They don’t read the NYT or watch CNN. They get most of their political news from friends, family, and Facebook. And in 2024, these “opt-out” voters helped put Trump back in office. But now, that same group is starting to turn on him.
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Too late. MAGA voters caused the world’s problems.
may 9, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
democrats are so incompetent and headless right now... this is the perfect opportunity for a third party to form, which could then form a coalition with the dems to kick maga out the dems strategy right now seems to be to just sit back and wait until people hate trump and then vote for dems again
may 9, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
& send grift er fundraising emails
may 9, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
yeah, i dont get it... why would i donate money to the democratic party? to do WHAT? are they even still around? i havent heard or seen them do a single thing since trump won the elections...
may 9, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
These people should do the nation a favor and simply not vote
may 9, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
The Democrats don't need to win them back. All these voters have to do is stay home.
may 8, 2025, 10:28 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm more concerned about young voters who are bombarded with misleading information from right-wing personalities on social media and popular information sites. The right-wing mediasphere is huge and difficult to combat.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 47 0 • view
Young people can tell if the economy is sinking and their life is getting worse. I'm worried about the Joe Rogan bros. If that's what you mean. My daughter's fiancé is one. Hoping those will see T2s outcomes and worry less about being able to use the r word.
may 9, 2025, 3:27 am • 2 0 • view
I agree! You can provide them with facts and they turn away and keep regurgitating the same old lies.
may 9, 2025, 1:21 pm • 4 1 • view
Dems can’t win them back with Pelosi and that crew.
may 8, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Making fun of and mocking is a good way to begin educating those kind of disengaged voters.
may 8, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
What is happening with the 30% who didn't vote?
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t trust them. They’ll all just fall for the next hateful demagogue to come along.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. —Henry L. Mencken A Book of Burlesques, 1920
may 9, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
I'm very skeptical of claims like this. Sadly my family loves Trump and I live in a conservative state. The number one thing to know with these people, is they do not answer polls. They believe they are tools of the elite and used to manipulate elections, you can thank Limbaugh for this.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I sincerely hope they're turning on him, but I'll believe it when I see it and when my sister starts complaining about Donald Trump.
may 8, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems won’t win anyone back unless they grow up & get past fighting every issue any dem has. The really vital topics get watered down & lost.
may 8, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems need to get on the ground, doorknock every door, volunteer in disaster zones, hold town halls AND LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE. SPOUTING FROM ON HIGH WILL NOT WORK. GET AMONGST THE PEOPLE.
may 8, 2025, 10:32 pm • 2 1 • view
Democrats can't win disengaged voters until they commit to actually do stuff. No more strongly worded letters from Schumer and toeing the line of fascists. We need young, bold leadership willing to cut ties with oligarchical power and actually do the will of the people, not old money or corporations
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 56 2 • view
It's kinda tough now with the GOPenises controlling all houses of government. They'll shoot down anything that is against the Project 2025 bible.
may 8, 2025, 10:35 pm • 6 0 • view
MIDTERMS! MIDTERMS! MIDTERMS!
may 8, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I want them to go there too. I think it's up to us to make that happen. Schumer has to go, and we need to support those dems that are fighting. We need to elect people from school board to president who share our values and are effective.
may 9, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
Dems need to take the phoenix route. Set the party on fire so they can emerge from the ashes stronger and more resilient than before 💜
may 9, 2025, 3:00 am • 5 0 • view
George, On any given day over 40% of this country does NOT get the news on a daily basis. They do not read, watch or listen to current events that are happening. Then they go and vote "from the heart" and "with feeling", instead of using their brain.
may 9, 2025, 12:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Democratics need to pull their head out of there asses and take a harder line on those that want to willfully break laws and sow discourse among their party...perfect example Sleepy Joe Bullshit. Don't sit back and be better than the lowlife that attack you, get up in their damn faces and HIT BACK!!
may 8, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
The only way to beat a bully is to PUNCH BACK.
may 8, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
They revel in their ignorance.
may 9, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, sure whichever way the wind blows. they’re apparently clueless. Anyone who could vote for that orange asshole is clueless.
may 9, 2025, 4:58 pm • 4 0 • view
Have they at last the seen the light ??
