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calimary

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70. You'll enjoy this one, then:
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 08:37 AM
Mar 2017

Charlie Pierce in Esquire - "Why I'll Never Sympathize with Regretful Trump Voters"

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53491/regretful-trump-voters/

Holy mother of god, I'm tired of reading quotes from people who live in places where the local economy went to hell or Mexico in 1979, and who have spent the intervening years swallowing whatever Jesus Juice was offered up by theocratic bunco artists of the Christocentric Right, and gulping down great flagons of barely disguised hatemongering against the targets of the day, all the while voting against their own best interests, now claiming that empowering Donald Trump as the man who will "shake things up" on their behalf was the only choice they had left. You had plenty of choices left.

In Kansas, you could have declined to re-elect Sam Brownback, who'd already turned your state into a dismal Randian basket case. In Wisconsin, you had three chances to turn out Scott Walker, and several chances to get the state legislature out of his clammy hands. And, now that the teeth of this new administration are becoming plain to see, it's a good time to remind all of you that you didn't have to hand the entire federal government over to Republican vandalism, and the presidency over to an abject loon on whom Russia may well hold the paper.

You all had the same choices we all had. You saddled the rest of us with misrule and disaster. Own it. I empathize, but I will not sympathize.


(snip)

Feeling lost and desperate is a terrible thing. But if, out of loss and desperation, you drink 20 cold beers out of the old preparation room and smash your car into a daycare center, the judge is not going to care how lost and desperate you felt. You build your own prisons in this life. You design your own sentences.

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Nails it.

