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15 Bleak AF Quotes That Sum Up The Depressing Lunacy Of Trump Voters

New York Magazine ran a feature in last week's issue cataloging women who were (still) voting for Trump in their own words. Some of their responses were breathtaking in their bleakness.
Chrissy Stockton
November 3, 2016
“I heard that he said something about groping women, and I’m thinking, Okay, No. 1, I think that’d be great. I like getting groped! I’m heterosexual. I’m a woman, and when a guy gropes me, I get groping on them!”
— Jane Biddick, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“Groping is a healthy thing to do.”
— Jane Biddick, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“Since December, I’ve done very little reading. I’ve heard little snippets here and there on the radio, and I don’t watch TV. I’m just going on what I have at the gut.”
— Jane Biddick, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“But all I hear is people are saying he likes to grope women. I’m sorry, that just hasn’t given me any doubt about my vote.”
— Jane Biddick, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“If things get tough, maybe you get another little part-time job. Maybe you go to your boss and say, ‘Hey, listen, things are hard. Can I work some overtime? What can I do?”
— Tina Vondran, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“If women grabbed men like that, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But if men do that to women, they blow it out of proportion.”
— Valerie Still, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“I haven’t listened to the recording of what he said in 2005, because I feel like it’s so irrelevant. It was 11 years ago. We’re not voting for someone based on their character.”
— Allison Doyle, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“We have become so wussified. Pretty soon, saying hello to someone is going to be considered harassment.”
— Merchon Andersen, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“What are we going to do about all this brutality upon law enforcement that is going on?”
— Merchon Andersen, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump, Black Lives Matter, racism, holy shit
“It’s really ironic that someone as rich as him reaches out to the working class, but he does. You can look at a lot of people born into money who blew it away on drugs and partying, but he turned it into an empire. The working class relates to that.”
— Nicole Martin, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“I am a total pro-life person. Trump is not as well informed or well educated as he should be on the issue, but I have a feeling that he will have advisers that will help him so that he understands it better.”
— Barbara Nicholson, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“He could be fine.”
— Barbara Nicholson, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“I didn’t have a problem with the Birther issue. Frankly, I was proud that he did that.”
— Debbie Eberly, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“We’ve taken quite a bit of time to pray for him. We believe that Trump has made some recent changes, growing stronger in his own Christian beliefs and putting Christian people around him.”
— Debbie Eberly, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump
“I’m sure if a woman were a godly person, I could be proud of that. But I would never be proud of Hillary. Unless she totally recanted, repented — and frankly, if she did that, she would reveal what’s she’s done, and she’d be in prison. She has a very dark side. I think Trump put it in good words, I just recently read, about a dark soul.”
— Debbie Eberly, 9 Women on Why They’re Still Voting For Trump
Tagged: really depressing things, seems bleak, feminism, Politics, Trump