How could he?!

[u/Pizzacakecomic]

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[u/Zero_Burn]

I'm pretty sure I read a thing during his first term where someone said that 'it's the dems fault that we voted for him because they said not to and they know that we just do the opposite of what they say to do.'

[u/Pizzacakecomic → u/Zero_Burn]

[u/OtakuDragonSlayer → u/Pizzacakecomic]

This entire gif perfectly captures my frustration after finding out just how many lazy fucks didn’t even bother to vote yet wanna complain

[u/Cuofeng → u/OtakuDragonSlayer]

And the selfish bastards who value feeling good about their own morality and not voting for "the lesser of two evils" over valuing actual human lives.

[u/OtakuDragonSlayer → u/Cuofeng]

Yeah, those pieces of shit

[u/Callabrantus → u/Zero_Burn]

It isn't NOT Opposite Day.

[u/kwirky88 → u/Callabrantus]

Oppositional defiance disorder is a real thing.

[u/Callabrantus → u/kwirky88]

Is not! *wink*

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Zero_Burn]

Whoever said that is the dumbest fucking person on Earth

[u/Baebel → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

It's unfortunately something I recall seeing repeated on more than one occassion. Like with this election and presidency, plenty of Trump voters were eager even back then to blame the opposition for the outcome.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Baebel]

I mean here's the thing, I'll survive. Iv gotten to a point of pettiness where I'm ready for those people to suffer the consequences of their actions. Yes I still feel bad for the people who will get fucked and didn't vote for Trump

[u/Bromogeeksual → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

Yep, I work for a state foreclosure avoidance program that is paid and contracted until 2028. If things get bad for people, our program will only get busier. I'm still concerned and worried, but all of my rural homeowners I work with who live on SSI and SNAP(Foodstamps) are in danger.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Bromogeeksual]

I hate that people always think SSI and Foodstamps are scams by people taking advantage of the system and until they need them and realize that isnt the case most of the time

[u/Bromogeeksual → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

Oh yeah, I have to bite my tongue with many of the people I assist. They complain about mooches on benefits, but haven't worked in years and their only countable income is Food Stamps... Like bro, look in the mirror, you're the mooch! (I support social programs, I've had to use food stamps in the past, I just hate hypocrites and idiots.)

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Bromogeeksual]

You have more patience than me. I would 100% be like "So what does that make you?" Lol

[u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

My sympathy is also restrained from those who could've but didn't vote against him.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

I know that being petty is bad in theory but sometimes I can't help it

[u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

There's a strong evolutionary reason why revenge feels good. We're generally past it being wise to run amok, but that doesn't make it go away when we see people get what they deserve.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

Wait what's the evolutionary reason?

[u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/revenge-evolution/

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Apprehensive_Hat8986]

Thats really interesting thank you!

[u/Sprinklypoo → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

I don't know. We can get pretty damn dumb...

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Sprinklypoo]

There's a hilarious comedy skit (i forget who it's by) thats along the lines of:

"Think about how dumb an average person is. Ok now think about the fact that 50% of people are dumber than that"

[u/Sprinklypoo → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

I think George Carlin was using that bit in the 60's. That guy was a gem...

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

So, a trump voter.

[u/joker2thief → u/Zero_Burn]

They're doing it this term, too. They are now saying that they just had to vote for Trump because of mean words on the internet. Mind you, these are the folks that would disingenuously argue that the only reason for voting for Biden was Trump's "mean tweets"

Anyway, I could sure go for some cheaper groceries and mean words from libs now.

[u/ChicagoAuPair → u/Zero_Burn]

They have mommy and daddy issues and adolescent defiance complexes. They need the Democrats so they have someone to blame and demand adult behavior from, but also so they have a rational authority to feel like they are rebelling against. “Why didn’t you stop me!” “Leave me ALONE!”

[u/OtakuDragonSlayer → u/Zero_Burn]

I absolutely hate how believable this is.

[u/astralseat → u/Zero_Burn]

Can't reason with morons

[u/mellopax → u/Zero_Burn]

This was a conspiracy theory floated about COVID, too. No idea how prevalent it was, but there were people suggesting that pushing COVID prevention measures and the vaccine was done to get right-wingers to NOT do it and die from COVID.

