r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/OceanBlue20 • 17d ago

Teamsters didn't endorse Kamala Harris for not committing to keep Lina Khan as FTC Chair. Trump just announced that he is firing her for a pro-business stooge. Play stupid games win stupid prices. Trump

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u/thebastardking21 17d ago

That and Latinos are the weirdest ones to me. White women I get, because they care more about being white than women. But unions? They explicitly said they would do everything they could to destroy unions, have said so for a while, and yet union members still voted overwhelmingly in favor of them. Like, normally the leopards have to at least *pretend* they won't eat your face, but this is a case of the leopard saying "I am going to eat your face specifically! You! John! On the plate!" and John going, "I think he has my best interests in mind."

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u/kujiranoai2 17d ago

Don’t forget American moslems - surely in a league of their own for leopard dining options.

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u/Ok-Loss2254 17d ago

I still can't get over how the fucks had the nerve to cry to Biden for help. It's like they think trump won't just throw out anything Biden does.

I hope the idiots still have the energy to protest trump but I doubt the cowards would do it. They had the luxury to protest dems and push them to do the right things even if it was difficult to do. And trust me I am not happy that Biden sucks the dick of Israel unconditionally despite the fact Isreal fucking hates Biden and dems because Biden and dems at least tried to make them calm the fuck down with the bombing of civilians. I know they think dems didn't do enough(as if dems can control Israel)but dems tried to.

Republicans are going to let Israel off the leash and Palestinians are gonna suffer because Muslim Americans just had to do their little protest vote.

Mind you they aren't the main reason trump won and they love to harp on about that. But that's not the point the point the fuckers voted for trump and third party as if those stupid options would solve the problem in the Isreal Palestine conflict shows how braindead a lot of them are.

The ones who voted for trump are a special kind of stupid and I want to yell at each and every one of them who are now all of a sudden shocked that trump has packed his cabinet with hard-core zionists, doomsday cultists, and wannabe crusaders. They can just shut the fuck up because they can't act like he didn't tell them what he was gonna do.

Dems don't owe them anything for the stunt they pulled. Same with the Latinos who voted for trump. When trump comes for them they better not cry for help from the dems. And same with the women who voted for trump who will no doubt be shocked when womens rights is pulled back. Because all this shit could have been avoided if people used their god damn brains.

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u/ClearDark19 17d ago

You're channeling my same feelings. I have no sympathy for black men who voted for Trump either. Like 1/3 of Gen Z black men voted for Trump, and around 1/4 of black men overall. Black voter turnout last month was the lowest in several elections.

As a black man who voted for Kamala I don't want to hear any bellyaching from black men under Trump about Stop & Frisk, the SCOTUS outlawing interracial marriage, schools getting de-integrated/re-segregated, nationwide police immunity, or Derek Chauvin and Darren Holtzclaw getting their sentences commuted. I don't wanna hear shit about reparations either.

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u/Ok-Loss2254 17d ago edited 16d ago

I do find it odd that there were black men even considering voting for trump. Like sure a large number of black men went for Harris so it shows at the least not every black man is narrow minded.

And generation does make a factor in it as Gen z black dudes I think listened to much to their white conservative buddies thinking that everything is all good.

It was only 23% of black dudes who went for trump and I feel a big chunk of that was Gen z. Like you said they better not piss and moan when they realize what they did. Their white conservative buddies aren't gonna come and help them if anything they could very easily turn on them. Because trump is showing it's easy to do. They can just do that now. Trump didn't even wait as he basically is telling conservative Latinos "yeah I'm coming for all of you even the legal ones. I want you all the fuck out". It's going to be similar for black Gen z types who did and are wondering why are things going from bad to worse.

And don't get me started on the "pro" black people. A lot of them are being extremely smug and believing the black community will be stronger for this. And while sure the black community has been through a lot I don't get the smugness. A lot of folks are gonna get hurt or worse and it all depends on where they live. If you are black and in a red state I'm gonna be blunt you are fucked. California for all of its flaws is better and I'm glad I'm out here because even if issues happen California is showing it isn't as backwards as the rest of the nation.

Plus pro black people are strange to me because on one hand they talk about black unity but the moment you disagree with them or in my case I'm not a pure black person they look at you sideways and accuse you of shit. They were the same ones saying Harris wasn't black which kinda tracks because like white conservatives black conservatives do similar things to mixed race people which really shows how they are as individuals aka they aren't good people.

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u/VastSeaweed543 17d ago

Everyone fell for propoganda. My friend is a black woman who works in the literal democratic government of a blue state - and she told me without a hint of irony that black people overwhelmingly voted for trump this election.

I showed her the numbers - the majority voted for Harris. The truth is that a small percent broke for trump from Biden the time before - but it was nowhere a huge number, a majority at all, or a vast majority in any way whatsoever.

