Why are American voters so stupid. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result 😐

Hopefully after this George hopefully

GOP voters never learn, full stop

When we reinstitute the fairness doctrine. And when 'news' outlets like Fox, OAN, etc no longer exist.

That Fairness Doctrine would change nothing about this.

Hence the second part of my comment.

And how do you propose getting rid of them and keeping something similar or worse from existing?

This isn't my wheel house and clearly I'm all for protecting First Amendment rights. But, first, reinstating the Fairness Doctrine will help at least reshape them. If they must present all sides or at least two sides to arguments, they can't spew the bullshit they currently do unchecked.

Second, they broadcast primarily using public airwaves / infrastructure, no? If so, regulating if an outlet uses 'news' in their programming it must be factually based. Otherwise it's editorial, which is fine but must be labelled as such. They can't get around labelling themselves 'entertainment'

Third, when they spew shit they know to be false, they face real consequences. Fines are great but not when a corporation has the $ to deal with them. And when that's it---we all just move on. J6 should have been the end of Fox. Yank their FCC license if necessary.

Point being: it's not one step; it's several. Again, I'm not a media expert, just a consumer. But let's do something. Anything. Because this shit has rotted Americans' brains for too long already.

If consumers wish to do something good - they should. But we should not be willing to give the government power over speech and the press.

Cable channels are not broadcast and do not have broadcast licenses. Shutting down speech because the government doesn’t like it violates the First Amendment.

Such a proposal would be a clear violation of the First Amendment - which is why it' never been attempted before

No. Cable/satellite/internet are not broadcast. They are cable/satellite/internet. (They pass through the airwaves, they do not travel on the airwaves.) And even for broadcast requiring “truth” violates the First Amendment. Compelled speech, such as requiring labels, violates the First Amendment.

Cable does not use public airwaves and are therefore NOT subject to FCC regulations or oversight. They woudn't be subject to the Fairness Doctrine because there would be no way to enforce it.

The Fairness Doctrine never required both sides. It required diverse viewpoints. Most stations - including cable channels - have programs with multiple hosts who all have their own viewpoints. 5 views on why vouchers are good meets the requirement. And all 5 views can be bullshit.

The Fairness Doctrine never applied to news content - no matter what medium it is on

He has nothing to lose.

No republican president since EISENHOWER has ever left office with a solid economy. Republicans are not fiscally conservative, they're all about giving OUR MONEY to fucking BILLIONAIRES

Just found out my toaster is now $20 more. Apparently, Biden's fault for... global sunshine patterns? Shows Trump's lack of understanding of EVERYTHING!

GOP is the party for voters who don't look anything up It's for the lazy people

I have been asking myself that ALL week. Willful ignorance is the only thing I can come up with.

By the time he's done, my credit rating will be higher than the USA's

And Republicans will pay at the polls for decades just like the other times. Idiots.

When will democrats learn that republican voters don't really care about all the things they say they care about?

When will the voters learn that the "gop" isn't a party at all. Just a criminal enterprise, knee deep in dismantling Our country? Stealing from the poorest to GIVE TO THE RICHEST...

Never.

When we get rid of Fox News and Joe Rogan and disinformation and start educating our kids again.

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I've wondered that too! WHY do people find it so EASY to FORGET how BAD the RepubliCONS are for OUR Country?

Why do 'some people' find it so ...,.

True, it's NOT all people, so I should've worded it differently.

As soon as rural people start talking about liberal elites and then vote for billionaires. The people in this country that vote GOP are generally very dumb, very evil, or both. They are not reasonable people. If they were reasonable, they wouldn't be so easy to lie to.

We knew that before the November 2024 election, among other facts. 😡

They stupid, even when you mention that economy usually fairs better under democrats they still push back. Say what?

Every single time. Why don't they get it? (Narrator: Republican politicians, their rich donors and compliant media all get rich on the public credit card. Only America loses.)

They haven't been since Eisenhower.

When will voters learn this?

Never. This is due to the fact a large percentage of the American populace is willfully stupid.

