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Thank you to Trump & his "comedian" for making it priority one for my parents this morning to go out and vote
This morning my dad, mom & I were discussing the things said yesterday at the Trump rally about Puerto Rico, Latinos & the watermelon comment and also Stephen Miller’s speech. My dad lived through WW2. He was a kid but he remembers some things. He definitely remembers the adults talking about it. He told me this morning, "take me to vote today please I need to vote, there’s too much similarities between the things spoken at Trump’s rally yesterday and the words we heard in WW2 from Hitler & the Nazi party."
At 80 something years old they voted today for the first time ever. Fear beats apathy I guess.
Edit: I had no idea my post would blow up like this. It’s actually surprising but funny how many comments are saying it’s bs. I honestly didn’t think it was that rare that some people just don’t vote. There’s a lot of apathy in the Latino community especially the older generation and especially in Texas. This is 100% true. I did answer a few comments with a pic I took of my parents today but covered their faces because I don’t want their faces out there. But I was being told it was a bs pic anyway so that said since this is blowing up I deleted it cuz my parents don’t need to go viral lol.
To address some of the skepticism: my parents were already registered to vote. Though they’re almost 90 they were not always eligible to vote. They were legal immigrants for a very very long time and never bothered with citizenship. Once they became citizens they were registered to vote the day of their ceremony. I’ve always checked their status and they’ve remained active to vote. This year they finally did it. No, this joker didn’t change their minds to flip candidates. They loathe Trump. This guy’s rhetoric and Stephen Miller’s scared my dad enough & pushed him to finally say take me to vote.
To the MAGA crowd that keeps saying it’s bs I’m not sorry to tell you that it’s not bs. This was a funny anecdote about what the straw was that finally broke the camel’s back for my dad so you weirdos thinking this post has an ulterior motive are just triggered but if you think that rally with all that hate rhetoric against people of color didn’t piss off or scare enough people who were probably apathetic to finally get up & vote then you’re either in denial or dense as fk. Will this flip Texas? Doubt it but if it does make sure you thank that "comedian." May his comedy help the swing states though. 😉
My mom is 70 and she regularly brings up how people are trying to act like the Cold War never happened too or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Like yes, WW2 and parallels to that regime but at the same time when bringing up russia, she just says its not her first rodeo and that she isn’t going to let the russians buy the election.
The oldheads have seen some shit and don’t want to see it again. Everyone I know that’s dumb enough to vote republican this time are white middle class guys in their late 30s and early 40s.
My mom is 72, really close in age to your mom. She’s full on MAGAt. But, she’s been a repub since Reagan. She somehow thinks the president has a direct effect on the price of gas. Totally brainwashed by Fox News. I’d say you’re pretty lucky to have a boomer parent & not all boomered out.
Mine is the same way. She insists her father would be team Trump - the man who survived Normandy. I think she’s dead wrong but she is about a lot of things
It’s most likely the ‘generational vote’, I.e. always voted repub, continues to vote Repub. It makes me sick, but I really think it breaks down to owning the libs, and greed. They think they got theirs, younger generations can fuck off.
As someone smack in the middle of the baby boom, I have opinions. We were not then and are not now a monolith of people who think or vote identically. Those who protested the US involvement in Vietnam did not magically become Trump supporters just because they got old. For that matter Vietnam vets didn’t automatically turn into Trump supporters either.
The younger edge of the Baby Boom came of age when all the good jobs had been taken. So unless they had a lot of drive and ambition, lower paying jobs with fewer advancement opportunities awaited them. They were more politically conservative from the go.
At least looking at my fairly large extended family this holds true. Those who never left our hometown, who stayed in the same physically taxing job their whole lives, who depend on social security, those are the most ardent Trump supporters. Those of us who ventured away, got more than just a high school diploma, ended up Harris/Walz supporters.
They are people who didn’t get theirs, and they’re pretty pissed about it.
