So, in your desperation to find an honest candidate, you voted for… Trump.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
<sad trombone>
And I’ve heard more than one Republican tell me - in all seriousness- that Trump is the honest candidate. The pathetic desperation is unreal.
So regardless of what Silver Lining thinks, I stand by my assessment: Republican voters are detached from reality to a degree the rest of us cannot comprehend. If you want to talk about facts, I’m willing to listen. But if you refuse to acknowledge the actual criticisms, there is no point in bothering.
This leaves me perpetually amazed. It’s as if they don’t comprehend what they have given up by supporting Trump. The Republicans have lost all credibility to speak on any topic whatsoever. They have supported bizarre accusations, conspiracy theories, and spread insane, destructive lies. How can they be trusted to ever tell the truth again? And don’t get me started on questions of morality. Next time a Republican tells me they are angry about a sex scandal or an offensive remark, I’m going to laugh in their goddamned face.
So let me get this straight: This thread is to see if Democrats realize that everything the Trump campaign did was entirely aboveboard, and that all the blame rests on the Democrat’s own bigoted, sinful and crime-ridden selves?
I’m tired of hearing about the “if you like your doctor you can keep him” crap. Some doctors retired or died. You can’t keep those doctors. Some doctors didn’t accept ACA insurance, many times out of political pique. If you liked your junk insurance with low premiums that didn’t cover squat, you couldn’t keep it. That was implicit. If your old insurance was ACA-compliant and would still be offered, you could keep it. If it wasn’t ACA-compliant, you couldn’t keep it. That should have been understood by all but the dullest people. Obama did NOT lie about any of this. This “Obama lied” crap is just as bad as the “Hillary gave uranium to Russia” crap.
So why did people vote for Donald? My reasons:
1- Being racist and seeing that he hates the same people they do.
2- Tired of foreign policy being shaped by experienced diplomats when it could be dictated by moronic tweets from a madman.
3- Tired of breathing clean air and drinking clean water.
4- Farmers sick of making money selling soybeans to China
5- Wanting the USSR to re-form at the expense of NATO countries
6- Our education system was getting too darn good at encouraging critical thinking
7- Sick of having people around them that worship differently than they do
I could go on and on, those are the top reasons.
Sure, you go on to say it ‘should have been understood by all but the dullest people’, but don’t gloss over that: how many folks do you think heard him and thought he was explicitly promising the exact opposite with no implicit exception? Maybe a quarter? Or a third? Possibly half? Possibly more than half?
The narrative is now “collusion isn’t wrong”, do try to keep up.
Trump lost the popular vote. The reason he won the electoral vote is because the electoral college gives land a bigger voice than people.
The southern states voted Trump because there are so many irredeemable racists here. I’m not clear why the midwest voted Trump but it seems like it’s hard to communicate the connection between economic policy and the voters’ interests, and conservative media won that battle by simply lying their asses off and flattering the voters.
Trump won in 2016 because his base was fired up and angry, huge enthusiasm gap in his favor. Even that was barely enough to get him a win on a technicality even though he got 3 million less votes. The fact that the situation is now the absolute opposite with regards to being fired up angry and enthusiastic is why he has no chance of winning again.
Yep. People so easily forget that the worst busing riots in the 70s happened in Massachusetts. The famous photo “The Soiling of Old Glory” was taken during a busing riot in Boston.