They're not even a party that can govern effectively.

As long as he actually does leave office.

NEVER should BE there!

And water is wet too. LOL

When they start watching what they do instead of listening to what they say?

They never seem to get the disconnect between the political rhetoric & their daily lives.

Will voters ever realize there is no Republican Party anymore

Ummmm never George.

Elephants never forget and voters can't ever remember. That's why Republicans always remind voters of what they "do" and take credit from others or credit for funds they refuse to appropriate. Republicans are self-promoters, Democrats promote others. Democrats need to learn to do both.

It's a vicious cycle that has repeated itself for decades. But they only believe in alternative facts.

George, voters have never shown that they get it, then do the right thing. They just don't want to be bothered with voting even when their own freedoms are on the line. Let someone else vote they don't need mine they will have enough. One day their luck will run out & there will go their freedom.

yep republicans absolutely suck at managing the economy! Democrats excel at managing the economy

I hope we can hamstring the GOP now

Ask the Latinos who voted for the dictator lol. Funny how they are freaking the fuck out now.

The GOP counts on the poorly educated who believe their lies, and many USA fools won’t bother 2 Vote. When will the Democratic Party wake up and know that protecting brain-dead Biden cost us our fucking Country? As an Independent; am eating dosed popcorn and laughing At My Own Home. Sad Joke.

And I thought Ronald Reagan was a spend thrift but DJT takes the cake. Ronnie took expensive gifts from China against the law & got caught but Trump was much worse. Money from Musk to win the election & the plane from Saudi takes the biggest bribe.

Then go be King somewhere else. You are not popular anymore here. Your time of fame & fortune is over. You are losing it dufus.

Approximately never.

When American media stops telling voters that Republicans are fiscally responsible aka lying

Never. If they haven’t learned by now, they will never learn. The whole concept of “learning” seems quaint now, in our country.

Never has been, never will be.

Noooooo, Trump will leave a massive deficit and an a destroyed economy. The damage is already going to be unprecedented.

Trump’s voters simply don’t understand that “deficit” word, nor it’s implications

When the media start being about journalism and not stenography

It is ironic they struggle with fiscal management... most of them with great net worths.

George, I love you but you gotta stop asking dithering questions like this. This rhetoric has been brewing for DECADES. Find another path because this one ain’t it!

We’re already there- billions down the Republican drain

When they learn to read something other than Murdoch media

The day they stop watching Fox, OAN, etc.

Republicans are just about lining the the pockets of their rich buddies.

The party of addicts, they keep doing the same thing expecting different results, and they're voters are co-dependents and enablers!

And Trump wants to be the best of the deficit creators. This is one thing he is good at doing.

Anyone supporting rtump is insane and brainwashed.

I really wish John Harwood would come to Bluesky.

It has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. Voters have been trained by the GOP to be so irrationally afraid of anything that can be vaguely compared to communism, anyone or anything foreign or non-Christian, and anything non Heteronormative they’d rather have a recession than embrace diversity

1932

That would be true if he left today. We still have 3 1/2 years to go. When he told us once that he was "the king of debt", we should have listened!

GOP voters, learn. Hilarious.

Because they're War Hawks! All they care about is Defense spending and Defense Contractors.

This is a true statement.

They know. They don't care. They're American.

Right??!!

They will never learn and I really don’t think they care. They seem to value taking away a woman’s right to choose and hurting immigrants coming to this country for a better life over their own economic interests.

Facts!

again

Both Biden and Obama, after taking over from Republican presidents, signed some kind of "recovery" legislation.

They will learn when the oligarchs stop creating propaganda. That is, never.

When we fix the education system that Regan broke?

Now.

Economies always do better under liberal governments. It's a fact. Liberal governments are terrible communicators. It's a fact.

The Economist said it best

This breaks my heart.

Mine also!

Wake up: You live in Germany in 1933, the Gestapo is already active.

"Agreed With Make The Rich Richer & The Poor Poorer" "Better Together" 🫶 #CW #ConsumerWatch

When will people learn that makes no difference. They are the party of "white." That's what they're voting for. Even if their children and elderly have to die.