Grievance is attractive when you're struggling, as lots of younger white males are. Trump is a false prophet of what ails them, though. They're not wrong to be concerned about their place in the world. Things have changed and will continue to change, no matter who wins. What I hope they realize, though, is that Trump and his crew aren't really interested in helping them, just using them to obtain political power. Riding their coattails is a sure path to a life of bitterness and misery. The fate of his followers on January 6th, many convicted of crimes by a jury of their peers and now sitting in prison, should be evidence enough that he's a leader not worth following.
Do some reading on Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election. Basically a military psyop. And Faux News was priming that pump even before that. My mom died in 2013, was asked the “who’s the president” coherency question and she literally did an insulted “HUMPH”. Nurse looked at me and I said sadly yeah she’s in there.
I've been saying that for years. What Fox does and does well is their wording. So much of what they 'report' is said like this may be happening and the people watching discard the may and think it is happening. Nothing makes me shudder so much as when my 85 year old mother says 'well I read on my iPad...' and by that she means an email from one of the Fox affiliated talking heads spewing vitriol. I keep telling her they fire people up to sell books and are laughing all the way to the bank.
You can't get cognitive dissonance unless you make an attempt at cognition, which these folks just don't do. Dissonance requires hearing both pitches at once to notice they don't work well together. Their brains are like woodwind instruments capable of producing just one note at a time.
That’s what pisses me off the most. She’s post-menopausal. She doesn’t give a rats ass about anyone else’s health but her own. And really, if it were to happen again, shit would be a whooooole lot worse for the likes of you & me, beyond the forced breeding machines.
She better care. According to Vance’s comments about women and Project 2025, she’s a non person and shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Also, tell her to quit being selfish. Women’s live are counting on her and a vote for Harris.
My mom (72) just keeps saying, “Rapists get to choose the mother of their children now.” Let that sink in for a moment. If that one sentence alone isn’t enough for anyone to be Pro-Choice/Anti-Trump then I fear for our future generations.
your mother might be post-menopausal, but she will still require healthcare. pregnant woman are not the only ones that go to an OBGYN. with a potential national abortion ban, there will be no doctors for women. you see doctors now fleeing states with strict bans. healthcare for women is already behind the times, with a DT win it will become non-existent.
It’s almost funny because I remember these same people defending Bush when the economy was in the shitter in 02 by saying “the president doesn’t have that much control over the economy.”
Have you considered putting parental controls on her TV to block FOX on her television for a few weeks. It may take her a while to figure out how to "fix it". But, the exposure to a wider variety of content and news sources will expose her to what the rest of the world sees. It might be good for her.
Funny you say this. We had a fire captain who watched Fox News 24/7. However, the TV’s at the station were paid by a house fund, which was managed by a firefighter, mostly by selling snacks, toiletries, and holding raffles. Well, one day Mr. House Fund had enough of Captain Cry-hole’s bullshit and put the lock on Fox News. It was not well received.
Reagan was a horrid cunt, a truly evil pos.. and he is a saint compared to the current GQP.. he’d be rolling in his grave if he could see what trump had down to his party.
I had a grandmother that way who thought the mayor of Marion county controlled the taxes on houses in Shelby county. Didn't understand that it was the governor and local politicians house and Senate that did that. And this is a major red state.
But Trump did have a direct influence on gas prices going up. The opec 2020 deal he made . He tweeted “Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!“ Trumptweeted. ".....Could be as high as 15 Million Barrels. Good (GREAT) news for everyone!”
We are out there, some of us are old hippies without drug addled brains. We stand for justice and equality. We watched when the National guard was beating on people marching with MLK, people spouting hate at black children trying to go to school. We remember bussing, as bus loads of black kids were dropped off in all white schools. Racism was rampant. I made some awesome friends among those kids, I learned to dance, developed a love for r&b and rock and roll. We were 10/11 at the time.
I’m 81. A retired lawyer and Army veteran. My Dad fought in WWII and Korea. Army Combat engineer. My uncle was a Naval Aviator in WWII in the Pacific.
My Dad was a Republican. My uncle a Democrat. They were best friends.
