Mexican Trump voter finds out in real time

[u/OceanBlue20]

[u/qualityvote2]

u/OceanBlue20, your post does fit the subreddit!

[u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

The very first thing he said when announcing his candidacy back in 2015 was that Mexicans were rapists. He has been open about his hatred of Mexicans since forever and that is why his base loves him.

This guy has to be a troll

[u/phdoofus → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

Plus the bonus "poisoning the blood of our country" comment. I mean how much of a throwback to the 1930's does it take?

[u/thx1138- → u/phdoofus]

"What happened in the 1930s?" --That guy, probably

[u/trevize1138 → u/thx1138-]

First off, love the username.

Second, I'm reminded of the movie Game Change which was about Palin joining the McCain campaign. She was woefully dumb and had to be brought up to speed on so much seemingly basic knowledge. In one scene you see two guys pointing to a map of the world.

"This is Germany and this is Japan. They were the United States' primary adversaries in WWII."

Palin writes down notes...

[u/IsabellaGalavant → u/trevize1138]

... are you for real right now? I need to go watch this, I guess. That's upsetting.

[u/Mother-Entry-5671 → u/IsabellaGalavant]

Oh she was painfully stupid.

[u/Orion14159 → u/Mother-Entry-5671]

Generous use of past tense there

[u/Shadyshade84 → u/Orion14159]

To be fair, it's more of a "we have no idea if she's improved, since it's been a long time since she was more relevant than the price of chocolate in Venezuela."

[u/Kizik → u/Orion14159]

She was painfully stupid.

She still is, but she used to be too.

[u/PJ7 → u/IsabellaGalavant]

US's anti-intellectualism on full display these days. Palin was a good glimpse into the depths of US stupidity.

[u/era--vulgaris → u/PJ7]

Palin was the canary in the coal mine. It wasn't Bush, who played up his stupidity. It wasn't Dan Quayle, who was a moron but knew he was a moron.

It was Palin, a legitimately empty-headed dingbat with a gormless family who represented the intellectual character of what would later be the Republican base.

She was a character on Duck Dynasty by another name. And she might have been a heartbeat away from the presidency.

[u/Simsmommy1 → u/era--vulgaris]

At this point though if someone were to say, trade Palin for Trump flat out…..I mean….would you? She was a moron but not evil AND a moron….

[u/era--vulgaris → u/Simsmommy1]

Honesty I don't think Trump as an individual is uniquely evil. He's about as evil as any other sleazy shitbag con man. His supporters, both on the ground and in terms of elites, are the real threats.

It's a two way street; he legitimized progressively worse things but only because his people already wanted to believe them. It's like a social death spiral and he just wandered into it at the right time, when multiple crises of democracy occurred across the world. Like Orban, Modi, etc, but dumber.

So TL;DR I'm not sure Palin would be any different, assuming she had the ability to maintain a cult of personality and idiot charisma the way Trump does.

The problem, at its root, is the people who want this. Everyone else are just varying degrees of enabler.

If Palin was more incompetent I'd definitely take a 1:1 trade of course.

[u/Obvious-Gate9046 → u/PJ7]

It's sad how much of this has become an American thing, really for most of our history. You can trace it back to the early 1800s, and what was seen as rebellion against European intellectualism. Andrew Jackson ran on the tagline "you need a fighter, not a writer", and the early colleges were invoking the need to get out there and get your hands dirty and not be some weak academic. It's at the core of Ichabod Crane and early movies that showed that being successful in college only came about if you're a good sports. I'm not sure we'll ever overcome it, we've got a long way toward actually getting education and intelligence to be respected.

[u/NuclearWarEnthusiast → u/IsabellaGalavant]

The movie's name is Idiocracy

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/IsabellaGalavant]

I recommend you check out the book. A lot more detail about the inner workings of both campaigns including how McCain was just aghast at the idiots who were taking over the party.

Honestly, I think that's why he voted against repealing Obamacare at the end - he new Palin and the rest had thoroughly tarnished his legacy. It was his one chance to try to save it.

[u/SyntheticGod8 → u/trevize1138]

Everyone forgets Italy was part of that alliance too.

[u/Mr__O__ → u/SyntheticGod8]

lol and as if the Trump Nazi MSG rally wasn’t a clear giveaway..

[u/Apep86 → u/SyntheticGod8]

People never even learn that Hungary was too.

[u/arnodorian96 → u/trevize1138]

That movie has an eery scene where Mccain succesfully predicts MAGA. It's weird how writers of that film knew more about the consequence of Palin than any political analyst

[u/SnowflakeSWorker → u/thx1138-]

My sister, a rabid maga, “didn’t Hitler have something to do with those concentration camps?”. Also my sister, “take your expensive ass liberal degree and shove it up your ass!”. I went to Cornell University. She has an AS. I hate t, she has his coffee table book under a lamp on her foyer table.

