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His brother Stephen agrees: “I don’t think I had a choice to vote any other direction.”>
This got me. I would put money on that he would vote for Trump again.
Yeah the logic always stuns me.
"If I vote for a Democrat they'll probably take some of my money through taxes and I'll be poor"
Trump wins and ruins their business, they lose all of their money.
"At least I'm not poor because of evil Democrat taxes"
They have truly been brainwashed. Whatever bad shit republicans do they still believe the Democrats must be worse, because the republicans told them so. Even though the republicans have provably been lying to them for years.
Many Trump supporters would like to consider themselves to be "devoutly religious" (the way the treat others says otherwise, but that's beside the point). People who are "devoutly religious" have a tendency to take things they are told as gospel (pun definitely intended), regardless of how utterly illogical and detached from reality it may be. If the "right" person comes along, 100% of what is said will be believed 100% of the time. It's something that RepubliCons have taken advantage of for years, and it's something that is second nature to con artists like Trump and that Nigerian prince that won't stop sending me gods damned emails.
Meh. So long as they say sorry to Magical Sky Mummy every Sunday, they can do whatever they fucking want to. Don't look to the religious for examples of humanity and decency.
It shouldn't. It's very common on both sides of the aisle. Never heard "vote blue no matter who"? That term was coined and used by large swaths of non-Republicans who agreed to vote for someone they don't agree with about everything. The fact is that it's extremely rare for any voter to be 100% aligned with the views of the person they vote for.
Actually, if you think about it, isn't it more selfish to change who you vote for based on how you personally are affected by their policies?
Yeah, but you don't vote for Hitler unless you're a cunt yourself!
Legitimately the point of democracy. Vote for your best interests. If the turn out is good and the majority vote for their own best interests, you end up with more good being done for the majority rather than a small subset of the population (Billionares)
I personally don't disagree, but I'm just making the point that from what I've seen, it seems like the above virtue only exists for most people up until the moment the Other Person's best interests don't align with theirs, at which point they're instantly considered scum for voting for their own interests.
...And the Left does the same thing.
Back in the day, a lot of folks couldn't bring themselves to vote for Jimmy Carter because he wouldn't take a strong stand on South African apartheid. We got ronald reagan who embraced embrace South Africa.
That's not at all how that played out.
One, John Anderson ran as an independent in 1980, after losing the Republican primary. He had been a Republican until then. Early in that primary, he was a viable candidate for the nomination. He was initially likely to take more votes from Reagan than Carter.
Anderson supported the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), as well as an extension to the time for it to be ratified. The Republican party did not. Carter refused to debate Anderson; Reagan did not. On top of all that, at the time, the conventional wisdom was that Carter was a weak president, partially because of the still-imprisoned diplomats in Tehran, and a failed attempt to extricate them - which Carter took full responsibility for. This set of later circumstances probably took more votes from Carter. All that said, Reagan swept the popular vote by almost nine points, and took the electoral college handily.
Source: I was there.
If you're going to put words in my mouth, please order a side of chips and salsa.
Show me where I said that was the only reason Carter lost.
Show me where I said you said that.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!!! 🤣
A human head weighs eight pounds.
You had me at hello.
I'm not Adele. I'm also not Lionel Richie.
But are you an insulting dog puppet?
So here's the interesting thing: I don't know.
I'll be sure to keep an eye on you and let you know if I figure it out.
He would have voted for Trump again, even if HE KNEW his business would go under?! Wtf are these people thinking? That's some royal hate
It's just good old brainwashing. They believe that voting for democrats will ruin their life so they vote for republicans and if republicans ruin their life then it's bad luck.
Republicans don't know how to think. All they know is what daddy tells them. lol
Idiots.
The "blind faith" demanded by religion has conditioned them to be the perfect marks for a con artist like Trump.
Yeah because they won't lose a lumber mill this time.
Right?!
“I wish more of my bones were broken”
That's the amazing part. No, not them saying they'd still vote for Trump. The fact that they can still talk with half their face gnawed off. I just wonder - was it because of the "any Democrat/leftist bad" mentality, was it because she was a woman, or what it because she was black? He said it wasn't anything said on the campaign, so it wasn't how badly they tanked her run. Maybe a combo?
If you're going to pull that dead end thinking, then how about trying to change the Republican party to help the American public? (I initially said "better", but we're starting at zero)
He committed member of the Pedophile Protection Team (PPT), aka, Guardians Of Pedophiles (GOP).
Jeebus! Even cockroaches learn over time. Magats truly are morons!