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This to me is hilarious. I live in the rural south-east and find myself surrounded by the people that cheered this administration on. Sampling the opinions around me, they are about as unhappy with this admin as the left.

Yet when I go on the internet, I see these right-wing Trump supporters making arguments in support of stuff like this with the most hollow and rabid nature.

Have any of you considered that the US Gov just does whatever it wants and manufactures at least a large percentage of the consent we see in digital media?

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I cannot imagine why they are unhappy. It was abundantly clear that this was what they were going to get.

And I'd be willing to bet that if the election were re-run today they'd make the same choice.

I think they're unhappy Trump isn't exclusively punishing their political enemies. The broad attack on government programs that help everybody is not what they wanted, they know it's going to hurt themselves.

Electing a mad man or dictator is not equivalent to 3/4 of the states ratifying an amendment to the Constitution. The Yarvin, Thiel, Musk view of using autogolpe to place a CEO-dictatorship in place of Constitutional order is in progress. But the People haven't consented to that. Proposing that they have does enormously heavy lifting for this patrimonial diarchy movement.

It is my belief that when all is said and done, they'll be happy enough that the damage mostly fell on their opponents. That seems to be their top priority; they believe that they'll recover once the opposition is snuffed out.

But we'll see. Assuming there is an election next year, they'll have a chance to signal their disapproval. In many cases it will suffice for them to simply stay home.

My prediction is that they will vote to affirm this self coup. I would very much like to be proven wrong.

I love how you idiots skipped right over the most obvious thing that would make Trump voters unhappy: bombing Yemen. Probably because that's too close to the warped goals of those who control this board. Bunch of crooked propagandists.

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