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CJ didn't vote for this

CJMusic Oct 7, 2023:

Joe Biden is the worst US president in history.

CJMusic Jul 6, 2024:

It would appear that, in light of Biden failing and floundering, the Dems sent their minions out to foment panic about Project 2025. It won't work.

CJMusic May 1, 2025:

I regret voting for Trump.

My husband is laid off and can't find a job and my kids' credit scores have tanked bc of his student loan policy.

This is not what I voted for.

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  • "This is not what I voted for" is starting to become just as cliché as "I didn't sign up for this shit!" (the thing that Hollywood soldiers say when they find themselves fighting in a war).

  • "This is not what I voted for."

    I voted for him to hurt immigrants, the poor, the gays, women, workers, non-whites, Democrats, progressives, liberals, intellectuals, drag queens, the woke, and DEI, not white Americans!

    • and DEI

      White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they're the ones that benefited the most from DEI.

      • Everything about conservative American women was explained in Dworkin’s Right Wing Women.

        Women who grow up in shitty sexist communities (eg, imagine being a teenage girl growing up in fucking Disney, Oklahoma.) You have no future. You are supposed to find a guy to marry yourself off to. You are promised this is the greatest thing ever, taught to fantasize about your wedding, to imagine you’re happily ever after.

        Then you get married to some guy. Maybe he’s great, maybe he’s not. But you never got to be a person. You were never taught that you could be something more. You feel bitter and powerless in your community - you’ll never be the deacon, but you’ll always be cleaning up after the potluck.

        But then you see other women who don’t have to live like that. This is a societal threat to these communities. That there are clearly women in the world who are happy and fulfilled in an office or a field, while you will never be anything more than a church secretary or PTA mom.

        So the propaganda is always that these women are lying. They aren’t actually happy. They aren’t actually competent - they only got their jobs through “DEI.” They aren’t better than you, it’s a liberal plot.

        This is also connected to the fear routine - see how the right wing women sphere is the TERFs. They whip up a history to aim the real anxieties and fears related to a culture that covers up sexual violence against women (how many youth pastors have we never heard about?) and redirects it to an acceptable target. Women who perform this well enough are even rewarded with having their voice recognized - that Phyllis Schafly made a career of telling other women to not have careers, that Rowling has defined the exclusion of trans women as a prime most important feminist feat (while women in the US die of lack of access to reproductive health care…)

        They don’t benefit from DEI because they’ve been told not to want careers, and they are mad at the wrong people.

      • For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*

        Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn't, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of "getting rid of DEI" clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as "best candidate instead of minority preference".

        This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et -- these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to do it with the word "democracy" to mean something like "far left woke Democrat ideals".

        Just to clarify -- "good at messaging" just meaning that it's effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.

      • Their husbands told them that they should be pissed so they are pissed.

  • Good. Each day I grow happier and happier seeing them get what they voted for. I’d like to think they’ve learned their lesson and will never do it again, but quite frankly I’ve had goldfish with longer attention spans than MAGAts. Only way this sticks to grind them down for a while.

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