may 9, 2025, 6:09 am • 0 0 • view
Just turning on Trump isn't going to loosen them up enough. If the Democrats don't get their shit together, there will just be a *larger* percentage of people who don't vote. I'm pinning my hopes on the midterms to get the dead wood out and the young people in. We need to REVITALIZE THE ELECTORATE.
may 8, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
The real question @georgetakei.bsky.social are they listening to facts now again or doing the same song and dance that made them vote the way they did?
may 8, 2025, 11:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Bingo. They aren't turning away from him. They are liars. They would vote for him again in a heartbeat.
may 8, 2025, 11:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t believe it. These people are easily seduced by conmen and will remain faithful to maga.
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 8 0 • view
Let them suck on some eggs.. can’t complain about shite you sat out on 🤷🏻♀️
may 8, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Starting to turn on him??? They're just starting??? Holy hell!
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Wonder who their next moron Messiah will be?
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I disagree
may 8, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if they think Mattel is a country also?
may 8, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Just like Trump
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The NYT and CNN are not much better these days. I put more trust in independent reporters who actually find stories, not just report the same news everyone else is already circulating. Marisa Kabas is a good place to start, she's putting out scoop after scoop
may 8, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
THIS THIS THIS THIS Despite his absolutely terrible click-baity YouTube titles, Brian Tyler Cohen is another very good resource.
may 8, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
They're starting to feel it. Stockpiling Blatz and toilet paper. They probably have a few chickens and a goat in the old Chevy out back.
may 9, 2025, 3:42 am • 1 0 • view
They'll remain disengaged and looking for the next promised quick fix for all their problems.
may 9, 2025, 11:35 am • 3 0 • view
We need more populism on the left or we will keep rubberbanding constantly unhappy voters between parties. If we help people with policy we could have decades of left leadership like what FDR achieved
may 8, 2025, 11:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I fully agree!
may 9, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
We read the nyt and watch more cnn than you people. I follow both on every social media, as well as msnbc, wapo, npr, bbc, and many leftist propagandists like yourself, and other left wing media. That's how we can call yall out so easily on your stupidity and our lies. Because we also look into the
may 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Truth ourselves. We read laws, bills, watch people actually speak. We get our information from a wide variety of sources, not just nyt and cnn, like you do.
may 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
No one here believes you can read, buddy.
may 9, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
So I'm posting telepathically? Lmao you people are hilsriously stupid lmfao
may 21, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
Well, that was hilsrious.
may 21, 2025, 7:10 am • 0 0 • view
They need to read and pass an IQ test
may 8, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I was thinking that might happen. The hardcore MAGA normally don't vote, would never vote for a Dem, and don't really care about any GOP except Trump. Trump goes away, they don't vote. It's the swing voters that the Dems need to worry about.
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Both Biden and Harris went into nontraditional media spaces, something the author should know. I’m tired of hearing this tired & false trope repeated. Democrats were out there with a clear message, but we can’t sustain a democracy with an electorate that would rather believe a known compulsive liar.
may 8, 2025, 11:50 pm • 4 0 • view
But still, a lot of them believes in his lies.
may 9, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
It shouldn't be about "winning." People need to grow the Hell up and at least do the bare minimum of the right thing. If 90 million people had enough common sense to at least vote against the most obvious threat, we wouldn't be back in this mess.
may 9, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
TURN FASTER PLEASE!
may 9, 2025, 7:22 am • 1 0 • view
George, most of them can’t read, Fox News are their go to, and if not that, the young Turks, I don’t like them either, my son watches them. Corporate media is gone to the bottom.
may 8, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately, I know people who sat out the election. One just put her head in the sand and I lost so much respect for her. Another is someone so consumed by work that I don’t think they’ve ever voted in any election.
may 8, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Wrong question. The question is, do they understand the cost of “opting out” yet?
may 8, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
If they read the NYT or CNN the result wouldn’t be that different. Both orgs were and continue to be complicit.
