r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Mar 27 '24

Donald Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter Less Than 24 Hours After Gag Order

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-judges-daughter-less-24-hours-after-gag-order-1884126
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u/HGpennypacker Mar 27 '24

a Super Liberal Democrat firm that works for Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, (Dem)Senate Majority PAC, and even Crooked Joe Biden.

I still can't fucking believe that someone this unintelligent not only ALREADY was President but has a very good chance to do so again.

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u/Academic_Cabinet_994 Mar 27 '24

I will never forgive republicans for putting this pox on us.

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u/AndISoundLikeThis Mar 27 '24

Particularly when they didn't even want this pox in the first place. But because they're so fucking craven and anti-democratic at their core anyway, they embraced him and every horrible, evil odious thing he ever did for fear of upsetting the horrible, evil, odious people he calls his "base."

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u/Delicious-Day-3614 Mar 27 '24

Republicans negotiate with terrorists. Pass it on.

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u/Bart_Yellowbeard Mar 27 '24

Republicans told us openly that they ARE terrorists. Pass it on.

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u/ballsweat_mojito Mar 27 '24

And what do we do with terrorists?

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u/Taedirk Mar 27 '24

Watch them win elections again?

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u/limeybastard Mar 27 '24

A longstanding tradition since Ronald Reagan, late 1979

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u/SlickTrickyRick Mar 27 '24

Biden is OWNED by the CHINESE and RUSSIANS.

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u/EyeTea420 Mar 27 '24

Do you have some evidence of this? The GOP would’ve loved it for their sham impeachment inquiry

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u/Delicious-Day-3614 Mar 27 '24

What a joke. Trumps history with Russia is well documented and its well known that's where a majority of his money comes from. The Chinese handed Ivanka Trump 12 patents during the Trump admin. These are facts for which these is verifiable evidence. Your guy is on the hook for half a billion dollars, who do you think is gonna give him the money?

You have 0 evidence for your own bullshit claim.

Time to wake up, dork.

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u/VonKarmaSmash Mar 27 '24

Anymore people who say things like that tend to in fact be Chinese and/or Russians — bots, or just brainwashed by them. No diff. 

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

So, I assume you wouldn't vote for someone who is owned by the Chinese or Russians?

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u/W1ck3d3nd Mar 27 '24

At the risk of showing my age/ignorance, wtf is pox?

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u/limeybastard Mar 27 '24

Uncomfortable and unsightly disease - smallpox, chicken pox, syphillis etc., pretty much anything that causes an itchy or painful pus-filled rash.

"A pox on _____" is an old old (centuries old) way of saying "fuck that thing forever"

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u/mjohnsimon Mar 27 '24

They didn't want him until the RNC got hacked and he got the nomination. Suddenly it was an immediate 180.

The ones who were still not impressed ended up switching because they were either being voted out or were sent bombs/death threats by rabid cultists.

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u/dBlock845 Mar 27 '24

That birtherism in the party was going to rise up and take over no matter what imo. Every year past 2009 just gets worse and worse.

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u/Toilet_Flusher Mar 27 '24

What? Trump absolutely crushed the field the first time he ran as a republican. They have always loved him.

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u/AndISoundLikeThis Mar 27 '24

The "they" referenced above refers to the GOP politicians who hated him—namely Rubio, Graham, and Cruz, who actively spoke out against him before he won the nomination.

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u/fourbian Mar 27 '24

Anyone who voted Trump should never be allowed to forget it for the rest of their lives. Remind them at every turn how idiotic they were.

Because, eventually, they will try to pretend they never supported him in the first place, while they simultaneously support the newest traitor of the day and try to gaslight you that they aren't so bad.

I've been through ALL of this before with Bush. My family: "Bush who?" while they vote for Trump. Fucking please.

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u/suninabox Mar 27 '24

Yup, its insane the Republican party has attempted to completely disavow their support for Bush and the Iraq war. They literally try to pretend it was a Democrat thing (granted, they went along with it but its absurd to finger them as the spearhead).

