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Useful idiots realize they are no longer useful. Video at 11.
That's the rough bit: they're still useful, and they won't withdraw their support. What are they gonna do? Vote for a Democratic representative? You'll just see the pro-trump republican lose to the anti-trump republican, and that's a difference that only goes as deep as campaign speeches.
What about another Tea Party? I realize there's only one Koch, and the president isn't black, but it was all about principle, wasn't it?
Withdraw support? They know he doesn't need votes anymore, right? 🥴
These aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the bunch.
Impeachment is still a thing and most of his own party dummy like him they just know they'll be primaried so long as he's running.
Trump may not feel he needs these people anymore because all they have to offer are votes. He can't run again unless the rules change, and if he manages to change the rules, then he will change them so radically that he still wont need their votes. He is only listening to folks who can give him gratuities.
Only a matter of time before these jokers drop the first syllable when they call Trump a "reneger". Then all bets are off. These are the folks who like watering the tree of liberty every now and then, after all.
Get to watering, patriots!
The next four years are going to be replete with tasty morsels of schadenfreude.
Unfortunately those morsels are going to be about as enjoyable as eating fun sized snickers bars while getting drug behind a horse.
That's a remarkably apt unique metaphor. Well done
drug
Drugged or dragged?
First one, then t'other.
Dogs like Fetterman can hunt for schadenfreude truffles.
MAGA fans never turn on Trump. They are just temporarily confused while waiting for new orders on what to think and how to rationalize the contradictions in their heads. It's a cult.
Indeed. He could gaslight them 360 degrees over and over. Hell, if donvict suddenly started adopting full-on progressive policies, I bet more than a few of them would stick with the cult and not even notice.
As long as he couched it in hateful-sounding stuff: "we'll start paying the forgotten man a fair fucking wage and really stick it to the globalist elites!" (they assume it's white, cishet, xtian and actually only men, and the globalist elites just means THE JOOS) And so on. And then actually go and push for it. The only people that would notice would be his owner-donors and the Republicans he calls "RINOs" - meaning, Republicans that really know why they are Republicans...
No worries we’ll forget in a few minutes.
Hey, look! A t-t-trans person over there =========>>>>>>> !!!
Urge to give tax breaks and subsidies to the ultra wealthy increasing.
First, I can certainly understand why MAGAts want the Dept. of Education demolished. They are probably tired of so many people being better educated than them and want to even things out without actually going to the effort of educating themselves.
Second, this is a step in wrecking the education department. He chose a charter school supporter from Tennessee, after all. It could be worse, I suppose. He could have dredged someone up from Alabama or Missouri to appoint, Still, this is not someone who will be good for the Dept. of Ed.
These people are just too dumb to recognize that he's doing exactly what they want.
Dude isn't even president yet and they're already out of patience. Toddlers just like Donald. The lot of em.
I’d love for them to turn on him and have a tantrum like Jan 6..
These people are just too dumb to recognize that he's doing exactly what they want.
What they need is a little education. If only there was some department, maybe at the federal level, to ensure that the average citizen isn't a mouth-breathing moron.
It still amazes me that this idiots think he gives a fuck about them or what they think.
Wow, MAXWA that really and truly want to shut down the DOE must be childless, empty nesters, very fucking rich, or have a tradwife that is going to "teach" their kids out of The Babble for free.
Also, even if you are one of these things, you have to be extremely idiotic and utterly incapable of thinking about actual consequences not to know that this would drag America down.
It’s a states rights issue, like the civil war. Some states insist on the right to be racist, uneducated, permanently stuck in poverty, easily manipulated
Not that I think dismantling the department of education is in any way a good idea, these morons know that it takes time to dismantle entire institutions, no? Like you can't just not hire someone to run it and then hope everything falls into place. You hire someone to dismantle it.
No, they don't know that.
News today: MAGA idiots are so fucking stupid that they don't even understand how Trump is going to destroy the Dept of Education. They think their god emperor would just say it doesn't exist anymore, instead of putting a crony in charge who will work to funnel public funds into private charter schools even harder.