The MAGA and Republican bubble

[Anonymous]

These people are living in a bubble. They only consume information that supports their beliefs. No facts can sway them. Sadly they represent large communities so the bubble is very large. In this bubble, Trump is smart, tariffs are good, firing Government workers is OK, and Putin is favored over their own fellow Americans, who are Democrats.

Nothing can burst their bubble as it is so comfortable to have a community that agrees with all of your views. It does not challenge you.

[Anonymous]

MAGA our brainwashed to think that destroying a Tesla is worse than a school shooting. SMH yes they certainly live in a bubble. Because they've all managed to agree on that. Craziness.

[Anonymous]

A big part of it is Fox " news" and its shameful lack of coverage of major eevens that might be unfavorable to Trump. Nothing on the stock market crash due to Liberation Day. Stock ticker removed from their site! Nothing today on the Hands Off protests across the country. SMH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A big part of it is Fox " news" and its shameful lack of coverage of major eevens that might be unfavorable to Trump. Nothing on the stock market crash due to Liberation Day. Stock ticker removed from their site! Nothing today on the Hands Off protests across the country. SMH.

It's too late to blame FOX (though i will always blame FOX.) That was 2018. Now they are just lying to give their audience what they want. They are for entertainment after all

[Anonymous]

I was at a family gathering with some MAGA relatives a couple weeks ago. I didn’t hear anyone talk about politics at the event - and generally we do avoid it knowing that we’re a divided group in that way. After I got home, I went on Facebook and saw that one person who was there had posted at least 20 MAGA memes/sensational news stories in the hours we were together. Even when she was there physically, mentally she was deep in the propaganda.

Maybe these family events are stressful for her and that’s a coping mechanism, but I really wish she had other interests to explore. All I ever see from her is MAGA posts, no pictures of her grandchildren, pets, nature - anything!

[Anonymous]

Who is typing in this thread?

You are using the wrong words? WTH?

"Are" is not "our".

eevens?


Watching Fox right now. They are showing footage of the protests in several cities and asking people there what they are protesting... not that the answers they get from any of the protestors are coherent. But still, there's no news blackout.

This thread seems to be off the rails.

[Anonymous]

NP. Yeah, I’m not so sure MAGA are the ones in the bubble. Or rather, they are in a bubble, but the people in the DCUM bubble are equally sealed. Why were so many DCUMs shocked at Trump’s win? That he was going to easily win was obvious to those of us who don’t rely solely on DCUM approved media sources.

I am a moderate, Harris-voting Democrat. (I would never vote for Trump.) I make it a point to consume both right and left wing media sources as well as MSM. And it is weird, what I read on DCUM sometimes. There is as much of a bubble here as you accuse the MAGA of living in.

FYI the right wing media is covering the protests. They aren’t hiding it. So this whole idea that Fox isn’t covering the protests, well that’s the product of your bubble, not reality. But you’d have to actually make a point of consuming right wing media sources to know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people are living in a bubble. They only consume information that supports their beliefs. No facts can sway them. Sadly they represent large communities so the bubble is very large. In this bubble, Trump is smart, tariffs are good, firing Government workers is OK, and Putin is favored over their own fellow Americans, who are Democrats.

Nothing can burst their bubble as it is so comfortable to have a community that agrees with all of your views. It does not challenge you.

You got things flipped

The bubble is the inside the beltway crowd and the McLean/bethesda urban elites

The servants are revolting and they can’t figure out what is going on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These people are living in a bubble. They only consume information that supports their beliefs. No facts can sway them. Sadly they represent large communities so the bubble is very large. In this bubble, Trump is smart, tariffs are good, firing Government workers is OK, and Putin is favored over their own fellow Americans, who are Democrats.

Nothing can burst their bubble as it is so comfortable to have a community that agrees with all of your views. It does not challenge you.

You got things flipped

The bubble is the inside the beltway crowd and the McLean/bethesda urban elites

The servants are revolting and they can’t figure out what is going on

But the McLean/Bethesda "urban elites" aren't the ones who will suffer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is typing in this thread?

You are using the wrong words? WTH?

"Are" is not "our".

eevens?


Watching Fox right now. They are showing footage of the protests in several cities and asking people there what they are protesting... not that the answers they get from any of the protestors are coherent. But still, there's no news blackout.

This thread seems to be off the rails.

It does call into question exactly what the goal of these protests are. They seem only intended to generate news stories to show that some people are doing something - when nothing is getting done at all. Protests mean nothing if you can't articulate clearly why you're protesting and the average American is ignoring you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These people are living in a bubble. They only consume information that supports their beliefs. No facts can sway them. Sadly they represent large communities so the bubble is very large. In this bubble, Trump is smart, tariffs are good, firing Government workers is OK, and Putin is favored over their own fellow Americans, who are Democrats.

