• Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    5 days ago

    So many people told me they voted for him the first time because he was a business man, and not a politician…

    Uhm, since when the fuck are businessmen reliable??? When someone says business man I think of like an unctious used car salesman.

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        There are also a lot of people who think government would be better if it were run as a for-profit organization.

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          There are also a lot of people who don’t believe dinosaurs existed because it conflicts with the in-universe explanation from their magic book written by imaginary friends…

          There are also a lot of people who believe the earth is flat…

          People are fucking stupid, americans doubly so.

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      This is what I think. Let’s take Mamdani for an example. I think what he’s doing is great and I would vote for him if I lived in New York, in a heartbeat. He’s doing exactly what we want a politician to do. He was inspiring before he won. Then I heard a recent interview and he was avoiding questions like a “real” politician and not talking real talk. It was annoying, even though I still think he’s great.

      I think trump spoke like they would. Of course, he was conning them and saying everything just vague enough to think he was always saying what they wanted to hear. He has a way to do it that is very slick, it’s his superpower. Plus he’s racist and was doing dog whistles left and right.

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      Ya know what tho, I ain’t even mad at the first time trump voter, I get that shit. Everything is broken and everyone is getting fucked, so you take your vote and you vote for change. If the establishment sucks you vote for the anti establishment candidate… Just imagine the world we live in of that anti establishment candidate had been Bernie and not pedo 🤡

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      Same. These people say “business man” the way some morons talk about someone being a “xtian man”.

      WTF is the value in either of those things? Neither one describe anything, really, about their character or their ability to govern.

      When I hear “business man”, I usually think of Carlin talking about the business man with the big smile plastered on his face, the better to position himself behind the “customer” in order to “service” them better.

      https://www.facebook.com/TheTwistedGrinComedy/videos/customer-service-george-carlin-customerservice-parttimelife-standupcomedy-comedy/2169108456800893/