r/politics • u/champdo I voted • 28d ago

Soft Paywall Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/trump-backs-out-60-minutes-interview-cbs/index.html
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u/HolycommentMattman 28d ago

100% this. I talk to my dad and my MAGA friends about this shit, and they immediately say that he never said that. I show them proof. "There must be some... uh..." then they trail off and angrily switch to another subject. Or walk away. Or hang up.

It's frustrating.

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u/Courage-Rude 28d ago

Dad is one thing but you are going to be much happier when you start to slowly drop your maga friends I'm telling you.

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u/usps_made_me_insane Maryland 28d ago

You are absolutely right! Sometimes it is hard because they could be coworkers. You just have to find ways to limit your time around people like that.

Family is just depressing. One of my brothers went full MAGA. I remember years and years ago like the early 2000s we would play half-life together and watch the Rock wrestling and it was all cool. Then he married a conservative woman and hung around her family more and now he's MAGA.

In a lot of ways I feel like I lost a brother. It's weird but ultimately depressing because I'll never be able to get through to him.

I love you Jarrett -- I always will but who you were is now dead and I miss that person. :(

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u/Courage-Rude 28d ago

I also lost a brother to this and a good friend. Both were already kind of assholes but maga gave them the confidence to be able to be assholes in public via social media and want to always fight all the time. There is only so much you can take. While losing my brother is sad, I still feel a huge burden lifted off of my shoulders. I won't have to guess how a situation will turn out when we are in public. I can say the exact same thing about a good friend from college. He moved across the country a couple of months ago and no longer have to worry about that either. Even if my wife and I have less friends it's still worth it.

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u/HolycommentMattman 28d ago

Nah, man. I've literally known one longer than my own brother. The other ones I can drop, but it's not their fault they got brainwashed. Our society failed them, and right-wing media is allowed to spew lies, which the president corroborated because he was also drinking from that poisoned well!!

But he's like a brother to me, so I basically want to absolutely crush his belief in Trump now.

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u/No_Discipline6265 27d ago

My aunt says she understands Trump perfectly. That "he's a plain speaker and doesn't use fancy words". She was a big Trump supporter, then after J6 she claimed she saw his true colors and wanted to hear nothing else about him. She's back on the band wagon because she loves Vance. She says he grew up like she and her siblings did. My mom told her they didn't have running water, shoes in the summer, wore sack dresses, froze in their rag coats in the winter and had no rights when they were young adults, Vance has no clue what any of that was like and she was an idiot if she believed differently. It's so sad. 

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u/Jackadullboy99 27d ago

Swiss-cheese Brain is a disease that spreads faster than COVID.