• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    The base is taking about Iran and not the Epstein files. I’d say Trump’s done a fine job fooling his base.

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    23 days ago

    “You can’t fool your base.”

    Why not? It’s worked for more than a decade.

    It should read “You’re hurting us now and not just the people who disagree with us, so that makes us mad! And only about the issues that hurt us, everyone else getting screwed is fine!”

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      It should read “You’re hurting us now and not just the people who are brown, so that makes us mad!”

      Let’s be real US voting behavior has always leaned towards fucking over any one not light, bright, and white. No other group has consistently voted republican as white ppl. Hating liberals is incredibly recent. Liberals loved Clinton when he was cutting off social benefits because the idea was black ppl were the primary users.

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    25 days ago

    Bullshit. His base still has over 80% approval rating on him. Fuck off with these headlines. His supporters are not “turning on him” for fucks sakes.

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      yup. I will never understand how he gets people to vote against their own interests time and time and time again. whether it’s ‘conservatives’ like Kaitlan Jenner or miners or farmers or poor white shits, they’re so obsessed with their own hate and “i got mine fuck you” attitude don’t just step on the rake, they jump on it with both feet and a sadistic grin.

      it’s depressing as fuck what a drug hate is.

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    I’ll believe it when I see it. They’ve been “turning” on him for ages and always keep coming back for the racism.

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    Oh good grief. So some of them don’t like his Iran deal, that’s not ‘turning on him’. They would all still 100% vote for him and will vote for whoever he tells them to, as we’ve been seeing in the repub primaries. They’ll still fall for any scam he throws at them and are perfectly happy to have their taxpayer dollars go to billionaires and grifters while their own benefits are dismantled and their rights taken away.

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    You cannot trust anything that Iran signs

    Can’t believe we got to this, but at this moment I trust the word of Iran over that of the usa.

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    LOL, the very fact that PEDOnald the Pumpkinhead is in office gives the lie to “you can’t fool your base”:

    1. They think he cares about them.
    2. They think an effete elitist from Manhattan is a REEL MURIKAN.
    3. They think he was a successful businessman.
    4. They think he’s “great at deals”.

    And so on. Of course, you could have asked almost any liberal about any of the above, but would the base ever listen to a liberal? Fuck no, that might make them gay.

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    How many people have to turn on him before he’s not in charge anymore? I’ve been told that the vast majority of Americans are against him. It shouldn’t be possible in a democracy for someone to be in charge if most everybody is against him

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      Enough to both flip almost every Senate seat in contention at Midterms blue, and counteract all the Republican attempts at gerrymandering and electoral interference that will inevitably come.

      A gargantuan effort but not statistically impossible

      I think things will have to get truly bad by November for that to happen…

      Honestly, I think Trump is more likely to be replaced by the 25th Amendment than impeachment.

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      They don’t have to be many people. They have to be rich people. When the rich turn on him, then he falls. That’s why he spends all of his time lining their pockets.

      Hell, the rich have been playing that game with each other since the game began.

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    Doesn’t matter if they turn on him, if a peaceful agreement is made all Donny has to do is give a speech declaring absolute total victory then they will be back on his crusty Cheeto dick just in time to start a new war with Cuba and Greenland. And right after that Israel will continue bombing Iran out of spite and to get America to eventually do a full scale invasion just in time for Donny and the GOP to attempt to stop the midterms from taking place.