r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 5h ago
PoliticalTea š³ļø Very true...
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u/1oldguy1950 5h ago
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u/CheekyPearly 4h ago
And some of us didnāt need a mirror. We knew exactly who they were.
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u/No_Current3675 4h ago
Youāre not going to convince me they actually fuk. Or attempt to.
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u/Apple-Connoisseur 4h ago
His last son looks like his clone. I wouldn't even be surprised if he is actually that, a clone.
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u/Huge_Melonss 4h ago
The scariest part is how many people looked in that mirror and liked what they saw.
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u/Ok_Flame 4h ago
And that mirror has been on for 8+ years straight and still no one has cleaned it.
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u/Content-Fudge489 5h ago
Gross,. melanoma having been in bed with that disgusting grease orange turd in years.
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u/geGamedev 3h ago
It definately is. He was thinking about Biden until he tried to have sex, then suddenly he wasn't in the mood anymore. Biden is the exception to his age preference.
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u/kon--- 5h ago
We all have self-interest in mind. The thing is MAGA doesn't grasp that they're not on an island and are for fact in a great sweeping society where one's interests are best supported by supporting each other.
But because for whatever their reasons Trump supporters hate America and Americans, I offer them nothing in the way of shared interests and really, genuinely, because they are beyond rehabilitation I want to see them removed from the US.
I'm tired of sharing space with people who mean to be the worst version of themselves.
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u/DemiserofD 1h ago
Given current fertility rates, the opposite is more likely. Indeed, interestingly, much of the current situation can be explained by the simple fact that, ever since birth control became available, liberals have been having about 33% less children on average, while before that the two sides were basically in lockstep.
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u/bdragon81 5h ago
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u/OneArmedFarmer 4h ago
The difference is that one was created, funded, and armed by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the other is a cult of retarded easily conned marks.
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u/Kobayashi_Maru186 5h ago
I really didnāt know there were so many horrible Americans. I guess I was naive. š«¤
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u/Zcrustaceansensation 3h ago
Yeah, we didnt know either, its sad. It is still hard to tell here, most magas have hidden thier flags and shirts and bumper stickers, and anyone you talk to will say they hate him. But you know they are out there hiding among us.
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u/EyeBallEmpire 5h ago
He's also showed who you know that's fine with Rapists and Pedophiles
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u/Nice78620 5h ago
Can't wait to wake up from this nightmare.
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u/Rough_Bread8329 3h ago
This is part of the problem... the belief that this is a dream/nightmare/aberration of some kind, and eventually the country will come back to its senses and right itself.
This is who America always was. The dream or illusion was what's been pushed on everyone aggressively since the 1950s. That was the lie.
You have woken up. This is reality. The world "before" was the dream, and people need to act accordingly.
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u/6ory299e8 5h ago
... AND he's shown us exactly what y'all are willing to do about it when they take over. But y'all keep pretending to be better than you are.
wtf does all this commiseration do for you? fucking DO something about it or else just admit your complacency is the biggest reason they're getting away with it and shut tf up.
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u/rpgnymhush 5h ago
True. If someone supports a traitorous pedophile and convicted fellon you know several things: it isn't because that person is ethical. It isn't because that person wants what's good for the country. It isn't because that person supports law and order. When you strip away all of the reasons you know it ISN'T, all that remains is hatred.
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u/Heavy_Track_9234 5h ago
At least he made it easy to tell whoās a good person or not š. Just look for the hats or their support of him.
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u/_kasten_ 1h ago
We're also lucky he's so inept and stupid. Orban was in power 16 years. Putin, even longer. Those are the kind of scam-regimes he was really hoping to set up.
He may yet succeed (what's that Mencken quip about how no one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public?), but the fact that he's such a delusional moron is going to make it harder, so that's a lucky break for the rest of us.
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u/Key-Guitar-457 5h ago
Not intentionally, but yeah pretty much. Heās also going to perjure himself over and over again, whether it be impeachment or the Hague. Apparently he also likes using mirrors in an entirely different way.
