Are people already regretting their choice?

[blastula]

South Florida's Venezuelan community outraged by Trump's revocation of protected status

The revocation affects an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans covered under a 2023 TPS designation.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Shadowy Man]

I heard the group “Arab Americans for Trump” decided to change their name.

 

[marc]

I heard the group “Arab Americans for Trump” decided to change their name.

yup

Pro-Trump Arab American Group Changes Name After His Gaza 'Riviera' Comments

"Obviously we’re completely opposed to the idea of the transfer of Palestinians from anywhere in Historic Palestine," said the group's chair.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Elixir]

I’m amazed at Trump’s talent. He can take 100 people in a room, 65 of whom are his natural enemies by being black brown gay Asian or whatever, tell them he’s going to burn down the houses of black brown gay Asian or whatever people and of course the 35% will applaud. The Others protest, Trump pulls each of them aside and whispers in their ear “I didn’t mean YOU!” And they say “oh okay” as Trump lights the match.
People are INCREDIBLY stupid. Trump, with his 95IQ towers above them as an intellectual paragon.

 

[Politesse]

He doesn't need to be supergenius rhetorician, though, because any significant pool of capital is tended by someone whose interests naturally align with Trump's whether they like him or not. Numerical minority means little to him, because the entire system is propped up to support guys like himself. It would be impossible for instsnce to convince all Arabs that Trump is a good guy, but luckily he would never need to; in a hypothetical room of 100, he only needs go convince one or two of the skeptics, and CNN will helpfully report it the next day as "ARAB VOTE SWINGS TOWARD TRUMP!" or "TRUMP NOW POISED TO TAKE MICHIGAN!!"

 

[Ford]

I heard the group “Arab Americans for Trump” decided to change their name.

yup

Pro-Trump Arab American Group Changes Name After His Gaza 'Riviera' Comments

"Obviously we’re completely opposed to the idea of the transfer of Palestinians from anywhere in Historic Palestine," said the group's chair.

www.huffpost.com

I figured I could put "relocating the Jews Palestinians from Krakow Gaza" on my Ethnic Cleansing Bingo card maybe in a year or so, but damned if Trump isn't getting an early start. Can box cars, work camps, and "showers" be far behind?

 

[ideologyhunter]

Are people regretting their choice?
Nah. Trump is easily the most publicized man of the 21st Century, and every aspect of him that people with reasonable character assessment skills would call rotten is well known.
I will never, ever understand the spell he casts. He is so obviously malignant and belligerent and such a reflexive liar -- he radiates these qualities.
His followers have one trait that impresses me: the ability to spin the worst/stupidest Trump discharges into signs of wisdom, leadership, and strength. Every time he does something that makes my head spin, I'll think, "How can the Trumpies spin this?", but they always do.
Case in point: October 2020. Trump comes down with covid, after infecting the White House and knowingly attending a meet and greet with donors. He goes to Walter Reed in serious condition, and gets the most up-to-date treatment, with therapies that would take weeks to filter down to ordinary civilian hospitals. He appears to bounce back, and his first public statement to the country includes this: "Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it. You're gonna beat it." (This, as the American death toll climbed needlessly toward the million mark, and barely two months after Herman Cain died after attending a Trump rally and mingling with the crowd, no mask on, among dozens of unmasked Trumpies.) I thought, surely the Trumpies can't admire this idiot. But the YouTube video of this Trump clip had comments like "Best. President. Ever." They thought his comments that no one should be afraid of covid were...correct! Brave! The right way to behave!
Last week, as he bullied Mexico and Canada with his tariff threats, showing absolute disrespect for our neighbors, I thought, well, the Trumpies will say this is great, but I can't really see how. And you betcha, the Trumpies I overheard in our coffee shop were crowing about how Trump got things done and won concessions on border security.
So this week (how many lllloooonnnnggg months has his second term been in place? What? 18 days??) with his moronic plan to take over Gaza and bring peace and prosperity to the Mideast through, you guessed it, deportation -- reiterated today, with the additionally crazy statement that it wouldn't require our military to get involved -- I ask, how will the Trumpies turn this Clydesdale turd into a giant pearl of wisdom? I'm sure they're up to the task...

