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My 3 oldest friends are army buddies. All of them are at least moderately conservative and all voted for trump 3 times. There was exactly 1 Iran war text from them, it was “we got the second pilot back”

You got that right.

Maryland MAGAs are so confusing to me. Can we trade places? Because things are rough over here in WV

And the car is on fire

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Ignoring one of largest Legislative agendas past with razor thin margins led dem administration

Except due to the war some of that fire is real

Don't be judging a man for his hobbies.

They never got their magical border wall and… none of them even cared. It was the *whole* thing in 2016 and now he’s President again and nobody even mentions it. The real thing he gave these people was permission to believe whatever untethered semi-pornographic dysphoria that pops into their heads

I can't remember if it was the Onion, but someone hit the nail on the head with, "Trump rails against problems caused by whoever it was that was in charge last week."

No lies told

I’ve long thought this was why republicans will never get rid of the filibuster. It’s not (only) because they can stop democratic programs, but more importantly so that democrats can stop their programs

Exactly what they voted for.

this also works the other way, dems would much rather panhandle and browbeat during a republican administration than do shit during a dem administration

They would have had the BEST time with a woman president.

Let me add: Prescription Drug prices HAVE NOT DECREASED! Prescription drugs have actually gone up!

Weird Republican voters and Democratic electeds seem to have the same problem with their own side being in power

unfortunately, republicans politicians love power and democrats fear it, or there would be an optimal solution! Progressives like governing and making the world better so let them do that while the conservatives get to complain and be their happiest selves.

I have been saying this for years. An addict will rationalize the world into a pencil in order to justify their next hit. That's what we're watching.

And they tend to think we are the same. No, I would prefer not to be enraged all the time. I would prefer it if things just worked out well in general

And what they want most is for other people to like and agree with them and think they're the coolest, and for the world to freeze in time at whatever point in their life they were happiest, but you can't force or legislate those things, so they'll never be satisfied

Meanwhile Dem politicians prefer when a Republican is President

Timeless:

It is kind of weird. With a Dem govt, they're vocal with their grievances but with the Rep govt, they're compelled to support an awful lot of reprehensible crap. By and large, I believe a large % of American voters have an entitlement problem.

GOP is an incredibly effective opposition party. Can’t govern for shit.

Behold www.thepoke.com/2025/09/27/t...

Like I told my ex, elections are not football games. At the end of it someone has to run the country.

I call it contrived grievance. This is better

Did you hear they want to make the lockdown outdoor seating permanent??

see I fully think they want to be oppressed. To them oppression means order is being maintained and there's a pecking order of who to listen to. And if no one is limiting their behavior, why not just take control and destroy more shit until it happens?

I hope he's enjoying his golden years

White evangelicals used to intuitively understand this and so did not mobilize themselves as a political bloc. Jerry Falwell and his ilk did more to make these people unhappy than a thousand Roe v. Wades ever could.

Absolutely, but they are interwoven by a meta-luxury belief.

While they - and social conservatives in other movements - accuse queer people of the very same. The nature of the accusations is as it has ever been.

Being mad about culture war shit is enrichment for unpleasant assholes who are basically comfortable

Luxury beliefs. added to codex, thank you

Oh no 😱 !! I certainly hope the Orange Turd doesn’t implode.

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They're ugly AF but worry a gay man will hit on them A cop set fire to an AutoZone and a real estate freak burned his own condos for the insurance payout and they blamed "antifa" They were buying parachutes to jump out of office buildings after 9/11 They're comfortably safe. And very bored.

They are literally just Cartman.

Now that I know what rolling coal means, it turns out to be incredibly apt for these folks.

yep, vote to own the libs without much chance of your stupid ass preferences actually being enacted in policy

Looking from outside America, you guys are fucked

And the clean-up takes longer than 4 years, so these cockspanks end up blaming the Democrats and electing another clusterfuck Republican shithead.

And what else is new????

Honestly this is the reason why I don't think Tucker is running for president

“Winning is easy, son. Governing’s harder.”

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder writ large

Many such cases

They don't know how to support things, just how to be against things

"The party of personal responsibility" hates taking responsibility. And they've abandoned most of the foundations of conservatism too. bsky.app/profile/chro...

Ditto for conservative media coverage of politics.

They exist to hold up progress. I'm tired of pretending they are in any way valid

Bingo! Here in red SW Iowa I've wondered for years what freedoms my Trumpy neighbors were losing. White guys in my neighborhood seemed free to say and do anything they could dream up.

Democrats are the same. It's so much easier when you get the yell at somebody else instead of facing your own shortcomings.

I believe @janecoaston.bsky.social has been talking about the effects of tail catching for quite some time

Yeah, they don't want to cook dinner because cooking is hard; they want to be the moody teens complaining about the dinner their parents cooked.

Which is why gulags could be so valuable for them