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 7 0 • view
Yes, let's invite the shitty racists.
may 8, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Just gonna leave this here leavingmaga.org
may 8, 2025, 10:32 pm • 3 1 • view
Thank you for posting this.
may 8, 2025, 10:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Dumpster Fire Party voters upset because their lives are now part of the dumpster fire?
may 9, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
Yay, "low-information voters" and "stay-at-homers"
may 8, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Hopefully Democrats don't squander this opportunity by alienating those people even more
may 8, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
They're alienating their base. So....
may 8, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:14 pm • 34 1 • view
Oh good.. well.. hope they have seen the light now and we won’t have another bounce back
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
If voting was compulsory in the US like it is here in Australia, there would be a much smaller chance of ending up with an absolute fucking shit show 🙄
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 19 0 • view
Yeah if only we could pass laws to make that the case. Or stop/reverse gerrymandering. Or make voting by mail the norm in all states.But aside from the GOP stonewalling all of that, since they know it will be their definitive downfall, plenty of Dems are just as happy to take $$$ to vote "no" too.
may 8, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely. There's too much lobbying and corporate influence in all politics! Even in Australia our current prime minister is very centre left and not exactly interested in acting on climate change etc if it hurts the corporate sector. But it's the lesser of the evils 🙄
may 8, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
😔
may 9, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
which is WHY the GOP is absolutely against that sort of thing.
may 8, 2025, 10:16 pm • 21 0 • view
Oh man, can you imagine how fucked the GOP would be if there was compulsory voting and no gerrymandering! But that would still require Dems to actually use messaging and tell voters how their lives could be better with a more socialised system. Or as MAGA would say "MARXIST WOKE COMMIES!!" 🥴😂
may 9, 2025, 12:01 am • 3 0 • view
I'm Gen Jones. IDK Why, but unless I dreamed it up - in California in the 70's ( I first voted in '76), my dad had compulsory time off to vote and it "seemed" like voting Was more of a "had to" thing. It could also be mixed with my memories of the "Bicentennial"
may 9, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
Too little too late.. why didn’t they abandon tRump the convicted felon and insurrectionist and vote for Harris?
may 8, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Interesting……
may 8, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 15 2 • view
He got nicked
may 8, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah… a few inches … But injuries don’t immediately spurt blood. No blood spray just means it isn’t a movie
may 9, 2025, 1:05 am • 1 0 • view
Always believed it was staged.
may 8, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Wen this ends names will be remembered. We have endured too much to allow confession and conversion to replace punishment for failure to honor the Oath of Office.
may 9, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
In droves? Not yet.
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d put money on more non-voters over of increased Dem numbers. Thank god for Australia’s compulsory voting.
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Fine, RUB IT IN, Aussies. 😜
may 8, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Also, our independent electoral commission that runs elections, determines electoral boundaries and regulates political advertising. It's a national treasure, and IMO, having one of those is a basic prerequisite for any country calling itself a democracy.
may 9, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah I’ve seen the boundaries in the US. They’re a joke.
may 9, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
I used to have empathy for the maga morons, but not anymore. Who cares if they are turning on dipshit, they are not and will never be qualified to vote - they are the deliberately ignorant, and they are the bane of society.
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 8 0 • view
Perhpas the more significant problem is those with no news attentiveness are seduced by rhetoric claiming simple solutions for complex problems and shifting the blame to someone else.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Cool. May be too late.
may 8, 2025, 10:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Ewwwy!!!!Dirt on good hat.I hate CNN!I don’t watch CNN no way!Huh!?All you liberals on here against Trump!Ya’ll on the left!I’m on the right!I voted Trump 3 times!He will always will get my vote.Cry babies on here!Go suck a baby bottle or pepsyfire if that’s spelled right.Titty babies on here!
may 9, 2025, 5:26 am • 3 0 • view
If that’s by throwing transgender people under the bus like some democrats are doing then they will lose again. Instead of dems ignoring the $200,000,000 in anti-trans attack ads they should of counter back forcefully. Remember anti-transgender rhetoric is the gateway to fascism.
may 9, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet - THEY STILL VOTED FOR HIM, no matter how much disdain he showed for them. I blame those FUCKING rallies.
may 8, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 1 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
They need to keep on growing and protesting against him... SHOW HIM he just LOST all those once loyal to him!! THAT hurts his pride and ego... the most fragile and vulnerable parts of this crazed lunatic!!