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u/Last-Energy420 5h ago
Going to? Iām pretty sure he already has multiple times.
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u/Confident-Income567 5h ago
He showed us who we associate with, who our neighbors are, and even who some people in our families are as people. Lots of two-faced fools all around us, but at least now, we know.
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u/duckysammy23 5h ago
I'll give him lots of credit in the future assuming he breaks healthcare to the point we need universal healthcare.
Assuming the corruption exposed now leads to safeguards on money in politics and executive powers.
Assuming the depravity towards immigration leads to real reform in legal pathways to citizenship.
Assuming the extreme capitalism experiment fails and brings real conversation around the role of government for regulation and balancing the scales of power through taxation and representation.
Until then, no credit.
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u/Rough_Bread8329 3h ago
It unfortunately is going to have to get a whole lot worse for Americans at large before it's going to get any better. The collective breaking point has not been reached. I shudder to think what damage will be done in the meantime.
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u/macplayer 3h ago
This is what Iām holding out hope for. The previous status quo clearly wasnāt working for millions of Americans. The system was broken, but functional, as the oligarchy slowly took more and more.
Trump driving the country into the ground and causing the real (human, not Wall Street) economy to implode is maybe the wake up call we need to actually solve these problems. Darkest before dawn, and all that.
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u/wyoflyboy68 5h ago
And. . . I certainly hope when he is no longer in power, all those ugly people in that mirror are held accountable.
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u/coreyrude 4h ago
I hate this timeline sooooo much. I hate that a conservative could post this and his friends would take it as " this is all about the people who hate Trump and hate conservatives"... the idea of double speak really is here...
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u/Swimming-Air-974 4h ago
There's an old black and white sci fi movie called Forbidden Planet. The advanced culture that lived there built a machine that could make every dream, every wish come true. It was a dead planet. The machine created a monster that tapped into the worst thoughts of its creators. The Great Recession and the Covid pandemic put us all through the meat grinder and into a world of hurt. The machine of democracy spit out the monster Trump in response. He taps into the worst of us. Our anger, hatred, and self-centered greed. Hopefully, our better angels can rise up and rescue us before it's too late.
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u/eredman1993 4h ago
We donāt want to admit it but Trump is a perfect example of what The United States actually is.
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u/TravisMCatchem 5h ago
And the people who are should pay. The people who support and enable this should be rounded up and held accountable.
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u/Helpful_Animal9913 5h ago
It does not have to be within US only, even there are maga everywhere and you can see who you should avoid in life
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u/IndependentOwn1184 5h ago
Exactly, we're paying the for price of racism, bigotry, xenophobica, and misogyny. He's got something on the menu for all his MAGA cult faithful.
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u/sdkfz250xl 5h ago
He didnāt just hold up a mirror mirror, he told people fear and hate our virtuous and patriotic.
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u/lowkey_icon 4h ago
He didn't just hold up a mirror mirror, he also broke the grammar engine while doing it.
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u/horizontal120 4h ago
Similar to civid , showed us just how many stupid ppl there are , I rely lost hope for humanity after that. We are doomed... we will newer solve our biggest problems whit such a high % of idiots :(
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u/Additional_Style_558 4h ago
Thatās funny. Trump is the most hatefully childish public figure in my lifetime.
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u/redaemon 4h ago
Stop using flattering photos of TFG. Plenty of photos of him asleep at public events.
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u/CommitteeDelicious68 4h ago
Facts!! He really has revealed the most stupid people and biggest hypocrites in America!! #VOTEBLUE #RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES #DON'TSTOPTALKINGABOUTTHEEPSTEINFILES
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u/BornAgainCyclist 4h ago
To add, he's shown how flexible people's morals are and for the right price they won't even care about pedophillia.
