I know a lot of Trump voters and there is one common theme running through each…they wanted to hurt or punish someone with their vote.
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Masochists
may 10, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 0 • view
MAGAts hate.
may 9, 2025, 10:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Turns out it's themselves and we warned them. They "knew better". 🙄
may 9, 2025, 9:18 pm • 5 0 • view
This.
may 9, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
You have identified a major factor in their choice for sure.
may 10, 2025, 12:09 am • 2 0 • view
Well they are ending up punishing themselves and other Trump voters as well.
may 9, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Sounds a lot like your average Russian from what I've heard. No interest in making things better, just making them worse for others
may 9, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. The one Trump voter with whom I spoke at any length in 2016 said he did it just so he could irritate his liberal in-laws by copping to it. (Safe Hillary state.)
may 9, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Well it worked. 😩
may 10, 2025, 1:51 pm • 3 0 • view
For what?
may 9, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
And they did. But they punished themselves too.
may 9, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It's actually quite rational. Sociologically, their vote is the most powerful weapon they can (legally) wield, and it serves a satisfactory psychological outcome. The fact that an immoral human being is the beneficiary is something many don't care about or much contemplate.
may 10, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
Evil hearts.
may 9, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. For the most part they’ve been screwed for 40 years - I’ve Reagan at least. They don’t know why but it hurts and they’re pissed.”"
may 10, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
Fingers crossed they hurt AND punish themselves.
may 9, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
How tragic is that…?
may 9, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2 0 • view
No hate like Christian Love
may 9, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! The MAGA sadism is expected from uneducated, gullibles programmed to feel grievances. Predictably, they want to strike back -- like toddlers told to behave. How can I be sure? My mother, my brother, my nephew.
may 9, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve been saying this since 2016, but there’s only one governing philosophy with these people, and it’s sticking their thumb in your eye. It’s why we can’t bipartisanship our way out of this. We have to electorally beat these people for a decade straight before they go back to hiding under a rock.
may 9, 2025, 8:22 pm • 13 0 • view
Yep And say “but my taxes “
may 9, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they feel they deserve more. They never did anything with their lives to be more. They are losers.
may 9, 2025, 9:44 pm • 2 0 • view
That's the key.
may 9, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep..they wanted to “teach the “democrats” a lesson”
may 10, 2025, 9:09 am • 0 0 • view
They’ve sure succeeded.
may 10, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
Cool. FAFO. And pay back may be more than expected. They baselessly thought the liberals hated them before…now they’ve given them more than ample reason.
may 9, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
like a good christian should.
may 10, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
Mission accomplished
may 9, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
WE are one body, one country. What hurts me, will hurt you. Fracturing this country by hate got us into this…but coming together to fight the fascist hate will get us out. TOGETHER. Together we must reject fascism and embrace what made America great…WE, all the diverse people, living in democracy
may 10, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
The cruelty is a feature, not a flaw
may 9, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes! I totally agree. Trump voters ignorance, contempt for others, and desire to “own the libs” has resulted in a stupendous self own. Unfortunately their lack of self-awareness will lead them to continue to blame someone else for their miserable lives.
may 9, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
All of us.
may 10, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
Wow I have no words
may 9, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The ones I know were only worried about their personal wallets, thinking they were going to have a lower cost of living.
may 9, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
In Moral Politics, George Lakoff explains that “family values” is code for strict father morality: reward, punishment, obedience. It’s a hierarchy—God at the top, then the father. People vote to obey their dominant father figure. bookshop.org/p/books/mora...
may 9, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 1 • view
may 9, 2025, 10:51 pm • 2 1 • view
Trump voters blame others for their problems, particularly the government, minorities, the media — just like their leader they “take no responsibility.”
may 9, 2025, 9:32 pm • 3 0 • view
How Christian of them.
may 9, 2025, 8:11 pm • 22 0 • view
Which checks out considering musk is out in these streets saying empathy is evil and the downfall of society
may 9, 2025, 8:20 pm • 20 0 • view
Do any of them admit they never thought it would happen to them and they were fine with cruelty to others? It means that vindictiveness is a fuel to them and they can't be seen as "good people".
may 9, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Self harm.
may 9, 2025, 11:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I was just thinking about this today. I’ve never sought to harm any person or group of people with my vote. Not once. No Republican who has ever voted can say that.
may 9, 2025, 8:20 pm • 0 0 • view
So they decided to hurt themselves
may 10, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
Cruelty is the point, and with those guys, always with a racist or misogynistic spin. A combination of fear and inadequacy drive this, I think.
