These brainless morons really think this shit is team sports. JFC.
We hate him no matter who he represents.
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Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For them, it is. So they assume it is for everyone.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the key point. It’s why “every accusation is a confession” works so often. They are accusing others of the things they themselves are doing, because they assume everyone is doing it.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
See also them using phrases like “believing in science”. I don’t have to believe in it, it’s repeatable. Stop projecting your dumb worldview.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s more that these morons actually behave this way. They trust anyone with an “®” at the end of their name.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Democratic Party has its Gavin Newsoms and Joe Manchins and Michael Bloombergs and Anthony Weiners aplenty.
No shortage of Democrats on the Lolita Express. No shortage of liberal billionaires hungry for another war in the Middle East, another trillion dollar data center spend on public land, or another Bay of Pigs on Cuba.
None of Trump’s politics are unique to Trump. We’ve got shitty little fascists crawling all over the country, from the bluest cities of Washington and Minnesota to the reddest oil fields of Texas and Wyoming. If anything, the latest wave of Silicon Valley “Network State” fucks have been more concentrated in liberal districts. And their money has produced a wave of horrifyingly bad liberal politicians who are as much responsible for the Obama->Trump party slump as any QAnon club.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s easier on their hamster brains that way. Means they don’t have to worry about doing any homework.
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pennsylvania has a Democrat ogre, and we seem to have no problem saying, “fuck Fetterman”
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Well tbf, he got a stroke and basically that’s how he turned conservative
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s the story. I think he was always a sleeper and the stroke made him unable to walk the line.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Wasn’t there an interview from like the 80s were he said if he ran for president he would run repub cause they were idiots and he could trick them easily?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you explain sinema that way too?
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Nothing fair about that
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
What a silly question. Nobody likes Democrats.
decolo@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Not even Hakeem Jeffries or Ken Martin like democrats!
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
If he were a DEMOCRAT I would FORGIVE all the Blatant Corruption and CHILD RAPING!
-This is how REPUBLICANS are!
quarkquasar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Republicans aren’t the root of every problem we’re facing today, but I’d bet a lot of money that they’re probably responsible for the majority of them.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Political brain rot is believing people dislike Trump solely because he’s a Republican.
That’s the fundamental problem with American politics. Too many people treat it like team sports: I have to defend my side no matter what.
No, you don’t.
You don’t owe a political party your loyalty. Parties are tools, not identities. If your own side does something wrong, or even something you consider objectively immoral, you should be willing to say so. Blind partisanship isn’t a virtue; it’s the abandonment of independent judgment.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
If he ran for president as a democrat he would not have been elected.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy
He only made it through the Republican primary because the Democrats helped him through it.
The punchline of the last decade has been how neoliberals and reactionaries within the liberal party laid the foundation for a Permanent Republican Majority. Even now, they’re more interested in beating back an insurgent progressive movement than ousting fascists in their own backyards.
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
A different take: If he was a Democrat, would he have the same opinions? If he existed as current, he would not be a democrat, but maybe his experiences were caused him to develop in other directions.
If Trump espoused democratic values, and was for things like universal healthcare, higher wages, privacy and personal autonomy, hadn’t been a sex pest, wasn’t a grifter and on and on and on… then no, I might not despise him.
Not that Jason above was in any way being sincere in the question.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He was a democrat and I’m fairly sure that beyond being manipulated through his dementia, he has not changed any of his beliefs or values on becoming a republican.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
His party affiliation has nothing to do with it.Trump has always been a POS of a human being full stop.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s the archetype of the 80s movie developer who wants to tear down the old skate rink or whatever.
wittymyusername@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
He’s like the reverend from Footloose without the saving grace of being played by John Lithgow.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
For you. I see Dems constantly glazing Obama. Who, while not as bad as trump, was pretty fucking bad in a “it’s like Bush never left” kind of way.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“it’s like Bush never left”
What’s that based on?
And saying he’s “not as bad as Trump” is a ludicrous understatement.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I tend to not like felon rapist pedophiles regardless of their political affiliation.
And the Democrat party pretty regulartly ousts members with scandals that dwarf in comparison to Trump’s DAILY scandals.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Remember when Al Fraken had to resign for giving too much tongue on a kiss and for screwing up his hover hands when posing for photos?
Remember when Howard Dean’s career was ended over making a weird screech in a victory speech?
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I will never understand why some people will go online with their real name and photo and discuss any highly controversial topics, much less politics.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
- It puts legitimacy behind their statements. You are no longer discussing with an internet no-name weirdo, the person you are writing with has a name and face.