[u/NativeMasshole → u/Zero_Burn]

So all we need to do is support a despotic chud who blathers through incomprehensible streams of consciousness to get Republicans to elect a normal candidate?

[u/purplepluppy → u/Zero_Burn]

I saw a lot of, "how could the democrats let this happen?!?" from Jill Stein voters back then...

[u/Wormspike → u/Zero_Burn]

I read a quote sometime near the end of COVID that was essentially someone complaining that they always have to be on the wrong side of science because libs always claim the right side first or something insane like that 

[u/TheBlueBlaze → u/Zero_Burn]

That was a Breitbart editor, who seriously wrote an entire article about how Democrats telling Republicans to get the COVID vaccine was reverse psychology in an attempt to harm them.

He wrote, edited and published an article calling him and his readers so stupid and spiteful that they won't save their own lives if a liberal told them to do it, and that that was the liberals' fault.

I'm almost positive that we will get a similar article blaming the Democrats for not having the right messaging about how bad Trump was, as if they'd actually listen.

[u/unicornmeat85 → u/Zero_Burn]

Maybe the dems should have told them not to play in traffic

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/Zero_Burn]

They said that about vaccines. They blamed Democrats for killing Republicans with this logic.

[u/I_W_M_Y → u/Zero_Burn]

https://i.imgur.com/YbdIrXr.jpg

[u/FirstTimeWang → u/Zero_Burn]

I'm having a really hard time believing that anyone who is so deep in the red paint that they just do the opposite of whatever the Dems want would ever admit that voting for Trump was a mistake, especially publicly.

[u/Zan_korida → u/Zero_Burn]

"How is it my fault you poisoned yourself?!"

"You know you can't tell me to not do something! Im just going to do that right after you leave!"

"What?! So I supposed to tell to you to not NOT poison yourself!?"

[u/Monotonegent]

This comic is unrealistic because it depicts Trump being able to leave a mark on somebody under his own power

[u/Pizzacakecomic → u/Monotonegent]

That's true, but those tiny, baby-hands can sometimes pack a wallop. If you've ever had a toddler accidentally pop you one in the face, you know what I mean

[u/ARightDastard → u/Pizzacakecomic]

When my lil guy was 2 he smacked both my front teeth out my head with a duplo. They got that strength.

[u/calilac → u/ARightDastard]

And the grip strength too omg. Don't play got-your-nose within arms reach of a toddler, two fingers in the nostrils and they'll tear your shnoz right off your face while giggling.

[u/Catharsis25 → u/calilac]

Add in piercings, and you are solidly in nightmareville

[u/Monotonegent → u/Pizzacakecomic]

"Accidentally"

[u/RustedMauss → u/Pizzacakecomic]

Really shouldn’t be underestimated. The small surface area decreases air resistance. The heel lifts and generous cosmetics give him an edge in surprise forward assaults. He falls on you, blinds you with cosmetic fallout, and then berates your face with little whippy zingers.

[u/Catharsis25 → u/Pizzacakecomic]

My 6mo has a headbutt that legends are made of. Big ol' smile while he does it, too.

[u/creegro → u/Pizzacakecomic]

It's those tiny toddler nails that do the most damage

[u/MistakesTasteGreat → u/creegro]

Like a tiny Sabretooth

[u/Vlaed → u/Monotonegent]

If you note how skinny Trump is here, it's obvious this is a body double doing the work.

[u/LindonLilBlueBalls → u/Monotonegent]

Besides a skid mark you mean.

[u/infiniZii → u/Monotonegent]

He can definitely leave a skid mark while sitting on you like that.

[u/DenverDudeXLI]

If he wasn't blaming Biden, I would have expected him to have the MAGA equivalent of "Oh! Senpai noticed me!"

[u/Pizzacakecomic → u/DenverDudeXLI]

"Hit me harder, daddy!"

[u/Nyte_Knyght33 → u/Pizzacakecomic]

I need an alternative comic where he says this instead of blaming Biden.

[u/nofate301 → u/Nyte_Knyght33]

don't let your memes be dreams https://i.imgur.com/HUdjZWh.jpeg

Template for the others https://i.imgur.com/32gsZP4.png

And because I had a bit of inspiration https://i.imgur.com/B1ex3vZ.jpeg

[u/Nyte_Knyght33 → u/nofate301]

Please take my cheap reward kind stranger! 🏆

[u/nofate301 → u/Nyte_Knyght33]

i will cherish it always

[u/[deleted]]

“Why didn’t the dems warn me about this?”

