Trump voters angry at ‘chaos:’ ‘Not what we signed up for’
Trump voters angry at ‘chaos:’ ‘Not what we signed up for’
Consumer confidence is down in the face of instability from the White House.
Summary
Consumer confidence has declined since Donald Trump’s return to office, with the University of Michigan reporting a drop in sentiment and rising inflation concerns.
Many Trump voters are frustrated by market turbulence and sweeping executive orders. Voter Paul Bisson fears economic instability, saying, “That’s not what we signed up for.”
Geneticist Nicholas Schuch plans to move savings to Swiss Francs, expecting ongoing chaos.
Polls indicate growing anxiety, with some supporters questioning Trump’s policies and their long-term economic impact.
We signed up for Nazism! Not for our subsidies going away!
I dunno if I like articles like this, because I haven't really heard anyone really say this. I like in podunk Midwest state and folks around here are set that things are already getting better, and if they aren't, it's because of the last administration or because Democrats keep getting in the way.
Online, comments from articles and a certain sub reddit are all bouncing around ecstatically and shouting "WINNING" with everything that is happening. I'd like to think the mirage is fading, but I have been able to find truth of that just yet.
You wanted a circus, now clutch your pearls as the clowns riot. Democracy’s corpse twitches while you gawk at the monster you stitched from Fox propaganda and Facebook memes. “Not what we signed up for”—as if arsonists get to rage when the flames lick their own shoes. The system’s rotted, but you’d rather blame the maggots than admit you’re elbow-deep in the carcass.
Enjoy the show. Your messiah’s a carnival barker, and you’re the rubes who bought tickets to the end. No refunds.
Lmao fuck all of them. This is exactly what they signed up for. You fucked around now find out you worthless cunts.
My Trumper dad told me that he has never seen his industry this slow before (starting in January). He has worked in this industry for over 40 years. He then goes on to say that he can't wait for Trump to fix the mess that we are in.
WTF? He is the reason your industry is so slow. How can he not see that it started being slow once Trump came into power???
What is some? I mean if 1% of his supporters are having second thoughts is that enough to care about. I mean we need REAL numbers not just a few people who suddenly woke up and made the news.
Imagine if they could imagine how the rest of us feel
The reason I find it hard to sympathize with the people who voted for him is because he's been advertising everything he's currently doing for the past few years, and now the people who voted for him are surprised that he's actually doing what he'd said he'd do.
He literally said he didn't care about people and just wanted votes
that's really rich. chaos is the reason he got into the office in the first place, and was offering nothing but chaos for 2 years before the election.
Bullshit. I live in a red state. They're not turning on him at all. You can always find a couple of people to express any view that you want to amplify and write an article pretending they're representative of their entire group.
Exactly, go to any conservative space and they're just happy that the "libs are getting owned."
Um, he is doing exactly what he said he would do. These people just thought being white would keep them safe.
Not even. There are even people in immigrant families that voted for him because "he's only going to deport the bad ones" and then [surprised Pikachu] a bunch of their own family get deported
There's stupid, and there's zealotism, but stupid zealots are the worst
Friend of mine is Mexican living in Texas and voted for him because he thought it would help him get a job. I didn’t ask for more of an explanation but that is the kind of shit we are dealing with.
Bullshit. Trump supporters have no idea what "market turbulence" means and are cheering the executive orders. This is just manipulative feel-good bullshit.
This, I keep hearing about how "Thanks to Trump common sense is being restored!"
And when I ask what they mean by "Common Sense", they tell me the most transphobic shit I've ever heard in my life and give me a lecture about how it's "time for me to stop playing dress up"
And I'm like "Dress up? I'm a fucking tomboy who happens to be a transgirl, what exactly am I dressing up as?"
I know what they mean, but pretending I don't makes them angrier, and at this point I hope they have strokes.
<jules>
Yes you DID. YES YOU DID!
</jules>
And it's going to be a whole fuck-ton more than just economic instability, you dumbasses.
