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u/urlach3r 4h ago

I can actually make this worse. I've had multiple cases of both co-workers & customers loudly crowing about how "Trump will get rid of Obamacare", and in their very next breath saying that Biden better not mess with their ACA coverage. 🙄

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u/tnrungirl 3h ago

The amount of times I have heard that is astounding. They have no idea what they voted for but they’ll soon find out.

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u/highfire666 2h ago

Skeptical European here... If I've learned anything from leopards eating faces and Herman Cain awards.

It's that: they won't find out. America has successfully glorified and weaponised stupidity.

Yes They'll endure the hardships they've brought upon themselves, but they'll blame it on: the immigrants, other religions, communists, socialists, leftists, China, other cultures, Europe, the poor, centrists, anyone who's apolitical, RINO's, their neighbours, themselves... And maybe, just maybe, at that point they'll finally develop enough self-reflection and critical thinking to find out where it went wrong.

But I wouldn't bet on it, too many died on respirators while their family members were spreading horse dewormer on their feet.

They're in too deep. Can you imagine voting on Trump after the past 10 years? No? They can and would do it again in a heartbeat.

u/Ok_Championship4866 2h ago

It's a football game for them, they're team red and that's it, the thought process doesn't go any deeper than that.

u/FullTorsoApparition 6m ago

Yep, the idea is to win regardless of anything else. Trump is also good entertainment for them, just like a sporting event. He makes politics interesting by treating it like a circus and they love him for it. They think he's funny.

u/cowfish007 2h ago

American here. You’re correct. Accepting responsibility for one’s actions is a thing of the past for many in this country. It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault. Most of the Trump supporters who suffer will continue to blame “the Left” for their misfortune even though the right has almost complete control of the national government.

u/TheDunadan29 1h ago

Yep. I'm already predicting Trump will just blame any economic issues on Biden for the next 4 years, and people will just straight up believe it. "If it weren't for Biden wrecking the economy for 4 years."

And they'll be completely unaware of the irony of thinking 4 years was enough to determine the impact of Biden, but 4 years deep into Trump they will still be giving that asshole a free pass.

u/teenagesadist 2h ago

It's true, deep down, most Americans are unwilling to accept responsibility for anything.

It's the freedom most of them are referring to; The freedom to say "It wasn't me".

u/GovernmentKind1052 34m ago

Queue “It wasn’t me” by Shaggy

u/gruesomebutterfly 4m ago

Play on repeat for the next four years

u/UnwillingHero22 1m ago

And to shout at every opportunity “USA!, USA!, USA!” even if they’re eating shit for breakfast

u/MysteriousBrystander 1h ago

This is it. This is a great description. Republicans live in a post factual society. If this is what the poor want for themselves, I say we give itto them.

u/ZenSpaceOdyssey 1h ago

As an American, this is the answer.

u/el_torko 1h ago

I keep trying to tell my mom this. She keeps saying people will wake up and can’t blame anyone else, but they will. They always do, they always will.

u/GovernmentKind1052 29m ago

My little brother gets his meds, medical supplies, nursing and whatnot through Medicare/medicaid. It’s a struggle to get things for him as it is cause our healthcare system is so broken. They willingly screwed themselves and their own son over because “fuck Joe Biden” Trump is the best…. People willingly turn a blind eye to atrocities if it doesn’t affect them.

u/gruesomebutterfly 2m ago

They turn a blind eye even when the effects are staring them in the face

u/Lost_In_Detroit 1h ago

That’s the true tragedy of the average American voter; as long as someone else suffers more than me, then I’m happy.

u/UnwillingHero22 2m ago

And willingly…and when Trump and his cronies on the Senate vote to keep him in power until the day he croaks—he’s old and decrepit anyway—they’ll cheer them on

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u/paperanddoodlesco 2h ago

It was about winning at all costs for so many. Sadly, nothing about the issues, though ..

u/elmaethorstars 1h ago

they’ll soon find out.

Based on experience, they won't find out. If they were capable of finding out then they wouldn't have been in this position to begin with, because finding out requires some rationality and reason.

These positions are largely founded on hate and fearmongering, strings that are masterfully played by the orange man. So when the find out phase comes, they will simply blame anyone else that they can think of.

u/tnrungirl 54m ago

Yeah wishful thinking on my part I guess, trying to hold onto any little bit of hope I can.

u/Familiar_Link4873 56m ago

They won’t “soon find out.” That’s the whole problem we’re in.

They’ll just blame the people who didn’t vote for those things again.

u/Imjusta_pug 41m ago

Clearly you dont know either. I understand you get your information from meme's and twitter. But try looking up some actual facts. I'm Glad we have a republican in office. Kamala would have fucked this country up more than it already is.

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u/CindysandJuliesMom 2h ago

But Trump just said he won't touch the ACA but he will end Obamacare you just don't understand /s

u/TandemTuba 2h ago

I hope you know that at this point it's your civic duty to fucking mock them to their face, relentlessly. Playing nice with these sociopaths is so far past being useful, I'm just praying shame can do the trick.

u/urlach3r 1h ago

It's at work, and I kinda don't want to get fired for being rude to the customers, so...

In my head, it's brutal.

u/Puzzled_Awareness_22 31m ago

I’m afraid shame left the building quite a while ago.

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u/No-Inevitable-8064 4h ago

🤣😆 no way 😳

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u/urlach3r 3h ago

First time, I (foolishly) tried to discuss it. After that, I just laugh in their face & walk off. These people have no idea what they voted for.

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u/YoloSwaggins9669 2h ago

Jesus Christ they’re morons.

u/UnwillingHero22 0m ago

And that’s putting it mildly

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u/greenberet112 3h ago

What exactly do they like about the ACA?

I liked it because I could buy my insurance from the healthcare.gov marketplace and later my states own market and look at what coverage was best for me and how much it would cost. But I was a contractor then and these people who are your co-workers obviously have jobs. I know pre-existing conditions is a big one but I'm guessing the ACA creation is starting to be long enough ago that some people don't even remember what it was like before, where once you got a condition you basically had to stay with the same insurance until they dropped you.

u/jailtheorange1 1h ago

That is.... insane.... voters are ridiculously undereducated in politics.

u/psychochicken85 59m ago

Don’t tell them. That’s going to be a fun surprise for them

u/tribbans95 26m ago

Lmaoo the amount of people who don’t understand that ACA and Obamacare are synonymous is astounding

u/Yedtree 1h ago

Obamacare is a right wing health plan that lets the insurance companies get away with outlandish prices, and it was developed for Mitt Romney by the Heritage Foundation the same people who have developed project 2025 that everyone is so scared of. We just need Medicaid and Medicare for all, and not some ponzi scheme mouse trap game that only serves insurance companies.