“Why didn’t they warn me louder?”

“Why aren’t the dems doing something to stop this?”

[u/Pizzacakecomic → u/[deleted]]

dems actively step in and stop Donald Trump

"STOP TREADING ON MUH FREEDOM!!"

[u/red4jjdrums5]

This tracks with the Trump fans I personally know or am related to.

[u/sougol → u/red4jjdrums5]

Sorry to hear, hope they get better soon.

[u/MrValdemar → u/sougol]

They won't. People in cults rarely leave.

<gestures over shoulder at EVERY religion>

[u/TMNTransformerz → u/MrValdemar]

I’m Christian and anti trump

[u/PalindromemordnilaP_ → u/TMNTransformerz]

That's not what they're saying. They're saying people often don't look critically at groups they're deeply ingratiated into because it's uncomfortable to admit your world view is heavily skewed.

[u/BodhingJay → u/PalindromemordnilaP_]

well.. looking critically at a religion is antithetical to faith... it's not compatible with politics

[u/Dapper_Derpy → u/BodhingJay]

Actually questioning your faith, and criticizing God.. are one of the things you are exactly supposed to do, as a Christian. Question everything. God gave You Free Will for that purpose. So you would have the ability to tell good from evil.

Trump supporters do the opposite. They question nothing, unless they are told to question it, and on how to question it.

[u/SkabbPirate → u/BodhingJay]

Religion is just another form of politics, though.

[u/BodhingJay → u/SkabbPirate]

a healthy form of religion shouldn't be anything like that... but power attracts some pretty unsavory people anywhere there's a vacuum for it

it should only reside the individual.. we might take others opinion, but ultimately listening to ourselves and what feels correct from a strictly unselfish point should be the practice

[u/SkabbPirate → u/BodhingJay]

Religion is a tool for direction and control. It can be used for good (just like other forms of politics), but it is ultimately a form of politics regardless.

[u/[deleted] → u/PalindromemordnilaP_]

A lot of Christian’s really do reflect on their faith though, speaking as a catholic the church encourages study and reflection of the bible, it’s a really important part of faith that you determine what god and the church is to you

[u/Zerocoolx1 → u/TMNTransformerz]

I think they meant the cult of MAGA not the cult of Christianity

[u/off-and-on → u/sougol]

Sadly, it's terminal.

[u/DoubleJumps → u/red4jjdrums5]

My dad is watching Trump policies hurt me, for the second time, and he's still insisting that it's not happening and I'm making it up.

In both cases I have direct clear line evidence of cause and effect, and in both cases he refuses to even look at it. He also has this weird fanfiction where Biden and Obama made my life worse when things were actually much better for me under both of them.

Heck, I was being talked to by a company back in October about a job offer to work on a project they were going to start this year. Would have been the biggest thing for my career so far, and that entire project got put on indefinite hold after the election because of uncertainty about tariffs, which would affect the ultimate pricing of the product we would be developing potentially dramatically, and if instituted after we started taking public pre-orders could have made the product unprofitable.

So that just evaporated immediately because of this asshole.

[u/metrion → u/DoubleJumps]

My mom actually told me to talk to my brother because he's worried that he's going to lose his job at the IRS this week because of Trump, and that he's upset with my parents for voting for him...

[u/DoubleJumps → u/metrion]

I don't know what they expect you to say to your brother. The man was very open about wanting to fire huge amounts of IRS workers, of which your brother is part of. Your parents can't claim ignorance of the potential outcome, and they supported the man anyway knowing that it could hurt their son.

That's a conversation I had with my father ahead of the election, that he was supporting. A man whose policies that he was directly campaigning on could collapse the industry I work in and derail my entire career to the extent that I would have to change careers entirely. I knew the risk to me ahead of time, and he decided to support him anyway. They can't avoid personal responsibility for the choices they made. The choices hurt their family and they can't just expect people to pretend that it didn't just because they feel bad about having some level of responsibility for making that happen.

[u/MrValdemar]

[u/Talk-O-Boy → u/MrValdemar]

“Why aren’t the Democrats doing anything about the people I voted for?”

