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Trump Voters already having buyer’s remorse.

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ChapelHillSooner said:
A bit off-topic but relevant to this thread:

I think I always misinterpreted the meaning of "leopards at my face". When I first heard it, I had mental images of the lady who had an orangutan as a pet (a stupid decision) and it ate her face (a consequence that is obvious to everyone except her). So that is how I interpreted that phrase and of course being harmed by a leopard is more obvious than an orangutan.

Upon reading more, the point is that the person unleashes a leopard on the public (supports cruelty) and then is surprised to find out that the leopard turned on them too.

I think both interpretation could work and sometimes one works more than the other but the second one definitely makes sense. Just a random thought as I am trying to go to sleep.
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Yes, it comes from a meme. The woman votes for the Leopards' Eating People's Faces Party, and then exclaims, "I never thought they'd eat my face." It's about thinking that the people promising harm won't harm you.
 
CallMeTyler said:
The arrogance of that letter. These folks can rightly fuck off a pier. I hope for an abundance of misery for all of them.
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I do too, and I am one of them (ethnically speaking, not ideologically). I still have family living in Dearborn Heights, Birmingham, and in Franklin. Really one of the more dumbfounding stances I've seen from a group in this election cycle.
 
CFordUNC said:


#Mandate
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Yeah, but it won't make any difference to Trumpers and most of the news media. They'll continue claiming that he won an epic victory in a landslide - one of the bigglyest ever, no doubt. In truth this is going to end up as a narrow victory, especially in the popular vote, and Trump's "mandate", if he has one, is by the slimmest of margins. But given that they're Republicans they'll govern as if he won 65% of the vote. George W. Bush did that as well - he beat Gore by the tiniest of margins, but governed like he'd won in a landslide. And you can argue that it eventually backfired, if not on him then on his party in 2006 and 2008. We'll see what happens this time, I guess.
 
altmin said:
Still not great that half the country chose not to vote for a person who could coherently string two sentences together and didn't spend the last two months of the campaign yelling about black people when he was dementia swaying to the Village people.

America deserves it fall.
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This is the take^^^
The United States of America deserves everything it’s gonna get in the next 4 years, and beyond. The changes coming may be irrevocably damaging. It’s been a bumpy ride the past 250 years. But this failed experiment is about to come crashing down, and the remainder of the world can have at the remains.

So who do you think benefits the most? Russia? China? Middle East power brokers? (Includes Saudi, Iran, Taliban, Hamas, etc. etc.); European Union? Other?
 
Centerpiece said:
This is the take^^^
The United States of America deserves everything it’s gonna get in the next 4 years, and beyond. The changes coming may be irrevocably damaging. It’s been a bumpy ride the past 250 years. But this failed experiment is about to come crashing down, and the remainder of the world can have at the remains.

So who do you think benefits the most? Russia? China? Middle East power brokers? (Includes Saudi, Iran, Taliban, Hamas, etc. etc.); European Union? Other?
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Trump and friends.
 
CallMeTyler said:
The arrogance of that letter. These folks can rightly fuck off a pier. I hope for an abundance of misery for all of them.
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Yup. They have destroyed their relationship with the only allies they have in this country.

That said, as in the case of Latinos, lots of them voted for Harris so that should always be recognized.
 
milom98 said:
The county in KY that I live in has had substantial improvements in infrastructure, jobs coming to the county via it's small manufacturing park being able to expand, numerous small businesses opening... in the last four years, yet it went to Trump 81% - 18%.

There is no immigrant invasion of the country or any counties around it. But the farmers in the county don't mind employing illegals for cheap seasonal labor and everyone is fine with that.

There are no trans athletes trying to play sports in the county or surrounding counties. Would guarantee you that 99.9% of the residents in the county have never even met a trans person.

There have been 2 or 3 bridges replaced and repairs made to others. Miles of new road laid down all over the country (you couldn't go anywhere without running into a road crew). A new state of the art elementary school is currently under construction and the other schools in the county have been given facelifts and expanded.

For the first time in forever, a few small manufacturing business have opened up shop in the county and provided local jobs. Unemployment is at lows the county hasn't seen since the 70's, when there was a large sewing factory and a couple other manufacturing businesses providing jobs before they closed. Wages in the county have increased at a rate higher than the national average.

Numerous new locally owned eateries have opened up and stay packed full with people. And eating at them isn't cheap. What you'd pay for a breakfast plate at one of these places would feed a few people if you used that money to buy the same stuff at a grocery store.

The floundering county fair has been revamped with the help of donations from local businesses and has seen it's biggest crowds ever the past two years. I'm talking about vehicles lined up for a good mile or more in both directions to get into the fair. This despite the prices to get into the fair, ride the rides .. all going up significantly.

Home construction has boomed in the county and shows no signs of slowing down. Of course this has pissed off a lot of folks who don't like these new subdivisions coming to their quiet little areas. They use the 'we like to know who our neighbors are' defense.

And this isn't recent, but the ACA reduced the number of uninsured from 30+ percent to around 10%.

And the people here see all this growth in the county and talk about how great it is (well, except the housing thing). But the county decided all that wasn't enough and voted for "change." Smgdh

And I'm sure that this is indictive of countless counties across the country. Basically, we're getting fucked by all the idiots that the GOP has brainwashed into voting against their own self interest.
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Quoting myself here because I forgot to mention one prettyimportant thing - For almost 2 decades, complaints about the rural internet service in the county have been universal. Either you had service that was really slow or you didn't even have service offered to you. If you had service, it was only offered by one ISP (Windstream) and it was DSL over old copper telephone lines that usually maxed out at 10mbps. Well guess what? The Biden admin's broadband initiative has spurred 2 new ISPs to move into the county that offer hi-speed 1gig fiber internet service to many residents. This caused the old ISP (Windstream) to have to step up it's game and actually make major upgrades in order to try and keep it's customers. So almost everyone in the county now has access to real hi-speed internet.

It's probably been 2 years since I've heard a complaint about Internet service from anyone besides the old folks complaining it cost too much (hint - it doesn't). And people use to flood the local news paper's letters to the editor section with complaint after complaint about the poor internet service.
superrific said:
This x1000. Thank you for providing a dose of reality. All politics in America have become identity politics.
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Yeah. And when the wheels fall off the wagon over the next four years and the next election rolls around, the GOP can count on very similar numbers in the county for their next nominee.

I imagine the excuse will be something along the lines of "Biden made such a mess that Trump couldn't clean it up in four years, so let's give ole JD Vance a chance to fit it."
 
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ChapelHillSooner said:
Maybe but could also end very badly for Trump and his sycophants. Destroying the country and economy can have consequences.

I will have popcorn ready assuming my emaciated self doesn’t raid the popcorn first.
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There is nothing he can do to lose his adoring cult followers. Nothing. He could burn a bible on live TV. He could wipe his arse with the pages. He could eat a baby like a Big Kahuna Burger and enjoy a tasty Diet Coke to wash it down and his cult would not flinch. They are beyond saving. He could light their house on fire with Maw Maw still inside and they'd wonder why the Democrats did this to them. They are beyond saving.
 
MOUNTAINH33L said:
There is nothing he can do to lose his adoring cult followers. Nothing. He could burn a bible on live TV. He could wipe his arse with the pages. He could eat a baby like a Big Kahuna Burger and enjoy a tasty Diet Coke to wash it down and his cult would not flinch. They are beyond saving. He could light their house on fire with Maw Maw still inside and they'd wonder why the Democrats did this to them. They are beyond saving.
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All true. And I'd like to see it all happen... as long as ChapelHillSooner will share their popcorn while we watch on the TV
 
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