may 9, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 9:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Originally posted by JoeFink This quote from James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son is just as true today as it was in 1955... “I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”
may 9, 2025, 8:25 pm • 6 1 • view
We're foolish enough to want to help them with ours.
may 10, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
I still think about the woman in KY who was interviewed abt the GOP trying to overturn the ACA in the 1st term and how she was upset because she thought they would hurt the *right* people and taking away her healthcare was not that. I would be mortified to know that people remembered me for that.
may 10, 2025, 1:47 am • 1 0 • view
In other words, they are horrible people.
may 10, 2025, 1:32 am • 1 0 • view
based on what you know, who was the top target?
may 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
America is being run by a bunch of cartoon villains put in place by a voting bloc of the second group from this meme
may 9, 2025, 8:13 pm • 4 0 • view
The lack of empathy, not to mention logic, amongst such a huge percentage of my fellow US Americans, disgusts me. On both the immigration and economic fronts, anyone who has been paying attention to facts could not possibly be duped into supporting this fascist regime. Unless they're just evil.
may 9, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Jess, I have known many individuals who revel in hurting other people. So your comment strikes home and makes me want to know more about your experiences: what did you experience in Trump voters that shows you they voted to cause someone pain?
may 9, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
"They were so angry they couldn't see the communist thru his spray tan."
may 9, 2025, 8:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly and now we’re all being punished, including them so what’s up with that?????????
may 9, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
This totally explains the response when Trumps actions hurts them saying “this isn’t what I voted for”. Then I say , “well what did you vote for?” And silence.. pretty clear they voted for the hurt , just not for themselves
may 10, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
So much hatred. Even to their own detriment. It’s remarkable, really.
may 10, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
Even when it hurts themselves….
may 10, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
These assholes deserve everything coming their way then.
may 10, 2025, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
"Own the Libs," that's what they wanted. Now they want their jobs back, healthcare back and their 401K's not in the dumpster. And I can't stop wanting to slap all 77 million of them across the face.
may 10, 2025, 1:40 pm • 6 0 • view
That’s what I keep saying. It’s a whole political party based on cruelty and who they can harm. It’s absolutely deranged.
may 9, 2025, 9:55 pm • 4 0 • view
That does explain why my laughing at them instead of being hurt and offended makes them so hilariously angry.
may 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 47 2 • view
I think this is a fantastic reply when people try to explain away Trump votes by saying “well we all vote in our own self interest” besides the obvious response which is “NO”
may 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 3 0 • view
All of the Trump voters I know fall into 1 of 2 camps: 1) They wanted to punish “illegals”, trans/nonbinary folks, and liberals. 2) They thought he’d make things cheaper and didn’t CARE that he was going to hurt/punish others, because they’re white and they thought it wouldn’t affect them.
may 9, 2025, 8:19 pm • 4 0 • view
I have suspected this of many (perhaps most) republicans: that their vote was meant to hurt someone.
may 10, 2025, 1:07 am • 1 0 • view
The modern Republican appears to be a worthless pile of anger and bigotry without a working brain but with a big mouth!
may 10, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Cruelty is the point for Repubs.
may 9, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Sad but true. I have a beloved family member who told me exactly this a week ago and it blew my mind ☹
may 9, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Most of them are angry old white guys and their wives.
may 9, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
No, many are young men.
may 10, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
By the time you factor in the old boomer guys, the balloon of gen-X dudes and the growing segment of young tech bros...it turns out you can safely generalize to "most white men."
may 10, 2025, 12:45 am • 2 0 • view
Lots of young Latino men too and some black young men.
may 10, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
Also true. All manner of fools and shitheads voted for him.
may 10, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
true but most of the ones I know are angry old white guys.
may 10, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
Figures
may 10, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I concur.Those I know were, without exception, angry. The focus of their anger varies - though the source of their anger is a constant: the right wing media. It's all propaganda geared to keeping the base perpetually outraged. Outrage leads to fear & fear leads to anger. #BigLies #DividedNation
may 9, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
May they have the day that they deserve.
may 10, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
This is my understanding too. It’s telling the underlying hatred that rises above all (and the messaging that led to this hatred).
may 9, 2025, 11:39 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s because they’re shitty people.
may 9, 2025, 8:18 pm • 7 0 • view
Ignorant people.
may 9, 2025, 8:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Well they managed to punish almost the entirety of the US population and a good chunk of the world… again! (I’m holding them accountable for making covid worse than it should have been)
may 9, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
How very Christian of them.
may 9, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh! Interesting. I wonder if the 🤡 voters here had those same thoughts even if they won’t admit it. Although “own the libs” is pretty telling.