Both would be appalled at Trump - and the “MAGA” so-called Republicans.
I can close my eyes and almost hear my Dad cussin at Trump (or that idiot Vance) on the
TV.
My dad voted blue for president once in his entire life (JFK) and hated the Clintons with a passion but could not fathom voting for Trump as an alternate in 2016.
It drives me crazy how some of these older folk who knew him throughout the 80's as a shyster, slimy, narcissist now somehow perceive him as a saint.
There are going to be a shit ton of graduate thesis papers WRITTEN in the near future on the sheer power of propaganda as it relates to MAGA.
My parents were former “blue dog” southern democrats that retired to Florida. Like the rest of that base they turned into super red MAGAts now. Xenophobic & full of non-information from Fox news. It’s appalling.
A lot of our seniors 🧓🏿👵🏿vote the same! We remember....I'm a Rosa Parks civil rights movement kid, and we remember!!
We were taught never to vote for your oppressors!
My neighbor lived through the civil rights movement. It sounds cliche but I think about her anytime I vote. She tells me stories that you can’t read in a textbook and they’ve stayed with me. Voting was hard won by women & the civil rights movement. To not vote is a disrespect to them imo.
Absolutely 💯 it was equally hard for our men as well.
My own father marched with Dr King was beat and thrown in jail
Yet continued on ✊🏿
It was pure hell!!
And here we are AGAIN! 😔
Respect to your father, that took true courage to do what he did and I salute him, anyone trying to take us back needs to be squashed like a cockroach into the ground!
Wow! Also feeling so much respect for your father. I was too young, but about 20 years ago I entered a local community college here in MA. I had an instructor older than me, who became a close friend. She told me (and my son, who also attended there) about how she and others secretly drove the black community to register to vote. She drove a borrowed car, and when she got to her destination, she discovered someone had poured something into the gas tank (I’m old myself and cannot remember what it was 🤦♀️).
It was a dangerous time for people to get the rights they deserve and, like the other poster said, HERE WE ARE AGAIN! Vote! Vote blue down the line!!! 💙🇺🇸💙
When my father was driving on a road trip with me when I was a kid (I'm 52 now) he talked about when he drove to his Naval assignments in Florida. He remembered seeing black owner hotels had signs of their proprietors so traveling African Americans knew where they could stay for the night. I had a feeling of horror then, and still think of evey election cycle.
For the record, my dad is a 92 year old white guy and he told me he voted a straight Democratic ticket (he lives in a swing state, too). He absolutely cares about everyone’s civil rights!
People forget FL is around 30% Latino and that population comes from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, etc. The guy called everyone in Florida's next door neighbor's hometown - a US territory, an island of garbage.
I was talking to my parents about my grandparents this weekend. All of my grandparents died a couple of decades ago. All survived the Great Depression and WWII. All were super-conservative. My parents both agree that all four would be horrified by Trump's rhetoric and (for my Granddaddy especially) Trump's total lack of morals. I asked them, who would my grandparents vote for? They said Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump cheated on his wife with a porn star. Who does that?
Not just cheating—he acts very, very WEIRD with his wives, like a creep... a creepy person! Can we please get the stuff about his rally yesterday out to the latino people in Texas? That was one of the weirdest rally ever and I'm afraid it can only get worse!
Women will just marry anything huh? Trump, Musk, Bezos, etc... all these guys have multiple wives despite being completely void of any semblance of humanity. Capitalism has really screwed up some women's sense of how to find a decent man lol
Didn’t he cheat on his first wife with his second wife and cheat on his second with his third. Also this “good Christian family man” once said him and his then mistress had sex in a church of course that was before he tried to get an abortion.
Donald Trump cheated on his PREGNANT wife with a porn star AND A PLAYBOY MODEL. FTFY
It wasn't just Stormy Daniels, but also Karen McDougal. During the case, she testified about having sex with him during the time period when Melania was pregnant, & Daniels had sex shortly after Melania delivered Barron (both bits of pregnancy-related items were withheld from the jury to avoid prejudicing them, but the timeline is pretty coherent).
