The maga Repub voters in Iowa consider it a feature and not a bug. They are 100% onboard.

Every word and vote this little asshole says or makes is ON THEM.

THEY are doing this to us. Not Trump, Musk, Thiel, the maga Pub Senators or Reps - they are. It's them.

And it is now an ugly sight to behold.

For these "I didn't vote for THIS" crowd.

You did. You had a heads up from Rick Scott a few years ago. Project 2025 and Agenda 47'clearly stated all of this would happen.

It's on them. All of it. Cruelty and Insanity when you could have had Joy, Abundance, and Sanity.

Old African American Proverb: A hard head makes for a soft bottom.

A thick skull makes fora a sorry ass.

We saw it on TV. His rape trial, Stormy trial, all the stolen top secret documents, the insurrection he led.

They voted for him for this reason. They wanted him to destroy the people they hate.
Pregnant women, POC, LGBT, non Christians, immigrants, foreigners.

They didn't think he would go after the MAGAs too.

...they were okay with that. It has a doomsday cult feel to it: there are things they "know" that we don't, and they are willing to die--or at least suffer--to bring about whatever they see as the endgame.

Just leaves more for the rest of us.

I know some DUers find that cruel and authoritarian adjacent . . . but seriously.

These folks signed up for it.

But the ignorant American voter never disappoints.

The actual crimes or the trials.

The billionaires are thrilled because they want someone lawless who will help
them commit crimes against the American people.

The MAGAs are thrilled because they want someone who hates and will destroy all the people they hate.

Some of them are so angry and cynical that they have no hope, want to make others hurt like they do.- If they are going down, they'll take the rest of us with them. Or at least they'll establish that there are people lower than they are, who they can blame instead of themselves. Like the poor Whites who supported slavery back when. It's not OK to think this way, but when the widening income gap destroys hope it creates desparate people. Like Weimar Germany after WWI.

Some really didn't know what he was going to do. They aren't policy wonks. They don't read between the lines. They're stuck with the beliefs they grew up with, exxacerbated by the Fox bubble. They believe him when he says he won't touch medicaid and Social Security. They think the immigration problem is only rapists and murderers and he'll only be deporting bad guys. Those of us who are paying attention think they should know, but they don't. They are maddeningly ignorant, but not themselves cruel.

But to some degree this is on us. Dems ever moving to the middle. We label universal healthcare as unaffordable and radical, we don't stop hedge funds from buying up the housing stock, and we take the Hispanic vote for granted because we think they'll be logical while the Right funds Spanish speaking radio stations spewing lies.

I'm as mad at Trump voters as anyone, but I'm also mad that Democrats have not created the contrast necessary to keep our voters.

They have known all along Trump is a criminal.
As I keep saying his crimes and trials were televised.

I think they pretend to be stupid, naive, ignorant.
When they know full well they love that he is a criminal.
They want him to destroy their enemies.
And make the MAGAs rich with his crime.

and it's WHY they voted for it, and still, largely support it.

Don't try to rationalize this mentality. I spent years going around and around with this sort.

They are filled with venom and hate over TRUMPed up fears and VICTIMHOOD. And they're fine with suffering, so long as they think someone else is suffering more.

Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a single supporter. What he didn't say is, INCLUDING ONE OF THEM.

Because they are a CULT. And Trump knows this.

who is MAGA is gentle and kind and really just doesn't connect the dots. He is listening to the wrong people. When I make my case he clearly just doesn't know what I'm talking about. He makes illogical leaps, repeats misinformation. I don't know who he's listening to but it isn't Rachel Maddow.

Yes there are MAGAs who don't care if Trump is a criminal. Though I'd wager they are convinced Biden is a criminal too. That's the reason for the big lie, so Trump can be a criminal and it seems justified.

Yes there are people ok with a dictatorship. They don't understand the ramifications. They actually think that things will work better.

I still think the people who actually want the cruelty are a minority of Trump voters. Too many, but not half the country.

I'd respectfully disagree.

Because, for starters, I don't see much difference between those who 'actually want' the cruelty and those who abide by it.

And MOST of them support Trump still, in spite of all he's done, said, and WANTS to do.

Or maybe I've seen too many polls, studies, and statistics like how 70 percent of Republicans think President Biden 'stole the election' and how 70 percent of them sympathize with the Capitol Insurrectionists, how the majority of them favour mass deportations, and how as many as one third of them even support violence as a means of assuming political control.

Nor am I inclined to excuse denialism, the rejection of uncomfortable truths and facts, and willfully deliberate ignorance.

Trump and his MAGA party were and ARE quite CLEAR as to their words, their messages, their demonizations, their rhetoric, their hate, and their intent.

In my book, people who choose to look away, while their leadership engages in hate, CRUELTY, discord, and inhumanity,

those who don't WANT to know, are equally guilty.

And with the choices clear and the danger imminent, I'm not inclined to cut the 'undecideds' the uninformed, or the willfully OBLIVIOUS, any slack.

