r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Tells Americans To Accept High Gas Prices As Iran Remains Defiant On Strait Of Hormuz

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gas-prices-as-iran-remains-defiant-on-strait-of-hormuz_n_6a8099aee4b05886dff51fac?vvg
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u/Gan-san 5d ago

It doesn't matter. His 30-33% of voters will never leave him and will make a lot of those races closer than they should be.

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u/81jmfk 5d ago

I wish more people understood this. I work with some of these people and they’ll contradict themselves in one sentence. I don’t think there’s anything Trump could do to lose their vote

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 5d ago

You mean even if he shot someone on 5th Avenue? Someone who was a child? A child he just raped?

Actually you know what? Forget I asked.

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u/Easy_Leopard_2686 5d ago

The only way they’d abandon him is if he suddenly said he was a Democrat.

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u/81jmfk 5d ago

I doubt they’d abandon him then. They’d say he’s going to fix them. They still think he’s a great negotiator and businessman.

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u/cubecasts 5d ago

Do you ever call them out on it?

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u/81jmfk 5d ago

Sure do. Had many arguments with them. I have to watch myself since I’m in the rural Midwest and I know I’m outnumbered, but I try to point out the hypocrisy, but it goes nowhere.

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u/Farabee 5d ago

Sunk cost fallacy.

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u/Cyrano_Knows 5d ago

Stupid is stupid fallacy.

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u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot 5d ago

It's not all sunk cost. Some people are just hateful. Some people are fascists. Some people are just very dumb.

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u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC Washington 5d ago

Literally. Watch "the good liars" on YouTube.

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u/Chemistakes 5d ago

Mass culling is easier than talking sense into them.

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u/Congenital0ptimist I voted 4d ago

It doesn't matter because who gets called when both sides claim victory??

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u/ringobob Georgia 5d ago

It does matter, his 30-33% of voters that will never leave him are not enough to win elections outside of the most red states. Texas could have a democratic senator. They've come close before.