• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The craziest thing is that this fat New York billionaire has somehow convinced rural uneducated retards that he cares about them and to vote for him.

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      Thats the brilliance of it; he ran an inpopular platform intended to help the rich get richer and simultaneously fought a culture war that gained him the support of the massive, white, rural, uneducated class.

      A side anecdote: I have an acquatance of a friend who is both Brown, and a Trump Supporter - I was baffled and couldn’t understand why they would support an openly racist candidate.

      Well, turned out they were from a family of Old money out of Dubai and Trumps tax and business policies put in place GREATLY assisted their family real estate company. I think they tripled their revenue in 4 years, but i’m not entirely certain - I’ve just picked it up through context.

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        At the end of the day money talks. You could be completely against Trump’s rhetoric but I know people who held their nose and voted for him due to the breaks

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          Bingo. They didn’t give a flying fuck about his racist policies because they were raking it in

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      has somehow convinced rural uneducated retards

      What a terrible way to refer to other people. I’m sure using language like this surely convinces them otherwise.

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      Ultimately, they’re useful idiots for each other.

      Trump pandered to get the votes. The voters knew they were being pandered to, and went with it willingly. There were several interesting times where Trump tried to not be batshit crazy, and they full ass ignored him.

      He’s only their messiah as long as he functions as a mirror for them to see themselves in power.