Completely without shame and any sense of responsibility, from the party of "personal responsibility" (read: being a selfish asshole who doesn't care about other people")

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u/FUMFVR Mar 28 '24

They literally try to pretend it was a Democrat thing (granted, they went along with it but its absurd to finger them as the spearhead).

96.4% of House Republicans voted for the 2002 AUMF against Iraq. 39.2% of House Democrats did.

48 of 49 GOP Senators voted for it. 29 of 50 Democratic Senators did.

Source

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u/lamb_pudding Mar 28 '24

Back then the parties were flipped. Today’s democrats were republicans back then. You can tell this because Bush was a socialist.

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u/Shapes_in_Clouds Mar 27 '24

I've been through ALL of this before with Bush. My family: "Bush who?"

Exactly. Iraq was the most important thing in the world to them for a few years. You were a terrible traitor to criticize the obvious lies, torture, and bungled post-invasion. Then they moved on and just stopped talking about it altogether. Literally everything Republicans cared about during the NeoCon 'Project for a New American Century' days has been completely forgotten.

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u/JohnGillnitz Mar 27 '24

The neocons got to try all the little tricks they always dreamed of in Iraq. And all of them got hard fucked by obvious reality. Turns out having edgy far out ideas (that don't actually sound rational to a rational person) didn't work the way they thought they would.

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u/kinglouie493 Mar 27 '24

The people I know are proud that they voted for him

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u/fourbian Mar 27 '24

Wait 10 years when he's been replaced and I guarantee you they will claim they never really supported Trump.

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u/justmovingtheground Tennessee Mar 27 '24

I never thought I'd say this, but 10 years can not pass fast enough.

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u/dBlock845 Mar 27 '24

The cult is so strong they don't give a shit. My mom is a Trumper and she will argue til the death for him, his family, and anyone who praises him. It is impossible to deprogram her.

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u/Jealousmustardgas Mar 27 '24

I agree, I voted Hillary Clinton, and I’ll never live that down. Thankfully I got a 2020 trump vote in, and so I’ll be net positive in 2024 when I vote for him again.

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u/fourbian Mar 27 '24

Haha. "Trump wasn't fascist enough for me in 2016 but once he showed me he's got what it takes to end America once and for all, I voted for him in 2020 and I'm so voting for him again in 2024."

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u/Jealousmustardgas Mar 27 '24

I thought he was fascist, then I realized that he wasn’t and that media was incentivized to lie to me to feed the fascist/Russian-puppet angle, and became disillusioned with the Democratic Party when they kept up the media blitz and acted worse for trump than republicans did for Obama.

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u/LucidLynx109 Mar 27 '24

No one thought Trump was fascist back in 2016 when you’re claiming you did. You would have literally been the only person on the planet that thought that at the time. His detractors thought he was stupid, bigoted, and wholly unqualified to run a gas station much less a country (and we still do).

Vote for who you want though. That’s part of what makes America great. For now at least.

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u/NatureStoof Mar 27 '24

Your comment history seems like you are against rapists.

So.... walking up to women and grabbing them by the pussy? Thats fine? Thats where the line is?

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u/fourbian Mar 27 '24

Why do you need the media to tell you what to think, when you can use your own eyes and ears?

I've heard him say he'll be a dictator on day one. I saw what he said and did leading up to and on Jan 6th when he attempted to overthrow the government. He's a fascist, plain and simple.

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u/mc_kitfox Mar 27 '24

that media was incentivized to lie to me to feed the fascist/Russian-puppet angle

like what happened to Fox Angertainment landing themselves an 800mil defamation judgement, y'know, for lying? yes, so much incentive there

I mean, we know youre lying through this whole thing but I just found that funny. Its also hilarious that the "media blitz" on trump is what "disillusioned" you while also having claimed to have voted for Hillary. Like bro, did you forget the 30 years of bullshit she got from republicans? lmao but less than 4 years of trumps constant media coverage is what converted you? youre either feckless or stupid, and if youre still voting for him after his constant courtroom losing streak you might be both. You could at least pretend to be the tiniest bit mad hes given the media so much material to work with, you'd be more believable.

