Long story. So bear with me but I think it's interesting.
I'm from Australia. So who the fuck cares about US politics right?
Well back in 2016 the media had me. I was a headline reader and would commonly say to people the likes of "Imagine if Trump wins! How fucked would the world be".
One day a guy from work sort of red pilled me in a weird way... He was a Pakistani and he told me "Who cares... We're not from the US. And they deserve it". It made me laugh (sorry pedes).
Now obviously he had an axe to grind from a Pakistani point of view but he sort of burst my bubble. Why the fuck would I care or stress being from Australia about Trump being president. I never cared before. That's when I realised the media had fucked me.
Anyway a couple of months later some barrister friend (had been having dinner once a week every week for several years) started ranting to me at dinner about Trump being president ending the world. I thought I could maybe help him and calm him down. Try and make him see that it doesn't matter that much. Long story short... We have never caught up socially since then. I've got lots of friends. And he was sort of a "single" friend and I'd just met my wife so while I was disappointed... It didn't stress me too much but it was an eye opener.
Anyway started becoming a Trump fan. Bet on him winning. He won but I learned for years to just shut up about it because people still really hate him here. And basically buy into the fact that anyone who likes him (or even doesn't hate him) is a racist degenerate.
Earlier this year lost another friend. Called her up during Covid to make sure she was alright because she is at high risk (cancer survivor). She started ranting about how fucking stupid Trump was. I backed off and was like "yeah he's got a hard job and who knows what the right decision is" and tried to be non chalant. She basically pushed me until she called me a "fucking idiot" and I told her that I'm not here to listen to her bullshit and to fuck off. She was a little bit of a "pity" friend of mine so was happy to fuck her off at this point.
Anyway feel I almost lost another friend lately. He's a good one who I don't want to lose.
Hes a smart guy. Professional, very educated and wealthy. He HATES Trump. But basically acts like he doesn't care.
So he'll send me "Trump is shit" articles or videos and then when I argue back he's like... "Ah I don't really care". But you know he does. At one point I basically confronted him about his attitude and said that his attitude was confrontational but it's not worth ruining our friendship. He backed down and apologised but I can tell he still HATES Trump and a part of that hates projects onto me.
It's crazy that the media machine is so powerful. That people in Australia lose friends over it.
Imagine being in the US and losing a friend over who the Prime Minister of Germany is.
You always hear a random regurgitating of MSM headlines when people have TDS. “He said Mexicans are rapists! He didn’t file his taxes!!! He’s Putin’s Puppet hahahaha!!!” Never, ever, not once, does anyone with TDS at all bring up any issue of policy or anything he’s actually done. Ever. They just flick over headlines on their phone and repeat them to sound informed.
I think the tax thing mostly red pills anyone that knows anything about business. They’re blatantly lying about how filing your taxes even works if you have beyond a W-2. Same with debt.
“He’s half a billion in debt!!!”
Those are mostly mortgages you fucktard. He didn’t get a million studies degrees he can’t pay off with his barista job.
People originally disliked Trump because the msm reported it that way and still had credibility. Most people aren't spending the time to verify something they assume is coming from a reputable source.
This is why I think the coronavirus lockdowns were a fatal mistake for the democrats. The lockdowns gave millions the time to see things for themselves. Millions followed the White House briefings and then saw how the press behaved and then lied about what Trump said. Most people I know are voting Trump now, including those that hated him early this year.
I know plenty of people that didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or at all before now that are voting Trump. I know zero people that voted for Trump in 2016 that aren’t doing it again in 2020. I made a bunch of promises and then proceeded to do most of them, starting immediately.
People are so stupid. I usually tell them if they listened to what he actually said, they would see that it's fake news. Their little pea sized brains then short circuit.
Hahaha