The stupidity of some people in that article is jaw dropping.
Also, if they shout at each other now, just wait for the SSA, Medicare, and Medicaid cuts that make hearing aids too expensive for rural boomers.
Grew up near Iowa, can confirm a lot of stupid people who think they're smart.
And they all vote. (credit to George Carlin)
EDIT: As fate would have it...
I just got back from a PT appointment.
... The driver (local charity service for the broken and broke)...
Yep. She was from Iowa.
We got to talkin', I told her about my (former, before being goddamned maimed) line of work.
I had to... spend most of the conversation explaining that software development... and IT... generally refer to completely different things and require significantly different skill sets.
But uh, she was very cheerful and upbeat, with meaningless folksy aphorisms applied wildly out of context, to go along with a bafflingly out of touch assesment of how easy it will be for such a bright young man to find a job. (I am 35.)
... What a world.
Studies show that two out of every three Trump voters are just as stupid as the third one.
I’m sick of you democrats and your *checks notes* due process under the law.
“That man is a criminal,” she declared of Garcia.
“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.
“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.
MAGA morons are the bottom of the barrel
Im trying in my head to make that response of "he had tattoos on his body" less stupid than it is, but cannot come up with a scenario where someone would get tattoos anywhere else.
This will only escalate.. And, across the country...
And I'm here for it.
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“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”
^ That line baffles me
The conservative mindset is kind of like a reversed No True Scotsman sometimes. In an inherently hierarchical world where you are OBVIOUSLY at the A, #1, top, “Made in the image of white Jesus” tier, it is a serious insult to question the realness of another. Getting “othered” when you’re one of the Real Americans, one of the Chosen Ones, is a tragedy!
He voted Republican chiefly on the issue of abortion...
WTAF. Why are there so many idiots like this? You don't like abortion, don't fucking have one. And if you are male...it's not your concern.
I thought that was their only form of communication
And I feel like this would be a great area for David Attenborough to do a nature documentary on
Hire the folks that did the Russian cope cages in Ukraine parody from a few years ago. That was particularly impressive.
Lol Iowa. Good fucking luck.
This might be both one of the funniest and saddest things I've read since the last time I read about Trump in the news.
"Everyone that disagrees with me is a Democrat"
Iowa was improving in the 90s, improving in the 2000s. They were blue then.
Now I hate going back, it's not the same state I grew up in. Abortion billboards and porn stores, same as the bible belt now.
The state is not improving but they don't care anymore, long as the right people (like me) get hurt.
Someone needs to bring these people a holocaust surviver to show them their tattoo and explain why fascism should never rise again
I'm afraid it would just give them new ideas.
Someone needs to bring these people to cecot, and do a little swaparoo with the current residents.
You'd think farmers at least would understand the relationship between what you sow and what you reap.
I'm trying to fathom this being an actual conversation and not some horribly, awfully scripted sitcom. How the hell is it this bad good lord.
Going to the midwest sounds like going to the zoo.
It's fucking insane here. I live in a city where people's opinions seem relatively reality-based, but if you get out into the rural areas, the effects of brain drain and media balkanization are on full display.
I don't suggest actually doing this, but you would be absolutely fucking shocked by the overwhelming ignorance of the general population if you were to, say, stop at a bar in rural Iowa.
Live here, it is.
Imagine believing that the best days of the US are ahead of you...
I'm sure improvements will be made, but the United States is dying, thanks in large part due to the cancer that's rightwing propaganda networks
Honestly, I don't want the United states to be a thing anymore. It is time for the nation to break up, so that people can choose what sort of government they want to live in. In my case, I would like something modeled after European socialism. I am sick of Fascist America dragging down my state with its evil and stupidity.
Uncapping the House would go a long way towards rebalancing.
LOL, WTAF.
Finishing lunch with two friends at a diner in Osage, Dixie Bowman, 88, a retired welder, said she liked what Trump was doing. Her two friends, when asked, said they preferred not to speak of it.
Dixie Bowman: Trump is “a very kind, very generous person”
Everybody on the right "likes what Trump is doing" or "Likes what DOGE is doing", but when you ask them to articulate, specifically, what actions or policies they like, they will generalize to something the administration has claimed without evidence to be true but is difficult to prove or disprove ("He's making the border safer", "He's getting rid of taxpayer waste", etc.) or they will retreat from the question by attacking you personally or just saying that the vibes are generally better ("The tariffs will fix the economy", "America is respected again", etc.).
I've never once had a debate with a Republican who came prepared with sources to back up their claims. That's because as soon as they try to dig and find evidence of the insane stuff Trump and Musk are peddling, the lie unravels itself and it just becomes easier to accept things at face value rather than think critically.
Crazy that would be the case when 75% of the people on this planet already do belief without evidence with religion. Who could've seen this coming.
Editor's note: This sarcasm is intended to be read in the voice of Jon Stewart with a false look of bewilderment.
Here, let me translate for you:
Dixie Bowman, 88, a retired welder, said she liked what Trump was doing.
"I like how he's getting rid of all the brown people."
Dixie Bowman: Trump is “a very kind, very generous person”
"He's doing things I like. That means he's a good person. Good people are kind and generous."
Given her age, I think it's more likely that she's just being fed nothing but pro-Trump propaganda in her Facebook feed. She scrolls through Facebook on her sticky phone covered in food crumbs liking boomer memes and pictures of grandchildren. If anyone knows her, the easy solution to save her from the propaganda is to sign her out of her account since she definitely doesn't remember her password (and probably has like 3 accounts she's made by accident)
It's the same concept as when Nazis do Nazi things and claim they're not Nazis. Nazi = bad, and they're not bad, so they're not Nazis.
I hope they rip each other apart trying to justify their own ignorance and his madness.
The US is overdue for balkanization. I think the USA will split some time before 2060.
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