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I heard the group “Arab Americans for Trump” decided to change their name.

To what? "Ignorant hayseeds who got fleeced by the carnival barker"?

 

[TomC]

I heard the group “Arab Americans for Trump” decided to change their name.

To what? "Ignorant hayseeds who got fleeced by the carnival barker"?

To me, the question is really not quite that.
It's were these people really such ill-informed and ignorant people that they didn't know that Trump floated his "Mar-a-Lago on the Mediterranean" plan back when they were supporting his candidacy? Or are they grifty Arabs who recognized that Trump supporters are algorithmically determined as the most gullible Americans?
Tom

 

[Swammerdami]

Several knowledgeable people have described Trump as "the greatest con-man who ever lived."

For all his fakeries, frauds and cognitive inadequacies, in at least that one way Trump IS extremely talented.

 

[bilby]

Several knowledgeable people have described Trump as "the greatest con-man who ever lived."

For all his fakeries, frauds and cognitive inadequacies, in at least that one way Trump IS extremely talented.

Nah, just lucky.

 

[Elixir]

Nah, just lucky.

That’s like calling Secretariat stupid. Sure, he was no mathematician or philosopher, but he sure could run.
(And would make a better chief executive than the apricot, who can’t even run.)

 

[Swammerdami]

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time."
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
"Fooling fifty million people for an entire decade is more than just chance or luck." I said that.

 

[Ford]

Several knowledgeable people have described Trump as "the greatest con-man who ever lived."

For all his fakeries, frauds and cognitive inadequacies, in at least that one way Trump IS extremely talented.

Nah, just lucky.

I keep going back to a show on the Netflix called "Dirty Money." The last episode of the first season was about Trump, and in it, two of the creators behind The Apprentice were featured. They explained how they'd found Trump - a washed up 80s "billionaire" working out of a shabby office in Trump Tower - and rehabilitated his image. They created a character for him to play on the show. A captain of industry. A jet-setting real estate magnate. It was all kind of a joke to them, turning this guy who had been put on an allowance by his banks after multiple bankruptcies, and had been reduced to doing schlocky TV commercials for pizza joints and such into something that he wasn't. Thing is, he didn't just play the character they wrote for him. He bought into it, and the whole "coming down the golden escalator" thing was a result. He's still playing the character, blissfully unaware that his entire persona and career were rescued by people who thought he was a pathetic loser. That "boardroom" set where he threw out his "you're fired" catchphrase? Fake. They had to remodel the hallways of his offices to make them look presentable for the cameras. The show? I watched it because a friend of mine was a contestant...and it was all edited down from countless hours of footage to fit in an hour long package. Everything was filmed out of order and "saved" in the edit. He's not that guy.

But he thinks he is, and instead of a couple producers who think he's a joke in charge of running the show, he's surrounded himself with people who are wholeheartedly behind whatever comes out of his mouth at random times during the day. He's lucky to an extent, but he's also being enabled to an absurd degree. We have a mad dictator at the helm of the world's greatest superpower, and the consequences should terrify everyone.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Trump's doing crazy shit?

Huh, never thought I'd see the day.

Anyway, people regretting their decision to vote for the goddamn baboon is completely irrelevant and likely cherry picked if not completely, ahem, trumped up. You can find someone somewhere who'll say what you want them to say, and that's especially so for Trump fans. Remember, these people were wearing diapers in support of him shitting his pants... so, what-the-fuck-ever.

 

[southernhybrid]

The MAGAs in my town are still celebrating his victory. Some of them still have their Trump signs in their yards. You can't reason with these people. They believe all the shit they hear on Newsmax or as the line from the song, "The Boxer" goes, "Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest".

 

[marc]

I like this woman’s message to people leaving MAGA. Read the full thread

 

[ZiprHead]

Frankly I haven't seen a lot of this regret. Fox,OAN, etc., aren't reporting this malfeasance. Maybe some Reddit member could start a Trump Regrets forum and find out more. Maybe there is one already.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[ZiprHead]