As the saying goes, "I can’t believe leopards are eating my face!” says woman who voted for the “Leopards Eating Your Face Party”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

@dangillmor there are also people who welcome leopards eating their faces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymckh2-kPCg

Undocumented mechanic says he won’t regret his support for Trump even if he’s deported

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Did these voters have their heads buried in the sand over the last 9 years? Trump has consistently shown who is is and what he represents.
@Lomaxcat @dangillmor It's hard to explain how much I despise and want to punch them at the same time!
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@dangillmor

My guess was that they were supporting the Republicans for their social conservatism. Perhaps there's also a disinformation problem. Or the ghastly radiation that both parties have it in for them. Perhaps status quo anger can con people into choosing the unambiguously greater of two evils.

@dangillmor A commentator over here pointed out that everyone gets a different version of reality, due to the fracturing of the media.

So I see nothing but variations on Trump being bad through his various convictions, felonies, statements and actions, others don't know anything about him beyond occasional clips of him dancing badly.

And you know what?

That's on them. They should fucking wake up and pay attention. You have to be an adult to vote.

@dangillmor "Muslim voters had hoped Trump would choose cabinet officials who work toward peace, and there was no sign of that."
These people are deluded.
They *hoped* ? They should have *listened*
He's been telegraphing who he is for a very long time
@dangillmor not that Harris would have been any more positive on the genocide

@Simpike @dangillmor "He's a strong man, he'll get things done"

Can't help but notice deeply patriarchal cultures really fall for this shit again and again.

@dangillmor We're well into the "finding out" phase now.

@dangillmor It is like the time my wife called me a fckng idiot for feeding the squirrels nuts through our screen door.

I’m still living in screen replacement hell.

https://mastodon.social/tags/electionnighttakes

@dangillmor Yup. Tactical voting, innit?

@dangillmor "He didn't know what he was saying," said Mrs De Soto. "Why would he harm us? We're helping him."

"Because he's a fox!" said Dr De Soto. "They're wicked, wicked creatures."

Doctor De Soto by William Steig 1982

@dangillmor @PatMeeuw He's not even inaugurated yet, and the leopards are already starting to nibble some faces...