I literally showed her the exit data and multiple sources all saying the same thing. She didn’t care. She said it was wrong and Kamala ran such a bad campaign that black people voted for trump.

She had swallowed the propaganda so hard that even literal numbers in her face saying something different didn’t change her views. I was like wait did…did SHE vote for trump and is now trying to justify it by assuming most black people did as well - so she doesn’t feel so bad??? I’m 90% sure that’s what happened.

The avg person voted against their own self interests this election. Women, Muslims, union members, the sick, Latinos, the average worker, farmers, etc all teamed up together to fuck thenselves and everyone else over because ‘tHe eCoNOmY durrrrrr.’ When that’s the reality - it doesn’t matter what kind of campaign the other side runs.

Joe could have so done some crazy shit to keep Dems in the White House but he didn’t - he left it up to the voters. And we failed him, not the other way around…

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u/sunnydftw 16d ago

I’ve had conversations with black elections workers in a prominently black city that are trump supporters, and think maybe the election could have been rigged. Even though they see the process from start to finish, they said they still believe it could’ve something done “above them” that they don’t know about. That’s how effective the misinformation has gotten. When I look at how propaganda is used within countries like Russia and China, it’s hard not to see the parallels and the path we’re on if something isn’t done to reel in these tech billionaires who sell our data to whoever’s buying. And in Elon’s case, is blatantly using our data to push Trumpism.

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u/sunnydftw 16d ago

What we’re seeing is propaganda and social engineering implemented on a mass level. It infected whatever social media you were on, and used data points of all your activity to tailor the algorithm to your interests. Dark tech money funded platforms like Rumble and Elon bought Twitter, under the guise of free speech, but they really just wanted to sow chaos, confusion and convert some people along the way. The new religion is conspiracism, and they thrive in this environment where people be everything and nothing at the same time.

As a black man I saw my fellow black men that don’t have any white conservative friends also vote for Trump or choose not to vote at all. Whatever we discovered in the Cambridge analytica study has been honed and perfected over the last ten years to mine your data and radicalize you with astonishing efficiency. That brought 50% of Latinos to their side, and while not as successful with black people, our turnout was low which I count as a win for Trump. The propaganda machine is built to convert and demoralize, and it’s only going to get more efficient with quantum chips and LLMs improving. There aren’t going to be any regulations coming down the pipeline in a trump presidency so just try to spread awareness when you can. I successfully convinced some of my Arab friends to vote for Kamala, or at least not vote for Trump this go round(I’m in Michigan). It’s a tireless job, and most attempts failed if I’m being honest, but I just remember my ancestors found the endurance when times were harder, so we have to keep the morale up somehow.

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u/iiiamsco 16d ago

So you’re basically saying you’re going to accept and keep quiet about racism “as a black man” because a minority of black men voted for Trump? You ever consider that the same black men that voted for Trump are the same ones that WANT stop and frisk and are against reparations? That’s what I’ve seen from them.

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u/ClearDark19 16d ago

So you’re basically saying you’re going to accept and keep quiet about racism “as a black man” because a minority of black men voted for Trump?

When it happens to the black men who voted for Trump? Yes. They made a decision that will hurt or kill millions of people. They voted in favor of white supremacy. I'm not Savitskaya them from what they voted for. They're not toddlers who couldn't have reasonably been expected to know any better. These are grown-ass adults.  Many of them older than me. I'm 38. Many Trump voters are old enough to be my parents or grandparents.

You ever consider that the same black men that voted for Trump are the same ones that WANT stop and frisk and are against reparations?

Yes I am. They directly voted against those things by voting for Trump. Trump thinks black people should pay reparations to white people and thinks we should have a nationwide federally-enforced Stop & Frisk. He was not quiet or subtle about it. The black men who want reparations and want an end to Stop and Frisk but voted for Trump are idiotic beyond words. They're are moronic as Latino immigration who voted for Trump and Arab and Muslim Americans who allegedly care about Gaza but voted for Trump. I'm not standing up on behalf of people who voted directly for the leopards to eat their own faces and fucked over everyone else. Fuck that. I'm not helping people who voted for Hitler and ignored everyone warning them for the past 9 years to not do it. They're responsible for their own choices and the consequences of their own choices.

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u/Humble_Novice 17d ago

They will dearly regret their decisions soon enough.

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u/TrooperJohn 17d ago

They won't. Palestine was just a smokescreen.

They voted Trump because they hate women and gay people.

The best part is, they can indulge all that hate when they get deported back to their countries of origin.

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u/zombie_girraffe 16d ago

No, they won't. Trump and his supporters are the kind of people who cannot accept responsibility for their own actions. Nothing is ever their fault, everything bad that happens is done by someone else to them. They are toddlers with zero capacity for self reflection or empathy.

