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"WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STUPID": This MAGA Supporter Shared 10 Reasons Why They Regret Voting For Trump, And The Internet Is Not Impressed
Welcome back to another episode of leopards eating faces! Today, we've got a MAGA supporter who made a list of 10 reasons why they regret voting for Donald Trump.
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The list was posted in the r/LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit, where you can often find Trump supporters coming to the conclusion (finally!) that the orange man just miiiiight have been the wrong choice for the country. Let's go through the list one by one:
Text from an online comment listing reasons for discontent with current events, expressing regret for voting for Trump
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1."Prices are all rising."
From Walmart to Best Buy to AutoZone, companies across the board spoke about likely needing to increase consumer prices to cover the cost of Trump's tariffs before he instated a 90-day pause. According to NPR, we can expect more expensive groceries, too, if the pause lifts. Seafood will be hit especially hard since the US imports up to 85% of it. Other imported grocery items that will likely rise in cost include fruit, cheese, nuts, coffee, olive oil, chocolate, beer, and wine. AP also listed clothing, cars, pharmacy orders, electronics, and household appliances as items that will likely see increases. Sooo basically everything! Thanks, Trump!
2."401(k)s are tanking."
Following Trump's tariffs and the resultant uncertainty about the future of global trade, last week was officially the worst week for the US stock market since 2020, during the pandemic. IDK about you, but I am NOT having a good time looking at my retirement accounts (which were already behind for my age, TBH). On Wednesday, Trump posted on Truth Social that he authorized a 90-day pause on tariffs, and the market rallied hard — so we'll see what happens in the coming months.
3."We're headed into recession."
For the second time in a week (!!!), Goldman Sachs increased our likelihood of a recession. We went from 20% to 35% to now 45%. Economists, analysts, and CEOs are worried, citing uncertainty around the tariffs, retaliatory tariffs from other countries, and plummeting consumer confidence.
4."Musk laying off hardworking Americans."
DOGE has reportedly laid off over 280,000 federal workers and contractors so far. March was apparently the third-highest month for job cuts on record — with the top two months being April and May 2020 due to COVID — in large part because of DOGE.
5."DOGE laying off veterans who fought for our country."
Thousands of veterans have been laid off by DOGE, and Democrats are demanding that the White House reveal precise numbers. The administration is also reportedly planning to cut over 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veteran Affairs.
6."Soft on Russia; Putin playing Trump like a puppet."
Trump has a long, documented relationship with the Russian president and has called him "so nice" on several occasions. Many people pointed out that Russia was missing from the list of countries facing the ridiculous new tariffs. What a surprise!
7."Lost all our allies."
While pretty much all of our international relationships are strained right now, Canada is probably the best example. Trump has continually spoken about making the country our 51st state, declared 25% tariffs for no good reason, and motivated many Canadians to boycott American products and cancel vacations here. Prime Minister Mark Carney recently said that Canada's previous relationship with the US is "over."
8."Incompetent idiots running defense."
In a scandal that has somehow already blown over (???), former Fox News host and current Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, along with several other high-ranking officials like Vice President JD Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, seemingly didn't notice Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in the group chat while they messaged about WAR PLANS. Even worse, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was reportedly the one who invited Jeffrey.
9."Kids dying of measles for first time in a century."
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This week, a second child died of the recent measles outbreak in Texas. The girl was not vaccinated, and nearly 500 people have been infected in the state this year.
10.And finally, "Billionaires paying for votes."
Amid a Wisconsin supreme court election, Elon gave out two $1-million checks to voters last month while supporting the conservative candidate, Brad Schimel — who ended up losing to liberal Susan Crawford anyway! During her victory speech, she said, "Our courts are not for sale." ������
At the end of the list, the former MAGA supporter wrote, "I now regret my vote for Trump." Obviously, people in the comments had a lot to say about all this!
"I'm sorry, but ALL of them were on open display during the campaign trail," u/Selbeast wrote. "None of this should be a surprise to anyone who was paying attention. It was widely predicted that prices would rise because of tariffs, that the stroke stock market would tank, that a recession would become more likely, that our allies would not get along with Trump, that a drunkard of a journalist wasn't a good choice for defense, that anti-vax nonsense would eventually result in an increase in diseases like measles. All of it. Completely unsurprising."
"Hope the consequences hit him twice as hard," added u/Gadshill.
"Please note that NONE of those things were in any way unexpected, but in some cases, even campaigned on. That guy is an idiot," said u/FangGore.
U/RyotheFox said, "Absolute bullshit that Kamala Harris didn't get some people's votes over one thing, yet this person finally breaks from Donald after having to compile a laundry list of things."
U/NewManufacturer4252 asked a great question: "Why did a quarter of the country not believe him, when this is exactly what he said he would do?"
And u/PhoenixTineldyer simply wrote,
"WHY ARE PEOPLE SO FUCKING STUPID."
Do you know any Trump supporters who regret their vote? What was the last straw for them? Share in the comments or in the anonymous Google form below:
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