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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, let me get this straight.
HHillary is vilified because she had a private email server which could possibly have been hacked (but wasn't) for classified documents, but Patraus did share classified documents and he gets a cabinet position.
Hillary is vilified for giving speeches to the tune of $200,000 to Goldman Sachs but an actual Goldman Sachs executive gets a cabinet position.
Hillary is accused of skimming from the Clinton Foundation, but she didn't according to independent charity monitors, but Trump loses his foundation rights for proven skimming.
Then Trump wins the election because Hillary can't be trusted.
And some of you say we can't refer to Trump voters as "stupid"?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)I agree with everything you wrote but this:
The Deplorables love Trump because he hates the right people according to them.
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Ignorant, stupid, moronic or other unpleasant adjectives don't explain Trump voters because they knew exactly what they were doing.
I posted this before:
Remember the scene where Gene Hackman's character tells Willem Dafoe's character that his poor dad killed his black neighbor's mule because he couldn't stand to see a black man doing better than him. There was a lot of that with the Trump voters.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Growing up in a Bigoted area,heard similar statements. Include Native Americans in that statement.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)Lyric
(12,675 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)calling them all kinds of vile crud, then went after Blacks, Muslims and every other minority that ignorant white wingers hate.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... gave the game away when he said that he LOVED the poorly educated, or words to that effect. The crowd of room-temperature IQs cheered deliriously, being too dirt stupid to realize that they had just been insulted by the malicious liar they so fervently supported.
The bar for measuring the mean intelligence level of the electorate is now lower than snake shit in a tire track. We're all doomed.
enid602
(8,524 posts)And don't forget that tRump ran on a populist program that promised a lot to working class whites, but this past Wednes went on TV to make his first policy pronouncement, namely that Medicare will be phased out starting this Spring. Not that he was going to submit a plan to Congress, mind you, but that Congress would begin with the phase out this Spring.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)The trump voters damn well know his racism and other hates. They voted for racism and hate!
I've been saying it and saying it and will. not. stop. No excuses. Everyone saw and heard what he is and spews out.
Denis 11
(280 posts)It is the wisest thing I have read concerning this sad event.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)If the poor little snowflakes can dish it out they better be prepared to take it.
Skittles
(152,963 posts)they fell for a liar, a con man, a carnival barker, a PERVERT......not just fell for his garbage but thought he was WORTHY OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I didn't think they were being fucking literal...
Squinch
(50,773 posts)actual security responsibility in the area, gets a pass.
Yep. All this is true.
jalan48
(13,797 posts)Trump voters aren't necessarily stupid-they have been brainwashed.
Yes but the headlines continued , just locker room talk , what he ment to say was... , have to give him a break because he's new and an outsider and so on. Never held accountable.
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Some of them are gullible, ignorant, and/or bigoted.
Skittles
(152,963 posts)ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)If the name DD wasn't enough to repel voters, there's really no point in even calling them on it
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)a Political Party that supports Bigots and Hate Mongers and not be a Bigot and a Hate Monger yourself.
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)They were voting for Trump. The party was secondary.
Besides, straight ticket isn't an excuse for voting for a pathological-lying sociopath, either.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)if u vote for candidate that supports bigots and Hate Mongers,,,,, u are a bigot and a Hate Monger.
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)I think there are probably some people who voted for Trump for reasons that don't necessarily involve bigotry or hate. No doubt it was a primary factor for many, if not most, but I think we might be overlooking some useful information if we just assume that bigotry and hatred were the only drivers. I don't think it's quite that simple. Life and people rarely are.
None of the reasons are adequate, however. There's no excuse for voting for Trump. Regardless of the reasons, the result's the same.
mdbl
(4,972 posts)I let them know that's what they gave us, bigotry and hate in the white house just in case they were unaware.
spanone
(135,627 posts)judesedit
(4,437 posts)didn't win the popular vote
tomp
(9,512 posts)I think election fraud took place.
Akacia
(582 posts)Several of my relatives proudly declared that they voted for this idiot. I tried to reason with my sister but ended up feeling as if I was talking to a brick wall. I had never known her to be soooo brainwashed/ stupid. I thank God that I moved to a blue state or I would probably lose my mind. When things get real bad as we all know they will with this administration I might get a small bit of satisfaction in telling her I told you so unfortunately it is not enough as the whole country minus the 1% will be hurting. I have refused to talk to my family since the election and I am not in a hurry to talk to them at this time.
Thank God DU is here or I might go completely bonkers!
yardwork
(61,408 posts)boston bean
(36,186 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And like idiots, they bought it.
Maybe when their kids are dyin in Iran, it will give the deplorables comfort as they beg for food in front of a hospital for rich people?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)niyad
(112,424 posts)putitinD
(1,551 posts)betsuni
(25,119 posts)JI7
(89,172 posts)From coming here
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Allegations of "conflict of interest".
Now trump gets in and it's like "conflict of interest? So what"
mcar
(42,206 posts)Well said!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Clinton told voters the truth about what was possible. Trump told them fantasies where everything could be made great again- cheap healthcare, lots of good paying jobs, the rest of the world cowering in the face of our might. Enough fell for the con job to win him enough states to get the EC win.
And the media now seems to be a willing partner in the con, witness the Carrier con job, where 700 jobs are 'saved' but 1300 lost, at the cost of $1000/job in taxpayer money, and with no certainty of this being permanent. But you would think Don the Con had walked on water and made Carrier's CEO agree to his every term, just by force of nature.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Daxter
(103 posts)The name "crooked Hillary" never made sense to me. Donald Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits and he even had links to organized crime. If you do not believe me, here is the link to an entire Wikipedia article dedicated to Donald Trumps' legal affairs.
Link:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump|
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)I never take credit away from them for that.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)nm
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)... but they voted.
They got off their butts, went to the polling places, and voted.
I don't think Democratic supporters were as excited as they were in 2008, 2012.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)will succeed in making life a living hell for those in this country who have open minds and open hearts.
And those who pulled the lever, etc for The Cretin who aren't self-defeating idiots have proven themselves to have a part of their soul as permanently stained. Their knowing support of the vileness is worse than rampant stupidity.
A part of me will never respect them. Never. And I must, for the time being, deal with that on a personal level as well as a national outrage level.
While the rest of us will struggle and deal with the calamity that faces our country because of this hideous election, The Rampant Stupid and the Knowing Vile can just ... in a term they can embrace with ease...fuck off.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)ignorant bigots are his base. Not all Trump supporters are bigots, but all bigots are Trump supporters.