Trump voters don't care about these things. they have a completely different rhetorical frame. this article is bullshit. trump voters are liking the chaos a lot because they think its good because they think liberals are bad. all you need to do is follow the usual conservative talking heads if you want to know what they're thinking.
I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit. it doesn't do any good to anyone. this article was only written to keep leftists stupid. downvote this fake garbage.
I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit.
Every time I see an article like this, I go check old.shittyplace.com/r/conservative and see nothing but Trump cheerleaders. When the tide starts to change there, I'll believe they might have gained a spark of awareness.
The media is publicizing these lies to keep people from getting the idea that they need to do something.
"Oh good his voters are turning on him" helps placate the opposition. It keeps people from wanting to do something.
no, they're doing it because it gets you to post the article on Reddit and Lemmy, to your Facebook so you feel like youre winning the debate with your dad.
it's pure nihilism
I am adjacent to a lot of Trump voters through my wife relating conversations from her 95% Trump voting company. Other than having to stamp out some offensive exuberance, there has been no reaction to any of it. They are just excited about the ascendency of the right and waiting for the "benefits" to percolate through society.
Despite having gay kids they support, etc. Any doubts or second thoughts they are having are not being shared. Could be the network effect of not wanting to be the first to break faith, but that could just as easily be wishful thinking.
That's correct. they are celebrating 🥳
Until they stop admitting to voting for Trump or start outright saying, "We fucked up," this is just nitpicking his priorities.
what you are describing is a behavior that is not ascribed to humans
no, assholes....this is EXACTLY what you signed up for. revel in it.
you didn't just accept it
you fucking demanded it.
now live with it.
They really wrote a whole-ass article about two random schmucks lol
"This chaos isn't what I signed up for" says people who voted for chaos goblin who told people he wanted chaos
Get entirely fucked trump voters. As well as the people who told me that BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE and TrUmP wIlL nOt Be WoRsE tHaN GeNoCiDe JoE oR KiLlEr KaMaLa
The "I told you so"s will never be worth it.
A root cause analysis of these people lead me to draw one conclusion.
THEY ARE DUMBFUCKS!!
“this isn’t what we signed up for”
literally everyone has been trying to tell you it is
They signed up to make everyone else suffer and now they're shocked and dismayed that they're probably going to suffer too. I feel for everyone that has to share a country with people that would throw them to the wolves first chance they get while demanding unearned respect for themselves. But if I were religious, I'd tell these people to rot in hell.
Seriously, if sanity ever returns to the world, I hope that the lesson we walk away with is that right wingers, conservatives and religious fundies should never be allowed anywhere near positions of power again. Because when they have it, their whole aim is to uplift themselves and only themselves while fucking over everyone else in society.
With all due respect, this is exactly what you all signed up for you stupid fucking pieces of shit.
This is not only what you signed up for, but you signed the rest of us up for it too.
Thanks.
"all due respect"
Not much respect is due here
Don’t worry, none was given.
With all due respect
Which is about Zero.
No. This is exactly what they signed up for. WTAF did they think was going to happen?
They expected to never face the consequences of their shitty shitty actions.
They thought the leopard would eat other people's faces and not theirs. Remember that one lady from his first term? "He's not hurting the right people." That quote tells you everything you need to know about his voters.
They hoped for cheap eggs and open racism.
They are 50% there.
Yeah, you lived through a whole term of this shit already. Not sure how you can be surprised now.
Throwback to his first term when one of his supporters said "He's hurting the wrong people!"
I wonder if anyone has done a "where are they now?" on that guy and tracked him down and found out how he's voted since.
I believe it was a woman who said it. Either way, their motivation for supporting Trump seems to be to cause harm to people they believe deserve it, and the motivation hasn't changed.
Do we really think there's a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?
It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. "Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden's fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills."
Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can't imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.
I see no criticism or complaints from his voters at all. Here's what I'm seeing from them:
"You can't expect results already, it's only been less than a month! It will take some time for his policies to work."
"The problem with the eggs is because Biden ordered millions of chickens to be killed."