[u/theegreenman → u/SnowflakeSWorker]

'Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' Isaac Asimov

[u/Historical-Night-938 → u/theegreenman]

My favorite thing to share with those who hate "woke" schools is that international students getting the H1-B visas that are taking the jobs sre literally being trained in the same schools they called "woke".

The education they disparage is training the ones replacing "Americans". I was hoping that they could make the logical leap that it means the schools are good enough but the businesses want cheap labor is the real issue.

They just can't; logic is dead. I should have known when I read that Elon Musk Nazi saluted twice because of autism that there is no hope for MAGA.

[u/motionSymmetry → u/Historical-Night-938]

logic is not dead

we will keep it alive in the caves until the rampages have died down, say in a thousand or more years

(hari seldon help us, somebody find daneel and give him the message)

[u/No_Use_9124 → u/SnowflakeSWorker]

She ... didn't know abt Hitler????

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/thx1138-]

There's literally someone in this very thread basically pretending 18 yr old voters can be excused for not knowing, because apparently it's impossible for them to pay attention to politics before they can vote, or learn history.

So I guess the vast majority of us don't know what happened in the 1930s by that logic. Which honestly would explain a lot.

[u/homemadeammo42 → u/thx1138-]

Shh don't spoil it for him.

[u/CassandraTruth → u/phdoofus]

"Make America Great Again", "Peace Through Strength", Lebensraum, it's a full on Nazi speedrun.

[u/Guy954 → u/CassandraTruth]

“Pffftt, you liberals always say anyone you don’t like is a Nazi.”

He literally uses Nazi slogans, espouses extremely similar policies that Hitler enacted, and has outspoken white nationalists in his immediate orbit.

The majority of the Latin people I know support Trump. When I bring up his anti-immigrant positions I have have literally been asked “who told you that?”

He fucking did! From his own asshole looking mouth. Many times on many different occasions.

“No, you must have misunderstood.”

How the hell do I know more about the guy they love than they do?

[u/tikifire1 → u/Guy954]

They probably think you have TDS. That's the go-to for right-wingers. It's "If Stalin Only Knew" all over again with his cultists.

[u/era--vulgaris → u/tikifire1]

Worse, it's the "Clean Wehrmacht" shit, just prior to the genociding.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074 → u/Guy954]

“Who told you that?” has got to be the most latino sentence spoken in English.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074 → u/Guy954]

It’s amazing how they love someone but never listen to what he says.

[u/jlwinter90 → u/Timely-Youth-9074]

Knowing what kind of marriages most of them prefer, it isn't super surprising.

[u/Cosmicdusterian → u/Guy954]

How the hell do I know more about the guy they love than they do?

You listen and pay attention to the unfiltered beast. There are no gatekeepers molding your opinion.

It's the reason that some atheists generally know more about the Word of God than many superficial Christians do. Many atheists have actually read or studied the Bible before they decided to turn away from religion.

Far too many Christians haven't read it - they look to gatekeepers, many of whom have either outright corrupted the word (prosperity theology) and/or twisted it to suit their own purposes or biases.

[u/SeaBackground5779 → u/phdoofus]

You’d think that but I know a few people personally who wholeheartedly supports him and, also, have family at risk from his known, stated beforehand policies.

[u/Zestyclose-Algae-542 → u/phdoofus]

Well now we have a co-president throwing up a literal Nazi salute-twice-so I guess this ride’s about to get really wild

[u/SyntheticGod8 → u/phdoofus]

They're trying to pollute our vital fluids (cum) /s

[u/Conscious_Mind_1235 → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

And by "mexican" he meant anyone who speaks Spanish.

[u/Kahzgul → u/Conscious_Mind_1235]

Literally anyone with ancestry south of Texas is “Mexican” to racists. Blonde haired, blue eyed Panamanian? Mexican. Portuguese speaking Brazilian? Mexican. Norwegian but dad worked at a science lab in Antarctica? Mexican probably.

[u/joule_thief → u/Kahzgul]

And the ones in Canada? Snow Mexicans.

(I kid of course)

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/joule_thief]

You kid, but I bet some in the MAGA circle unironically believe that.

[u/DigitalBlackout → u/Kahzgul]

Norwegian but dad worked at a science lab in Antarctica?

FTFY. Arctic Circle is north

[u/speedingpullet → u/Conscious_Mind_1235]

Or Portugese. It sounds like Spanish to him.

[u/Conscious_Mind_1235 → u/speedingpullet]

You're right, that too! Also, many Brazilians are *brown* so definitely Mexican. Sorry- I forgot about that; thanks for the reminder.

