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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters

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Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months ago
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Small-town America voted heavily in his favor—but the policies he’s pledged won’t reward that faith.
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    The question is, how much time until they realize it and how more time until they admit it.

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      Neither of these are going to happen.

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        They’re already denying he ever promised to bring grocery prices down.

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          The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is the people defending him no matter what.

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            Always has been. The phrase was projection.

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          Nobody had even heard the word groceries before he started talking about it.

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          His followers

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      They will never realize it as long as they have Others to blame for it instead.

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        ‘blame someone else’ has always been a part of the propaganda controlling them. its core to getting them to vote against their own best interests. it will always be someone elses fault

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          It’s the aliens from Mexico! No, wait, Canada! No, wait, the drones in New Jersey! No, wait…

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            Since it’s all of those, they’ll deal with it by oppressing trans people.

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      Never, they’ll blame it on the opposition somehow.

    • Claudia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It takes sustained “reality doesn’t not match internal model” for anything to happen. I’ll give them ten years for them to start saying “maybe I was wrong”. People are very very good at ignoring something they don’t want to see. Citation: global warming.

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        We got ourselves an optimist here! I sincerity hope you’re right. But 40 years on and they still worship terrorists like Reagan. Call me sufficiently jaded. But I would love to be surprised.

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      Sinclair media group will keep broadcasting to them that doofus drump needs more time to make it work. And they’ll eat it up.

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      Trumpers blame Obama for things during, and after, the Trump administration… still.

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        Exactly. As long as Trump frames his lies properly to blame the left, liberals, Democrats, etc. they’ll believe and continue to follow him without question.

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        At least they will be feeling the real consequences, regardless of their blindness to the cause, which was their own actions.

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    They don’t have the awareness to know if he betrayed them or not so it doesn’t matter

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      All Trump has to do is say it’s the fault of the liberal Democrats trying to destroy this country. They’ll believe it without question.

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    His supporters no longer matter to him. They elected him, and now they serve no further purpose, at least not until he realizes that he’s going to need them to be violent on his behalf.

    Be prepared. !Resist@fedia.io that shit.

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    Again.

    Let’s not forget, this is his default action.

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    the obedient lapdogs will lick it up and vote R regardless.

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    I’m planning to put up a sign right in the middle of my town saying, “You voted for this, you dumb asses, now enjoy it.”

    Should make for an interesting conversation piece on my town page on facebook

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      Ive been leaving a cheap American flag to tatter and stain so I can put it up upside-down day 1 on a new flagpole I got just for it

      It only looks slightly worse than my “murrrrrricaaaaaaaaan” neighbor’s so I wonder when the first pissy comment will be

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      Do it. Take pictures.

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    Think about this: Fucking Brazil is now seen as a more reliable trading partner than the US.

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      Whats wrong with Brazil?

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        Nothing, but the US should be able to sell soybeans as well as, if not better than Brazil, or any other country.

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    I’m shocked, shocked I tell you… well not that shocked

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    whaaaat?

    Reeaally? Nooo waaayyy.

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      But he hasn’t betrayed the billionaires, right? RIGHT??? PLEASE TELL ME THE BILLIONAIRES ARE FINE!

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    Betray? These idiots actually believed that their leader had any loyalty to them.

    Trump isn’t betraying anyone … he never had any loyalty to begin with.

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    “I love the uneducated!”

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    Lol, no shit?

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    Leopard is about to eat some faces

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      Oh… he will, lol

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    They literally siad they don’t care in an interview I read a few weeks ago.

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      They’re Republicans. They’ll twist anything in their minds to be a “win” as long as it pisses Democrats off - that’s all they care about anymore. At least until the shit hits their own personal fan, by which time it’s too late.

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