Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[RAFUH]

I fear that number is lot closer to 50%

LIkely around 57%

Many in my GOP/2x Trump voting family/friends group met their limit on January 6.

However, I will be interested to see what happens when they have to actually vote next year if the GOP candidate is Trump. It's incredibly disheartening, but I think they will still see a democrat as a worse option than Trump.

 

[Piijt]

Why do these people all follow the same path? When did Brexit and poppies become anti vax and Chemtrails?
At some point being right wing merged with conspiracy guff. My feeds are full of them

Very strange

I’ve lost two good mates to this weird phenomenon. One brags to everyone that he’s a contrarian, not a conspiracy theorist.
He’s a bellend.

 

[LostLegend]

You'd have to hope at this stage that it's only the die-hards he has left. They are the loudest of course.
You'd also hope that the ones that were more on the fence first time around have seen more than enough to swerve him outright.

That said, 2016 did show the danger of thinking too complacently on these matters.

 

[Walken]

Many in my GOP/2x Trump voting family/friends group met their limit on January 6.

However, I will be interested to see what happens when they have to actually vote next year if the GOP candidate is Trump. It's incredibly disheartening, but I think they will still see a democrat as a worse option than Trump.

That is at least something positive

 

[LinekersLegs]

I fear that number is lot closer to 50%

LIkely around 57%

Fwiw


Of course given the electoral college he doesn’t need anywhere near 50% of the vote to win, he can get elected with a lot less if it is skewed regionally.

 

[TN Toffee]

Which US are you talking about?

He has to be talking about eligible voters, not actual voters who show up and cast a ballot. That’s right in line with 2020. 69% of the country didn’t vote for him.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Many in my GOP/2x Trump voting family/friends group met their limit on January 6.

However, I will be interested to see what happens when they have to actually vote next year if the GOP candidate is Trump. It's incredibly disheartening, but I think they will still see a democrat as a worse option than Trump.

Exactly. They have been conditioned over time to think that Democrats are the enemy

 

[SerenityNigh]

Exactly. They have been conditioned over time to think that Democrats are the enemy

yes I know many people who are a "hold your nose and vote" type of voter and far more who don't even see any need to hold their nose because democrats are evil

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

I’ve lost two good mates to this weird phenomenon. One brags to everyone that he’s a contrarian, not a conspiracy theorist.
He’s a bellend.

My best friend from school, was his best man at his wedding ffs, has gone down this route, and he was far more intelligent than me. Barely speak to him last couple of years, it's unbelievable.

 

[Piijt]

My best friend from school, was his best man at his wedding ffs, has gone down this route, and he was far more intelligent than me. Barely speak to him last couple of years, it's unbelievable.

It started with Brexit, that tuned them into the right wing nutcase websites. They don’t realise they’re being played. It’s just sad.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

It started with Brexit, that tuned them into the right wing nutcase websites. They don’t realise they’re being played. It’s just sad.

Don't forget covid lockdowns turning the world into a dystopian real life 1984. It boils my brain, and makes me sad as you say.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Psychologists will be studying this era for centuries (or as long as humanity can survive)

It’s very strange, like a mass loss of reality.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

yea, even friends of mine have gotten caught up in this stuff.
Called a buddy out yesterday because he was posting conspiracy videos about the government flattening that town in Maui so they could build a 15 min city.
Followed by a string of posts about the evils of 15 min cities. He went on about how Oxford was staring down the barrel of a stalinist society or something.
He actually told me that he didn't believe the government directly bombed Maui but they did orchestrate the weather to cause the disaster, oh and called me sheeple!
Barmy stuff!

It's kinda like a zombie movie, they get these ideas in to their brains and there is absolutely no curing it, it just gets worse and worse till they've alienated family and friends and just communicate with each other.

edit,
in the last 5 years he's become pro trump, fiercely pro 1A, anti vax, anti lock down and talks a lot about the World Economic Forum with a weird amount of confidence for someone who has no idea what it is.

The last bit you wrote sums it up. Why does one conspiracy suddenly join up with all the others?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

It started with Brexit, that tuned them into the right wing nutcase websites. They don’t realise they’re being played. It’s just sad.

Being played is spot on

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

There is something wrong with the current world in which most people believe they are a lot smarter than they actually are. This is true whether a tenured professor at a distinguished university or the junior staffer whose cubicle sits closest to the water cooler. Add to that the fact that so many people are actually stupid and it becomes a really big problem.

To put it in footballing terms, last season DCL and Neil Maupay were terrible. Both were near bottom of the league in chances taken/missed (technically, underperforming xG). But for Maupay, not only was he terrible, but he actually sucks at football. At any rate, Everton were almost relegated and absolutely deserved to be relegated. That is where we are culturally.

The US deserves to be relegated and actually is not very far from it. And the UK is probably worse off than the US (you're Maupay, we're DCL).

With respect, I don’t see anywhere as worse off than the states. That place is batship mad. I feel the all the genuine people there.