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

https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1866618936378396977

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It's completely divorced from policy now. There was the thinking from the left that all these rural people would vote for Democrats if they gave them stuff. Biden basically bailed out the Teamsters pension absolutely pumped money into rural areas with the IRA and set up a pro-union administration. He dropped the price of insulin on Medicare to $35 and voters completely rejected all of it. They picked the guy who said he's going to make everything worse and take away all of it.

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u/RockyFlintstone 16d ago

Seriously, remember when we were dumb enough to believe that forgiving student loans would earn the GenZ vote?

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u/ensignlee 16d ago edited 16d ago

The student loan bit hurts me personally. I have a SIL who actually got $10k of Biden's student loan debt relief, is worried about "paying the bills" because of the remaining $50k to $90k of it ...

and who voted for Trump because her husband said that Trump would be 'better for our pocketbook'

I should also mention they are a biracial couple (both are minorities), she is well educated and out earns her husband, and her brother is gay. It never even crossed my mind that she would vote for Trump - I thought the 'choice' for her was voting at all or not (which is still annoying, but nevertheless).

My wife and I spent time encouraging her to vote and she called my wife to tell her that she was in line to vote on election day, yay! ...and then after the election, she tells my wife she voted for Trump, so we did all that "vote motivation" to SECURE A VOTE FOR TRUMP?! FUCKING WHAT?!

NGL, that kind of broke me. Like why the fuck am I donating tens of thousands of dollars per year and spending my time to help these people if they won't help themselves?

BURN. We will all get hurt, but we will not all get hurt equally.

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u/Trilobyte141 16d ago

Sorry your SIL is a moron. At least now you know not to trust her with any sharp objects or hot liquids.

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u/ensignlee 16d ago

She works in the medical field and cancer patients trust her with their lives. Fucks me up, fam.

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u/FckMitch 16d ago

Did u point all these out to her? I can’t understand minorities voting for dRump

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u/ensignlee 16d ago

Sure. after the election, since she didn't tell us that she was even considering voting for Trump until after the election - when she sheepishly told us that she voted for Trump and hoped we wouldn't judge her for it. ^@%@&@%&@;@

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u/SolarSavant14 15d ago

Of course you’re right to judge her for it. I found out a person I previously thought was at least somewhat above average intelligence called Trump a genius, unironically. Makes me question my own ability to suss out bullshit.

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u/Zorro5040 16d ago

If they come from a religious background, it's no surprise. They were raised to believe in things blindly and that god protects good people and constantly challenges their fate, and they should stick with god no matter what. That bad things happen to bad people, and those who don't follow their strict religious way are bad people tempted by the devil.

The Republican party constantly pretends to be on the side of god and use smart vocabulary to paint their competitors as work of the devil. It's why they have so many conspiracy theorists, they want to feel smart and create connections to the way they were raised and things they have been hearing from their church. If liberals are tempted by the devil, then what other unholy things have they done. It helps them feel secure in their belief and superior to others.

It never surprises me when latinos support Trump. Or how many black people have conservative views if they grew up in a religious household, but don't vote for the GOP only because they faced prosecution for being black.

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u/Senior-Albatross 11d ago

and use smart vocabulary to paint their competitors as work of the devil.

I don't know if I would call it smart. Quite the opposite, actually. Trump speaks so easily to them because he's at about a 5th grade level, thus meeting them where they are.

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u/Zorro5040 11d ago

I didn't say the followers were smart. But the importance of words cannot be underestimated. There's a reason for the words used, as each carries a specific significance and emotional reaction. Like pro-life and not anti-choice or anti-abortion. The choice of words let's them take deniability of limiting anything but instead they safeguard life. What they say and what they do are two different things, but they only see what they claim they do.

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u/Zorro5040 16d ago

Highly educated people tend to have the highest likelihood to develop tunnel vision. They feel like their smartness from one thing equates in smartness to everything. So they do little to no research and think they understand everything due to their history of understanding one thing.

TLDR: your sister in law has great intelligence in one thing and is completely ignorant with overconfidence to everything else.

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u/omgFWTbear 16d ago

Just following a complicated, but specialized, instruction sheet. Not figuring it out themselves.

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u/Elhazzard99 14d ago

My mom is a Salvadoran immigrant that came over due to the civil war at 15, I was born in 1987 in Los Angeles, she has had multiple abortions and my remarried 4 times but is married to a guy 4 treats older then me and apparently ultra maga! I’m still in disbelief she would vote for trump

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u/Maine302 16d ago

I don't donate nearly as much (I couldn't!) but I agree that most of the worst of Trump's policies hurt me less than many non-voters/Trump voters I know of. It's uncanny. But I do recall that a lot of people didn't pay attention or were totally disengaged or high during high school.

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u/LoopyLabRat 16d ago

When asked they probably couldn't tell you how exactly Trump would be "better for our pocketbooks."

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u/ensignlee 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah, my wife was like 'why didn't you tell me you were thinking about voting for Trump? Why do you think Trump would better for you financially?!?!?! Aren't you trying to have a kid? Kamala was going to give you $6,000 for having a kid next year'

and my SIL was basically like 'you would have talked me out of it, so I didn't want to talk to you about it! I didn't know Kamala would have given me $6k! Is that true?"

Like FUCKING WHAT. YOU DIDN'T TALK TO US BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT WE WOULD TALK YOU OUT OF IT WITH SHIT LIKE FACTS?!?!?!