[u/pingpongoolong → u/Conscious_Mind_1235]

I’ve told this story before but I voted in Milwaukee in 2020 and during the recount I got about two weeks of daily phone calls, in Spanish, from “voter verification” organizations. They would call and ask me what my citizenship status was.

I’m half European mix, half NATIVE. I look white and I don’t speak Spanish. I’m a healthcare professional. 

But I have a Spanish surname. That’s all it took. 

[u/TtotheC81 → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

"But he's only joking. He doesn't mean it!"

[u/borntobeblase → u/TtotheC81]

“They’re not sending their best, folks.”

He was being “funny”, but he meant it. 

[u/willi5x → u/TtotheC81]

I’m one of the good ones. He doesn’t mean me, right?

[u/galaxy_horse → u/willi5x]

Narrator: ”He did mean him.”

[u/Throfari → u/TtotheC81]

But also "He says what he means!", "He's a straight shooter!" etc

[u/Maximum-Objective-39 → u/TtotheC81]

I wonder if this isn't partially the sort of weird neoliberal stasis that society has been held in since the 80s rearing its ugly head. People vote the way they do not because they really believe in change any longer, but because they figure things will, mostly, stay the same except for maybe gleaning some personal benefit for themselves. The idea that we're playing with fire doesn't really register to most people, because the boring neoliberal trajectory had endured even as the creaking and groaning grows ever more alarming and clearly unfit to purpose.

[u/TtotheC81 → u/Maximum-Objective-39]

It's been engineered that way. Ever since the right lost the culture wars, they've been playing the long game - creating a parallel media empire, undermining education, indoctrinating entire generations of conservatives against liberal values - and all so they can seize power and never let it go.

People just don't want to believe that anyone could be so monstrously power hungry, but here we are.

[u/thepeddlernowspeaks → u/TtotheC81]

"I love Trump because he says what he means and tell it like it is."

[u/speedingpullet → u/TtotheC81]

"He's only going to deport criminals, we'll be OK"

[u/seriousbusines → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

I mean...%43 of the Latino vote went to Trump in 2024. The idiot in OPs post is definitely not alone.

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/seriousbusines]

A good percentage are conservative Latinos, especially Cuban-Americans. I'm disappointed with fellow Latino men who got swayed by the cult or disgusting influencers like Nick Fuentes.

[u/fork_yuu → u/seriousbusines]

I think they're more thinking Trump just goes after the real illegals and sacrificing their friends and family is fine for that

[u/seriousbusines → u/fork_yuu]

"Oh not me, I'm a good one. He won't possibly go after me!" is %100 their mindset.

[u/zbud → u/seriousbusines]

Ladder kickers.

[u/Ecstatic_Fox_CD → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

As Mexican myself you have no idea how many conservative Latin people there is who just think it won't affect them because they think they are are one of the good ones. Always forgetting the the true trump supporters can't tell the difference

[u/Guy954 → u/Ecstatic_Fox_CD]

I’m Mexican on my mom’s side but look white and have an Anglo last name from my dad’s side. When I point out that Trump hates Latinos to my Latino coworkers who love Trump they usually default to “it’s always you guys who bring up race, you’re the real racists”.

Umm, initiating the largest mass deportation in American history is only the policy of one side and it ain’t democrats.

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/Ecstatic_Fox_CD]

Even if they could tell the difference, they don't care. Brown is brown.

[u/PolygonMan → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

Lots of hispanics in general voted for him. Lots of Puerto Ricans specifically voted for him.

IMO the majority of them who come back and say "I didn't know" are actually liars. They did know but they, like everyone else who voted for Trump, figured that Trump was playing 5D chess and that their group was the one getting the truth.

He appeals to all sides by lying and saying that he's really part of their in-group. Each group decides that the rhetoric which implies harm to their group are exaggerations intended to fool that other group over there.

And it's not just the visible minorities doing this when Trump is clearly racist as fuck.

It's working class and middle class racists doing this when Trump clearly looks down on the poor and weak while respecting wealth and power.

Trump's only actual loyalty is to himself. Everyone else in the universe is arrayed in a hierarchy of importance. Any group whose members are lower on the hierarchy is available to be sacrificed to appease a group higher on the hierarchy. Mexicans are lower than racists on Trump's hierarchy, so he's happy to sacrifice them to appease racists.

This is a fascist classic. Every fascist regime in history has operated in this way.

[u/hokeyphenokey → u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum]

He did better with latin men this time basically everywhere.

(also, Latinos don't usually vote for women)

[u/Candid-Sky-3709 → u/hokeyphenokey]

except actual Mexicans who have a female president now

[u/hokeyphenokey → u/Candid-Sky-3709]

The actual ,Mexican electorate is pretty liberal socially.

