Unfortunately for several billion innocent bystanders who will suffer as much as the guilty Trump voters and too-lazy-to-voters, the only chance that the guilty will really learn anything is for their lives to be turned to absolute shit by the shouldda-seen-it-coming actions of the Trump administration and its enablers and co-conspirators.
It's generically called selective attention. Price of eggs, yeah, get that. Retribution and revenge? Just Trump being Trump; doesn't affect me so I'll ignore it. And anyway, he's good for a laugh; besides, he's a rich White guy, how bad could he be again huh? And he's got the richest White guy calling the shots. I mean, the only other choice was a qualified woman of color. C'mon!
(A month later) Wait what ? Wadda ya mean my much needed tax refund will be delayed indefinitely ? Wadda ya mean the company might close because the four Hispanic guys who have been here forever got dragged off by ICE? Wadda ya mean the price of my avocado toast just tripled? Wadda ya mean I have to cut my own grass? Measles? Wadda ya mean it's back and spreading? Wadda ya mean he wants to send my kid to Gaza? And the price of eggs keeps going up, if you can find any. Wait, what...? Liar's remorse.
They thought that he was only going to do those things to "those other people," not realizing that Trump thinks anyone who isn't filthy rich are "those other people."
shithole {noun} [vulg.] wiocha (also: zadupie, zasrana dziura, wstrętna nora, pipidówka). I learned a new word today - thank you! Now I just need to Google the prounuciation...
They never thought anything!! Trump TOLD them on every possible occasion what he was going to do. If they didn’t believe him, then why would they vote for someone they knew they couldn’t believe? The lack of self-reflection is stunning!
Great song there for the man complaining about the MAGA Misery Tour. I believe the part of the lyrics that speaks to each and every Trump voter is: "I never thought..."
Rather than dimwit, which basically is name-calling, I think I'd prefer the more accurate "ignorant" and/or "selfish," but whatever.
I see four general categories of people who voted for Trump.
1) Die-hard Republican voters. Jefferson or Madison could come back from the dead, be nominated for the presidency as a Democrat, and they'd still vote for the Republican.
2) Truly ignorant or naive voters, whether intentional or genetic.
3) Single-issue voters (who also could fit in #1 and/or #2.
4) The racist and/or sexist voter (a special category of #3).
However, let's also not lose sight of the popular vote. In 2024, T received about three million votes more than his 2020 total. Harris received about six million votes less than Biden did in 2020. *That* was why we're in the situation we're in now -- not the "dimwits" who voted for Trump, but those who sat out the election or voted for a third-party candidate because they didn't like Harris or Trump but refused to acknowledge what a danger Trump represented.
Their end-game is the complete destruction of the administrative and welfare state. Why is everyone acting surprised? Republicans have been complaining about it for 80 years, and Roe for 50. Everything is going away. Safe access to abortion, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, Social Security, Education, Consumer assistance laws, healthcare regulators, and probably NASA. They have an "everything must go" sentiment. This is not a surprise. I knew this was the plan when I was 8 years old, reading the Post after my dad read it. Yes, at the dining room table. I am a product of DC; National politics is local news. Remember when the Republicans, being run by big business, lambasted the Democrats for protectionist policies and high tariffs under Jimmy Carter? (That's when I started to read the paper, so it's clear to me.). Remember when Reagan famously negotiated with the terrorists holding American service personnel hostage in a bargaining maneuver around the Carter Administration, even before he took office? Does this remind you of anyone? Remember when Reagan closed St. Elizabeth's and fired the Air Traffic Controllers and traded arms for hostages and took credit for the fall of the Soviet Union and on and on and on? Remember when the Republican congress forced Clinton to ease banking regulations? (Not that Clinton was a leftist or doing anything he wouldn't have been happy doing anyway.) Directly leading to the several banking and economic crises thereafter, not the least of which was the 2008 recession and bailout? Glass-Steagall protected us for 60 years...but no longer. Republicans have been jerking America's chain for decades now, standing on the shoulders of Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, The Federalist Society, and Jerry Falwell, and here we are. The constant Soros Conspiracy claims by the Right Wing were made because they were conspiring all along themselves, so of course the Democrats were doing the same thing. Of course.