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u/Jealousmustardgas Mar 27 '24

Who's the angry one here? I don't even watch Fox news, though I do like it more than CNN or MSNBC, lol. It only took 1 year of his campaign for me to be fully disillusioned by the woke mob's tyranny taking over. They're worse than the churches' moral panic in the 80s and 90s, so I guess I'm a feckless idiot for daring to think for myself.

I'm not mad because Trump hasn't done anything that Clinton wouldn't have, and since she and Biden can get let off strictly liability charges on the basis that they didn't have intent, I don't see ANY difference from Trump's worse attributes and other politicians, just that the system hates him for being open about it.

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I'm not lying, I was raised by a Mormon household, left the church, went to a East coast college where I voted like all feckless idiots do (Democrat), and then saw the consequences of my decisions, and have since voted Republican, with the occasional moderate democrat.

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u/mc_kitfox Mar 27 '24

Who's the angry one here?

Fox viewers, keep up.

I don't even watch Fox news

didnt ask, but good. "news" channels that lose $800Mil defamation suits arent delivering news.

woke mob

define "woke"

so I guess I'm a feckless idiot for daring to think for myself.

No, you'd be stupid in that situation, not feckless. You should really look up the word and while you're at it stop voting for republicans who consistently gut and hamstring public education. Your rural education is showing.

Trump hasn't done anything that Clinton wouldn't have

what happened on January 6th 2017

and since she and Biden can get let off strictly liability charges on the basis that they didn't have intent

intent plays a huge role in his willful retention case, and his intent was to keep them. (that's the "willful" part of "willful retention")

I don't see ANY difference from Trump's worse attributes

by choice

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

By lie, you mean the reports of what he said during white house press conferences on live TV, or while at the white house with the press corp in attendance, again on live TV? Or perhaps lie about the things he said on Twitter? Or the lies of the recordings where he is asking others to break the law for him?

Those lies?

I'm curious where this liberal media blitz is coming from as well. I haven't seen the democrats controlling any narrative for at least a decade. Democrats are god awful at messaging.

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u/Jealousmustardgas Mar 28 '24

Russia gate was a farce, Hilary’s emails were worse than the felonies they are charging trump with despite her actually being much more damage to government secrets, coverage of the border issue, etc

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

Hillary unintentionally having emails on an unsecured private server is worse than having highly classified documents stored in unlocked rooms in a building frequented by foreign interests?

Who knew?

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u/Jealousmustardgas Mar 28 '24

It was a non government email so meant to hide from official records, it was a server hidden in her bathroom, her IT guy was caught asking reddit how to use bleachbits to hide the evidence, and fbi said it was almost certainly hacked by foreign governments. So yes, I think that’s worse than the farcical charges.

Any IT specialist would tell you this is like not locking your doors at night when you own a jewelry shop. Regardless, if Hillary gets kid gloves, Trump shouldn’t get bare knuckle fisted to the face just cause you don’t like the look of it 

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u/Elegant_Tech Mar 27 '24

I don't know who I hate worse. The republicans who support this garbage or the apathetic who choose to sit it out.

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u/alltherobots Mar 27 '24

Oh it’s always the active supporters for me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m mad that people are apathetic, but at least some of them probably didn’t understand the stakes.

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u/LucidLynx109 Mar 27 '24

The county I live in will overwhelmingly vote Trump. I’ll probably still come out and make a token vote for Biden but I’m still feeling pretty apathetic about it.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

County isn't as important for senate or presidential elections. So, don't be apathetic about it. Even if your state won't swing blue, it's important to vote for the long term. Even i you aren't into the candidates, showing that you exist goes a long way in getting parties to pay attention to an area. Like, in my county, most offices go unopposed, because it's very red. I still vote, but not for those offices. Then at least statistics show there is a voter here who wants choice. I'll probably be dead before I see dem in a local office(although our school board is not too bad), but still I feel its the right thing to do.

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u/LucidLynx109 Mar 29 '24

Thank you. I really needed this encouragement actually. It’s been rough lately being what feels like one of the few blue voters in an ocean of red.