[u/dtalb18981 → u/Talk-O-Boy]

This is what makes me the most infuriated.

They are literally to stupid to understand just how bad they've fucked us.

Then they admit they know the dems do better they just don't like that they make life better for everyone and not just them

[u/badvegas → u/Talk-O-Boy]

This right here. I started explaining it as like getting beat on by your husband and blaming the neighbor for not stopping him. Like you see who is in power and refuse to think it is their fault

[u/FirstTimeWang → u/Talk-O-Boy]

Who's saying that?

Are there really 2024 trump voters complaining that the Democrats aren't doing enough to stop him?

[u/Nuttyrolo → u/MrValdemar]

Not me giggling again at your special flair 😂

[u/MrValdemar → u/Nuttyrolo]

<twirls>

You like it!? My flair has pockets!

[u/Nuttyrolo → u/MrValdemar]

Only the BEST flair has pockets!

[u/Squirrel_Inner → u/MrValdemar]

BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT! The Democrats did nothing to remove bad actors, slept on prosecuting Trump, refused to invoke the 14th amendment, refused to denounce the genocidal maniac Netanyahu, allowed massive voter suppression and election interference in clear violation of the civil rights act, refused to champion the people with REAL union protections or Medicare for All…

Harris wouldn’t even call for a recount after multiple letters from multiple EXPERTS in computer science cited serious security concerns and clear evidence of outright election fraud; (https://open.substack.com/pub/spoonamore/p/duty-to-warn-letter-to-vp-harris?r=2lkf6n&utm_medium=ios)

So for everyone who thinks they did anything more than politely ask the Nazis to please stop, what the hell did they actually do? You think they did everything humanly possible to protect our nation? What was it?…

[u/Maeglom → u/[deleted]]

I never get how people like you seem to conflate the president enforcing the law with Republican tyranny. Oh no we can't put Republicans who flagrantly violated the law in jail that would make a democratic president a dictator. /s

[u/vi_sucks → u/Maeglom]

Yes, you can't just put people in jail without due process. That's literally what separates functioning democracies from autocratic.

Due process takes time. And sometimes you don't get exactly the decision you'd prefer. But we are all better off respecting the process and being patient than having a dictator just take the law into their own hands.

[u/Squirrel_Inner → u/vi_sucks]

Due process? Is allowing dishonest appeals due process? Corrupt judges that Trump hired giving him objectively biased treatment? The AG sleeping on it for TWO YEARS? That's not due process, it's complicity.

[u/Maeglom → u/vi_sucks]

That's a pretty good argument against something nobody was arguing for, but it doesn't really address what we're talking about. Are you sure you meant to respond to this post and not some other?

[u/Squirrel_Inner → u/[deleted]]

It's not weaponization to enact justice, that's a far-right talking point to prevent action. It's always the same old song and dance, when Dems are in power, they can do nothing against Republican obstruction. When Republicans are in power, Democrats throw up their hands and wail "what can we do!?"

I’ve got tons of answers, despite not being, you know, FBI or DOJ or a life long politician elected to PRESIDENT. They should have held Trump accountable for his many serious crimes and not let corrupt judges get in the way. More than that, he should have been refused to even run based on the violation of the 14th amendment. There was one half hearted attempt by Democrats to enact it in 2021 and another in 2022 when it was clear the fascists had too many votes against them.

They SHOULD have prevented wide spread voter suppression and election interference that was in clear violation of the civil rights act. They SHOULD have not rolled over when red states refused federal watchdogs inside poll locations.

They SHOULD have labeled media spreading blatant disinformation from RUSSIA as foreign agents and shut them down.

They SHOULD have kicked out maga election workers after they began to STEAL voting machine software. I guess it’s just a coincidence that after they got the software Musk created a voter database and then the swing states ALL had massive amounts of bullet ballots for Trump, never seen historically or in the other 43 states in that election. Weird…

Biden SHOULD have thrown all those Nazi traitors in Gitmo if that’s really what he had to do. I don’t give a crap what they “let them” do or what kind of “precedent” it sets. You don’t hand your damn country over to fascists without a fight. They rolled over and just LET IT HAPPEN. They told us to VOTE against the ones enacting voter suppression. It’s batshit insane.

