act shirley
1d 7m ago by lemmy.ca/u/slothrop in politicalmemes from lemmy.ca
A few weeks ago, i had a customer ask "Why is coffee so expensive!?"
I told her it was the tariffs, she told me "Tariffs wouldn't do that"
"Mam, that's the only thing tariffs do..."
These people are remarkably immune to reality.
If you want to melt their brain: Tell them it's tariffs and climate change. Coffee is getting expensive in Europe, too.
Very expensive. I had to switch from Italian coffee to Spanish coffee lately, and Spanish coffee is terrible.
Is that why mushroom coffee is starting to take off? Haven't tried it, but to each their own...
My other half tried some mushroom coffee. It was $20 for a package that would make six cups, and she ended up not liking it anyway. I didn't try it myself because all coffee is gross.
They tried to get me on that fucking MLM scam once
The come down from magical thinking can be rough
Have people actually heard folks in their lives say this? Where I am, best case scenario is that they are ignorant to all that's happening. But more often they are enjoying it.
Oh I definitely have. I usually follow up with "Would you vote for him again?"
100% of the time they say yes.
These people are a cult
It's important to realize that in a cult, whether it be a personality cult or religious, the imaginary caricature that they worship has little to do with why they are in it; it's all about ego washing and pandering to themselves, sometimes in a sunk cost fallacy but plenty of times just simply because they've developed a dependency for the illusion to be there, justifying any deviations in reality as just being a deviation of their illusion which should remain forever pristine lest they risk their ego collapsing along with it.
I doubt it. I talk with MAGAts at work ... they are happy that ICE is getting the illegals out.
That's it. That is all they really care about. They think the economy is fine. They want the Epstein files released so the Clintons (both Hillary and Bill apparently) will go to jail. If Trump is in the files it is of course a setup. Never ever underestimate how snowed and stupid MAGA members are.
That's probably because they're not impacted.
The ones reconsidering their votes are the ones that can't afford their bills because their business was hurt by tariffs and the ones losing neighbors that they thought would be safe because they were "the good ones".
I actually have. My mother in law fell for the con hook, line, and sinker. Repeating Sinclair network talking points and dismissing verifiable evidence that goes against her worldview.
Her main thing was "there's men in women's sports!!1!" Which ....ya know, is not an actual issue like the Commander in Chief blatantly ignoring the law, raping people*, and blackmailing other officials.
*There is no evidence publicly available that he is currently raping people but he has a long history of it and there's no evidence he's stopped.
When you're a star, they let you. Ipso facto, not rape.
A child cannot consent so.....
No, you see, they let you
Its only the ones that get fucked over, people that had their immigrant spouses taken away by ice, etc.
I have an American relative who's super MAGA and on the day they invaded Iran he just posted "I voted for this."
Noooo Bart don’t wear the pedo hat
It's not just that one line.
Very often I see the following:
They have an issue with certain politics affecting them personally, nothing more. They are so close to realizing a few things, but always they stop short and say something like "it should happen to those other people, but not to me, a true believer."
And they'd vote for him again.
They’re myopic and selfish. It’s not their problem until it’s their problem.
The remaining ones
Oh they did vote for this and are very happy. I live in a very rural part of Northern Nevada. My hometown is only 4000 people. I work in the mining industry since the Iran war has started pretty much everybody that works at my job doesn’t matter their age or their race. They are 100% behind Trump and are very happy to kill innocent brown people if it means the price of gas goes down.
if it means the price of gas goes down.
Wait until they realize oil skyrocketed over the past 3 days... But of course that's merely just a coincidence.
I'm a passionate hater of gas price voters. I truly hope these people get to $6 gallons again.
Those darn dastardly Democrats trying to make Trump look bad by Bidening the price of gas!
I live in the twin cities but work in a more rural area of Minnesota and I agree, the rural deplorables may express a little distaste the day of but as soon as they get home and watch their Faux news to get their marching orders they are totally on board. I like to bring up how much gas prices have gone up since this started, $.60 and climbing around here. It'll be higher than it ever was under Biden in a week or two of this, not that they'll ever care.
Definitely the same thing here. It is funny at times when there is something major that happens in the world and it takes usually one to two days before they get their information from Fox News or Facebook and then they make their decision on what to do or feel about it. It was interesting last summer when the first half of the Epstein cover-up started a lot of my hard-core Trump supporter coworkers really had their reality shook. Quite a few people have a bunch of Trump flags and stickers on their house and cars, etc. all of that came off by the fall, but as soon as Trump invaded Venezuela, everything came back up and they are fully on board for the bullshit.
DAE was trumps face ai slopped onto an oompa loompa or did one of the OGs happen to look like trump
Yes you did you stupid dumb fucks.
And for those that didn't bother to vote at all, you did nothing to stop it.
Instead of fueling division this energy could be used to advocate for a preferential voting system
Voting system? I like your optimism.
I disagree. I think public shame is an excellent deterrent. Maybe next time they'll think engage their brains before defending such an evil platform.
I wouldn't bank on it. People seem to be using their brains less and less every year.
These people clearly do not experience shame.
Sure, I'll advocate for it.
But it's not going to happen unless you pay them to make it happen. Until then, it will get thrown into the "later" pile, along with term limits, abortion rights, reductions in military, insider trading law, universal healthcare, and other things 80% of voters want
Our system now is "you and your family get filthy rich with no legal consequences" vs "do the right thing", and nobody picks the latter.
That takes honest introspection on behalf of those wearing red hats…
I’ll let you hold your breath on that one.
could be used to advocate for a preferential voting system
And who's going to implement that system? The US government had no interest in doing so because every elected representative currently in office got elected under the current system and thus directly benefits from it. And that's before it was taken over by fascists who have no interest in the people being able to vote at all.
You are NOT going to get preferential voting in the US without a complete overthrow and replacement of the government.
Maine has ranked choice, I think one other state does too. Its not impossible