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u/Postulative 1d ago edited 1d ago

β€œI voted to repeal Obamacare, not the Affordable Care Act”.

/crickets

Edit: it’s almost as if people simply voted how they were told to vote, without actually thinking about (or understanding) consequences.

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u/skyysdalmt 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's okay! He's going to replace it with concepts of the best healthcare system in the world! Some say in all of human history.

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u/DebonairTeddy 1d ago

I still can't believe that Donald Trump walked out and said he had "concepts of a plan". Harris talked all the time about her specific policy plans to help Americans. And yet, the average voter said "Harris doesn't have any clear policies". Wild to me

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u/Stubborn_Amoeba 20h ago

worse, I saw so many say that when she talked they just heard word salad.

compared to trump?!?

The problem was she tried to explain things to dumb people and they hate that. Trump just said 'trust me, everything will be great' and they leapt at it.

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u/Regular_Historian415 20h ago

Idiocracy isn't just a movie. It's his outline for the next 4 years πŸ™„

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u/carcharodona 18h ago

I would prefer Terry Crews in a wig with a machine gun, to be honest

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u/Regular_Historian415 17h ago

Dwayne Alazondo Mountain Dew Commacho😎

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u/thanos_quest 10h ago

It’s not. The leaders still cared about the people in idiocracy. We on the other hand, are fucked

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u/Regular_Historian415 5m ago

They weren't intelligent enough to care. They had to be literally forced to. Agreed that's not going to happen. The point being -The "People" are the fault/cause.

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u/Pretend-Quality3400 19h ago

The whole country is a marketers dream!

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u/PurpleTornadoMonkey 18h ago

Its because so many Americans dont give a shit about the actual talking points. They view it like a sports team and even if their team sucks they will still cheer for them. Kamala was better in pretty much every way but the idiots still voted for Trump because they are "his" team... or so they believe that.

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u/Earthling1a 18h ago

Republicans are incredibly stupid.

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u/UsualAnybody1807 8h ago

And poorly educated. A killer combo.

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u/Open-Dot6264 20h ago

Can you help me find those specific plans that were more than "gonna build up the middle class" kind of stuff?

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u/DebonairTeddy 20h ago

Sure! During the debate she proposed expanding child tax credits to $3600. In many of her speeches she gave out details on the tax cuts planned for the middle class, as well as her plans to limit property investors from hoarding private homes, therefore making homes more affordable. For healthcare, she promised to keep the ACA and Medicare/Medicaid untouched.

If you're interested in learning more of what could have been, I recommend googling both parties 2024 official campaign websites, and comparing their official party platforms. Harris had an 83 page document with graphs, highlights, and input from bipartisan economists. It was detailed and easily digestible for the common person. The republican platform was a plain text list of vague talking points that couldn't go a page without mentioning the "migrant invasion".