The
#NewYorkTimes just published what amounts to a 2,000 word investigation into whether some
#Trump voters might be experiencing buyer's remorse. You mean to tell me people can simultaneously support a politician and be unhappy about what they're paying for groceries?
Stop the presses.
This is being treated like some kind of anthropological discovery. A team of reporters apparently spent months wandering the American wilderness only to return with the shocking revelation that people enjoy having money and dislike spending it. Amazing. Next week's headline: "Researchers confirm repeated kicks to the groin negatively impact public morale." The funniest part is the surprise. Of course some voters are frustrated. Politics isn't religion for most people. It's sports. Every Sunday there's a guy in a $300 jersey screaming that his team is incompetent, the coach is a moron, the owner should be fired, the quarterback couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat... and then he's back next week wearing the same jersey. Politics has become that. Somewhere there's a dude paying $8 for bacon, $6 for eggs, filling up his truck while quietly calculating whether his retirement account just got hit with a folding chair from the top rope, and still ending every conversation with: "Trust the plan."
Dude, what plan?
I've seen hostage videos with more convincing enthusiasm. The media keeps treating this like it's some great contradiction. It's not. Human beings have been doing this forever. People will complain about their spouse, their boss, their church, their favorite football team, their favorite restaurant, and their political party for decades before they actually leave. Loyalty and frustration are not mutually exclusive. The real revelation isn't that some voters have buyer's remorse. The real revelation is that after three election cycles, a bunch of journalists finally figured out that working-class people care more about the price of groceries than whatever graduate seminar argument is currently trending on
#Bluesky. No shit, Sherlock. The next investigative breakthrough will be a front-page expose revealing that construction workers occasionally enjoy beer and fishermen sometimes tell lies.
#smokefleet
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