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I continue to be amazed that anyone anywhere is voting for DJT. (Original Post) milestogo Nov 2024 OP
Boggles the mind, Miles. SheltieLover Nov 2024 #1
It's so disappointing. missaj Nov 2024 #2
Country filled with lots XanaDUer2 Nov 2024 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Nov 2024 #4
Same here. TSExile Nov 2024 #5
Shameful kerouac2 Nov 2024 #6
It's the damn EC college. If it was a popular vote system rethugs would never win. brush Nov 2024 #33
Except for yesterday n/t Lulu KC Nov 2024 #46
Yep, yesterday was a harsh realization. We live in a recist, misogynist country. brush Nov 2024 #47
Me too and it bamagal62 Nov 2024 #7
word mahina Nov 2024 #8
Slime buckets in this country Dem4life1234 Nov 2024 #9
The whole Republican party is basically a criminal organization now. Ligyron Nov 2024 #10
Same here. But at the same time, imagine living in a very red area, unblock Nov 2024 #11
They have no reason to be so damn hateful Dem4life1234 Nov 2024 #15
agree 100% unblock Nov 2024 #18
You describe the Kentucky story exactly. jaxexpat Nov 2024 #41
But many people voting for him are not living in these type of red areas JI7 Nov 2024 #43
True, but they may still be immersed in the right wing propaganda unblock Nov 2024 #44
Places I won't visit. Any state that voted for Trump. OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2024 #12
I agree. all states who voted for Trump. Avoid Peregrine Took Nov 2024 #34
They're multivoting. live love laugh Nov 2024 #13
America is a sick, intellectually & morally depraved society. What is there not to get? RockRaven Nov 2024 #14
amazed and disgusted. consider_this Nov 2024 #16
I've always maintained...... BBbats Nov 2024 #17
Very surprised at the women. Frasier Balzov Nov 2024 #19
Cultural dysfunction passed from one generation to the next. Religious indoctrination is a significant factor. nt Cognitive_Resonance Nov 2024 #20
Yeah, I don't get it, either. EndlessWire Nov 2024 #21
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" -HL Mencken D23MIURG23 Nov 2024 #22
I'll never understand it PatSeg Nov 2024 #23
No sane person will ever understand it. LoisB Nov 2024 #24
I thought it would be different this time Startint Nov 2024 #25
I know!!! Join the club! Rhiannon12866 Nov 2024 #45
This certainly will be a FAFO election IzzaNuDay Nov 2024 #26
Same, I absolutely cannot wrap my head around it. nt still-prayin4rain Nov 2024 #27
It is very simple senegal1 Nov 2024 #28
I don't get why anyone smokes cigarettes Groundhawg Nov 2024 #29
Uneducated, ignorant racists. And proud! Very proud! dchill Nov 2024 #30
Topped with a heaping helping of "I got mine! Screw you!" GoCubsGo Nov 2024 #49
It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many SFs everywhere. peacebuzzard Nov 2024 #31
I'm with you. Bluepinky Nov 2024 #32
Republicans are a fucking joke. They don't believe in shit except white privilege LymphocyteLover Nov 2024 #35
Idiocracy is a documentary! n/t aggiesal Nov 2024 #36
It's about "owning the Libs." SergeStorms Nov 2024 #37
They live in a completely different reality than we do ecstatic Nov 2024 #38
I just don't understand the appeal Roxi Nov 2024 #39
It's the con in the Con Man Catherine Vincent Nov 2024 #40
Once you accept B.See Nov 2024 #42
Keith Olbermann explains it in today's podcast. GoCubsGo Nov 2024 #48

Response to milestogo (Original post)

kerouac2

(956 posts)
6. Shameful
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 07:48 PM
Nov 2024

And these are folks who surround us every day. Many seemingly normal, seemingly reasonable folks. Our system and media will be the ruin if us all.

brush

(58,733 posts)
33. It's the damn EC college. If it was a popular vote system rethugs would never win.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:43 PM
Nov 2024

Sorry to say the founding fathers screwed up with this acquiescent to the southern states and their wish to retain enslaving human beings.

Big mistake. No other democracy anywhere in the world followed us by adapting this sh_t system. And it's just about impossible to get rid of it.

bamagal62

(3,747 posts)
7. Me too and it
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 07:48 PM
Nov 2024

Makes me feel terrible that there are people all around me that would actually vote for him. It’s worrisome.

Ligyron

(7,929 posts)
10. The whole Republican party is basically a criminal organization now.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 07:51 PM
Nov 2024

Lies, theft, far more members of Republican administrations convicted of crimes committed in office than the one or two Democrats.

WTF? They either don't know or don't care and it's not like Trump is going to ever do anything to make their lives better.

Fox News and Hate radio have done their work too well. Throw in a corrupt SCOTUS and dark money and here we are.

unblock

(54,518 posts)
11. Same here. But at the same time, imagine living in a very red area,
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 07:54 PM
Nov 2024

Imagine growing up with dad's radio tuned to rush Limbaugh.

Imagine foxnews on constantly at your place of work and the bar your friends insist on going to.

Imagine your pastor saying liberals are doing the devil's work.