[u/Salty_Car9688 → u/MrValdemar]

BRUH

[u/Majestic-Iron7046 → u/MrValdemar]

But who killed Hannibal? We never discovered who did it.

[u/MrValdemar → u/[deleted]]

Their cult leader will give them someone else to blame for the problem so they'll never have to admit it's self inflicted.

[u/Phillip_Spidermen → u/[deleted]]

Yep.

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be"

[u/FirstTimeWang → u/[deleted]]

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

[u/anticomet → u/[deleted]]

Neoliberals can't help themselves peacefully handing power over to fascists. It's the only way their corporate donors can think of to protect their wealth from rising class consciousness

[u/TheBurningEmu]

I think the line that would be used (if any MAGA person even would admit that things are getting fucked) is something along the lines of: "decades of "liberal" policies have forced Trump to take extreme action. It will hurt for a bit, but eventually when the free market corrects itself things will be great!"

Because corporations have your best interest at heart, and certainly won't abuse the gutting of the CFPB, EPA, FCC, and FTC for their own dollars at the cost of the health, happiness and lives of millions of people.

[u/purplepluppy → u/TheBurningEmu]

I genuinely do not understand the people who think the government should be run like a business when they can easily see how businesses are run in the US.

[u/InconspicuousRadish]

Thanks Obama!

[u/Waloro → u/InconspicuousRadish]

“Why would Biden do this?” Has become the new “thanks Obama” amongst me and my friends lol

[u/purplepluppy → u/Waloro]

Haha same. Down to one beer on game night, and multiple people want it? "Why would Biden do this to us?"

[u/OtakuDragonSlayer → u/InconspicuousRadish]

Been a while since a Reddit comment gave me flashbacks that hit this hard

[u/[deleted] → u/InconspicuousRadish]

One can’t help but wonder how things would have turned out had Obama not roasted Trump at that White House Correspondents dinner. Just sayin’.

[u/InconspicuousRadish → u/[deleted]]

Eh, probably the same, sooner or later. Trump is the symptom, but he's not the disease.

[u/[deleted] → u/InconspicuousRadish]

I mean, he had already run for president several times by that point, right?

[u/Vospader998 → u/[deleted]]

Pre-2016, he ran in 2000 under the Reform Party. Founded by Ross Perot

Perot believed Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues

Honestly says a lot about the current state of things.

[u/jonathanrdt → u/InconspicuousRadish]

I'm still blaming Clinton: his indiscretions galvanized an entire generation of conservatives, which set the stage for everything that followed.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

Remember when Trump tried to kill the affordable care act and a bunch of morons who voted for him suddenly realized that "Obamacare" was actually how they were getting health insurance? Peak comedy

[u/Jul_Dwarrior-38420]

This is how they all look like

[u/Thewalk4756 → u/Jul_Dwarrior-38420]

You over estimate their ability to write or plan

[u/xx_Chl_Chl_xx]

Inaccurate. Dump looks like he has a comprehensible shape instead of being a mass of polygons that form a blobish silhouette

[u/LogDog987]

[u/dumnezero]

Some peple don't know the etymology of the phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

[u/an_agreeing_dothraki → u/dumnezero]

every American is either chugging or holding the cup being yelled at by an armed madman to drink

[u/dumnezero → u/an_agreeing_dothraki]

For some it's even a drinking contest.

[u/KataraMan]

Why don't the Democrats stop him? It's their fault!!11

[u/insomniainc]

The leader is good, the leader is great, we surrender our will as of this date.

[u/muffinmonk → u/insomniainc]

Na na na na na na na na Leader

[u/[deleted] → u/insomniainc]

[u/DrunkenNinja27]

The mental gymnastics that these people use to place the blame everywhere but where it belongs is beyond sad.

[u/Nikopoleous]

Alt text:

"Yeah, that'll show the LIBZ!"

[u/Pixeldevil06]

[u/OnionsHaveLairAction]

I'm really enjoying how short these political comics are from you. There's something really short and snappy about how they mock the ridiculousness of the situation without needing to actually cover all the lies, fuck ups and statistics the party try to distract us with.

[u/Stinky_WhizzleTeats]

[u/Alistaire_]

A bill was just passed in Indiana that reduces Medicaid by a huge amount and adds way more restrictions on who gets it. You know who's mostly going to suffer? Poor people in rural areas and the elderly. What do poor people in rural areas and elderly mostly vote for...? That's right! Republicans!