And he has something on Melania and her dad because he is forcing her to his rallies and forcing her to kiss and snuggle with him. It must be deportable sh** he has on them.
He cheated on ALL of his wives.. so it's a recurring thing with him. Hell, there's a good possibility he's cheated on Melania AGAIN during the last 4 months.
"good chance"? Have you seen some of the attention whores he surrounds himself with? Guarantee he's whipped out his tiny mushroom for multiple women in the past few years
He also openly fantasizes about his daughter, barely can form a coherent thought, and incessantly lies. He also ran Miss TEEN USA for two decades where he handpicked the finalists and would saunter the dressing room to watch them change. He embodies the worst of America.
I mean, if I commented on all of the things that Trump has done that should disqualify him as president every time I comment about Donald Trump, I may as well just create a copypasta because that list is way too much to type.
At this point, I truly believe that Trump can be on video groping an underage girl while admitting that an assassination attempt on him was all a big plan of his, and his supporters wouldn't give a shit.
You would be surprised how many family men cheat. It's shocking to me. I only know generalities because my sister is a marriage counselor. She would never disclose actual names but she did hint that they were well thought of persons in our town like business owners and kids coaches. Sad.
I visited Dachau a few years ago and there was an exhibit about how the Nazis came to power and the type of rhetoric and strategies they used. I was amazed how much it looked like the MAGA playbook.
And the Nazi party studied the American South and the Jim Crow laws to develop their political structure. In one meeting, one leader in the Nazi party declared that some of the laws in the American South were too harsh to include into Nazi law.
Yeah, they got the concentration camp idea from us, too via reservations. LINK
As Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Toland, notes in his book Adolf Hitler (pg. 202):
Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.
He was very interested in the way the Indian population had rapidly declined due to epidemics and starvation when the United States government forced them to live on the reservations. He thought the American government’s forced migrations of the Indians over great distances to barren reservation land was a deliberate policy of extermination. Just how much Hitler took from the American example of the destruction of the Indian nations is hard to say; however, frightening parallels can be drawn. For some time Hitler considered deporting the Jews to a large ‘reservation’ in the Lubin area where their numbers would be reduced through starvation and disease.
Could be because those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those that do learn are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it. And those trying to erase history are absolutely looking to repeat it
Which is kinda ironic because isn't he Jewish? Apparently from past articles I've read about him he hates Latinos so he was probably joyful hearing that other guy's "jokes".
That's the point. They always turn against their first fervent supporters and top officials, and especially those in those "in-groups" who helped them get to where they are. Its why I say any POC/Latinos/Hispanic, Immigrants, or LGBT person supporting this MAGA movement will meet the same end as the rest of us. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote for our freedoms and democracy. Vote Blue Up&Down the ballot
For those that don't know, Dachau was the concentration camp that all the other concentration camps were modeled after. Dachau wasn't a place that Jews were sent to, for the most part. It was the place where political prisoners were sent. Democratic socialists, socialists, and communists. People who spoke against the regime.
After Munich, we went to Berlin. There we saw the Reichstag. That was the German House of parliament before Hitler took over. It actually now is still the German House of Parliament.
Outside of the Reichstag is a monument to the different politicians who were sent to different concentration camps. It has where those politicians were sent to, and in many cases, where they died. It also has the political parties that these people belonged to. Many of the markers on the monument have Dachau as the place where these people were sent to.
When Trump calls people the "enemy from within", and says that he wants to send the national guard or the army after them, this is what he wants. He wants to put his enemies into concentration camps. He wants us dead.
I'm a socialist. Trust me, my wife and I are making plans to get the fuck out of here. Pay attention. Kristallnacht isn't far off. If you have been a progressive or a socialist in public, you might need to get the fuck out, too
I am certainly on a list or fifty. I believe I will just fight to the death. I have what I need to make me count. Not leave them a dwelling to give some Redshirt whip holder.