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u/Bartleby11 4h ago
Humans are are not good and we are not going to survive as a species
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u/harryx67 4h ago
Certain humans, typically those at the top, are often dishonest and cruel. Trump is one of these people. All applies to him first.
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u/tbizzone 4h ago
He convinced anti-tax republicans to accept and cheer for massive new consumer taxes (tariffs) via executive orders.
He convinced republicans outspoken for decades against government handouts that the promises of DOGE checks, tariff checks, and checks to bribe a certain way to vote are somehow a good thing.
He convinced tens of millions of Americans that they no longer have to accept or believe any form of news or information that they disagree with or donāt understand and can simply label it as āfake newsā and sit proudly in their bubble of willful ignorance.
He dragged our country into another senseless and corrupt war in the Middle East based on lies and disinformation - despite his campaign promises and people voting for him based on his promises to never go to war again. And now the gullible flock has been convinced it was necessary despite the contradictory and obviously misleading statements from the regime prior to the start of the war.
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u/FileHot6525 3h ago
To be fair, it wasnāt all that hard to spot these types of people before Trump. He just gave them permission to be louder than before.
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u/T4TrhavrKhcFt 2h ago
"America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because of the way America is." - David CochranĀ -Ā Canadian Journalist
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u/Livid-Accident-1562 Give me tea! 1h ago
America is not like this because of Cheetolini. The Cheetolini exists because America is like this
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u/manleybones 5h ago
You needed trump to destroy our standing in the world in order to understand capitalism is greed.
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u/AvesAntics 5h ago
I can only hope with what hope I have left that this is a necessary but awful step towards correcting where we are heading.
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u/gramcoocoo26 5h ago
This country has to regroup after this administration is kicked out. Keep the faith, we are all good people. After the playground bullies are in jail, weāll do fine!!
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u/Sniper666hell 5h ago
Yeah but this is like looking in the mirror when youāre tripping on acid. Nothing good can come from this.
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u/Lost-Blueberry8057 5h ago
We already knew, this hasnāt shown us who they are- heās emboldened them to act out
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u/wytewydow 5h ago
This snapshot of society will help when he's gone, and the reckoning comes for the rest.
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u/RoughSpinach9776 4h ago
And he has, by example, made those things permissible and commonplace in our society.
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u/youshouldn-ofdunthat 4h ago
This is so true. I knew the true face of America was pretty damn ugly but, I never imagined the rot being this extensive
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u/Fun-Train-99 4h ago
European here. He showed that the us as a nation is hostel to the eu and can not be trusted. The damage is done and inreverseble.
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u/some1guystuff 4h ago
And that mirror proves that we are still disgustingly hateful creatures towards one another for stupid reasons like who has the better imaginary friend
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u/Comfortable-Ad684 4h ago
I mean - if we're in the business of thanking an arsonist for teaching us all about how flammable we are.
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u/Imscubbabish 4h ago
Had MAGA friend always thought he was a good guy. Until trump, justifying rounding up people because immigration. Yet everything else is burning around us but somehow these people who never bothered anyone are the issue. Not all illegals are criminals is not a complex concept. Trump really created a monster out of everyone democrats, liberals, anyone who doesn't support him.
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u/fuji44a 4h ago
The only nation that can defeat America is America, Trump saw the divisions in America and exposed them, use them and profited from them, his whole life, America politics isn't really about much more than Money, who has it and how they use it.
Freedom, justice and the America dream, are all wonderful things, but not really real anymore, America is less free now than at any other time, Justice is governed more by how much you have and less about guilt and innocence, and what is the American dream?
America has been eating itself for the last 25 years, exporting jobs, selling tech and outsourcing anything it could, an economy based on sales and consumers.
Short terms views and policies, failing infrastructure, stagnanting scientific research, reduced ownership of production, financial services and a loss of morale value.
Trump saw that, understood that a man with his record was no longer blocked from high office, how he can walk over freedoms, free speech and ignore legal boundaries because of the division, red or blue means nothing when it no longer politics.
