I have not heard such a thing from left leaning folks, but I’d quickly shut them down if they were suggesting pity for these people.
“These voters don’t support Trump because they labor under some illusion that he’s going to rescue their communities — not anymore,” Bai wrote. “They support him because he’s willing to blow up the country if it means teaching insufferable intellectuals a lesson.”
This here is the real motivation of MAGAs. Half the country wants this.
Edit: apparently not a Herzog quote https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/werner-herzog-germany-quote/
Not half, a third. Another third wants to stop it, and the other third can’t tell the difference.
100%. They don’t care what the actual facts are. They just want to feel right and if the world burns to do that, so be it.
When you get down to it, it is a lack of emotional intelligence coupled with a lack of education which are likely factors in the development of the whole movement. It made them very ready to accept propaganda, as well.
It sounds like something I’ve heard before…
Target
Cambodia’s previous military and political leadership, middle-class professionals, businesspeople, intellectuals, ethnic and religious minorities
This is something that needs to be said about all Republicans. Their party’s been indulging in fascist politics since Goldwater ran on opposing the civil rights act six decades ago, but we keep pretending there are decent people with the intellectual capacity to serve in office who identify as Republicans anyway for some reason. The uncomfortable but simple fact is that there are only idiot Republicans who don’t realize their party’s continued existence is a threat to the country and evil Republicans who do, and neither should be in any kind of government office ever.
Y’all fought and killed a bunch of each other but, after defeating them, both sides just returned to the dinner table like things were normal again… Despite one of them having tried and failed to destroy it all.
How were they not just deplatformed entirely? Money, I guess?
Their last chance was 2020. I could theoretically understand their vote in 2016. If you still support Trump it’s because you agree with what he stands for, and are therefore a trash human being. It’s not because “the Democrats aren’t good either”, it’s because you’re an authoritarian boot licker. End of story.
Been ignorant… all the way back to the Tea Party and Birther nonsense.
“Aigh aint seen no 'birth certif-ee-cate!”
“It’s online, have you looked for it?”
“Well, no.”
“WTF do you expect? Obama going door to door? ‘Hey! Y’all see my birth certificate? Here you go!’”
The teabaggers were just more of the same people from the hatriot radio and black helicopter stuff from the 90s when they were selling each other tapes on Waco and the like, all pissed off about Ruby Ridge and stocking up on MREs and guns and ammo.
And that crap was just a rehash of the Birchers. And I’m sure the Birchers had their crazy unhinged precursors, too…the crazy unhinged bullshit on the xtianist nationalist fringe has been around for a long, long time.
I used to point and laugh at the dumbphucks that talk about how “your SSN is the number of the beast, don’t use it for anything but the few cases the law requires it, yadda yadda” and now these very same assholes have a real chance of getting a dickhead like donnie with Project 2025 at the ready to enact a lot of their crazy, crazy agendas to inflict on the rest of us.
For that first one: I knew who these people were back in elementary school. They are the ones that crossed their arms and defiantly said things like, “What do we need to even learn all this stuff for? it don’t mean nuthin! Just a bunch of book-larnin! We won’t need this in the real world!”. And then went right on to either doing the bare minimum until they graduated, if they even did that.
And now this sort are still Karens. And now “doing their own research”.
I have no pity for them anymore.
The first time they voted for trump, it was a stupid mistake and we all suffered for it.
The second time, not a stupid mistake, just stupid people.
Voting for him a third time? Now you’re just being evil. Fuck you.
Oh hell, a whole lot of them knew back when they voted for him in 2016. In fact, he had the full-throated support of Nazis like Richard Spencer.
If people pretended not to know who donnie was back then, I think there is a good chance they were lying then and now, or very very stupid.
