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Swede

(35,317 posts)
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 10:11 AM Nov 2024

JoJofromJerz gets it. [View all]

"So, you want me to believe that you voted for a racist, rapist, convicted felon, business fraud who incited a deadly attack on our Capitol after losing the last election because of the price of eggs?
That you voted for the orange-dipped dude who ran with a different VP because the last one was nearly hanged for not breaking democracy, because you’ve been getting fewer hours at your job these days?
You want me to believe that you voted for someone who nearly every economist in the world has said will grow our debt (which he did by the third largest amount ever the last time), increase our costs, raise inflation and destroy our GDP because a burger and fries at Five Guys is more expensive than it used to be?
You want me to believe that you voted for the drink bleach guy who golfed while thousands of Americans were dying a day because you had it so much better then, when you were stockpiling toilet paper, than you do now?
You want me to believe that you voted for the guy who had 4 years to pass an infrastructure bill and didn’t, the guy who promised Mexico would pay for the wall when they didn’t, the guy who promised to bring manufacturing back, lower the cost of prescription drugs and end the opioid crisis but didn’t, because you preferred his “policies”?
You want me to believe you voted for the “grab em by the pussy” guy who wants to destroy the Department of Education and to repeal the ACA despite the fact that he has nothing more than “concepts of a plan” to replace it, the guy who will roll back environmental protections, strip women and minorities of more rights, the guy who will hand Ukraine to Putin and Gaza to Netanyahu, the guy who has said he will be a “dictator on day one”, because you’re worried about losing your gas stove?
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe any of that, and frankly, I’m not sure you believe it either.
Because the truth is that your vote wasn’t about any of that.
You voted for the traitorous embodiment of the 7 deadly sins because when it came to casting your ballot for a Black woman, you just couldn’t do it.
And because you like getting away with being your worst self.
And because life is a whole lot easier to stomach when all that has gone wrong for you, is someone else’s fault."

Let’s be honest here, that is what it was.

So when the price of eggs is $18, and your Latino neighbors have been deported or moved to some f’d up “camp” to pick the strawberries none of you will pick, and your miscarrying wife has to contend with sepsis before she’s allowed to have an abortion, and your autistic child is unable to get the early intervention they desperately need, please remember what it really was that you voted for.

Because I promise you the rest of us will never, ever forget."



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JoJofromJerz gets it. [View all] Swede Nov 2024 OP
This part here DemonGoddess Nov 2024 #1
100% odins folly Nov 2024 #2
I love this woman... GiqueCee Nov 2024 #3
Yes! 🙌🏼 benfranklin1776 Nov 2024 #7
Tell it, Ben! GiqueCee Nov 2024 #9
Amen, Amen Alliepoo Nov 2024 #19
Totally Agree! Wiz Imp Nov 2024 #11
Drink the damn Kool-Aid, Jo! moondust Nov 2024 #4
I think the larger point here is that republicans are reactionary Mosby Nov 2024 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Nov 2024 #22
They are not Conservatives Seinan Sensei Nov 2024 #24
"It wasn't the fascism-loving guy who spurred an insurrection whom they couldn't trust. It was the Black woman." Rigpa108 Nov 2024 #6
Great Effin Rant! Martin Eden Nov 2024 #8
I don't know about that Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #10
If we refuse to learn from this it will keep happening Unca Jim Nov 2024 #12
We needed to pivot to a Bernie type. Lucky Luciano Nov 2024 #13
Bingo: "many people remember they had it better under Trump when the Obama economy was delivering for them" Beartracks Nov 2024 #21
That was one of the best things she's done. ificandream Nov 2024 #14
BRA EFFING VO Faux pas Nov 2024 #15
Nailed it malaise Nov 2024 #16
TY & a Lot of People Get that Jo Gets It! Cha Nov 2024 #17
To Swede rondawson Nov 2024 #18
Spot on! n/t iluvtennis Nov 2024 #20
Amen, Sister Hekate Nov 2024 #23
what a lot of them want is permission to be their worst selves. paulkienitz Nov 2024 #25
That is spot on nt yellowdogintexas Nov 2024 #26
I highly recommend her substack, to get her in your email nt yellowdogintexas Nov 2024 #27
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