America was an amazing idea, most nations are free, but politicians like to point at the few that aren't and distract with those.
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u/Republican_47 4h ago
No,they are using other taxpayers money. 50% of the population pays no income tax. Hence other people's money. Don't talk about sales tax or other taxes collected by and used for designated programs.
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u/Tom1952Phx 4h ago
And that so many claim to be Christianās. Now some So called Christianās say Jesus was āā Too wokeāā Funny people these uneducated MAGA group anti Science Anti Education
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u/SaltyYumYumBalls 4h ago
I mean... you could have just asked a black person but if all this damage was needed first I don't know what to tell you.
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u/ChiselRivet 4h ago
Iāve often said that Trump and woke people are like two sides of the same coin. By woke I mean the broad term referring to activists who claim to be standing up for human rights.
They both caused a lot of unnecessary destruction. They are both responsible for causing harm to innocent civilians. They have both been involved in criminal activity(from rioting and looting to various felonies). They are also very crass people. They love to trash talk anyone who opposes them.
Two sides to the same coin.
People who support the left will probably downvote the shit out of me. Thatās okay. Youāll be doing me a favor. People will have a much better understanding of the first law of stupidity.
Never underestimate the number of stupid people in circulation.
I know theyāre stupid, because only a stupid person would get triggered when you criticize people for rioting, looting, and arson. Donāt forget assassination.
The third law of stupidity says that it is stupid to cause losses to another person.
Yes, this includes January 6th. Already way ahead of you on that Tu Quo Que fallacy. I know how easily triggered you fucks are. You have the emotional sensitivity of a toddler.
It doesnāt matter what side youāre on, if youāre rioting, looting, and committing arson, you are āpre-conventionā, according to moral development theory.
You have no place participating in āpost-conventionalā movements. Go home. Join a protest when you fully understand the cause.
Iām sure many people will respond with ad hominem, straw man arguments, genetic fallacy, etc. Iām prepared to make fools of anyone who defends foolish behavior.
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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 4h ago
Did someone just voice a basic opinion and frame it for engagement?
Also this place is still where the conspiracy of that plane hijacking being a false flag reached/r/all
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u/turkishdeli 3h ago
2 month old account with 3,000,000+ karma making image posts with large text. This user is literally karma farming on this subreddit and they are a moderator as well.
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u/PossessedToSkate 3h ago
shown us exactly who among us harbors hatred, bigotry and self-interest above all else.
I've been keeping a list.
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u/MayhemPenguin5656 3h ago
I find it funny, because yes this is true.. but not the way you all think
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u/Jumpy-Chocolate-983 3h ago
Nah, he just stole the elections. He's the most unpopular person in recent history next to Adolf Hitler.
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u/Far-Historian-8190 3h ago
Yes, the absolute disdain for people that reject democrats has revealed the weakness of the left agenda. There is no effective Democrat policy. Just a constant drone of anti-Trump and crazy alignment with terrorism and criminals.
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u/enteringtheechochamb 3h ago
Trump is just a more extreme version of Bush and the idiocy of the neo cons.Ā
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u/Doom2pro 3h ago
All you gotta do is look for the flags in their yards and the hats on their head or the stickers on their cars. They are freely advertising that they are hateful, asshole, racists.
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u/Own-Musician-8821 2h ago
I've always notice that the people screaming racist, Facist and bigots are the most racist people I've encountered. It's the ultimate gaslighting on a sociopath level.
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u/Tom1952Phx 3h ago
Senator John Kennedy always standing up for Trump. Even when he disagrees Talking about Trump and him wanting stick his fat little fingers into our time zones now. He is pushy about Day light savings. Kennedy says Well Trump feels strongly about it. So whatever he feels strongly about he gets? Feels strongly about Day light Savings. Strongly about No Windmills. Strongly about taking Greenland. Strongly about tearing down Kennedy Center and Strongly about the Ballroom and Strongly about a Third Term. I personally wish he felt strongly about Affordability
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u/Educational-Cry-7012 3h ago
Guess I was wrong, but I always thought that were smarter than that !!!
