Oh darn! If only somebody had warned them about what would happen...
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Support for Trump among Latinos plummets as many feel betrayed over scope of immigration crackdown
(www.latintimes.com)
While I upvoted you, and we absolutely did tell them that. Many of them through no fault of their own weren't reached by the message. And that's something we need to figure out how to fix. Because with the consolidation of media and AI, this is only going to get worse.
Patting ourselves on the back about being right. Will only comfort us so much, when our lack of reach etc. Continues to haunt us
Sticking your head in the sand and/or choosing to only watch extremely partisan news is indeed “fault of their own”. If they can’t be informed enough to make good decisions, perhaps they should simply refrain from voting altogether.
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But Trump promised* he wouldn't!
*Not promised, but strongly implied.^†^
^†^By strongly implied, meaning "at least left open the possibility."^††^
^††^Except for the times he said the opposite thing.^†††^
^†††^This was every time.
I’m just so entirely unsympathetic to absolutely any minority who voted for the overt racist. Like, genuinely, holy fuck, you are genuinely not allowed to be surprised by his racism. It is now, and always was, one of his primary features.
And I have a special tier of bafflement towards the handful of Arab-American communities in the upper Midwest that apparently voted for him, and are now shocked that his policies are way worse than the absolutely horrible and myopic policies of Biden. Genuinely: How in the ever loving fuck are you surprised by that? He tried to ban any non-Saudi Muslims from coming into the country in his first term. How are you possibly surprised. HOW.
But the leopard promised so many great things. I mean, sure, the leopard DID say outright that he would eat my face, but I thought surely he'd never eat MY face.
I remember some footage of a Latino Trump supporter giving a black woman shit in Trump's name, and wondering what the ever loving fuck. A variation on Hitler's rise to power is how many figurative Jews threw their full support behind him this time. I don't get it. I'll never get it. I'm sick of his stupid fucking face.
I live in Colombia. People here self-identify as "white," and they're surprised that white people in the US think of them as a different race.
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I mean, what did they expect?
"I expected to be the exception! I'm one of the good ones! It wasn't supposed to happen to me."
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“This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
Huh. This is exactly what I thought it was going to be.
And also what he literally said every time.
If you voted Trump as a Latino, that's a special sort of stupid.
They'll vote for whoever replaces him too. Nobody had learned any real lesson.
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Latinos who voted for Trump deserve everything they get: Trump's "comedian* openly spat in their faces with Trump's full support and they still voted for him.
Pendejos...
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"¡Nunca pensé que los leopardos se comerían MI cara!"
My Spanish is near non-existent but I was still able to read this perfectly.
How could I know that the guy saying he would deport every fucking immigrant would start deporting every fucking immigrant? It was so unexpected!
You can say a lot of things about Trump but you can't say he betrayed anyone about his intentions on immigration. Whoever feels betrayed by that simply wanted to be betrayed.
The fact that any of them voted for him is astounding. Did they not listen to a single word from his mouth about hordes of immigrants watering down the blood of America? Did they not see him drag a Hispanic celebrity (Nicky Jam) on stage, only to reveal, before the entire audience that he had no idea who they were, and in fact thought they were a hot woman?
Like a bunch of turkeys counting down the days to Christmas.
Doesn't really matter what they think of him now, they'll be in an El Salvador concentration camp by the time the next election comes round.
"Man says 'ow!' after shooting self in liver - more at 11."
The thing is RELIGION. Most Latinx people are religious and more specifically Catholics. Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic. All Trump had to do was show how much he hates women and the LGBTQ+ community and a lot of Latinx were willing to ignore his racism because they thought Trump would help them punch down on women and gay people. They thought they would avoid getting their faces eaten by the leopard by offing the faces of others in sacrifice to the leopard.
Latinx
Don’t say this, just say Latin if you don’t want to gender or people from the Americas if you want to refer to Central/South Americans
Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic.
I agree but you’re ignoring the “i’m one of the good ones” mentality
Trump says he’s only going after criminals, that couldn’t be me.
It’s like when he says legal immigrants cheating the system and legal immigrants love it because they know they didn’t cheat so it must be other ones
But you do highlight why PR isn’t a state. Democrats don’t want another Republican state and Republicans don’t like white people speaking Spanish
LOL? Betrayed?
This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn't matter if you were born here.
Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.
No fucking way! I don't feel sorry for any Latinos or Hispanics that voted for Trump. Ya'll are traitors to democracy and our constitution for installing a dictator. You think people would learn from the dictatorship countries they fled.
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The first sighting of a true leopard in Latin America? or did the Jaguars eat their faces?
los pumas me comieron la cara
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What in the actual fuck did they think was going to happen? He spent his entire campaign specifically saying he was going to do this.
Not betrayed. Victims of their own stupidity. A bunch of ladder pullers.
My people, if you believed them I hope you get deported.
You voted to have families torn apart, fuckin traitors. You will never have my respect and I hope you hide in shame.
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He’s literally just doing what he said he would do. Did they not believe him, or were they too busy watching fake news to bother listening to what he said? I have no sympathy for the ones who voted for him, but unfortunately this affects the majority who didn’t.
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fucking morons
I told them. Not racist totally legit all the Mexicans loved him, every other Hispanic I work with already hated him.
just like military vets,"suckers and losers, whats in it for them"-donald trump.
"I just don't understand why he betrayed Us, I mean.. he did nothing but campaign on open contempt for our people, but surely he cant be held accountable for that! This is just so unexpected and blindsiding us!"
No shit. Like, come on. They’re white supremacists, they aren’t even quiet about that anymore, and we already had Trump run 1, we already saw what fucking happens, how the fuck people didn’t think it would be part 2, and worse than before, is beyond me
“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they're going to come take me somewhere I won't be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
This is what wilful stupidity gets you.
Don't even pretend that no one warned you.
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Any Latino who voted for trump deserves what’s coming to them. We tried to warn you all.
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Yeah, sorry...but I find it hard to have sympathy for people who shoot themselves in the foot.
I love my Latino brothers and sisters in the world but I will never understand why a single one of them support Donald trump. it makes no fucking sense at all.
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There are not nearly enough leopards to handle this amount of face eating.
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"Latinos" learning that thinking you're "white" isn't the same as having white privilege.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/election-trump-latino-vote-paola-ramos
"His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he'd keep doing that?"
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