This Is What Voters Wanted, Right?

[applegrove]

This Is What Voters Wanted, Right?

April 3, 2025 at 12:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 195 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/03/this-is-what-voters-wanted-right/

"SNIP.........

Ian Bremmer: “The British didn’t understand what Brexit meant for their economy. But they wanted it, they voted for it, and they’ve gotten it.”

“Now it’s the Americans’ turn.”

...........SNIP"

[maxsolomon]

1. I'll check with my Dad.

But I'm pretty sure what he mostly wanted was no Abortions, and secondarily, no Communist Black Ladies in the White House.

[dchill]

12. So much winning.

[rubbersole]

30. Putin isn't tired of winning...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. If your dad doesn't want women to have abortions, does he

support free birth control for all? How about free medical services for all pregnant women? Has he ever been responsible for a pregnancy that ended in abortion?

I don't think men should be able to get prostate surgery. Or at least not until getting an abortion is open to all, and only the woman and perhaps her partner make that decision.

[maxsolomon]

17. I'd stop applying logic to Republican voting positions.

Their beliefs don't have to be internally consistent or informed. For the most part, they can't be. They vote based on the reactions of their oversized Amygdala.

My Dad literally believes that Kamala Harris is a COMMUNIST because her estranged Dad was a "Marxist" Econ Prof. He's not alone by a long shot, and he's very much a centrist Republican.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Sigh.

You are right of course.

But no one who cannot ever possibly get pregnant has a right to tell women what to do when it happens to them.

[Bengus81]

27. I'm glad my WWII veteran dad who spent 3+ years overseas isn't

around to see this shit show. One thing I deeply regret is he died about four months before Obama won his first election.

[Rebl2]

34. I have

.thought often this year about my elders that have passed and how they would be horrified about what is happening to this country. My parents, who died just a few short years ago, could NOT stand trump and they voted republican all their lives. I am glad they aren’t here to see what this disgusting president is doing to our country.

[Skittles]

2. be careful what you wish for

fucking IDIOTS

[Miami Blue]

6. You got that right 💪🏻

djt+jdv=fucking ID10TS
n5=nx nx nx nx nx

[lastlib]

7. ".....you might get it."

finished it for ya!

[JBTaurus83]

3. I don't see it any other way

Anyone who actually bothered to pay attention shouldn't be surprised. He told people over and over there would be mass deportation, anti-trans policies, worldwide tariffs, he would be "dictator for a day", he would gut the federal workforce, he would end environmental policies, repeal popular Biden and Obama programs and more.

I guess just saying he would lower prices, while giving no specifics, was enough for independent voters to justify the rest. the GOP voters are the same 37% who have been consistently unhinged and derranged. They already loved all of the other stuff he said anyhow.

[oysterpoint]

23. P2025 has a lot of this upheaval written as part of the "plan".

Kamala Harris warned us about all of it. 75,000,000+ of us listened and voted accordingly.
77M voted based on 24/7 radical right propaganda spewed by fascists, and either ignored P2025 or embraced it.
89M people didn't seem to care at all, and didn't vote.

So, we have a majority ignorant / uninformed electorate who have chosen a regime that seeks to turn us into a technofascist dictatorship, or at the very least, an oligarchy. We have seen this before. With Coolidge and then Hoover, we had the same ingredients: pandemic, economy hurting, blaming of immigrants for economic issues, tariffs implemented, and the robber-barons of the time turned it all into the "Gilded Age" of the Great Gatsby era.

Once wealth inequality and speculation reached a point where almost no one could afford to buy anything, it all fell apart in the Great Depression.

We will have to fight our way out of this current attempt to repeat that ugly history, and the sooner we do, the better for all of us.

[Bengus81]

29. People need to always remember that Harris lost by a lousy 2M votes.

This was no fucking landslide as Fat Hoover claims, NOR did Trump even get 50% of the vote. I think most of us forget that from time to time.