The egg thing is going to be VERY painful cognitive dissonance for those that walk into a store and find no eggs, or a limit on purchase, etc. And that may take a while before that changes.
These people lie to each other, themselves, and to "the libs" on a regular basis. I'm sure they can lie about empty shelves, too, but it will be a bigger lie than just lying about what prices were before vs. now.
I agree with you. People should see Trump's approval rating. He is doing well so far.
Probably one day they will have a regret, but now as you say so...
That's when you tell them about deflation and the fact that the State will never let it happen.
Get used to it bitches, prices aren't coming down, it would create a spiral of economic chaos!
Wow a 5% decline... ... ... ...
Chaos is exactly what you signed up for, maybe read the fucking fine print next time.
I know it's tempting to dunk on these people, but if you know anyone like this, tell them to call their Senator and voice their displeasure. They probably won't listen, and they deserve their, "leopards ate my face," moment, but trying to mobilize them would be far more productive than saying, "told you so."
Very good point. I plan on giving the people I know IRL an off-ramp and I will try not to show that I'm judging them. Breaking with a cult is very difficult. Admitting they were wrong about nearly everything is world-shattering.
It's even harder if they think people will just be hostile and tell them how wrong they were, etc. As much as people want to give them no safe harbor, and make them grovel and prostrate themselves before normal Americans and constantly remind them about how much they have hurt others....that's not how the human psyche works. Almost no one is going to return to normalcy for that kind of treatment...
Exactly. Also, be prepared to do it in stages. I'm sure a lot of people probably aren't ready to admit that voting for Trump was a mistake, but they might be willing to admit that Trump is making mistakes by starting a trade war or giving Musk so much power. Take what common ground you find and try to build on it.
Unless they are done being class traitors, I hope they starve.
No they aren't angry. They give zero fucks and just pull an RFK on Samoa. They will simply not to pay attention to "MSM" if it gets inconvenient, and any present change will be chalked up to Kamala.
I think I have seen a few anecdotal instances where I'm seeing cracks. One of them is likely to lose their job directly because of donvict being in office.
I have no sense of how widespread it really is, though. There is that guy running that channel about maga leaving the cult. And of course the media they watch will do nearly everything possible, as long as possible, to prop up the illusion of "Trump".
That's very optimistic. Remember people leaving the GOP ship in droves after Jan6? By 2024 they managed to return to trump somehow. Almost everything that happened in the past 3 weeks that is of consequence to peoples livelihoods had been entirely predictable. I wouldn't count on the judgement, nor the political memory of people with sudden "trumpgret" in 2024.
Vote for a grand wizard, expect collateral damage from the fireballs.
To be honest, I expected it to be bad. But this right now? Oh my gosh. He really out-trumped himself.
Strange, because it’s EXACTLY what they signed up for.
Can gurentee you more than a few are swallowing hte 'they're elminating waste from OUR taxes' line eagerly.
Such as my parents.
that "waste" is gonna go right into the pockets of the wealthy and the select few.
run 'o the mill redcap maganuts are not on that list--never were
Chaos was the main constant his entire first presidency.
Fuck. Does nobody remember infrastructure week?
Infrastructure Week lasted four years and was always two weeks away. This term is apparently Executive Order Day, every day that ends in a "why".
Dumbasses voted for a clown and didn't expect the inevitable circus.
Womp womp.
"best we can do is several genocides"
I never thought the leopards would eat my face...
Geneticist Nicholas Schuch plans to move savings to Swiss Francs, expecting ongoing chaos.
Wow can you imagine your face getting eaten by leopards this hard? \s
The perma stun proceeds.
Anything to stick it to the libs?
Fuckers.
A Republican would let Trump shit in their mouth if it meant a 'lib' had to smell it.
Zero sympathy, tough shit and FAFO. The Orange Stain will break the US record for unemployment, which he currently holds from his first term. The only event that might save his ass, is a big fucking war. My bet is on Iran.
How many more people do you think will accept this… harm… if the eggs were down?
A depressing amount.
I'm tired of hearing this. These people need to be shunted from our narrative.