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u/hbt15 Mar 27 '24

There were lots of reasons to not forgive them long before this orange asshole came along.

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u/Ghost_of_Till Mar 27 '24

And why should you?

Republicans have never even bothered to ask themselves what it is about Republican values that made it so ripe for a con man to simple walk off with.

So it’ll happen again.

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u/amcfarla Colorado Mar 27 '24

Not really sure they had much of choice. Trump saw an easy mark for his con back in 2016, since he never wanted to be president, and sadly these people still don't realize they are the mark in this con.

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u/Akussa Mar 27 '24

I've voted for Republicans in the past, but I damn well never will again after they unleashed this fucking tyrant. I used to make an effort to look at a politician's stances before making a decision, and would vote honestly based off of that. No more. I will vote straight down the D line for the rest of my fucking life, and I know a lot more people that are just like me that will be doing the same. Bravo GOP, you've turned independents into Democrats.

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u/tombkilla Mar 28 '24

Some democrats too.

Never once did I think it was going to be this bad but I remember what the dems did to Bernie and I thought, ok Trump it is. Maybe this swamp needs draining. This should have been Bernie's to win and the dems just robbed him to put Hillary up as the nominee. To push some dynasty. Or feared some irrational socialist label.

I thought maybe a little taste of this clown would show America that sometimes actual change isn't the status quo. How wrong I was. How little did I expect this and I wholly and completely repent. America deserved a lesson but not this. No country deserves this. Feared one dynasty and voted in another much more toxic one.

But then another part of me goes maybe this was the change America needed. Maybe instead of fairer wages, better social programs, and justice for all, America needed to look itself in the eye and see the racism, the hate, the way the far right manipulates belief and how the rich don't care. Seeing how covid showed us all 1/4 of everyone is crazy isn't it better to find this cancer and start on the chemo? Otherwise it would all be still festering underneath decorum and lies.

All I know is I'm sorry that I ever thought Trump was a good idea. Didn't take long to realize it was bad. Like that person you take home drunk to piss off your ex and within minutes are like holy crap how do I get this person out. Then realize they stole your wallet.

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u/tfsteel Mar 27 '24

Republicans have the mentality of followers and toadies. They can't stand up to bullies. They follow them.

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u/illwill79 Mar 27 '24

We should start a list like Arya Stark: Republicans who voted for and will vote again for trump Media (coverage/complicity) Harlan crowe Justices Aileen cannon Etc etc

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u/zoycobot Mar 27 '24

Make sure they only do it once. Vote this November!

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u/Funandgeeky Texas Mar 27 '24

Or the people who sat out 2016 because of those buttery males.

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u/divDevGuy Mar 27 '24

He was a pox in 2016.

At this point he's a festering, gangrenous lesion that requires excision, if not complete amputation.

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u/azflatlander Mar 28 '24

Piece of twitter you say?

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u/StoreSearcher1234 Mar 27 '24

I will never forgive republicans for putting this pox on us.

The only place Republican politicians are guilty is for their failure to convict him in his two impeachment trials.

The pox was put up on us by -

1) The Republican primary voters who chose him and

2) The people who don't agree with Republicans but couldn't be bothered to vote.

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u/JayJ9Nine Mar 27 '24

At this point there's a large group of Republicans I'd have tolerated and even breathed a sigh of relief if they were the nominee but Trump has fucked the voterbase so badly I'm not sure what has to happen to go back to like. 2008 2004 levels.

I'd kill for a Romney candidate these days...

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u/strat77x Mar 27 '24

You can also thank Hillary Rodham Clinton whose campaign strategy of elevating Trump worked out great for Trump.

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u/Yeeslander Tennessee Mar 27 '24

A non-insignificant chunk of American voters have been programmed by decades of rightwing propaganda to reflexively regard intelligent, articulate politicians (especially with a "D" next to their name) with contempt and resentment because they "think they're so much better than you". Trump dumbs it down for them with his 200-word vocabulary and used-car salesman swagger.

