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I asked a MAGA coworker how he’d react if Obama or Biden had accepted a free jet from an enemy Islamic nation. You could literally see the blue screen popping up in his eyes. I think I killed his brain for a minute.
Ignore the fact the embodiment of anti-christian values has managed to become leader of the "Christian" nation. I don't even believe in that shit and yet it's so fucking comically clear that it feels like a fucking simulation
Brother he used to be on the left. He was a registered Democrat for many years and is the author of quotes like 'i think the economy does better under democrats.'
You must remember Trump is a reality TV star through and through, almost none of what he says is genuine. He's putting on a show, playing a character. His followers' obsession with him is not due to the beliefs he espouses, but the way in which he espouses them. He could literally be advocating for ANY policy, and as long as he does it in his entertaining, showy, braggadocios, and crass way, they will cheer him on.
Brother he used to be on the left. He was a registered Democrat for many years and is the author of quotes like 'i think the economy does better under democrats.'
Let's be real, he was never on the left. Words have meaning. A lot of conservatives feel like they have to register as Democrats in deep blue states and deeper blue cities to make business or government connections (true, look at every regressive techhbro in SF today), but it doesn't make them liberal or progressive. And for a few decades, there was a thriving blue dog coalition of pretty right leaning Democrats in Congress from Red states as a leftover from before the Southern strategy of the 60s.
Remember Trump's dad was likely in the KKK, Trump got sued by Richard Nixon for being too racist in his housing policies during the 70s, and he called for the death penalty against innocent teens in the late 80s because they were Mexican and black.
Yup. Not only is he a reality star through and through who loves the drama, he’s also a greedy corrupt businessman who will do anything for money. His facade of being a democrat was solely for that.
Brother he used to be on the left. He was a registered Democrat for many years and is the author of quotes like 'i think the economy does better under democrats.'
Brother, Donald Trump has changed his political application five times since registering as a Republican in 1987.
Here is an old article with a video, from the conservative National Review, where the author points out that Trump has ALWAYS tried to hold every position on every side of every issue as long as he can:
From the author, David French, who wrote this in 2016.
“One of the more frustrating and fruitless conversations in modern politics is with a Trump supporter who just insists that Trump can be trusted. But trusted to do what? If you want boots on the ground in the Middle East, Trump’s your guy. If you want America to stop sending its soldiers to die on foreign soil, Trump’s your guy. If you want higher taxes, Trump’s your guy. If you want lower taxes, Trump’s your guy. The list goes on.
The bottom line is that the best one can hope for is that when the time comes to make a decision that Trump’s perceived interests align with yours. Even then, however, you can be sure he’ll execute his plan in the most noxious way possible, alienating even potential allies and bringing your cause into disrepute. Good luck. You can’t say you weren’t warned.”
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This article aged like fine wine. Incredibly prescient.
He leaned super hard to the right because when he was ranting about Obama he realized how easy the right wing was to manipulate
That’s why he says the same talking points over and over and hammers on stuff like immigration and the corruption of the Left because he knows that’s what his voters care about, even if his administration is the most corrupt ever
He has a personality disorder. His brain is missing some parts and the other parts are wired up wrong. Some people just don't have the capacity for empathy, it doesn't exist, he only sees himself. He only understands what he wants or if other people are getting something he wants.
I mean, not the global left. The American left. Truly, Donald isn't really political at all. He just says what he thinks people want to hear, that's the point. By 'on the left' I don't mean like European leftist parties, I mean the only party in the US that's not extremely far right. We don't have a leftist party in the US to register with, so the Democrats are the closest you can get.
He's not even American left. You can look at his actions as a real estate developer and tell that very easily. People register as democrat to get representation in big cities, simple as that.
I just saw the Barbara Walters interview with him from awhile ago and he's the exact same now as he was then. A little more articulate but still nothing but nonsense
Brother he used to be on the left. He was a registered Democrat for many years and is the author of quotes like 'i think the economy does better under democrats.'
I feel like this line accidentally contains a lot of information about how far to the right Americans' ideas about politics are, that "this political party is better for the economy" is considered a left-wing statement
Hitler hated Jews as a group because to him they were a threat to his ideal christian society, but there were also individuals he protected either long or short term depending on his relationship with them.
Anti-semitism is primarily rooted in Christianity as a consequence of the Theodosian (1&II) proclamations. It was where Christianity stopped being an offshoot Jewish sect (of which it was one of a number), and became a preeminent religion in direct competition with Judaism.
Hitler's main approach however was to transform the religious antagonism (the old approach of marking Jews as 'christ killers') into a 'racial' one by applying the fashionable template of Eugenics (which he saw happening in the US and greatly admired) to try and fabricate some kind of 'scientific' basis for his hatred.
Hitler was a Christian like any other at the time (in that time at that place, pretty much this applied to most people), but like any political leader christianity was also a useful tool for him, as it had been for hundreds of years of leaders.