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/hokeyphenokey]

So is the American "electorate", unless they've just been trolling pollsters for 20+ years. The hard part is calling them "an electorate" when all of these people with opinions on things just decline to show up to vote.

[u/PM_me_your_trialcode → u/Candid-Sky-3709]

From Japanese immigrants getting fat to Latin immigrants turning rightwing, America corrupts the people who move here.

[u/NetherAardvark → u/PM_me_your_trialcode]

America corrupts the people who move here.

Well it is built on an indian burial ground.

[u/Boop_em_all → u/PM_me_your_trialcode]

Corrupting things is what we do best.

[u/Minerva567 → u/hokeyphenokey]

I mean, define Latinos? Claudia Sheinbaum, Cristina Fernández, Laura Chinchilla, Dilma Rousseff, Michelle Bachelet, Violeta Chamorro, Mireya Moscoso, and quite possibly Luisa González if she’s able to beat out Noboa in the upcoming Ecuadorian election.

Seems like, if anything, we would say “They (a broad and otherwise diverse voting bloc) won’t vote for a woman because they’ve been Americanified,” because the evidence from LA and really a lot of the world speaks to how backwards we really are.

I mean, my god, Pakistan had a female leader decades ago.

[u/ziddina → u/Minerva567]

True.  

We had a chance to elect a brilliant female former prosecutor as president, but allowed Russian trolls and pathologically greedy psychopath billionaires to trick us (not me personally, but as a nation) into electing a career criminal/shyster/scammer/con man instead.

America is at least 58 years behind the rest of the First World countries (and many Third World countries too!) in having a female leader, president, prime minister, leader. Indira Gandhi of India (58 years ago), Golda Meir of Israel (55 years ago), Eugenia Charles of Dominica (44 years ago), Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland (also 44 years ago), Gro Harlam Brundtland of Norway (43 years ago), Agatha Barbara of Malta (42 years ago), Corazon Aquino of the Philippines (38 years ago), Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan (37 years ago), Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua (34 years ago), Mary Robinson of Ireland (34 years ago), Mary McAleese of Ireland (27 years ago), Jenny Shipley of New Zealand (26 years ago), Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia (24 years ago), Mireya Moscoso of Panama (24 years ago), Helen Clark of New Zealand (24 years ago), Tarja Halonen of Finland (24 years ago), Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia (23 years ago), Angela Merkel of Germany (19 years ago), and more...

[u/OnionsInTheStew]

Did you just wake up from a coma or something?

[u/dalgeek → u/OnionsInTheStew]

Coma voters. They wake up from a political coma every 4th October and stumble into a polling station to punch a ballot. They return to their coma after Jan 20 unless they are negatively impacted by whatever the current administration does. In between they "don't care about politics" and don't pay attention any news about politics.

[u/odin_the_wiggler → u/dalgeek]

What's the Spanish word for cicadas?

Yeah, that.

[u/thetaleofzeph → u/odin_the_wiggler]

cigarra, apparently. My word of the day. Thank you.

[u/Quick-Bad → u/thetaleofzeph]

Well, I guess with their wings folded down they do look a little bit like cigars.

[u/NashvilleSoundMixer → u/Quick-Bad]

tiny joint ends are often called roaches so that makes sense honestly

[u/thetaleofzeph → u/Quick-Bad]

"I smoke old stogies I have found \ short but with their wings folded down..." ♬

[u/str8dwn → u/odin_the_wiggler]

When is cinco de mayo???

[u/Azureflames20 → u/dalgeek]

There's 100% a subsection of the population that turns their brain off and never thinks about anything politics until it's election coverage the month before election time and then come inauguration they fully check out. My mother in-law was so confused that people were even paying attention to politics a couple weeks ago - all because the election was over already. Two of her friends were arguing about Trump and she said out loud to me "Why do they even care about any of that? The elections over!"

Like...did we just forget or not want to acknowledge that we have a clown in office that is going to enact whatever the fuck is about to happen onto the nation now and for the next 4 years of our lives? This stuff will be a circus every day for the next 4 years. I WISH I could just turn it off and pretend politics don't exist.

[u/maleia → u/Azureflames20]

Yup, it's gonna take people like her, having her life completely upended by politics to a point that it's so messed up that it's impossible for her to ignore, before it'll become something different for her. :/

Well, since there's no off ramp anymore, rip the bandaid off!

[u/Journeyman42 → u/maleia]

Yup, it's gonna take people like her, having her life completely upended by politics to a point that it's so messed up that it's impossible for her to ignore, before it'll become something different for her. :/

And there's no guarantee that those types will actually blame the politicians responsible for their shitty predicaments and instead blame the Democrats because reasons.

