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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 136 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

His supporters don't care. They love the government dysfunction until it affects them directly.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

And when it does affect them directly, it's one of:

  • See? The government doesn't work so we need more privatization. Vote Republican to dismantle socialization.
  • This dysfunction happened under a Democratic president who was left with a fucking mess to clean up by the former Republican POTUS, a Republican supermajority SCOTUS, and a divided Congress whose Republicans stonewall meaningful progress. Vote Republican to get the Dems out.
  • It's the (non-white) immigrants' fault probably for stealing my socialist benefits (non-whites in general, but making it about immigration gives me plausible deniability for my obvious racism). Vote Republican to get the immigrants out.
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

And the damn republicans do this shit on purpose. Like fix a problem only to have it expire for the next president who likely wont be republican to fix so they can start the blame game all over. Or vote against something so they can blame the current administration for not fixing the problem.

It’s like they don’t have any useful ideas at all and run on dysfunction, fear, and hate.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Or blame the deep state

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 25 points 2 weeks ago

They never believe that the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party meme is all about them. Even after their lose their face.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

And it’s not a matter of “if” it will affect them, it’s “when”. His dumbass policies and ideas fuck it up for everyone. Well unless you’re stupid rich and maybe even then when he starts some asinine war that destroys everything.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" told me everything I need to know about his supporters.

They'll support literal death camps. They'll watch you and your family crushed under a tank. They'll say you had it coming.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They also like it during and after, for some reason.