Why did you vote for Trump?

[TurtleDude]

What are you talking about?

Four years ago, America was doing great under a Democratic president. There was no such thing as "Neo-Jacobin." The only problem was Republicans in Congress demanded a second investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server to make her lose and it worked.

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[swing_voter]

A good economy is like a profitable business. When it is running good, you can achieve damn near anything.

We have 124 million taxpayers out of 330 million people. We need more people rowing the boat.

Clinton presided over the best American economy ever. And he was a democrat.

 

[AmNat]

Why did you vote for Trump?

I voted for Trump because he spoke the truth.

 

[smallvoice]

I was educated about Donald Trump. Obviously you were not because of intentional ignorance.

I was certainly "educated" about Trump. I was also educated about Hilarity. The intentional ignorance is all yours.

With all his warts, Trump is still better than what you offered, and you are doing it again, this time with an old white guy who will need a food taster if he ever makes it to the White House.

 

[post]

A good economy is like a profitable business. When it is running good, you can achieve damn near anything.

We have 124 million taxpayers out of 330 million people. We need more people rowing the boat.

The numbers below indicate you urge "squeezing blood out of a stone", instead of actually obtaining revenue from where it realistically can be gotten.
We simply need the wealthiest 5 percent to pay the same tax percentage they paid before they bought the system. Your opinion is contrary to the facts.

We need to reduce military-intel complex spending by 25 percent. Trump has proved it to be unnecessary at present levels....

Trump: "I've created a secret new bigly weapons system", blah, blah, blah..... "Putin says he did not interfere in the 2016 US election", I have no reason not to
believe him, blah blah blah

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Claim: "Most Americans don’t own stocks."
Claimed by: Ro Khanna
Fact check by PolitiFact: Half True
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February 5, 2020 2:10 AM Updated 7 months ago ... of 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 percent and even more,” Trump said in his address to a joint session of Congress. ... That's because 84% of stocks owned by U.S. households are held by the ...

 

[chuckiechan]

Clinton presided over the best American economy ever. And he was a democrat.

And it was the dot-com boom which was great until the CEO’s farmed out hardware manufacturing when Bill Clinton gave China “most favored nation status”, and it was BOHICA all over again for the American workforce. The God damn country didn’t learn a thing about Asian market aggression with the Japanese revival.

 

[Patriotic Voter]

I was certainly "educated" about Trump. I was also educated about Hilarity. The intentional ignorance is all yours.

With all his warts, Trump is still better than what you offered, and you are doing it again, this time with an old white guy who will need a food taster if he ever makes it to the White House.

If you were educated about Trump, you would not have supported him at all.

Both candidates are old white guys, so you have no point to make.

 

[smallvoice]

If you were educated about Trump, you would not have supported him at all.

Both candidates are old white guys, so you have no point to make.

Your opinion is noted, and given all that it is due.
The point is with Biden, he will REALLY need a food taster if he wants to keep Kamala in line.


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[Moi621]

I Come From a Traditional Democratic Party family.
I Voted NIXON in '68 because I Hold The Democratic Party to higher
standards than delivered Hubert as the candidate.

Hillary is a pathological "user".
Given the oppertunity on a level paying field, to vote Sanders '16,
I would have.


I Hold MY Democratic Party
to higher standards.
Not The Lesser of Evils, standards.


Dear DNC
Give Me A Candidate Not, lesser of evils.



Moi

Stop :2canadian​

 

[Patriotic Voter]

Your opinion is noted, and given all that it is due.
The point is with Biden, he will REALLY need a food taster if he wants to keep Kamala in line.

What does a food taster have to do with Joe Biden?

 

[jaypatriot]

Why did you vote for Trump?

Four years ago I did not vote for Trump. I left the boxes for the presidential vote blank.
I knew that in my state there was no way a Republican would win the Electoral votes.
Likewise, neither candidate deserved my vote.

I feel the same way going into this election. But symbolically, I do not want Biden to win because he is a puppet of the Left.

 

[jaypatriot]

I would suggest listening to the podcast. Those are just snippets and the whole thing is more humanizing.

I tried connecting to subscribe to the podcast and couldn't do it.
Probably too many people took your suggestion and now no one can download the podcast.
But I am reading the article cited.

 

[lwf]

Interesting choice of words, because as I peruse the comment sections of Trump media sites, I'm seeing those exact words come-up. If Biden wins, they fear becoming culturally irrelevant 'again'. Those were the exact words I saw, and there might be some truth in that. Not that there will necessarily be intentional irrelevancy bestown upon them. But it will occur through the natural fall-out that will occur.