"You stupid proles need to shut up, get back to work, pay us your taxes, and then die." - G.O.P., Inc.

She was hostile, insulting and condescending.

we're all gonna die anyways.

And people vote for her. .

They are sure the GOP leaders will save the MAGAs.

ha, what fools they are.

We don’t count. These ghouls want slaves again. Been fighting for it since 1865.

And the billionaires are hoping to replace humans with robots and AI.
So they don't need humans at all.

Read NEXUS by Yuval Noah Harari

The voters of Iowa replaced him with the pig castrator.

How Iowa has changed. This is the problem in a nutsehll. What happened to the people of Iowa?

morons keep voting for these corrupt and contemptible people. It’s insane.

They spent unheard of at the time amounts of cash to buy this senate seat from Iowa.

She was given the counterpoint slot to the state of the union to contrast that "evil black Muslim man" with a "pure wholesome, white, mother, veteran" within two years of being in the Senate.

She has switched her allegiance to the Magat wing but she has always been a puppet for the real power behind the rethugs... billionaire donors who pull all the strings.

Bought and paid for by greedy billionaires.

Often, my impression is that they were raised in families where the parents kicked their kids to the curb as soon as they could. I can see how they were raised in a household where the parents mentally abused their kids, criticizing them for their shortcomings and showing no support for interests or hobbies that couldn't pay for themselves. "Yeah, but can you make a living with that?" That sort of thing.

One of the survival mechanism in this pressure cooker is to redirect the ire at another target. If they can get their parents to denigrate the younger brother or sister for example, it takes the heat off of them.

That's how I see right-wing families.

Everything has been handed to them with no work or effort.
They feel entitled and privileged.

They demand others take care of them at all times.
And get angry when they get pushback.

republicans were so concerned about the American public when they harped on "death panels" when opposing Obamacare!

The GOP was the death panel.

Miss direction
Blame to the opponent what you are.
The Repukes are the masters of social engineering

NOT EVER. “Death” is a WAY powerful trigger word.

And with a sexually out of control general.

So we know Ernst has bad judgment and likes disreputable people.
Like herself.

I wonder if she is drinking and doing drugs.

Her recent behavior is so very odd and hostile.

It was found that most workers don't live to retire. The reason was low wages and lack of healthcare. So what did Portman and the GOP do? They lowered the payments going into retirement accounts because those people were going to die anyway. They know that more money for workers increases their lives and improves their quality of life and that it doesn't increase rich peoples lives or their quality of life.

No healthcare in old age, no retirement/pension payments.

All goes right into the pockets of the rich and powerful.

Every word.

the repug voters and spews out through the GOP.

Too long in Washington.

They all seem to be ruthless sociopaths.

Basically telling their constituents to die and go to hell.
And shut up.

Because it costs them nothing monetarily.

the sinister "coldness with a smile" in her infamous "castrating hogs" ad, was telling.

People are simply "livestock".

Like Kristi Noem, sociopaths.

These four words completely and accurately describe the Republican Party's and Corporate America's relationship to everyday people. Unfortunately, many Americans have adjusted their expectations and play the roll like cattle headed to slaughter; completely oblivious and accepting of their fate.

someone like Joni Ernst comes along and proves me totally wrong.

subject of health care a human being can possibly have. The GOP deserves to have this hung around their necks for as long as they continue to fucking exist.

Obviously "when" and "how" we die don't fucking matter to them, because without health care, people die of 100% preventable shit--no thanks to the insanity of her party and its policies. You know, the whole fucking point of fucking health care. To keep people from dying of preventable shit.

I'm really not sure they want to play this game, because if when and how we die don't matter, then what the fuck is the problem with abortion? Or even Luigi Mangione, for that matter? After all, we're all going to die anyway, so all he did was accelerate the process for Brian the same way health insurance companies do for people everyday.

No need for medical care that way.

Even if it is illegal in their states. They have the money and privilege to get whatever they want.

Same with vaccines and masks. Their children all go to private schools and were wearing masks and
then vaxxed when the vaccines came out. Probably got them first before the rest of America.

Abortion, masks, vaccines are just red meat for the base.

But they will not tolerate regular people killing the elite, the powerful and wealthy.
They will get the best in healthcare.

She is going to die anyway.

I guarantee she will make a snarky, insulting response.

was much, much worse and it comes across to me as a giant FUCK YOU Americans..............

Her hatred and loathing of her constituents are evident.

It is such appalling bad judgment I wonder if she is using drugs or drinking.
On top of being a nasty piece of work.

Cold, cold, cold heart.

I don't really understand why.

These hypocritical, disingenuous God-botherers are so fking loathsome and tiresome.

to address the fears of her own constituents in such an cavalier, noncaring way - very character-defining

They don't want others that they deem of no value to have what they have. They also want us to hurt. The cruelty is the point.

keeping them in office. Go figure.