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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I live in a small town of about 4k people and the day after Obama was elected you would have thought that a 2nd 9/11 happened or a nuke was dropped.

I remember I worked with a guy and another co-worker was sometimes still finishing up listening to NPR at a low volume, and around that time (Obama years), they'd be playing a soundbite from Obama. Almost every time Obama was talking, even though we could just barely hear it, the other co-worker would turn to me and mutter how much he hated Obama's voice. Like clockwork. Not what he was saying (if we could even make it out). Just his voice. This same co-worker thought NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc....were all extreme left outlets, too, lol. And he spent some period of time where he was super-upset about...checks notes....seeing two government workers in a trucks. He mentioned this multiple times, so I can only guess it was some thing on hate radio around that time. When asked follow-up questions on why he's upset, nothing coherent could be discerned. Same dude was riled up about people that couldn't afford their house getting bailed out by government, or something, too.

I lost contact with him before Taco was elected, but I can only imagine he thinks that Taco is "fixing" everything. I don't know what he was like before Obama, but he was nearly inconsolable about Obama. It's why I think they uncreatively talk about "TDS" when Taco does completely outrageous things - Obama did completely normal things, or even if he did nothing at all, and they lost their heads over it.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This pretty much sounds exactly like my day-to-day life with coworkers as well. They are hard-core Trump supporters no matter what Ride Or Die for Trump even now with the Epstein files being unreleased. A few of them were upset about it but as of now they are still 100% behind Trump no matter what. I do think and feel that the Epstein files not being released may actually drive a divide between Trump supporters, but in the deep rural areas of America,I highly doubt even this will cause them to lose any faith in their would be King.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 9 minutes ago

My Republican coworkers thought Trump was a clown and a joke who would never be elected, then after he won, it was "he's not that bad", and "people are too hard on him".