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"but we don’t learn from history"
Nah bitch, YOU don't learn. Don't try to lump me in with your inability to feel compassion or hold a coherent thought.
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And he's voting Republican again. Gotta make those college libs cry.
Trump is like Hitler for even stupider people.
73 year old Hawaii resident Richard Sniffer regrets voting repeatedly for Trump now that his gas prices are way higher.
"Now that it affects me I'm mad at him". Not the myriad other reasons no sane person wouldn't vote for mango Mussolini
When Donny dies the mental breakdown that his cult will have will be insane.
not necessarily. they've done enough damage to fuck the rest of us over for decades. we're already mega fucked but it's going to keep getting a lot worse, much faster, especially once a clear end is in sight. the way heavily addicted drug users will binge and purge when they know the ruse is up.
Get fucked, Johnny come lately. That's all been obvious since 2015. You weren't brainwashed, you're just a Nazi who got conned.
We need to make sure they remember it. A mark of the beast if you will.
One day everyone will have been against this
They already are. And they were.
They were lied to.
That's why Donald is polling lower than Jimmy Carter.
This is what genuine intelligence looks like. This man was able to look inward, admit he was misled and made a mistake and tries to correct it while learning something in the process.
Too bad half the country is dumber than this.
He voted for trump 3 times, he's dumber than a fucking rock.
Yes, the three time Trump voter. Genuine intelligence. Give me a break.
The intelligence here is the ability for this person to change their core beliefs after seeing, and accepting, facts.
It matters less how long it took for them to get here, and more that they are here now
No no no...
How long it took them to get here was really fucking important.
If it takes a decade to see and accept facts it's no so much intelligence as an accidental brain neuron firing.
I don’t think you’re taking into account the monumental propaganda machine in America. Especially with conservative media, which gradually ramped it up to the point it is at today. This was all planned in the 70s: conservatives knew then that an educated populace spelt doom for the Republican party, so they intentionally created a media machine to brainwash people. Check out the Powell memo.
I don't think people are so much doubting his intelligence as doubting the sincerity of his about-face?
Is he against Trump because he's become enlightened, and wishes to renounce all the bigoted ideals Trump championed?
Or has Trump's deranged rampage personally hurt him more than he could tolerate? And now he wants a more placid ride?
It's hard to say. And I'm not very willing to let a fascist get away scot-free, even if a few reformed racists have to suffer the social consequences of their actions in the meanwhile. It's not charitable, sure. But fascism is a disease and you don't eradicate a disease by being charitable when quarantining.
Extremely well said.
I'd say it matters quite a lot that it took them this long to get there. Quite a lot indeed.
These people should be banned from polite society and be glad that's all.
To readers passing by: the opposing views articulated above illustrate two archetypal notions of justice that are both truly ancient and worthy of your consideration.
Surely there's nothing in your life that took you a while to understand? Statements like yours always come off as elitist, and its hard to imagine you'd hold yourself to the same standard.
It's ridiculous to me that you think I wouldn't hold myself to the standards that I already have. Which is to vote for that piece of shit 0 times. I don't need some sort of secret playbook or cheat codes to understand that a conman is a conman and will always be a conman. Drain the swamp? Dude is the swamp thing.
Well I hope you intend to ban yourself from polite society when you break your own rule then.
You sound like somebody who should already be banned from polite society based on the previously described rules. Why should I give a shit what you think? Get the fuck out of here. Destroy your computers, your fridge, your toilet and live in the woods like the animal you are.
Dont like your own standards applied to yourself? Bummer. You sound like someone with anger problems.
Not at all.
The backlash against Minneapolis was bipartisan, at least among the people. The backlash to the war is even more mainstream. Donald's popularity is even worse than that of Jimmy Carter, so a significant percentage of people who voted Republican are likely to flip or simply not vote in the next election.
The problem is that people who voted Republican, admit it, and then affirm publicly they're going to vote differently have the fingers of Democratic partisans (And hypocritically, at that, given their support of genocide) wagging in their face, and people are more likely to not vote at all than to vote for someone who outwardly and purposely hates them despite their change of heart.
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The caller, who identified as Thomas from Hawaii, told host Taylor Popielarzthat he now regrets his votes for Trump.
