I don’t think it’s a question of sympathy. This article is intended to convince people that Trump Voters Are Winnable. We get this every two years as we approach campaign season. And then we get a bunch of Jim Webb types saying they’re the only candidates who can win because they are Democrats who appeal to Republicans.

Harris fell for it in 2024, spending her whole final three months touring alongside Liz Cheney. Jeff Flake spoke at the DNC hoping to win over ex-Trumpies. The Lincoln Project promised to flip a bunch of conservatives on behalf of Democrats, to no noticeable effect.

The Winnable Republican is a con that gets run on Democrat primary voters every two years

If moron Republicans were capable of learning the Republican party would have ceased to exist after Bush

So much of the Bush Era Republican Party is just infested into the Democrats now.

They didn’t get tricked.

He promised them brutality and he delivered on that promise.

Jamaica is functionally a captive state. The police and the legislature are fully captured by foreign corporate interests. The public is held in poverty to extract their labor on the cheap.

Emigration from Jamaica is currently at a critical high, with over half of the population (54%) planning an attempt to leave within the next three years.

The whole Caribbean is under the yoke of repressive governments operating perpetually contracting local economies to support the tourist sector. But as a British Commonwealth (functionally little more than a colony) they don’t even enjoy a relationship to a prosperous mainland to backstop their atrocious domestic economic policy.

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Banning harmless things because a dictator doesn’t like them

What if they’re banning harmful things?

Sometimes I get the sense that people on this site are crypto-libertarians fully invested in Market Based Social Darwinism.

Okay, but wouldn’t an authoritarian government that prohibited the sale of weapons for genocide be just as bad as one that directly orchestrated the sales?

To quote a wise man:

There is absolutely no difference between good and bad things. You idiot. You imbicile.

Yeah nothing current can be blamed on this orange turd.

There’s plenty to blame him for. Iran is a great example. Trump pulled a trigger that no other president was willing to touch, going on 47 years.

But the policy he’s stating wrt Taiwan is the exact same policy we’ve been operating under since before he was born.

Grow the fuck up

“The adults in the room” crowd has been shitting the bed since Reagan. I cannot imagine a bigger tell that your foreign policy is shit than “My policies are mature and yours are for babies”.

Particularly when the policies would accelerate yet another armed conflict.

It took only a few hours after Trump warned Taiwan not to try declaring independence…

It’s been standing US policy going back to the Nixon Administration not to recognize Taiwanese independence.

You can’t lay this shitbird at Trump’s feet. Go blame Eisenhower for his choice of VP.

I haven’t seen anyone doing a better job. Lots of hype around the new things, though.

everyone at the time thought people would be crazy to vote for him in the first place.

Not everyone. We’d seen this cycle of the reactionary break out vote in '08 and '12. Ted Cruz probably could have secured the nomination if Trump hadn’t run and he’s a whole different level of fascist.

Trump was never the better alternative to Hillary.

Trump was the stalking horse of the Hilary campaign, via her Pied Piper Strategy.

He would not have even been on the ballot had she not sponsored his run.

Now we’re seeing the same dynamic in the LA mayor race, with the incumbent Karen Bass sending her donors to Spencer Pratt in order to keep a DSA rival off the final ballot.

Better than the alternative

The eternal problem with “Better than the alternative” is that it inevitably cuts both ways.

Keir Starmer was better than the alternative of Rishi Sunak.

And now I guess Nigel Farrage is better than the alternative of whatever hack Labour MP (probably Streeting) replaces Starmer.

Trump was the “better than” alternative to Hillary and then Harris just like Biden was forced down folks’ throats as the “better than” of another Trump term. From world leaders to city dog catchers, you’re constantly getting served up two shitty options and told to pick the least-worst one. And if you pick wrong (we somehow always do), the fanatics on the losing end of the spectrum scream at you for being the reason the country is falling apart.

Amazon’s service model, for example, is to twiddle the knobs to just under the point where the majority ragequit

I mean, I get Amazon Prime via their shopping service whether I want it or not. And half of their “library” such that it exists is just links out to other paid premium services. Nevermind their Netflix-esque habit of cancelling or delaying popular shows while churning out lots of AI slop to fill in the gaps.

There’s no strong incentive to drop Prime Shipping (because it’s dirt cheap and I still do plenty of retail shopping on Amazon). But I find myself going to their TV / Movies selection less and less frequently. Occasionally just pirate the Amazon show I already have access to out of convenience.

Can’t say the same of Netflix, though. Cancelled that shit a few years ago. Barely anything left worth pirating from it anymore.

Let me know when they find a way to get ads into the torrented copies of their shows.

Kamala lost because her policies were fascism light

Okay, but that’s better than fascism, right? So stop criticizing fascism lite! It’s only hurting the opponents of fascism!

Well… okay, maybe the police and prosecutors that Kamala Harris organized during her time as California AG hurt the opponents of fascism a bit more. But that was before we had a dang Cheeto in the White House. So, let bygones be bygones and focus on the future.

I voted blue but completely get why people wouldn’t

I will be very angry at you anyway. If you upset even a single independent voter on the fence about voting for Kamala, you have committed Word Crime against the cause of the Stopping Trump.

lessor of two evils is still evil

That’s exactly what a Russian would say. I’ve outed you as a nefarious FSB superagent here to bring down American Democracy and turn us into a nightmare hellscape of Soviet Style Communism, which is what Russia is right now.

Yeah, it’s crazy to find out a CIA operative would just lie to folks like that.

And India.

Building 5x the number of fossil fuel plants as nuclear plants.

If you believe nuclear is preventing climate change, you need to square these figures