Okay, I've just got to ask. Is anyone else really pissed that idiots voted for Trump?

[hamsterjill]

My rant for the day!!!

I live in a red zone. Trumpers everywhere. A two minute conversation with most of them reveals their lack of understanding and lack of thinking skills.

Every time I think of this, I get furious. These idiots, AND the idiots that they support by voting red, are going to cause irreparable damage to the rest of us. People are dying from this virus and more are sure to die - and it is NO small thing that we have an incompetent, arrogant, self-centered, ignorant moron in the White House because of them.

I don’t want to watch people die. Hell, I don’t want to die. But we are going to be forced to deal in ways we’ve never had to deal before as a nation and I am tired of being held back because we have to be kind to idiots. They don’t get it. They never will. But the rest of us should not have to suffer because of their stupidity.

I will vote blue no matter who and anyone with ANY sense had better do the same. I pray to God that we survive long enough to get this moron out of office and tell these idiots that the rest of us want science, preparedness, compassion and a real life again.

I want normal again!!!

Rant over.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. The saddest part is when you learn someone you love voted for Trump.

You lose a lot of respect for them.
At least, I have.

[kimbutgar]

4. I look at them with little respect warily.

They are the ones struggling financially and they still buy into this “I work hard and never depend on government programs”. And of course only finished high school.

[shanti]

24. I have both kinds in my family

Struggling and definitely not struggling. Educated and uneducated. Both types disgust me.

[hamsterjill]

7. Oh absolutely.

Half of my extended family think Trump is God himself. I can’t be in the same room.

[Girard442]

11. Really. It's like they were hiding their true selves before.

Trump gave them permission to let their inner fascists run free.

[Funtatlaguy]

14. Yep. Had a friend who really surprised me.

I didn’t end the friendship immediately.
I just let it slowly end.
Life is too short to put negative energy in it.

[deurbano]

31. Yeah, my sister had previously been apolitical on FB and then turned into an unhinged nut on FB.

[dawg]

2. Yeah. I mostly don't even blame Trump.

I blame his 62,000,000 enablers.

He made it perfectly clear to everyone, before the election, what he was.

[lunatica]

30. And that's why they voted for him

By the time the election happened we all knew who he was. Since then we have only learned to what degree.

[kimbutgar]

3. Yesterday my husband told me that a MF45 supporter he works with told him with a

Straight face that MF45 is the greatest president ever, despite this cronovirus outbreak and the stock market failing. He told my husband he doesn’t know what liberty is. My husband replied to that him that he is not a free thinker and is under mf45’s thumb being led like a sheep. The guy walked away from him.

[Rob2861]

15. Can't fix stupid

It's a waste of time to even try to explain to the Trumpkins what reality is. You just can't fix stupid. Save your breath.

[ooky]

66. They've been propagandized not to listen to us.

I have tried showing Trumpers cold hard data about the lies they believe, i.e., employment data or stock market data or budget deficit data under Obama vs Trump, only to be told the sources of the data can't be trusted, government sources are "made up" numbers by "The Deep State" and other such nonsense. The RW extremists who have trained them have covered all the bases to make sure they get locked into the cult. They live in a fake world.

So, I have also reached the point I no longer waste my breath with a Trumper, I have found it's better to just not to be around one at all.

[docgee]

45. Truth is, they do not know the difference between nationalism and patriotism.

[Brainfodder]

5. Consequences of birth control use higher among smarter folks?

Yeah, I just want to be back to thinking our leaders are crooked!