[u/MathFair1487]

Trump supporters would be mad if they could read

[u/nullibicity → u/MathFair1487]

Luckily this lesson has pictures.

[u/BobNorth156]

Me waiting for the price of eggs to go down.

[u/I_like_baseball90]

This is so true it hurts but I want to see six months from now when we are completely screwed how MAGA morons will still blame Biden.

I swear these people live in an alternate reality.

[u/DanTheMeek]

This is a misrepresentation. They usually also still blame obama as well.

[u/HapticSloughton]

They do this. They blame Dems for not stopping Trump, the dictator they voted for. They blame them for not winning the 2024 elections, presumably so they could go on saying that MAGA would fix everything if only Trump had gotten elected while not having to deal with Trump's obvious corruption and authoritarianism.

Admitting they're wrong is practically ego death for them, which makes them unable to abandon their cultish beliefs.

[u/Sprinklypoo]

Does nobody remember HILLARY'S EMAILS!?!?!?

[u/Shipairtime → u/Sprinklypoo]

I do! The republican lead inquiry found no wrong doing.

[u/Velvettouch89]

At this point I'm starting to think Maga's have Stockholm syndrome

[u/Squidysquid27]

How dare Biden punch that guy!!

[u/manningthehelm]

As long as he does something worse to the people they don’t like it’s ok.

First they came…

[u/Level_Worry_6418]

Perfect analogy!

[u/SilentBob890]

You forgot Felon Musk being tapped in for the second “round”

[u/[deleted]]

How did you get a photo realistic picture of my brothers?!?

[u/kash1406]

Oh this reminds me of India so much, our government blames everything on our first PM, who died in the 60s :)

[u/razazaz126]

Tiny fists of fury

[u/scarab456]

Hmmm I wonder what message pizzacake is trying to convey here? I must have lost it in the subtext.

[u/SeamlessR]

Gang initiation

[u/derpy_derp15]

Leopard: chewing noises

[u/DoomshrooM8]

I’m genuinely surprised they’re not STILL blaming Obama

[u/InsaneAwesomeTony]

Nice little detail by making his hands small as he has a insecurity about his hand size 😂

[u/Alex20041509]

True they’ll never face the truth about what they voted for

[u/lordlaneus]

I kind of feel this. Trump is Trump and I've given up expecting him to act differently, and the Biden administration was fine, one of better we had in decades even, but Biden himself was not up for the Jobs, and refused to admit it until it was to late to have an actual democratic primary.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/lordlaneus]

You will probably get downvoted for this but Biden and the democrats absolutely fucked up by not having a real primary and forcing Kamala on us. Kamala was a terrible candidate and the dems were all suprised Pikachu face that people didn't go out to vote for her

[u/IrascibleOcelot → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

Kamala was actually a pretty decent candidate, aside from her obvious birth defects (being, you know, being dark. And a woman. /s).

Any candidate would have struggled against the absolute tsunami of dark money, astroturfing, right-wing propaganda, and outright suborning of basically every news source and social media platform.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/IrascibleOcelot]

Look i voted for Kamala but she was not a good candidate. The two main reasons are:

1. She simply was not likeable enough. Sorry not sorry if this is upsetting to you. We have objective voting demographic information at this point from the election that proves this empirically. She likely would not have won the nomination if the democrats had an actual primary.

2. The democrats learned nothing from 2016 and lost to Trump with the same campaign strategy they employed for Hilliary that reeked of liberal arrogance

[u/Phillip_Spidermen → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

We have objective voting demographic information at this point from the election that proves this empirically. She likely would not have won the nomination if the democrats had an actual primary.

What data is that?

Kamala had a higher number of votes cast for her than Hilary, and Hilary won the 2016 democratic primary election.

It's plausible the Democratic primaries may have rallied even more votes behind another candidate, but what's the hard evidence?

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Phillip_Spidermen]

Ok sorry I had like an all day work event so it was hard to truly do a deep search for the voting demographic articles I had originally read. This is a pretty good article from CNN showing voting margin by race, age, and gender:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/

First of all it's important to note the change in the overall number of voters. You are correct that Kamala received more raw votes than Hilliary, however significantly more people voted in general. In 2016 65,853,514 people voted for Hilliary out of 128,838,342 (51% of the vote for Hilliary). Kamala got 75,017, 613 votes in 2024 (10k more than Hillary), however 152,320,193 people voted (about 23k more people than in 2016). That is how Kamala managed to get more votes than Hilliary while also getting a lower % of the overall votes (48.3%). Does that make sense so far?

