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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.

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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 319 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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."

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 123 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I'm pretty sure he praised OJ Simpson at some point in the middle of all of that as well. He was also very concerned about offshore wind farms killing whales in record numbers. And there was that one incident where he just stood around on stage saying and doing nothing for an hour while golden oldies played.

The press was too busy printing headlines about Trump calling Biden "sleepy Joe" though. And honestly I'm not sure if an honest and fair press would've even helped in this case. It would've just been librul deep state propaganda. And they would've just gone on with their decorative diapers, foam fingers and Trump bibles regardless.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wish the press would have picked up on it and called him out.

There are so, so, so many instances of this. If they'd picked up on a few more we wouldn't be in this mess. But they ignored them all because they're complicit in all of this.

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[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

It's usually the dumbest, most infantile reason with him. He just negotiated rare earth materials with Ukraine, and he's after them again in Greenland. I'm starting to think he wants them because they literally have "rare" in the name.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 21 points 1 month ago

It all boils down go "I voted for them to hurt people" and then they act surprised when they're the ones being hurt.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 163 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's how they got over Bush II very quickly too.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, my friends from 20 years ago that fucking LOVED Bush now pretend they want nothing to do with him. Trump will be the same way. Set a reminder for 2045 to ask your favorite Republican what they think of Trump.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I remember sitting there, being embarrassed that W was the face of our country. I was thinking to myself, how did we let this happen, policy aside, he's really not a capable president and its horrific in speaking.

G'DAM if i don't miss that whyly bastard. I'd rather have someone with some actual moral values, but jesus i don't know how much worse it could get.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 145 points 1 month ago (12 children)
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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 137 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This person knew what Project 2025 was and just refused to believe it. This is exactly what they voted for.

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 137 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 92 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] tyfpgg@lemm.ee 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is EXACTLY what they voted for. Congratulations! 🎊

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"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!

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

and DEI

White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they're the ones that benefited the most from DEI.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Vote republican, and have a worse life

I don't get why people haven't learned that one yet

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How would someone who is convinced they are a temporarily embarassed millionaire learn a lesson like that.

Conservatives always think they're part of the in-group.. until they're not.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 56 points 1 month ago

Way too many dumb fucks on this planet.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somebody tell CJ to go eat shit

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago
[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is Cj going to vote Dems or someone else at the next election? Yeah, I didn't think so.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

Most likely another republican. Surely things will go right this time they vote red

"I'm so angry that I have to vote for this [pedophile / nazi / conman] because the democrats are so much worse, I've been told!"

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

"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).

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"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...

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Fuck you CJ it's exactly what you voted for, so fuck you again

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem with choosing your own reality is that when it doesn't bear any resemblance to actual reality, you will inevitably be forced to face up to it at some point.

Humans generally hate to admit when they are wrong so creating a version of events where you didn't make a mistake is easier.

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[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 1 month ago
[–] Gregg@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

Time for the ye olde rugged individuals to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

The Fox made him choose the Leopard

Because something about hunter Biden, I guess. Also something about her e-mails.

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