Easiest way to keep voters dumb. The GOP relies on people voting against their own best interests.
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2024
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And we know Trump knows this, as he was recorded years before stating the economy does better under Democrats....
Also remember his first attempt running for President was in 2000, when he said his running mate was going to be Oprah Winfrey. He held events in California, Florida, and Minnesota before dropping out. I believe he talked about 1 or 2 other presidential runs as well, but never had his ducks in a row. So it was about his 4th time attempting to figure it out in 2016, 5th 2020 and now his 6th time running in 2024.
Just keep going with that logic and defunding every public service and let them separate every state until they all become 50 small autonomous countries.
Red states are about to find out how much they depend on blue state money.
I've seen GOP Voters on a local news app talking about how they can't wait to see what happens when "California and New York stop asking other states and Big Daddy Government for hand outs!"
And I had to sit down and say "Oh my sweet summer child"
California is the 5th Largest and Most Powerful Economy in the world lol
They want to defund education. I mean put two and two together, they dumbb.
Putin would love nothing more than for that to happen.
Honestly, let them. Then all the blue states can form a union while the red states become a balkanized bastion of hatred.
Man why are we fantasizing about this. What’s the reddest state you can think of, Texas? 42% blue. Florida? 43%. Even in ridiculous places like North Dakota, 1/3 of the people voted blue. What happens to them when blue states form their little utopia?
Is it better to let the entire country suffer then instead? This whole election has been a series of complicated trolley problems
I hate how accurate this kinda feels 😮💨
Maybe we should try nation-states as an idea?
The problem is that the US is in a fucked up stagnate state, this makes it so the more progressive areas cant improve fast enough and keeps the red states in a place where they are fundamentally incapable of the form required.
Because atp, trying to be empathetic isnt worthwhile. Long as I get my meds, surgery, and public restrooms; fuck everyone else. Theyre welcome to move, probably take up the social programs that those states will have to integrate themselves
Those who can, move?
It's been a fierce debate and position held by some since before the US was even officially anything.
The people who want a less federal power also often forget that the US has, until now, been largely blessed by not having to deal with an outside enemy state on their own same soil for prolonged time. Loose control could mean that becomes a real and actual problem.
Ahh, the ate-too-much-lead-as-a-child-mental-illness-party strikes again
Clear the way for more educated states to populate our best universities and create a generational gap in education and idiocy then. Morons.
It's sad because I want them to have what they really want but they don't want to let people like me give it to them.
They want to be able to support themselves on with an honest wage in their small town and afford basic luxuries. I want that for them too but instead they think they have to be part of an oppressive class and beg for scraps from their corporate masters to get it. They like this better because it keeps the colored folk away.