CJMusic Oct 7, 2023:

Joe Biden is the worst US president in history.

CJMusic Jul 6, 2024:

It would appear that, in light of Biden failing and floundering, the Dems sent their minions out to foment panic about Project 2025. It won’t work.

CJMusic May 1, 2025:

I regret voting for Trump.

My husband is laid off and can’t find a job and my kids’ credit scores have tanked bc of his student loan policy.

This is not what I voted for.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      I mean, we’re getting for it regardless of who we voted for. That’s the magic of singular senior executive in a three-branch government where the executive branch has functional dictatorship of the bureaucracy.

      If Harris had won (perhaps by not pissing off big chunks of the Midwestern Arab population by repeatedly endorsing the genocide of their families) then she’d have been spared the indignity of getting what she asked for. But the wind was with the Republicans, so now we all get to hang out in the crumbling dystopian hell-hole together.

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        Well those midwestern Arabs can celebrate the… genocide of their families and themselves when they are deported right out of the country.

        Not sure how this shit is any fucking different from the vast amount of killing we all support paying taxes to the us government. Of this killing is bad… ignore the killing over here, and here, and here, AND OH LOOK NOW IT’S HERE AT HOME!

        Honestly sometimes I think right wingers have a fucking point about immigration if they are going to come here and vote away my fucking rights while caring more for a foreign country than the one they claim they want to live in they can get the fuck out then.

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          Jesus christ… whatever argument you are attempting to make about voting outcomes can you not get xenophobic and racist about it?

          Also what kind of a fucking argument is it that like. They should’ve taken your side when your side was committing genocide in their homeland against their people and their culture, but now that its your culture facing a fascist uprising (note, not yet a genocidal invasion of extermination unlike the ongoing genocide in Gaza) and political violence suddenly its very important that everyone put your cultures needs first. Like its whatever to you if Palestine is erased from history and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are brutalized, to you its just an annoyance a political nuisance. But when its your culture facing COMPARATIVELY mild acts of political violence all of a sudden its extremely important that it be recognized by all and everyone should be setting their principles aside for it. Your response to this entire situation is to call for further violence against Palestinians.

          This is one of the most reprehensible comments I’ve read on this platform. I don’t think it matters at all if you’re from a specific marginalized community who is uniquely facing violence under the Trump administration. That doesn’t mean that you get free reign to call for violence against a minority group of people who already face institutional political violence in the US and who also are living in a country that has been actively engaging in the current genocide of their people in their homeland since 2023. You are also calling for acts of violence against an entire community of people for the political choices a few of them made. This is absolutely disgusting behavior. There’s no justification for this.

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            29 days ago

            can you not get xenophobic and racist about it?

            They can’t, no.

            This is the root of the problem. Liberals are just as xenophobic and anti-Islam as their conservative peers. They are ultimately fine with Trump’s policies and more than willing to go along with them, when the policies target brown people.

            That’s why you’ve got Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and even Gretchen Whitmer opening their state bureaucracies up to Trump’s DHS gestapo.

            The “you stupid Arabs deserve what you get” rhetoric is justification for policy Democrats wanted, but were too squeemish to impose directly.

            Republicans are the sword and Democrats are the shield in this Holy War on non-Christians.

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        30 days ago

        If those Arabs thought that trump would in any way reduce the genocide, well… I will point them to the image above.

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        If Harris had won (perhaps by not pissing off big chunks of the Midwestern Arab population by repeatedly endorsing the genocide of their families)

        Or perhaps by the Democrats taking economic inequality seriously and actually moving the needle on helping the working class.

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    This is not what I voted for

    “I voted for other people to suffer, and now I’m suffering. Is there no fairness in this world?”

    Either that, or:

    “When Donald Trump mentioned what a fine man Hannibal Lecter is before shuffling around to the YMCA, my brain registered that as him telling me everything that I wanted to hear because I’m a delusional psychopath with no grip on reality that thinks the world revolves around me.”

