"Didn't expect MAGA to be racist to me!"

Not a country
Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken badly about and deliberately mistreated Puerto Rico
Donald Trump also routinely speaks extremely badly about the country Puerto Rico is in
I'm glad he's changed his mind at the literal last minute, but it baffles me every day how ignorant people can be.
Petition to restart !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, by the way.
- Petition to restart !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, by the way.
  Every time I make the mistake of visiting that sub, I want to smack the mod who locked it. I don't even know if his grievances were legit, but clearly the only people he's hurting are the folks who would like to post to the sub.
  Edit: Are .world Admins aware? Do they have a position on the situation? Do they give a crap? Anyone know?
  
  We're aware. AFAIK, nobody has expressed interest in taking over that community and bringing it back to life.
  @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world would you like to volunteer?
  
  Here's the beautiful thing about Lemmy and the Fediverse as the whole: Anyone could be a pioneer and create another leopardatemyface community--even in another instance different from lemmy.world. I saw the mod's explanation of locking this community and I think it's a legitimate reason cuz many of us running away from Reddit at least wants something different from the userbase and moderating culture there and .world instance failed to provide it.
  Also, I think the .world Admins are aware, and that they have a position on the situation, and most likely they don't give a crap. That's why like I said, any dissenting users could create yet another similar community and try to lure others in to subscribe to it.
  
  Not every problem needs to be solved with mod/admin tools. Absolutely nobody said rape was okay.
  "Rape is less severe than normal" is not such a dangerous opinion that mods/admins need to get involved. If you are offended and/or disagree, that's what your words are for.
  I encourage mods to use words instead of mod tools whenever possible.
  Lemmy.World Community Team
- Maybe he just ran out of the paper towels Trump threw at him the last time he was in PR. Now he had a spill to clean up and he’s finally mad.
- https://lemm.ee/c/leopardsatemyface
  .world is not the only instance.
- Don’t Trump call America a garbage can like a couple days before this guy made this joke? It seemed like just an extension of what Trump already said.
  
  Yep.
  That's how dictators work
  They'll shit on top of the country and try a self fulfilling prophecy . Over time, people will believe it. They'll create a negative mindset
  Then when they're elected they'll do the opposite. Their supporters will simply change their mindset.

I never thought
There, that's the official motto of trump supporters.
- Make circular buttons with that text centered within a leopard print image behind it
- The storied history of low-information voters being informed. Between that and no-empayhy voters having "done unto them", we are getting a lot of red-thrned-blue going on.
- ^^ Stealing this ^^

Florida is filled to the brim with Hispanic folks that love Trump. It makes no goddamn sense to me.
- It makes no goddamn sense to me.
  Cuban expats that are vehemently anti communist.
  
  Cuban expats that are vehemently anti communist.
  And who have apparently assimilated so well into US society that they have no idea what communism actually is anymore. A democrat vote is still miles away from anything even remotely resembling communism.
  
  Man, the US really is getting its mileage out of the Red Scare.
- I’m going to guess they’re into theocracies.
- Another reason is that Hispanics (like many minorities) are on average both more religious and more socially conservative than the general population.
- Conservatism.
  How much sense does it make for poor people to support Trump? Or women?
  
  Hey listen, poor people can support women all they want.
  joking
- My dad was African Caribbean with a heavy accent who got citizenship after decades in the US. At times, legal, at time illegal, as the system is quite intentionally broken. After ALL that experience, being repeatedly treated with racist attacks by cops, bank tellers, and who knows how many else, that's just was I was around to see happen. Anyway, he was VERY pro-trump. Mostly because he was juvenile, and liked he could say a few lines of whatever Trump was saying and it would piss everyone off. He just loved it.
  
  I’m convinced that most of what they say is to simply piss people off. Once someone is in a negative space long enough, they start to crave that attention and anger as their new norm.
  Your dad went through a hell of a gambit to be here.
- Christianity is a hellova drug.
- I know a surprising number of immigrants of various flavors, who are proud of overcoming all the obstacles to build a better, successful life for themselves and their families. They object to other immigrants “getting special favors”, “not following the rules”, “getting it easy”. Some of it is justified pride in their accomplishments but I can’t help but believe they are misinformed about attempted reforms, just like many other conservatives

Nicky Jam, 'She's hot!' -DJT
Trump didn't even know who you were dude. Glad you pulled support but fuck you.

        First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

    —Martin Niemöller

The dude who crashed the market with multiple tweets multiple times is more trusted than Dems who markets always do better under?
Clueless idiots...
- Yes, better. The markets are all time high since god left the white house and historically, the markets always performed better under democrats, but facts cannot reach your pebbles.
  
