• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Honestly dude, I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala… I just don’t fucking understand how so many people can come to that conclusion, unless I really think about it, and then the reasons are all so sad and stupid. I swear to god the main reason, above racism, above hate, above the propaganda of the election cycle, the main reason he won over Hillary and then Kamala is that he had a TV show for many years. A lot of people over look the simple fact that in the American psyche, being on TV is validating, or at least it was when Trump was elected, before everything went upside down. People will stay in the same shitty town and keep the same toxic relatives in their lives for their wholes lives vs finding people that they actually harmonize with because they’re familiar. People who grew up in shitty households find partners like their shitty parents because the shitty behavior is familiar. “Familiar” feels like family. Trump was a household name, and some people didn’t even know Kamala had been swapped in half way through the election season. So they trusted Trump when he’d lie because he’s familiar, but they distrusted her when she seemed to avoid a subject because she’s unfamiliar and so inherently suspicious. They should have both been suspicious af, but he had a TV show and was president once before so they trusted him more… which is very fucking stupid.

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      I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala

      Lot of easily manipulated assholes out there. Many of them are right here on Lemmy. Still clutching their pearls. To be fair, most didn’t vote for Trump, but they didn’t vote or voted for a non-starter 3rd party candidate, which is basically giving their blessing to Trump. It’s proof they never really cared about Palestine. Just their own personal satisfaction. If they cared they would have done the thing that hurt Palestine the least. But they didn’t.

      but he had a TV show

      Remember all the dipshits leading up to the 2016 election saying “he’ll run it like his businesses” because they were totally unaware how many businesses he’d driven into the ground and how many bankruptcies he’d had? Yeah, lot of stupids out there.

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        To be fair, most didn’t vote for Trump, but they didn’t vote or voted for a non-starter 3rd party candidate, which is basically giving their blessing to Trump.

        Except Holocaust Harris would’ve lost even if she received literally every single third-party vote, even including Libertarians who usually swing right.

        But when have basic facts like elementary-level math ever stopped Blue MAGA?

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        His image as a “good businessman” is unshakable because of The Apprentice, where he played a good businessman on TV.