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      The Hannibal Lecter thing drives me nuts, because Trump clearly heard someone mention immigration from political asylum and confused that with mental asylums.

      I wish the press would have picked up on it and called him out.

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        I’m pretty sure he praised OJ Simpson at some point in the middle of all of that as well. He was also very concerned about offshore wind farms killing whales in record numbers. And there was that one incident where he just stood around on stage saying and doing nothing for an hour while golden oldies played.

        The press was too busy printing headlines about Trump calling Biden “sleepy Joe” though. And honestly I’m not sure if an honest and fair press would’ve even helped in this case. It would’ve just been librul deep state propaganda. And they would’ve just gone on with their decorative diapers, foam fingers and Trump bibles regardless.

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          It wouldn’t have helped. You can go online and see all of the semi reasonable convesations with trump supporters out in public and the all want to hold on to the idea he is a good, sane choice. They never accept the evidence. They just reluctantly shrug.

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        It’s usually the dumbest, most infantile reason with him. He just negotiated rare earth materials with Ukraine, and he’s after them again in Greenland. I’m starting to think he wants them because they literally have “rare” in the name.

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        I wish the press would have picked up on it and called him out.

        There are so, so, so many instances of this. If they’d picked up on a few more we wouldn’t be in this mess. But they ignored them all because they’re complicit in all of this.

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    This person knew what Project 2025 was and just refused to believe it. This is exactly what they voted for.

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    this is not what I voted for

    Nah, dipshit it’s EXACTLY what you voted for.

    It’s too bad these morons are illiterate, and allergic to anything that isn’t low-IQ misinformation

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    29 days ago

    “This is not what I voted for.”

    I voted for him to hurt immigrants, the poor, the gays, women, workers, non-whites, Democrats, progressives, liberals, intellectuals, drag queens, the woke, and DEI, not white Americans!

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      and DEI

      White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they’re the ones that benefited the most from DEI.

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        Everything about conservative American women was explained in Dworkin’s Right Wing Women.

        Women who grow up in shitty sexist communities (eg, imagine being a teenage girl growing up in fucking Disney, Oklahoma.) You have no future. You are supposed to find a guy to marry yourself off to. You are promised this is the greatest thing ever, taught to fantasize about your wedding, to imagine you’re happily ever after.

        Then you get married to some guy. Maybe he’s great, maybe he’s not. But you never got to be a person. You were never taught that you could be something more. You feel bitter and powerless in your community - you’ll never be the deacon, but you’ll always be cleaning up after the potluck.

        But then you see other women who don’t have to live like that. This is a societal threat to these communities. That there are clearly women in the world who are happy and fulfilled in an office or a field, while you will never be anything more than a church secretary or PTA mom.

        So the propaganda is always that these women are lying. They aren’t actually happy. They aren’t actually competent - they only got their jobs through “DEI.” They aren’t better than you, it’s a liberal plot.

        This is also connected to the fear routine - see how the right wing women sphere is the TERFs. They whip up a history to aim the real anxieties and fears related to a culture that covers up sexual violence against women (how many youth pastors have we never heard about?) and redirects it to an acceptable target. Women who perform this well enough are even rewarded with having their voice recognized - that Phyllis Schafly made a career of telling other women to not have careers, that Rowling has defined the exclusion of trans women as a prime most important feminist feat (while women in the US die of lack of access to reproductive health care…)

        They don’t benefit from DEI because they’ve been told not to want careers, and they are mad at the wrong people.

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    If Trump actually falls out of favor with the Right I fully expect these kinds of people to try to blame all of this on him alone so they check the box for the next R who will enable them to continue to be shitheads.

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        I remember sitting there, being embarrassed that W was the face of our country. I was thinking to myself, how did we let this happen, policy aside, he’s really not a capable president and its horrific in speaking.

        G’DAM if i don’t miss that whyly bastard. I’d rather have someone with some actual moral values, but jesus i don’t know how much worse it could get.