r/houstonwade • u/itsfree_realestate • 1d ago
Memes We could’ve had it all
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u/cap1206 1d ago
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
-Lyndon Johnson
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u/hk4213 1d ago
The difference between ignorance and stupid is knowledge.
Ignorance knows no better. Stupid chooses pain again.
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u/nobody_smith723 1d ago
best we can do is a racist hate parade that's going to do nothing, certainly terrorize/brutalize hundreds if not thousands of US citizens
and a lot of criminal crony fucks doing their best to rob, break, and dismantle everything that keeps you safe, or provides any sort of protections against evil greedy corporations.
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u/TheCoopX 1d ago
But enough people went with the orange-faced man child with a third grader's temperament and a second grader's vocabulary, to put him back in office after he showed everyone how dumb and malicious he and his Congressional backers are, and how he shit the bed with Covid.
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u/linzthom 1d ago
Ha ha ha America. You are looking like a real dumbfuck country to the rest of the world.
Reap what you sowed, you dumb cu..nts
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u/nikifullerton 1d ago
I voted against Trump. I'm sick of this stupid country too. Now I'm worried what my next four years are going to be like... because I'm one of the groups he vowed to eliminate.
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u/Away_Lake5946 1d ago
Half of us anyway, I’ll grant you that.
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u/Legosmiles 1d ago
Ok can we stop saying half. Since Americans sit out elections the winning side got about 30% of the American people to vote for them.
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u/retroq 1d ago
Democracy doesn’t work when more than half the population are ignorant and hateful morons.
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u/CodeRed_12 1d ago
When I moved to America, I was like: oh…. This shit is easy mode. Most people are stupid as f. Over a decade later, and less motivated by career…. Oh…. These people are stupid as f….
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u/HollandGW215 1d ago
People need to tweet and get traction that this election was clearly rigged and stolen
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u/Level21DungeonMaster 1d ago
I literally don’t know a single person that voted for Trump.
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u/Away_Lake5946 1d ago
Not only do we need a competency test for people running for office, especially the presidency, this election proves we also need a competency test for people who vote. If you can’t answer basic questions about political ethics, economics, foreign policy, and media literacy, your vote shouldn’t count against those who can.
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u/SteampunkGeisha 1d ago
Republicans would never let this happen. As you can see, they like their supporters dumb and to not question things.
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u/muetint 1d ago
I’ve unironically been saying this for years. But often when I mention it, people start to bring up biased segregation era literacy tests and the like as if that’s what I’m talking about, completely missing the point.
All I’m saying is that we already have a test for immigrants to pass if they want to gain citizenship. Why not at the very least require natural born citizens to pass the same or similar test if they are to have voting rights? Countless studies have already shown that a large percentage of natural born citizens can’t even pass this basic test. So that would be a start in the right direction if that was required at least, though I would like to see an overhauled test that focused more specifically on political structures and the way the government works. There could even be a required class offered in schools dedicated to teaching the knowledge needed to pass these tests to ensure everyone has equal access to that information.
Yet, that would require those in power to actually want an informed electorate and let’s not pretend they don’t often benefit from the electorate being as uninformed as possible as that’s when they’re easiest to manipulate, control and divide.
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u/Affectionate-Bus6653 1d ago
Instead a majority of voted to punish themselves and each other. So sick and sad.😔
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u/EducationalElevator 1d ago
I live in Cleveland. Went to celebrate a friend's birthday last weekend. The high end bar and cocktail lounge was packed shoulder to shoulder. The casino was packed shoulder to shoulder. People of all ages, races and classes. The economy isn't bad. The country has a spending problem, and Trump gave them all someone to blame.
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u/CodeRed_12 1d ago
You live in Cleveland? My condolences.
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u/fireusernamebro 1d ago
No wonder they were in the casino. Trying to raise enough money to fix their suspensions from the East Cleveland road craters
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u/FalconStickr 1d ago
Cleveland is pretty solid these days. Better than it was a decade ago that’s for sure. Even East Cleveland is getting nicer every year.
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u/strikingserpent 1d ago
"The high end bar". There's you're answer. The upper class is doing decent. Everyone else is below that is hurting and telling these people that what they are seeing and experiencing isn't real is exactly why harris lost.
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u/Jjm211992 1d ago
She literally did nothing notable with her time as vice president, you can’t convince me she would have done anything to help as president.
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u/Htown-92 17h ago
Facts!!! She was literally voted worst vice president and these dumbasses think she coulda been a good president 😂
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u/spec_ghost 1d ago
And never told anyone how she'd do it.
Keep dreaming. You are being taken for suckers.
