This tweet is essentially:
You promised to lower prices, but prices went up, this is NOT what I voted for.
For it to be LAMF, you have to actually get what you’re expecting others to get. The person you voted for NOT doing what they promised to do is literally the opposite of LAMF.
Basically:
I voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party, I never thought they’d…wait, they’re not eating anyone’s faces
is the equivalent of the situation happening here.
Not LAMF.
You’re not wrong. I’d say this post is LAMF adjacent. Not directly LAMF.
I think even ‘adjacent’ is giving it too much credit.
After all, what’s happened is the literal opposite of what they wanted, while LAMF requires that the thing you supported happening is what happens, you just thought it’d happen to others and not you.
Trump promised to do tariffs. People assumed other countries would pay the cost so that was good. It turns out they are paying the cost.
It would be straight up LAMF if the tariffs were front of mind when they voted. But inflation was what they were most concerned with, and they either didn’t pay attention to Trump’s tariff talk or assumed it wouldn’t be them paying the tariffs… you could say it’s not directly LAMF because people don’t understand the connection between higher tariffs and higher prices, but definitely LAMF adjacent because of the widespread assumption that people in other countries would be paying the tariffs, not them.
Mr. President, this is NOT what I voted for.
Yes it is. This is exactly what you voted for. Trump 1 told you exactly how Trump 2 was going to go. We’re all eating shit, but I am happy your shit sandwich is slightly more unpalatable to you.
Reality is the president doesn’t, or more accurately, shouldn’t control the economy.
…Perhaps utterly worshipping one man was not the best idea? As history has repeatedly shown?
Oh boy, history repeatedly shows how everything goes south.
This mantra of individual responsibility is getting the US nowhere. Billionaires learned how to work collectively while one half of Americans blamed the other half for the problems the billionaires invented. Get your shit together and stop blaming your neighbor
I meant indviduals more than individualism.
This feels like religious worship, or influencer worship, to me. At least for some people I’ve observed.
What do you think happens when a candidate receives enormous financial support and is somewhat charismatic? It’s not these people who complain about the groceries to blame.
American? Or… Bangladeshi, Indian Kenyan, or maybe Russian?
Same dinner two years in a row, this is some true conservative vibe !
Let’s be real, if the media called import taxes “import taxes” and not “teriffs” Trump’s import tax campaign would’ve much more rapidly collapsed
I’ve seen 5 guys praying together with a single woman. Well it looked like she was praying for a few minutes.
“Oh God” is a prayer right? In that cases she was praying again and again and again.
Guys can only pray with 5 guys at one time unless the other guys are praying too with others. Yeah they usually also scream oh god too.
She voted for the racism. Not the taxes.
Mr. President, this is NOT what I voted for.
"Karma is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences… [It’s] often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein individuals’ intent and actions (cause) influence their future "
In the Bible it sez something like “As you vote, so shall you reap!”
I feel like some of the people here should consider why we all know she would vote the same way if an election was held immediately after making this post.
They are getting something that they desire more than lower grocery costs or anything sane things any sane person would value.
They are getting to hurt marginalized people with their votes.
This is their single voter issue, and its the reason why no matter how much they’ve shot themselves in the foot, they’ll buy that 500 dollar advil their insurance denied coverage for and load up another shell.
They don’t evaluate politicians based on if they’re happy. They evaluate politicians based on if who they hate feel sad.
I feel like some of the people here should consider why we all know she would vote the same way if an election was held immediately after making this post.
Because, except for a minute percentage, all of you vote team color, no matter what.
That minute percentage gets to be finger-wagged at for not wanting to vote for a party that is enthusiastically supporting a genocide killing their family and friends abroad, or sitting idly by while fascism takes root here in the US, or ignoring that basic living is becoming unaffordable. Because, totally, why should anyone expect that working full time pays for rent, utilities, health care, AND groceries?
You can not want to do something and still recognize that abstaining from that vote is against the best interests of those who will be harmed if the wrong people end up gaining power. I sure didn’t like voting for Kamala. But I’m smart enough to realize that was the best option I had.