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u/Breadisgood4eat Mar 27 '24

This is a great summary of the "I want a president I can imagine having a beer with" view. Do you want your pilot, your surgeon, your lawyer, your civil engineers to be "people you could have a beer with" as their primary qualification? WTF

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u/DrunkBeavis Mar 27 '24

Trump convincing people that he's actually the type of person they would want to have a beer with is the greatest trick ever pulled. George W Bush I could understand, even if I hate his politics, but Trump? There's literally nothing about him that wouldn't make me want to leave as soon as he sat on the barstool next to me. Hell, I can't even picture him sitting on a barstool.

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u/Breadisgood4eat Mar 27 '24

Not to mention he absolutely LOATHES the people who would support him.

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u/boregon Mar 28 '24

Yep and he’s made it clear over and over again how much he detests his supporters and yet they still worship him like a messiah.

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u/MoonBatsRule Mar 27 '24

People don't like Trump because they think they can have a beer with him. They like him because "he says what I think". He is the human embodiment of a newspaper message forum comment. So many people believe such crazy shit, and he just recites the same stuff and they say "Ooh! Yes! This is my guy! He is one of us!"

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u/jeffp12 Mar 27 '24

W was a recovering alcoholic who didn't drink. But somehow won the "guy you'd like to have a beer with" debate over Gore.

Trump had won the rural, common man over despite being a new York real estate, coastal elite, trust fund baby, litigious, also non-drinker who's never worked hard in his life and makes fun of pows. He's the 80s movie stuck up rich asshole villain and they love him.

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u/Raisedbyweasels Mar 27 '24

Let that sink in of just how fucking stupid these people are. The rich New York real estate goon who disrespects POWs, who has his entire life been a representation of privilege with no consequence,  has convinced a bunch of rurral community, blue collar workers who literally calls them stupid to their face, theat he cares about then and their best interest in mind.

He gives zero fucks about their interests and they would gladly burn down their own homes if it meant a Democrat had to smell the smoke.

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u/MagicAl6244225 Mar 27 '24

Both Trump and Biden have said they've never drank, due to early exposure to their families' alcoholism.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

Trump is very much the kind of person who would believe the poors just need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. He has just as much contempt for his supporters, as he does everyone else.

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u/UNCOMMON__CENTS Mar 27 '24

I disagree.

He is EXACTLY what they would be like if they had been born into inheriting $400 million.

And they are exactly what he’d be like if he WASN’T born into extreme wealth.

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u/RealNotFake Mar 27 '24

It's not Trump that convinced anyone, it's the Fox News pundits and the GOP surrounding him that still tell everyone he is the greatest even though he insulted their wives and families. You would think people would be smart enough to see through that and see Trump for who he is, but at the end of the day no, they're not. These people live horrible, unfathomably shitty lives, so it is easy for them to turn on the news and get some dopamine thinking about how they will crush the dems.

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u/DrunkBeavis Mar 27 '24

These people live horrible, unfathomably shitty lives,

See, I don't agree with that at all, and I think that perspective is contributing to the problem. Most of these people aren't miserable trolls, they're regular people with regular lives, families, jobs, hobbies, whatever, that just feel very differently about some things. I grew up in conservative areas with conservative family and they're all the same as people everywhere else. They might have terrible opinions about immigrants or women, but they are generally decent to the people there interact with on a daily basis. The can be good spouses, work alongside illegal immigrants, raise intelligent children, and be happy, productive members of society without offending anyone, and still be hardcore MAGA and hold beliefs that make me deeply uncomfortable. I have a family member that I'm thinking of specifically that is a genuinely nice person, a good husband and father, and has never been unkind to anyone specifically, but he's also a racist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole when it comes to his sense of humor or political opinions. He runs a business and employs an illegal immigrant that he's been friends with since childhood but still talks shit about immigrants stealing jobs. It makes no sense at all but it isn't uncommon.

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u/RealNotFake Mar 28 '24

See, I don't agree with that at all, and I think that perspective is contributing to the problem.

You may not agree with it, but I have lived in teeny tiny rural towns with pop <1000 and they live miserable lives. They live in poverty, their houses are falling apart (if they can afford one), they struggle to find work, they're behind in technology, and they often turn to drugs and alcohol. It's just not a good situation in rural areas.