Maybe when our education system quits pumping out morons with no critical thinking skills to recognize media like Fox News is just a propaganda outlet. Nothing changes until that happens.

When they're allowed to learn things like how the government actually works. When their districts aren't gerrymandered all to hell. When every county in every state has schools that run on more than passion and desperation. When adults stop choosing to believe comforting delusions over reality.

They are not constitutionally responsible, so it's only natural that they are fiscally irresponsible.

As long as they can openly hate you and I, they do not care.

Bigotry is ruining our country and the thieves are robbing us blind under the cover of this bigotry.

Right now, they’re the terrorist party.

republicans don't care about "fiscal responsibility", they are the party of GREED and SELFISHNESS. They will bankrupt this country before they'll agree to pay $1 more in taxes.

I have been saying this since Carter and was too young to vote but I live in f up Kansas

100% they are not CONS ervatives for nothing !

The economy AND the American people ALWAYS do better under DEMOCRATS Republicans ALWAYS implement policies that benefit mostly the RICH and big business, and leave more debt, higher deficits and a crashed economy THESE ARE FACTS !

Republicans have mastered the art of motivating dedicated voters who happen have this evil hunger and thirst for hate in regards to race.

Duh… Never.

History has dictated that fact! Problem is that they don’t want to learn about facts!

No shit 🤑🤮

They're all hideous, the Republicans & a lot of whites! So many unwell, violent pedos in their clan. For MORE than a century, we've seen nothing but putrid men being filthy, lazy, hateful while hollering "it's the libs!" It's past time to leave them behind.

Yep.....

Again!

Because my MAGA cousins get their news from Facebook memes. No local papers anymore, if there were, not sure they would read those.

They conflate “business deregulation “ with good for the economy and fiscally responsible is a lie

Oh please. To do that would mean they would be creating a healthy social environment that would see through and revolt against their blatant corruption.

Maga and Republicans never will

LIES!!!! 🤬🤬🤬

People will learn that the Democrats are more fiscally responsible when the Democrats start to tell them. They need to speak up about the good things they do.

Frustration is understandable. But I remember Democrats screaming every day, everywhere about what Trump was going to do to the country. The media was sane-washing the felon and a third of Americans either didn't hear it, didn't believe it, or didn't care.

Yes, there was plenty of evidence for anyone willing to listen that re-electing Trump would be a big mistake (and turned out to be bigger than I was capable of imagining). Anyone who didn't realize it had to be willfully ignorant.

or complicit: RW politicians, media, donors, church leaders etc. They know they're lying to get money and power. The cult is mostly ignorant, willfully ignorant or just wants mean daddy to punish the people they hate.

They also entirely focused on bidens mental state yet didn't say a damn thing about trumps.

That's part of getting it wrong - sure, Trump's awful, but why weren't the Democrats screaming about how great they'd be in power? It's always hard to sell a negative - "we're not Trump" over a positive - "we'll grow the economy by ..."

The MAGAts listen to Fox and other such outlets and have no idea of actual facts.

Democrats often don’t know all the good stuff the Democrats do.

Messaging is still a real problem!

They needed to put this on a banner in back of every Dem giving a speech in Oct/Nov (this was Oct '24). But even then, business ppl themselves even with this in front of them, being fully aware, still chose the other option as well.

Except 92% of Black women and 88% of Black men understood. Why is it less than half of both white women (despite already losing bodily autonomy because of Trump) and white men didnt understand it?

WILL to be sure…though 1st round already did…add to the National Debt….

Probably not because the people voting for them aren't fiscally responsible. Birds of a feather.....not just for criminals and addicts.

They're too easily distracted by bullshit & wedge issues. What's that fun fact? Trump has more convictions than there are trans athletes playing in the NCAA. We're gonna have to find something PRETTY shiny to distract them with!

I’m sure this is rhetorical. When have they EVER been fiscally responsible?

Back in Lincoln’s days?

