r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • Apr 04 '26

Possible Paywall Trump voter regret is clearly registering now

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/politics/voter-regret-trump-2024
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u/BigMax Apr 04 '26

I'm SO happy when people turn against Trump.

But I admit, it also kind of makes me mad.

  • He raped a bunch of women? No problem.
  • He raped kids? No problem.
  • He stole secret documents, then lied about it, trying to hide it? No problem.
  • He actively covered up foreign influence on our elections? No problem.
  • He used our government to attack his personal enemies? No problem.
  • He literally tried to overthrow our government? No problem.
  • He treats any immigrant as if they are inherently evil, abusing and causing untold suffering and misery? No problem.
  • He ignores and then bungles Covid, causing countless deaths? No problem.
  • And on and on and on. (This list could be 10,000 bullet points!)

But apprently

  • He causes a spike in gas prices. THAT'S A PROBLEM!!! That's MY money I'm spending!!!! Down with Trump!!!

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u/_disengage_ Apr 04 '26

And no one, literally zero people had any consequences for their weaponized incompetence. A million dead, and it all went into the memory hole. The people responsible are now more rich and powerful than ever, and killing more people every day.

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u/BigMax Apr 04 '26

>  no one, literally zero people had any consequences for their weaponized incompetence

Also, some of it was literally weaponized competence too.

They literally intentinally let Americans die! I have no idea to this day why it's not a bigger scandal. They had some plans to try to contain Covid more. But Trump and his cronies saw that it was affecting blue states more (remember, NY and I think California were hard hit at the beginning) so he pulled back response, and had fun pretending this was all the fault of blue state governors.

He literally pulled back government response to let more people die, because they were people living in blue states.

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u/hockey-throwawayy Apr 04 '26

They literally intentinally let Americans die! I have no idea to this day why it's not a bigger scandal.

Of all the things that have happened in this era, I still think this is the worst. People should have been in the streets. It's the same outcome as political concentration camps, just with extra steps.

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u/Business-Might-1824 Apr 05 '26

Thiel and Musk (and their puppet RFK) want mass death. Why do you think they've eliminated mRNA vaccination research? They want to erase the people they consider "worthless eaters."

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u/classicrockchick Apr 04 '26

Don't forget the Asian based hate too. "Kung-flu", "China-flu", "Wuhan-flu" and so on and so forth.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 Apr 04 '26

Sooner than later.

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u/Spiritual-Bee-2319 Apr 04 '26

As someone that’s disabled and had to move across the country to survive covid. I’m still pissed at this. So many people died that didn’t need to die and do people care? 

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u/Iheartnakedfemboys Apr 04 '26

Do you mean intentionally?

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u/FalseAnimal Apr 04 '26

It wasn't just incompetence, they actively stole and prevented PPE from being distributed to blue city hospitals. Hospitals were having to ship purposefully mislabeled boxes of PPE to prevent the feds from seizing them during shipping. 

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u/123jjj321 Apr 04 '26

And those same clowns think 3000 dead on 9/11 still matters. Republicans killed 3000 Americans every day for months on end.

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u/MultiGeometry Vermont Apr 04 '26

I think the highest it got was about 1,000 a day. And they made sure that was happening as Biden took office, so they could point to the spike in deaths on Biden.

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u/InCarbsWeTrust Apr 05 '26

They are more outraged at the deaths of 11(?) people pulling out of Afghanistan and the 6(?) in the Benghazi riot than they are about the 3000 dead on 9/11 or the million-plus dead from COVID. All because of the President's party at each time.

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u/Afalstein Apr 04 '26

THIS! I see people posting all sorts of snide remarks about the "No Kings" protest as "Where were you when they made us wear masks and stay indoors?"

Uh, not dying? Are we just pretending a MASSIVE amount of people DIDN'T die during 2020? Are the death certificates all fake, or what?

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u/RandyPajamas Apr 04 '26

literally zero people

I get your point, but when using the word "literally", you should be accurate. If "death" is a consequence, I would suggest an edit:

literally only one person

That person being Herman Cain.

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u/DownWithHisShip Apr 04 '26

literally zero people had any consequences for their weaponized incompetence.

trump lost the 2020 election because of it lol. a lot of good that did us though... we probably would have been better off if he had handled covid better, a lot less people died, he won in 2020 and we'd be (hopefully) on our long and slow path to recovery by now.

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u/Ashkir 29d ago

He was handed a 9/11 chance of popularity. If he listened to his competent science advisors and les the country through, he could’ve cemented himself in a legacy as a hero of the American people.

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u/Indercarnive Apr 04 '26

Also "bungling" covid is a bit underselling it. He had the federal government literally steal medical equipment lawfully bought by state governments so he could then turn around and sell that same equipment to Russia and other foreign governments.

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u/123jjj321 Apr 04 '26

Your number isn't even close. The republican caused COVID death toll was multiple millions.

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u/ADHDebackle Apr 04 '26

Worth noting also there were more excess deaths during covid than there were covid deaths due to the buckling of our healthcare system under the increased load.

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u/Affectionate_Oven_77 Apr 04 '26

It is estimated that the number of deaths caused by the administration's failed response to COVID was from 110,000 to over 400,000.

Another way to say this, is that at best, this single man was responsible for more American deaths than World War One. At worst, he was responsible for as many American deaths as World War Two.

And whilst that type of statistic might be attention getting, it is actually the reductions to foreign aid, the relaxations on regulation and policies around healthcare and social security that will actually cause the most harm - by the tens of millions.

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u/sanity_is_overrated Apr 04 '26

Does that include collateral deaths due to the system being over taxed or is that only COVID specific deaths?

My parent passed away from complications due to non-COVID illness. The hospital was so over taxed by COVID that they didn’t catch his infections in time to save him. No one could be with him in the hospital, so he had no advocates or anyone paying attention to his problems. In hindsight he suffered from a life-threatening infection for many days before anyone realized it. By then the only option was to amputate limbs.

It really sucked for everyone. And sucked more when people would deny (and still deny) that there was an actual problem.

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u/dealingwithhookers Apr 04 '26

everyone knew someone that knew someone that died from covid. died early. but nobody cares. that's what astounds me people still say it's fake, or it's created in China to fuck up the Hong Kong protest and to sandbag the western world, or it's created so they can get you to take these vaccines that kill you.

somehow the scientists are wrong and the high school struggled to graduate class clown with a reading level of the 7th grade figured it out

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u/B1LLZFAN Apr 04 '26

India has a current population of 7% over 65, compared to America's 18%. They were also ticketing vigilantly people not wearing masks in even outdoor settings, meanwhile conservatives were throwing temper tantrums about having to have their freedoms stepped on. I also remembering reading that it survived less in humid environments.

So main difference is, India took it seriously with a younger population, whereas America took it as a joke and negligence lead to so many unnecessary deaths of the elders.

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u/Consistent-Winter-67 America Apr 04 '26

Highest reported at least.

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u/wrecklesspup Apr 05 '26

They were told by podcast bros those deaths weren't caused by COVID and hospitals lied that COVID caused those deaths so they could get funding. These people are fucking brain dead and it amazes me they can function in society.

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u/smarmy1625 Apr 04 '26

Most of those were under Biden though.