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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.
You voted for people to suffer, you're just mad that's it's you. GFY.
"This is not what I voted for" is starting to become just as cliché as "I didn't sign up for this shit!" (the thing that Hollywood soldiers say when they find themselves fighting in a war).
"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!
and DEI
White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they're the ones that benefited the most from DEI.
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.
If thats true it just reinforces that people can't think/reason and Cipolla was right about stupidity - A stupid person is someone will harm even themselves, even when trying to harm others (the very definition of this sub I guess)
and if there are so many conservatives like that, then John Stuart-Mill was right in saying stupid people are attracted to being conservative.
That doesn't mean all conservatives are stupid, it just means that if you're are stupid, you're likely to be conservative and as Cipolla also points out there are a lot of stupid people.
Their husbands told them that they should be pissed so they are pissed.
For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*
Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn't, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of "getting rid of DEI" clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as "best candidate instead of minority preference".
This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et -- these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to do it with the word "democracy" to mean something like "far left woke Democrat ideals".
* Just to clarify -- "good at messaging" just meaning that it's effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.
they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*
They are good at messaging because their base is so monolithic. For the most part, it's religious (mainly christian/protestant/catholic/whatever), straight, white people. There's so much common ground among them that you can pick a couple issues and make a boogeyman out of them. They've been doing it for years. Abortion was a big one, then it was same sex marriage, then it was immigrants, then it was transgender people. Not to mention the cable news propaganda arm that feeds them the lies. But for democrats, the base is so wide that it becomes hard to cater a message that applies to everyone. So there's positions that you have to take that don't apply to your entire base and sometimes that ends up fragmenting them and making it hard for people to get out and vote because people vote on their own self interest. Its why it was so frustrating when people were going to not vote for Kamala because of views on Palestine as if 1) Trump was going to be any better and 2) as if that was the only policy that mattered. Democrats need to stop trying to reach the other side of the aisle and reach the people that agree with them and get them out to vote by having inspiring candidates, not just milquetoast politicians that are going to try and be moderate. If the right takes 10 steps further right and democrats take 2 steps right to try and appeal to them, the middle ground has now moved further right which isn't inspiring to your supporters on the left. And then you start to alienate them.
I love this community. It sucks people need to suffer but when you're this dense, some pain is the only thing that'll make them pay attention.
The thing of it is, the real pain hasn't even started yet. The things Trump has done in his first 100 days are going to have larger and larger ripple effect repercussions for the next 10 to 20 years. The pain we are all going to feel is going to make what's happening right now look like a fucking picnic.
If things ever get 'painful' enough for me, you can believe I'm going to start channeling that pain towards the ruling class that put me in that position.
Good thing is they always have kids so we never have to worry about a shortage of targets.
There are dark days ahead. If history has shown us anything, it's that the ruling class only loses its power when workers bust out the guillotines.
In about three years:
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."
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.
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.
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
She didn't realize that she fits into the "expendable peasant" tier to Trump, and his ilk.
"Expendable peasant": Anyone who isn't a billionaire willing to throw money at L'Orange.
Great phrase, BTW. I'm brand new around here and I already like the place!
"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
Sorry, psychopaths. You elected him president. After he showed everyone exactly who he was. The why doesn't matter. He'll continue to be who he's always been, but now he's actively making the world worse...
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.
That's how they got over Bush II very quickly too.
Yeah, my friends from 20 years ago that fucking LOVED Bush now pretend they want nothing to do with him. Trump will be the same way. Set a reminder for 2045 to ask your favorite Republican what they think of Trump.
This person knew what Project 2025 was and just refused to believe it. This is exactly what they voted for.
No sympathies for these people
You do have to poses some strong repression skills to look at trumps platform and think "this is good for the common American". CJ, you voted for this. You willfully ignored what he was saying and drank the orange monster.
Way too many dumb fucks on this planet.
Vote republican, and have a worse life
I don't get why people haven't learned that one yet
Is Cj going to vote Dems or someone else at the next election? Yeah, I didn't think so.
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