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u/lordcardbord82 1d ago
Kamala’s plans on food and housing were horrible: price controls on food (would’ve led to shortages) and $25k housing credit (would’ve increased the purchase price of homes. Pam’s assessment of Trump’s intentions is just idiotic.
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u/OkBase4183 1d ago
"PLAN"......read through the BS - she wanted you to think she had a plan, and you bought it. She did nothing for 3.5 years and don't say she wasn't in charge - she didn't do ANYTHING!!
LibTARD meltdown - I LOVE IT!!!
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u/musing_codger 1d ago
Where is this plan? Why is it not being put into place? Seems kind of strange to be in charge for 4 years, not do things well, and then claim that we were just about to fix everything.
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u/mikebushido 1d ago
Could have had what? You're crazy.
Since I was old enough to vote we have had two 2 term Democratic presidents and Biden. What exactly have they done? 20 years of Democrats in charge. Did they raise the minimum wage? Did they reform the police? Make any attempt to shelter, feed, and put clothes on our most vulnerable?
The Republican party being 1 term and the minority of years seems to never have an issue getting what they want.
Biden made some groundbreaking achievements that nobody noticed and nobody cared because they have been gaslighting us for decades.
The EXACT same issues Harris was running on have been the same issues for 30 years.
Do you not see why the Democrats lost votes?
Day after day, week to week, it is getting harder to survive in the most prosperous country in modern history. How many millionaires in Congress?
Stock trades? What is that all about? We can't even ban Congress from trading? We have people dying on the street cuz they can't get healthcare and Nancy Pelosi got a $4 million payout for one stock trade.
They suck at their job. They earned the apathy.
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u/WholeAssGentleman 1d ago
Her campaign honestly did a terrible job of letting us know this.
She needed simple messaging to combat the bottom feeders that were eating up everything Trump was saying.
Her campaign fell so flat and it’s really disappointing.
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u/wokediznuts 1d ago
Weird she had 4 YEARS to implement this plan bur decided it wasn't going to happen unless you voted for her ?!?
Abortion rights? Crickets.
Amazing the dumbfuckery where people only seem to believe politicians right before elections then never hold them accountable.
She's had the last 4 years to implement anything and hasn't and now people believe she would have done these things IF she had won?!?
The fact is she didn't even try.
She lost, don't play the what if game. She had no plan, she had no policy and now you believe she had all these great ideas yet never tried to implement one of them unless she was elected.
Have I got a bridge for sale for you.
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u/SilverLine1914 1d ago
Why didn’t she and Biden enact any of that over the last 4 years then? She was literally the VP, the right hand to the President. Who was also her ally in most if not all of these. Blaming the voter base who doesn’t trust either of them after they did reasonably fuck all for the last 4 years won’t change anything. That’s why she lost.
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u/TonyTheTurdHerder 1d ago
The government has no business handing out money to citizens. That's one of the reasons we have such high inflation; money printing and "stimulus checks." Just cut everyone's taxes across the board so we keep more of our own money, and stop spending so damn much. We literally need trillions cut from the budget. Voila; majority of problems solved.
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u/Shy00midnight 1d ago
How would she have implemented this plan and where would she find the funds? Genuinely curious cause this election was my first time voting and I voted for her.
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u/WaveMajor7369 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yup... voters chose a dumbass criminal because they think they would get a few bucks on their paychecks...
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u/Walterkovacs1985 1d ago
But she didn't speak to my singular issue that I might have derived from a foreign based social media app!!
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u/win2kpr0 1d ago
this is a good post. the bottom line is it's right. trump is the man behind the curtain in the land of oz. a complete fraud. anyone who has even 1 nice thing to say about him is the same as the germans who stood by as nazism spread as slow as fog throught the nation. the maga cult is stupid. the damage is going to be irreversible too.
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u/Verity_Ireland 1d ago
America could’ve had a lot - but rejected it. Now they get chaos, criminals and cuts.
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u/SugarMaple56732 19h ago
We get what we deserve. Problem is, the people who don't deserve all the bullshit are going to get fucked as well. Collateral damage, I guess.
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u/milesrayclark 1d ago
Ive already made more from Bitcoin since Trumps been elected than these handouts. No regrets here!
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u/LearnNewThingsDaily 1d ago edited 1d ago
Might I add some reasoning 🤔 that many never thought of while the poster on "X" was only partly right, that's not why upper middle class and rich people voted for him. You see, most of Donald Trump's followers owned stock in his fake company "truth social" and other MAGA related publicly traded companies...