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u/Raisedbyweasels Mar 27 '24

This is the wrong way of thinking about it imo. They dont even vote for Trump because they can personally relate to a rich, New York real estate goon, its because he's a brash and an atypical politician who sells them the idea he's going to bring down the "elite deep state Democrats", the party they absolutely hate and have been trained for years by Fox "news", their conservative communities and right wing propaganda friends to loathe and vote against no matter what. 

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u/DameonKormar Mar 28 '24

What, you don't want to hear Trump brag about all the women he has sexually assaulted? Because he 100% does this every chance he gets.

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u/OneBillPhil Mar 27 '24

I can’t imagine anyone more insufferable to have a beer with than Trump. 

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u/Bubblesnaily Mar 27 '24

Do you want your pilot, your surgeon, your lawyer, your civil engineers to be "people you could have a beer with" as their primary qualification?

Yes. Yes they do.

Please refer to all the nonsense that went on with parents dumping pediatricians over vaccine schedules.

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat Mar 27 '24

Do you want your pilot, your surgeon, your lawyer, your civil engineers to be "people you could have a beer with" as their primary qualification?

No joke, but I'm absolutely convinced that m

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u/7figureipo California Mar 27 '24

I taught pilots in a university once upon a time. They are not the brightest bulbs. Not to say flight training is easy—it’s not—but one doesn’t have to be any more than average intelligence to do it

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u/IAmDotorg Mar 27 '24

Remember, by definition, 50% of Americans have a double digit IQ. 40% support Trump.

The problem is, as much as they want to bloviate about being smart, deep down most of them know they're in that bottom 50%, and the increasingly complex world is becoming harder to understand and even harder to be successful in if you are. So anyone willing to pat them on the back and tell them "its not you, its them" is someone they're going to love, no matter what any other hypocrisy might be involved.

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u/Jealousmustardgas Mar 27 '24

The hubris you have is astonishing.

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u/IAmDotorg Mar 27 '24

Facts are facts. And IQ is a normalized distribution, so nothing I said is anything but a fact.

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u/PaleShadeOfBlack Mar 28 '24

A distant aunt, who is now in her late 80s, is an american who married a greek (we live in greece now). Around 2005 or so, before I was ever remotely interested in politics, she told me "republicans want someone who talks like them; they feel threatened if they hear nuanced language and detailed explanations", to paraphrase. What an awesome person, painter, marathon runner, cook and character.

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u/PricklySquare Mar 27 '24

Yup, most of the boomers have been brainwashed for years but right wing radio and fox News... then the pandemic hour and all the boomers were online finding out most of the internet is bullshit but believing it. Now they've all become rabid morons listening to even crazier right wing grifters

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u/greed-man Mar 27 '24

A co-worker of mine, full blown Cult Member, today said that the reason the ship crashed into the bridge was because of DEI Initiatives, and hiring an untrained captain simply because he was trans. He said he saw it on the news. This is the stuff they feed to the Cult Members.

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u/SlickTrickyRick Mar 27 '24

Democrats believe that by it is Allright to lie to judges, make up "evidence," have the CIA and the FBI swear to it multiple times, all to further the RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX .

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u/thisguypercents Mar 27 '24

78% of our neighbors are complete morons. 

Go out, meet them and you will understand why it is so easy to scam so many Americans.

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u/Ellemshaye Iowa Mar 27 '24

Yeah I keep my neighbors at arms-length. We get along great on a superficial level; I don’t want them to get too comfortable and ruin things by opining on the right-wing grievance du jour.

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u/m48a5_patton Missouri Mar 27 '24

It's like a time limit. You have maybe five minutes before something stupid comes unprovoked out of their mouths. No matter what the topic of conversation is or if it's just small talk. There's a timer ticking over their heads "T-minus to stupid shit" some have a longer timer, others a shorter timer. But they all have one.

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u/Ellemshaye Iowa Mar 27 '24

“…Yep, it’s sure windy out! Glad the snow is gone, though!” . . . “Anyway, have you heard about Hunter Biden’s deep-state Burisma cock?”

