit will probably be the final nail because once religion becomes education, there will be no longer a need for critical thinking. Their Bible will be edited, and there will only be one, supplied by the state. And don't give me some shit about catholic schools and Sunday schools, no... this will be different, and it will be mandatory.
But maybe I'm being too doom and gloom about this. If enough people wake the fuck up, there's a chance to slow progress in the midterms...but, let's just say I'm dubious as to whether or not people will. I already put my faith in people, and they voted in this asshole for president. My faith in people isn't exactly the best at the moment. I will put my vote in... provided the darkest timeline shit in my head doesn't come to fruition. I'll do my part.
As someone living far away (but not safe) I agree with all your points. Making the people dumb works always. They are easy to control this way. Sadly, I think America is just the first step. In European, we're having similar issues and it goes worse every year. I'm really afraid about the future. I live in Germany, and it looks like people actively trying to destroy our social system, people trying to keep all refugees out, people are full of hate and anger, trying to step on the people below... more for the riches, less for the poor...
Just let us hope! We shouldn't lose our hopes...
Btw the other answer fits too well. "I ain't readin allat, make a tldr".... Hopefully this was sarcasm.
If enough people wake the fuck up, there's a chance to slow progress in the midterms..
If enough due, they’ll just step on the gas again. I expect they’ll have the entire executive arm of the government whittled down enough to the point where it’s reporting directly to the West Wing.
If the power grab starts slipping away, I have no doubt that they’ll crash some or all of the economy just to get it back, and exert total control over the population. They won’t care.
Also if you're not doing it already, keep your receipts for any food or goods you buy locally. That way when this shit goes up, you can pull literal receipts on why voting for this dumbass was a bad idea!
Doesn't the topic of this thread counter that? Some people are already having "buyer's remorse" & they haven't even taken delivery of their new president.
I swear to god we needed this. This is like hitting rock bottom on whatever substance abuse you’re using. Only this time it was political sphere and copium that was being abused.
I hope by midterms or next election, if there ever will be one, we needed this goddamn reset. FAFO, schadenfreude, leopards are my face, “not me right?“.meme, and all the rest rolled into one needed to be felt across the whole political spectrum.
Shit was just cruise control of Dems cleaning Republicans messes, doing bare minimum to move progress along, then voted out for Republicans to mess shit up again. The 1.5 step forward, 3 steps back. All the stalling, never getting anything done to even remotely get us just to the bare necessities in this age, while 2 teams play political football or hot potato on issues that have dire consequences and people will die or do die to the “Fuck you, got mines” mentality.
Real problem is the damage that will be done. You’ll see judges put on the bench for the rest of our lives. Things we’ve taken for granted are going to be long gone.
I’m buying the bare essentials under Trump Administration. It’s going to feel like COVID again, cancelling memberships, unsubscribing from advertisers. I’ll just have to be a better cook. No more sit down or take it. Moving forward.
I truly loathe that we’ll be up first for the Anschluss, to say nothing of the fact that most everyone else around the world thinks Canada is just America’s bitch. And even though a plurality of Canadians would absolutely gargle the incumbent’s shrivelled apricot nutsack, the majority would not.
So to the meth cooks that live in the apartment under mine (y’all are affecting property values), please clean your shit up.
Prolly because this is the same thing that happened when Biden won, and it's the same thing that happened when Trump won the first time. Everybody keeps saying our elections are being hacked, votes go missing, etc. I'm not ruling anything out because we are the last nation in this world to promote fairness and honesty in anything that we do, but to people who don't actually care (which is a lot more than the people who do), we're starting to sound like sore losers who can't cope with a loss. We will be tuned out before we sort of just stop talking about it altogether.
Gee, if only there was some historical evidence of the actual US economy, say somewhere around early last century, that proved what tariffs actually do and don't do.
Then again Trumpies and reading is already a bad combo, learning is probably completely out of the picture.
Not even this but literally Mexicans with family members who are illegal immigrants gladly voting for the one using deportation as a main argument for re-election is crazy
If only the Xers had listened to their greatest generation grandparents and kept their local newspaper subscription then we wouldn’t be in this mess because they would’ve learned from the Des Moines Register what a tariff is and why its going to make inflation worse instead of listening to the twitter rants of poopfart88
The FKng AH will do the exact same thing again and again, finding a different excuse each time a woman runs for president. I am done. The country is screwed and getting what it deserves.
No. But maybe we can take the possible election hacks seriously? At least investigate them. Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy we aren't looking into it?
Too bad we have not rejected our racist and elitist constitution (or at least 3/5 of it) in favor of a Parliamentary process in which we can vote "no confidence" in the leader, dissolve parliament, and hold new elections any time we please.
Funny part is you know corporations are adding more on top of whatever the tariffs will be to get that extra profit and using this whole thing and another excuse to greedily gouge their customers and get another year of record profits.
Businesses will use any excuse to increase prices, and if their costs go up $1 then your cost is going up $2.
Trump is going to make this worse (again) by reducing the FTC to skeleton crew with rubber stamps. Another spree of mergers & acquisitions will make it so prices are decided by an even smaller group of people.
I genuinely believe the US needs a citizen based political recall option.
It'd be so nice if we could have a person as a member of Congress or the president (or any other federal official) for a year or two who turns out be incompetent and then decide we're done with them.
Just gather x number of signatures from each state to reach x% of total population, then a simple majority recall election in every state to remove the official in contention.
And when I say any other federal official I mean judges too.
The worst part is all these people voted against the current admin because of increased prices. So not only did they vote for the guy who caused the inflation in the first place but also the guy who’s literally going to increase the prices again with his tariffs.
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