Ah America...you can steal money, rape children, defraud billions, but don't touch the price of gas.
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Which is why the world sees the USA as only slightly less evil that Russia or North Korea.
She already said she's an idiot.
Well, admission is generally the first step. I respect that.
I agree entirely.
Those first to self realisation will rank among the best figureheads for mass pushback, being able to genuinely empathise with those yet to come to terms with being quite so supremely reamed by such an odious contender for the title of "most selfish winnet to ever fall from the collective anus of the United States".
These MFs are some of the most selfish, lazy, myopic and sadistic people ever.
Even if it doesn’t benefit them directly, and could even cost them personally in the future, they are happy if others get hurt and they don’t have to lift a finger. They enjoy and relish suffering of others based on their made-up morality that excludes their own failings.
Uh, yes. You are.
‘Apparently, I’m An Idiot!’
I'm sure her whole family has been trying to tell her since 2016.
Fascism, yes please. But don't you touch my precious gasoline.
Don't forget paedophilia. Pedos are apparently not a deal breaker.
That's because they lack empathy, anything that impacts others won't change their mind, when it impacts them directly is the only time they'll care and boy are they about to be impacted.
I was genuinely shocked how much this is the way most people are. I just didn’t get out enough to understand empathy is not normal,
I've speculated about this a bit.
Our society protects and/or hides from the general masses, a lot of the bad stuff that happens in the world. It's the media and our lawmakers, but it's also very cultural.
The Internet has also been very dumbed down. 20 years ago it used to be easier to find videos of some of the horrors that occur around the world. Drug cartel videos, war videos, terrorist videos. Remember rotten.com, etc?
I think seeing stuff like that, or maybe not the extreme detail but at least hearing about it, gives you a different perspective. At least it did for me, towards the empathetic and cautious.
If people are protected and hidden from the bad, how will they ever know? The people I've met that lack empathy seem very childish like they've never been exposed to anything.
This, in my opinion, is very much on purpose and by design. If our population had all the gruesome details about what really goes on in the world, the wars, the trafficked children, terrorist and drug cartel tortures, all the suffering in 3rd world countries and poverty...
They would be less happy, and therefore less enthusiastic to go buy stuff. Also, many would be causing a ruckus for our leaders to fix it all.
Your purpose is to produce and consume, to prop up the billionaire and elite leadership class. And not cause any problems, or at least kept in control. This is best when you're "happy" and content. Or at least content enough to keep the machine churning.
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Typical low IQ, under educated, brainwashed American 🙄
So they had to interview dozens there so that they could find that one woman?
PA is full of trumpers. Source: I live in pa.
Slightly less so than anyone who still likes the worthless pile of shit, at least
The price of gas did it, huh?
Being racist for decades 👍
Doing thousands of stupid things during the first term 👍
Stealing of top secret documents (and attempting to cover it up) 👍
Insurrection 👍
34 felony convictions, plus numerous fines and trials for other heinous shit 👍
Being a rapist of E Jean Carroll, plus numerous other sexual assault court cases 👍
Grabbing women by the pussy 👍
Having people murdered on their own streets 👍 and foreigner fishermen in boats 👍 mass illegal deportations to death camps👍
...
...wait, this is going to take too long.
Ok, all the Epstein and child rape stuff, and bombing of little brown girls in school and just about everything and anything that most decent people would see as abhorrent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
But when the price of fuel goes up then that's just unforgivable. That is a step too far!!!
yup. it wasnt:
- 40,000 dead Palestinians
- 37 felony convictions
- 2 impeachments
- illegal tariff costs passed to consumers
- US citizens shot dead on the streets
- babies in concentration camps
- ratfucked federal programs
- botched war in Iran
- punishing LGBT persons
- incarcerating women for miscarriages
- unhinged outbursts
- destroying farmer's livelihoods
- threatening NATO countries with annexation
- lawless gustapo roaming wild
Nope. none of that. It's when he went to put gas in his Ram pickup that it all hit home.
Its always "as long as im not affected"
Ao selfsish, short sighted and plane dumb
planes are smarter than plains
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that's what pisses me off. he's a fucking asshole, he isn't a good person for changing his mind.
he probably got an erection watching ICE terrorize minorities and killing people on the streets, or seeing US bomb girls, or the fact that he's a Pedophile. no the real problem is when he has to pay a little bit more in gas.
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You were warned. So, so many times. Yes, you are an idiot.
I want to be mean to her, but unlike her compatriots there, she has at least some insight. Good for her. Now stop being an idiot.
Nah, after that whole shit show, TWICE, high gas prices is the tipping point? That's insane.
Same here in India we have idiots who say they will pay higher prices in modi's regime than question the government and demand answers. Smh
if only most of these morons didn't have egos that made them literally hide from the truth.
They're literally pure ego and nothing else. It's maddening, having personally dealt with it for years.
Self-awareness of your weaknesses is the first step on the road to overcoming them.
I'm not sure if any republican has ever made life better for the working class
Sure they have, but not since the shift to the 5th party system.
Conservatives have certainly never made life better for the working class, but Republicans haven't always been conservative.
A couple weeks ago I had a back-and-forth with a conservative poster who staunchly believed that the GOP is still the "Party of Lincoln." I was telling them how that wasn't the case anymore, described the fifth party system, explained that the two parties switched views in the mid-20th century. They responded by saying I had been brain-washed by the MSM and calling me a sheep. I hadn't seen so many emojis in a reply since ~2009, so I shrugged them off as a bot.
Maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt a bit too freely.
Lincoln
But that's why I prefer to call people "conservative" or "liberal" (or "progressive" or "communist" or "libertarian") instead of by party
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She's the only one half thinking though. The other idiots in the video couldn't even find Iran on a map and have no fucking clue what theyre talking about.
Country is cooked because these idiots can't take ten minutes to think about anything.
As a three-time Trump voter she's a bit slow on the uptake, but unlike a majority of them, at least she is now willing to recognize her error.
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Yes. Yes, you are.
What's even more disappointing is all the other people interviewed were entirely willing to pay more to "keep the country safe". That woman at least have some self awareness even of it's just about gas. The rest is all gone.
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