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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rude Pundit is not in a forgiving mood. Neither am I. [View all]
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/11/we-need-to-accept-that-at-least-70_9.htmlSo many times in the last few days, since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared the winners of the presidential race, I've heard someone say that it's fine to be happy, but "we have to grapple with the fact that 70 million still voted for Donald Trump despite everything that we know about him. What are we going to do about that?"
My response is simple: Maybe we just need to accept that at least 70 million Americans are just shitty people. And, frankly, it's on them to change. They're not fucking children. They're adults who made adult decisions. I'm so fucking sick of the infantilization of the Trump voter, the idea that they're these naifs who need to be nurtured into some kind of maturity, that they have fears of the progressive world (even as they benefit from it in many places with expanded Medicaid), that they are uneducated and inundated with bullshit from Fox "news" and its devolved progeny in the nutzoid right-wing media.
Fuck that. They chose this ideology. They chose what to believe. They decided to be a bunch of scabby pricks. They gotta own that shit. Forgiveness is wasted on those who refuse to believe they need to be forgiven. The more charitable of you might be able to do it, but I'm not fuckin' charitable to these goons and freaks and worms. Donald Trump played 'em like a goddamn fiddle. Hell, he's still playin' them, squeezing them for more cash under the umbrella of his bullshit "voter fraud" lawsuits. Until they wake the fuck up or are woken the fuck up, they need to exist as a warning not to let them get more power than they have and to work like hell to take away their remaining power.
It's time to tell Trump voters to spend a little time trying to understand Biden voters so they can see why we fucking kicked Trump's ass.
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Brainwashed for decades, it is their fault, ultimately, and we try to tell them we know....
Brainfodder
Nov 2020
#7
And the fact that states with low populations get as many Senators as those with
Marie Marie
Nov 2020
#17
I have come to the conclusion that 70 million ameriKans are fascist and would follow Hitler
yaesu
Nov 2020
#15
Hilary was correct. They are "deplorables". Remember how lots of the press got
trickyguy
Nov 2020
#43
Trump supporters need to remember that more than 75 million voted against their idol.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2020
#22
Perhaps we can keep them occupied with back to back trials of Trump, Pence, et al.
amywalk
Nov 2020
#30
infantilization of the Trump voter. Truth there. I do not however, expect any of them to do jack,
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2020
#33
And a "malignant narcissistic personality" shall lead them. Doctor Bandy Lee called it
trickyguy
Nov 2020
#44
I think we need to aggressively make NEWS programs stick to TRUTH in advertising laws.
TigressDem
Nov 2020
#48