I voted for Trump in 2016 . . . because I was lied to and I fell for it

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[+] 226 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (18 children)
  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Which isn't even really new information. He's compared himself to Jesus multiple times and blasphemed publicly a few times that I'm aware of.

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  • [+] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well, something about them does make sense. They are all a bunch of scared babies who want a mean daddy to fix all their problems (which are apparently 100% just brown people).

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The saddest part to me is that they have been conditioned and misled to this position carefully, methodically, and maliciously over a few decades. If you aren't the type to push back and question what those around you do and say then it becomes your warped reality. It's the same misleading ensnarement used by cult leaders.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    This isn't the first one made of him. So it took a few to push people over.

    A reminder that it isn't Trump, but the ones who support him that are the problem, and there are so many of them. And even they are also just a symptom of a deeper illness. A self-perpetuating one.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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    There are lots of problems, but some are more dependent on the others, so pick your battles. There are also predicaments. Whether or not the biggest problems are really that is debatable. But have to start somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    They want something to be nominally angry about because we all made fun of them for only caring about gas prices. This is cover. I won't assume intentionality where irrationality has always reigned, but the holier-than-thou crowd prefers a spiritual boogeyman to admitting they are just selfish little children.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I think that they were willing to go along with just about anything, so long as it seemed like he was a path to power. But, from their perspective, he’s committed the ultimate faux pa, he made gas prices go up. So his political agenda is dead in the water with no chance of recovery. This stuff is just the excuse to back away without loosing face.

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  • [–] 293 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Rounding up random brown people, including American citizens and sending them overseas to prison camps?

    That's fine.

    Raping children for decades?

    Perfectly cool.

    Cringey blasphemy?

    HE CROSSED THE LINE

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's not even the first blasphemy... There's been so much talk and memes from evangelicals basically making him out to be a messiah and he's totally embraced it over and over again.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Calling someone messiah is not a blasphemy tho. However, equaling yourself to God or his Son is a blasphemy. But now that you pointed it out, he was destined to fall for it at some point with his overinflated ego xD

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago*

    Those are things he hasn't tweeted or said or done on video, they are things the people who are dumb enough (all republicans) to have ever been on his side can deny or think isn't as bad etc. This is a specific thing done by him, it's something many of them can't do the mental gymnastics to try to disprove, explain away or angle into something else.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Frankly, this is making me furious. Even a friend of mine who has hated Trump all along is telling me that this "crosses a new line" for him. I'm having a hard time not snapping at him about this. I will bury the reaction and continue smiling for now because opposing Trump is more important for now.

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    THIS time Trump posting Himself as Jesus is TOO FAR! He BETTER go Back to his NORMAL posting of Himself as Jesus otherwise I'll HOLD MY NOSE when I vote for him AGAIN!

    -Free Thinking Constitution Lovers!

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago

    If you're really mad, start burning the traitors that lied to you, not just your hats

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  • [–] 91 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    Wait, is he raising Jeffrey Epstein from the dead?

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Flood the airwaves with it as if it were the original. No one will check anyway.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    That's what propaganda is all about. MAGA has the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and it is mature and effective, and the Dems have nothing to counter it. Doing stuff like this is about all we have at the moment.

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  • [–] 43 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Do we know if the anti-Christ is aware they are the anti-Christ? Because it seems like trump just accidentally stumbled into embodying that concept so perfectly just by being his normal piece of shit self.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    No, the idea of the antichrist knowing is a supposition of them being a servant of the beast. A cultural assumption of Satan's "human servants" having first hand communication like one does with a human boss.

    https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

    Inasmuch as I could play with the idea of believing in revelations, I would believe that it's less about a "chosen one" antichrist, and moreso an "antichrist candidate" that when someone can fulfill the roll and obtain power; then it's a sign of times incoming. Also, (lego) Brick Bible Revelations is a fascinating interpretation.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I'm glad you posted that link, or I would have. That's the best summation of the Anti-Christ I've seen, and I've posted it many times over the past few years.