Imagine that lasting decades.

Dem4life1234

(2,409 posts)
15. They have no reason to be so damn hateful
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 07:56 PM
Nov 2024

It's 2024

And the black people they hate so much didn't do anything to them.

unblock

(54,518 posts)
44. True, but they may still be immersed in the right wing propaganda
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:19 AM
Nov 2024

Or they may just be naturally hateful people.

BBbats

(128 posts)
17. I've always maintained......
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 07:58 PM
Nov 2024

I've always maintained that Trump is a reaction to having a Black President.
People who I knew all my life & who I thought held the same views were deeply disturbed by that. Oh they wouldn't say anything out loud or they'd make snarky comments but it really bothered people who I thought were liberal. Therefore "Let's put a real White Son of a Bitch in there & show 'em". Racism is taught & ingrained in them despite an otherwise liberal viewpoint.
You can't go wrong campaigning on race in the USA.

Frasier Balzov

(3,824 posts)
19. Very surprised at the women.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 08:10 PM
Nov 2024

A Harris presidency makes future women presidencies possible.

Instead, what are women voters saying? "No, think I'll wait."

EndlessWire

(7,464 posts)
21. Yeah, I don't get it, either.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 08:19 PM
Nov 2024

I'll never understand why people can't do a reasonable filter of Trump lies. He lies! Why can't they see this??

If he gets reelected, these idiot people are going to be standing there slack jawed saying, "Wha's going on?" as he initiates the destruction of our government. And, they will have no excuse. None.

Who could vote for a guy that talks about executing his enemies? And, I bristle when they interview these stupid White women saying stuff like, "I'm concerned about the border, and the country is going bankrupt. We need change." These people are an embarrassment. They can't think abstractly. You want effing change? You'll get it and regret it!

They're either uninformed, or just flat out ignorant.

D23MIURG23

(3,112 posts)
22. "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" -HL Mencken
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:11 PM
Nov 2024

Although, to be honest DJT is so fucking stupid he's come close a few times.

To me the worst thing about Democracy is how uninformed, irrational, and thoughtless our electorate can be. But people are people, and the electorate is what it is. Persuasion and education are key.

Startint

(4 posts)
25. I thought it would be different this time
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:22 PM
Nov 2024

I mean yeah racist sexist whatever but this guy is a convicted felon out on bail! I really thought it would make a difference but I guess not…

IzzaNuDay

(844 posts)
26. This certainly will be a FAFO election
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:24 PM
Nov 2024

for years, since January 6, 2021, folks have sounded the alarm this dotard should never be president again. Even his former staff recommended against him being elected. The GOP had no testicular fortitude to restrain him from this election.

The dotard is a clear and imminent danger to the USA.A convicted felon, stealer of classified records, and a racist and sexist individual. But he played up to the racism, sexism and xenophobia within the country. Like, a bunch of Puerto Ricans almost had the dotard’s name on their ballots until MSG. Before MSG the paper towels after the hurricane didn’t phase them!

So if the dotard wins, and as the USA swirls around the toilet bowl it flushed itself in, there will be a bunch of us who can say, You F’d around and now you’re finding out!

(and I hope I am wrong)



peacebuzzard

(5,341 posts)
31. It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many SFs everywhere.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:32 PM
Nov 2024

the whole world crawls with them. One must be constantly vigilant.
I slip all the time. I think someone is nice, and then, well, heck, I guess they were not what I thought they were.
I am glad to be a crazy single cat lady and live in peace except for the travails of the kitties.

SergeStorms

(19,392 posts)
37. It's about "owning the Libs."
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 10:29 PM
Nov 2024

The "Libs," meaning minorities and educated people of all races.
I won't say what I want to about rural voters, but you all know what I'm thinking. 😡
Even if Harris/Walz pull this out I'm seriously considering spending my remaining years on this planet in a much more sane environment.

ecstatic

(34,603 posts)
38. They live in a completely different reality than we do
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 10:29 PM
Nov 2024

But we'll all be in the same reality soon enough. One way or another.

Roxi

(2,171 posts)
39. I just don't understand the appeal
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 10:30 PM
Nov 2024

From the first time I saw him on tv, he’s given me the creeps. There’s just something off about him. I desperately hope he loses.

B.See

(4,356 posts)
42. Once you accept
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:06 AM
Nov 2024

who and what they are and stop expecting better of them, you'll get it. It's a cult, fueled upon hate, racism, victimhood, and vengeance.

It was a cult from the very start, in 2016, when they rallied around him above all other GOP contenders, specifically because of his litany of malice and hate.

His MSG rally was written of as some turning point or revelation. It was neither. Nor was it an aberration. It was their 'greatest hits' edition, remastered. An affirmation of all they've been saying, and believing in, from the start.

GoCubsGo

(33,424 posts)
48. Keith Olbermann explains it in today's podcast.
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 07:43 AM
Nov 2024

He explains his "lifeboat" theory, and how there's always someone who, once in it, would take the oars and beat away the hands of others who are trying to pull themselves into the lifeboat. He points out that there are now more people in this country who are that guy with the oar than there are people who would put down the oars, and pull others into the lifeboat. Keith is not wrong.

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