No Stupid Questions

If someone was uninformed and misinformed enough to think voting for Trump was even remotely in their own self-interest in the first place, then there is almost no disaster Trump can cause that will not be instantly reframed as "just imagine how much worse it would be under Dems!"

Dying of COVID? Well at least you're not dying from forced vaccination!

Layoffs due to tariffs? LOL what's a tariff?

Can't get benefits you need to survive? Well clearly the Welfare Queens left him no choice! It's their fault!

It's no coincidence that Trump in particular and Republicans in general relentlessly attack education and free information. They've already brainwashed enough of the population to win elections, and they want to make sure the general population has no way out of that hole. This is why they're attacking Wikipedia and Internet Archive. This is why Project 2025's first order of business is to eliminate the Department of Education. This is why Musk bought fucking Twitter in the first place, most likely. This is why they're now trying to repeal Section 230 (with the help of some Judas Dems), so they can bully any web site into taking down any information they don't like.

The information apocalypse is upon us.

I live in Missouri. Anecdotally, there are a lot of trumpers/nazis who used to be real proud of that fact who are real fucking quiet about it as of the last few weeks.

So something is making it through. Can't say as of yet that it's making it as far as 'real second thoughts' but they are def embarrassed right now.

I’m struggling to believe these articles are anything but pandering to the left.

There's not exactly any good news to go around, so chuckling at the misfortunes of others is all we have. I'm very aware I'm on the same sinking ship. My only hope is to stay alive while this happens and hopefully still be on board when the holes are patched.

during COVID you had conservatives literally claiming COVID was no big deal as they died

I remember seeing a lot of headlines on the Herman Cain Award subreddit claiming things like deniers asking doctors if they could still get vaccinated as they faced severe illness. lol

Trump’s popularity is lower than any President at this point in their presidency. I think there are a lot of “moderates” and uninformed voters who are starting to regret their choice.

Once he starts axing Medicare/medicare and going after social security and other popular programs it is only going to get worse.

Just remember there will be roughly 20 to 30 percent who are hard core MAGA who will never change their minds no matter how bad it gets.

Yeah, all the news is just exhausting. Every day is some new bullshit from Musk/Trump flagrantly doing things to harm people and no one with any power is trying to do anything about it. People I care about have already lost their jobs and others are very concerned about their future. Trump's supporters are hateful morons but them getting hurt too doesn't make up for the rest of us suffering. There is a very real possibility that a lot of us never get out of the hole Musk and Trump are digging. Even if we do we'll have lost years of our lives to them. Ridiculing people who've made the terrible decision to support them isn't helping anything.

They've always been collaborators, fascism can't rise to the surface without a liberal party enabling it. Voters have the delusion that their security is only an election away so they will never rise up against the system they benefit so much from.

... but you do have to give them "an out".

There is a path to redemption. It's there for anyone who wants to take it.

So far, "how was I supposed to know?" is the closest thing I've seen to a way to avoid embarrassment, so I think we're going to have to let them have that one.

Nope. That's not it. "You were supposed to know" because it was fucking obvious to anyone who paid even a little attention. Be embarrassed about that.

I have to assume that most of these “swindled” people were low-information voters

I'm sorry, if you're a low information voter in the information age, you are getting what you deserve. How many of these people share links on Facebook with memes that can be disproven with a 5 minute visit to the library? This is the "science is fake" crowd I'm talking about. They are constantly surrounded by information and turn up their nose at it. They are proud to be ignorant. Well, there's a real cost to being ignorant, and that cost is being swindled by con-men. The very same con-men will blame things on Biden, and I'm sure not 100% of the voters will wake up, but they didn't want to listen before and they made this bed. Now we ALL have to lie in it.

I don’t know what the appropriate response is. Empathy is hard.

Sorry, my tank is empty from the constant bullshit during COVID. Can't wear a mask to help prevent the immunocomprised? Well, here's your FREEDOM. It's finally here. I hope they get what they were wishing for. All those red states wishing us ill while the blue states supported them with our tax dollars. No more! Don't wan't FEMA? Wish granted! Good luck on those hurricanes!

I’m also pretty sure your post is getting removed

For what?

“Kamala is for they/them - Trump is for you.”

Okay screw Trump and all that but this is good.

As a US citizen this is deeply relevant.

Our government has been swinging its dick around worldwide for decades absolutely fucking shit up while American citizens blithely move along in ignorance while it's all happening and claiming we spread "freedom" and "democracy" when we have never done any such thing. We, through our government, have used Economic Shock Treatment to dominate and control.

It's literally not the rest of the world's job to separate us into "good Americans" versus "bad Americans." The Ugly American never left.

Everything happening here will have knock-on effects for the rest of the world. It's up to us to clean up our own damn mess.

I am waiting for US refugees to be shocked at how few countries will want to take us in. They don't have the time, money, or willingness to sort through the refugees only looking for the good ones.

Especially because the first people to demand to be helped in this country are always the ones who voted to not get help to begin with. They vote against their own needs endlessly and nobody wants to risk bringing in such selfish unstable people. Easier to just say "No American refugees accepted" since the Trumpers will literally be the first to run away because they can't face reality or accept their own responsibility in the current reality. They are always the first to run from the consequences of their own actions. Facing what they've done would make them reckon with the idea that they're not a good person, and that kind of self-reflection would cause Ego Death in them, so they avoid it at all costs.

There is another way.

Why do you get multi-millionaires voting for a president who doesn’t help them?

Who does NOT help them? Have you seen the proposed tax cuts? If you're in those upper tax brackets with the amount of money you'd save it's probably hard NOT to vote for him. The rich are just about the only group Trump does care about.

I've heard it from more than one person that it was a "blowout". Well, the margins were a lot closer than that, if you ask me. Kamala wasn't my favorite person on the planet, but for sure, I knew she wouldn't cause as much chaos as Trump would, and I very much did want her to get in as President. Unfortunately, the less reasonable among us were victorious and now they are getting EXACTLY what they asked for. They just weren't aware of it at the time. I wish I could say a lot of people will be learning a lesson right now, but they will just continue to blame things on Biden, even as Elon Musk is busy blocking all their Social Security checks.

Don’t start that shit. We’re better than that.

The facts are she lost and that’s that.

At this point you regroup and hope he does a great job in office and that we all benefit

For her to not win ANY of the toss-up states is...interesting to say the least.

Seems par for the course to be honest. Well, it's kind of surprising but with the benefit of hindsight it's well within the bounds of plausibility. I mean there were two or big issues in this election besides not being Trump: the economy, immigration and Gaza. The Democrats failed on all of them.

I don't see the Dems doing shit about anything, though. Do they really want them back? If so, where's the plan?