When ABC News’ Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they “signed up for,” Trump responded: “Well, they did sign up for this actually.”
When ABC News’ Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they “signed up for,” Trump responded: “Well, they did sign up for this actually.”
That thread is creepy.
Trump not only promised to bring down prices, but promised to do so “on day one.” In fact, in the final days of the campaign, that was likely the promise he repeated the most.
So not only is he somewhere between delusional and dishonest (which I already knew), but every single person who responded to insist rising prices is indeed what they signed up for is also somewhere between delusional and dishonest.
Why? What compels them? What do they expect to gain?
I’m beginning to suspect that there’s some environmental factor or something in the US that makes people delusional, angry and stupid, because this has gone way beyond anything that can be explained by political partisanship alone.
It’s racism and sexism. Trump stands for hurting non-whites. As long as non-whites are being hurt, the racist people will endure anything.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
Just like with Hillary Clinton, many people will never be ok with a woman president.
I was with you right up until the end.
Hillary’s gender is a weak excuse that the DNC and the establishment Dems trot out to try to duck the blame for sabotaging a sincere progressive in order to run a neolib weasel who gives paid speeches to international bankers and idolizes Kissinger.
Well, that’s great you have “deeper” reasoning for not voting for Hillary Clinton and getting us the first Trump.
This works for Republicans of color also, they see themselves as a step up from the “others”. They may not be white, but they aren’t just Black/Hispanic/[under-represented group]. That one guy in SC stated online “I’m a black Nazi!”
To be fair, Trump also stands for hurting whites. That’s the problem with fascism, you don’t ever really eliminate the enemy. You just redefine who the enemy is whenever it’s convenient. Eventually, if there’s nothing but white people left, then a sub group of them will become the new scapegoat, and then when they’re gone another, etc.
Trump is only for himself.
People think they are in Trump’s group, but even Jeff Bezos got publicly slapped yesterday.
More generally, it’s in-group vs out-group. For many people, the in-group is “white men” and the out-group is “everyone else”. But this behavior is pretty baked into humans. We’ll form stupid groups over anything. I was reading a book about how people change their minds, and it talked about some experiments they did. Like, they gave kids at a summer camp different colored shirts, and sure enough they formed separate groups. They had to stop the experiment when one group tried to burn down the cabin of the other group.
I don’t know how to fix this.
The in-group is the working class and the out-group is the wealthy.
If you know a way to get from here to there, please share. At my old job I tried to radicalize my coworkers so they’d understand our interests align with each other more than ownership. I had some success.
Yeah. Trump was really clear that inflation happened, it was bad, and he would fix it.
There is also a deep hole of propaganda that is the basis of Trump’s support.
I think a lot of people are arguing this was the natural outcome. That if you looked at what he was going to do, the only plausible outcome was higher prices.
While he promised lower prices, it was obvious he had no plans to actually achieve it. So if you used any bit of intelligence, it was obvious a vote for him would lead to this outcome, meaning you voted for this.
His supporters aren’t going to see this quote or these clips. They’re on Truth Social, MAGA podcasts, Meta bubbles, and confirmation-bias-boosting chatbots.
Lead poisoning is my guess
The realization is that it was never about political partisanship in the first place. It was always this psycho-sexual libidinal phenomenon that philosophical liberalism cannot actually deal with so it invents things like political partisanship and “economic rationality” and “single-issue voters” to explain away the reality that human society works in a fundamentally different way than liberalism thinks it does.
Unchecked social media and smart phones. I don’t think humans are meant to be this connected.
Lead doesn’t help either.
At the least, some considerable part of the problem is that angry, stupid bigots who used to be mostly limited to cringey drunken solo rants are now able to network with each other and cheer on each other’s anger and stupidity and bigotry.
Lead, shitty water, opioids, a combination of those and more… who knows?
Don’t forget microplastics!
Everyone got those yet some people are still cognizant in spite of it, so maybe, but in combination with something else.
PFAS, pesticides… Almost every synthetic and a lot of the natural chemicals used in industry have unknown or known-bad side effects on hormones, behaviour, brain development, everything. And most countries don’t regulate anything that doesn’t outright hospitalise you right after exposure.
I think you underestimate how strongly partisanship and loyalty to a leader can work. It’s a smaller-scale version of “my country, right or wrong,” or akin to booing the ref for a call against your team even when it’s an obvious one.