A self-confessed ’MAGA junkie’ from a red-voting city devastated by Department of Government Efficiency firings has said she regrets voting for Donald Trump.

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      I don’t know, it’s quite simple when you view it from a race-perspective.

      White women in America do not want a black president, male or female.

      In 2008, when Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic primaries, do you think white women rallied behind Obama? Nope. They overwhelmingly switched their party to Republican, so “I can see Canada from my house” Sarah Palin, a white woman, could serve as VP to another old, decrepit white man.

      What about in 2016? I personally got shitted on for supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton, and was called misogynistic by white liberal women.

      Oh, and the cherry on top. In 2024, a young, healthy, uncontroversial, educated black woman ran against a vile, bigoted, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, capitalistic septuagenarian. EVERY demographic majority voted for him except black men and women.

      As I said, it’s really simple when you view it from a race-perspective.

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        117 days ago

        For the record I voted for Hillary and Harris.

        That said, Hilary is/was a shit person. Harris is/was a shit candidate.

        I voted for them because the other option was a literal traitor rapist, but that still wasn’t enough becuase the Dems ran shit candidates.

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      218 days ago

      And they’re a majority of white woman? Wtf?

      I am aapaled by guys voting for Trump but women voting for him fries my tiny fucking mind.

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        218 days ago

        One way to look at it is that these women are so used to being abused, to the point that oppression is deeply ingrained in their minds as just “the way it’s supposed to be”. Another way to look at it is that there are people out there who truly enjoy being submissive, and who truly think that being seen as lesser is all well and good. Truth is probably somewhere in between. However, It’s a really dangerous tightrope to walk about saying that a huge majority of grown adults can’t make decisions for themselves because they are literally incapable of choosing the best for themselves due to cultural manipulation. It basically debunks democracy as we know it. It makes it really hard to defend democracy when you can’t fully trust the ability to make informed and educated decisions of the majority of your population, so we pretend that it’s a non-issue and simply don’t talk about it.

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          118 days ago

          However, It’s a really dangerous tightrope to walk about saying that a huge majority of grown adults can’t make decisions for themselves because they are literally incapable of choosing the best for themselves due to cultural manipulation. It basically debunks democracy as we know it.

          Democracy depends on an educated citizenry.

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          118 days ago

          As to the “way it’s supposed to be” part…

          That should be obvious. Their oh-so-important Bible is all about how to trample women to be used as steps for men to climb up on.

          All that stuff in church about “women shouldn’t teach in church” all the way up to the ones that like the part about “women just shutting the entire fuck up” in church kinda sets the time for these women.

          And on top of that they’re told not to question it or rebel against it for any reason on pain of getting shot from a cannon straight to super hell.

          So yeah, that part is ingrained for sure.


          I do think at least some of the problem we face voting-wise are these people that are super-insulated and super-ignorant. For example, my own parents. I don’t have much clue how big this specific thing is, but I know from them (and the people that I used to associate with due to being raised around them) that if you can ever get them into a discussion about it, that they won’t have a defense for anything at all. They will just quote Fox News at anything. But even if you do manage to finally show enough evidence to make your point, even if you get past everything else…

          Then, you will finally find out that they are single issue voters the whole time, and will do whatever mental gymnastics needed to prove that their side isn’t just literal Nazis.

          But really it’s been focused down to one point for them, and one point only. And what is that point? Abortion. A very narrow, very near sighted version of abortion.

          They really do think it’s literally “killing babies”, and any effort to support that at all is automatically devil work, so there’s nothing else to really consider here. They don’t even care about all the women who die from pregnancy-related problems. Those are just soldiers dying in the war to protect babies. Even now you can tell they don’t really like the fact that they begrudgingly accept exceptions for things like ectopic situations, it clear black and white about-or-die situations. They’re totally fine with pregnant women dying. As long as it’s not just the fertilized cell clump that they call a human life. That mother should die with it in their view. Their job is to multiply and if they can’t, they should go down with the ship.

          This is at least somewhat abated in popular opinion now, but I would guess that’s just a compromise they’ll take to stop all the demons from killing as many as possible.

          Anyway I’ve gotta get off this rant because I can feel my blood pressure going up, but to summarize:

          Conservative women are taught to love the boot stepping on them. They’re kinda in a brainwash situation I think, but they make it so much worse for themselves, and at some point I can’t feel bad for them anymore.

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      218 days ago

      The most generous explanation I can come up with is that many of them are ignorant and have been told all their life that white christian republicans are the good people and are THEIR people.

      And many of them are just dumb mean conservatives the same as the men voting against their own interests.

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    119 days ago

    They never understand that their wages, their benefits, their subsides for their businesses to survive are the “waste” that the right is talking about. To cut “waste’” is to cut all government because government only exists to stop the rape and pillage by a business entity strong enough to be doing it. Why should the food you consume be safe - that cuts into corporate profits. Why should children be educated - that cuts into corporate profits. Etc. If you aren’t the owner of said corporation, you do not matter. Of course Trump needed their ill-informed vote to do what his is doing now. This is exactly what they explicitly voted in favour of, even if they were too dim to understand that.

    The Canadian version in our current election is climate change denial. We can’t have any restrictions due to carbon/fossil fuels because that costs money. Even though by not have any restrictions, fossil fuel corporations are shifting 100% of their environmental damage costs on to taxpayers. We don’t get the revenues, we don’t get the profits but we get all the costs. Once again: privatized profits, socialized costs. The status quo of big business.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 days ago

    Hope no one else will hire either. They deserve that they get, because there are so many people who voted against and are getting the same or worse.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 days ago

    I expected better, for me, at the expense of others. Which I was totally fine with.

    Now other people are getting better, at my expense and I’m not OK with that, surprisingly.

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    317 days ago

    She didn’t expect better, she expected everyone BUT her to be hurt. Once she was hurt by Trump, suddenly she thinks things went too far.

  • @[email protected]
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    417 days ago

    Imagine the world we’d have if Republicans could feel empathy for something before it happens to them…

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    “I expected better from you. I really did,” Pigott said, when asked what she would say to Trump if she got the chance. “I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all of those things that you promised us before we elected you in office, but you’re not doing that—you’re creating a disaster and I don’t know what America is gonna look like if this continues.”

    He did exaclty what he said he was going to, why would she expect him to do anything better?

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      219 days ago

      She expected her job to be safe. The waste and fraud she wanted cut was, you know, that DEI stuff and programs that support those other people. Woops!

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      319 days ago

      Exactly how dumb are his supporters? Seriously who in their right mind thinks a billionaire will support the working class? Billionaires are the reason the working class is suffering…

      Billionaires only care about wealth and power… nothing else

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        They’re certainly dumb, but also billions of dollars was funneled into social media and other efforts to ensure they believed they were doing the right thing. Both by Russia and all the think tanks of the heritage project and the like. They’ve been fucked by corporations/the wealthy since they were born, like most, but they were convinced by the corporations, by the oligarchy, by Russia, that the problem was immigrants, minorities, socialists, communists, and anyone who ever said maybe they should think in a different way. Capitalism empowered where we are and Russia took advantage, fanning the right wing flames

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      Skill issue, was likely overemployed all things considered. Question the qualifications or anyone who would say this.

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      I watched the CNN video, she’s so close. And yet so far away.

  • TooManyFoods
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    Did she actually say she regrets it? This is big. I’ve seen that like twice. Usually they just ask him to take deep black shits on their faces again

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    1119 days ago

    Her woes have not stopped. <Foo>, who has spoken to the national press about the issue before, has been targeted by vandals and has even received death threats since speaking out.

    Adding insult to injury.