'I didn't vote this." Yes. Yes you did. You didn't want to hear others tell you what you were voting for. You wanted to believe your own fantasy version. Even now, most MEGA voters want to believe their own fantasy of what Trump will do for America over the truth of what he is actively doing.
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You did vote for this & you were also warned.
You're just a sucker.
Awww is someone having a hard time finding his bootstraps? 😁
I didn’t vote for this
Edit: Pardon the comma splice. I found such cheese.

You LIBTARD RAPISTS need to have Compassion! He THOUGHT that only Brown and Gay people would be Effected! If he had KNOWN he would ALSO be Effected he would have STILL voted for Trump! So have some COMPASSION RAPIST LIBTARDS!
Terry, Sarah, this is what you get for voting for a hateful monster. Twice. You can starve for all I care. Your choice has led to death and destruction.
Yes you did. You absolutely voted for this exact thing.
We knew it, and we tried to warn you over and over again.
You mean "I ignored anyone who told me anything I didn't want to hear" right?
Yes, you did. Fucking idiot. Enjoy being homeless.
Especially in a country where criminalizing homelessness is literally a bipartisan issue.
The workers who lost their jobs weren’t desk-bound administrators. They were firefighters, trail maintenance crews, wildlife biologists, rangers, foresters, and seasonal workers who kept public lands accessible and safe. They were the people who made it possible for outfitters, guides, hunters, ranchers, and tourism operators to do business.
try doing that without desk-bound administrators and see how it goes
The betrayal is particularly acute because these workers weren’t making big government salaries. Forest Service seasonal workers typically earn $15 to $18 per hour. Park rangers make $35,000 to $50,000 annually. These were working-class jobs that supported working-class families in rural communities with few other options.
isn't this the same group of people who claim that minimum wage is too high?
These are real jobs held by real people in small towns across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona—states that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
Whoa whoa whoa, don't lump Colorado in with those states. We absolutely did NOT vote for that piece of shit - 3 times in a row.
do you wanna stop fascism? want to see trump and elon musk lose power?
working class solidarity is the first step
our entire lives, we’ve been tricked and manipulated into fighting among ourselves, because they know if we worked together, we would be able to take them down.
why do you think, every time that something bad happens, there’s all the media spin about who we should blame?
they love to do this for age, think about all the boomers vs. gen X vs. gen Z articles and social media posts you’ve seen
but they do the same shit all the time with different things. their aim is to split the working class into as many splinter groups as possible.
we need to stop letting the assholes in power divide us like this.
unfortunately, that means extending solidarity to people who haven’t earned it, including people who chose to vote for Trump.
most of these people were tricked and manipulated. many of them have been fed a steady diet of misinformation. many of them are proud, insufferable bigots.
but being smugly superior, insulting, rude or intolerant isn’t how we change people’s minds. the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.
we are all so busy yelling at eachother. it doesn’t work. we need solidarity.
That is true, but it is also fair to point out that you are proposing solidarity with someone who voted for fully supporting these negative things happening to other people, even if there was only a vague sense of what that might mean, and is specifically upset now that it unexpectedly turned around on him and his circle. We have to stand with and support someone we might have to fully expect to continue doing the exact same thing as the opportunity arise.
It's true his interests overlap our own, and raising everyone up is in our best interests, but just realize that we want to give liferafts to people who would prefer to poke holes in the liferafts of others. We want to save people who are acting like spoiled, entitled children and who we have no reason to believe will act any different after they've been saved. Just understand that afterwards we need a system that will survive this type of behavior.
The mistake you're making here like in the other thread is that fascists do not see themselves as the working class, but the ruling class. They believe they are better, and should be rewarded for being better. They are the manipulating class, the dividers, the media spinners, the oppression.
How do you do solidarity with the folks that want to oppress us?
They tricked themselves a SECOND TIME, after we WARNED THEM. How do you warn someone a third time? Do you see them extending their hands and help us?
we need solidarity
Solidarity they never give.
Solidarity they destroy once it's convenient.
Trump should have been rotting in prison, not lauded and praised.
My bet is that Trump will throw the biggest fascist - Steven Miller - under the bus at the point another suburban soccer mom gets killed, or some ICE agent with a hardon to be John Wayne loses it like the Minneapolis jackass did and shoots into a car with small children in the back seat and kills one or two.
Trump cares only about Trump (fuck America, the US is filled with rubes and marks perfect for his con-man ass to scam) and whoever he can use to make himself even bigger, he will.
The dude is massively insecure but knows how to sell and market his "brand". And he did and the weak minds in the conservitve, poorly educated corners of the country bought the slick sales pitch.
The rest of us are fucked, but at least seeing the pricks in Washington DC for what they honestly are.
Oh, the shit the country's got to endure because a child fucker is willing to burn the nation to the ground so as to stay out of jail.
Here champ, you dropped this.

I moved to Wyoming about a decade ago. Never in my life have I met more hardcore and practical environmentalists in my life. These people spend a lot of money, time, and effort making sure that their rivers, forests, and wildlife are and remain healthy. It is a monumental task.
I will never understand how their mental gymnastics work in order to reconcile their vote for a man who made his money in New York real estate and reality TV.
for a man who made his money in New York real estate and reality TV.
No one except law enforcement would know Trump's name if he hadn't been born rich. At best he'd be working at a used car lot wearing a cheap toupee and polyester suit.
Do people just not understand how voting works, or what the word means? Do they maybe think it's short for Devote?
"They're hurting the wrong people"

Yes the fuck you did, dipshit
More like “I refused to believe I was voting for this”
Fuck the irony is delicious. I love that.
When you vote without thinking of consequences, you did vote for that.
Oh, Terry, you sweet summer child.
What did you expect would get cut when Donald told you he was going to take a saw to our government?
It's like signing a contract, you have only yourself to blame if the contract sucks but didn't read it before putting your signature on it.
You wanted fascism, Zinky. Well, you got it. And you better thank Dear Leader and Jesus. You live in the Greatest Country In The World, and God gave you bootstraps!
Quit crying and get a job, weakling. Hail Trump.
Why does he need you guys to do controlled burns? Can't he just take some of the concentration camp inmates to rake all of Yellowstone?
Just saying "I didn't vote for this" won't make it better sadly for this stupid fuck.