‘I think the devil got into him,’ says the hairdresser Celia Salmerón, one of the voters who will change her choice in the midterms

I mean I agree with her. Not on the timeframe probably, but I agree with her.

I feel sorry for the devil

You ever see that episode of The Twilight Zone where a burglar dies and gets sent to Heaven? And there he gets everything he desires at all times with no effort or risk forever? And he quickly goes insane out of boredom and realizes he's actually in Hell?

I feel like that's the life of the devil sitting on Trump's shoulder.

Wow. They finally took down https://www.latinosfortrump.com/

After only ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS

Let’s revisit that magical time when the faces decided to support the leopards-eating-faces-party:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260618042204/https://www.latinosfortrump.com/

see what we need is a dumb racist piece of shit with the same policies and actions that somehow don't lead to their obvious results, the harm he inflicted on me is just a unlikely personal betrayal

ah good a new individual one of these guys, hooray, 100% support, this will go great

haha these leftists are so mad at New Guy their predictions are so silly

I don't care. These assholes voted for him because they wanted him to hurt people they don't like.

Fuck them.

The guy basically did everything but actually say "I hate brown people" and these geniuses voted for him.

Welcome to the anti-Trump club, but you're still an idiot.

I remember telling yall: HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT US

They'll revive it in 2 years.

So... once he starts doing things they like again (or they are propagandized into thinking he did), then this excuse will be dropped. "The devil was purged from him and he is back on the right path."

These people aren't worthy of the benefit of the doubt.

Someone needs to rewrite a version of "Sympathy for the Devil" based solely off every horrible thing trump did, ending with a line about how the devil himself never did any of those things

Pleased to meet you. Can you guess my name? But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game.

They are having the day they voted for.

Imagine the horror of inhabiting that poisoned meat wad.

If only there was some historical lesson that people could have learned from... IE: Jews For Hitler

Most other members and their families were murdered in the Holocaust

‘I think the devil got into him,’ says the hairdresser Celia Salmerón, one of the voters who will change her choice in the midterms

but you knew that before you voted for him, so the question that really needs answering is why did you deliberately choose the devil? is it that you hate LGBTQ people so much you'll side with el diablo?

And maybe they will have it again, but in a more empathetic light.

The devil gets a lot of flack for god's evil bullshit.

Exactly. They are only mad cause it directly affects them now.

I love to quote that

If only people would vote to make the world better

Homies, I have a christian nationalist, conservative, latino, undocumented friend (acquaintance?? I don't really interact with them anymore). It's crazy out up in here

They only sang their desire to deport you all for being brown, even if you were born here, from the fucking rooftops. So how could you possibly know it'd turn out like this?

May your friend get to meet his hooded heroes one day to force a critical re-evaluation of his values.

We need to bring back shame. These people have to be publicly shamed.

"We don't want your kind around us" is something that the pedohitler voters must hear wherever they go. They broke the social contract, they need to be told that their actions have consequences, and to live with them.

I don't think they can be redeemed and given the damage they are doing to the whole planet, I don't think they'll ever deserve to be. Being a maga is like being a nazi. When their leader finally croaks (let's hope soon), they should hide and live with the fear of being found out until the end of their days.

Any trump voter who is not a wealthy white male is a fucking idiot.

I'm pretty sure Trump has literally said 'I hate brown people'. I just think these latinos thought 'yeah! Fuck brown people! I hate how they sully my great White nation!'

There are folks who are fine with inflicting hate and hardship as long as they get to be on the instigating and laughing side of it.

In this case that type of person is excluded from their chosen festivities because of their culture and skin color when deemed not currently useful...which is all the time for white MAGA. So MAGA feigns tolerance to dupe the Latino vote, but that move has a very long cooldown period.

‘I think the devil got into him,’ says the hairdresser Celia Salmerón, one of the voters who will change her choice in the midterms

Honestly I'd feel safer if this person didn't vote at all. I don't trust them to not change their minds again, much less be able to tell which party is which on a ballot. Do they even know that Trump won't be on it?

You agree with what exactly? That some evil, metaphysical being possessed Trump?

What a load of bullshit. Conveniently shifts the blame away from him too.

Of course, that is why they will vote Republican again.

I usually explain people voting for Trump on having evil intentions. But evil alone cannot explain Latinos voting for Trump, that must be a special kind of stupid.

Religious conservatives who vote primarily against abortion and gay rights.

Assume ignorance before malice. Far more people are simply idiots than are evil. Idiots just happen to be really useful to evil people.

People vote for demagogues because they're scared, and the demagogue offers a plan. They don't see that they're scared because the demagogue frightened them on purpose, and they don't see that the plan won't work. They see something that scares them and someone that offers to fix it.

Democrats are horrifically bad at this. They've been on defense since 1998 and only barely got ahead for a few years at the beginning of Obama's first term. They haven't caught up since.

I took an uber once, and upon discovering the driver was a recent immigrant from Latin America, I kvetched about drumpfs immigration policies.

The guy said he preferred drumpf, because "countries need a strong leader."

Yeah, a lot of them are just fucking morons.

Democrats are horrifically bad at this on purpose.

And not only devil

See? Evil.

Yes, exactly. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

In 2016 people may have been stupid. By 2022 they knew what they were getting. Hence malice.

Don't worry, Republicans will win again in a landslide.

Surely this article and massive cuts to CISA will have had nothing to do with it. It will obviously be free and fair. I just hope America wakes up after they steal it and remove these clowns from office the only way left.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump

The only way left is Evolution not Revolution. The people are outgunned, out-teched, and frankly too self-centered to care.

So, how will you be reevaluating your beliefs if you're proven wrong in two weeks?

53% of Americans read at a 6th-grade level, or worse, so there's that. Because you're in a space like this, and/or actually read the news, don't assume everyone else does.

Talking to a good friend about Trump's clear dementia:

"Yeah, but Biden was pretty bad too, wasn't he?"

That's from a young black man who's anything but MAGA. And he's friendly with his Trump-flag flying neighbor!

Ignorance is why it took gas prices to turn the population. It's the one thing you can't miss unless you make plenty of money.

I go off on MAGA whenever, where and when I see them. This T-shirt brings them out in droves when they otherwise only whisper MAGA in public:

Once they get a good look... "oh..."

This is why I left lemmy and question coming back. Autistic robots can't read anything into a comment or post but the most literal meaning and are always looking to wedge an argument in.

Hell, I argue a lot, but I try to respond to the gist of what the writer was trying to convey. Sometimes I fuck it up and have to apologize, "Sorry, misread that."

And here you are, in a space like this, thinking the comment's author actually believes in Satan. 🙄

I really liked "Memnoch the Devil". Anne Rice was going into her Christian phase and seemed to be trying to reason out who Satan was, how he got there and what he was trying to accomplish. Weird enough, it's as close to logical as I've seen regarding that theology.

Dunno, been a long time since I read that. May not hold up so well.

I hope I can, but fascists don't usually go willingly.

The only way left is Evolution not Revolution. The people are outgunned, out-teched, and frankly too self-centered to care.

:Looks at Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple, Open AI, Anthropic CEO’s regularly meeting with the president and participating in official state functions… :

You sure about that tech advantage?

Stupidity is colorblind.