Dearborn residents show remorse after Trump win: 'He's playing us'

A world renowned, pathological liar "played you"? The guy famous for a decades long history of incredible contradictions, tall tales and epic falsehoods. That guy. The Mythomaniac to end all mythomanics. The compulsive liar that lies more easily than he breaths? He played you? Really? I'm shocked!

I am still shocked about one thing: How could they fall for it???
- Most didn’t, they fell for the third party choice.

"All she had to do was stop the war in Lebanon and Gaza and she would receive everyone's votes here," Dearborn's Democratic mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told the Associated Press.

Spot the mayor who has no idea what the job of Vice President actually is...

Depending on what they mean by "stop the war" in gaza, if they mean the current hostilities (which, yeah it's what she probably meant) or end the conflict in its entirety, that could be the biggest God damn ask I've ever heard.
- Particularly since the US is not one of the parties at war.
- All it would take is threatening an arms embargo. Presidents have stopped Israel via a single phone call before, and they need our billions of dollars worth of bombs to continue. Don't act like we're powerless small beans here.
  Worst case, they keep going but not on our dime and not with our support.

I'm guessing leopardsatemyface is gonna be the new hermancainaward hotbed of schadenfreude over the next 4 years

I guess you could also call it "they did nazi that coming".
- "They didzi that coming. We all did."
Steve Bannon Award?

Only now, at the end, do you understand?

I don’t feel sorry for these people. We’ve been through the Trump administration once already. They completely knew what they were voting for.
To be fair, Rashida Tlaib basically told them not to vote for Harris. Probably should reconsider voting for her next election.

“Cut off your nose to spite your face.”

Moṙ luık ku̇tıŋ ȯf Yṙ feıſ t ſpuıt Yṙ noz hıṙ.
- Why funny letters

reminder:

this election was lost on multiple fronts.

do not let articles like this, however truthful, and the inevitable spiteful comments underneath convince you that the next four years were caused by Arab-Americans.

Yeah, even if we won Michigan, where the Arab-American vote is strongest, it wouldn't have reversed our defeat in the electoral college.
This is just more sad "But I didn't think Leopards would eat MY face!" that is happening in all kinds of demographics of the US electorate right now.
fine, fine, yes, it is multifactorial. Unity in opposing trump's ghouls is the most important, not infighting over losing.
- thanks, and not trying to be combative here :) i just know how discourse molds and progresses and it’s just a few short steps from the comments and name calling i’m seeing here to “pro-Palestine caused trump”
  when in reality biden/harris actively ignored the petitioning of multiple vital demographics including latino, young, and low-income voters—all of which played out very poorly. it speaks volumes that i haven’t seen a single post about these demographics yet and multiple about Arab-Americans.
  just be careful yall! your neighbors need you

Cool, we all get to suffer for it

Minorities have been suffering for years under both democrats and republicans. If democrats can’t manage to survive four years, then that’s your problem.
- I'm sorry, do you think that non minorities are going to suffer in a way that is even close to the additional harm this is going to cause to minorities? Are you dumb?

For an article titled, "Dearborn residents show remorse," it sure didn't feature a lot of, you know, Dearborn residents showing remorse.

Headline is misleading. It was a quote from a single individual.

Idiots.

Love how one person's quote is supposed to represent Dearborn. It was literally a fuck you to dems. Everyone in Dearborn knows trump is also going to do it. Rebuking the dems for doing it was the least they could do. They gave dems every opportunity to stop it.

If all of you libs that wish ill upon them because your team didn't win had a moment of self reflection you would realize that the dems weren't saving anyone even if they won. When fascism shows up, blue or red, you fight it.

Notice how the dems aren't doing every maneuver they can to clip Trump's upcoming power. Hell a bunch voted to allow charities and other ngos to be able to be declared terrorist. Thankfully some of the lesser known dems fought it off. The party leaders are part of the ruling class.

Get off your assess and start doing some direct community support or action, no one is coming to save us, we protect us.

This doesn't even belong in this community. I think it being posted here makes people who don't read past the headline think they voted for Trump
Edit: I guess some of them did, but I don't recall Trump ever being dishonest about his support for Israel, so I don't see how he "played" them

Nope. Uh uh. No sympathy from me. My give a damn is broken.

You had SO many red flags

I lived in Detroit for a brief period and my observation was that the Arab population in Dearborn was comprised mainly of people born into multi-generational wealth. I know that's anecdotal but if my observations were accurate then we're talking about wealthy people who are disconnected from real life struggles who are voting for Trump. Not about immigrants who have seen and experienced hardships.

Lots of great voter outreach in the comments here! Keep telling them they deserve to see the genocide of their people! If you alienate them enough, they'll definitely vote for you next time!