[cos dem]

12. This is the theory behind Idiocracy.

It was supposed to be a comedy. Turns out, it was a tragedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

[lunatica]

32. It turns out it was a documentary

[Raster]

6. I came in to work this morning and took the turn from a relatively new team member...

... We both commented about how scary the public health situation looks right now, and I commented about how it's too bad we don't have a real POTUS in charge. My coworker told me he was "not a tRump* supporter," but "couldn't believe Joe Biden was the best Democrats could come up with." I told him I would GLADLY support Biden, and that, hell, I would vote for a ham sandwich over tRump, to which my co-worker responded that "his 401K looks pretty good right now." I asked "you'd vote for tRump* because your 401K is doing well"? To which he replied, "I'm a libertarian." I told him, "you realize that the piss-poor government response to this crisis is because tRump* has eviscerated vital components of our government"?

"Really, which ones?"

"Well, for starters, the pandemic response team from the CDC."

"No, he didn't."

"Ahh, YES HE DID."

At that point in time, I simply said: "this conversation is over," and walked away.

Unfortunately, what we previously knew as normal is going to be a long-time coming.

[hamsterjill]

9. You know what I get all the time from Trumpers?

In all seriousness, “How many people has Hillary Clinton had killed?”

To which I reply, “please give me a valid source where Hillary has been charged with a crime.”

To which they invariably respond, “I don’t need a goddamn source. Everybody in the world knows she’s done it.”

Ah, intelligent conversation. I miss it.

[Vogon_Glory]

19. You can't argue with self-blinding stupid, BUT

think of the sub-text and what Trumpies are inadvertently saying about Republican governance when they trot out this particular “Wicked Hillary” canard. (We know the Hillary stories are lies, but for entertainment purposes, bear with me) They are saying that Republican prosecutors and investigators are so clueless and incompetent that despite 12 years of friendly Republican administrations backing them, their guys are so fumble-fingered, brainless, incompetent, and stupid that they couldn’t bring enough evidence forward that even a dull-witted knuckle-dragged Republican prosecutor could move to indictment or trial.

If the vile “Wicked Hillary” canards were true, there’d be evidence. REAL evidence. NOBODY’S that good at hiding such evidence.

They are saying that Republicans can’t appoint competent people for important jobs.

[yonder]

23. Nice angle there. I like it.

[Midnight Writer]

22. They often fall back on the "everybody knows" or "it's just common sense" thing.

[Vogon_Glory]

27. And the Dubya Bush and Orange Julius administrations couldn't find

Evidence because (A) there wasn’t any or (B) they were so fumble-fingered stoopid that they couldn’t find any evidence?

So much for right-wing claims that putting Republican “adults” in charge would set things to rights.

[JHB]

8. Yes. And the idiocy started long before Trump

Never let anyone call this "Trumpism". This idiocy has been carefully nurtured by conservative activists and Republicans for decades now.

[CottonBear]

10. I am beyond angry at the idiot Trump voters. I'm verging on hatred.

My own family are all Republicans who probably voted for MF45.

Recently, my white, non-college educated, gun toting, Harley riding sister got really angry with me and accused me of being “a left wing liberal and, probably, a communist.”

Well, fuck her. l’ve only spoken to her when absolutely necessary since that time. She couldn’t even define democracy, social democracy, socialism, communism or facism if her life depended on it.

Thanks to millions like her, our country and our citizenry is in great peril.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. The best part CB?

She and all the other 50 million voters that elected him are going to get it up their kazoos just like we are.
He is screwing them every bit as bad as us, and the funniest part is they are all so ignorant and stupid to even realize it........LOL

[CottonBear]

53. They'll blame it all on President Obama.

🙁

[DENVERPOPS]

59. At that point

it doesn't really matter, cause THEIR lives will be destroyed forever too.........

[Loki Liesmith]

13. Not pissed

Who else would idiots vote for

[Skittles]

44. they could have STAYED HOME

[CaptYossarian]

16. This pandemic and lack of response is the icing on the cake.

He's destroyed everything good and has put people in jeopardy every day since his little escalator ride.

Make America Great Again? He's insane.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. I'm more pissed at those who are NOT idiots that voted for tRump.

Single-issue people with high IQs are the worst. Brainwashed and enraged over guns, abortion or the evil of taxes and our government is their typical theme.