But I’m smart enough to realize that was the best option I had.
No.
You, like them, are just a-okay with swallowing excuses. That or you’re one of the folks fortunate enough that your only concern is making it to brunch. The rest of us pay for our groceries, medical bills, power bills, and rent and know full well just how evil the lesser evil was in this election.
Tbf the only reason “she was our best option” is because so many people fall into the two party trap and absolutely refuse to organize and vote for a third party candidate despite having tools to organize better than any time in history. That “but muh two parties” attitude from all of you is a larger part of what’s holding us back than any of you realize.
Btw, to all of you asking “where are the third party people outside of election season” and saying “right now we have to vote to extend genocides, talk about change after” well you just downvoted the one above us 8 times, as every time one posts you must enforce the two party system even during the time you previously deemed it “ok” (no elections going on that I’m aware of).
I’d have a lot more respect for Democrat voters if they’d stop lying about it. You don’t wish there was a third option, you strike down conversation about it unilaterally, you like the two party system at least enough to perpetuate it instead of even look for or consider another option. Just admit you like the democrats and while I may disagree at least you’re being honest with yourselves and others.
Or y’know maybe instead of being a crab in a bucket, be a drop in the bucket of change, every person who votes outside the two party system is one more drop closer to ending the two party system (or at least changing which “two parties” are the big ones, which would still be a step.)
It really doesn’t matter at the federal level how you vote. Both parties have a stranglehold on Washington and they will until there’s a nationwide cataclysm of some sort.
The only power any of us has is local, and you can do a fuckton of good in your neighborhood if you’re just willing to spend a few minutes doing so.
That’s the exact defeatist attitude I’m talking about, rather than even try to do anything at the federal level that might spark any change, just accept it, it won’t change until the volcano under Yellowstone kills us all and we might as well perpetuate it for drama.
Doing local shit is good too, but if that’s how you feel about the national level you may as well just not vote, since it’s inevitable anyway.
But at least quit lying to yourselves and the rest of us, next time someone supports a third party don’t say “I agree we need change, but it’s not the time to talk about this…” say “it’s useless, there is no change, give up hope, stop trying, there’s never a time to talk about this.”
but if that’s how you feel about the national level you may as well just not vote, since it’s inevitable anyway.
You’re right, and that’s becoming increasingly clear, which is why millions more skipped Election Day in 2024 rather than miss a badly-needed days pay. That’s not their fault nor mine, but it is reality. There is no reason to vote when both parties do exactly the same shit.
It’s going to become even more clear after the 2026 elections when the major provisions of the BBB kick in and the new international trade deals, rerouting supply chains around the US instead of through it, come into play.
Unless you’re a billionaire, you have no power outside your zip code.
Good, at least you’re honest about it. While I may disagree and think even a protest vote is better than a protest-nonvote, and that if everyone organized behind a third party then it’d go a long way to (if the election then gets stolen blatantly by the two) having a more organized structure for resistance in place, at least you’re not one of the people I’m talking about who just buries their head in sand in support of the “lesser” instead burying your head in the sand in support of nihilism, which is better.
The point stands, but is this a real account?
A con man conned you and bankrupted the country that’s exactly what you voted for 3 times
“this is NOT what I thought I voted for when I knowingly voted to be taxed on all foreign food and to lock up the people picking domestic food” …Well, then what did you think you were voting for?
when I knowingly voted to be taxed on all foreign food
You’re assuming “knowingly”. Trump told people tariffs were going to lower costs, falsely claiming that the foreign countries would be picking up that tab. If person X doesn’t independently know/learn that tariffs basically never work that way, then the OP reaction makes perfect sense.
This also isn’t LAMF at all—LAMF is about supporting something being done, but expecting (without evidence) that it will only be done to Others, and not you. She obviously didn’t support raising prices at all—the person you voted for NOT doing as they promised is failing to meet the most fundamental requirement for an LAMF situation.
Of course it is. Also, you knew better, but you did it anyway.
She didn’t knew better because she is dumb though.
I bet someone she knows explained it to her, but rather than let herself be convinced, she doubled down.
