"I'm gonna run this country like one of my companies."

Like a fascist dictator, right into the ground...

He talks so much and said multiple conflicting things.

People will belive anything if they want it,or fear it to be true.

It's not Trump they trust, it's his misinformation machine. Manosphere for boys and trad wife content for girls. Andrew Tate evidently knows better than their own people.

'The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face—as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocating under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who could not spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.'

Same reason capitalism persists.

The unfortunate part of this is that even if the Dems got in, all this other bs would still be brewing until the gop got in power again anyway, and no one would be fighting as hard to establish a socialist movement right now.

That's just about the only silver lining, at least more people can see the consequences of the systems they enable this way. Hopefully the admin doesn't destroy the world first...

She WAS going to support Ukraine and now that’s fucked also.

Listen, I really really like puppies, and that guy doesn't care about puppies at all, so I'm not voting for him.

What, you're worried that the kill-all-puppies party is gonna win? Come on, they're ridiculous, they're not gonna make it, so I may as well vote for them just for the thrill of it.

You tired of winning yet?

People with no critical thinking skills vote the way they do because of their emotions. And that's the problem. If more people voted based on logic and reason and the common good, we would never have been in this darkest timeline.

They can be helped, but what’s more important is making sure all those little kids right now start getting real educations again.

yea, that's the problem. dumb parents, not only raising their own kids to be dumb, but also voting to raise everyone's kids to be dumb

i work at a community college which includes the county's "early college" which is pretty much 9th-12th grade high school age kids who qualified to take AA/AS courses for higher ed credit at the same time as their high school curriculum. what i see is pretty much it's not the kids that are the problem. for the most part, dumb kids are the result of dumb parents, which there are a lot of in my redneck mountain town. and, surprise, dumb parents have a lot more kids than smart parents.

yea, gen z may be dumb, but it's not gen z that made them that way

edit: i want to add, there's nothing inherently wrong with a lack of intelligence. some of the best people i've ever known are not intellectuals. it's character that makes people worthwhile. empathy. how you treat people who can't do anything for you. if you're accepting of people regardless of whether they hold the same beliefs, values, religion, have the same skin color, and everything else, then i would choose to be around you instead of the dickhead who's the smartest person in the room. fuck that guy

it's telling that these fucking dickheads are trying, desperately, to paint empathy as some kind of flaw or weakness. empathy is how the human species survived past the stone age

The genZers that I know are pissed and have told me that are going in groups to vote. May the rightly angry youth save us all.

The youth won't vote for the lesser evil, or foe things to stay the same instead of getting worse...

But they absolutely vote for improvement.

Them not voting for Obama the second time, Hillary, Biden, or Kamala doesn't mean they won't vote.

Stop acting like the fucking candidate isn't important, it's lit the most important thing about an election

In 2028 a neoliberal won't get shoved down our throats again, the most recent example of how that works out is 08 Obama. Regardless of how he was in office, the 08 election everyone believed he was going to bring good change.

Like, it's basic fucking psychology/sociology...

25 and under want change, they're wired for it, it's the entire reason change happens. All the way back to "why don't we just throw the pointy stick?"

2024, given how emotionally toxic, morally vacant, and psychologically mangled he is. I do not wonder anymore. He won for that exact reason. He was not a candidate. He was a mirror. If you were a racist, you found your guy. If you were a misogynist, you found your guy. If money was your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart was armoured shut, you found your guy. If you mocked disabled people, you found your guy. If you hated intelligent people, you found your guy. If you were a rapist, you found your guy. If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian sex workers, you found your guy. If you had done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy. If you were a serial cheater, you found your guy. If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy. If you stiffed honest workers, you found your guy. If you were a conman, you found your guy. If you mocked people’s appearances, you found your guy. If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy. If you were dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy. If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you found your guy. If you lied as naturally as breathing, you found your guy. If you had never eaten a green vegetable, you found your guy. If you were a white supremacist, you found your guy. If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy. If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy. If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one. This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated. Trump did not create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate. He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity. If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That is the part that should chill the spine. Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power? We were living in a fool’s paradise. We aren’t anymore." — Michael Jochum

The first two quotes from the article are from a black man and a white woman. So I'm guesibg you didn't read the article.

And for most of them "did my own research" meant listening to podcasts by people like kirk, tate, blow rogan, and the logan's...all right wing shills and propaganda

The majority of Usian voters either voted for him or didn't vote at all; meaning they were ok with pedohitler if he was elected.

They aren’t blind, they just think they aren’t the ones being grifted.

Because of their media bubble, they're still raging that grocery stores got rid of single use plastic bags, incandescent light bulbs have been replaced by LEDs, pronouns, electric cars (they're bad), and being asked to turn their air conditioners up during heatwaves to avoid brown outs.