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CJMusic Oct 7, 2023:
Joe Biden is the worst US president in history.
CJMusic Jul 6, 2024:
It would appear that, in light of Biden failing and floundering, the Dems sent their minions out to foment panic about Project 2025. It won't work.
CJMusic May 1, 2025:
I regret voting for Trump.
My husband is laid off and can't find a job and my kids' credit scores have tanked bc of his student loan policy.
This is not what I voted for.
"This is not what I voted for" is starting to become just as cliché as "I didn't sign up for this shit!" (the thing that Hollywood soldiers say when they find themselves fighting in a war).
I love this community. It sucks people need to suffer but when you're this dense, some pain is the only thing that'll make them pay attention.
The thing of it is, the real pain hasn't even started yet. The things Trump has done in his first 100 days are going to have larger and larger ripple effect repercussions for the next 10 to 20 years. The pain we are all going to feel is going to make what's happening right now look like a fucking picnic.
If things ever get 'painful' enough for me, you can believe I'm going to start channeling that pain towards the ruling class that put me in that position.
Good thing is they always have kids so we never have to worry about a shortage of targets.
There are dark days ahead. If history has shown us anything, it's that the ruling class only loses its power when workers bust out the guillotines.
"This is not what I voted for."
I voted for him to hurt immigrants, the poor, the gays, women, workers, non-whites, Democrats, progressives, liberals, intellectuals, drag queens, the woke, and DEI, not white Americans!
and DEI
White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they're the ones that benefited the most from DEI.
Everything about conservative American women was explained in Dworkin’s Right Wing Women.
Women who grow up in shitty sexist communities (eg, imagine being a teenage girl growing up in fucking Disney, Oklahoma.) You have no future. You are supposed to find a guy to marry yourself off to. You are promised this is the greatest thing ever, taught to fantasize about your wedding, to imagine you’re happily ever after.
Then you get married to some guy. Maybe he’s great, maybe he’s not. But you never got to be a person. You were never taught that you could be something more. You feel bitter and powerless in your community - you’ll never be the deacon, but you’ll always be cleaning up after the potluck.
But then you see other women who don’t have to live like that. This is a societal threat to these communities. That there are clearly women in the world who are happy and fulfilled in an office or a field, while you will never be anything more than a church secretary or PTA mom.
So the propaganda is always that these women are lying. They aren’t actually happy. They aren’t actually competent - they only got their jobs through “DEI.” They aren’t better than you, it’s a liberal plot.
This is also connected to the fear routine - see how the right wing women sphere is the TERFs. They whip up a history to aim the real anxieties and fears related to a culture that covers up sexual violence against women (how many youth pastors have we never heard about?) and redirects it to an acceptable target. Women who perform this well enough are even rewarded with having their voice recognized - that Phyllis Schafly made a career of telling other women to not have careers, that Rowling has defined the exclusion of trans women as a prime most important feminist feat (while women in the US die of lack of access to reproductive health care…)
They don’t benefit from DEI because they’ve been told not to want careers, and they are mad at the wrong people.
For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*
Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn't, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of "getting rid of DEI" clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as "best candidate instead of minority preference".
This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et -- these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to do it with the word "democracy" to mean something like "far left woke Democrat ideals".
* Just to clarify -- "good at messaging" just meaning that it's effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.
they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*
They are good at messaging because their base is so monolithic. For the most part, it's religious (mainly christian/protestant/catholic/whatever), straight, white people. There's so much common ground among them that you can pick a couple issues and make a boogeyman out of them. They've been doing it for years. Abortion was a big one, then it was same sex marriage, then it was immigrants, then it was transgender people. Not to mention the cable news propaganda arm that feeds them the lies. But for democrats, the base is so wide that it becomes hard to cater a message that applies to everyone. So there's positions that you have to take that don't apply to your entire base and sometimes that ends up fragmenting them and making it hard for people to get out and vote because people vote on their own self interest. Its why it was so frustrating when people were going to not vote for Kamala because of views on Palestine as if 1) Trump was going to be any better and 2) as if that was the only policy that mattered. Democrats need to stop trying to reach the other side of the aisle and reach the people that agree with them and get them out to vote by having inspiring candidates, not just milquetoast politicians that are going to try and be moderate. If the right takes 10 steps further right and democrats take 2 steps right to try and appeal to them, the middle ground has now moved further right which isn't inspiring to your supporters on the left. And then you start to alienate them.
Their husbands told them that they should be pissed so they are pissed.
Rhetoric has shaped their perspective. They don't know what DEI is.
workers,...not white Americans!
None of them include workers in that list, because most of them are white Americans, but are also workers. The whole point is "I want them to hurt people who are not like me, not people who are me!"
Most of them don't understand that unless they have million dollar yachts that they use as tenders for their billion dollar yachts that they are the "poor" that Trump and the oligarchs tearing apart the US government don't want their tax dollars going to support.
No sympathies for these people
The leopards feast.
"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
Sorry, psychopaths. You elected him president. After he showed everyone exactly who he was. The why doesn't matter. He'll continue to be who he's always been, but now he's actively making the world worse...
In about three years:
You are absolutely correct, and it disappoints me so much.
We must dismantle the conservative propaganda machine if we ever hope to heal
this is not what I voted for
Nah, dipshit it's EXACTLY what you voted for.
It's too bad these morons are illiterate, and allergic to anything that isn't low-IQ misinformation
She didn't realize that she fits into the "expendable peasant" tier to Trump, and his ilk.
