on July 7, 2025, 14:16:03, in reply to "When he was elected, it was the one thing that I was most fearful of"
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that I thought could actually have a negative effect on me personally. Just about everything else he does I'm relatively indifferent to (again, on a personal level). Previous Message
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so he just keeps kicking the can down the road. Previous Message
He is doing two and a half things he has promised though, deporting brown people and cutting taxes for the ultra rich. The half one is the tariffs, which I think he really wants to do but is stuck in a TACO loop. Previous Message
emphasis on "might" and "some." this isn't the titanic iceberg, but a lot of Q and Q-adjacent MAGAs 100% believed trump was going to be the one "expose the deep state" and make mass arrests related to pizzagate and epstein.
teasing the release for years, going so far as to say "we have the list", then a couple of months later saying there's no list and the investigation is over- that's not going to sit well with that group.
i'm not saying that's a big group- maybe 5-10% of his base, and they're definitely not going to the democrat side- the democrats are the ones they wanted locked up and executed- they'll go back to being disaffected unless a 3rd party really embraces them.
“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024. 7