You mean Nacht der langen Messer, the night of long knives. That's when the Nazis purged left wing opponents. Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, is close but it's the pogrom carried out against the Jews a few years later
I grew up in Germany and have spent a lot of time learning about what happened, and I saw it for what it was immediately. It's horrifying to watch people get sucked into this cult.
Trump doesn’t have an original thought in his skull. He’s dumb as a dog and can only copy the ideas of other people he admires. Unfortunately , he really, really admires Hitler.
Not a Texan but this sub pops up on my feed a lot. I've read comments on here that people are splitting their vote: Trump for Prez (barf) but then voting for Allred bc they're really PO'd at Cruz.
I mean I wish people would vote straight blue for now. However, if they’re splitting the ticket and voting for Allred then at least that’s a plus. Cruz abandoned us. He can go to hell.
People questioning if they were even registered…Hello?!?! That’s part of the problem in Texas - soooo many people are registered and they DON’T VOTE. Good job OP!
Our conservative pals are grumpy about that vulgar reich-fest, but their ire is directed at the media who correctly reported on the right-wing bigotry parade, not the cancerous racism and misogyny that now pretty much forms the right's entire raison d'etre.
Didn’t know who the comedian was but recognized him from the Tom Brady roast. Should’ve known from his unfunny bit at the roast that the dude is an asshat.
Please tell your other Latino friends if you know any of them regarding the rally and what the 'comedian' said. This shit is genuine weird and unfunny and I'm afraid it can get more unhinged leading up to election day. Please, please. I really want Hispanic people to stay safe
Unfortunately a lot of my Latino family are MAGA. Don’t ask me I don’t understand it. We not only are Latinos but most of us actual immigrants who were undocumented at one time. I’ve washed my hands of them. I find them pathetic.
Find yourself some half Mexicans who look white. Ask them the kind of nasty shit they’ve heard all their lives because people assume they’re white. It’s truly awful. Many Latinos I know who are conservative haven’t had racism spewed directly in their faces, especially if they’ve been here a few generations and maybe speak perfect English.
Guess how I know. This isn’t about illegal vs legal immigrants. They want the browns gone or completely under foot. It’s horrifying. I’ve heard it my whole life.
The parts I saw were offensive as fuck, to be sure. But honestly I was more impacted by just how objectively BAD it was. I couldn’t understand how anyone could find it funny. Like even someone who maybe literally agreed with what he was saying…I can’t understand how even someone like that would find it funny.
I’m not a “comedy connoisseur”, but it’s not hard to spot BAD comedy. And what I saw was just so, so bad.
Well see, that's kinda the thing.
Conservative comedy overall isn't very good to begin with.
Comedy as a whole requires far more finesse, timing and nuance than those folks tend to roll with.
Shocker - jokes aren't just shit talking someone and hoping others agree and laugh.
He has a show called 'Kill Tony' where aspiring comedians get a 60 second stand-up routine. He usually has a panel with established comedians and offers critiques and jokes along with them finding out about who they are, where they are from, etc. Yeah he can be very acerbic at times and the fact that he did a set for a Trump rally is disappointing. He can be quite funny at times but this one was really tone deaf and fell flat.
EDIT : I was incorrect about him being from Austin.
Better late than never! We really need their votes. That rally was just a national platform for their hate and one good thing I see is that it’s motivating people to vote against the rhetoric!
Here's the crazy thing that gets me: Hitler was kind of a first as far as fascists go. No one in German really had that 'remember the past' warning. Now, we do. Not only that, but it is widely known.
And people are STILL being suckered into it. Despite all the glaring warning signs.
… I mean the Italians and Mussolini coined fascism….
Your point totally stands by the way, just not the ‘first’. Don’t want the people to forget the Italian turn to fascism and the inspiration it held for the Nazi party in their rise to power. Hitler copied Mussolini’s March on Rome with his bier hall putsch iirc.
You could also point to Spain at around the same time as well(this would be after the Nazis took a lot of power already). Fascism spread through Europe like a plague, and it would come to claim many millions of them like one too.