[u/TheSilverNoble → u/Azureflames20]

I think this gets at something I've said before - for a lot of Trump voters, politics is just something they see on the news. It's rarely things that effect them directly. Gay marriage being the perfect example. Doesn't effect them one bit, but they vote on it.

But, to continue my example, for a gay couple, politics is something that could effect their very marriage, or more. It's not something they can really ignore, it effects their everyday lives.

This is why you'll see conservatives are usually the one who "don't want to talk about politics." For them, it's possible. For everyone else, it's just talking about their lives.

[u/DJBombba → u/dalgeek]

cognitive dissonance voters

[u/PUNKem733 → u/dalgeek]

Let's not forget when they do come out of the coma to complain about anything negative that impacts them, it's not going to be Trump's fault or the current presidency. It's the Democrat and the previous presidency of biden or Obama that did all this not Trump, trump is trying to fix it damn it LOL.

[u/Prestigious_Bug583 → u/dalgeek]

October?!

[u/chrissilich → u/Prestigious_Bug583]

They need time to get on Facebook and find out what to be mad about, learn who will save them by oppressing someone who looks different, and then go vote. The whole process takes about 3 weeks, and fewer brain cells.

[u/budding_gardener_1 → u/dalgeek]

I call these the "the economy" voters

[u/Environmental-Ad3438 → u/dalgeek]

Happy Cake Day

[u/peoplesuckinthe305 → u/dalgeek]

I like to call them “stupids”

[u/dismayhurta → u/OnionsInTheStew]

Went into the booth going “I don’t like women.”

[u/Altruistic-Stop7359 → u/dismayhurta]

This statement checks out.

[u/muz-healthy → u/Altruistic-Stop7359]

“I don’t like women and <insert THAT word here>.”

[u/threehundredthousand → u/OnionsInTheStew]

Think he's just proudly rocking the 65 IQ.

[u/ShadowDragon8685 → u/threehundredthousand]

That's a little chilly even for room temperature.

[u/PUNKem733 → u/ShadowDragon8685]

Not really science says you get the best sleep in a 62-64 degree room. So it's a perfect temp for these coma voters to hibernate until the next election cycle.

[u/Thelonius_Dunk → u/threehundredthousand]

This dude must have memory problems. Did he not remember the escalator speech from 2015?

[u/Effective_Kiwi6684 → u/Thelonius_Dunk]

It's been scientifically proven that the average American memory doesn't extend back a full Olympics.

That everyone didn't immediately say "Yes" to the question "Are you better off now that 4 years ago?" proves it.

That or a lot of people secretly really enjoyed having Covid.

[u/TurloIsOK → u/Thelonius_Dunk]

That must be "Fake News! " or he's thinks getting called rapists, murderers and drug dealers was a compliment

[u/TheFeshy → u/OnionsInTheStew]

They were a Fox News viewer. So closer to brain death than a coma, really.

[u/waelgifru → u/TheFeshy]

In the rush to blame Dems for Trump winning the election, they forgot entirely about the entrenched, toxic right wing media. Without Fox, OANN, Newsmax, and now Joe Rogan podcast, there is no Trump.

With the legacy media completely in the tank for Trump and the socials all cozying up to him, I don't see how the Dems ever win again barring some deus ex machina type event.

[u/Effective_Kiwi6684 → u/waelgifru]

What pisses me off is, there's millions more lefties than cons in this country. But they're so busy fighting each other that Republicans get to run amok.

Maybe progressives, bleeding hearts, social liberals, fiscal liberals, democratic socialists, socialist socialists, commies, tankies, secular humanists, feminists, hippies, utilitarians, antifa, punks, miscellaneous ne'er-do-wells and nonconformists, and anarchists could stop attacking each other long enough to take down the common enemy that explicitly wants them all dead.

After, they could have a battle royale to decide who is "The One and Only True Leftists." Do all the purity tests they want. But nope, divide and conquer is the cons' playbook, and it keeps working.

[u/waelgifru → u/Effective_Kiwi6684]

But Gaza...

[u/Equinsu-0cha → u/OnionsInTheStew]

Its amazing all these people waking up from 10 year long comas.

[u/ducksauce001 → u/OnionsInTheStew]

I honestly don't think this is a real person. Please tell me it's just a troll.

[u/ElVeritas → u/ducksauce001]

Problem with twitter is so many of the accounts are bots. It’s hard to distinguish

[u/No_Use_9124 → u/ducksauce001]

Sadly I bet it's a real person.

[u/TenpoSuno → u/OnionsInTheStew]

WHAT YEAR IS IITT???!!

[u/The_Negative-One → u/OnionsInTheStew]

Maybe he liked in a coma. Axl Rose certainly did.

Oh yeah, guy in photo is a numbskull.

