• FatVegan@leminal.space
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    8 hours ago

    I’d rather feel bad for people who have to deal with this shit who didn’t vote for the fat pedo

    • buttnugget@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      These are mostly just ordinary working people who voted for him, not traitor lunatics.

        • buttnugget@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          They are voting according to their material interests. What is there to figure out?

          • CircaV@lemmy.ca
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            37 minutes ago

            Voting for rich guy will make me rich?? This is a myth. Rich ppl don’t get rich by giving money to others.

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              Well the explanation would work for one election, 2024.

              In 2016, he was a terrible choice on so many fronts, but no especially strong reason to expect he would dramatically shift inflation or pay. And on those specific metrics, his first term was mostly typical, except pandemic, which people can believe to be an utterly freak event beyond anyone’s control if they still wanted to vote for Trump.

              The global economic shock continued and was exasperated by war. Biden had little to do with it, but it was on his watch, so he gets saddled with blame, so to the extent a voter just thinks about their personal economic situation, they vote for “not the current leadership”.

              So this term has been marked by utterly predictable economic problems that everyone told them would happen, but they didn’t have first hand experience to trust that, and Trump’s rhetoric resonated with the “I know smart people say it doesn’t work, but ‘common sense’ tells me get rid of immigrants and tariff all imports and things will be great, making American jobs and getting rid of foreigners taking the jobs”.

              So now they get to see first hand why those common sense thoughts don’t actually work.

              Still. I predict next year they’ll roll back tariffs to try to create a bit of deflation and also cut checks to everyone to make them feel like winners in the moment as they decide midterms.

          • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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            2 hours ago

            They voted directly against their material interests, as is evidenced by every single post in this com.

            And that info wasn’t hidden, as the entire campaign was policy that would obviously raise costs,

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            7 hours ago

            People warned them and they ignored it, since the warnings came from the side of the lady with the weird laugh who the gays and trans voted for. It’s unfortunate for them, but I’m not going to shed a tear for people who have helped orchestrate their own demise against all warnings.