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When you have no experience with real work, there’s zero chance you have the ability to accurately estimate work

He said he'd have the war in Ukraine ended on day one.

It's almost like people who don't understand how govt works shouldn't be president. Or even be allowed to vote, for that matter. It seems like people think there's a magic wand that the top guy can wave and everything just falls into place.

Government and speed go together like car tires and peanut butter.

Steel-belted latex satay just takes a lot of slow cooking.

Draining the swamp – Vowed to clean up Washington fast, but faced entrenched bureaucracy and ethics scandals.

Well, and some things are complete delusion on his part as well as conservatives. If anything, Taco created the swamp.

Reviving coal jobs – Claimed fast resurgence, but the industry continued to decline.

And some things, for instance, this and the wall and repealing ACA, and ruining/"overhauling" education, are just plain not worth doing.

There has been a concerted effort on the right to isolate a dumb down voters for years. There was a solid documentary a number of years back I think it was called outfoxed where they explained how after Nixon was defeated a group of right wingers swore they would create a system where that would never happen again. Surprisingly, they succeeded. Trump is the result of that. When he said he could walk out in a Times Square shoot someone and no one would care he was correct. They have insulated isolated and dumb down their voting base so much that he could do or say whatever he wants and get away with it because they think he’s winning and therefore They are winning. A comedian said it best recently: MAGA supporters are like the guy at the local strip club who thinks that the stripper is in love with them when in reality the stripper doesn’t give a fuck about you and just wants your money. That’s what this entire administration is. They’re going to rob this country blind completely destroy it and then walk away with billions of dollars while the rest of us have to suffer through this shit storm they created. But no one will care because Black people brown people poor people us anybody else than me is suffering just a little bit more than me and that’s good enough for them because they’ve been told to think like that and they’re okay accepting that.

They feel like they're winning as long as groups they don't relate to are made to suffer even more.

I remain as shocked as you. When Trump was the candidate in 2024 I figured Kamala's victory was guaranteed. What I've come to realize in recent years is that USAmericans are fundamentally unwise. They really vote based on what they feel in the moment, hence why as the country gets worse, the elections keep flip-flopping.

Trump lost in 2020 because of Covid-19 and won in 2024 because of "grocery prices" and being the opposite major party to the current guy. The fact that he's an insurrectionist rapist conman who pioneered division and destruction just doesn't matter to them. The 2016-2020 term? The Pandemic he failed to maintain? Forgotten about. The embarrassments in the Republican-held congress? Most voters don't even recall them. How any of us live with this is beyond me. It's like being held hostage by self destructive parents.