- They weild authority in the field or bear respect assigned to them and are thus using it…or simply used to writing under their name due to that.
- They’re one of “I have nothing to hide” folks. And I don’t mean surveilence apologists - I mean folk who have such weirdly strong ego (without being egoists. At least most of the time) that their belief in who they are is unshakeable. They tend to rawdog the world.
Some combination of the three above is most common in my perspective.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You missed the top one
0 - they are old and or stupid and don’t think of the consequences of their actions
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A long time ago, when I was dating a woman who worked at Planned Parenthood, I ran afoul of a Scott Roeder supporter. I’m glad he never knew my name and what I looked like. I think my statements to him were legitimate and authoritative enough with out putting my loved ones in danger.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
There’s really no guarantee that people are using their real name and photo in most cases. People tying their presence to their work or something is different, but I generally never assume I’m talking to the person being presented to me. Some people also just don’t care, don’t realize there could be consequences, or they signed up when the internet was a different place (thinking twitter would be more like Facebook or MySpace where it might make some sense to use your real name).
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
If he ran as a Democrat, I’d have never voted for the Democrats again, because they would have stood up and said Trump was acceptable.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They stood up and said Hillary was acceptable. And now here we are.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Love seeing people get down voted for being right.
Y’all forget when she walked into a poor persons house and just… Stared?
Even orange shitstain looked more at home in a McDonalds drive thru and that’s fuckig sad
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aw my two favorite things. “bOtH SiDeS”: Congratulations, you found a way to insert that where it absolutely made no sense. Then we have “I kNoW ExAcTlY hOw AlL pOsSiBlE tImElInEs WoUlD hAvE gOnE!!1”
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
How is this “BoTh SiDeS”, I fully recognize the Dems are better than the Republicans, and one of the reasons is the Democrats would never have accepted Trump.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Trump has a long and public history of being a piece of shit.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Turns out people who are fine with Nazis don’t even allow for the possibility of principles existing.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
They exist, because we allowed them to.
robocall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t be a partisan hack. Politics isn’t rooting for a sport team, nor a rock concert. Don’t follow a leader because they are charismatic or likeable. Instead, support policies that reflect your values. Do not follow a person. If someone present a policy that you support, or multiple policies that you support, embrace the policy for being great. Not the person. People are not superheroes.
Dryad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quick reminder that a significant chunk of the MAGA base that isn’t wildly misinformed love him for exactly the reasons you just mentioned. Republican vitriol loves that he spews hated. They delight in how his policies make the right people hurt.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If he was running as a democrat would you have voted for a generic republican instead?
red_tomato@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would rather have George Bush back than more Trump. Not that I think he’s any good at all.
Klear@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine, 20 years for now, fondly remembering Trump compared to some completely psychotic asshole Americans are going to elect at that time.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 3 weeks ago
mittens romney?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
he is despicable at the atomic level
20cello@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A pedophile is a pedophile is a pedophile
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The creature is sub-human.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Although I disagree with most of his politics, that’s not the reason I dislike him.
I would never support a pedophile even if they were able to achieve all my political ideals, to me that’s just a non-starter and I wish more people felt the same way. At this point the evidence and court case are undeniable.
lizzzy@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
USA seems to have a problem of valuing All people in society
Rob the poor to pay the rich. The American dream
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Some MAGoo said he wanted Trump and not miserable Republicans In Name Only.
Obviously, the MAGoo hadn’t noticed that Trump was a Dem for years, except when he tried to run for President on the Reform Party ticket
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought he was playing a character before he ran for president in 2016. Like I never watched The Apprentice, but I saw ads for it and I figured he was just playing an exaggerated asshole clown of a boss.
If Trump had run and won as a democrat in 2016, I probably would have intensely disliked him like I did Biden and HRC, but not hated him like I do now because the democratic party would have steered him in very different ways than the GOP has.
I largely now hate his voters and hope they suffer far more than I hate Trump. Nothing but antipathy for them.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never watched The Apprentice, but I saw ads for it and I figured he was just playing an exaggerated asshole clown of a boss.
Believe it or not, I always took it as the opposite. The first time Trump wanted to run he was laughed out of the primary. He had a long history as a narcissistic con man to anyone in the northeast and there’s no way he’d be elected. The entire point of “The Apprentice” was to rebuild his image.
Maybe some people took it as gospel laying an exaggerated asshole clown of a boss, but he was toned down from reality. His narcissism was toned down, he acted mostly morally, he appeared to know something about business. His entire image was much more palatable than the previous two decades of headlines
Unfortunately it succeeded
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Above all else, Donald Trump is a useful idiot. More powerful people have been using him for a lot longer than he’s been president.