may 8, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Look at all the people in here dunking on democrats and offering ZERO suggestions to improve things. You can be mad that party leadership hasn’t done more in these trying times, I get that, but to say Democrats haven’t done anything to help the people? Fucking liars!
may 8, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
They should have to tattoo idiot on their foreheads. Fuck every on of them.
may 8, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
QUESTION: Does the orange “leader” want to do away with undocumented workers and then ruin the American economy so that (broke and desperate) American citizens can then do those often grueling and back breaking jobs the undocumented did? Just asking. 🤔
may 8, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Those are the same voters that say “well, Biden is old” even though he dropped out. “I don’t know, things were good when Trump was president.” And they fall for lines like “immigrants are taking our jobs.” I know because I’m related to some of them.
may 9, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Meh, I like you George, but it’s hard for me to take news off a Substack seriously. 30% of the country will follow Trump into hell. It’s the non voters and “swing voters” who need persuading.
may 8, 2025, 11:10 pm • 2 0 • view
I know some of these voters. Mostly old folks. They may be turning on Trump but they cling to the most far fetched, ignorant bs. Things like liberals are demons and measles is fine.
may 8, 2025, 11:00 pm • 2 0 • view
I've heard that Tik Tok is a really great place to get accurately sourced information 🤪
may 8, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
CNN and the NYT helped put Trump back in office, George www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
considering that most maga seem to support rapists and child molesters or be them i frankly don't want those types near our sane loving communities. leopards don't change their spots and they will eat faces
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a little late, the MAGAt administration is already laying plans to never give up power.
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump's people have been telling him he is a dictator already, that he can't be removed, no matter who he hurts. Isn't it obvious? So, MAGAts on Social Security, Medicare, & Medicade, MAGAts who need FEMA, MAGAts in unions & farms, Magats with low to moderate income, you're all fucked!
may 8, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Opt out, lose out, simple as that...
may 9, 2025, 7:52 am • 1 0 • view
I don't believe his cult will ever abandon him.
may 9, 2025, 10:34 am • 5 0 • view
MTB is doing so. Maybe she has her eye on the prize?
may 9, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
We live in a digital autocracy. Social media controls what these people see and therefore what they think. And social media owners went far right. Democracy is not safe until social media is regulated. We need simple open source algorithms which can be understood by researchers.
may 9, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
No.
may 9, 2025, 5:40 am • 1 0 • view
They didnt vote and brought us to this juncture, so they have no right to complain. They are at fault.
may 8, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
🤦🏽♀️
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
George, you know that magats can't read.
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
They don’t need to join the democrats and the democrats don’t need or want them.. but they do need to address their own hypocrisy and dissolve like all other untenable hate based movements eventually do. It reminds me of the quote “fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity”.
may 8, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Most people are not all that plugged in to politics. If economy good: they'll vote for the current guys. If economy bad: they'll vote for the other guys. Inflation was up. Sure, we were better off than other places, but Democrats are terrible at messaging, didn't address those concerns, and well...
may 9, 2025, 4:40 am • 2 0 • view
I remember my high school government teacher always stressing “don’t ever waste your vote!” While their right to do so, to me an opt-out voter’s inaction is an endorsement against protecting our Democratic-Republic form of government. One of the many steps toward the loss of freedom as we know it.
may 8, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Even if they turn against him, we still have 3 3/4 more years of this guy. We need an overwhelming refute of complicit republicans in the 2026 congressional elections... which is all of them.
may 8, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
MIDTERMS! MIDTERMS! MIDTERMS!
may 8, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
West Virginia have places ravaged by natural disasters and aren't being helped by FEMA... Dems could arrange to send aid and aid workers to help them rebuild... Just an idea of grass roots stuff that could be done...
may 8, 2025, 10:27 pm • 3 0 • view
📌
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
If not, they're apparently too dumb to've learned the lesson that politics is a pragmatic sport. You absolutely have to vote AGAINST the candidate who should not be elected. This sometimes means you have to hold your nose, but smart people do just that. We know the consequences of failing to do so.
may 8, 2025, 11:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Billboards, people. Billboards. Short Sweet Effective
may 9, 2025, 9:14 am • 3 0 • view
Maga frogs get most of their political news from Putin's propaganda machine.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Disengaged voters are abandoning the fantasy of lower-egg-prices-on-day-one in droves. Can reality win them back? Crazy take, but what if!
