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Oh darn! If only somebody had warned them about what would happen...
While I upvoted you, and we absolutely did tell them that. Many of them through no fault of their own weren't reached by the message. And that's something we need to figure out how to fix. Because with the consolidation of media and AI, this is only going to get worse.
Patting ourselves on the back about being right. Will only comfort us so much, when our lack of reach etc. Continues to haunt us
Sticking your head in the sand and/or choosing to only watch extremely partisan news is indeed “fault of their own”. If they can’t be informed enough to make good decisions, perhaps they should simply refrain from voting altogether.
But Trump promised* he wouldn't!
*Not promised, but strongly implied.^†^
^†^By strongly implied, meaning "at least left open the possibility."^††^
^††^Except for the times he said the opposite thing.^†††^
^†††^This was every time.
I’m just so entirely unsympathetic to absolutely any minority who voted for the overt racist. Like, genuinely, holy fuck, you are genuinely not allowed to be surprised by his racism. It is now, and always was, one of his primary features.
And I have a special tier of bafflement towards the handful of Arab-American communities in the upper Midwest that apparently voted for him, and are now shocked that his policies are way worse than the absolutely horrible and myopic policies of Biden. Genuinely: How in the ever loving fuck are you surprised by that? He tried to ban any non-Saudi Muslims from coming into the country in his first term. How are you possibly surprised. HOW.
But the leopard promised so many great things. I mean, sure, the leopard DID say outright that he would eat my face, but I thought surely he'd never eat MY face.
I remember some footage of a Latino Trump supporter giving a black woman shit in Trump's name, and wondering what the ever loving fuck. A variation on Hitler's rise to power is how many figurative Jews threw their full support behind him this time. I don't get it. I'll never get it. I'm sick of his stupid fucking face.
I live in Colombia. People here self-identify as "white," and they're surprised that white people in the US think of them as a different race.
I mean, what did they expect?
"I expected to be the exception! I'm one of the good ones! It wasn't supposed to happen to me."
“This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
Huh. This is exactly what I thought it was going to be.
And also what he literally said every time.
If you voted Trump as a Latino, that's a special sort of stupid.
They'll vote for whoever replaces him too. Nobody had learned any real lesson.
Latinos who voted for Trump deserve everything they get: Trump's "comedian* openly spat in their faces with Trump's full support and they still voted for him.
Pendejos...
The fact that any of them voted for him is astounding. Did they not listen to a single word from his mouth about hordes of immigrants watering down the blood of America? Did they not see him drag a Hispanic celebrity (Nicky Jam) on stage, only to reveal, before the entire audience that he had no idea who they were, and in fact thought they were a hot woman?
Like a bunch of turkeys counting down the days to Christmas.
Doesn't really matter what they think of him now, they'll be in an El Salvador concentration camp by the time the next election comes round.
How could I know that the guy saying he would deport every fucking immigrant would start deporting every fucking immigrant? It was so unexpected!
The first sighting of a true leopard in Latin America? or did the Jaguars eat their faces?
los pumas me comieron la cara
You can say a lot of things about Trump but you can't say he betrayed anyone about his intentions on immigration. Whoever feels betrayed by that simply wanted to be betrayed.
No fucking way! I don't feel sorry for any Latinos or Hispanics that voted for Trump. Ya'll are traitors to democracy and our constitution for installing a dictator. You think people would learn from the dictatorship countries they fled.
Not betrayed. Victims of their own stupidity. A bunch of ladder pullers.
LOL? Betrayed?
This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn't matter if you were born here.
Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.
"Man says 'ow!' after shooting self in liver - more at 11."
What in the actual fuck did they think was going to happen? He spent his entire campaign specifically saying he was going to do this.
My people, if you believed them I hope you get deported.
You voted to have families torn apart, fuckin traitors. You will never have my respect and I hope you hide in shame.
just like military vets,"suckers and losers, whats in it for them"-donald trump.
"I just don't understand why he betrayed Us, I mean.. he did nothing but campaign on open contempt for our people, but surely he cant be held accountable for that! This is just so unexpected and blindsiding us!"
He’s literally just doing what he said he would do. Did they not believe him, or were they too busy watching fake news to bother listening to what he said? I have no sympathy for the ones who voted for him, but unfortunately this affects the majority who didn’t.
fucking morons
I told them. Not racist totally legit all the Mexicans loved him, every other Hispanic I work with already hated him.
No shit. Like, come on. They’re white supremacists, they aren’t even quiet about that anymore, and we already had Trump run 1, we already saw what fucking happens, how the fuck people didn’t think it would be part 2, and worse than before, is beyond me
I love my Latino brothers and sisters in the world but I will never understand why a single one of them support Donald trump. it makes no fucking sense at all.
“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they're going to come take me somewhere I won't be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
This is what wilful stupidity gets you.
Don't even pretend that no one warned you.
"Latinos" learning that thinking you're "white" isn't the same as having white privilege.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/election-trump-latino-vote-paola-ramos
The question is, will voters learn from this? Will they understand that when the president and his crew are straight up Nazis -- and congressional republicans do nothing to stop them because they support a Nazi agenda -- that the whole Republican party is now a Nazi party?
There won't be any "reasonable" Republicans to vote for going forword; they are all Nazis now.
"His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he'd keep doing that?"
Any Latino who voted for trump deserves what’s coming to them. We tried to warn you all.
Yeah, sorry...but I find it hard to have sympathy for people who shoot themselves in the foot.
In 2020 the democrats were calling the border wall racist and they won, then in 2024 it was "we're the ones who are actually gonna build the wall, Trump's all talk." They literally tried to position themselves to the right of Republicans on the issue in order to win over the mythical centrists, and predictably what happened was that their support among Latinos broke down.
A lot of these people are religious and conservative, but were willing to vote for Democrats as long as there was substantial differences on race/immigration. But even if they were the "lesser evil" on immigration from a pro-immigrant perspective - something which they denied as hard as they could, by the way - if the difference didn't appear substantial any more, if it was framed in technical arguments about how to do it rather than moral arguments about what to do, then many of them no longer saw it as damning and voted based on other issues where they're more aligned with Republicans.
This is often what swing voters actually look like, by the way, and why pivoting to the right to capture them is often counterproductive. It turns out pivoting right on an issue where doing so directly harms millions of people so you can appeal to the dozen or so people who like Dick Cheney loses elections. Swing voters are a lot more complex than the idiotic "conventional wisdom" that just has everyone at a different point on a one dimensional left-right scale.