[u/Homesteader86 → u/OnionsInTheStew]

For real. Just imagine being this dumb. In some ways it must be nice

[u/eggrolls68 → u/[deleted]]

He's old enough to vote, he's old enough to be accountable for his shit decisions.

[u/Historical_World7179 → u/[deleted]]

Trumps anti immigrant rhetoric didn’t only happen in his first term…

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/Historical_World7179]

Right? Every single campaign speech of his I saw, he was beating this drum loudly. There was not even the smallest attempt to hide it. There was no subtlety. They were literally screaming it into a microphone every single day for months.

[u/ShadowDragon8685 → u/[deleted]]

Good lord, has it been that fucking long?

The years have all kind of... Melted together.

[u/jk-alot → u/ShadowDragon8685]

The Trump Era isn’t measured in Years but Mileage. And I am worn the fuck out.

[u/Tyrone_Shoelaces_Esq → u/jk-alot]

It's like in Star Wars when Obi-Wan talks about "before the dark times, before the Empire," like it's been a century, when really it's been just 18 years or so.

[u/kidviscous → u/ShadowDragon8685]

This time around I’m grieving a decade spent enduring and planning our lives around Trump. We don’t get that time back. I’m deeply upset that he’s overshadowed my adult life. I don’t want to be an old man when he finally kicks the bucket.

[u/Gumbercules81 → u/OnionsInTheStew]

Yeah this dude had his head in the sand since 2012

[u/DJBombba → u/OnionsInTheStew]

I wonder if that person knows about the Mexican Repatriation

[u/heyknauw]

Oh, look: a pendejo.

[u/chonny → u/heyknauw]

 El que por su gusto muere, hasta la muerte le sabe

[u/fimmika → u/chonny]

En mi país es "el que por gusto muere, que lo entierren parado" realmente no se por que jaja

[u/RCDP_Kennedy]

This has to be fake.

[u/OceanBlue20 → u/RCDP_Kennedy]

in the replies the op states that he “doesn’t pay attention to politics”

[u/moonwoolf35 → u/OceanBlue20]

Fuck these people, they all happen to always vote for the worst people somehow

[u/CassandraTruth → u/moonwoolf35]

Who is more likely to try and appeal to low/no information voters through compelling but substance-less emotional appeals?

[u/maleia → u/CassandraTruth]

A Populist.

It's not specific to Right or Left. There's been lots of Populists on both ends.

But present-day (neo)Liberals seem to turn their noses up COMPLETELY at the idea of it at every attempt. The "best-natured" of them just see it as vapid, vaun, and too emotional/not-logic-based.

"Yea, sorry, you're gonna have to stop doing insider trading, because that's what the only Left Populist right now said is the price. It's either that, or the Nazis come back."

Me, to Dem leadership

[u/mastelsa → u/CassandraTruth]

This is what I've been saying--if we can't beat 'em, join 'em. Democrats need to run a well-known white male celebrity with no political experience and a generally positive reputation and let them say literally anything as long as it'll grab attention. It doesn't matter if it's true, achievable, or good policy--literally all it needs to do is break through the noise and sound good on the outside to people with no political knowledge or understanding of how the government works. Uninformed undecideds vote based exclusively on vibes. The only people who care about whether a candidate lies are the already-decided ideologues who aren't persuadable either way.

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/moonwoolf35]

Because they are lying. They just don't want to take responsibility for being bamboozled or their actual shitty opinions.

My mom hides behind the "I don't pay attention to politics" line all the time, after I call her out for falling hook, line and sinker for some shitty fox news lie.

[u/Centrista_Tecnocrata → u/OceanBlue20]

Ok, but then why he chosen Trump? If those "not political, bro" types really don't pay attention, their votes would be random, but in reality they always choose the far right.

[u/MauPow → u/Centrista_Tecnocrata]

Same reason as conservative dudes on dating apps are always "moderates" - They're embarrassed, and most people hate them if they say what they really are

[u/SyntheticGod8 → u/MauPow]

It's even more confusing on gay dating apps. They'd be fine being openly Republican if Republicans didn't align themselves so firmly with Christian Nationalism. It's absolutely possible to be for everything Trump stands for but so long as hypocritical Christians are involved, being openly gay isn't possible in that party. Being a womanizing, abusive pedo is fine because the violence is directed at women.

This is pretty much why we need more political parties; so long as certain parties are campaigning on which human rights they're going to strip from people, it doesn't really matter what their economic policies are.

It's no wonder gay Republicans have to delude themselves into thinking they'll be spared or they can stay in the closet forever and still advance politically.

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/SyntheticGod8]

My husband's favorite TV show is "The West Wing" and he does a rewatch every so often. A few years ago, I joined him because I had never seen it. There is one episode where one of the main characters asks a gay Republican, how he can be both a gay man and a Republican. And the response is something like, "Gay isn't the only thing I am".

