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To be so disappointed in people - Trump voters especially

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notsorighteousthesedays · 06/11/2024 06:43

I feel absolutely stunned that despite all that has been said and done Trump is likely to get the chance to make the world burn a little faster.

I am afraid for a future so full of anger and hate.

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GenderRealistBloke · 06/11/2024 10:45

@thepariscrimefiles

Give me one example of a trans child being castrated by the Democrats.

If such cases existed you would condemn them, right?

wowzelcat · 06/11/2024 10:45

thepariscrimefiles · 06/11/2024 10:41

Apart from tax cuts for billionaires, huge tariffs, and mass deportations on day 1, what are his policies? I've listened to his speeches at his rallies and I am none the wiser.

Well he said Liz Cheney should be shot in the face nine times. Mass retributions and executions?

Jaxhog · 06/11/2024 10:47

I think the whole election has exposed the US political system to be fundamentally flawed. The Democrats are out of touch and the Republicans have fallen for the 'glamour' of an self-styled 'idiot' cult leader. Because of the need for shedloads of money and the support of major self-interest groups to even stand a chance of being nominated, there is little chance of a decent candidate coming forward. I hope both parties have a good look at this mess and themselves over the next few years and reset. Let's hope there is still a functioning US for that to matter.

Coolasfeck · 06/11/2024 10:47

If you’re a woman you have to be the perfect candidate. If you’re a man the bar is set below Satan’s foot.

JRSKSSBH · 06/11/2024 10:47

Gman0206 · 06/11/2024 10:37

^THIS SO MUCH^

I'm not American but even in the UK, every single workplace I've worked in I've had to smile and nod along to lefties and remainers who would have ripped your throat open if you expressed even a moderate, non-far left opinion, and that was the acceptable norm. It seems the only voice that people have anymore is the one in the voting booth, and recent elections in both UK and US (albeit labour still won in the UK) have shown that.

THIS IS SO TRUE.

JRSKSSBH · 06/11/2024 10:48

Coolasfeck · 06/11/2024 10:47

If you’re a woman you have to be the perfect candidate. If you’re a man the bar is set below Satan’s foot.

So simplistic as to be meaningless.

IMBCRound2 · 06/11/2024 10:48

thepariscrimefiles · 06/11/2024 10:35

Thanks for clarifying. I completely agree with you.

Yay for solidarity - im going to try get my original post deleted as I can’t edit. Sleepless night + pregnant + emotional does not make for a lot of clarity.

Drfosters · 06/11/2024 10:48

Lentilweaver · 06/11/2024 10:42

I try not to. But it's hard when Trump is claiming that immigrants are dining on dogs and cats. As an immigrant in this country, and with immigrant family in the US, I have seen how this kind of demonisation works.

Having said that many immigrants and minorities have voted for Trump. Because he focused on the economy and perhaps because they don't want to feel like victims.

Many legal immigrants get very angry about illegal immigrants. If they had to jump through all the hoops they get annoyed about the injustice of people who don’t have to. That is why many immigrants vote for strong borders.

thepariscrimefiles · 06/11/2024 10:48

ItsFunToBeAVampire · 06/11/2024 10:23

How many women should be raped in prison by men who think they are women before you stop and say something is wrong with it?
https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/19/lawsuit-female-prisoner-says-she-was-raped-transgender-inmate

How many girls should be sexually assaulted in their school toilets before you object?
https://apnews.com/article/loudoun-virginia-lawsuit-transgender-bathroom-sexual-assault-a26168568cc20c2aa6cec9bef50e7c3f

How many women should lose medals to men?
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/female-athletes-lost-nearly-900-medals-to-transgender-competitors-un-report-6857482

TBH, you should actually do some research outside of your own echo chamber, everything you're posting is directly from TRAs on X.

As for Trump winning, I'm absolutely not surprised at all. Anyone who is surprised should try looking at what the other side are saying.

You care so much about women that you support an adjudicated sex offender who talks about 'grabbing them by the pussy', who appointed 3 conservative justices on the Supreme Court (including a sex offender in Brett Kavanaugh) to overturn Roe V Wade? You don't care about women, you just hate trans people.

ItsFunToBeAVampire · 06/11/2024 10:48

wowzelcat · 06/11/2024 10:45

Well he said Liz Cheney should be shot in the face nine times. Mass retributions and executions?

No, he didn't.

https://x.com/litcapital/status/1852463032649007500

Watch the whole video, it's less than a minute.

Seriously, think for yourself, not someone else tells you to think.

x.com

https://x.com/litcapital/status/1852463032649007500

Babysharkdododododooo · 06/11/2024 10:48

maydaymayday1 · 06/11/2024 06:55

Well it's young women I feel sorry for. They will be the victims in this.

They would have fallen victim under Kamala Harris too. She supported letting men into women’s spaces and helped passed the law in CA where children can be removed from parents if parents don’t affirm their child’s gender. Women were not safe under Kamala.

i don’t agree with a lot of what trump does but he is by far the lesser of two evils and will restore more Christian views to the country

SetSail · 06/11/2024 10:48

The majority have spoken. That’s the reality. Whatever the left’s shortcomings are, at least they’re not storming the Capitol. I think this piece in The Guardian from a couple years ago sums up the situation in the States very well:

The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it

The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/next-us-civil-war-already-here-we-refuse-to-see-it

TheDonaldJT · 06/11/2024 10:49

Well I'm delighted. Kamala was a disaster.

budgetday · 06/11/2024 10:50

Trump isn't a loyal Republican or even reflective of what the Republican Party used to stand for which is why so many senior Republican's are repelled by him.

