That’s okay. The Iran deal will make the oil flow again so gas will get cheaper therefore the economy MUST be better. His support amongst the white blue collars will go back up.
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Oopsie poopsie, the shit I've been shoveling onto my neighbor's yard has overflowed onto mine. I can't believe my shit-covered hands would do this to me.
Oopsie poopsie
The best thing about having a kid has been teaching him this phrase and hearing him use it at daycare!
Blue collar white voters are apparently the stupidest morons to ever idiot. This shit was clear to anyone above a 5th grade reading level a decade ago.
Let's go Brandon stickers and stuff were pretty common in blue collar worker areas
As a blue collar white voter I absolutely did not vote for the orange pedophile, not the first time and certainly not the second time. Of my co workers at my shop, only 2 are "Republican" and only one actually supports trump (he's almost 70 and illiterate, connect the dots). In my industry, I am very fortunate to be surrounded by such good co workers...
54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
Here's a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.
So the average reader has no critical thought or perspective but rather focuses on the emotion they feel on what was said. No wonder the FOX crowd is so easily swayed by angry actors presenting their case with the same few trigger words on loop.
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not as a matter of disbelief, but statements like this are good to accompany with a source.
Maybe you should disbelieve. Studies show 82% of unsourced facts shared online were false.
Not OP, but this corroborates the statement. https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-facts/
That's why I only believe 28% of things I read online.
I like how that adds up to 110%.
Intentional or just bad math? The world may never know.
;-)
60% of the time, it works every time.
The source to most statistics can be found by googling, "Statistician, Todd Snider"
Snider, innit?
Correct, autocorrect strikes again
As someone who works around a lot of white blue-collar workers, yes they really are the dumbest most pig headed idiots you will ever find. No amount of evidence, financial pain, or debate will change their stupid, shrivled, idiot minds.
Any story?
Politically related I work with a 23 yo self proclaimed "christian nationalist, ultra capitalist" who believes every single rightwing conspiracy and and talking point. He also constantly complains about how he's not paid enough but also that the centi-millionaire inherited owner of the company works hard enough to earn all his money despite playing golf 4 day a week.
In terms of good old fashioned stupid, I once saw an operator disable the guardingnon a machine, proceed to lose a finger to said machine. Then after being given a second chance less than a week back on the job decided it was a good idea to disable the same guarding again. Luckily he got fired before he had a chance to lose any more digits.
I’m a union construction worker and I’m back in college to escape this blue collar magat infested industry. These dudes are handed a six figure job right out of high school through nepotism and these unions are run like white supremisist gangs. It’s horrible they’re so fucking stupid 90% are cult level pro MAGA turds and it’s the unions fault because that’s the culture they’ve fostered because anyone who stands up to the systemic abuse and discrimination gets blackballed.
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Boy are they dumb 🥴
Retarded some might say, but mods would censor
Being ableist is plainly wrong
Ah ya let's stop ourselves from insulting people who vote for fascism so they can continue being retarded
Sorry you're too stupid to choose an insult that isn't bigoted??
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I still hear “I voted for Trump three times, but…” on a regular basis. Trump voters by-and-large aren’t repentant and they don’t give the appearance of the cognitive capacity necessary for “doubting”. That would imply reconsideration based on available facts. What they are doing now would be better described as “musing idly about the specific self-serving details of”.
They vote republican cause they fear what they percieve democrats being, through the lens of fox propaganda. Trump could personally fk their asses. They still fear democrats and would vote to hider a democrat victory.
The Fox shit kept working because eveytime republicans win they fuck up the economy and then to fix it the democrats need to spend to stop the bleeding, but they never tax the rich. It always lands on the blue collar guys.
“falls on the entire working class”. Not just the blue collar magat douchebags. I’m a construction worker and I approve this message
I am a residential finish carpenter and I also approve this message.
The first time was not enough ?!
Absolute fucking stubbornness is why it’s taken the ignorant sonsabitches so long to come around!
I highly doubt they've come around. They're not really known for introspection, like even when it's actively destroying thei lives.
It’s fear of being exposed. Their os is run by their ego. They don’t have the ability to reflect because they don’t accept themselves.
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Building your identity around supporting a cult leader is a helluva drug.
I've heard enough, 300B dollars to ~~Israel~~ Iran‽
Both.
This is the second time tho, 2016-2020 was the first...
LOL
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