"Expendable peasant": Anyone who isn't a billionaire willing to throw money at L'Orange.
Great phrase, BTW. I'm brand new around here and I already like the place!
This is not what I voted for
"I voted for other people to suffer, and now I'm suffering. Is there no fairness in this world?"
Either that, or:
"When Donald Trump mentioned what a fine man Hannibal Lecter is before shuffling around to the YMCA, my brain registered that as him telling me everything that I wanted to hear because I'm a delusional psychopath with no grip on reality that thinks the world revolves around me."
The Hannibal Lecter thing drives me nuts, because Trump clearly heard someone mention immigration from political asylum and confused that with mental asylums.
I wish the press would have picked up on it and called him out.
You do have to poses some strong repression skills to look at trumps platform and think "this is good for the common American". CJ, you voted for this. You willfully ignored what he was saying and drank the orange monster.
If Trump actually falls out of favor with the Right I fully expect these kinds of people to try to blame all of this on him alone so they check the box for the next R who will enable them to continue to be shitheads.
This person knew what Project 2025 was and just refused to believe it. This is exactly what they voted for.
I don't really get the hostility towards the person. It is good to relize and even admitting you were wrong. We should encourage that nd not give shit. Important are the person's future actions.
Let’s not fool ourselves: Donald’s blatant sexism and racism wasn’t going over this voter’s head. Not even for a second. So I wouldn’t insert the complexity of empathy and understanding the effects of responsibility of choice where someone hasn’t exercised it yet.
everyone has the right to change their own mind but it’s another to start inserting trust and faith in them.
this looks more like regret for their own misfortune (not for anyone else’s). This doesn’t mean their racism and sexism they got on board with that lead to this decision in their life magically vanished or that they wouldn’t hesitate at the chance another president with the same ideas. They merely gained the ability to not deny it has provided a different problem altogether that affects them personally now. Which is ok, great. step one. They hit a bottom. They got to the point they admit there’s one problem. Many refuse to even go there for their thirst of revenge on ‘woke’.
At best at this point you could only expect they could at least understand to vote in their own interest and not just to vote as a form of revenge. Perhaps they found Donald is a bigger enemy than DEI. I just wouldn’t mistaken that as them suddenly seeing everyone around them as equals just yet or that pain is universal
The post didn't admit she was wrong. She merely said the particular harm she suffered was not what she voted for.
I mean, they didn't admit they were wrong. They're saying they were basically "totes bamboozled" by Trump once he was elected, which we know is horseshit because half the country apparently did see this coming (and was quite vocal about it).
It shifts the guilt for what is going on entirely on Trump rather than taking an ounce of responsibility for their own role in the whole ordeal.
I mean, they are still likely OK with everything else the republicans stand for. This self realisation is most likely temporary because it affected them personally. They probably still are OK with trans/homophobia, bigotry, and authoritarianism
which is 'what they voted for'.
I don’t get the grace your giving a person who voted explicitly to harm migrants, the lgbt community, homeless people, marginalized people, leftists, lawyers, judges and anyone who isn’t white.
Baby back liberals as their enemies wrap the noose around their neck
“we cAnT eVeR hUrT sOmEoN’eS fEe-fEeS we hAvE tO be tOlErANt aNd tOoThLeSs AnD nEvEr dO aNyThInG”
Fucking pussies
I think you're both right, but from a practical perspective it does little good to berate these people after they show remorse.
This person is a horrible narcissistic fascist. Not until he harms them does this person admit they were wrong. This person would never have changed position otherwise.
Valid point, but this is the leopards ate my face community. We're here to see faces eaten.
Because they voted for hatred, they just didn't vote for that hatred to target themselves. This is not people realising they were wrong, this is just a "he isn't hurting the right people" moment by an asshole.
This person disregarded the racism, xenophobia, dangerous climate policies and every other negative thing associated with their party of choice. They only "changed their mind" when stupid policies affected their own wallet. This person is the very definition of an "idiot" in the ancient Greek sense of the word and they deserve to have their faces eaten by leopards and to be made fun of. They didn't do their duty as a citizen and these are the results of their actions. The only way they will learn is if they suck on it so... Enjoy
Absolutely true, but these people don't admit they were wrong.
Ah well let me explain
When someone makes a mistake - such as small babies peeing outside the toilet and shit like that - that's on the parent. There's "bitch baby stop doing that shit" approach and there's the "baby please learn how to pee I will help you"
Responsibility and learning is different things.
When you vote. And brag. About voting for leopards eating people faces, and then your face gets eaten..
That's not a mistake. That's misusing responsibility. I'm certain you can catch on to the difference. Babies don't learn how to not miss the toilet like idiots until they assume responsibility for their urine dispatch and understanding the perils of not doing that.
Please look back at this easy flowchart for reference in the future:
Realizing mistake - > thankful for being rediculed, as you now understand what a fool you where and this is a relief to see people helping stop others from doing that. We don't tell babies that they are awesome for peeing at a location at random. We give them praise when they start trying to pee correctly into the toilet. Even if they fail, we say good job chap, you are peeing in maybe the right direction or at least trying my boy or girl, well on ya
Rediculed and becoming a baby, crying - > you regress into childhood and potentially start peeing on the edge of the toilet messing up the entire outfit and it's because you absorbed a correct helping jeer as a hostile attack on your inner soul. Of which nobody will ever see if you abstain from error correcting, such as for instance learning how to pee correctly or vote sanely.
You're welcome!
Note: This is Leopards Ate My Face. This is the place where people enjoy seeing comeuppances manifest.
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