This area of South Dakota voted for Trump by roughly 70%. Here's what they think now - YouTube
Not a traditional LAMF post but a good watch to see the cult talk
Tough shit, MAGAs. Trump wasn't a Walmart purchase that you can return when you've had time to come to your senses. Not only did you ask for this, you forced it on the rest of us, so please understand... the vast majority of us who opposed trump are hoping you get exactly what you asked for: to be farked raw... long and hard without lube or consent.
Seriously, actions have consequences, these are yours and we hope you get them in spades, you stupid motherfarkers. Maybe when 80% of this nation is living in Trumpville tent cities, people will finally stop voting for, "Punch me in the dick repeatedly."
South Dakota is an interesting place. I live here and it's a Republican supermajority at the state level, so Trump supporters enjoy an extraordinary level of comfort.
This place is the perfect example to show how the conservative political machine have taken root across rural America. It started with Nixon's silent majority and has only grown more powerful through the Reagan and Bush II administrations. All of the seeds that Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh sowed in the nineties have grown into an angry, bitter rabble out here.
People here are led to believe that there are dark forces at the gates both domestic and abroad. Those liberals in other states want to convert South Dakota into a woke hellscape. The farm crisis in the eighties made people distrust Washington D.C. and foreign trade. Lots of people think we need to completely revert back to an imaginary time and place.
I was born after George McGovern but it's fascinating to think of a time that this state would have a democratic, anti-war governor who would run for president. That was the seventies and we had democratic U.S. representatives until the Tea Party movement pushed them out.
Since then, we have but a handful of left-leaning political leaders in the state. The Democrats are effectively powerless outside of larger towns and reservations. Neoliberalism died here about 20 years ago, so any establishment Democrat has a snowball's chance in Hell to run here.
I'm rambling but I wanted to give some insight from someone who lives here. I'm not hopeful that much will change here politically. I've felt marginized by the national Democratic party since I graduated high school, so they aren't going to come "rescue" us from this mess. Talking about this place online only draws ridicule from other liberals and left-wing folks.
There are some bright spots, as we had 5,000 people show up at one of our Hands Off rallies:
The farm crisis in the eighties made people distrust Washington D.C. and foreign trade.
Oh yeah, I remember the pain in the Midwest from this.
Remind me: Which dumbass democratic president of the 80s made all those changes again?
It drives me crazy when Reagan is treated as a god :)
It’s so bizarre to me that anyone thinks there is a serious, thoughtful, sober method to Trump’s madness. Beyond the obvious grifting, that is.
Why do people treat him as anything other than a petty thief?
Tribalism. They'll find a way to think Trump is good, because that is a necessity for tribal membership for them.
Propaganda my dude.
Because literally all most of those idiots want to do is "own the libs" ANYTHING that pisses off a non MAGAt makes the MAGAts nut in their pants. All the BS justifications are them not wanting to admit it to themselves so they can still consider themselves a good and rational person even when rationality is the furthest thing from the truth. Even when they are directly harmed sometimes they do not see the forest for the trees. Like the dude whose daughter died from the measles who came on TV and said it was not Trumps or RFKs fault and not because he convinced them vaccines are bad. He said the lack of a vaccine had nothing to do with it, it was just terrible bad luck and he does not intend to give his future children any vaccines either. These people have no real reasoning capability and no logic at all. They know that the non MAGAts hate Trump and that is all they need to know. The less they think about it the more it pisses us off and that is the only thing they care about.
Because they're too stupid to follow along and understand everyday politics, so this level of insanity seems like 3D chess to them.
Because half of them were bullies in high school, that's how they see the world.
They need someone like me doing interviews. Every time I see videos like this, the presenter is obviously liberal, got that vibe. Middle-aged white redneck like me could really get people talking. To MAGA, I'm "safe", not some city-slicker lib come to dunk on them.
And no, not saying the interviewer did anything like that at all. But I hope you get my gist.
Same here in Australia though, im an older, white Gen X cis guy. Boomers and Gen x have no issues with assuming I am the same sort of asshole they are; racist, super conservative, religious, anti the enviorment etc and will tell me with glee.
Hmmm. Are you me?