“Gee, ya think?”
It’s not like Trump was ever hard to figure out. Most con artists have a simple playbook, but still people get played, people who ought to have enough life experience to know better … Or maybe they’ve always been played and refused to think about why? I dunno.
Dumb fucks. If you vote for a man who tried to illegally win a prior election, you should expect to get betrayed. Elect a rapist and expect to get fucked. It’s really not that hard.
awww. you mean the conman in chief conned you? Who could ever have seen this coming?!
These people are impossible to get through to. They were being told they were just being used and now that they realize it they feel cheated. Cheated. They don’t feel like fools they don’t accept they were stupid. Just cheated.
Zero sympathy for anyone regretting voting for this guy in 2024. What fucking idiots each and every one of them is.
Thats the spirit, not like you want to get these people back on side so you can actually have a chance at stopping this shit show in the future. No, youre better than them. And they need to know it. Right? Cos you lot being pricks to people who were fooled… that how you win… what again?
That is such wishful thinking. The US has proved election after election for decades that the American people, no matter how shit on, will still vote for their “team” and only ever find fault in the “others”.
Yeah, because of this shitty attitude. You have here a bunch of people finding out that they were lied to, and all we see is “HAHA, GET FUCKED!!!”. Theres more joy in seeing these people getting fucked over, than there is desire to pull them over to “your side”. You see this everywhere. The utter glee in people getting fooled, and then getting fucked. And thats before you get to the attacks on people who just ask questions. “Its not my job to educate you.” was said smugly, right before Trump got voted in to the shock of every single left wing echo chamber. That trend continued with Brexit and the with Trumps second term.
All of Americas problems, are of its own making. The list of excuses are endless, on both sides. And even now, with all of these people finding out that they were conned, its glee, joy, happy beeps. When does it end? When do we see the hand being held out, not to laugh, but to say “Its not too late. You fell for it. But that doesnt mean you have to be one of them forever.”?
Nothing is ever going to change, if people just stick to their teams and dont at least try and fucking recruit. Just endlessly shitting on each other is how Trump et al get in and stay in. It needs to fucking end.
They’re welcome to change their ways and atone, but the way to defeat fascism is not moving right
And neither is bullying people who got conned. I mean, it happened to all of you too. You all think you have a left wing party in the US. You dont. You have right and further right. And some gaggle of cave brained cunts comes in with some nonsense about trans people, like theres isnt a million other things that dems and republicans are eye to eye on.
You all vote Dem, because they tell you the shit you want to hear. So dont be all acting like youre better than everyone else, cos you fucking aint.
I do not understand why people cannot see him for what he is. He’s shown everyone over and over again exactly what he is. Yet somehow they tell themselves this time he’ll actually do something right.
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Trump: I hate you, my voters hate you, and if I win I’m going to hurt you.
Minorities voting for trump: of course he means the other minorities I hate
Minorities that city voted for trump after he won: who is he hurting us 😭😭😭
I’ve recently read that when Trump’s speeches have been translated for non-English speakers, they are wildly different than what he is actually saying.
And when bilinguals translate for them directly, they aren’t believed because the literal translation is pants on the head crazy.
That makes since as they are pants on head crazy in English.
*sense
*autocorrect is a ducking asshole
yes is is.
You two… Get a room.
I quite believe that. And it’s not the first time I heard this. But I’m yet to see any of these translations. Starting to feel like an excuse after hearing it multiple times without any sources.
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20250924/k00/00m/030/024000c
I don’t have tabs on Spanish, but I can confirm, the Japanese language has a tough time conveying how batshit insane Trump’s speeches are. It means they end up sanewashing him all the time. This article is about Trump’s UN ramble this year.
Title reads: “Trump strongly criticizes UN, says climate change measures are ‘fraudulent’ in his general debate speech”
It’s been a long time problem since his first term: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-interpreters-donald-trump-translate-struggle-us-president-white-house-speech-talking-style-a7596986.html
Isn’t that just a mainstream news thing?
The mainstream US news has been sanewashing him since he first ran in 2016 by summarizing or even over explaining what he ‘really means’ instead of using his actual words until extremely recently.
Right, but the difference is that foreign language translators are putting their own reputation on the line on representing the original speaker’s words accurately, because local media will use the translator’s account to make the story. When the original speaker is incoherent, translators have to convey what they are saying in a short time, otherwise they will sound stupid.
“You know, the press is always on me because I say this,” Trump began. “Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs? The late great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner. That’s insane asylums, they’re emptying out their insane asylums.”