may 8, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
They don't read. Full stop. The news, stock tickers, the Good Book(s) they supposedly put so much stock into, the actual laws of the country they live in, the Constitution... They can't even finish the bill of rights. They got thru 1 and 2 and *stopped*
may 8, 2025, 10:58 pm • 3 0 • view
They should suffer for they are blue collars who deserve the suffering for their treason
may 9, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck em. Let them be forgotten. Need to combat things like prageru and these douche bags like Andrew Tate and YouTube personalities that tell shitty people it's ok to be shitty because everyone else is the problem. And work on those coming of voter age
may 8, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
No no no, too easy, too convenient. MAGA were warned. They didn't want to listen. Now they want to turn back? No fucking way. They must take the knee and bow before the fat orange man.
may 9, 2025, 5:32 am • 0 0 • view
That’s not enough. We’ve been here before. They continue to vote for republican fear and hate, thinking the next ‘populist’ supported by the oligarchs is their guy.
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
They equate Trump grandstanding on The Apprentice, with Trump being president. There’s no dividing line, the reality television programme is actually their hyperreality.
may 8, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
40% of registered voters are disengage because neither party has ever really represented them or their values. There is an entire political spectrum, but the two party system has taught you that you have to align with one or the other otherwise you are just wrong. We need Ranked Choice Voting
may 9, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Democraps have done nothing to win them back
may 8, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
They have and I’m sick and tired of people repeating this lie. we are literally in a two-party system of government where only one party—Democrats—actually have plans to help the poor and middle class.
may 8, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
There is no way Trump won all the swing states!
may 8, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of success as well as a democratic strategist.🙄 I'm sure they'll figure out a way to fuck this up the same way they fucked up every opportunity they've been given
may 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
No, and we shouldn't try and pander to them
may 8, 2025, 11:10 pm • 4 0 • view
If you voted for a convicted felon and sexual assaulter then there is no moral redemption for you because you can not tell right from wrong. Seek help now so you can figure it out.
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 9 0 • view
Not if the Dems keep camping out on legacy media.
may 8, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope so and I will never forgive every single one of them/regime/cult.
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Democrats need to step up to the plate and actually show voters what the party is supposed to stand for. None of this standing by and business as usual BS. Come out strongly in favor of Universal healthcare, restoring the DoE, anti-corruption legislation, and supporting workers.
may 8, 2025, 11:19 pm • 1 0 • view
They can’t just say it, though. They have to show it. Even if they can’t get the bills to a pass or a vote, put them out. Make them seen. And when they win a majority, they need to actually try to pass some of them.
may 8, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Do people still believe elections in the US can fix this? As if there will be free and fair elections again?
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I've been saying - this was the last election the US is going to see. Autocracy is the New Orange.
may 8, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Free maybe, but I have my doubts about fair.
may 8, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I won't believe anything like this until Trump (or his surrogate) gets dramatically lower votes than previously. I saw quite a few interviews by Klepper showing people "done with Trump" but when asked, they were still going to vote for him
may 9, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
Lets remind them - it’s not just Trump they need to abandon, it’s the entire GOP. Today’s Republican party is fully complicit in this corruption. They need to be abandoned too. Vote BLUE.
may 9, 2025, 12:20 am • 2 0 • view
Abandoning trump… A little too late.
may 8, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
To be fair I haven’t read the NYT or watched CNN in years because they are part of the machine that got Trump elected the first time around…and they continue to be a shitshow from what I see on this and other platforms.
may 8, 2025, 11:09 pm • 5 0 • view
That same group is waking up? OMG, that's called WOKE.
may 8, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I fear you underestimate the enduring appeal of naked racism and misogyny.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 26 0 • view
We should never forget the immense role this played.these same voters are the ones getting their information about humanity from the bigot at the church fish dinner. Zero empathy from me.