But voting for chaos and turmoil will impact on the Republican party's future. Just like voting for Brexit has impacted on the Conservative Party here.

thepariscrimefiles · 06/11/2024 10:51

rayofsunshine86 · 06/11/2024 10:24

I've seen lots of posters mistakenly state she's a black woman. She's not, she is Indian.

I think both candidates are numpties, so let's see how the next four years pans out.

She has an Indian mother and a black (Jamaican) father. She can call herself what she likes.

OrangeSlices998 · 06/11/2024 10:51

Babysharkdododododooo · 06/11/2024 10:48

They would have fallen victim under Kamala Harris too. She supported letting men into women’s spaces and helped passed the law in CA where children can be removed from parents if parents don’t affirm their child’s gender. Women were not safe under Kamala.

i don’t agree with a lot of what trump does but he is by far the lesser of two evils and will restore more Christian views to the country

Forced birth is the lesser of two evils?

Jumpingthruhoops · 06/11/2024 10:51

SpudleyLass · 06/11/2024 06:47

Democrats need to field better candidates.

And stop insulting the electorate

This is 2016 all over again - they just refused to listen to what people were telling them.

This! With bells on. 👏👏

Bearjok · 06/11/2024 10:52

It’s 65 million people vs 70 million people. It’s was close
however they should have been clear about protecting children’s rights instead they focused on abortions etc.

ItsFunToBeAVampire · 06/11/2024 10:52

thepariscrimefiles · 06/11/2024 10:48

You care so much about women that you support an adjudicated sex offender who talks about 'grabbing them by the pussy', who appointed 3 conservative justices on the Supreme Court (including a sex offender in Brett Kavanaugh) to overturn Roe V Wade? You don't care about women, you just hate trans people.

So what did you think about what I actually said, can you put a number on how many women and girls have to be raped or assaulted, before you'd stand up and say something is wrong with putting men in female spaces?

Call me a Trump supporter all you like, I'm in the UK and have never even voted for the Conservatives.

People like you are why Trump has won.

oakleaffy · 06/11/2024 10:52

Rollonsummerplease · 06/11/2024 06:54

It is more than depressing.
It is frightening.
Biden's selfish initial determination to run for a second term jinxed the chances of a Democratic win.

Edited

That was a massively selfish move.
It was embarrassing having such a feeble {mentally and physically} man in charge of the USA.

Biden was too vain to step down when he should have.

Now there is Trump.

Will he follow through with ''mass deportations'' as seemed to be the vote winner?

I doubt it.

Cnon · 06/11/2024 10:53

AnotherChildFreeCatLady · 06/11/2024 10:28

Exactly, considering he's an idiot who has no understanding of basic economics. But but tariffs. Tariffs will only raise the prices for end consumers, price increases means higher inflation. If he wasn't a moron, advised by morons, he would know that.

Getting rid of the Green New Deal, banning fossil fuels, which drove up diesel, which drove up grocery store prices!

ExtraOnions · 06/11/2024 10:53

Thank god I don’t live over there .. I live here ..….

Where an abortion is a medical procedure not a moral judgment
Where healthcare (though shaky at times) is free at point of need
Where if I have a chronic illness I get my meds, and not worry if I can afford my next shot of insulin
Where gay marriage is legal, and celebrated
Where childhood diseases are limited due to great free vaccination programmes
Where judges are not political appointments
Where we have a political system that means there are 12 political parties, and 15 independent candidates that can take part in debates
Where school books aren’t banned for fear they turn our children gay

USA .. land of the free .. I think not

Puzzledandpissedoff · 06/11/2024 10:53

Drfosters · 06/11/2024 10:48

Many legal immigrants get very angry about illegal immigrants. If they had to jump through all the hoops they get annoyed about the injustice of people who don’t have to. That is why many immigrants vote for strong borders.

Many get pretty sick of being labelled as victims too, no matter how much it suits the hard left to cast them as such

Happily, countless millions who are doing so much for their country and enjoying the benefits that brings are anything but victims, and so those who felt they were owed their vote continue to be disappointed

ThatRareUmberJoker · 06/11/2024 10:54

Backwoods57 · 06/11/2024 07:02

Brit in the US:

Over the past 10 years the liberal's have shut down friendly political debate. If you are not a Democrat you are automatically shot down as being a Nazi supporter. This obviously has upset a majority. However they have just kept quiet and nodded along to maintain friendships, saving their true views for the privacy of the voting booth.

You cannot win thoughts and minds by shouting them down and demonizing them.

10 years is that all America has a long history and that place was born from blood and murder and slavery. Do you expect the indigenous people and African Americans to forget and move on. Let's be honest the white people in America are European and yet they want to build a wall to stop immigration. I spoke to an American man and he said they have their problems but when it comes to protecting themselves they are by far the best they can win 3 world wars on their own.

Maybe it's time you started listening rather than feeling uncomfortable with difficult conversations.

wowzelcat · 06/11/2024 10:56

ItsFunToBeAVampire · 06/11/2024 10:48

No, he didn't.

https://x.com/litcapital/status/1852463032649007500

Watch the whole video, it's less than a minute.

Seriously, think for yourself, not someone else tells you to think.

Thanks for quoting twitter or x to support your point. Always a reliable source, that platform owned by Elon Musk. Renowned for its journalistic integrity it is.

I prefer the Independent myself
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-liz-cheney-rifle-guns-tucker-carlson-b2639521.html

"After condemning the Iraq war and boasting about pardoning Dick Cheney’s then-chief of staff Scooter Libby, who was convicted on perjury charges in 2007, Trump lined up the former vice president’s daughter in his crosshairs.

“His daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb. She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump said to some cheers.
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Trump conjures up violent fantasy about Liz Cheney being shot at

‘Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her,’ Trump said of his most prominent GOP critic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-liz-cheney-rifle-guns-tucker-carlson-b2639521.html

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