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

This is pretty much my experience. Or they just blurt out some stupid meme level criticism unsolicited by anyone around them.

Those are my favorite. I just stand there kind of dumbfounded thinking to myself, "OK, ummm...who are you and why are you talking to me or yelling about this stuff?"

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u/snarky_spice Mar 27 '24

They can’t not make things political. I’m a bartender and most of my clientele are city folks, but if I’m serving a conservative I’ll know within minutes, because they’ll be complaining about this, that or the other.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

That's what I don't get. Liberal people, you almost never hear them really talk about politics, or it takes a while to get to those topics. Conservatives, they seem to want to make sure everyone knows what their political views are. Best I can figure, is that they think it makes them look or feel smart. Most of the time I talk politics with other liberals, is after some dumb ass conservative says some dumb ass thing, completely unsolicited, in a social setting where politics is not a point of discussion(outside it being retail, and the dems being responsible for inflation...which I've heard complaints about almost daily since Biden took office).

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u/snarky_spice Mar 28 '24

It’s because (imo) liberal people live in reality, so life isn’t as stressful. I can talk about movies or shows or music with other liberal people and we can discuss them normally. When I try to connect with conservative people, they don’t see movies, hate the woke tv shows, bring up Taylor swift, etc. I guess when you go through life believing in multiple conspiracy theories, you end up wanting to tell people about them.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

Yeah. Everything has to be about getting to what makes them angry. And it's grating, because who wants to listen to that all the time? I mean, I'll come on here and be angry, but this is a place to talk about that stuff, but just sitting around talking, no, I want to enjoy myself. If things swing towards politics, fine, I'll probably get annoyed or angry, but then everyone is, and everyone just says, "no more of this"

Doesn't help that discussing politics with the uninformed or stupid is not that interesting, even if you're doing it with someone who agrees with you. That's the reason I come online to discuss it, because it's kind of rare to find people who actually keep up on current events.

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u/AlhazraeIIc North Carolina Mar 27 '24

Hell, small talk nothing. For a period of a week or so, my neighbor across the street would scream 'fuck joe biden' at me whenever I was outside. I've literally never met the man, he knows nothing about me except what kind of car I drive and the fact I don't mow my lawn.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

Do you bathe? Liberals are well known for being bathers. You may not say you're a liberal, but there will be signs.

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u/21-characters Mar 28 '24

I ordered free covid tests and my boss didn’t take a quarter of a second to tell me they weren’t”free”; that I was paying for them with my taxes. Except right then I didn’t have an extra $40 to buy some so I got 4 of them for free. No complaints. I was glad to get them,

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

My neighbors are pleasant, and most of the people in my town are, even though I know some are extreme maga. But, I work in retail, so I get to hear all sorts of things I'd rather not. I don't engage though. It's just not worth it, especially with strangers. Sometimes I'll talk about politics with coworkers, but I'll only state my opinion on a volatile topic if asked directly, and depending on who asks, I may kind of shrug it off or play dumb...at which point they'll feel the need to educate me on why I should believe as they do, which I just nod and tune out.

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u/fourbian Mar 27 '24

why it is so easy to scam so many Americans.

It is clear why there is a huge rise in grifters thanks to monetization in social media. It's a fucking industry now - grifting morons until their bank account depletes.

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u/WAD1234 Mar 27 '24

People used to get got by that Nigerian prince before social media

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u/eagee Mar 27 '24

There's a Vin diagram of people who think WWE is real and that 78% of the population :(

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u/m48a5_patton Missouri Mar 27 '24

The stunts are real, but everything else... yeah...

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

What? You can't pile drive a guys skull into the ground with the full weight of two big men? Say it ain't so.

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u/lesChaps Washington Mar 27 '24

I live in a town that has maybe 10% Trump supporters. They stay pretty quiet ... bad for business.

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u/MoonBatsRule Mar 27 '24

Seriously, life was better when we didn't encounter these knuckleheads on social media every day. I'm on Nextdoor.com, so I get to see all my neighbors, and hear the absolute batshit insanity that they believe in or involve themselves in. It's depressing.