JKRHDFUIYDFYHKJHFDKJYFDI^{D*&#@TI@HJKQWGI} &^{DRKUYTKJDHSG&(#@%TUWH} DG. Fuck it, RELEASE THE LEOPARDS.

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u/ricochetblue 16d ago

I didn’t know Kamala would have given me $6k! Is that true?”

The ignorance astounds.

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u/LoopyLabRat 16d ago

She's well-educated yet still so ignorant. So sad.

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u/Ollieflys 16d ago

“Fuck it. Release the leopards!” Using that!

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u/ButCanYouCodeIt 10d ago

"I didn't want to tell you, because I knew I was making a mistake and I wanted to do it anyway."

I mean it, to my very core, when I say no mercy for the people who helped put this man in office. This is FAFO-land, we don't stop here. The people who chose to live here will live with the full gravity of their poor choices.

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u/AppleBytes 16d ago

This is the why I'm not really sweating what's coming. Because, what these idiots need is real, tangible, inescapable pain. Pain they can't pretend comes from some liberal bogeyman.

They did this to us, themselves, and each other.

Maybe... if we're supremely lucky, this will push us to turn on the 1%, before AI and robotics make the majority of people completely disposable.

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u/Ollieflys 16d ago

Agree. My granddaddy use to say to me, “Son! There are some things I can’t teach you and some things that you’re too hard headed to be taught. But mark my words, you’ll learn.”

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u/onpg 14d ago

Unfortunately, a nation learning the "hard way" is a lot more messy than a person learning the hard way.

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u/Ollieflys 14d ago

The entire nation won’t be learning the "hard way." Those who voted for Harris already understood what was at stake and the dangers of Trump being elected president again. Now, to your point—yes, those who voted for Trump, as well as those who chose to sit on their asses and not vote, will be the ones learning a lesson.

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u/Ender_Keys 11d ago

And in an incredibly fucked up sense if RFK gets his way it won't be liberals dying in droves

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u/Ollieflys 11d ago

I think you’re right. If I have to drive or fly into Mexico or Canada to vaccinate my kids, so be it.

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u/Redheadbabygirl86 16d ago

Had a close friend that shook our friend group when we found out she voted for Trump. She advocates for queer ppl, and has always come across progressive. It makes no sense.

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u/ensignlee 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yeah, really shakes you. Like "if you can be a Trump supporters, EVERYONE can be. No one is safe".

My wife is more upset that her sister hid it from her through lies of omission. I'm more mad at the vote itself and the (lack of) logic behind it.

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u/onpg 14d ago

Your sister is lying about why she voted Trump. That's why it makes no sense to you. I guarantee it was something to do with trans people or immigrants or something ignorant/hateful she's uncomfortable admitting to.

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u/ensignlee 13d ago

That's actually pretty insightful, but still makes me think she's dumb AF lol.

And doesn't reduce me wanting to experience schadenfreude at her expense.

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u/onpg 13d ago

It's just a guess of mine but I suspect it's the case for a lot of MAGA voters who otherwise make no sense. Idk I could be wrong.

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u/AkronRonin 14d ago

A leopard is definitely going to get fat off of eating your SIL’s face. Talk about Chickens for Colonel Sanders, or literally minorities for the KKK. SMH.

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u/QuietObserver75 16d ago

But he did it in a way so it would get overturned /s

I don't know how you break through to people who honestly believe and say stupid things like that.

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u/LoopyLabRat 16d ago

Some voter in an interview said he was gonna vote for him for a stronger economy because there's no way he'd be able to pursue his worst policies. Bruh, why not vote for the one not talking about pursuing dangerous policies? Like what?

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u/Nightthrasher674 16d ago

They're the ones who annoy me the most, "so you're willfully voting for a guy who you know is lying to you?" Is my question to them and they never have an answer for it. Then they'll claim he's an outsider and not a typical politician despite the fact they're admitting he's pulling a typical politician move by lying

There's a cognitive dissonance that Trump voters have and it annoys the shit out of me because I'm being gaslit by them

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u/Ollieflys 16d ago

In a word. Dummy.

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u/The11thLetter 16d ago

Because racism and sexism.

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u/RockyFlintstone 16d ago

It's not possible. All we can do is watch it burn and snark about it until we burn, too.

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u/JustSayingMuch 15d ago

This is it.

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u/quietwhiskey 16d ago

I'm not American but seems like Gen Z might be a problem for you guys

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u/YoloSwaggins9669 16d ago

See I think we need to acknowledge that very little of this election was based around policy.

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u/pandaheartzbamboo 15d ago

I mean, it didnt really forgive student loans anywhere near the scale promised

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u/DannyBones00 16d ago

Yup. And as a rural Democrat who is absolutely tired of burning political capital to try to win rural voters, only to see Trump win 85% of the vote in my county, why should we try to protect rural voters?

For Democrats, it’s clear the answer is to try to focus on turning out urban and suburban voters.

So the next time the Republicans want to gut farm aid or food stamps or the Department of Education - which is the LIFE BLOOD of most rural counties - maybe we just let them.

Cities will be fine. But rural Appalachia will not. The largest employer in most rural counties is local government, oftentimes supported with federal money. They dole jobs out to the former popular kids in high school, who come from the “right families,” and then grow up to vote Republican.

Forget them. Let it burn.

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u/LeftenantScullbaggs 15d ago

They’d still find a way to blame dems for that.

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u/JeromeBiteman 15d ago

People vote their values, not their self-interest.

(George Lakoff)

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u/SavonReddit 15d ago

Rural people deserve the bed they made. I hope Trump gives them exactly what they voted for.