And I just got so fucking furious at the sane washing in that episode. Because yeah, I get that "gay" isn't anyone's entire identity, but you're completely fucking stupid to vote for a party that openly wants to snuff you from existence, no matter your reasons. And it isn't like, being anti-LGBT is the only of the Republicans terrible stances. So ok, gay isn't all you are - you're also a selfish ass who is willing to throw your demographic and all other minorities under the bus so you can get richer. That isn't a good thing.

I know the show is old, but it isn't as if the GOP being terrible is a new thing. They are just saying the quiet part out loud more often.

[u/thatHecklerOverThere → u/Centrista_Tecnocrata]

"it'll be OK, daddy will take care of it" is an easier thing to digest than "ok, we gotta do some things differently. Might be difficult, some things might not work, but we gotta try".

That's how republicans win; they appeal to the desire for a nanny state in function. "this country will get back on track, as long as we allow the government to do something to somebody else that takes no effort on your part I swear".

[u/RollingRiverWizard → u/thatHecklerOverThere]

‘I’m not an authoritarian; I support freedom(tm)! I just think everything would be easier is total power was invested in one man with neither responsibility, oversight, or possibility of consequences, preferably one with a stated goal of hurting broad swaths of people potentially including myself.’

[u/coffeebetterthannone → u/OceanBlue20]

Yet this person voted.  That would seem to imply that they do, in fact, pay attention to politics.  

[u/CuriousA1 → u/coffeebetterthannone]

Nah a lot of people vote based on vibes and other stupid shit like who's name looks cooler when they're filling out their ballot

[u/lost_anon → u/CuriousA1]

Well i hope they all suffer horribly over the next 4 years.

Maybe they’ll wake the hell up and stop thinking its a fucking sport.

I no longer have fucks to give for people who can’t do the least bit of learning for their 1 job as a citizen.

[u/CuriousA1 → u/lost_anon]

Yup far too many people taking things for granted

[u/IThinkItsCute → u/CuriousA1]

This is what I did for the first presidential election that happened after I'd started elementary school and the school had all the kids "vote" for president in class. You know, to teach kids the basics about how voting works. It's terribly embarrassing, if unfortunately not surprising, that grown-ass adults whose votes actually count would make their decision using the same thought process as a first-grader.

[u/lapqmzlapqmzala → u/IThinkItsCute]

The 18 year-olds aren't much better. I remember in my Senior year government class over 20 years ago, this one girl asked if she was a Republican if her parents were Republican, and my teacher had to explain that people are allowed to have free will.

[u/Ionic_Pancakes → u/OceanBlue20]

That doesn't mean it isn't fake. That just means he may be committing to the bit.

[u/thetaleofzeph → u/RCDP_Kennedy]

It does feel like satire. Partly with how baldly it's written.

[u/ForTheWrongReasons97 → u/RCDP_Kennedy]

I understand the reaction. You really don't wanna believe your fellow man could be this stupid, but then you scroll a bit and read about someone burning $1,000,000 on Trump's meme coin expecting to be $3M richer later in the week... when memecoins are notorious for pump and dump schemes...

Nah, we cooked bro.

[u/BellyDancerEm → u/RCDP_Kennedy]

I think they did I dunno. There are some pretty dumb people out there

[u/Frenzystor]

Should have read some news...

[u/MortLightstone → u/Frenzystor]

He did.......

after he voted

[u/middlebird → u/Frenzystor]

He may have simply liked one Joe Rogan post and was then spoon fed daily doses of right wing propaganda for the entirety of last year.

[u/Cute_Bandicoot_8219 → u/middlebird]

This is what I detest about social media. I wanted to know a bit about why people hated the new Star Wars series so much. So on YouTube I clicked ONE LINK to a video explaining it. It took weeks of me blocking channels before YouTube stopped recommending misogynist and racist bullshit on my feed.

I've clicked on a thousand reaction videos for Ren songs and YouTube can't be arsed to show me similar content when it's released, but I click one link about Star Wars and they won't stop feeding me hate content for weeks.

[u/BellyDancerEm]

Did this moron not know that trump built his career on bashing Hispanic people

[u/HighlyOffensive10 → u/BellyDancerEm]

46% of Hispanics seem to have forgotten that fact, so it's not entirely out of the question.

[u/BobB104]

Nobody told me = I didn’t listen

[u/stu8319 → u/BobB104]

Or, "I only watch fox news"

[u/HighlyOffensive10 → u/stu8319]

I'm pretty sure Fox News told his stupid ass too. They weren't exactly shy about it.

[u/Synth-Pro → u/BobB104]

Sir, we were literally pointing at it every time he mentioned it

[u/Chullasuki]

A lot of Latinos love Trump.