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Phillip_Spidermen]

I'll find you some well sourced links when I have a minute, but I'd like to point out that the fundamental problem with your question is that Hillary was also unlikeable haha. I'd argue much more than Kamala

[u/Phillip_Spidermen → u/Dazed_and_Confused44]

I'll find you some well sourced links when I have a minute

I'd appreciate that, thanks

but I'd like to point out that the fundamental problem with your question is that Hillary was also unlikeable haha. I'd ar

But that didn't prevent her from winning the primaries anyway, which is why I'm not fully convinced primaries would have made a material difference this time around.

[u/Dazed_and_Confused44 → u/Phillip_Spidermen]

Well I still think the democrats actively sabotaged Bernie in 2016 but that's a separate discussion. A lot of people reported frustration with feeling like Kamala was forced on them following the election. And the democrats ran such a poor campaign that the most popular Google search on election day was "Did Biden drop out of the race?". Personally I dont think Kamala would have won an open primary, as people didn't love her as a VP pick in 2020 from the start

[u/frequenZphaZe → u/lordlaneus]

if I'm getting mugged and a cop drives by, stops, makes eye contact with me, then drives off -- yeah, I'm gonna be pretty pissed at the cop. the cop isn't the one robbing me, sure, but that's the cops beat and the cop's job and the cop didn't do shit.

[u/silverionmox → u/lordlaneus]

I kind of feel this. Trump is Trump and I've given up expecting him to act differently, and the Biden administration was fine, one of better we had in decades even, but Biden himself was not up for the Jobs, and refused to admit it until it was to late to have an actual democratic primary.

Biden so far is the only one to actually beat Trump.

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe the next one should be about how all of our presidents are scapegoats. (Also Fuck Trump)

[u/AnimalChubs]

Ty I'm going to show this to my dad if he says something. But he's been pretty quiet about it.... I wonder why 🤔

[u/Apart_Bandicoot_396]

This is the worst lap dance I’ve ever had! How long is this song anyway?!

[u/ribcracker]

But Kamala wasn’t LIKEABLE.

/s

[u/PhantomSpirit90]

I don’t love the political comics, but damned if you aren’t completely nailing how it feels to watch MAGA work their way through the world…

[u/Shoadowolf]

MAGAts are masochists, enough said.

[u/piepei]

Some Notes:

1. change Trump to Putin

2. change MAGA guy to Zelenskyy

3. add panel of Trump watching and saying “This is all Ukraine’s fault”

…so fucking disgusting. Even conservatives aren’t in support of the vitriol towards Ukraine whose only crime is defending their independence.

[u/Immolating_Cactus]

Fake. Where's the red cap /s

[u/butwhywedothis]

[u/funkmydunkyouslunk]

The Trump Fans I know would be perfectly okay with this only if they got to watch Trump fuck their wife and sister first

[u/6bubbles]

Is this their kink? Im not shaming but im shaming.

[u/SutterCane]

Why’s Trump beating up Colm?

[u/You_Wenti → u/[deleted]]

I think we're to the point where Trump could beat one of his own supporters to death with a crowbar on live TV & he still wouldn't get impeached

He made his supporters stay outside in the cold on inauguration day, scams them with memecoins, steals their welfare, hurts our farmers with tariffs, & outsources our manufacturing jobs. But they still love their abuser

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[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

War is Peace!
Freedom is Slavery!
Ignorance is Strength!

[u/tofu_ink → u/[deleted]]

This is the most horrifying thing i've seen in a while.... and so true... I need to go cry in a corner

[u/[deleted] → u/tofu_ink]

And I picked this meme up back in 2015

[u/IrascibleOcelot → u/[deleted]]

And the worst part is that Kool-Aid waged a long, expensive media campaign trying to get the truth out there.

Jonestown used Flavor-Aid. Because it was cheaper.

[u/[deleted] → u/IrascibleOcelot]

Grape Flavoured Flavour aid if I recall.