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I’m not so sure. This is no where near a priority issue for most Americans, “I can’t afford eggs and the immigrant I buy pizza from got shipped to a warehouse b
by tyleo 8mo ago
I’m not so sure. This is no where near a priority issue for most Americans, “I can’t afford eggs and the immigrant I buy pizza from got shipped to a warehouse but thank god the regime changed in Iran.”
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> This is no where near a priority issue for most Americans I don't think this means the GOP keeps the House. But Trump got a bump from Venezuela, particularly within his party.
- violentapricot 8mo agoSchumer was brought into a briefing on Iran and clearly 'got his mind right' in there. I don't know who makes decisions in government, but it's not the people on camera. US elections are irrelevant to consequential matters, and we waste too much time thinking about them.
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> US elections are irrelevant to consequential matters This is nonsense. If you actually believe this, spend some time around your elected representatives and in Washington.
- carefulfungi 8mo agoI never understand how someone can look at Trump and the last year and think elections don’t matter or have consequences.
- nullocator 8mo agoI think this framing is bad, it's not that people don't think there are consequences it's that it's 50/50 on whether the consequences will be personally worse for them. There are few, maybe no upsides, to elections in the U.S. for the majority of the electorate.
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoMore than anything else, conservatives love the feeling that they are winning. Over a rival sports team, over a political opponent, and especially over a foreign power. This is why MAGA won over the neocons so easily, the MAGA shtick is to claim to be always winning.
- leptons 8mo agoMany conservatives voted for trump because they thought he wasn't a "war hawk", they don't want the US in wars around the world, they don't want their children sent off to die in foreign lands. So they voted for trump and then got "Department of War", and now a war in Iran, the last thing they wanted.
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoThis isn't a defense of the president or his policies but we don't know if this will be a (sustained) war or rather a week or two of airstrikes like the previous iteration and the Maduro thing. > Many conservatives voted for trump because they thought he wasn't a "war hawk" I doubt their honesty. Considering they blamed Biden for Russia invading Ukraine and October 7 with the galaxybrain reasoning of "It didn't happen while Trump was in office", I am convinced the isolationism thing is just an unserious talking point. Even the Joe Rogan MAGAs should remember when they cried on social media about how they were about to be drafted after the Soleimani thing under Trump.
- watwut 8mo agoI call bullshit on that. They used war hawk accusation against Harris for the same reason they said she is uneducated and stupid - just a smear and lie in a see of lies. It was just yet another false concern of people who dont care. There was no reason to believe Harris will be more likely to start a war. They did not cared about that bit. It just sounded better the "I would never vote for democrat" or "she is black woman" or "I want to harm trans people" or "I want to stick it to liberals".