Absolutely. She 100% heard the explanation and ignored it because “that’s just lies against my big beautiful president,” and went on her way. I literally just went through it with my Trump voting uncle. I went through what he did that has directly hurt him. The response? I watch too much news.
Biggest fight I ever “started” with them was… Asking what specifically about Trump 1’s tax policy benefit them. I mean I know that I asked it because I knew that they didn’t make nearly enough to actually see a single cent of a tax cut from that round in 2017. But apparently his wife really didn’t appreciate my asking about it because all I got in response was “Doesn’t matter, still voting for him” after she specifically brought up taxes as the reason again mind you. I just asked her what specific benefit they got from his tax cuts. But I heard from my Mom that apparently I made that aunt really mad.
So mad in fact I have literally never seen her since actually come to think of it. They divorced not long after that, she moved to PA and is a fucking gay rights conservative which is fucking wild.
Your uncle?
This is what you call Oppositional Defiance Disorder, plus also being in a death cult.
Even the best-behaved children can be difficult and challenging at times. But oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) includes a frequent and ongoing pattern of anger, irritability, arguing and defiance toward parents and other authority figures. ODD also includes being spiteful and seeking revenge, a behavior called vindictiveness.
These emotional and behavioral issues cause serious problems with family life, social activities, school and work. But as a parent, you don’t have to try to manage a child with ODD alone. Your health care provider, a mental health professional and a child development expert can help.
These are adults with an adult version of a pathological vindictiveness that is generally seen in ‘problem children’.
They literally are whiny, pissy, adult toddlers.
The aunt is more the ODD one. My uncle was the more recent interaction of “ignoring the facts because they don’t vibe with his feelings.” Don’t ask me how the hell they stayed married as long as they did.
My partner’s actually got her degree in behavioral pharmacology because what do you mean you told an autist that actually there are rules you can learn for human social bullshit and it’s not all some variation of “because I said so” or “that’s how we always did it” and there’s also a field within that where I don’t even have to really interact with any people? She was going to go super deep into the research route until she learned she was violently allergic to the rats then life just kinda happened from there. Anyway she clocked a lot of that in my aunt after meeting her literally fucking once lmao.
Seeing as I basically no longer consider MAGATs to be truly sentient, much less sapient:
She was going to go super deep into the research route until she learned she was violently allergic to the rats then life just kinda happened from there.
That’s the real tragedy here, damn, that fucking sucks.
EDIT:
Uh, anyway, yeah I’m an autist too, don’t have a degree in psych or pharma, but I do have pattern recognition, curiosity, analytical skills… and a whole fuckton of ©PTSD from my own truly astoundingly dysfunctional family.
As in: I ghosted them / went no contact with them so hard that they very probably think I am dead.
As in: I ghosted them / went no contact with them so hard that they very probably think I am dead.
Ayyy High Five for cutting off Toxic POS former family!
So far only my Dad has pissed me off bad enough to go full no contact. My wife had a kid already when she and I met. Now I love my son to bits, and because reasons I had well founded suspicions when my wife and I eventually decided to have another child that my Dad would play favorites. I told him many times in no uncertain terms this would not be tolerated.
So you can imagine my raw seething anger when I overheard him on the phone with my mother ask her “How it felt to finally be a Grandma?” She’d come up to help me with the oldest because the twins were born during the height of covid and he wasn’t allowed in the hospital with me. But my wife and I had been together for like 4 years at this point and married for almost 2 and to my Mom’s credit she shut him down right quick but I was already seeing Red lmao.
Of course then the dumb bastard had the sheer unmitigated audacity to claim when I texted him my grievances because I cry when I’m angry and I was angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire life that I wasn’t the one saying any of this and that my wife was texting for me. (Because he can’t text on his own and his girlfriend has to write all his emails and text messages you see.) So obviously this wouldn’t be something that I would actually be angry about and I have to prove that I’m actually there one saying it by calling him so he can dismiss my words and steamroll the conversation.
Here’s to peace without the people who cause so much pain! And to the long road of recovery that follows~