    I don't believe in any of that bullshit, but if I did, this post would make an enormous impact on me. More Christians need to see it.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    It'd be reeeeaally funny if Trump got smote for blasphemy.

    If he falls over of a heartattack in the next day my needle may shift from atheist to agnostic.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I'll put it out there right now: "God? If you're listening, if you send Trump to Hell in the next 24 hours, I promise I will go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life."

    And I mean it. I don't believe in any of that nonsense at all, but if that prayer is answered, I'm back on board.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Which church would you go to?

    Even if you believe that the only way that Trump could possibly die within the next 24 hours is the act of a god, which god was it? Maybe you're supposed to go to a Hindu temple, maybe it's a Jewish one, maybe it's Ra or Thor.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What a bunch of pathetic rubes. These people view politics as a team sport, and have collectively sensed that the tide is turning on the Trump regime (in no small part due to the same realization made by those like Tucker Carlson and Theo Vaughn, others within their purview). This is just an excuse for them to act out that realization. There is no moral conviction in these people whatsoever.

    We need to convince them that winning looks like the green new deal and mass unionization across all labor sectors.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    What we need to do is convince them never to vote again.

    If you were fooled by mango mussolini, you don't have the brains to make good decisions when you vote. Surely you have family or friends who have been warning you about Trump for a decade now. They were right, you were wrong. Take your hands off of the steering wheel and let those more informed people drive.

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    [–] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Oh so THAT was the line too far? Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Truuump gud aht 'conomy.

    That's what so many of these dumbfucks said.

    Really, he rode the coattails of the black President's economy and then completely bobbled things during Covid. If they think that's doing great on the economy, I just don't know what to say because he completely screwed the pooch on doing the very basics of handling a pandemic.

    And the types of assholes that adore him wrote things like The Unhumans and act like they were somehow repressed in 2020 because of Covid.

    As in, they think they were especially singled out for whatever fucking reason, as conservatives, by Communists (which they see everywhere) and were punished in some way.

    Instead of everyone wresting with how to deal with a goddamn pandemic, FFS. But these people who dumber than a bag of hammers will vote for him again because voting for Democrats is just gay or whatever.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    History in 50 years is going to wild for this time period.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Even if American history books are written by Trump cultists, the rest of the world still has historians who are watching.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    And if it is trump cultists who write the history books, they'll openly admit to a lot of stuff that only their cult thinks is OK. (And the writing in crayon will be a dead giveaway.)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    "We saved those poor little girls from working like their mother's. No longer were they burdened with math and checking accounts" - cultist

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    Worked like the moms. Like in general.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Optimist over there, you think it's going back to normal? There is no bottom.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I like to remember that America recovered from the robber barons and monopolists of the Guilded Age. It's unfortunate that the thought rides tandem with the fact that it took a major world conflict and America seizing control of the world economy, and the America that emerged was really only great for white people. But maybe modern progressivism is less racist than it was and the next social revolution will be class based instead of race based. A guy can try to hope, a little bit as a treat.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    You don't realize tech has changed things. They have total informational awareness, to the point they can turn a mother again their own kids. There is no bottom to this, unless we stop it, which we aren't.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    While I agree there is no bottom and never was change will always happen....unless all of humanity die. Especially when you take everything away from someone and they have nothing left to lose. As seen with recent plumber brothers. Problem is nice Chunk of people see this as winning. I always wondered how in 1984 ppl saw their lives. Its soo disappointing and disgusting to see them enjoy themselves in filth like pigs.

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  • [–] 56 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This is outrageous blasphemy!

    So if he ran again, you wouldn't vote for him?

    Who's he running against?

    A Democrat.

    I'd vote for Trump.

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Bingo.

    He talked about sexually assaulting women. They made him president.

    He massively failed his 1st term. They voted for him again.

    He became a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist. They made him president.

    Portraying himself as Jesus Christ is not the line for them. There is no line.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    He killed a lot of them during covid by being against social distancing, masks and the vaccine.

    There's no low they won't go to support him even if he's directly contributing to their deatth.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago

    They're just looking for an off-ramp as everything implodes as a result of their actions

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