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u/quietwhiskey 16d ago

Yeah right they'll blame Dems and White people. They don't give a shit

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u/vthemechanicv 16d ago

Mind you they aren't the main reason trump won and they love to harp on about that.

I'd say their votes aren't why Harris lost, but their whining exposed a big flaw in Harris's campaign. By essentially forcing her to say she wouldn't do anything different than Biden, they tied her to all the things people didn't like about his Presidency. Whether that's Palestine, his Economic choices, Afghanistan, etc.

I know it's impossible to think of these things in the moment, but I wish she'd simply said that her "job as the VP is to advise the President and support his decisions. There were times we disagreed on a course of action, but saying I would have done this over that in this interview would undermine the President." Pulling a "I can't think of anything" was just such a poor answer.

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u/Ok-Loss2254 16d ago

I don't fully disagree that she should have said anything but what she said. I'm not against being critical as to why she lost and it's not one thing.

It's just the gall that all of a sudden Muslim Americans are crying for Biden to do something. Even if he did trump is gonna be in next month and rip it up. Plus Israel made it clear a few minutes ago they basically aren't listening to Biden and are listening to trump.

My biggest criticism of Biden is how he didn't put his food down with fucking bibi months ago. That smug POS pretty snub him the whole damn time despite the fact that Biden gave him everything he wanted. I hate how Israel claims dems like Biden or Obama never did anything for them when that's not fucking true.

And it's fucking annoying how bibis going to be right by trump when he is sworn in with his punchable ass face.

That being said Muslims can't cry especially the ones who actively voted for trump I will even be am ass and say they basically voted for bibi because trump is gonna let bibi do whatever.

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u/RaiseNo9690 17d ago

They vote them because in the end, muslims and christians are all 1 family under the same god and following the same book that teaches hate for lgbt.

Voting republicans will hurt lgbt is a big pull factor. All that talk about gaza and democrats doing nothing is just a cover for the homophobia.

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u/IronEnvironmental740 17d ago

That and they ain’t gonna vote for no woman.

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u/ClearDark19 17d ago

That would be true if Muslim Americans voted for Trump in 2016, but they didn't. A majority of Muslim Americans have voted Democratic since 2000, and a majority of Muslim Americans voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in 2016. They also voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden in 2020. This really was an idiotic (self-defeating) power play/protest vote over Gaza.

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u/10IqCleric 16d ago

This really was an idiotic (self-defeating) power play/protest vote over Gaza.

Gaza is in ruins while the Golden heights are annexed and somehow y'all keep saying they should vote for Biden lol. Remember when Trump was running those stupid "this is biden's America," and showed some chaos from a BLM protest that occurred under him? Y'all have been doing that for over a year now lol

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u/ClearDark19 17d ago

Muslim Americans have voted Democratic since 2000. They've had since 2008 to stop voting Democratic if they were opposed to a pro-LGBTQ party. Yet they kept on voting Democratic until this time. It really was as simplest as the Left was warning people for the past year - Muslim and Arab American might protest vote over Gaza. It was idiotic and self-defeating, but that prophecy came true.

It's not like the Democrats were any less pro-LGBTQ in 2020 or 2016 when most Muslim Americans voted for Hillary and Biden.

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u/RaiseNo9690 17d ago

Protest vote is but an excuse. If it wasnt because the Reps at least give them something that fits their belief and ethics, they would still have held their nose and avoid MAGA.

But now, they have found common ground. Since both sides wont stop gaza, taking that out of the equation, it was just to weight whether to what else is on offer.

One side pushes policies that fits their beliefs, the other side push fear of possible policies against them. One side shows current and visible actions taken against lgbt and abortion, the other side only spread fear by talk of possible discrimination against them.

People tend to believe that bad things wont happen to them but to others, especially if the threat is vague. so better to score brownie points with the guy upstairs and vote for religious 'values'.

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u/SlappySecondz 17d ago

I haven't seen it spelled moslem in like a decade. Why?

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u/ogbellaluna 16d ago

yeah, i just can’t wrap my head around that - do they not remember his last muslim ban?!

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u/liquidpele 16d ago

Safety net systems are most needed for groups who are not mature enough to appreciate them. Before secret ballot, this was less of an issue actually because the unions (and other organizations) would organize everyone together and march down to vote together... like a party... a political party. Secret ballot allowed people to be private in their votes, and prevents selling of votes, but it it also has it's unintended consequences that voters have to understand the issues.

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u/2broke2smoke1 16d ago

🤔 John’s a common name, must be another John

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u/butyourenice 16d ago

You should be aware that subsequent polling once more votes had been counted and with a wider distribution of population centers showed that Trump’s gains among Latino men were not as great as initial reports wanted us to believe. Same way that this election wasn’t the landslide blowout that Election Night results suggested.

But, as is typical, the first news that gets out dominates the conversation even when more accurate information is revealed.