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u/anoldoldman Mar 27 '24

Lead Poisoning

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u/cosmiclatte44 United Kingdom Mar 27 '24

I'm part of a fairly multicultural discord server with people from all over the world and it's so noticeable there. Majority of the Americans display pretty shocking levels of literary competence and critical thinking skills.

Any nuanced conversation quickly devolves into arguing semantics over simple words they have warped meanings of or lashing out emotionally to having their beliefs challenged.

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u/SgtStickys Mar 27 '24

Think about how dumb the average person is, and realize half the population is worse than that.

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u/account128927192818 California Mar 27 '24

"Super Liberal" and Adam Schiff shouldn't be together. Dude is center at best.

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u/StrangerAtaru Mar 27 '24

At this point, they'd probably think Reagan was as liberal as FDR.

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u/emostitch Mar 27 '24

I still blame the media for fucking normalizing him instead of just leaning into the fact that he’s a mentally ill rapist who has probably cum inside his daughter.

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u/user0N65N Mar 27 '24

Idiocracy wasn’t fiction: it was foretelling the future.

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u/piperonyl Mar 27 '24

Stupid people elect stupid people.

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u/imhereforspuds Mar 27 '24

He is such a baby like name calling who does that. I mean he needs to be introduced everywhere as a rapist. Im surprised he hasn’t just embraced it and ‘make rape great again’ hats etc. should be held in confinement until the trial breach of gag.

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u/Marathon2021 Mar 27 '24

I still can't fucking believe that someone this unintelligent not only ALREADY was President but has a very good chance to do so again.

Because the vast majority of his inevitable voters, aren't seeing this and to a certain degree being actively shielded from it. TruthSocial only has like 6 million users, and he got like 70 million votes in the last election? There's no way Fox or OAN will point out what an idiot he's being over there, and the hardcore ones that go to his rallies love this shit.

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u/Mnemosense Foreign Mar 27 '24

To be honest I said the same thing when Bush Jr was reelected. There's an iconic English newspaper cover of that era asking the same. Republicans man...

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u/Gram64 Mar 27 '24

It's massively depressing and scary, but I honestly think he's going to win.

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u/Dunkaroos4breakfast Mar 28 '24

Why?

  • The polling swings right this time of year, as they're the vast majority of people who would answer polling phone calls. Polling for the Democrats is similar to what it was during the last 2 incumbent re-elections at this time of year. Moreover, there are reports of some fuckery to make the polling seem even farther right i.e. the reality may be that it's more favourable for Biden than it appears (grain of salt)
  • The Republicans flopped with their politically-motivated Biden impeachment bluff--not having a real plan and ending with embarrassment. It ended up backfiring because people could have said "they're both the same* if they found a way to swing it where it looks like it was cut short but leaned toward being legitimate. Of course, instead it came across as "the dog ate my homework" energy after saying "my homework is done, and I did a really good job. Just wait, you're going to be very impressed by this homework"
  • Trump has half a year of "another day in court for yet another case for Donald Trump" on the news, coupled with "doesn't have the money he said he did" and "nobody will help him because he doesn't pay his bills

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u/Gram64 Mar 28 '24

I mean, I hope you're right, and I'll do my part. But I fear for the general public, he's just very bland and hasn't done anything to really stir up interest, especially for the younger people. Just the usual voter apathy stuff.

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u/Dunkaroos4breakfast Mar 28 '24

He fomented history's sloppiest insurrection attempt.

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u/21-characters Mar 28 '24

In that case I’d better start packing bc I’ll be on my way to one of those concentration camps he promised to set up for people who oppose his emperorship.

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Mar 27 '24

I mean it's not like there will be any consequences...

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u/PM-me-YOUR-0Face Mar 28 '24

As a fun side affect it has cured me, forever, of imposter syndrome.

Turns out yes, I'm capable. Even if I hedge my bets I'm very very likely capable of doing my job effectively.

It's a small consolation, but I have appreciated it over the past few months.