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No they don’t. These headlines are telling you what you want to hear. Talk to people. The MAGAs love it. And Elon.
This silo-ing approach to information isn’t going to help any of us.
Hardcore Trumpers will NEVER regret anything. They'd walk into a gas chamber with a smile on their face and a song in their hearts, if Fuck Face waved them in. But to be honest -- at this point, I don't care if the truecvlt MAGAts love it or hate what Trump is doing, so long as they suffer in the long run. Let them laugh their way into ruin, so long as they are ruined, that's all I care about.
I'm surrounded by Trumpers, they're everywhere around here. So far I've talked to one with regrets, and he knew better.
What really gets me is how he's now complaining about stuff I warned him about back in September. He voted red because he thought it would help his imminent retirement. Also he didn't like Kamala.
This guy really thought the whole platform they've been pushing would settle into business as usual, and now he's a shocked pikachu.
Think of it this way.
There are a lot of places where Federal jobs are a mainstay of the economy. Maybe the VA hospital, or the military base, or a Federal office building.
When people see their neighbors losing their paycheck, it might start to sink in.
If it’s personal, sure. But if it’s not impacting their nuclear family unit, high odds it’s not a consideration.
Really. Talk to MAGAs. These headlines are a manipulation to keep Lemmy calm.
Nah. It's very much a "if their job was important, they'd keep it" mentality. I live in a basically forever red state; tariffs on coal are specifically threatening to close mines in WV because the Chinese won't import coal anymore (they are our biggest exporter). There isn't a single whisper of why this is bad for us; Trump has pledged to keep the mines open for years. He could put the lock in the entrance himself and the miners would kiss his feet as he did it.
That's scary.
I'm not counting on the hardcore MAGoos to change. I want the 90 million people who didn't vote to wake up
Would be nice, but if this election didn't wake them up, nothing is going to.
Nope, not until they lose their own, and maybe not even then. I love a great FAFO face eating story as much as the next, but you simply canNOT exaggerate the levels of cognitive dissonance these people are capable of enduring before their heads explode.
"I'm totally fine with being hurt, as long as I think you're hurting them more."
True. My MiL was just like “well, I guess we’ll just use oil lamps and live like the 1800’s” if everything collapses ignoring completely they are 100% reliant on medicare, social security, and the VA to live, as is her whole damn extended family. Fucking idiots.
She's not wrong. They will live like the 1800s. For a while.
I give them 2-3 months tops
Nailed it.
You're forgetting that the mentality of his base is "he isn't hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting" (which is an actual quote).
They want pure, vindictive cruelty against anyone who isn't them. They're just as evil as Trump is.