The problem is that they see what should otherwise be relatively innocuous things that they disagree with like reproductive choice, common sense gun control, and anti-discrimination laws for LGBT folks, then they hear a few extremists on the left talk about socialism, outlawing all firearms, and open borders, and they top it off with endless deliberate GOP fear-stoking and flame-fanning, and they become utterly convinced that every Democratic politician is an anti-Christianity, anti-America, communist.

To be fair, people on the left aren't immune to this sort of rapid descent into hyperbole about people on the right either, especially lately. It seems "fear of the others" has a tendency to reinforce itself. The only way to solve this division is how all such division is solved: Integration. Beating the other side into submission is simply never going to work. If we want unity, then we all have to unify, and that means accepting each other in spite of some of our bat-**** crazy notions.

 

[jaypatriot]

Ozark...singular. The show put most business into glaring perspective...including my own.. It’s a damn fine story, though it occasionally appeals to incredulity that would get you killed in fifteen seconds flat if you tried repeating certain characters’ actions.

One of the show’s central figures also creates a surprising distinction between hillbillies and rednecks, a conflict I didn’t even know existed until the show. I wonder if that conflict is real or if it was invented for narrative convenience.

The amazing part about the show is that the main characters are allowed to stay alive.
Must be in the script.
But others die, so that makes it interesting.
Poor lawyer lady. Looking the wrong way.

 

[jaypatriot]

The only honest answer any of these Trump voters can provide us is that they are angry people who gave up any shred of decency they once aspired to in order to keep Hillary from becoming POTUS. Now you have to ask yourself what in the world did she do to elicit this type of hatred. Absolutely nothing but there is a segment of our population that has lapped up right wing bull to the point where they could stand in for a bull if a rancher needed one to breed with a cow. There is absolutely no rational reason why anyone could possibly think Trump was more qualified then Hillary. Sorry Trumpers, but you revealed yourselves with your votes.

Trump voters felt Hillary would be more of the same. And more people disliked her than Trump.
In the voters' eyes she was more a crook than Trump. And people did not want her predator husband back in the White House.
And it was time to get rid of elitist bureaucratic control in D.C.
Why is that so hard for you to believe.?
The voters who elected Trump saw it.

 

[jaypatriot]

People don't vote Trump because they are racist or evil. People vote Trump because they have been thoroughly convinced that Democrats are going to culturally marginalize them, take away everything they care about, and then burn their country to ashes. This is not hyperbole, this is what way too many Republicans honestly believe thanks to the incessant fear mongering of conservative propaganda, and for most of them no amount of rational discourse or historical hindsight can penetrate this desperately held belief.

Democrats would do well to remember this: By far the vast majority of Trump supporters are motivated, first and foremost, by existential dread.

I received your message and I agree.
I fear that I am going to die in the 20 years. I am 76 and want to stick around a lot longer.
And my existential fear is that the weak-minded Biden might be swayed by the likes of Harris, AOC, Pelosi, and Bernie to steer this country in a Leftist direction that would be bad for our economy.
That is my existential dread.

 

[jaypatriot]

You have no clue what you are talking about. Democrats are pro-CHOICE, pro-SAFETY, pro-EQUALITY, and pro-AMERICA. They have always opposed giving stuff away to foreign countries and every type of violent crime.

You wrote: "They have always opposed giving stuff away to foreign countries and every type of violent crime. "
Except when Obama gave away $50 billion to Iran. Who cares if it was their money?

 

[Perotista]

Why did you vote for Trump?

I didn't, I voted against both disgusting major party candidates in 2016. Both major parties must have really dug low, went under the lowest rock to find these two.

 

[jaypatriot]

You speak for yourselves, and you all have one thing in common:

You fear Democrats enough to elect a complete idiot into the oval office so long as he claims to be a Republican. Because anything is better than four more years of Democrat rule. You conveniently ignore that 8 years of Democrat control resulted in economic growth and no one took your guns nor did illegal aliens take over your city and make you learn Spanish.

And now you are finding the shoe on the other foot. Because now thanks to your election of an idiot into the White House and the subsequent disintegration of any chance at unity and rational political discourse, Democrats now fear Republicans enough to elect anyone into the White House who claims to be a Democrat. Because anything is better than four more years of Trump.

This is what comes of voting out of irrational fear of the other side rather than voting for the best candidate. If you get it wrong, you might get an even worse candidate next time.

If Biden wins in November, let's hope Democrats didn't fall into the same trap Republicans did in 2016, or we'll likely be in for yet another idiot in 2024 or 2028 when the rubber-band snaps back to the right.