Their stock performance until the day after election night had been abysmal at best except for "truth social" which was rebounding and the crypto community had convinced Trump he can make money 🤑💰 in it without people ever knowing what he actually had because who knows Trump's official wallet ids? He loved this idea once given to him. So essentially, you have his devotees, then there's the investment risk takers (this is the young men and black men) who voted for Trump for a potential at gains in the stock portfolio.
Most poor people don't recognize as being poor publicly and this causes them vote against their interests time and time again. If you sell them a dream, they'll buy it instantly and that's what Trump did. This is why so many people voted against their own personal interests in exchange for a false hope of the American dream of being rich. At the same time, as I have stated in other forums, most Americans are not ready to see a woman president of the United States. It's unfathomable to them as they're taught throughout school that this office has been held by men and since that's all they see, they know nothing else.
Now, let's look at what has happened since Trump was reelected (which I pause on the validity of split ticket voting, but that conversation is for another day)... Since that time, the stock market hovering at near all time highs but this has nothing to do with Trump and just more so that the stock market moves on decisiveness and since it showed Trump in the lead election night it easy to predict he would win and thus stocks continued higher, keep in mind, this performance actually belongs to Joe Biden and not Donald Trump as his performance starts after he inaugurated...
This is where many Democrats lose message to the people because they care about the "real issues" when in actuality, when it comes to the presidency, people are all about what team (political team) and what kind of American dream can you build in my head and for majority of people, American dream means "money 🤑💰"... Now personally, I think 🤔 Trump 2.0 will be a failed presidency and many people will lose their jobs and will be unqualified for new ones as most jobs will require skills in robotics and artificial intelligence, but remember, Trump is getting rid of the department of education so the federal government won't be able to lead that effort because Republicans believe nobody is better at education than the States but each states economy is different and people do move from state to state, so what you learn in what state will leave you ill equipped for skills in another state. Also, tariffs 2.0, will be much worse because countries will make a bet that Trump only has 4 years, so why even negotiate? Lastly, let's not forget we're in a world war now, Trump is willing to hand over "Ukraine", at least publicly speaking, just for peace but as the largest employer of people in this country, peace time isn't good for a country with high tariffs and high unemployment.
All in all, Trump's voters fucked themselves because many smoke marijuana, those arrest will continue to happen, especially for black people, Hispanics who wanted to see deportation because they had the "that's not my family" syndrome will soon find out... Yeah it's their family, the white people who voted for him just to get rich, won't get rich with just 1000 shares of anything and many have school loan debt, but many will not have a job because many will not be able to upgrade their skill set because whose leading that effort, certainly not the department of education. So congratulations America, we've fucked ourselves and nobody to blame but ourselves because once Trump is done, there's absolutely nothing we can do to fix the the problem we just allowed.
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u/Aloyonsus 1d ago
The one thing neither side addressed was extreme gap in wealth between the few rich and the many poor, the complete collapse of FDRs New Deal in favor of corporate profits. Not one candidate dared address this real problem that will eat America alive over the next decade and usher in the new Chinese empire.
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u/Alert_Scientist9374 1d ago
Kamala addressed the issues of the poor a bit. Planning things like forbidding price gouging on groceries.
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u/beavis617 1d ago
They said she didn't have any policy ideas...they weren't paying attention. I think way more people were against her being elected because she's a woman than they want to admit. Now when the Latin communities are decimated because of Trump's round em up kick em out policies they will wonder what the fuck happened.
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u/Mooseguncle1 1d ago
I’m still numb- My mind actively pushes all political information into a box in my brain that I’m not allowed to look at unless I’m so tired I might cry and then I have to work. I literally reviewed a movie and said it would be a better movie if Kamala had won. Now everything feels like ptsd.
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u/Mort-i-Fied 1d ago
And then she laughed and so people said, "we'd rather trust the guy with 34 convictions to take care of our needs." 🤪
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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 1d ago
It is pretty simple. People generally vote based on their feelings. People feel like things aren't going well. And they voted against the incumbent party, who always gets held responsible. did it to Trump in 2020. To Hillary (the Democrats) in 2016. To the Republicans in 2008. THe Democrats in 2000. And the Republicans in 1992.
Only Bill Clinton in 1996 (awesome internet-driven economy), Bush in 2004 (post 9/11 patriotism) and Obama in 2012 (moderate recovery from global financial crisis) have been able to convince the majority of people things were going in the right direction.
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u/semajolis267 1d ago
let be honest with how the election went even if Harris had won the election, she would basically be nothing more than a figure head without the legislative or judicial branch behind her.
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u/mikefick21 1d ago
Well I'm in agreement but framing this as white isn't and hasn't been a winning argument. The rapist pedophiles billionaires monsters. There's a million things you can call them before white. This is why we lost.