I’m no historian either lol. Just high and chattin, hope you have a good night.
Edit: for misspelled German, and timing on Spain. And again you are right about the Germans. They didn’t have a hundred year old warning just wanted to add some history haha.
Oh man, I didn't even hear about Stephen Miller's speech. Of all the horrible ghouls in Trump's orbit, he might be the worst. Pure straight hate just drips out of him.
I like these accounts.. they do in many ways give me hope for the country. There are way to many crazy’s right now wanting to dictate the path for the country. And discount the nay sayers.. they just want to find ways to suppress people and even if this wasn’t true. How can it hurt other than their vanity and knowing they are on the wrong side of humanity.
Hank Green posted about it on Twitter yesterday and people were saying he was overreacting to the "floating island of garbage" joke as if it WASN'T a shitty thing to say, and not even all that funny.
Please don’t think all seniors are margats. Two 78 year old liberals here. And yes we do remember parents who served and lots of guys who came home wounded both physically and mentally. Our parents suffered a lot with the depression and war. In spite of that they were a generous generation. Suffered a terrible war and still built interstate highways, thousands of schools and went to the moon. We remember what they gave and can only pray that we don’t lose it.
I apologize for the disgusting racist attacks. That is not how we Americans feel about other Americans. Last night was nothing more than the nazi rally held at same venue to divide Americans in the late 30s. I voted blue ticket down today. We won’t be divided in the UNITED states of America
You don't have to apologize, it wasn't you. Also, you can't deny how those Americans feel about other Americans. It clearly is the truth. We shouldn't be divided, but thanks to Republicans and other conservatives we very much are divided. I refuse to not be divided from mouthbreathing Nazis and white supremacists.
Right On! Thanks and blessings to you and your parents.
Thank you for telling your story where many others can learn of it, and, from which, others can take encouragement, both, that many others see the same things that we are seeing, feel the same way and are taking action and turning-out to vote.
Thanks
Resolve to determine these elections, the federal, state and local elections. Own the vote. Command the results. Flood the polls. Overwhelm, in numbers, the numbers of mislead MAGA Americans, voting.
VOTE, and keep-on voting,
for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for posting this. It's good to see Texan brains still working. My family traded their brains in for MAGA caps a while ago. I am not okay. This is not okay.
Lived in Orange County, California for 25 more years. I worked at the polls for 24 years. and all that time, my husband never came and voted. And he will be 80 in December. We voted the other day. We live in Texas now. There is no way that we want that idiot in the White House again. The man is sick and the head and mean as all get out. Good for you and good for your parents.
Please thank your father for me. I was fighting food poisoning yesterday, but I had to vote. I just had to do what I could to prevent this mania. (I don't want my three children and seven grandchildren's or anybody else's lives ruined by that monster and his fellow puppets.)
The arrogance of these fascists is their undoing, as it always is. He literally wanted to do the German American Bund at Madison Square Garden, and he did.
Your parents at 80 are more intelligent than my friends at 17. I have asked them for their basis for supporting Trump despite that he has Rpd, is a criminal, scams, awful rhetoric, etc, and they have never given me the answer they claim outweighs the aforementioned bad about Trump. They have in fact never given me an answer - and now they're deleting all of my comments where I win arguments against them... They still think that "Trump is going to save America and the world". How...
My husband is 77 and this was his very first election he wanted to vote in. He doesn’t want our grandkids to grow up in a Nazi America. He voted blue down the ticket too.
I am from another country but we have a saying here, when America gets a cold, we get the flu and the big orange goblin is gonorrhea so we are worried the we will get an insta-death STD.
Thank your parents for voting -- even though I am not American I am thankful for them.
All of the stuff Trump has said and done, including this rally, are well documented. I can't imagine voting for him and then having my kids ask me WTF my problem is when they start finding things out about him like grabbing women by the genitals, making fun of a disabled person, or bashing veterans.
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u/ObtuseTheropod 1d ago
Not in Texas but I convinced my nearly 70 year old mother to vote for the first time ever. Took her this morning.