But the vast majority of people who voted for Trump were low-information voters, and they had their single or double issues they were voting for. I fully believe them when they say, "This is not what I voted for." Because their news sources were tainted; because their leaders lied to them; because they trusted the wrong experts. I fully believe another great depression is coming, and I fear that many of us reading this will have to make hard choices in the coming years; choices we never thought we would have to make. Money and resource choices, migration choices. Life and death choices. Sometimes the choices will all be bad, but we will have to try to make the least bad choice. And we will recall that we read about people who had to make similar choices, long ago, and assumed that because those people in history had made their choices and sacrifices, that we were spared from making them. Those of us with children will weep for what we have lost, and for what our children will never have.
Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of government is business.” What immediately followed his administration? The Great Depression. The tech bros seem to have adopted his idea. I’m afraid that you are right about where this is leading.
Today is hard. I'm passing TWO kidney stones, then I fat-thumbed the fucking poll, because opioids. I really wish I could transfer my current misery to every single asshole who has the fucking _audacity_ to whine. Eat your shit sandwich, sirs. Lick it all right up.
If Mr. Betz truly regrets voting for Trump, he's one of the few saying so out loud. Latest 538 poll shows approval rating still at 49%. I keep waiting for that number to drop precipitously. So far in vain.
Do not discount the possibility that Mr. Betz is using more of a royal “we”. When I call my reps (Cruz, Cornyn, and Roy - yeah, it sucks), I say “We might have voted for Trump. We didn’t vote for Musk.” I did not vote for Trump. But Texas did. And America did. Plus, I don’t want to be immediately pegged as a liberal. I want them to think I’m at least a little conservative.
Am I the only person who thought Betz's letter was satire? I even said so in the WaPo comments section when I first read it. The letter was like a compendium of the warnings that have been made by Democrats/people with brains since the election season began.
I don't believe that enough of his voters will be triggered to self reflection until buying groceries and gas becomes noticeably worse than under Biden. And he (and the POTUS known as Musk) will be keenly aware that they cannot allow this to impact their base. If prices flatline or go up by May (or if the rest of the world gets serious and starts to express doubts in financial markets that America is trustworthy), then, maybe, more of Red states electorate will start to question their decisions and their faith in this administration. But that's a big "If".
Not sure that letter is 'real', but this is exactly what I expected to happen. And to that, all I can say is Schadenfreude . If you do not know what Schadenfreude is, Wikipedia tells us; 'it is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.' This is the only way that I will be getting through these next years under our current government.
I know people who voted for this moron and cannot wait to hear them bitch about things. I will seriously be happy when they, or their family members and friends, lose their jobs or are affected in a multitude of other ways that relate to their health and welfare. While what President Musk is doing will certainly affect me in many ways, at least I am not blind to the fact that it can/will happen. These idiots who now are beginning to regret their decision in November deserve no sympathy or empathy from anyone. How anyone could have voted for this convicted felon/sexual predator/piece of shit/con man is beyond me.
That's a great video. It stands on its own, but in case people weren't aware, the phrase comes from a viral 2015 tweet: "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." (We have been quoting it frequently in this household.)
That letter is about as genuine as Russian disinformation bs. No doubt many Trump voters are wondering “wtf?” right now: the notion, though, that any of them give a rat’s ass about the Dept of Education, USAid or Jack Smith is beyond wishful thinking….they don’t and they never will. As has been pointed out by others, they do care about the cost of stuff and get their knickers in a twist. I’m betting if Trump’s precious approval nos start tanking over prices that he will simply take a pile of that already appropriated , and unfortunately named, Inflation Reduction Act and send all taxpayers with joint incomes of less than say $150k a personally signed check for ( pick a number) $ 2,500 to “ help tide you over until we get this price thing under control. The Dems really dug a big hole for us with this one…” Now that would be some inflation reduction right there. Banda-bing, up pop those poll numbers.
Seeing lots of this "I didn't vote for this" bullshit. Yes, yes you did. Asshole.
Unfortunately for several billion innocent bystanders who will suffer as much as the guilty Trump voters and too-lazy-to-voters, the only chance that the guilty will really learn anything is for their lives to be turned to absolute shit by the shouldda-seen-it-coming actions of the Trump administration and its enablers and co-conspirators.