Many of them are not idiots. They work in high-level positions every day. What they are, however is selfish, self-centered, narrow-minded fear-driven power freaks.

Just follow the money. Corporate and right-wing media people and evangelical preachers are the worst of the lot. They drag the idiots along for their votes.

KY rant done............

[hamsterjill]

20. There is truth to this!

Fucking megachurches.

[lunatica]

47. deleted

[True Blue American]

52. I had one ranting that he owed

$10,000 in taxes this year. I replied,” What happened to that big tax cut Trump gave you?”

Insurance doubled,too? Blames the ACA for that. Not a Trump lover though. Blames both parties.

[CottonBear]

55. I know one of those Trump voters.

White, college educated single mom and successful small business owner. She voted for MF45 to the horror of her entire family, including her conservative, corporate lawyer father.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

57. Just curious: What did she state her motive was?

KY........ .......

[CottonBear]

58. I have not asked her directly.

Her sister, who is my close childhood friend, told me that she (her sister) had voted for Trump and that the whole family was shocked.

I have not asked more questions. I think it was a taxes/money vote.

The family is very upper middle class, very well educated and very successful.
Hopefully. she will vote for a Democrat this year.

I really like your thoughtful and informative posts. I am a fellow Southerner!

I hope that Southern Republicans will reconsider their previous electoral choices and vote for a Democrat in 2020.

[Vinca]

18. I had one meltdown after the 2016 election and screamed at a man I know when I found out

he voted for the orange idiot. It's still hard to believe he's that stupid.

[Vogon_Glory]

21. It offends the way I think things ought to be

I can understand (but not agree with) Hillary-hate or not liking Democrats. But what stillbothers me is that so many Trumpies set cold reason aside, set their usual suspicion that politicians are liars and crooks, ignored checking to see if Donnie was a man of his word, then voted for him even while the tides of contrary evidence were rising in September and October 2016.

This was the sort of clueless behavior I used to expect out of sub-literate, recently-decolonized third-world countries utterly lacking in literacy or experience with self-governing republican rule, NOT Americans.

And they’re still doing it! THAT continues to baffle and dismay me. I used to think most people of voting age, particularly those old enough to have been around the block, learn from their experience.

[Traildogbob]

25. That's a Me Too post there

Anyone see the fools on AM Joy outside a rally ranting about it is all a lie, no virus, never gonna believe anything trump and Fox are not saying. Large crowd wearing red shirts with bold print "In God We Trump". That is the intellect we are dealing with. And they vote. Sit this one out, we may all die. Or ya may live while watching your family members die. NATO, if your listening, time for a little payback regime change here. This shit is spreading world wide, just like before.

[ancianita]

26. I call them the helpless, hapless beat down "burn it down" believers with apocalyptic aspirations.

Idiots is the short form of that.

There were only 63 million of them in 2016. Maybe their voting numbers will go down.

Maybe we can drive them back into hiding when we drive out Fox and the Sinclair syndicate with a revived Fairness Doctrine law.

I feel you. Hang tough. Don't let the idiots get you down. A lot of how they got that way wasn't their choice along the way.

With this coronavirus darkness, bet they're looking at their hated Obamacare in a whole new way.

[Cryptoad]

28. I am morer pissed that,,,,

so many Democrats stayed home and didn't vote cause their candidate didnt win the primary!

[AllyCat]

29. Agree with all except I don't think God is gonna help

Since God seems to have brought this perfect storm of death on us, cannot imagine there is a plan that aligns with ours to not be harmed. We are on our own.

[shockey80]

33. I have been pissed off for over three years.

[gibraltar72]

34. Yeah most are irredeemable.

I am fascinated how invested they are in making light of the virus. Posting stuff that shows numbers killed by more conventional flus. They don't seem to understand this thing just got started rolling. Experts are being ignored. Some are letting themselves be co opted out of fear or something darker.