[dugog55]

36. Don't forget about the 70+ million voters

that just sat this one out. I know my son is one of them. He's a millennial that follows certain websites. They were pissed about Biden's handling of Hamas and that war. And that Kamala, and the whole Democratic Party is not progressive enough for them. They want big changes, but no matter how I explained it, he thinks the Democratic Party needs replacing with something better and that it has to burn down to do that. I agree with him in part, when the GOP gets in power they ratchet us back two clicks, then the Dems come in, spend most their time righting the ship, Maybe move us forward one click, then the GOP gets back in. I tried to explain it isn't just the Parties, it is also how many moron Americans there are that just keep electing Republicans that keep gumming up the works for a more progressive society. It has caused a lot of friction between us, which I am not too happy about. But, I am also pissed that he and all his like-thinking age group have caused this turmoil we have now.

[NewHendoLib]

4. FAFO

[Walleye]

5. Deplorables are easily manipulated by Putin, musk and the rest

[Joinfortmill]

8. Instead of owning the libs, they tanked their retirement account

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. It's what tRump promised on the campaign trail. The Brexit analogy is excellent

Also, tRump brings the "American Carnage" he spoke of, only it is his and his voters' faults, not Obama's.

[IronLionZion]

10. When you vote for a proven deplorable idiot

you are going to get deplorable idiocy the likes of which we have seen many times before, like 100 years ago for the tariffs and 4-8 years ago for MAGA.

Why is anyone surprised by this

[newdeal2]

11. They'll double down

They can't stand to admit being wrong.

[thought crime]

22. The Cult of Idiocracy

Exactly right. I’ve already seen Maga-loons saying it will take a couple of years for the Golden Age to be created, so we must be patient. If it leads to recession they will blame Biden and China.

[DinahMoeHum]

14. This is what you want, this is what you get. . .

[orangecrush]

16. You asked for it MAGATS so now

Ram it.

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[Martin68]

19. I think the two votes are similar in many ways:L bad for the country and a powerful turn away from

progressive policies and rational government.

[thought crime]

24. The fascist impulse

[Klarkashton]

20. The did their own research - listened to Joe Rogan.

"he was good on the economy, he's a business man"

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. TFG will just declare that chicken eggs must be made smaller....

so that they will be cheaper..........

Same with cars, computers, etc..........

[c-rational]

25. I have stated before that I beliieve puti owns donny 2 scoops and pushed the tariffs on us as our

Brexit. It iis making all of us weaker to the benefitof who.
This also ties in with donnies talk of acquiring Greenland, or the Panama Canal or making Canada the 5st state. It all goes to normaalize the case of acquiring a foreign county. Not sure why this has notbeen mentioned before. When all of a sudden did it become important for the US to acquire foreign lands etc., especiallly when we are becomming isolationists.
On a final note, if we are pulling back from the world and are no longerr the world's policeman, why do we need to spend 850 billion on defense.

[rickford66]

26. I'm 78 and grew up learning about the Depression in great detail over and over.

I figured Biden was our FDR, but I guess our children are gonna have stories for their children.

[iluvtennis]

28. And these tariffs are totally uncalled for. His motivation is to blow up American all in the name of Pootie. n/t

[BadgerMom]

31. Racist schmucks voted for this.

People who want to control women’s bodies voted for this. Hateful people afraid that the brown woman was going to help trans people voted for this. Stupid people all.

[nowforever]

32. Giving so much power

to an elderly malignant narcississt is not a good thing. I guess he needs to start WW3 for any of the spineless GOP leaders to even begin to speak up. Luckily the smart traders had shorted the entire market and bought up puts to make a ton of money. Trouble is when the whole thing collapses all the money in the world will not save you from the starving mobs. The rich will be the favorite targets.

[gordianot]

33. I am convinced a large percentage of MAGAT voters got what they wanted.

No FAfo but they will find out anyway. Regret is in the future when consequences are realized. They may not be smart enough to understand to realize No, compre Leadhend what is transpiring.

[Rhiagel]

35. Give the [77,302,580 Idiotic] People What They Want

[Scrivener7]

37. Yes. They'll tolerate the economic ruin as long as they're allowed to set up

concentration camps for people who are darker than they are, and as long as they can abuse women openly.

[Jack Valentino]

38. NO---- they only wanted prices to go down! Now Trump will give them the opposite!

Low information voters carried the last election... They only felt the economic pain of higher prices,
and thought of that as "high inflation".

Well, they may get their "wish"--- if this pushes us into a deflationary recession such as 2008-9,
or worse... Prices would go down, but that won't help you much if you lose your JOB!


I am readying a new slogan: "THINGS WERE BETTER WITH BIDEN!"