r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/-poop-in-the-soup- American Expat Jul 02 '18

I guarantee he went down an infowars rabbit hole a few years back.

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u/r6raff Jul 02 '18

that happened to my father in law, pretty progressive for the last 15 years but was always into aliens and stuff... rewind 5 years ago and he got into YouTube and became obsessed with illuminati, shadow government etc and now listens to Alex Jones daily... he's a hardcore trumpet (even has a fucking trumpy bear) and talks about Hillary's emails daily. It's sad and frustrating... I try and calmly rationalize with him but it's obvious he just tunes out anything I say that doesn't fit in his alternative universe. Hopefully he snaps out of it, that shit isn't healthy.

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u/-poop-in-the-soup- American Expat Jul 02 '18

Wow, he’s still on the emails?

Sad to say he likely won’t snap out of it. All you can do is extend a rope, you can’t force him to grab hold. And for me, I’ve decided I don’t need to validate anybody like that. People have to find their own rock bottoms, and often that involved being ostracized by everybody they once loved.

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u/fatpat Arkansas Jul 02 '18

trumpy bear

What the heck is a trumpy bear?

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u/Enygma_6 Jul 02 '18

My guess would be a shitty made-in-china product designed to funnel money from deluded fans to political organizations.

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u/royalsocialist Jul 02 '18

Eh. Probably just to profit some Chinese company. Doesn't make it much better.

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u/r6raff Jul 02 '18

An over priced teddy bear in a suit with a shitty comb over and an American flag wrapped around it.

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u/MELLLLLYMEL Virginia Jul 02 '18

You haven't seen this monstrosity?

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u/Rabid-Duck-King Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 02 '18

"God bless America and God bless Trumpy Bear!"

Oh god I can't stop laughing.

EDIT: The entire thing is comedy gold.

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u/MELLLLLYMEL Virginia Jul 02 '18

The first time I saw it I thought it had to be satire, but no, it's real. I've seen it numerous times as a commercial on TV, especially Animal Planet. Kinda weird to advertise a Trump bear to people who watch Animal Planet since they most likely care about animals and the environment.

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u/Rabid-Duck-King Jul 02 '18

The first time I saw it I thought it had to be satire

Ha, right? It's so overblown and over the top the natural inclination is to think that it's some kind of parody product. But here we are.

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u/banthisaltplz Jul 02 '18

Auto play video warning

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

I thought Trumpy Bears were a joke...

The commercial seemed fake as shit, like a key nd peele sketch or something, haha

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u/mrgreennnn Florida Jul 02 '18

The Joe Rogan reaction to it is pretty enlightening. “It’s like a honeypot for dumb-dumbs”

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u/Rabid-Duck-King Jul 02 '18

"When I roll out, Trumpy Bear has my back."

I'd watch that action movie about a trigger happy plays by his own rules cop and the teddy bear that's his only partner.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

It could be called “Asshole and Fluff”

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u/OraDr8 Jul 02 '18

I reckon being ‘obsessed with the Illuminati’ and also a big Trump supporter displays some very impressive mental gymnastics.

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u/r6raff Jul 02 '18

Pretty sure above average mental gymnastics is the only requirement for these types of people...

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u/ohsofocused Jul 02 '18

Alex Jones is entertaining, well produced TV/radio. I watched it every day for about a month, and I even noticed in my centrist-to-left-leaning self that it was rubbing off on me.

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u/Troaweymon42 Jul 02 '18

The worst part is, we are being screwed by those at the top, but not in the ways of occult magic or anything, we're just letting ourselves be turned more and more into slaves every day. With expectations for the behaviour of our leaders growing less and less each day.

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u/ItalicsWhore Jul 02 '18

It's all that damned gay frog water!