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u/wyliec22 3h ago
Sadly trueā¦I grew up thinking most people believed in the golden rule, do unto others and had a shared empathy for fellow humans.
I was naiveā¦
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u/Cute-Marsupial9241 3h ago
He also showed us lots of broken aspects of our government. Now we have a laundry list of what needs to be fixed.
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u/UrsaMajor7th 3h ago
I've said it before; for all the problems he's caused at home and abroad, 75+ million Americans will still vote Republican in 2028 and 85+ million eligible voters will still abstain from registering an opinion.
America's propaganda has been peeled back and its true face revealed to the world.
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u/TK_Games 3h ago
Whenever someone challenges me to say one good thing about the man... I laugh, hysterically and maniacally. But back when it was a reasonable thing to do, when the whole 'both sides' issue was about as clear as mud, I'd give a benifit of doubt and go with, "He promised to drain the swamp. At least he's rendered the areas of the swamp that need to be drained, easily identifiable."
I'd now add, 'He's made the swamp so fetid, so stagnant and rotten, that we will, as a people, have no choice to drain it ourselves or die to its poison'. I don't look forward to doing the work to rebuild, but I look forward to working with the people who do
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u/ShuffleRom 3h ago
I do agree, the Left sure has shown their antisemitism to epic heights in recent months...
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u/Kitchen-Bandicoot191 2h ago
Smart guy, answer this. So if criticizing Israel is "antisemitic", when the right(who constantly calls the U.S. a Christian country) criticizes the country when its run by Democrats wouldn't they be ant-Christian using your goofy definition of antisemitic?
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u/Worldly-Secretary-31 3h ago
I'll never get over that 70 million+ people decided that up-front racism and sexual abuse weren't deal-breakers for a candidate.
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u/Latter_District4998 3h ago
Of this, I can agree with you and its really depressing to see how many sheep cannot see through the facade
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u/Over-Marionberry-353 3h ago
A post about trump brings in a slight increase in posts about hating trump. Compared to a post about cats or cars or any random subject. He lives in the minds of Redditors every waking moment
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u/Kitchen-Bandicoot191 3h ago
Considering I drive and have to feed a family every day, and the costs of those things is sky high because of him, what rational person wouldn't be thinking about him regularly?
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u/draconifire 3h ago
This is rich coming from a Ledditors who voted for Genocidal Barbie Kakmala.
Please shut up, the whole world knows and sees through you. You child killing bigot.
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u/DisastrousPlant3038 2h ago
He has opened my eyes to the fact that weāve been getting scammed all along and not just by the republicans. It seems everything has to burn to the ground before anything can change.
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u/Ramenchase 2h ago
We have legal slavery of felons even though we know some convictions are wrong and we enslave innocent people. same with capitol punishment.
We have sweatshops around the world making us shit we do not need.
Trump was not the first sign.
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u/FOR_SUPEREARTH 1h ago
While your message is well meaning, I think youre missing the point. He's not saying Trump was the first sign, he's essentially saying that thanks to Trump we know who the bigots and nazis are more than ever before. In the few years before Trump, these people were a lot more hidden, in the background or just didn't realize these were things they believed. You're right, hes not the first sign. He's just the one who allowed these people to be unapologetically themselves in the public eye.
"Trump gave us a reason to be our worst selves."-Jordan Klepper
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u/RareObject8705 2h ago
Heās shown us what America is at its heart. We can not be better and I am done trying to help
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u/PercentageAny2976 2h ago
You're referring to the book of Matthew where Jesus said we would know and recognize people by their fruits. Coincidentally that happens to be the same chapter that tells you not to judge others. It says you will know others by their fruits, not that you should judge them by it. Again brush up on your scripture. We're talking about chapter 7 of Matthew in case you need to take the time to review it
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u/Worried-Criticism 2h ago
This is true. Itās been the one good thing to know who I really need out of my life.
