He's not doing anything surprising. He telegraphed exactly what he would do for years. We had 4 years of him trying and failing to do it, then 4 years of him saying he would do exactly what he is doing if they elected him again. And they voted him in anyway.

Their crocodile tears mean nothing, and I'll not willingly associate with any conservative nor Republican until old age takes me in two or three decades, at which time the country will still be recovering from what they've done. And it especially doesn't count if they are whining because their business or their family has been hurt by Trump policies. Republicans caring when they get impacted is nothing new.

Imagine doing this for work and not going home and blowing your own worthless brains out

I coulda taken that job Lydia's dad offered me. It was boring, but it paid good. What's she up to these days let me head to google... oh wow, looks like she's doing really well for herself, holy shit look at that house. And she's single? Never gonna take me back now though, after she told me it was Trump or her, no matter what I do. God it was great laying in her arms. I never felt so relaxed. Well, time to get ready for my shift. I think we're taking kids from an elementary school playground today. Should be six or eight apiece if the numbers are right... Gun feels real heavy today, I can hardly get my belt buckled. I'll just set it here on the end table. Alright, gunbelt on, I'll just slip it into the holster. Oh wow, look how big the muzzle looks today. I never looked at it end on before. You can see the rifling. Is this the last thing those poor bastards see when it gets to be too much? Well, gotta go round up those kids. Look at that gaping maw just staring back at me. Damn kids usually cry and cry and cry the whole damn way. At least the adults just tell us to fuck off. Man I coulda been working in air conditioning all day long, going home to Lydia at night, in that house... I had friends I didn't work with then. Didn't have to hide my face to do my job. Gun feels real heavy today. Let me just pull it out one more time....

Gonna elect a cop TWO times after 2020 NYC? Please tell me no.

Including my own parents.

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I’ve seen several regretful Trump voters in news articles.

What gets me is those articles are always like "MAGA civil war over this decision from Trump!" And of course that's what you want to hear, and you think 'finally!' and then it's screenshots of like 3 disgruntled magas on X, one of whom thinks he hasn't gone far enough.

I’m not saying it never happened before, I’m saying it’s against our laws and morals.

It's only against our laws and morals if we actually don't do it, and don't allow it to be done again.

You’ve probably never lived in the USA. From the sound of it.

I've lived here going on 60 years, in multiple parts of the country, in about ten different states. I'm also a veteran.

the country has a long and storied history of doing awful things to people at home and across the world.

100% accurate, whether that other commenter lives here or not.

I don't know any R voter who has a single bad thing to say about what's going on right now. I haven't seen one online either. (except those saying it's not going far or fast enough) I peek at /r/conservative every so often and it's nothing but cheerleading.

And nothing happening right now is a surprise to anyone who wasn't trying not to see it.

They are cool with it, or it's not a dealbreaker, at best.

This all comes back to Americans. We were too soft on the rebels. Gave them back everything and figured they learned their lessons. We should have known better.

We did know better.

BUT, FUCK ANDREW JOHNSON.

I just can’t talk online about how I really feel it’s gonna end up.

Just wish we'd get it over with already so the healing and rebuilding can start. I'd like to see things head the right way before old age takes me in a couple decades, and it's gonna be a bit to undo all this.

77 million or so.

It's almost like everything Republicans claim to stand for is a hollow lie that exists only to justify their greed and the harm they inflict.

When a company gets criticized for everything it does, its decline increases significantly.

Gives me hope for the future of MS then! Maybe they will decline themselves out of dominance.

His best chance to win is if the Right goes all out in making it a fight between him and MAGA.

Is there some other strategy the right has?

I dunno, between how clearly French people routinely and thoroughly let it be known that they will not be fucked with by their leadership and shit like this, if I win the lottery and get rich enough for some country to let me escape from the white nationalist oligarchy of the US, France is looking pretty good.

Sorry to tell you we'll be getting the usual riffraff instead in this case.

Sure, but how the hell was 2020 not a wake up call if representing the people actually mattered to them. I'm willing to give Clinton and to a lesser extent Obama some slack for being a product of their time. R hated Clinton then about as much as they do AOC now.

Instead I envision an outcome similar to the political realignment the GOP just finished, where a growing progressive caucus gains enough traction in primaries to force concessions from the party leadership until the neoliberals are all but pushed out entirely.

I'd love for that to happen, but OP is literally the only crack I see.

I mean, totally works even with a Star Wars context. If our evil fascist dictator wasn't calling people who spoke the truth scum, he wouldn't be much of an evil fascist dictator now would he?