Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve just remembered that enough people voted both AOC for House and Trump for president that she did a livestream about it asking them why.
Some people really believed that Trump would lower prices. Mamdani and AOC, being dem-soc, focus on people’s basic necessities. As wild as it sounds, there’s actually a link between Trump and the dem-socs. Trump has made some left-wing promises on the economy, which, of course, he has failed to keep, and associating himself with Mamdani might improve his approval on the economy if Mamdani succeeds. People may believe Trump again.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
anyone who actually believed that after the first four years is a fucking idiot that needs to have their head examined.
was four years of chaos, lies, and millions of deaths not enough for them? maybe the two impeachments? no no, had to be the god damned insurrection on Jan 6!
being a fucking moron is no excuse for voting for that son of a bitch, and I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for him more than once.
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
There’s a lot of idiots out there.
jj4211@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Keep in mind that the critical affordability issue as it landed in the news as we recovered from COVID and also supply chain impacts from Ukraine war. During his first term, inflation was pretty much the same as it had been since 1990. Then during Biden’s term, there was 7% then a further 6.5% on top of that and then another 3.4% on top of that and then 2.9% on top of that. So there’s a correlation that things are now even more rapidly unaffordable and in such cases the president inevitably gets the blame whether it makes sense or not.
His first term was pretty incompetent and corrupt, but got nowhere near as maliciously and successfully corrupt as this go around. On the matter of deaths, while the USA by the data was among the worst, almost in the 10 worst nations for per-capita death, the subjective coverage was “globally lots of people are dying”, it’s not Trump’s fault specifically in that perception of “no one has it good”.
Generally speaking, in these circumstances people are just voting against the state of the way things are with less high minded ideals. Trump lost because people hated things under COVID. Harris lost because the economic reaction to recovery was all messed up and so a change was demanded.
I share the shock that people actually went for it, but I’m not surprised that this seemingly nonsensical situation could happen.