“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.

“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.

“Hey, smartass!” shouted a woman in her sixties, jumping to her feet. “You want to see my tattoo?”

“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

“Yes I do, I’ve got one!” the woman shouted, tapping her chest.

The Trump supporter dismissed her with a wave of one hand. “I’ve had enough of you Democrats,” she said.

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    The stupidity of some people in that article is jaw dropping.

    Also, if they shout at each other now, just wait for the SSA, Medicare, and Medicaid cuts that make hearing aids too expensive for rural boomers.

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      Studies show that two out of every three Trump voters are just as stupid as the third one.

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      Just a matter of time before conservative media finds a suitable scapegoat. They’ll get a wall of “Transgender Mexican ISIS stole the last bits of New Deal social contract” news articles for six months and come out more rabid than when they started.

      This isn’t merely “Iowans are uniquely gullible”, either. The toxic nature of modern media is everywhere. And it produces as many Eric Adams Democrats as Donald Trump Republicans.

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      Most Americans aren’t smart enough to connect the disappearance of Medicaid and stuff to anything.

      They’ll just see it disappear, be angry for a little while and write things like “make it make sense”, “a suit without a man” or whatever the buzzwords are then.

      Then the next outrage thing comes along and they’ll bite, forgetting what they used to have.

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    I’m sick of you democrats and your *checks notes* due process under the law.

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      Yeah and has been since Trump laughed off stage in 2015

      Edit: I guess people knew what I meant. I meant since he wasnt laughed off stage in 2015

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      Yup.

      Even if Trump ceases to exist tomorrow, we’re still fucked. He’s opened the door for copycat politicians for the rest of our lives. Our electoral system is comically corrupt and non-representative. Our entire political system is comically corrupt with way fewer safeguards than we all assumed. Our justice system is incapable of enforcing the law on the wealthy. And there are simply too many stupids in this country.

      No party will ever have the massive majority required to make the fundamental changes required to fix all this. Only one party is even somewhat interested in doing so. Short of a revolution and complete wipe and reset of our government and how it functions, the only way this country is going is down.

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        Tbh the people are not educated properly, too enslaved to debt service and bills, and so brain conditioned to individual greed that forming a cohesive army to restore democracy is a laugh.

        Not to mention tbe 50%+ casuality rate from heart attacks if a civil war broke out.

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          Tbh the people are not educated properly, too enslaved to debt service and bills, and so brain conditioned to individual greed that forming a cohesive army to restore democracy is a laugh.

          That’s very true. Our problems don’t only exist at the top. We have fundamental, critical problems at every strata: top, bottom, and middle.

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    Finishing lunch with two friends at a diner in Osage, Dixie Bowman, 88, a retired welder, said she liked what Trump was doing. Her two friends, when asked, said they preferred not to speak of it.

    Dixie Bowman: Trump is “a very kind, very generous person”

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      Everybody on the right “likes what Trump is doing” or “Likes what DOGE is doing”, but when you ask them to articulate, specifically, what actions or policies they like, they will generalize to something the administration has claimed without evidence to be true but is difficult to prove or disprove (“He’s making the border safer”, “He’s getting rid of taxpayer waste”, etc.) or they will retreat from the question by attacking you personally or just saying that the vibes are generally better (“The tariffs will fix the economy”, “America is respected again”, etc.).

      I’ve never once had a debate with a Republican who came prepared with sources to back up their claims. That’s because as soon as they try to dig and find evidence of the insane stuff Trump and Musk are peddling, the lie unravels itself and it just becomes easier to accept things at face value rather than think critically.

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        Crazy that would be the case when 75% of the people on this planet already do belief without evidence with religion. Who could’ve seen this coming.

        Editor’s note: This sarcasm is intended to be read in the voice of Jon Stewart with a false look of bewilderment.

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        I was told masturbating too much causes brain damage. Maybe thats what it was for all of us.

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      Sounds exactly like what one would expect from someone with a name like “Dixie”

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    This will only escalate… And, across the country…

    And I’m here for it.

    (How is it possible to have a “Food and Drink” emoji section that has no popcorn emoji*) 🤷‍♂️ 🤡

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      Unfortunately their disproportionately overvalued federal representation and votes due to the electoral college they are dragging the rest of us down with them

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    He voted Republican chiefly on the issue of abortion…

    WTAF. Why are there so many idiots like this? You don’t like abortion, don’t fucking have one. And if you are male…it’s not your concern.

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      A person I used to consider a friend told me that Donald Trump was sent by God to end abortion. When I brought up several bible verses that directly condemn what Donald Trump has done he told me they were out of context.

      No longer speak to him.

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        Ah, the old “out of context” crutch that so many Babble-bangers like to fall back on. Hilarious.

        The same people that will ignore dietary law of the religion they co-opted will quote from the same book to support their opinion on Teh Ghey.

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    I thought that was their only form of communication

    And I feel like this would be a great area for David Attenborough to do a nature documentary on

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      Hire the folks that did the Russian cope cages in Ukraine parody from a few years ago. That was particularly impressive.

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    I don’t feel bad for anyone that voted for trump. Nothing he is doing is a surprise. So far it has been everything he said he wanted to do. Fucking morons got exactly what they voted for.

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      I want them to see the error of their ways. No forgiveness without change, but there is no change without the possibility of forgiveness.