As they used to like to say, "Elections have consequences." Don't like the ones you're getting. I cordially invite you to self fornicate.
You need another answer to choose from:
No, they are a bunch of spineless cowards who would rather fiddle while the Constitution burned.
It's generically called selective attention. Price of eggs, yeah, get that. Retribution and revenge? Just Trump being Trump; doesn't affect me so I'll ignore it. And anyway, he's good for a laugh; besides, he's a rich White guy, how bad could he be again huh? And he's got the richest White guy calling the shots. I mean, the only other choice was a qualified woman of color. C'mon!
(A month later) Wait what ? Wadda ya mean my much needed tax refund will be delayed indefinitely ? Wadda ya mean the company might close because the four Hispanic guys who have been here forever got dragged off by ICE? Wadda ya mean the price of my avocado toast just tripled? Wadda ya mean I have to cut my own grass? Measles? Wadda ya mean it's back and spreading? Wadda ya mean he wants to send my kid to Gaza? And the price of eggs keeps going up, if you can find any. Wait, what...? Liar's remorse.
They thought that he was only going to do those things to "those other people," not realizing that Trump thinks anyone who isn't filthy rich are "those other people."
To Trump, wiocaha (did I get that right?) eventually EVERYBODY is “those other people”
WIOCHA - Translation in English: https://en.bab.la ›
shithole {noun} [vulg.] wiocha (also: zadupie, zasrana dziura, wstrętna nora, pipidówka). I learned a new word today - thank you! Now I just need to Google the prounuciation...
They never thought anything!! Trump TOLD them on every possible occasion what he was going to do. If they didn’t believe him, then why would they vote for someone they knew they couldn’t believe? The lack of self-reflection is stunning!
Great song there for the man complaining about the MAGA Misery Tour. I believe the part of the lyrics that speaks to each and every Trump voter is: "I never thought..."
My thought exactly!
Rather than dimwit, which basically is name-calling, I think I'd prefer the more accurate "ignorant" and/or "selfish," but whatever.
I see four general categories of people who voted for Trump.
1) Die-hard Republican voters. Jefferson or Madison could come back from the dead, be nominated for the presidency as a Democrat, and they'd still vote for the Republican.
2) Truly ignorant or naive voters, whether intentional or genetic.
3) Single-issue voters (who also could fit in #1 and/or #2.
4) The racist and/or sexist voter (a special category of #3).
However, let's also not lose sight of the popular vote. In 2024, T received about three million votes more than his 2020 total. Harris received about six million votes less than Biden did in 2020. *That* was why we're in the situation we're in now -- not the "dimwits" who voted for Trump, but those who sat out the election or voted for a third-party candidate because they didn't like Harris or Trump but refused to acknowledge what a danger Trump represented.
or got purged inappropriately (but intentionally) from voter rolls.
Their end-game is the complete destruction of the administrative and welfare state. Why is everyone acting surprised? Republicans have been complaining about it for 80 years, and Roe for 50. Everything is going away. Safe access to abortion, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, Social Security, Education, Consumer assistance laws, healthcare regulators, and probably NASA. They have an "everything must go" sentiment. This is not a surprise. I knew this was the plan when I was 8 years old, reading the Post after my dad read it. Yes, at the dining room table. I am a product of DC; National politics is local news. Remember when the Republicans, being run by big business, lambasted the Democrats for protectionist policies and high tariffs under Jimmy Carter? (That's when I started to read the paper, so it's clear to me.). Remember when Reagan famously negotiated with the terrorists holding American service personnel hostage in a bargaining maneuver around the Carter Administration, even before he took office? Does this remind you of anyone? Remember when Reagan closed St. Elizabeth's and fired the Air Traffic Controllers and traded arms for hostages and took credit for the fall of the Soviet Union and on and on and on? Remember when the Republican congress forced Clinton to ease banking regulations? (Not that Clinton was a leftist or doing anything he wouldn't have been happy doing anyway.) Directly leading to the several banking and economic crises thereafter, not the least of which was the 2008 recession and bailout? Glass-Steagall protected us for 60 years...but no longer. Republicans have been jerking America's chain for decades now, standing on the shoulders of Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, The Federalist Society, and Jerry Falwell, and here we are. The constant Soros Conspiracy claims by the Right Wing were made because they were conspiring all along themselves, so of course the Democrats were doing the same thing. Of course.