He’ll go along with whatever, as long as he gets attention/money. He’s crass, so if he was a Democrat president, he’d still be an asshole, but he would have gone along with the liberal policies.
But it would never happen because Democrats are held to a higher standard and, as an idiot, the only way he can make himself stand out is through bigotry, which doesn’t fly for liberal voters. DEFINITELY flies for conservatives though.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I still think it’s possible that in 2016 they told him they were signing him up to play the President in a mockumentary. And that they still haven’t told him otherwise.
OpenPassageways@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I don’t hate him. He’s a typical rich asshole who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
I’d have no problem with him if he spent his time playing golf and sailing yachts, as long as he paid his taxes and would be held accountable for any fraud he commits.
I hate the people who looked at this guy and said “he represents me, I want him in charge”. Or “I don’t understand what the words communist or fascist mean, I just want him to hurt those other people I don’t like”.
The people who put him in power are the problem. Without them he would just be another rich asshole saying bigoted shit on social media that we could just ignore. If they didn’t put him in the White House, there’s at least a chance that he’d be held accountable for his crimes.
His social media posts would be a case of “say whatever you want old man, you’re just making yourself look foolish.”. Instead he has a platform to make the entire country look foolish.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
he shouldve just gone into pro wrestling instead of politics. would have been an all time manager
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
as long as he paid his taxes and would be held accountable for any fraud he commits.
When he was campaigning the first time he bragged that the irs did not have the ability to untangle his businesses enough to prove anything …… somehow people thought that was a good thing?
SiegeRhino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FUCK OFF AMERICAN POLITICS POSTS
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Not a shitpost
ameen272@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
How is this a shitpost in any kind of way
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course we would. But also, this joke of a person would’ve never won as a Democrat. He chose Republicans because he knew he’d have a better shot with them.
ClownStatue@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Does this count as a shitpost? I mean it’s about a piece of shit, but I’m not sure it’s the same thing.
sue@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
both parties are aipac bootlickers it doesnt matter
Tiral@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This last election I voted Dem. Not because I thought she was worth a shit, but she was imo the better of the two options. Political party doesn’t mean shit to me.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If the democrats party worshipped a corrupt fascist narcissist, I would be out on the street with my jammer and sickle dancing around the maypole
zeppo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The claim that people would like him if he was not a republican is one of the stupider pieces of cope they’ve come up with. They also like to use the stupid “TDS“ thing to claim that people just hate Trump arbitrarily, as if we can’t list 50 different horrible things he’s done and things about him that make him completely unfit for the office.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
From their perspective, it makes sense. They hate Democrats because they’re Democrats. And if one of them switches sides to become a Republican, they’ll suddenly find excuses for them, forgive everything they’ve ever done, and support them no matter what.
They’re so baked in tribalism that they can’t understand disliking a politician for any other reason. So they think of course things would be reversed if he was part of the other tribe. They, of course, would instantly hate him if he became a Democrat.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It’s also a self-report that they like him only because he’s a republican.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not just cope. It’s that these people are so surrealistically stupid and lack all sense of curiosity that many legitimately don’t know a fucking thing about the guy they voted to be the most powerful figure on the planet. So they think we must be acting unreasonable to hate him so much.
I mean a common phrase among them leading up to 2016 was “he’ll run it like a business” because they were entirely unaware that the dipshit has driven every business venture he’s ever attempted into the ground except for real estate because a monkey could be successful at real estate if it inherits a bunch of its daddy’s money and real estate.
They don’t even know who he is.
raspirate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve said for a long time that the primary means of American education is advertising. He was advertised as a competent businessman on TV, and so that’s what a lot of Americans believe. The guy’s a walking advertisement. A flim-flam man.
He wins because he’s the best at lying in a country that prizes lying for money as the best skill set one can possess.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If anything, Biden Derangement Syndrome was absolutely a thing. MAGAts were so incredibly panicked about Biden when he was an entirely milquetoast, middle-of-the road Democrat. Do even they argue that Trump is just another Republican? I can’t see how anyone could.
zeppo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They act that way any time a Democrat is president. They’re terrified the Dem will do a good job and leave a good legacy and positive reputation, so they pretty much flip out. They did it over Clinton - spread and amplified all sorts of rumors then investigated him for years until they finally found something to impeach him for. And then, Obama, obviously. Trump himself is still freaking the fuck out about Obama and it’s been a decade since he was in office.