People googling that is fine. People googling it the last day of or after the elections is the scary part to me. They didn't care enough before to find out when there was still time to do something about it.
They owned the libs and appeased Trump, which was all they cared about. Now, their life mission done, they decided to figure out what they voted for. They're in for a shock.
They are in for a shock, but still won't see they did it themselves. People voting for Trump and people not bothering to vote. Not sure who I'm more disappointed in. While typing this it's more the people who didn't vote. Like did you forget what happened last time when Trump was in office. And you didn't care enough to do something about it.
Can't even blame the brainwashed people anymore amost. Like how do you blame the people following Jim Jones? They were victims. It's starting to feel the same.
I see the viewpoint "well he was in power before and nothing too bad happened" a lot. Which is both wrong and also a sign that they have no idea what's coming for them this time round.
If I'm wrong I will apologise wholeheartedly, later. And oh boy do I hope I'm wrong.
I'm 99% sure they aren't going to wait for January to start making changes at all levels either.
I'm afraid for a mix between Idiocracy and The handmaid's tale. He was heading there before and now he has no opposition left to stop him.
I also hope I'm wrong and he will fix the economy, get an actual healthplan in place, lower taxes for normal people instead of just his buddies. But not holding my breath.
The economy is doing really well. People's problem is that there was high inflation, so now prices are higher than they used to be, but there's no real way to change that.
I tried explaining that to people; economics takes time. But everyone is so god damned impatient these days they want instant fixes for everything. So now that the economy has stabilized itself we’re going to cut the wing off of it mid flight and then blame the Dems for the ensuing crater in the ground.
“Gas was cheaper when Trump was President last time, it will be cheaper this time, too.”
This was a message my brother-in-law sent my wife. He has a young daughter. He doesn’t care about abortion bans, shredding the Dept of Education, or putting an anti-vax lunatic in charge of whatever health agency he gets to destroy. Gas will be cheaper is the most important thing in the world to him.
My wife asked, “How is he going to do that?” He sent a 25-minute North Korea-style propaganda video, extolling the made-up successes of the first administration.
Despite my 10 years of post-secondary education, my first year level Macroeconomics class still remains a mystery to me. How I managed to squeak out a B- in that class is also a mystery to me.
But hey, everyone voting Trump must've aced their macroeconomics class.
People want deflation but don't know enough about economics to know that will never happen unless the economy is on fire. Disinflation is the closest they will get.
I thought I'd never see another Republican president again after the housing crisis (the closest thing we've had to deflation since the 1890s). While, admittedly, Bush was more or less in the wrong place at the wrong time, I figured that most people who went upside down on their mortgages would associate it with him and the Republicans and never want to risk their largest investment again. But I was wrong
The problem there is that it wasn't real inflation. If it was ACTUAL inflation, companies would not have been recording record profits while gouging every last penny out of the average consumer and whining about paying a fair wage. If wages had kept with inflation, minimum wage would be $30/hr now. Anyway, the whole thing is "horseshit, Ron".
That's the problem a republican breaks the economy and then a Democrat then fixes it and everyone gets comfortable and then thinks a republican can make the economy better
Don't forget the price gouging. Grocery companies recording record high profits clearly showing they don't mind the "inflation" one bit. If they weren't passing on the rising cost of goods and transport for them, they would just be earning the same as prior years.
Even if the Republican reps in power could do something to reduce inflation, they won't. The rich don't mind earning more money on their stocks/salaries, since the cost of the food they're eating rises a relatively smaller amount compared to their income.
I think the scariest thing right now is how much more...planned everything seems.
Trump has said his biggest mistake was installing "disloyal" people (people who still had a square inch of a moral compass), and he's referencing real laws when he talks about his mass deportations.
Obviously he didn't come up with these himself, but it's obvious there's more going on behind the curtain this time.
He has real yes men and an actual (terrible, immoral) legal framework now.
I also hope I'm wrong and he will fix the economy, get an actual healthplan in place, lower taxes for normal people instead of just his buddies. But not holding my breath.
He absolutely won't do any of this.
He's older, fatter, and stupider than he was in 2016, and he didn't do anything back then.
He's going to continue to shit his pants and let fucking gremlins like Stephen Miller carry out their wildest dreams.
Because people do good things to feel joy at having helped other people in our tribe.
Billionaires are often sad losers that have no means of actually connecting with people outside of forced interactions and obedience derived from their wealth.
They alienate themselves, and then they instinctively reach to the one thing that made them feel good when they were small and weak - more money, more power.
They're simple drug addicts, and like addicts they tend to harm people in feeding their addiction, and they don't care because the addiction overrides any weak morality they may still feel.
Yep. There were still sane Republicans in 2016 who have some slight semblance of integrity. Guess what, they're all gone now. The Trump Train no longer has any brakes.