That was a very different Republican Party. I doubt Lincoln would have approved of insurrectionists storming the Capitol carrying Stars-and-Bars Trump flags.

I’m sure he would not! But back then they may have been financially responsible. Since then, well, not so much.

Just praying to the god(s) of multiple religions that sTumpy leaves a still-functioning country…

Don the con will top them all. May the gates of Hell swallow him whole.

Each time the Republican President will convince voters that large tax cuts to the rich and to corporations are in their own best interest. Each time the American voter believes them. I do not understand why?????

Google the charts. Historically, the GOP has been far more wasteful. Plus, they dole out tax breaks for corporations and the upper 1%.

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Ugh, that's true but irrelevant. Every balanced budget in the 20th C lead to sharp recessions. The economy needs spending, it needs to be the right spending. Read Stephanie Kelton.

Imagine how much progress they’d make if Democratic presidents didn’t have to first dig us out of the hole created by Republican presidents.

If we don’t deal with the PROPAGANDA MACHINES it will NEVER HAPPEN!

Truth! They have mainstream media & meta platforms set up as brainwashing tools. Social media problem is hard to tackle but mainstream media can’t operate without the technicians, camera operators & behind the scenes personnel. The personalities can easily be replaced. I long to see this:

GOP is now a criminal organisation. Thats the bigger issue.

Never

When media and analysts start telling them The default POV, still and always, is that Republican policies are best, must have austerity, etc when it's the policies that fail not the people

Never. Team redhat means being fine w sticking other people w the bill and hard work. As long as they're able to enjoy the suffering of their fellow Americans-with-whom-they-disagree-theologically, it's all worth it. They don't care about real life, they care about feeling powerful. Pathetic.

Especially Dementia Don!

The worst part? There are 3 types of power, and two of them make you feel *great* if you're doing it right. 1. Power over. You will do this or else. 2. Power with. Unions, protests 3. Power to. "I can't answer that, please ask a person who lived it." I amplify all your protests from Canada...

... which means that I am using whatever power I have to prop up your voices, not speak for you. I am handing my power to you to use. 2 and 3 feel awesome. 1 is gross. They could literally get a better power high from helping people and doing good work, as proven by neuroscience.

Never. Many choose to believe what they have been told, not actual facts.

When they stop being hateful racist Christian assholes?

George, keep reminding your followers about Trump’s failed economic policies. The economy is Trump’s Achilles heal.

This country would not be in debt if not for republicans. Every penny of debt was added by republicans or democrats bailing out a crashed republican economy.

They'll never learn. The cult is either too brainwashed from decades of indoctrination, or are just too interested in watching democracy die. There are people who hate this govt and want to see it collapse...Living right here amongst us. They are the minority and we will not let that happen. 🗽

It’s a race to the Bottom and the Devil is in the drivers seat.

People don't think Republicans are responsible. They think Republicans will lower their taxes.

If he leaves…

When the “media” talks about it that way

Never! Most relate to hating the Others more than loving themselves. Hate is their first choice evidence has proven. It appears many have a toxic plaque of European whiteness in the USA 🇺🇸 from the beginning!?

The ones who voted for him probably never will. We need to convince the third of the country that didn't vote to vote. Education is the way... DYOR 🙂 30573

When hell freezes over or they get a decent education 🤷‍♀️

When our press learns it.

That part

#RepublicanDeficits

Numbers don't lie. Just stop voting for any Republicans who's only interest is protecting the rich and loading up their pockets with cash! Screw their "trickle down economics!"

R voters are a willfully stubborn lot

And every time the Democrats save the economy, the Republicans tear them down and blame them. The disinformation is the problem.

We need to get rid of corporate and dark money in elections. We need ACTUAL limits to how long political ads can be shown. Our political 'season' shouldn't be 5-8 years long.