[world wide wally]

35. Just ask them if they would let Trump babysit their kid

[DENVERPOPS]

39. or worse

their teenage daughter............

[yaesu]

36. yep, I can never forgive the idiots who voted for that idiot anf anyone who still backs him

is criminally insane and I will tell them to keep as far away from me as possible.

[Ferrets are Cool]

37. I am MORE pissed that they STILL support him...he has shown what

a horrible human he is and they seem to wallow in that mire and enjoy it like pigs in mud.

[dlk]

40. Sadly, too many Americans are eagerly willing to cut off their nose to spite their face

As long as they can make others pay for it too, they’re happy. It’s a pathology.

[Woodycall]

41. They have been recruiting idiots for years...

[nancy1942]

42. I agree with you.

I detest all of them.

[Skittles]

43. I will never, EVER forgive them

I really always understood people wanting change, but it is MIND-BOGGLING that anyone could think DONALD FUCKING TRUMP was the answer. I feel the same way about BS. Really, really cannot see why people do not see the obvious.

[hamsterjill]

50. +1000

Well said!

[3catwoman3]

56. Yes, INDEED!

To borrow your favorite turn of phrase.

Knowing that someone voted for Trump forever changes how I feel about them.

[GoneOffShore]

46. We all want normal. I posted something from Terry Pratchett two days ago

that would seem to be apposite:

.....Polly decided that she knew enough to be going on with. The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.'
Sir Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment

And no one had the right to be stupid.

[czarjak]

48. Vlad said...

Nyet problem!

[Nitram]

49. Im much more pissed at the people who still support Trump than the idiots who voted for him.

[hamsterjill]

51. I find those to be one and the same

I don’t know of a single Trumper who voted for him in 2016 and doesn’t STILL support him. They are too stupid and/or arrogant to change their minds.

[Nitram]

62. Many of them are the same, but I've seen interviews with a number of people who now regret

they voted for Trump. Many did so as a protest vote because they were so pissed off.

[hamsterjill]

64. What were they pissed off about?

I never understood. To me, the choice was clear. Honestly, I felt at the time it was a choice between life or death, and guess what? Here we are.

And the idiots made the wrong choice which will now affect us all.

Not trying to be ugly. But we are learning this morning that many of the people from the cruise ship are coming here, and I’m a little upset about the lack of preparedness. Thanks

[Nitram]

68. Yes, to you and me the choice was clear. Not everybody is a woke and smart as we are.

[PETRUS]

54. Yeah. Well, maybe sorta.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. I'm at least as preoccupied with what kind of social conditions could lead to something like this and why we allowed it to get to that point as I am with the behavior of individual voters.

[Initech]

60. It's not the Idiots that I'm mad at.

I know plenty of well educated people who voted for Chump because of three reasons:

1. Money
2. Religion
3. They bought into the hate propaganda sphere - Fox, AM radio, social media

These are the people who I am mad at. Because they should know better, but they vote for these incompetent assholes time and time again. Forget the idiots, how do we win over these voters?

[marlakay]

61. I have heard, he's not that bad

Your just listening to stupid tv and the media lies.

I feel like saying are you sure you live in the same world as me? Obviously not by the way they act.

[scarytomcat]

63. I am really indignant that MEGA hats take such glee from tormenting Democrats

as they shred the constitution...

[GoCubsGo]

65. Pissed? No. I pity them.

It has to suck to be so hateful, fearful and ignorant that that you think it's a good idea to put a low-life, scumbag, dregs-of-humanity, incomptent imbecile in charge of running your country, because he says things that make you feel like you are actually better than all the people you hate and fear. They are pathetic. I'll saving my anger for the way Elizabeth Warren has been treated.

[DFW]

67. Not at all. I EXPECTED the idiots to vote for Trump.

It's the people who I never considered to be idiots that voted for Trump that pissed me off.

It's depressing to be forced to do that kind of reassessment about people you once considered to be sane, mature individuals.