Good point you make, lwf
You wrote: "This is what comes of voting out of irrational fear of the other side rather than voting for the best candidate. If you get it wrong, you might get an even worse candidate next time."

And what if 70 million voters believe Trump is the better candidate because Biden will drag the country too far to the Left?
Looking at Biden's stated policy plans and to whom he is kowtowing, Republicans' fears might not be irrational - as you erroneously suggest.

 

[Chomsky]

The problem is that they see what should otherwise be relatively innocuous things that they disagree with like reproductive choice, common sense gun control, and anti-discrimination laws for LGBT folks, then they hear a few extremists on the left talk about socialism, outlawing all firearms, and open borders, and they top it off with endless deliberate GOP fear-stoking and flame-fanning, and they become utterly convinced that every Democratic politician is an anti-Christianity, anti-America, communist.

To be fair, people on the left aren't immune to this sort of rapid descent into hyperbole about people on the right either, especially lately. It seems "fear of the others" has a tendency to reinforce itself. The only way to solve this division is how all such division is solved: Integration. Beating the other side into submission is simply never going to work. If we want unity, then we all have to unify, and that means accepting each other in spite of some of our bat-**** crazy notions.

Well said, in your last paragraph. But easier said than done! And as we continue to geographically self-sort, it becomes harder yet.

 

[jaypatriot]

There is no deny that Trump is like a monkey throwing feces at tourists.

I would roar with laughter when he did his "act."

It was brilliant! Just brilliant.

His foes had no answer for his juvenile approach to politics.

It never dawned on me that he would not put on his big boy pants if elected.

I was shocked, just shocked as it became clear that the bully 8th grader with failing grades was who he really was!

I never suspected his act was no act at all but really him.

That the deplorables love his ignorance, immaturity and lies also has astounded me.

Always I have respected people who voted other than I.

No more.

Now I see them as Hillary said, deplorable.

So, you enjoy perpetuating the political divide.
You agree with Hillary's statement about Trump supporters and she lost.
Following in her footsteps, I see.

 

[lwf]

I received your message and I agree.
I fear that I am going to die in the 20 years. I am 76 and want to stick around a lot longer.
And my existential fear is that the weak-minded Biden might be swayed by the likes of Harris, AOC, Pelosi, and Bernie to steer this country in a Leftist direction that would be bad for our economy.
That is my existential dread.

I think you'll find people on the other side have similar fears about the politicians you prefer.

The truth is: Neither Democratic nor Republican economic polices are inherently bad for the economy. Broadly speaking, conservative economic policies work well especially in times of plenty, but if taken too far they result in a bubble followed by a destructive depression through lack of regulation. Liberal economic policies work well especially during lean times, but taken too far they can starve an otherwise healthy economy through missed opportunities.

The big disagreement results from not knowing what the future holds. Is our economy on the cusp of a bubble and therefore would it benefit from stricter regulation? Or is our economy on the brink of a surge and would it benefit from decreased regulation? In my opinion, like all things, balance is key. We just disagree on which way we are tipping, and this is a healthy disagreement.

Neither extreme can be tolerated by a society that wants to remain economically viable. We need to find a compromise between liberal economics and conservative economics.

 

[noonereal]

So, you enjoy perpetuating the political divide.
You agree with Hillary's statement about Trump supporters and she lost.
Following in her footsteps, I see.

Glad you finally understand!

DEplorable. 9 out of 10 would be my ballpark guess.

 

[noonereal]

I think you'll find people on the other side have similar fears about the politicians you prefer.

The truth is: Neither Democratic nor Republican economic polices are inherently bad for the economy. Broadly speaking, conservative economic policies work well especially in times of plenty, but if taken too far they result in a bubble followed by a destructive depression through lack of regulation. Liberal economic policies work well especially during lean times, but taken too far they can starve an otherwise healthy economy through missed opportunities.

The big disagreement results from not knowing what the future holds. Is our economy on the cusp of a bubble and therefore would it benefit from stricter regulation? Or is our economy on the brink of a surge and would it benefit from decreased regulation? In my opinion, like all things, balance is key. We just disagree on which way we are tipping, and this is a healthy disagreement.

Neither extreme can be tolerated by a society that wants to remain economically viable.

Balance is key in every aspect of life.

Brought over to politics, that is why we should generally have a centrist president.

 

[Patriotic Voter]

You wrote: "They have always opposed giving stuff away to foreign countries and every type of violent crime. "
Except when Obama gave away $50 billion to Iran. Who cares if it was their money?

We had this thing called the Iran Nuclear Deal, which was an international effort to prevent the terrorist nations from producing nuclear weapons and avoid a war. Is that what you are referring to?