No money for sick or disabled. Cut Veterans services. Gut medical research. Threaten SSA daily. But-unlimited funds for the horror show of grabbing people off the streets. Billions will be needed to upgrade/keep up the "gift" of a used airplane that no one else wanted. The parade. No taxes on rich

Edit: When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not a responsible party?

conservatives have always been the true deep state. It’s all a projection or from a campaign with strong analytics. They are the soft white underbelly of this country who have privately ruled for 100 years. Dark money, dark politics and the man behind the curtain is the one with the biggest check

It’s adorably optimistic when y’all talk about him “leaving”, when you know the only way we’re getting him out of there is in a bag.

And I might add: the smaller the bag, the better off we are.

Let's start calling what it is. A direct Theft from the US Treasury leaving debt behind that we all have to pay off Just like how a bank robbery works. and the GOP can't stop doing it.

Perhaps when they learn that the party who really wanted to control our lives and cares only about the rich is their maga/gop. So we have to continue to speak and spread truth.

Will be twice for Trump.

Wrong message. The message should be that the Reps are manipulating elections to get voted, and not only since Trump. Of course that would require to make the Dems taking action, and we all know that the Dems are not the responsive party at all anymore.

False-

They have more similarities than you might want to acknowledge to yourself. Besides, I had stated that the message is wrong since the average American may notice but doesn't care as long as he/she manages to get along, even if eggs are now on Fabergé-level. Debts are one thing, crimes another.

The differences are key and notable. End of story.

Legacy Media and the families it enriches, has made more money not paying their fair share of taxes.

They’ve gotten off to a great start to bankrupting the US by the end of the year.

www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...

Becuz MAGA voters are not getting the "facts" from the Republicans, Fox News, social media & legacy media. Instead focus on immigration, price of eggs, abortion, propaganda BS. They continue selling the same consistent lie repeatedly that it becomes the final truth. These are Christian hypocrites.

This... presumes he will leave.

He will leave quietly, he will leave screaming, or he will leave via the French method, but he *will* leave. When my neices and nephews ask me where I was, my answer will be "in the middle of it. Where the hells else did you think I'd be?" My home is under threat, and I'm not living like this. 💜🇨🇦

At the moment I'd much prefer the French Method.

The GOP’s Big Lie. Well, one of them. They are NOT fiscally responsible.

K. Noem just demanded $21,000,000,000.00 more in her budget on top of her already bloated $41,000,000,000.00 budget GOPheads are finding out you need more personnel and more high tech if you are going to catch the bad guyz...........

When the Republican Party and FOX news stops lying to their voters. As in never.

Voters will learn these facts when Democrats learn to communicate w/ their constituents... ...so, I guess, never. There are countless issues that Dems could have relentlessly been attacking the GOP on over the last 40+ yrs, and they chose not to. Going on the offensive takes a spine and guts.

The constitution has to be amended to remove the influence of big donors out of our political process. This country is being destroyed by the amount of money that controls our politics..

They don’t care about stuff like that. They care about gay people, trans people, brown people. That’s what they vote for.

www.marketwatch.com/story/americ...

I don't think that Kamala even tried to message about that during the last cycle. The next Democratic presidential candidate needs to absolutely pummel the Republicans for their random acts of failure and suckage.

It's a cult. Facts don't matter to cult members.

Pretty much.

She absolutely did message about it. While being female and black though.

Hillary did, and it didn’t matter.

Kamala did too, come to think of it.

The next democratic leaders should be violent and loud, in the United States but also in the European Union. The world and communication have changed and are "populist" in the sense of pop, there will be no going back. We must learn to speak to the gut like right-wing leaders do, we must shout. 1/2

It is abundantly clear that MAGA does NOT have the best interests of the nation or the world in mind. That's why the next Democratic nominee has to be absolutely punishing. This horror show cannot be allowed to continue.

Intellectuals (which fortunately only the left still has) must take a back seat doing the right job on the back. Otherwise we will continue to lose everywhere. My 2 cents. 2/2

She offered the American people money to help them buy a home.. help family’s with children..giving tax credits.. So that wasn’t good enough.. and you get what you ask for..🤨😏

When they learn simple history, math, and statistics,.. so,.. not going to happen.

