Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center — Page 3

kdogg36 said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "these all drove normally reasonable voters away and into trump world"

Stop blaming Trump on those who did not support him. The fault lies solely with those who, knowing all they do about him from the past ten (or more) years, cast a vote for him. They are garbage (I used to say "human garbage," but I don't recognize them as humans anymore). Every single one deserves a swift but miserable death."


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Updated On: 2/8/25 at 09:28 AM

MezzoDiva is a troll and should be ignored accordingly

but its also funny to list many of the Left's excesses (which are liabilities in the general election, they will never learn) as dooming Kamala when those were the policies the Dems were embracing *in 2020* when Biden won. Kamala ran centrist, and too many leftists punished her for it, shooting themselves and all of us in the foot. the 30% who dont vote at all will continue to doom this country to its demise. trump is the foolish puppet to some truly evil people. buckle up.

TheQuibbler said: "MezzoDiva47 said: "
and what did we offer them for this election?
defund the police
college campus chaos
latinx
cancel culture
sign these‘we see you’ petitions ~ or else
learn 200 new pronouns ~ or else
rampant toleratedanti-semitism
zero acknowledgement about inflation and the hardship its been causingworking class families

these all drove normally reasonable voters away and into trump world
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and lets not kid ourselves

pretty much every minority group and every county in every state moved further right this past election"

Democrats didn’t run on basically anyof those things. This is all the fantasy version of what the right thought the left was running on.If anything, the main critique about the Harris campaign was she didn’t go left enough.

Ironically, that's also a misconception. Social media algorithms have done their best to push that idea, but polling of the voting population showed that Harris was seeing as "too liberal" and Trump moderate in comparison (this was also the case with Clinton vs Trump in 2016 - take of that what you will).

Polling also showed that if you were paying attention to politics and the news, you were more likely to vote for Harris. Trump's campaign focused on low-propensity and low-information voters who were told to be mad about prices - this also explains why most swing state Dem Senators kept their seats and Dems gained seats in the House - a significant amount of Trump voters just put his name at the top and left everything else blank.

As I said earlier, everything is as stupid as it looks.

KevinKlawitter said: "
Ironically, that's also a misconception. Social media algorithms have done their best to push that idea, but polling of the voting population showed that Harris was seeing as "too liberal" and Trump moderate in comparison (this was also the case with Clinton vs Trump in 2016 - take of that what you will).”

But was that a reflection of her actual campaign or a narrative that was being pushed? People who viewed Kamala as “too liberal” were probably never going to vote for her or were always going to vote Trump, even as she went out of her way to be as centrist as possible. As I understand it, the people that would have won her the election are the ones she alienated in the Democratic base and ultimately stayed home. Though, I’ll acknowledge there isn’t just one answer. We’re all fishing around the in dark trying to explain our current predicament.

Anyway, you’re right that everything is pretty stupid.

Blaming "wokeness" for the election loss has been a convenient argument that ignores the fact that Biden was incredibly unpopular, a poor communicator even of his successes, and broadly seen as unfit to be running for re-election well before he dropped out- and then after he dropped out there was a potent narrative that there had been a cover up to hide his frailty. Harris did not do enough in the little time she had to distinguish herself from him and, largely because she inherited his campaign and kept his close aides, essentially became the incumbent in a year in which incumbency was being rejected around the world.

MAGAs refused to acknowledge that Project 2025 was a real thing and now that Dumpster is putting it into effect, they're dumbfounded about it's existence.

Curious what kinds of adaptations to existing properties would be required to satisfy Trump. The Sound of Music, but the Von Trapp family decides to stay and perform after all? Ragtime, but the only cast members are the New Rochelle family? Perhaps a version of A Chorus Line where Zach immediately dismisses all the non-white Christian heterosexual dancers in celebration of anti-DEI policies? So many possibilities!

My last comment: This country is a mess. A global laughingstock. A sinking ship. A declining empire. Elect Trump not once, but twice? Wow. Always knew ‘muricans were stupid, but this sets the bar. This country wasn’t invaded. It willingly handed the keys to an evil, egomaniacal child. But, but, but those egg prices! What better reason to bow down to MAGA. Enjoy it, USA. This is what you wanted.

MasterThespian 2 said: "My last comment: This country is a mess. A global laughingstock. A sinking ship. A declining empire. Elect Trump not once, but twice? Wow. Always knew ‘muricans were stupid, but this sets the bar. This country wasn’t invaded. It willingly handed the keys to an evil, egomaniacal child. But, but, but those egg prices! What better reason to bow down to MAGA. Enjoy it, USA. This is what you wanted."



Not quite half. Considering the large amount of people that didn't vote in 2024, it equates to about 2/5 voting for him, 2/5 for Harris and 1/5 either didn't vote or voted third party.

Updated On: 2/8/25 at 01:58 PM

WhoCouldBeBlue said: "They themed a Shakespeare in the Park play that mimicked the assassination of a man who looked like him."

Julius Caesar has historically been depicted as the sitting president when it’s performed. 5 years prior to the Shakespeare in the Park production there was a production of the play that depicted Caesar as Barack Obama.