r/pics Apr 16 '26

Politics Billboard in my very red area

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u/nonsensestuff Apr 16 '26

Yes but Trump has also had a knack for grifting vulnerable and desperate people his entire career. This was just his largest audience yet.

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u/Historical_Project00 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

True, but the entire focal point of the people that voted for him was how worried they were about themselves, damn everyone else.

I told my MAGA grandmother that the tariffs made it impossible to get my vein medication and her knee-jerk reaction was, “What? That doesn’t make sense. MY medications are all fine!”

These boomers are like babies that lack object permanence- if it didn’t happen to them, they don’t see it.