Yes! And just how much did DOGE save taxpayers?? Why suddenly do we see no public news stories re: DOGE or Musk? Trump tamped it all down is why. #StopTheMadness #2026

And if there was no fox state tv those facts might actually find their way into the unused maga brain. Fox has done more damage to this country than a thousand bin Ladens and a million putins ever could. Fox state tv is a cancer that will kill us eventually... if we let it.

Republicans have NEVER been able to lead the country successfully. No company would EVER hire these men to run their businesses...why the hell do we?

Like he's leaving office.

The “economy and fiscal responsibility” has always been a smokescreen for ideological values. Fiscal responsibility was always about “we dismantle the welfare state because we don’t want non-white people to have access.”

At this point they don’t want anyone that actually pays taxes to have it. And the taxes they collect from the working poor? That goes directly to the military complex and corporate welfare.

Again

Obviously when is too late!

I am shocked! Shocked!

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Americans were slave owners while committing genocide on the natives they labeled savages...in 1882 congress passed the Chinese exclusion act! America has always been racist regardless of economics. I'm an immigrant from Europe so I know first hand about prejudices bc i am Mediterranean olive dark

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Share this widely - ppl have to know what is going on

Everyone call your coward GOP reps act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

Facts don’t matter

Congress is responsible for federal spending, not the President.

Please share this everywhere. Fascist Fox “News” lies to people every day about GOP “fiscal responsibility,” which is an utter joke. Also, when are people going to wake up to the contempt the GOP seem to have for working Americans, always voting no for them, but always thrilled to help the 1%.

Never unfortunately @georgetakei.bsky.social

I have wondered that for a long time...

When the media properly reports the facts. For 40 years, the media has perpetuated the GOP myth & echoed GOP propaganda. Investigative reporting, fact- & source-checking gave way to quotes from anybody who said something about something. Sound bites replaced cogent news. 4th Estate shirked its duty.

When will the Democratic Party ever learn to make this an effective message and repeat it as resonantly as the Republican message (also known as outright lies) on the economy?

It's not about the "messaging": it's about the message delivery systems. They're owned by GOP supporters.

This AI slop is awful.

Democrats? The country is full of functional illiterates racist. Only a shave & GED keeps them from being out right hillbillies.

Last 3 Republican Presidents left us a Recession and Trumps working on number 2 !

Trump is the human equivalent of a deficit.

Why do people who pay so little attention bother to vote?

They get suckered in by hysterionics of false sociocultural claims, "They're going to take your guns ... They are killing babies" & then there's the racism, misogynism, too. & out-n-out lies, "Going to end the war on day 1 ... Prices will go down on day 1 ... Only going to be a dictator on day 1."

Fiscal responsibility at the wrong time can be a disaster. Don’t be conned into fighting for the wrong thing.

Fiscal responsibility is always a good idea. AUSTERITY at the wrong time, however, is bad. The GOP has very intentionally conflated responsibility with severe austerity, and is one of the reasons why they have such dominance in messaging about the economy.

Sure…you knew what I meant and yet you still want to create the schism to prove you are intellectually superior…wonder why normal people hate liberals. Jesus we are fucking doomed.

Austerity = Good has basically been rammed down America’s throat by the right for decades.

When the democrats start forcing American voters to look at all of the data & charts published by the St. Louis Fed. The Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has a pretty complete economic history of our country. You can compare administration records on jobs, inflation, GDP, etc. Check it out.

They haven't funded any reform to the immigration process, not even more judges to give due process in a timely manner. Its almost like they want the process to fail!

This really needs to be asked of the financial experts - WSJ, Jaime Diamond of why they keep pushing the Republicans are better financially argument.

Maybe repubs are better for their own personal finances

It’s not even a political party - it’s a crime syndicate

A record breaking deficit, breaking his own failure 4 years ago.

Well Harwood’s take is certainly the understatement of the week.🙂

Where'd that bullshit even originate?? In my lifetime republiKKKlans have been neither the fiscally responsible or the law and order party.

Never.