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 9 0 • view
The "Whatever I hear from somebody three times at work is true" voter, who gets political news from Maria Menounos' gas-pump TV channel.
may 8, 2025, 10:13 pm • 8 1 • view
“A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth”. Joseph Goebbels, Head of Nazi Propaganda
may 8, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view
In the south, there is currently ZERO messaging from Democrats. These means that everyone in the south only hears from Trump and that he is doing excellent. Since that’s there only message, that’s the one they believe. Many things could be done down here. Younger gen are dems but don’t know…
may 8, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
1🧵 Trauma Informed Community Development is what I specialise in. Buttigieg is using a lot of TICD principles when he talks, and that is very effective at trust building. If we view disenfranchised voters as a traumatised group - and to a large extent they are, this is a group that you would not...
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 2 1 • view
2🧵 ...use the usual politicking of "first place trust in me, and I will deliver to you" on, because they're cynical and disinvested. They've been burned before and fully expect to be burned again. Instead, these are a group of people that one must approach as equal partners, and begin delivering...
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
3🧵... wins before you ask for trust. And "wins" don't mean big things either. Buttigieg is talking about imagining a world you want to live in. Get a couple of dems united behind that messaging, and that is a win. Then, openly and publicly dump their money to really good causes. I'm not...
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
... 4🧵 talking someone with a couple hundred grand in the bank, I'm talking a million or more. The people can't relate to millionaires, therefore they can't relate. If politicians want to serve the people, they need to prove their in it for the people, not any kind of personal agenda, because...
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
...5🧵 as Buttigieg says, it should be an honour to serve. I believe that you have a small cohort of Democrats capable of rebuilding the party if, and only if, they find tradespeople and social workers, cops and waitresses, executives and retail workers. You and me. I can trust you and me...
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 1 0 • view
6🧵... because what is good for you is good for me, and vice versa, because at that point it is not only a government by or for the people, it's a government *of* the people. I see several pathways forward to reach these disaffected and disenfranchised voters, so long as...
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
7🧵 ... they are courageous enough to shrug off the status quo, discard what's always been done, and lead boldly from a place of empathy and compassion. They can do it. Find your leaders, America. I've identified them-that's my job. Now, it's your turn. Start with AOC and go down the alphabet 💜✊🏼
may 9, 2025, 2:49 am • 2 0 • view
Your 🧵is my Exact feeling when Pete speaks. I do have CPTSD and his demeanor is how I wish we All related to one another. When I commented on how I'd like to see the US renewed, a comment came calling me a "colonizer" ? What gives? I'm with Pete 100%
may 9, 2025, 3:31 am • 1 0 • view
This is a delicate and politically charged topic. Here is an article that can help you understand a bit more, and I would he happy to answer any questions ♾️💜
may 9, 2025, 3:43 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you for the article. I'm still confused, for I have lived "The Way" all of my 64 years. I Still don't understand why others either forgot or simply weren't "listening"?. Like you say, it IS a charged topic that I'd enjoy more of your feedback with, if you don't mind.
may 9, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
90,000,000 people couldn't be bothered to vote. That's the issue.
may 8, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
No because they don't believe in science and data. They think everything is a liberal ploy. Even if we found a cure for cancer they'd rather drink unpasteurized milk than be cured by some woke liberal medicine.
may 9, 2025, 1:43 am • 4 0 • view
Any victory built on top of Republicans who are mad at Trump will immediately evaporate once Trump isn't there anymore. So the answer is no.
may 8, 2025, 10:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Lord, hear our prayers
may 8, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Bah Bye…
may 8, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
We shall see come the next election.
may 8, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
People think you're customers when you're employees. A well informed vote is a civic duty
may 8, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
It's because he's hitting them where it hurts, their wallets. Never appeal to their sense of decency (which is non-existent). It's all about costs. They'll prioritize that, sometimes, over how much they hate anyone who isn't a cis white man/woman.
may 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Have they all had their wake-up call yet...? I don't think it's too late... at least, not yet!
may 9, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
I predict many MAGAs who breakup with Trump won’t vote again. Instead they’ll crawl back under their rock or into their double wides. The world will be right again.
may 8, 2025, 11:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Ive heard more people say they wish they hadnt voted instead of wishing they had voted differently. They are only upset the consequences affect them as well.
may 8, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
As a registered independent, I have vowed to never vote Republican again because the cancer that has taken over the Party is destroying our democracy.
