• papaya@possumpat.io
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    8 months ago

    Watson also voted for Donald Trump, believing the businessman would bring change. She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster.

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    “I’ll give it a little more time,” she said. “But I’m not really sure about Trump anymore.”

  • John Richard@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Why on earth would the news even give her the attention? I can’t imagine anyone going to the news saying they regret their vote less than a week after the election unless they merely seek attention.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      As some of the other comments pointed out, this article was from 2017. They are just resharing now because nothing is different, and this time, it will most likely happen.

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Blue MAGA needs their Two Minutes Hate. They’re continuing their “you deserve everything you get” arc rather than doing any self-criticism about politics or its mechanisms or whether they shouldn’t have gone all in on genocide.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        Democrats fucked up in all sorts of ways including with regard to Gaza.

        Anyone who voted Trump still deserves what they get.