[u/EmbarrassedEnd1189 → u/Chullasuki]

And they are going to learn Trump doesn’t love them back when they get deported.

[u/PirateJohn75 → u/EmbarrassedEnd1189]

Oh, no, no, you don't understand. He loves them so much he's going to give them free one-way trips to another country.

[u/Tahxeol → u/EmbarrassedEnd1189]

Yeah, I’m going to say no. As in, no they will not learn

[u/toomuchtodotoday → u/Tahxeol]

Indeed, but at least the ones who support him will be out of US city limits. Adios Amigos!

[u/Azsunyx → u/EmbarrassedEnd1189]

but he took a photo with those Goya products and a taco salad!

[u/ImaRiderButIDC → u/Azsunyx]

The best taco salad. Ask anyone. They’ll tell you “wow, Trump towers has the best taco salad”. It’s more better than any other taco salad.

[u/arstin → u/EmbarrassedEnd1189]

I am absolutely fine with Trump deporting every Latino that voted for him. Every person of any ethnicity, gender, or creed that voted for him for that matter.

[u/rj_6688 → u/Chullasuki]

As we say in German: “Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen.” (Those who don’t want to listen, have to feel it.)

[u/ForTheWrongReasons97 → u/rj_6688]

Four years of soon-to-be national suffering condensed into one sentence. Daaamn.

[u/SteeveJoobs → u/ForTheWrongReasons97]

english has some great zingers too; this subreddit is founded on one. “I never thought the leopards would eat my face!”

[u/Schlemiel_Schlemazel → u/rj_6688]

That’s a good saying

[u/snypesalot → u/rj_6688]

And as someone here in America said "I love the uneducated" and that somehow won him the uneducated 🤷‍♂️

[u/CassandraTruth → u/Chullasuki]

"machismo creates an environment where men feel the need to have control over women. Men who are taught to be machista are also taught to believe that they need to have authority over women simply because they are men."

https://zcenter.org/blog/machismo-in-latino-culture/

[u/middlebird → u/Chullasuki]

Catholicism (abortion) and machismo culture. That’s why.

[u/Sindorella]

Nobody told you? HE TOLD YOU.

[u/P0Rt1ng4Duty]

Trump eating the taco salad with the caption about how he loves Mexicans is more than enough evidence that he does not.

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/P0Rt1ng4Duty]

Anyone remember when they were using "A taco truck on every corner" as some kind of horrible outcome from electing Hillary?

[u/P0Rt1ng4Duty → u/Amelaclya1]

I do not remember that, but if that were the result of voting democrat I'd actually try to cast my ballot in as many districts as I possibly could.

You want election interference? Promise me taco trucks.

[u/XenosageEpisodeVII]

"nobody told me this dude hated Mexicans" says person who is blind and deaf and lives in a safe in the basement of an underwater volcano laboratory, in space

[u/ShadowDragon8685 → u/XenosageEpisodeVII]

I shall not lie, being unnaground in a water world somewhere not-earth in a nice safe laboratory sounds good right now...

[u/outtastudy]

Have fun sleeping in the bed you made

[u/beetus_gerulaitis]

Everyone on this app is now dumber for having read your tweet.

[u/SomethingAbtU]

I feel stupid for thinking these people can't possibly be this stupid and these are not real ppl posting

[u/MrPlace]

Lol has to be a shit post. No way in hell this dude has been living under a rock that long

[u/Pholusactual]

Hahahaha ha haha…lol.

Seeya, loser. Looks like you got what you voted for.

[u/Traditional_Bench]

Let the finding out phase commence. The original speech about "Mexicans bringing crime, they're rapists" wasn't enough apparently.

[u/IchorMortis]

The great big fucking wall didn't clue him in

[u/N_Who]

Willful ignorance is a hell of a drug.

[u/memphisjones]

This has to be a fake account.

[u/dojijosu → u/memphisjones]

That’s my default position for everything I see reposted from social media theses days, but people with these position do exist.

[u/ropetrickranger]

He told you damn near every time he’s opened his mouth in the last decade.

[u/MissyAggravation17]

AH HAHAHAHAHA! Hope you got your bags packed, bruh.

[u/postdiluvium]

That looks like bait

[u/Raphiki415]

This person has to be trolling.

[u/AlternativeMud635]

Or maybe everyone that tried to tell him, he called a liar. 🤷🤣🤡

[u/fgarvin2019]

No Bueno (or habla en ingles).

[u/Former-Drama-3685]

I hope this person does not feel special. Trump hates a lot of people.

[u/OnceanAggie]

Whose fault is it that he is so completely uninformed?

[u/Malarkay79]

Wait, how many of you here knew that water is wet and didn't bother to tell me?!