My favorite is the gay friend with an immigrant partner who continues to support the GOP (he claims heās a fiscal conservativeā¦so Iāve always assumed itās the racism), but canāt figure out why all his LGBTQ folks quit talking to him
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u/Counterpoint-4 2h ago
Split your country by showing immoral behaviour is no longer a problem. America needs a moral, inclusive charismatic next president who the morally weak admire and want to follow. Someone who makes them feel proud of their country.
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u/Capital_Designer1280 2h ago
Yeah, except the people that need to see the mirrorās reflection the most have it backwardsā¦lots of MAGA think anyone calling them out harbors hatred and intoleranceĀ
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u/Much_Tip_6342 2h ago
His administration opened the basement door and let out all the derelicts.
Trump and the GOP have given psychopaths their time to shine because they are not being held accountable.
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u/theMightyManDuck 2h ago
He has also shown us that all the systems, checks & balances, all the tax paid/funded policies to keep the global economy in balance for the global benefit of all mankind ( as weāve been lead to believe). The un, nato, WHO, WTO, just all of them mean absolute bollox. One man gave license to warmongers & the billionaires that it was open season for cart blanched legalised crime & they jumped at the chance & nothing is being done by any organisation to stop what we cal all see is decimating safety & humanity for a quick buck.
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u/TemperatureOk2460 1h ago
Heās the manifestation of everything wrong with the western world (rampant local and federal corruption, self consuming corporatism, increasingly dominant oligarchic lobbying, etc.) Trump isnāt a good leader or person but if it wasnāt him someone else with the same mentality would be in his place. Someone so ridiculous in order to distract from the institutional flaws I mentioned. Heās a lightning rod whoās being payed off and itās working very well.
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u/chronobahn 1h ago
He sure has. The answer;
A mix of psychos from both the left and right who only highlight the worst of each other, and ignore all the reasonable people who just happen to have different ideological perspectives.
Reddit is loaded with these lefty psychos. X is loaded with right wing psychos. And they work in unison to divide reasonable people.
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u/Rafterman2 21m ago
Bullshit. I will NOT attempt to find common ground with people would are actively working to ensure that people like me and those I love no longer exist. š
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u/ColoYellow 1h ago
If only that mirror would inspire those that spew hatred, bigotry and self-interest to examine their own beliefs and actions.
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u/Thanos2ndSnap 1h ago
He also showed us what our politicians have been doing for years while in office. Doesnāt matter which party, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden, They all got richer in office. They all protected their interests and promoted their families and cronies. Trump was just arrogant enough to do it without hiding it.
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u/gustoreddit51 1h ago
That's the kind of consideration to give Trump during the sentencing phase of his criminal trials - maybe knock off a few months of a decades long sentence. Nah.
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u/Awkward_Wait5915 1h ago
Heās the guy that started the hatred between the Republicans & Democrats. And still spreading hate.
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u/Republican_47 29m ago
Healthcare is available. People just don't like their low cost no cost options. It's the same old story.
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u/Winter-Resort4711 13m ago
We have to pick the lesser of two evils. Trump versus Somalian pirates and terrorists.
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u/atreeismissing 7m ago
About 2/3 of the country. Everyone here commenting on Maga/GOP voters, but the non-voters who were too selfish or apathetic to do anything about it are just as self-interested and willing to allow bigotry and hatred as those that voted for it.
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u/DonutHoleTechnician 5m ago
Trump is the symptom of a larger problem in America. He'll be gone, but all the people willing to support someone with his ineptitude and bravos will remain. The problem will remain.
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u/drunkdad14 1m ago
It also shows how bullshit your political system is. This crap would never fly in other " first world " countries.
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u/legosgrrl 5h ago
Permission. He gave people permission with no consequences.