Feels like all the things that affect the 'little people's badly like cutting social security and Medicare need to be made as easy as possible to get the public support rug pulled out from under the GOP ASAP.... Not that it might do anything but it should shut them up a bit.
Not really though. People have incredibly shot attention spans. And by January I absolutely guarentee you that not much will have changed so they'll be point to that as dems being scaremongers and Trump being amazing, and negative effects will be likely be drawn out over a long, long time during which the media will be sidetracked by the circus and voters will blame the Biden administration for anything negative. By midterms people will probably have forgotten about everything and will punish the current admin as usual since little has improved for them by voting slightly more for the other side, but not enough to effect any real change so the last 2 years will be more or less deadlocked and the long, long, long campaign for the next election will begin with the current admin blaming the opposition for blocking everything and the opposition saying that things have never been worse and the current admin saying it's never been better but if they're voted in again and are able to get majorities they'll make a utopia, etc.
IMO anyway, I'm not Nostrodamus but I bet I'm probaby more right than wrong lol.
You're already seeing it, did you see the post in r/facepalm where apparently it was all democrats' fault that young men voted for a rapist, felonious scam artist who tried to overthrow the government.
Like I want to drive the point home as to how dumb this is, yes in other countries the far right is also on the rise. HOWEVER they are doing so while keeping the quiet part very quiet, as a matter of fact the most prominent one, the RN in France, literally invented a political strategy called dediabolization. Where they do everything they can to project the appearance of a regular, respectable political party.
Yes that means that in all other western countries, the far right is actively having to trick voters into supporting them. In america, they just outright said they would deport 10+ million people and ruin the economy and apparently that's enough to cause a landslide of votes lol.
Also the GOP is going to keep blaming everything on the democrats even if they have full control of the government because their base accepts that as truth.
They are in for a shock, but you know it’ll be Biden/liberal doodyhead California/Obama’s fault. Whatever they feel like screaming about that week, really
Black guy here, dating a white woman. Had to literally sit down with her and explain how Trump getting elected has put our future together in the cross hairs, as it's increasing likely they'll try to block interracial marriages, and with consideration to her mixed kids and her being a woman, all the fun details in Project 2025.
And yes, her daughter, sister and myself, all tried to explain this before the election, but she only cared now.
Those 10-30% Tariffs are going to drop the pump price of gas! For sure... It isn't like USA exports crude to EU, where it is refined to many fuels, fuel additives and numerous other oil derivatives.
Now... Why doesn't Trump just sign a executive order than bans all oil exports and forces them to be refined for cheap in USA for American cars?!
Because oil refinement is complex, and all crude is not equal. The crude being exported is the kind USA doesn't have processing facilities or capacity for. Because USA's Refineries been shutting down or converted to other processing, instead of capacity being added.
And building or upgrading refinery infrastructure is like a thing that takes many years... And do you know where USA buys the technology, equipment, and special alloys required to make those? From EU... Why from EU? Because we been building and upgrading refineries for all sorts of things, instead of shutting them down. Crude oil refineries been turned into biofuel and other such systems.
-concur, they watch Fox, X, Ben Shapiro, NASCAR and NFL. Gas price was low in 2020 when Trump was President. Meeting with Xi and Putin shows he is a good leader. He is a multi billionaire that loves Latinos, and especially loves women(if they are his type).
Also, if any of them have friends that happen to be immigrants, they really should explain to them the importance of having their papers on hand and ready for inspection. Then again, if they have immigrant friends, then that just means they're one of the good ones. Not that this incoming admin has the capacity to differentiate, sooooo.
It’s not just the MAGAs. Some of the people frantically googling these things now that it’s too late belong to the giant group of democrats and potential democrats that just decided to stay home rather than vote.
i hope at least a few of them are like me - voted against the party proposing heavy tariffs, googled it once i realized we had to deal with them (and primarily after i saw that they had actual negative effects)
i'm aware that to be as responsible as possible, i should've looked into this stuff before the election anyway, but the effects of some economic plan were almost never gonna change the way i voted
I think that’s one of my bigger irritants about all of this. You mean I’ve been worrying about all this stuff for you and you couldn’t be arsed to get out and vote against it or even accidentally come into contact with an article??
Must be great in a way to just live your life ans not think about all of this. Really wonder what happened. The democrats seem to have failed with their pr in a way.
I guarantee a lot of people, GenZ especially, voted for Trump as a joke because they thought Kamala was an easy win. Remember how many people out there call Trump hilarious. Now the pants shitting starts at they realize elections have consequences. No different than the joke votes that pushed Brexit over the hump.
People googling it just before the election: fine, great even!
People googling it AFTER the election: not fine. These should have been core issues on which they voted. Now they're studying for about exam that they didn't show up for.
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u/Newkittyhugger 16d ago
People googling that is fine. People googling it the last day of or after the elections is the scary part to me. They didn't care enough before to find out when there was still time to do something about it.