may 10, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view
And this is the reason I will not try to find "common ground" with them. You're not worth my time if you want to deliberately hurt others.
may 10, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
Can you let them know asap that they’ve been successful in that so we can move on and get our country back?
may 9, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Give them a decent job and a place to live and they get a lot more reasonable… by the reprogramming is hard.
may 9, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Boomerang will be a b_tch🪃
may 10, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
I keep thinking of your interviewing a rural voter "I can't vote for a Democrat, I'm a Christian"
may 10, 2025, 4:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Yup. They voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party because they believed the leopards would ONLY eat the faces of the people they dislike. Unfortunately, it rarely works that way... as they may soon find out.
may 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 11 0 • view
Some already have
may 10, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
And now they're becoming pissed off because it turns out they are getting hurt, too.
may 10, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Why? I don’t get that sickness. I want to help people with my vote.
may 10, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
i know a lot of evangelical trump voters and they think hurting people who disagree with them is their biblical mandate (they also think it’s loving but you know all this already)
may 9, 2025, 8:12 pm • 14 0 • view
Mission accomplished
may 9, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely true.
may 9, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes themselves silly little white assholes
may 10, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly!
may 10, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
The way I look at it if someone votes for someone because that person has promised to screw over someone else when in office in reality that person is going to screw everyone over
may 10, 2025, 7:28 am • 1 0 • view
Love your voice, clarity and strength of conviction. Don't stop.
may 9, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
in 2016 I knew many who had personally felt somehow maligned in their lives. They seemed to want an outlet for their deep seated anger at feeling they had been wronged. Two forces at work, one being retribution, the other, perhaps more dominant, looking for salvation, the path to a better life.
may 9, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The better life positioning seems stronger with the R positioning this most recent election as compared to the Ds. This is America, we build things, we build better lives, we invest, we grow, we create opportunity. The story cannot just be about wealth redistribution and equity.
may 9, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Fact: Trump voters are curiously aroused when brown people suffer.
may 9, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Sickening frankly!! In the end, those idiots will hurt too!!!
may 9, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
😏✅
may 9, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Specifically or generally, in your opinion?
may 10, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
Yes
may 10, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Well they have now hurt themselves 🤦🏻♀️ they will pay the price economically.
may 9, 2025, 8:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Sad
may 9, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I would truly love to know what I ever supported or cared for that harmed them. Because I really feel I voted to support their lives. I may not have supported their belief, but their lives mattered, and they needed to manage their own beliefs in their own house. And that's all I can say about that.
may 10, 2025, 3:39 am • 2 0 • view
It’s true and right wing media fanned the flames of their hatred to make them feel entitled to it
may 10, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
They were all for it before they understood it hurts them too.
may 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 3 0 • view
I’ve known some MAGAs, and no matter how much or how little they have, they don’t have enough and it is always somebody else’s fault. This is why those people must be punished.
may 9, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
That kind of energy comes back to you.
may 9, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they are miserable, less than mediocre, losers.
may 9, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re so angry and mean!
may 9, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
And they all need to be the ones to suffer, for years
may 10, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
They were successful
may 9, 2025, 11:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I know people who weren’t vengeful. They just always vote Republican. I can’t imagine being this vapid.
may 9, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
And they don’t hide it.
may 9, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Misery loves company. Joy is the one thing they lack and cannot take from us. That’s why peaceful protest is so powerful. A smile/laughter in the face of infuriating intolerance demonstrates their hatred can be stopped. With us.
may 10, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Including themselves it would appear.
may 10, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
They thought the economy would improve and that's a laugh. If that is why they voted but I think they have to have no empathy for others, hold racist points of view and a disregard for humanity
may 9, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, instead of going to therapy (there are apps on your phone now), they victimize all of us w their anti-social personality disorders and unresolved mental health issues.
may 9, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Well what a christian thing to do, to live from spite, I'm sure is not supported by Jesus but hey, we've allowed ppl to interoperate the Bible 4 ever.
may 10, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Themselves?
may 9, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Self-serving other-harming spite. They deliberately view the world as "US" and "the OTHER". "US can do no wrong, Others can do no good. Thus WE are fully justified in punishing or exploiting the Other as we please." A simplistic philosophy of Selfishness and Spite. bsky.app/profile/alex...
may 9, 2025, 8:38 pm • 4 0 • view
True, but they didn’t want to hurt themselves. It has often been said that Trump voters voted for Trump because he hates the same groups of people they hate. I absolutely agree with that sentiment.
may 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 20 0 • view
These people have been waiting for someone like Trump for decades. Just as you posted, he’s someone who hates the same people they do.