“It’s hard for me to say this,” Thomas said. “But I think if I can open up about it in public that it might help others. I wanted to believe Trump was the real deal for a long time — even though I had doubts because I knew enough about his business history to think otherwise. But now I regret my support for him, and I should’ve known better. He’s making it plain as day. He’s a con man, a liar, doesn’t keep his promises. He’s in office all for himself and he doesn’t even try to hide his corruption anymore.”
Thomas added, “He’s the worst president we’ve ever had and he’s the most corrupt president we’ve ever had. I know it’s hard, it took me a while to be able to say that. Very difficult when you commit yourself to believing in somebody.
Popielarz asked Thomas whether he’d voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 — and Thomas confirmed that he had. The host followed up by asking what was “the straw that broke the camel’s back” for Thomas.
“I don’t think it’s one thing, it’s been a cumulative process,” Thomas said. “And it’s gotten so blatant now…He was gonna lower prices on day one, he was gonna do this on day one, only he could fix all this stuff. And now I understand how somebody like Adolf Hitler was able to brainwash millions of people. I never I thought I’d see that again in my lifetime. But it’s happened, right? I thought we got past that, but we don’t learn from history.”
Very difficult when you commit yourself to believing in somebody
It's really not.
Here's a tip, don't "commit yourself" to any fucking slimy politician (let alone this one)
This guy is not for real. No Trump voter knows how to use the word “cumulative.”
My first thought as well.
I'm actually impressed. It's incredibly difficult to leave an identity cult without professional help. The guy is genuinely an inspiration and I hope others that heard him will also be inspired.
Sounds like a mostly reasonable person.
Yes, the Democrats will win a majority somewhere in November. They're currently up 14% over Republicans nationally and that is rig-proof, blue wave territory. I don't see them making any major changes though, and they're probably salivating at the thought of the money they can make for themselves now that it's okay to insider trade AND insider-gamble on crypto and prediction markets.
A few will give some memorable, impassioned speeches before pulling the lever to insider trade, though.
Their strategy of lying down (and/or collaborating) and letting Donald jump off a cliff has worked, and sadly, to the detriment of all. I wish these bastards had actually opposed something.
they're probably salivating at the thought of the money they can make for themselves now that it's okay to insider trade AND insider-gamble on crypto and prediction markets.
That kinda took a weird turn, but okay.
A few will give some memorable, impassioned speeches before pulling the lever to insider trade, though.
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I think the point is that America really needs a strong overhaul to prevent something like Trump happening again, but there are not enough Democrats that are motivated by changing the status quo rather than increasing their personal wealth/power.
^ This. America needs a Teddy, FDR or La Terreur.
AOC
Her position on Israel even after months of Genocide (voting twice to keep on giving "defensive" help to Israel, though later she changed that position) leaves me with a feeling that she doesn't have strength of principle: when a country has already murdered so many babies that the list of babies 1 year old or younger murdered by Israel in Gaza in just the first 3 months of the Genocide is 17 pages long, nobody with even the most basic moral and principles who has the strength to stand by them, will vote for any support for that country in any way, form or shape - wrapped with a "for defense" wrapping paper or otherwise - quite the opposite.
Even if she is honestly a good person (which I do hope she is), somebody with such willingness and capability to ignore maybe one of the strongest moral compulsions there is (that one has against the murder or children and those who would do it) that they vote twice to support a baby-mass-murdering nation whilst they are activelly mass murdering babies, even if she trully believe it was only for their "defense" (which would also make her an idiot, since if "defense" is taken care of by the US, it frees Israeli military resources for more mass murdering and makes then unafraid of reprisals so they're even more extreme in their mass murdering, which was EXACTLY what happenned) doesn't have the strength of moral and principles of, for example, a Teddy Roosevelt.
The Dems won't undo anything Trump has done. The seal has been broken. Power only wants more power. The US system is cooked.
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If you live in the US and have ever wondered what you would have done in the shoes of an equivalent German citizen leading up to the 30s, wonder no longer: you're doing it right now.
Funnily enough in Germany the far right party looks like it's set to win the next major election in a few years. If we start another world war in the 30s you were warned. But I also know I would not have done shit to prevent it
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Better late than never. Next step is realising that Trump didn’t get where he is alone, and nothing would change if he were to die tomorrow. The problem is deeper than that.
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