I voted for him the first time, I’ll admit. Not the second, and not this time. Dude is an asshole, he doesn’t care about anything except stopping any federal investigations against himself. At some point, it’s just not worth it to assume it’s being taken out of context or that it’s joking. I’ve been busting my ass for twenty years and I am tired. I want the free handouts they keep warning me are gonna be coming if democrats win. I fall in that income bracket!
I have a good friend who I talk politics with, and he understood. He could have been a decent “roads and bridges” president, but the guy can’t seem to delegate for shit. It’s such a small part of his term, but I’ve said it before - he couldn’t even admit “covfefe” was a minuscule fuck-up where auto-correct didn’t kick in and he hit “send” too early.
Just buy coastal land in California for cheap because the state has deemed it unsafe to build on due to severe erosion risk, sue the state for the right to build anyway because it's your property, dammit! win the lawsuit, build a house, spend the next several decades earning a reputation for being the NIMBYest assholes in the world by harassing anyone from out of town, be they surfer, cyclist, or driver, watch your house collapse into the sea just as the state had predicted, and then cash in on that sweet sweet federal bailout to the tune of 2022 fair market value for your real estate (where fair means they don't get to take into consideration the fact that your home has already collapsed). Easy peasy.
The man took a sharpie and drew on a weather map rather than admit he was wrong about the track of a hurricane. He has no place being near the White House.
No shame. I didn't like him the first time around and I thought that all evidence was clear that he was going to be a piece of shit. I thought it was readily apparent that he was a con man from the start. But I get it. He was also the protest candidate. He was the "fuck the politicians, they're all crooked, let's shake shit up!" guy. I absolutely do not agree with voting for him... but I can see how you get there. I thought Clinton would have been a good President, even if she was absolutely detestable as a person -- which is exactly the reason you'd vote against her. So I understand that as well. Against Biden, there was waaaaay less of an excuse. I liked the guy from both a political and moral perspective, and this time Trump had a record of shaking shit up, but not in a good way. He directly caused the death of Americans during covid, his environmental policies were dogshit, and he made a 2A decision that while I agreed with morally should have been criminal from a constitutional standpoint. Plus he fucked up the Supreme Court. But again..... ehhhh, maybe you just were blind, didn't hear or read what was going on, and Biden was old. Now though, it's crystal clear. I just do not see how a good person can support Trump at this point. The leaps in logic are too great. The things that he's said and done are quite literally criminal. He has actively encouraged and courted violence against others. His former VP said he's unqualified for fuck's sake. You don't have to like Harris, but you do have to stand against bigotry.
It wasn’t even that, really. Yeah, I wasn’t gonna vote for Hillary, but I wasn’t in the tank for Trump. I spent five minutes in the booth clicking between Johnson and Trump. I’m still of the opinion that Trump is more hot air than anything, but the people stroking his ego are doing so to push the shit through that I think is less important than me not being stressed about money on a daily basis. The problem is, Trump can’t admit defeat, ever, as quoted by people around him on Jan. 6th, by former producers, by anyone who knows him. And so fuck him. It goes against my ISTJ sensibilities.
I was all in on Johnson as well, until the fucker started talking. His "what is Aleppo?" comment was the equivalent of Beto saying he's gonna take our guns. Held my nose and voted for Clinton. I'm very curious how history books will write about trump. The post mortem on him will be interesting as hell. Bet it turns out that we as a country were a lot closer to our demise than we realized.
I think a post mortem on the Trump era will be more about the lasting damage he did to institutions and the fuckery he ushered in rather than a deep dive into him personally.
Yes, because the US government has NEVER used it's own resources to try and remove people who were legal citizens from the country before...
Find you a nemesis who hates you the way John Roberts hates the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act.
I'm really going to miss Chuck Schumer hitting me up for money. I wish he would message me just to check in to see how I'm doing instead of treating me like a whore. Spoiler