Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices | The president’s disastrous affordability rally merely re-raises the question: How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?
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> How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?
It helps when you only have half a brain.
Well, he does love the poorly educated.
Because it was never about that to begin with.
My neighbor had a sign at the end of his driveway spelled out in duct tape
“Trump = Less Prices Kamala = More Prices”
Now he is laid off last I heard, Idiot indeed. Glad he is having the day he voted for
Belief in obvious lies is the common experience and a right of passage to the base. It’s how you become part of clubs like evangelical Christianity and MAGA.
You’d have to be an idiot to believe anything from the mouth of a man who famously lied, on average, 21 times a day during his first term. But this country has always had a surplus of dolts.
Joel Osteen told his followers he needed money because Jesus wanted him to have a new jet. AND THEY GAVE IT TO HIM.
That’s how.
Well, trans people need to use the bathroom sometimes and that’s scary, so…
The cult is ignorant and voted for Trump because they are racist’s.
He doesn’t have the magic price control knob that Biden refused to adjust downward *on a fucking election year*?
Say it ain’t so!
confirmed: magas are idiots
If his win was legitimate it’s because the mainstream media sanewashed the old bitch.
Very very stupid racist people did this
There’s a complex and subtle answer to that question, but it doesn’t really matter except to sociologists.
The simple version is that Republicans are reactionary idiots with a lot of grievances and big fragile egos. That makes them easy to manipulate. And there’s a massive media empire dedicated to keeping them inside their bubble of ignorance.
Here’s the answer: they’re fucking idiots.
That simple.
It’s the team sports, Red vs. Blue mentality. Belief is based on my side is good, your side is bad. No in depth thought required.
Racism played a part in this and I will always believe that.Ppl elected him out of hatred towards others.There is no other reason
They didn’t actually care about him lowering the prices …they wanted the racist back in office.
Because itnwas never about that. What they saw was a leader that promised to cause suffering and pain to others that they are prejudiced against. The affordability was just the way to escape accountability. They lack integrity and will hide behind performative morality and provocative contrarianism to get their fix of hatred and avoid true accountability.
Morons. Only morons could have believed that bullshit, and yet, they still do today. Their reality is defined by their interpretation of their experiences. Seen a news story about being robbed by a black man? All black men are criminals. See a minority with a better job or house or car? They cheated. There is no reasoning with them.
Fuck you. You did this to yourselves. Every shred of publicly available evidence on this piece of shit should have been your warning. His first term should have been your warning. Every time he opens his mouth should have been your warning.
We fucking told you so, dipshit. Republicans lie to you about everything. Every day. Do you think they’re only lying about lowering prices?
> How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?
Well.. “stupid” covers a lot of it actually.
Trump would have promised anything to get elected, it’s the only way he stayed out of prison. He was caught dead to rights in the classified documents case and the Georgia election interference case.
Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
Oh man, I remember all these lawn signs with “Harris: High Prices. Trump: Low Prices.” Every time we passed by one, I said to my wife: “Oh, look! An idiot lives here.” Good times.
This has been an ongoing battle of conservatives vs education..
This is the end result.
I hope that the world sees the impact of underfunding education.
Meanwhile we have to find a way to get our country back on track.
Starting to think Covid caused amnesia to the unvaxxed
Look Americans are pretty simple. Trump stood up and just said “I will make things cheaper. Remember how they were cheaper during my first term.”
Dems counter was “here is a 27 step plan that is means tested to help create tax credits that will lower some cost over the next 18-24 months. Plus if you look at this graph things aren’t really that bad compared to the rest of the world”
“I am going to solve all your problems” is a very compelling campaign promise.
It helps when you’ve been conditioned to believe faith is good and to reject evidence of the contrary. It’s not a coincidence that all the MAGA Christians just believe something because they’re told to in church and apparently at the polls.
>I thought everyone knew this. I thought everyone was at least sophisticated enough to understand that inflation is kind of complicated and has to do with a number of factors that can’t be easily erased or reversed.
How could you look at the last few elections and think was “at least sophisticated enough”?
2 Reasons: Bigotry & Masochism
Poorly educated, trump loves thw
Reminder that import taxes are still taxes.
Racist people more excited for hate than a real plan to help the country.
Harris ran on attacking price gauging and the idiots said, “she can’t do that.” Trump ran on raising prices with tariffs, and they said, “well, he can do that.”
So they voted for the guy who promised to raise their prices because they didn’t think they should have the government fighting for them. Well, they got what they voted for.
The same reason why half of the country is convinced that Biden was the president when America went into Covid lockdown. They’re fucking stupid!
Americans are stupid!!
They are convinced, led to believe, and/or choose to feel that the alternative is bad.
I get the feeling that some people can’t believe that others, who are not like them at all, would help improve their lives. They believe that the person that will help them the most, resembles them the most.
What’s abundantly clear is that the Republican voters have been steadily convinced that government institutions are proportionally benefitting the Left.
The Right goes along with talk of cuts and assistance and can see the results of who their own leadership consider worthy of it (not them).
Yet still, the people doing the damage “resemble” the mirror so they vote accordingly.
White supremacy was the reason.
Prices were the excuse.
Bad headline. Because trumps policies have specifically *raised* prices, as all economists said they would.
They didn’t care about affordability. They cared about identity politics. They thought the root of all problems was people different from them.
They voted for the racism. They’re willing to ignore their own suffering as long as the non whites suffer exponentially more. That’s it. Occam’s Razor.
“Smart people don’t like me”
One of the few true things he’s said
Can we just say it? Trump voters just really really *really* fucking want to be able to say the n-word again and voted accordingly.
And even if you had competent people in charge, forcing Americans to pay +100% for goods to encourage local American manufacturing would take YEARS to setup. Doing it without any prep and with hamhanded, blunt tariffs that only hurt Americans is.. well criminal in my opinion.
The answer is simple: You had to be a fking idiot to fall for his lies
Because he validates them. He makes it ok to openly take their frustrations out on people they hate. He Made Racism Public Again.
When do we start calling this Christmas what it is? The most expensive Christmas in US history, thanks to Trump.