damn i missed this ether

Ppl didnt vote for trump bc they're uneducated, that smarmy attitude is a huge part of what invigorated his base during 2016

Thinking that ppl were supporting trump bc they were manipulated is ironically very authoritarian lol

ET got ethered by Bruises :clap

it don't take much for them to switch up

like with trump if you say you like him he'll say good s*** about you

So what does that mean :samok2:

Conspiracy theory is a pretty good way to rationalize things that don't make sense to you

money/pardons/they're not really informed but are attracted by trump's "does what he wants"/"anti-establishment" brand

Or it can just be reality because there are many statistics that support the claim.

Not like I'm knocking them either. Trump's campaign trail literally hit the spots where he can connect with more uneducated groups. Smart play on his part, and a lack of interest from Democrats.

Dems have even admitted they failed to connect with groups Trump did because they either automatically assumed they were going to vote right and didn't bother, or didn't feel like they needed them. They were actually right in regards to popular vote at least.

I really hate when y'all try to make it sound like people are saying only dumb people vote for Trump when that isn't the case lol uneducated groups of people, across all races, voted for Trump. It ain't "authoritarian" to claim the uneducated voted for Trump. It's just a fact. Don't get mad at me get mad at the poll data.

you guys didn't look at the 2020 stats if you think he has a realistic shot in metro areas like Atlanta (surrounding counties, Bmore etc...

Trump wasn’t giving out free money lol this stimulus checks were bipartisan bills (both parties) came together with and Trump simply signed off on it. Any president was gonna sign off on it during a pandemic.

Mf’s stupid as s***

Not to mention the youth generally leaning still further left and the absolute demolition of republicans since Dobbs

Bird mentality

This is just the unfortunate result of so much of the country not knowing how the government actually functions

yeah people weren’t manipulated by his entire anti-establishment shtick in spite of being extremely rich, worked with politicians business-wise somewhat extensively and being seen with Epstein

good one

What I don't like is the framing that ppl voted Trump bc they were misinformed or something. Ur saying that you don't think they're dumb but not saying why it matters they are uneducated. Like are trump voters misguided idiots or not to you?

biden tried passing student debt relief which would do way more than a stimmy but it got blocked by the justices trump appointed so yeah one is worse

Man shut the f*** up lmao

yup and if they were smart they would actually come together and give out a round of stimi checks and blame the inflation on Dems like they already do. Say they're taking it away from what they'd give to Ukraine and they'd win people over but nah

50/50 split in senate would probably kill that bill though

To act like the right (and even the left) do not manipulate and lie to uneducated voters frequently in order to gain their support is just pure naiveté. The exact kinda ignorance (or even delusion) someone like Trump banks on for votes.

As if all the above isn't true for literally any other presidential candidate ever

Look I'm not a right winger or a trumpist at all but ppl's accusations of him/defense of the democrats is so so hypocritical

This is proof enough we need to stop voting for establishment democrats and republicans in general.

Direct action gonna hit every time and we put these grifting f*** niggas in office time and time again hoping for a table scrap.

no one said that any other political candidates were authentic or also didn’t manipulate, the point is that Trump’s main appeal was a complete facade lol, so it qualifies as manipulation—idk why you moved the goalposts from “lol people weren’t manipulated into supporting Trump” to “lol but Democrats did the same s***/so does every other candidate”

im not even into politics and it’s very easy to see that Trump was a hack that coasted off of being the quasi-antithesis of the “establishment”

i don’t even think anyone here is necessarily Democratic, i see more tankie talk on here more than anything else regardless