My translation: 「記者らはいつもこれに追いかけてる、」トランプは述べた。「誰かは羊たちの沈黙をみたか？昔あの偉大だったハンニバル•レクター。夕食に誘ってくれる人だ。病院から狂人を全員放り出してる。」
Leaving aside that the sentences are barely relevant to one another, you can’t even begin get in the translation that Trump doesn’t appear to understand the difference between an insane asylum and a refugee claim of asylum. So translators just have to say: they’re letting out insane people from institutions.
Sanewashing has to be a part of translating heads of state because how many nutjobs/crazies have become leaders of their countries?
It can’t have been just two. Though I daresay the audacity of the current GOP to run/support an old man in an obvious state of mental decline has to be a novel strategy for the 21st century.
I heard King George III was all b-b-b-b-b-b and beebe beepabeep, but they didn’t put him in front of a microphone every day.
what what
Take your pointer finger and flip it back and forth on your lips so it moves them up and down.
Now make a “b” kind of noise rapidly.
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I mean it’s not like western / European media isn’t sanewashing him whenever they can get around quoting him directly, they pretend that he’s “a bit weird and maybe not so nice” (so as per usual for a rich, disgusting fascist, but still disheartening to see).
This article is rage inducing.
The 70-year-old Venezuelan cannot say that he is “regretful” of having voted for the Republican Party, a faction that, he says, aligns with his interests as a Christian and a conservative. But he no longer knows what to think. He arrived from Venezuela in 1994 and, once he had obtained American citizenship, his first vote was for Barack Obama, a guy who seemed “charismatic” to him; he liked the idea of the first African-American in power. But in the following two elections he distanced himself from the Democrats. “Because of the debauchery of the Joe Biden administration,” he says. And by “debauchery” he means issues of gender identity in education or the participation of trans people in sports, with which he does not agree.
So, fuck this Asshole especially very much. Enjoy the deportation you voted for you intolerant dick.
For Ferro, the reasons are clear, and almost the same as those of a community like the Cuban diaspora, settled in the south of Florida, where 68% voted for the Republican. “We Venezuelans have a kind of post-traumatic syndrome with the dictatorship, and that makes us dream that a messiah is going to come to save us from the misfortunes that people are experiencing in our country. That is what made many Venezuelans dream,” he says.
Because dictators NEVER come with messages of being the messiah. What a fucking shocker 😐.
Funny thing is, if the US weren’t married to the two-party system, they could have a party with policies for social restrictions with market regulation and public services at the same time. For which party these socially conservative Hispanics could vote.
“Debauchery of the Biden administration” yeah sure ok.
Americans don’t actually hold an enforceable monopoly on stupidity, it just seems that way.
No, man. Ignorant hicks are everywhere. Not just Alabama.
TRANS People are RUINING that Man’s Love of
WNBANWSLPWHLWomen’s College SportsWELL if he wasn’t Working so HARD to AFFORD Biden’s Economy in 2025 he would have TIME to Watch Women’s sports!Religion is the cancer of the mind of the people.
Opiates are the drugs of the bodies of the people of the country in the world today.
I wonder what happened in the early 90s in Venezuela that got so many people to leave…
Oh, right, Perez took an IMF loan, started neoliberalizing the economy, people got angry, the state started killing people, and then lack of bank regulation fucked everything up they spent billions bailing banks out.
My Cuban family and the extended clan who share my heritage are largely morons with regard to voting. All because of the Bay of Pigs.
So, fuck this Asshole especially very much.
Welcome to conservativism: you didn’t know this?
It’s stunning they (1) didn’t recognize populist demagoguery with radical disregard for lawful process as a classic warning of approaching dictatorship when they’ve seen it play out before and (2) couldn’t imagine it coming from the right instead of communism. It wouldn’t surprise me if they voted in the tyrant they escaped from. They played themselves.
Honest question: how much of the homophobia/transphobia is centered in Religion?
All of it?
It’s repressed self expression. They would find another reason if they had to.
‘They used us to win votes’
Um, yeahh. That’s why we kept telling you that.
You mean his documented history of lies wasn’t a hint that he was lying to you? You deserve whatever happens to you.
Well it’s ok when conservatives lie, they’re doing it for the right reasons, to uphold traditional values and make sure the undeserving underclasses don’t get uppity
Hey if we have to lie to get what we want then that’s what we’ll do!
-more or less verbatim
Venezuelans: vote in transgressive, populist demagogue, get transgressive, populist demagogue results, flee home country.
Venezuelan Republicans: do same thing, expect different results, act shocked.
Pretty wild.
Duh doy