They are complicit in this madness. dalton99a Mar 2017 #1
There is some truth there!! Peacetrain Mar 2017 #4
Everyone who voted for trump knew trump was a racist, sexist, and xenophobe, and they still_one Mar 2017 #2
Yep! Apparently, that's what they wanted and they can't get away from that. It was blatantly RKP5637 Mar 2017 #3
I get up this AM.. turn on the TV and bam... sessions is meeting with the Russians Peacetrain Mar 2017 #5
It is unreal. The people that really upset me are those who voted green or didn't still_one Mar 2017 #8
Yep - and they weren't 'brainwashed' JustAnotherGen Mar 2017 #6
I thought there was a massive brainwashing.. but Peacetrain Mar 2017 #19
You tell no lies! JustAnotherGen Mar 2017 #22
so you're saying... eniwetok Mar 2017 #32
You responded to wrong poster JustAnotherGen Mar 2017 #48
oops... wrong post but right person eniwetok Mar 2017 #49
I'm not understanding? JustAnotherGen Mar 2017 #65
There were several threads for weeks after the election sympathizing with the poor trump voters brush Mar 2017 #23
I think most people Dorian Gray Mar 2017 #67
Really, that was a worthwhile post? eniwetok Mar 2017 #7
Everyone who voted for trump knew he was a racist, sexist, and xenophobe, still_one Mar 2017 #10
never heard of self-deception? eniwetok Mar 2017 #24
no they didn't. Those who voted for trump, most still approve of him, and his appointees. still_one Mar 2017 #26
Some of these people are VERY politically naive MountCleaners Mar 2017 #35
I am a boomer and I am NOT a lost cause. hamsterjill Mar 2017 #59
Same here! NT raccoon Mar 2017 #68
Me too. Zoonart Mar 2017 #77
I didn't say you were, but boomers put Trump in power MountCleaners Mar 2017 #78
No, Russia put Trump in power. hamsterjill Mar 2017 #80
'Some' boomers voted for Trump, just as 'some' Millenials did. WePurrsevere Mar 2017 #81
Of course they are willfully stupid...He did everything but shoot someone .. Peacetrain Mar 2017 #14
Expecting Gorsuch metalbot Mar 2017 #41
Most importantly, I never dreamed people would willingly vote for fascism over democracy world wide wally Mar 2017 #9
He told them what he was going to do.. and they voted for him Peacetrain Mar 2017 #15
In the naivety of my youth, 20 years ago maybe Cosmocat Mar 2017 #72
Billionaires and millionaires had every reason to vote for Trump, at least KingCharlemagne Mar 2017 #11
What is the most frustrating is the 47% didn't even vote still_one Mar 2017 #12
Indeed nycbos Mar 2017 #16
Over 70% of all eligible voters did not vote for this man Peacetrain Mar 2017 #17
And Newt's "Republican Revolution" was voted in by 18% of the VAP... eniwetok Mar 2017 #28
the Senate is an antidemocratic abomination eniwetok Mar 2017 #25
Every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states lost to the ESTABLISHMENT, still_one Mar 2017 #31
you're missing the point... eniwetok Mar 2017 #34
You're not holding Dem voters responsible? Of course not. eniwetok Mar 2017 #38
Not only the self-identified progressives, but the 47% who didn't bother to vote. That you seem to still_one Mar 2017 #46
I never said it did have anything to do with the EC... did I? eniwetok Mar 2017 #50
Actually you did, at the beginning of this subthread still_one Mar 2017 #52
Seriously.... you don't believe the Senate is antidemocratic? SERIOUSLY?? eniwetok Mar 2017 #55
I also didn't say... eniwetok Mar 2017 #51
The polls before the election were affected by Comey and FBI interference, along with the media's still_one Mar 2017 #53
Yup, those are SOME factors... eniwetok Mar 2017 #57
Yours allegations of the Senate being antidemocratic is adorbs. LanternWaste Mar 2017 #37
Your inability to do simple math is no reflection on me. eniwetok Mar 2017 #39
The Senate was a compromise to give each state, regardless of population, 2 Senators. It was to still_one Mar 2017 #54
please spare me the civics lessons... eniwetok Mar 2017 #60
Go find someone else to rag on. Have a nice day still_one Mar 2017 #61
it comes as no surprise you're scampering off... eniwetok Mar 2017 #62
last comment, I really don't want to deal with rudeness still_one Mar 2017 #63
saving face? sorry... the transcript proves... eniwetok Mar 2017 #64
As LBJ said... nycbos Mar 2017 #13
wow, Johnson sure had an unconventional way to say something still_one Mar 2017 #18
Believe it or not, that is how you have to talk to many southern people. Blue_true Mar 2017 #36
I'm looking out my window where a pair of them reside madokie Mar 2017 #20
Most gullible, poorly educated, uninformed idiots! TheDebbieDee Mar 2017 #21
these are the folks that need to be deported gopiscrap Mar 2017 #27
Indeed. Quit telling me to have empathy for these people. They deserve to be called stupid. butdiduvote Mar 2017 #29
CORRECTION!! eniwetok Mar 2017 #42
Plus Republicans are always saying they are against coddling because they are so tough Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #73
Water is also wet Gothmog Mar 2017 #30
K&R! gademocrat7 Mar 2017 #33
What is truly amazing is that 63+ Million "stupid people" thought he was better then Hillary. jmg257 Mar 2017 #40
Sad. Hillary was the most qualified candidate in history and they supported a clown instead agenasolva Mar 2017 #43
Incredible isn't it?? Yeesh... nt jmg257 Mar 2017 #45
This applies to my mother and father-in-law, 11/12 of my employees & most of my local acquaintances Mr. Ected Mar 2017 #44
AMEN!!!! n/t asuhornets Mar 2017 #47
That's kind of an unfair insult... RealityChik Mar 2017 #56
Nope. They actively voted for a racist. There is no excuse nor forgiveness for that. n/t Coventina Mar 2017 #83
Yep! mcar Mar 2017 #58
I know trump voters Dorian Gray Mar 2017 #66
Not stupid...maybe selfish but not stupid Averagegrunt Mar 2017 #69
You'll enjoy this one, then: calimary Mar 2017 #70
I know... I'm trying to understand how people who are doctors and engineers, etc Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #71
Maybe they don't like politics MountCleaners Mar 2017 #75
That's too specific for me. If someone voted AGAINST Hillary for any reason... NurseJackie Mar 2017 #74
I'll tell you what I don't get MountCleaners Mar 2017 #76
I don't excuse any Trump voters, but.... mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #79
Just as we suffered MFM008 Mar 2017 #82
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