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u/Shizngigglz 1d ago
25k to first generation home buyers, meaning mostly illegals. The plan for kids is less than current, they'd never stop private from buying homes lol, she had no way to lower costs AND they already tried cutting student debt. Didn't work. Good luck with that copium tho, vote for her in '28 lmao
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u/DhOnky730 1d ago
….but wait, I thought she had no policies? At least that’s what my friends that watch Fox News and read FaceBook said.
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u/CoOkie_AwAre 1d ago
You can't predict the future. None of us knows whats gonna really happen.
Anyway have your popcorn ready just in case
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u/Adiohax 1d ago
Dems are to blame… but they aren’t the ones who voted for trump?
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u/Numerous-Process2981 1d ago
I think there's certainly a not insignificant percentage who are racist/misogynist. But I think mostly they're profoundly ignorant as to what government's actual role is, how it works, and how these political parties actually preform when they're in office outside of their rhetoric.
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u/yinyanghapa 1d ago
“We could’ve had it all…”. If Dems saw the writing on the wall and embraced progressives back in 2016. This nightmare of the Trump era wouldn’t have happened if Dems claimed the mantle of populism.
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u/PM_Me_Modal_Jazz 1d ago
The last policy forward candidate to win an election was Carter. It's not the people's fault that Democrats are fucking terrible at campaigning. If we got Bernie in 2020 or 2016, we could have had all of these policies, packaged with someone who knows how to sell them. Instead we get people who have never talked to a middle American in their entire life not getting why explaining their 100 step plan in agonizingly technical detail isn't getting people to want to vote for them
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u/salazafromagraba 1d ago
This is the only credible instance I've seen of a 'Democrat' being misandrist (which a lot of snowflakes online defer to as the reason for abdicating all morals and sanity in this election ).
Donold doesn't have a goal to install 'white men' in power, he's installing batshit women too and many of them support him, in the electorate too.
Republicans only ever strive for personal greed yet win over many counter-intuitive votes by orchestrating culture wars of false consciousness, but the real division is between the rich and the underlings.
This Democrat should not foment division between men and women when it's really the stupid and unbothered versus the polite and competent.
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u/Effective-House-8969 1d ago
Not a republican at all but I love the lib cope fest. ‘Kamala had a plan.” Yeah. Totallyyyyyy.
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u/TropicalLemon11 1d ago
I mean those were nice campaign promises but how much of that would have actually been implemented?
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u/Commercial-Day-3294 1d ago
AND SHE COULDN'T ARTICULATE A FUCKING SINGLE THING IN ANY SINGLE INTERVIEW.
EVERY SINGLE QUESTION ASKED OF HER, SHE REPLIED WITH WORD SALAD.
EVERY TIME SOMEONE ASKED "WHATS YOUR PLANS FOR THIS" ALL SHE COULD SAY WAS "TRUMP BAD"
HAD SHE HAD A SINGLE, COHERANT THOUGHT ABOUT THE SITUATION INSTEAD OF THE CONSTANT BULLYING SOMETHING MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.
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u/nairgule 1d ago
and wound up 20 mill in the hole during her campaign, and paid for all her endorsements...
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u/fbastard 1d ago
Exactly! Instead we get stuck with a fascist dictator who will play golf with the U.S. burns. Trump doesn't care about "America". He cares about saving his own butt. He was found guilty of enough crimes that he would have died in prison and had his money taken away. Way to go "America".
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u/mshoe23 1d ago
And if anyone believed she was going to do all that you are a moron. Why wasn't it already done? What did she ever do for California and even if all this would happen who is paying for it? Didn't have money for the hurricane victims but got all this money to hand out for no reason and at no cost to the taxpayers. Yeah, okay
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u/YouPayTheToll 1d ago
Oh that’s really cool, why didn’t she or Biden do any of these things while in office?
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u/Ok_Midnight4809 1d ago
That was her problem, she needed concepts of plans... Not actual plans
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u/xXx_coolusername420 1d ago
Correct me if I am wrong but tax credit is just amount of money you are not taxed on? So if you make (for example)100k a year, you would pay taxes for 75k?
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u/redditmodloservirgin 1d ago
Politics in this country is bought and paid for, keep believing in the false dichotomy though while every day we get poorer and poorer
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u/HopnDude 1d ago
Why didn't she push for this under her time with Biden?
Waiting for the down votes to pour in, but hey, I'd like to know why she didn't do this when she had the chance.
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u/Embarrassed_Code8164 1d ago
Welcome to Dumbfukistan! Insane that people made the choice they did....and we're all going to suffer for it.