may 9, 2025, 8:32 pm • 9 1 • view
All while claiming they were voting for cheaper eggs and gas prices, and wanting to "Drain the Swamp" Welp.. our eggs and gas prices haven't decreased and the swamp is filling up beyond its capacity. I wonder if they have any regrets now.
may 10, 2025, 2:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Two separate motivations. I see more of the "punish" type voter. Some slight from yrs ago means they won't vote for the incumbent no matter how awful the opponent is. And these are smart people. But no they have to be able to say "You should have attended our HOA meeting. We'll show you."
may 9, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 1 • view
I know only a couple. They're relatives. 😪 They don't want to hurt anyone. But they're addicted to RW news sources & reject everything we've tried to discuss with, "Well, how do you know YOUR side isn't lying?" There's 1 thing in common: they're both in construction & frustrated by endless regs.
may 10, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
IE, they wanted to reduce someone uppity down to their miserable level.
may 10, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
People they know or just anonymous groups that they have come to believe are getting undeserved privileges ahead of them?
may 9, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
it's also split up families including my own family where relatives on the opposite side of the political spectrum refuse to speak to each other. There are no other words to describe it other than we are engaged in a civil war for democracy or fascist oligarchy.
may 9, 2025, 8:42 pm • 5 1 • view
Where did this come from Jess? I mean, I know there are decades of hate on social media but.. It's not like the poor, blacks or gays took their money. That's the filthy rich..
may 9, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
What voters say is often not connected to how they vote. It's not purposeful lying, but a lack of understanding their own fears and motivations. Freud was right. My latest Substack-- open.substack.com/pub/erichens...
may 12, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
They have been fed a lie. They consumed it. And the results are most bitter.
may 10, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s the defining characteristic
may 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Sadists.
may 9, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately, they got duped into being mad at other regular people instead of the ultra wealthy who have screwed this society up so badly.
may 9, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Curious, who do they want to punish? Most Trump voters I know blamed Biden for inflation, and illegal immigration. They wanted to punish Biden, and by extension - Democrats. Did you hear something different?
may 10, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
Liberals, people who don't conform to their way of life (can be very expansive, urban dwellers, blue haired baristas, gay people, trans people), Black & brown people for "taking things they don't deserve," people who've "failed" somehow, they have a substance use disorder, mental illness, are poor.
may 10, 2025, 1:54 am • 5 2 • view
Don't forget non-subservient women. It is crude Calvinism: if you are not successful (and white and Christian and a a man), it is proof God does not favor you and thus you are bad and should be punished. Punishment may correct your failings or not. Either way, it is deserved and they should do it.
may 10, 2025, 1:54 am • 6 1 • view
... even to an extent that they hurt themselves just as much. Sick stuff.
may 9, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
And instead, they punished themselves.
may 9, 2025, 8:11 pm • 5 0 • view
They just don’t know it yet
may 9, 2025, 8:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Denial is one helluva drug..
may 9, 2025, 10:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Yup, they just wanted someone else to be punished.
may 9, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
may 10, 2025, 1:36 am • 5 1 • view
Collateral damage from all that hate, inequality & exclusion their saviour is throwing around? 🤷♀️ And aaw that’s a shock the old orange fuckup & his mega-wealthy backers didn’t consult you first up about how your shoe business would fare under his maga tariffs! #MazeDullRats
may 10, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
They are all so full of hate. I just can't rap my head around all of this hate. I have survived open-heart heart surgery and cancer, and I still don't have hatred inside of me.
may 9, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
This highlights the angry white male problem we have in America.
may 9, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1 0 • view
And 45% (or was it 55%?) of middle aged and older white women. I don’t get it.
may 9, 2025, 11:51 pm • 2 1 • view
They really do have a fetish for punishment, don't they?
may 10, 2025, 6:17 am • 0 0 • view
Lots if hate with Trump voters (MAGA cult lovers).
may 9, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1 0 • view
And it was probably to hurt people they knew personally. That is how low they are.
may 9, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
And I’ll bet they call themselves Christians too. This has been one of the most awful things of this whole era-seeing how greedy, selfish, hateful, and frankly stupid many of our fellow citizens are
may 11, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
That's quite disturbing.
may 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
don't forget their single-digit IQ!!! That's common among them as well.
may 9, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. Their hard-core hate of us fuels them
may 9, 2025, 8:12 pm • 7 0 • view
You should see what it's like on red note. It was so peaceful and friendly until they followed us there. They literally have to be where we are or else they just can't make it mentally!
may 10, 2025, 9:37 am • 3 0 • view