Edit: I wanted to thank everyone for all the great ideas for Muslim outreach in future elections! I can tell by the downvotes that not all of you liked what I had to say, but if I learned one thing from the Harris campaign, it's that you can't care what a community thinks of you, no matter how many votes it costs you!

I'm not sure anyone here works for the DNC. We're not trying to get ourselves elected. People are absolutely allowed to criticize others for the intended consequences of their actions when they get exactly what's expected. In this case, they've alienated themselves.
- Yes, that's good! Let's pretend it's not our problem that they didn't vote for the Democrats, even though we clearly cared about the outcome of the election! And if we blame them for the alienation they feel, we never have to examine what the party could have done differently! It's brilliant!
- "It's my way of sticking it to The Man."
  "Sir, you are The Man."
  "That's right."
  "So... aren't you sticking it to yourself?"
  "... Maybe."
Yes that's right! Be nice to the idiots who vote against their own interests because hurting their feefees is why this happened in the first place!
- Woah, infantilizing the population of a majority Muslim town for having their, "feefees," hurt, even though they're the ones most likely to personally know someone who is a victim of the violence in Gaza? That's the boldest outreach strategy yet!
Put on your oxygen mask before trying to help others, that is the moral here.
- Yeah, boil it down to trite moral lesson! That's perfect!
The reality is both parties hate everybody but the corporate managerial class and want to kill everyone for infinite growth. The idea that voting is somehow an endorsement is idiocy.
You pick the party least enthusiastic about killing you or you're a moron. Bernie sanders is an anomoly. The democrats never once treated trump as an existential thing - they see the next election as an opportunity to finally capture the right as voters which is their only plan.
If the realization that democrats want us all dead upsets you, you don't understand how this oligarchy works. They still fear being out of power because it means disfavor of the oligarchs, but they would never attempt winning an election by disregarding the oligarchs.
So the choice isn't which one you endorse (as only a crazy person would endorse this system) its which one is gonna fuck you up the least.
- Ooh, I like this one! Using cynicism to mask a, "lesser of two evils," argument, while still ignoring how emotionally devastating it would be to vote for someone who is materially supporting the slaughter of your people? This one could be the 2028 platform!
Is anyone still campaigning now that the election is over?
- Hey, it's never too early to start alienating voters for 2028!

20-20 hindsight is better than nothing I guess, unless you get it when you're looking up at the rapidly receding cliff.

Americans have taken WAY too long to figure out Trump is a con man playing them. Very special insight.

Too many Americans have NOT figured out Trump is a con man. This last election is proof.

MLK was right about liberals. You lot are the biggest threat to justice.

Hmmm, let's inspect this sample.
Bland name calling, unimaginative reasoning, blind anger and content absolutely and WILDLY straying from the subject of the article.
You sure, may be a tankie
- I’d rather be compared to a tankie, than a liberal. Of the two, the former is further away from a nazi.
Good luck getting justice with Matt Gaetz as attourney general and an imperial presidency intent on reversing everything the civil rights movement ever achieved.
- Of course in the liberal worldview the only political action is voting and so now that voting is over you go after people who didn't vote or voted wrong and wait four more years until you can (hopefully) vote again.
  Instead of retreating with your tail between your legs and waiting for another chance to vote join up with those that are taking direct action through protest and political pressure and fucking riots and strikes.
  If more of you joined the anti-genocide voices instead of chanting "vote blue no matter who" your party wouldn't be the milquetoast status-quo-upholding pro-genocide garbage party it is today.
  You can punch left or you can stand with the left and build up the power to punch back.
- Yes, we know both sides are evil. That’s the point MLK was making.

It hurt itself in its confusion!

They should've voted for democrats, who also love genocide. Seriously, the only "leopards ate my face" I see are democrats insisting on supporting genocide and then predictably losing support from voters. These voters were just desperate for any possibility of change, no matter how slim. This is understandable when the change they were hoping for was to not have a president that supported genocide. This doesn't deserve mockery, no matter how misguided.

So the better choice was the guy endorsed by literal nazis, who are known for... checks notes their genocidal inclinations?
- The "better choice" argument is used by democrats to follow republicans deeper and deeper into the right wing because as long as democrats are slightly less fascist, they're technically the "better choice". Now we're at the point where democrats are full-throatedly supporting genocide. You know, something that literal nazis are known for. Put that in your notes.

LOL! They voted for Jill Stein!

People be voting like they're in a ranked choice or proportional representation system & not in a 2 party FPTP system?! Those that previously voted Dems can't just be voting for a 3rd party and not realise that they're effectively handing the win to Trump!? Maaaybe do a 'protest' or 'teach a lesson' at some time when there's NOT a wannabe dictator leading the other party?! Just a thought…