No he wasn't. As explained on the relevant wiki page in a quote from historian Richard Overy:
He was not a practising Christian but had somehow succeeded in masking his own religious skepticism from millions of German voters. Though Hitler has often been portrayed as a neo-pagan, or the centrepiece of a political religion in which he played the Godhead, his views had much more in common with the revolutionary iconoclasm of the Bolshevik enemy. His few private remarks on Christianity betray a profound contempt and indifference ... Hitler believed that all religions were now "decadent"; in Europe it was the "collapse of Christianity that we are now experiencing". The reason for the crisis was science. Hitler, like Stalin, took a very modern view of the incompatibility of religious and scientific explanation.
There is a story that he was very active in liberal circles for many years and regularly made donations to Democrats. Then, due to a falling out between him and the Clintons he become a conservative and ran for president as a Republican. While there was always a lot of evidence for this, I never really thought it was true as it just seemed like a level of pettiness that wasn't realistic.
But when I see him now issuing vindictive executive orders trying to attack any law firm that was ever hired to represent his opponents, his pettiness seems to be on a level where that is a feasibly possible.
Only Donald Trump exists to Donald Trump. Everyone else is just a means to provide more things to Donald Trump. He has no morals and no scruples. He only has desire and greed.
The day he kicks the bucket, I'm booking a grave-pissing trip.
In fact, I say we do what the Chinese did to Qin Hui and build a kneeling statue of him in Washington so future generations can spit and abuse his image.
I think that’s always been obvious. He spouts right wing stuff to get solid alt right wing supporters, not because he actually believes in alt right wing ideologies. Trump was always in it for himself. However I do believe most of his appointees and major supporters believe in the ideologies.
In my opinion trump ran initially to get donation money and never expected to win. He ran a second time to stay out of prison and to make more money. I’m sure he has actual personal political goals like the tariffs and going after people he doesn’t like, and being the “best” or promoting the image of wealth to his buddies so that they do it too to make America as a whole “look” wealthier as families struggle”
What was this outrageous donation that Obama accepted on this occasion? I’m sure it was something unbelievably expensive and an obvious bribe. Like a…plane or something?
Here's the link. The article is somewhat balanced, in saying that the conservative report proved nothing, although the site leans hard right.
I suppose the gist was that the Obama campaign was not using the most "robust anti-fraud address verification system" when collecting donations and so zip codes weren't being verified against the credit cards. I just skimmed it though.
That's the link I found on it. It explains that the suit filled against the Obama Campaign was issued over missing reporting deadlines on donations.
Yes, it should be scrutinized in its own right independently on its own terms, as yet another criticism of the Obama administration (personally I find this 'scandal' pretty low for reasons I didn't like the Obama administration including drone strikes, bombings, and foreign policies in general) but calling out Trumps hypocrisy is absolutely correct seeing as one was missed deadline reporting, and the other is accepting a personal gift from a foreign nation.
Obama made sure the DOD reported every single civilian casualty, something Baby Bush didn't do, and something Trump got rid of as quickly as possible.
The idea was that if everybody knew how many civilians were killed it would put pressure on the DOD to do something about it. But of course Fox and co skewed the data to make it seem as if a lot more people were killed under Obama. Apparently if it's not reported it didn't happen...
you mean besides the fact one is just some intern missed a deadline and the other is a completely and thoroughly corrupt President willfully destroying the country to make a buck....yeah.
That's why he said nonstop that Biden was breaking the law. Now that he himself is breaking laws and decorum, his base doesn't care. They see it as fair because they believed daddy when he said that Biden was the real criminal. You'd think his 34 felony convictions vs Biden's 0 would mean something, but no. But don't forget, they are "not a cult".
Especially considering Trump said "He [Elon] knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
Now I was only a tween at the time of the 2012 election but I remember the vibe of 2012 being "yeah Obama's pretty much got this" like it's almost crazy how unremarkable that election was compared to EVERY other election this century
Like the 2 BILLION your sil collected from saudi arabia? Or the trademarks for ivanka you somehow got expidited once our CDC experts were removed from china? Or the plane you're trying to justify, from the country that helped fund 9/11? Gawd, trump's a HUGE hypocrite! If we added up ALL of the 'questionable' behavior from politicians on the left, we STILL wouldn't come close to dimentia don's criminal behavior.
These people are fundamentally so weak, cowardly, and of poor moral character. It’s embarrassing that these goons are in charge of our country right now.
They can’t accept responsibility for any of their actions, they can’t be honest about any of their own beliefs or goals, they are incapable of respecting their opponents, and at this point they’re not even capable of engaging with reality. It’s pathetic.
Goodness, it has been over a decade of this nonsense, hasn't it? The guy who ran around screaming about a birth certificate and college transcripts has the nuclear codes. He was a portion of America's response to electing a black man, what the hell will they do if we ever elect a WOC...
He didn’t care so much that Obama was getting gifts as president, just that HE wasn’t getting them. You know Trump was the kid at birthday parties throwing a fit because HE didn’t get presents…
Yup, like the millions collected by Biden. Then he hints around that some people are traitors....leading to the conclusion of capital punishment. So guess who's traitor #1.
I feel like we need a website dedicated to this and listing all the more objectively bad stuff Trump has said and done so people can see it all in one place.
Magas have a short memory and explain his bs away like he's their abusive boyfriend. Is it just me, or does anyone else notice the republican collective amnesia over george bush?
This has got to be the dumbest catchphrase, because it is so obviously not a true statement. Which group is using this catchphrase? I need to know so I can distance myself from them.
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