may 8, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder how many of the opt out are actually registered to vote and what would motivate them to opt in. No doubt they are unhappy with the worsening conditions but I don’t see how this turns into engagement/reengagement in elections. Voter suppression efforts target this group as well.
may 8, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
ABSOLUTE KEY is for dems to remember that all politics is local! millions of americans get most of their news from LOCAL sources. dems NEED to get the msg out in local papers, radio and tv news! show up. have ppl write letters to the editor. get regular ppl interviewed.
may 8, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly I don't do either of those things either and I'm quite liberal. I get my news from fellow disgruntled liberals who cite sources!
may 9, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
I’ve thought all along that the people who voted for him because of grocery prices would show him no loyalty when he failed. Trump is too stupid to understand this, or he doesn’t give a damn. When the wheels come off the wagon, there will be almost no one left to support him.
may 9, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Its too late...
may 8, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Nah, they will still vote for Trump if they have to choose between him and a democrat.
may 9, 2025, 4:57 am • 0 0 • view
I’m afraid that those voters will just migrate toward another hate filled path. The Democratic Party really needs to restructure to rejuvenate the voters we have already.
may 8, 2025, 10:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Can't believe we are reduced to grovelling to the uninformed and ignorant.
may 8, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
Honestly, Democrats seriously need to widen their net with regards to media. Trump and Co. made *huge* gains by using social media, podcasting, and nontraditional media. Democrats are *way* behind in figuring out how to use these tools effectively.
may 8, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Too late.
may 8, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I have nothing but disdain for them. I don't owe them one bit of pity for their 'disengagement'.
may 8, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Let’s not get too excited, when MAGA comes out with their next hate monger, these a$$hats will fall inline and support them. Hate, cruelty, racism, and spite are the motivations for these people.
may 8, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop blaming other people (third party voters, non-voters) for the failures of the Dems. Harris was never meant to win, her entire candidacy was performative political theater. Never forget: The Democratic Party is only here to normalize the policies of the Republican Party. They're both Right Wing.
may 9, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Third party voter detected.
may 9, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
What took them so long to realize this? Did they block out the horror of his first term or destroy their own brains?
may 8, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The opportunity is there, but never underestimate the Democrat's ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Dems can and will fuck this up.
may 8, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
That is what Dem politicians are paid to do by the lobbyists working for the same billionaires who control Republicans.
may 8, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Obvious thing is obvious.
may 8, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Totally agree. Wish more people recognized this.
may 8, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Americans Prayers are needed for our long serving political opponent 🙏🙏 of the felon. Nancy Pelosi. She has been rushed to hospital on her return from Germany. Please 🙏🙏🙏 Pray 🙏🙏🙏 for her recovery. God Bless 🙏🙏
may 9, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
I’m surrounded by these people. One told me “what’s happening is supposed to happen,” but when Biden was prez, everything was his fault.
may 8, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Correction: these are the people who wanted Trump to hurt people they didn't like but are now upset that they're also being hurt. These people deliberately voted for Trump to make other people suffer. I don't care for nor want their amity.
may 8, 2025, 10:35 pm • 25 1 • view
You're not wrong. Except for the children, I give absolutely NO FUCKS about how much the hayseeds suffer.
may 8, 2025, 10:50 pm • 3 0 • view
A lot of these people don’t think about politics at all and don’t pay attention to it until three days before they vote. It’s unwise to assume 77 million people voted for Trump because they are either Nazis or want to hurt people. I’m no MAGA apologist. I hate the Orangutang, look at my history.
may 9, 2025, 12:20 am • 4 0 • view
If you didn't know Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts, that he was found liable for sexual assault, and you lived through his first presidency, you really don't have much going for you on the "Well, I didn't know" front.
may 9, 2025, 12:28 am • 4 0 • view
You really, really need to take a hard look at the average person in the US and adjust your expectations. Everything from your education system to your media is fucked and you’re surprised? It’s not an “excuse”, it’s a reason.
may 9, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
Are you trying to tell me that the folks who voted (not the ones who didn't) didn't know Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies? All the MAGAs I know (admittedly, not a lot) all know this about Trump. And we ALL lived through his first term. Sorry, but I don't buy what you're selling.