Nothing can burst their bubble as it is so comfortable to have a community that agrees with all of your views. It does not challenge you.

You got things flipped

The bubble is the inside the beltway crowd and the McLean/bethesda urban elites

The servants are revolting and they can’t figure out what is going on

But the McLean/Bethesda "urban elites" aren't the ones who will suffer.

I’m not the PP but my God the DCUM bubble is strong.

You do not understand. The jobless, underemployed working class men of all races who voted Trump into office are already suffering. They were suffering under Biden. They suffered under Trump v1. They suffered under Obama.

They’ve reached the “smash it all up stage” because they do not have any hope. And of course McLean/Bethesda elites suffer if the stock market is destroyed. How could they not? They’ll lose value in their market holdings.

My guess is that if you polled that group, Trump’s favorability ratings under the tariffs have gone up, not down. What do they care if the stock market is destroyed? Their lives are already miserable.

DCUM Democrats struggle to understand that Trump represents a class struggle moment, in which DCUM Democrats are seen as the bad guys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These people are living in a bubble. They only consume information that supports their beliefs. No facts can sway them. Sadly they represent large communities so the bubble is very large. In this bubble, Trump is smart, tariffs are good, firing Government workers is OK, and Putin is favored over their own fellow Americans, who are Democrats.

Nothing can burst their bubble as it is so comfortable to have a community that agrees with all of your views. It does not challenge you.

You got things flipped

The bubble is the inside the beltway crowd and the McLean/bethesda urban elites

The servants are revolting and they can’t figure out what is going on

But the McLean/Bethesda "urban elites" aren't the ones who will suffer.

I’m not the PP but my God the DCUM bubble is strong.

You do not understand. The jobless, underemployed working class men of all races who voted Trump into office are already suffering. They were suffering under Biden. They suffered under Trump v1. They suffered under Obama.

They’ve reached the “smash it all up stage” because they do not have any hope. And of course McLean/Bethesda elites suffer if the stock market is destroyed. How could they not? They’ll lose value in their market holdings.

My guess is that if you polled that group, Trump’s favorability ratings under the tariffs have gone up, not down. What do they care if the stock market is destroyed? Their lives are already miserable.

DCUM Democrats struggle to understand that Trump represents a class struggle moment, in which DCUM Democrats are seen as the bad guys.

Basically this.

[Anonymous]

I agree that there is a class struggle where the democrats are the bad guys, but I’d love to know which *current* republican policies are tangibly better for working class employees and don’t actually favor the ultra-wealthy more.

Don’t talk to me about Bill Clinton and NAFTA. Talk to me about 2025.

[Anonymous]

It's not just Democrats, it's old school Republicans as well. That is why leaning into Cheney endorsements was a completely disaster for Kamala Harris.

It's also why Bernie Sanders is getting support and momentum now.

There is a whole anti-establishment rise that is anathema to all the professional UMC cpeople who have benefited from the big business/big government American capitalist and world policeman order that has been in place since the end of WW2.

Turning our citizens into consumers has enriched many people but has left the lower LMC Americans behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These people are living in a bubble. They only consume information that supports their beliefs. No facts can sway them. Sadly they represent large communities so the bubble is very large. In this bubble, Trump is smart, tariffs are good, firing Government workers is OK, and Putin is favored over their own fellow Americans, who are Democrats.

Nothing can burst their bubble as it is so comfortable to have a community that agrees with all of your views. It does not challenge you.

You got things flipped

The bubble is the inside the beltway crowd and the McLean/bethesda urban elites

The servants are revolting and they can’t figure out what is going on

But the McLean/Bethesda "urban elites" aren't the ones who will suffer.

I’m not the PP but my God the DCUM bubble is strong.

You do not understand. The jobless, underemployed working class men of all races who voted Trump into office are already suffering. They were suffering under Biden. They suffered under Trump v1. They suffered under Obama.

They’ve reached the “smash it all up stage” because they do not have any hope. And of course McLean/Bethesda elites suffer if the stock market is destroyed. How could they not? They’ll lose value in their market holdings.

My guess is that if you polled that group, Trump’s favorability ratings under the tariffs have gone up, not down. What do they care if the stock market is destroyed? Their lives are already miserable.

DCUM Democrats struggle to understand that Trump represents a class struggle moment, in which DCUM Democrats are seen as the bad guys.

Maybe these men wouldn’t have needed up in this situation if they had gotten a damn education or been willing to relocate for a job. Instead they were the types who goofed off in high school and made fun of people who studied hard. No one owes you a well paying job in the small town you grew up in. Smart people know you get an education and move to where the opportunity is. It’s the ultimate entitlement to think someone should bring opportunities to you. Times change and you adapt or get left behind. Screw them.