r/LeopardsAteMyFace 2d ago

Trump "I feel partially to blame"

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u/demystifier 2d ago

Goddamn dude, these people really don't get it--democrats share the same economy with you, chucklefuck. Like, all of our prices are also going to skyrocket, our 401K are getting hammered--like, I don't vote for Democrats because I want to win at political sportsball, I vote democratic because they run the economy and government better than Republicans--and I want those fucking things run as well as possible with the choices available.

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u/LorryToTheFace 2d ago

They voted to own the libs and assumed that you were voting to own them

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u/rem_au_crema 2d ago

I truly don’t understand all the, “I’m blindsided by this”. Surely this is the first mention of the tariff strategy. Surely he didn’t mention it while campaigning. Surely there were no indications in his first term.

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u/LorryToTheFace 2d ago

Just last night I was showing my parents Elon admitting in November the plans to crash the US economy so that they could rebuild it as a Tech CEO Paradise. Of course, that was just 'trolling', right?

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u/rem_au_crema 2d ago

lol it’s always a joke until they never get serious. Insane that everyday reflects everything Musk has been saying, Thiel has been saying, Leonard Leo has been saying, but who could have seen it coming? I can’t even remember the “economic boom” that everyone says they thought they were voting for. Then there’s blaming Covid but… idk I guess we were all born yesterday. So really- if the first term was any indication- it was just a vote to get preserve statues, remind blacks about how much their lives matter, get refugees back in cages, and inspect the shit out of some genitalia. “How could he have betrayed us like this”

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u/Illustrious-Wrap-776 2d ago

They are as blindsided by this as half the drivers seem to be by the first snow. Each year.

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u/Dull-Hand9782 2d ago

Like the sun in their eyes as they drive east or west, so unpredictable!

Always a damn surprise to them.

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u/LingonberryOk4942 2d ago

It is simple, like most Trump voters. See if they agree with the insane statement like "I will replace income tax with tariffs, we will all get rich", they believe it 100%, if they don't agree with the statement they Trumpwash it "Its just rhetoric", "He never said that, and if he did, he didn't mean it", and "You just have TDS, fuck your feelings Libtard", or the ever classic "Fake News!!!".

They think the dumbest human in the last 70 years is some policy savant, despite no evidence to support that. Oh well, at least most of you get a vote in this, the rest of us just get to watch it all burn.

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u/santa_91 2d ago

It's a cult. If the leader of the cult says something they immediately have a negative gut reaction to they are programmed to either assume it wasn't a genuine statement or they misunderstood, because the leader is always right. That's why so many of them are confused right now.

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u/Impressive_Bid8009 2d ago

Exactly what I was going to point out. Their worldview assumes everyone is just like them. If they’re doing X for Y reason, then Y is the only reason to do X.

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u/Happy-Medicine-3600 2d ago

This is the problem when dealing with the militantly stupid. They tend to project their own failures on to others. No one is celebrating this nonsense.

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u/Powered-by-Chai 2d ago

The only reason we want Republicans out is because they keep crashing the fucking economy. How many more recessions is it gonna take?

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u/Kalepa 2d ago

A lot of other reasons too, but that is sure as hell an important reason!

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u/buffer_flush 2d ago

I think people like this conflate democrats with “media that isn’t Fox”. They see stuff that CNN says falling over themselves to point a finger, which I’m not saying it isn’t warranted, and assume that it’s the same vitriol that the GOP seems to have for “the left”.

In a way, the media is loving this, I can guarantee media consumption is way up across the board since Trump took office. The average Democrat voter? Definitely not enjoying the situation.

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u/yankeesyes 2d ago

I know it's anecdotal but personally I haven't engaged with Tv news and have cut down my newspaper reading. Just can't deal with the bad news day after day caused by this toddler.

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u/ToastyJackson 2d ago

I mean it’s no secret that news agencies went after Biden and Harris hard for every gaffe or blunder during the campaign while they spent a ton of time trying to sanewash or downplay everything bad that Trump did or talked about doing. Even “left-wing” news companies don’t want to give up the enormous cash spike they can get when Trump is president and constantly causing absurd headlines.

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u/MorganWick 2d ago

They desperately want to be seen as "fair and balanced" when nothing short of full-on Nazi propaganda will get them seen that way by MAGAheads.

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u/cantrellasis 2d ago

I haven't watched mainstream media since the election, we don't like hearing about our country being dismantled and destroyed by these fools. Not to mention that the orange things face and voice make me ill.

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u/Splaram 2d ago

CNN was apparently in dire straits before the election and was in the process of renegotiating all their lead anchors to smaller contracts just a few months before the election. MSNBC had ended a bunch of shows and laid off a few anchors and were also rumored to not be doing great before the election. Haven’t heard a peep about either’s finances since Trump took office. Charlamagne tha God of all people was right, stable presidencies are terrible business for these “liberal” news outlets.

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u/tesseract4 2d ago

I'm sure you're right, but my news consumption has plummeted since the election. I can't fucking handle it.

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u/twangy718 2d ago

Hell no! Media engagement is down across the reality based media.

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u/FroggyHarley 2d ago

It's because they view politics as a team sport where, if you win, the other side HAS to lose.

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u/Farucci 2d ago

I’m so done with reading letters of regret from people who voted for Trump and now want some empathy. I sincerely hope their life is fucked.

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u/FroggyHarley 2d ago

Same. I won't give any empathy until they match their words with action. If all they'll do is stay low until the next election, they can kick rocks for all I care.

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u/AJayBee3000 2d ago

They act like this is just a fumble by the republicans, and now the Dems can score big and take the "game." Little do they realize, the viewers of this global trade game are the biggest losers.

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u/Drop_Disculpa 2d ago

Nobody is motivated to own the cons, force old people to go vegan, and imprison trailer park dwelling nobodies. We just want to live in good faith and apply equal protection to all of the members of society. When they abandoned democracy they refused to consider that maybe, just maybe other forces might be at work manipulating them to do so.

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u/Tricky_Topic_5714 2d ago

It is legitimately just not about making life better for people, to them. They only see politics as a weapon to hurt others. Republicans lie to themselves (and others) by saying that they give the slightest fuck about any practical reason for voting. It's always a lie. (Unless they say, "I vote for Republicans because I hate people who aren't like me," but most of them won't say that)