may 9, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
PS. Trump came down the elevator and started his presidential campaign with: "Mexico, they're not sending their best. They are sending rapist, criminals, ..." This is what propelled him in his first presidential bid. People didn't pick Trump out of a hat.
may 9, 2025, 12:40 am • 2 0 • view
I agree. Many were uninformed, ignorant, disengaged, people who aren’t wrapped up in hatred. They were uneducated struggling people, barely making it with the status quo, & voted for something different. Not everyone who voted for trump were racist MAGA. Many of them are extremely poor & desperate.
may 9, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
I call bullshit. I could understand that position the first time. They knew what they were voting for this time. Anybody who voted for Trump the second time are callous fascists at minimum. Do not give these people the benefit out your doubt because they will not do the same. They want us dead.
may 9, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
I understand the anger, & rightly so. Many of trump Supporters R Nazi racist criminal scum, but not all Of them. Some are Simply so poor & busy trying to survive & are not connected to the news or social media. Out of touch with politics & news. Ignorance is easily manipulated & vulnerable to gossip
may 9, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
Their lesson on trumps evil will come. They will Feel the pain of tariffs and inflation. They will feel the pain of making a stupid choice. They will go hungry and possibly lose their job and housing. So will some of us. So your anger is justified. But I know some people voted out of ignorance.
may 9, 2025, 3:03 am • 1 0 • view
If it hasn't come yet, it never will. Good people don't wait for something to affect them. They're still the same selfish, greedy filth, and will eagerly try to hurt the same people again in the future with some other candidate. They don't change their bigotry. They just change their tactics.
may 9, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view
They may not all be proud Nazis, but they gladly stand shoulder to shoulder with them when the opportunity suits them, and because of that I make no discrepancy between them. They're equally as evil, they just have a problem with the label.
may 9, 2025, 5:42 am • 0 0 • view
You have valid points, and I understand your disgust and anger. I have to self check, in order not to let that take over my mind & body. I don’t want to look through a lens of hate. I don’t want to be blinded by rage or a swiping judgment. I see the ones who were blinded, but not inherently bad.
may 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
You can watch 0 news and still be well aware of the world around you. I don't watch any news, and I'm better informed than my Boomer parents who do. Anybody who voted for Trump knew the expectations of his presidency, and did so anyway. They're evil, pure and simple.
may 9, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
A friend of mine voted for him. .....but he's not evil. He's just fucking dumb. Hes one of those undecideds that only look up from their life, take only 8 minutes to evaluate "the two politic people" and decide based on how each one responds to whatever shallow thing they care about🧵
may 9, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
He only has a handful of interests. One of which is fkn video games. Bro decided the course of history based on who didn't "hurt his favorite video games." He doesnt like "overly woke" censorship in his games. Granted, when writers try too hard like Ghostbusters 2016...yeah. I get it 100... but 🧵
may 9, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
To take your dumbass head out of your video games for only 8 minutes and decide future events based on something so fucking shallow as "this one says the same thing i hate about people who make my anime girls cover their boobies and say feminism things" is so deeply enraging that I haven't 🧵
may 9, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
Spoken to him alot since then. Mainly cause Im trying not to drive a wedge between us. trump will burn him out without my help. He aint gettin the Switch 2 because of his dumb meat headed ass vote. Oh to be a fly on the wall when he goes to the store soon and starts to see his food shelves empty
may 9, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
Tl;Dr: Some people are dumb fuckin children with a children's mindset about the world and lament not being children to the point they desperately cling to it by engaging in "adult shit" ONLY if they HAVE to.....thus causing them to cram 4 years of important shit in 8 mins before going back to game.
may 9, 2025, 4:59 am • 1 0 • view
Ignorance is never an excuse.
may 9, 2025, 5:52 am • 1 0 • view
A truism I like to repeat, "in the Age of Information ignorance is often a choice."
may 9, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
Just because you care about your friend doesn't make him any less evil. I'm sure John Wayne Gacy was considered a polite neighbor. Evil is often polite to their friends. It's how they treat their enemies that is the true litmus test.
may 9, 2025, 5:46 am • 0 0 • view
Democrats won't win them, back or otherwise.
may 8, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view