  Making you laugh isn't the goal, educating you is.
  
  You know, facts don’t care about your feelings.
  Facts, like the solid economic outlook and that the US managed to soft-land the recovery from the massive global inflation coming out of COVID without triggering a recession, don’t care about your feelings that Donald Trump, a man who wants to implement tariffs on everything coming into the US which would devastate the economy and under whom the deficit shot up, is a fiscally sound choice.
  
  They just said the same as trump himself did tho
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2og1ZmZhw

I know of a handful of other Latin Americans who still want to vote for the fucker. They can't articulate why they'd vote for him other than a vague economic reason, even after reminding them of all the heinous shit he spews about people who don't look like him.
- Even economic reason is absent with Trump.
- The "the economy was better under Trump" segment of voters is so depressing.
  His policies were basically tariffs and random shiny object populist issues. His policies raised prices regressively while creating entire foreign industries that didn't exist before that now price-anchor US products through his tariffs and trade restrictions, such as soybean. Blew up NAFTA just to replace it with an almost identical arrangement. He alienated our biggest allies and trade partners. He pushed down interest rates even when it wasn't needed, ignoring the housing and stock bubble it created, because it made him look good.
  It always reminds me how effective repeating a lie is - their "vibe" is that he's some great businessman, and it's enough to get their vote. They never check the sources for that "fact" (which are all Trump's own self-aggrandizing statements).
  
  "The economy was great under trump! It's definitely not because of Obama and his policies. It started being garbage months before Biden took office because everyone knew Biden would make it bad."
- I've got extended married-in family that are literally mexican illegal immigrants from the 80s who made a life in America. They have family in Juarez they see regularly. They believe illegal immigration is the most important issue, and think trump is best on it. Holy shit.
  
  Everytime this comes up I think about that Trump supporter who was married to an illegal immigrant and was shocked her husband got deported.
  Link

"Nicky jam is hot". The fact that Trump didn't even bother to know about him when thinking he was a female onstage I'm guessing would have been the first red flag for him
- Considering he had good form pretending to suck off that microphone, and was best friends with Epstein, I think he truly mean "Nicky Jam is hot."

I'm crying at the fact that this guy thought trump would be good for the economy.
- There is quite a lot to say about the neoliberal sabotage of American manufacturing capability, but the fact that people think conservatives have any interest in making those vanished jobs both come back and be worth having is stupifying.

I guess he wasn't paying attention when Trump treated Puerto Rico like shit during his term in office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/puerto-ricans-trump-insult.html

Never expected the orange leopard to eat MY face.

We've been trying to tell you. When he gets your vote and gets into office, he's not going to give a shit about you. Listen to the people who already got fucked the last time he was president.

MY Country
"Fuck you got mine" mentality here
- The country of ... Puerto Rico??
  A nation perhaps but why TF is he calling it a country
  
  Because no one calls where they live a nation? Country is the generic people term for place you live, we don't care about the legal distinctions and specifications.

Well republicans aren't good for the economy either
- Don't you understand? 20% tarrifs is actually good for the economy because prices will go down when China has to pay Americans 20%! Take that communists! And unregulated capitalism is the only way to avoid inefficiencies and economic dead ends, thanks to the protective power of monopolies.

I used to endorse trump, but then I realized that I actually never endorsed him because I have a fucking working brain and I'm not a stupid 'murican.

I'm sorry to say that, but I think that moronic statement is pretty much the US in a nutshell. I mean Trump is one of just two presidential candidates...and it seems to be a close election.

what this election cycle has shown is that although it appeared to simmer down a lot over the last half century, racists just faded into the hedgerows simpson style to grow behind the bushes. trump has dragged them out into the open enough that ee can now see the depth in more detail

Those leopards are hungry for some faces.

Nicky jam is apparently a fucking moron. Which we never could have figured out from face tattoos and a side hat I guess, because they are so trendy and awesome.
Giant fuckin dirt hat.

That guy looks like Drake

the leopard is gonna be feasting.

Are you White Adjacent? Our operators are standing by, call today to see if you qualify!

So much of this now.

if you arent white, stupid, or overestimate your importance to the world, you will be targeted

I used to endorse trump until a joke was made and Im too fragile to handle it.
- Yeah, so, nothing Trump said or did up 'til now was a deal-breaker...but this comedian makes a racist joke, and that's the last straw?
- I started a joke, which started the whole world crying.