But the vast majority of people who voted for Trump were low-information voters, and they had their single or double issues they were voting for. I fully believe them when they say, "This is not what I voted for." Because their news sources were tainted; because their leaders lied to them; because they trusted the wrong experts. I fully believe another great depression is coming, and I fear that many of us reading this will have to make hard choices in the coming years; choices we never thought we would have to make. Money and resource choices, migration choices. Life and death choices. Sometimes the choices will all be bad, but we will have to try to make the least bad choice. And we will recall that we read about people who had to make similar choices, long ago, and assumed that because those people in history had made their choices and sacrifices, that we were spared from making them. Those of us with children will weep for what we have lost, and for what our children will never have.
Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of government is business.” What immediately followed his administration? The Great Depression. The tech bros seem to have adopted his idea. I’m afraid that you are right about where this is leading.
I am extremely skeptical that is a letter from a real MAGA voter.
Mr. Betz's post, while I fully agree with the sentiments, reads as though it comes from a professional writer.
Today is hard. I'm passing TWO kidney stones, then I fat-thumbed the fucking poll, because opioids. I really wish I could transfer my current misery to every single asshole who has the fucking _audacity_ to whine. Eat your shit sandwich, sirs. Lick it all right up.
If Mr. Betz truly regrets voting for Trump, he's one of the few saying so out loud. Latest 538 poll shows approval rating still at 49%. I keep waiting for that number to drop precipitously. So far in vain.
Do not discount the possibility that Mr. Betz is using more of a royal “we”. When I call my reps (Cruz, Cornyn, and Roy - yeah, it sucks), I say “We might have voted for Trump. We didn’t vote for Musk.” I did not vote for Trump. But Texas did. And America did. Plus, I don’t want to be immediately pegged as a liberal. I want them to think I’m at least a little conservative.
Am I the only person who thought Betz's letter was satire? I even said so in the WaPo comments section when I first read it. The letter was like a compendium of the warnings that have been made by Democrats/people with brains since the election season began.
I don't believe that enough of his voters will be triggered to self reflection until buying groceries and gas becomes noticeably worse than under Biden. And he (and the POTUS known as Musk) will be keenly aware that they cannot allow this to impact their base. If prices flatline or go up by May (or if the rest of the world gets serious and starts to express doubts in financial markets that America is trustworthy), then, maybe, more of Red states electorate will start to question their decisions and their faith in this administration. But that's a big "If".
Not sure that letter is 'real', but this is exactly what I expected to happen. And to that, all I can say is Schadenfreude . If you do not know what Schadenfreude is, Wikipedia tells us; 'it is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.' This is the only way that I will be getting through these next years under our current government.
I know people who voted for this moron and cannot wait to hear them bitch about things. I will seriously be happy when they, or their family members and friends, lose their jobs or are affected in a multitude of other ways that relate to their health and welfare. While what President Musk is doing will certainly affect me in many ways, at least I am not blind to the fact that it can/will happen. These idiots who now are beginning to regret their decision in November deserve no sympathy or empathy from anyone. How anyone could have voted for this convicted felon/sexual predator/piece of shit/con man is beyond me.
That's a great video. It stands on its own, but in case people weren't aware, the phrase comes from a viral 2015 tweet: "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." (We have been quoting it frequently in this household.)
That letter is about as genuine as Russian disinformation bs. No doubt many Trump voters are wondering “wtf?” right now: the notion, though, that any of them give a rat’s ass about the Dept of Education, USAid or Jack Smith is beyond wishful thinking….they don’t and they never will. As has been pointed out by others, they do care about the cost of stuff and get their knickers in a twist. I’m betting if Trump’s precious approval nos start tanking over prices that he will simply take a pile of that already appropriated , and unfortunately named, Inflation Reduction Act and send all taxpayers with joint incomes of less than say $150k a personally signed check for ( pick a number) $ 2,500 to “ help tide you over until we get this price thing under control. The Dems really dug a big hole for us with this one…” Now that would be some inflation reduction right there. Banda-bing, up pop those poll numbers.