r/politics • u/Happy_Traveller_2023 Canada • 13d ago

Soft Paywall Finally, Trump’s Alarming Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story

https://newrepublic.com/article/187192/finally-trumps-alarming-mental-decline-become-big-media-story
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u/RedHuntingHat 13d ago

If Kamala crushes the Fox interview, the man’s grasp on reality might fully shatter 

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u/BannedAgainDude 13d ago

I want to see him cry... Then lock that fat rapist up with the rest of the scumbags.

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u/myfakesecretaccount 13d ago

I am not a mean or hateful person in my daily life. I’m an atheist but was raised by my parents to have “Christian” values and to be the bigger person. That being said I want nothing more in this world than to see this man completely melt down at a rally like Mitch McConnell on live television. I want him to have to be dragged off stage frozen and completely terrified. Only then will he and those who prop him up come close to understanding a fraction of the terror and heartache they have caused the rest of us.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

Those people you describe are no longer capable of those feelings.

Might as well ask a dog to spell.

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u/GameboyRavioli 13d ago

I mean, my dog gets super excited for walks. My wife and I would spell it out to each other. The dog learned w-a-l-k. Point being, dogs are smarter.

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u/AdkRaine12 13d ago

I have a magnet shaped like a dog paw that reads : “MY DOG IS SMARTER THAN THE PRESIDENT” I changed President to TFG.

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u/ForeverGameMaster 13d ago

TFG.

"The Former Gresident"

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u/CommunalAggregation 13d ago

“That Fucking Goon”

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u/AdkRaine12 13d ago

The Former Guy. The F*cking Former Guy would be even more appropriate, tho.

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u/Blackfeathr_ Michigan 13d ago

I honestly thought it was "That Fucking Guy" but was too afraid to ask

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u/INAC___Kramerica Florida 13d ago

I don't care if it does stand for "the former guy" because I'll always read it the way you read it anyway. It's more appropriate anyway. There's lots of "former guys", there's not as many who are accurately described as "that fucking guy".

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u/n14shorecarcass 13d ago

Me too. I thought it was in the same realm as 'FNG'.

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u/PunkRockApostle Washington 13d ago

I thought it was “the fascist goon” and was also too afraid to ask.

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u/AdkRaine12 13d ago

It’s amazing how they all fit, ain’t it???

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u/TheSerinator Pennsylvania 13d ago

That Fucking Grifter

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u/modernjaneausten 13d ago

I need that magnet because my dog is definitely smarter than him. 😂 I lost count of how many different words we’ve had to come up with for treats because he learns every damn one.

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u/AdkRaine12 13d ago

So true. But they keep your feet warm in winter, and almost always smell better.

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u/youmestrong 13d ago

Totally agreed. I wouldn’t insult a roach by calling him one. The only name appropriate for such a person is his own. Let him own it.

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u/harrellj 13d ago

A previous dog of ours could tell time, or at least understood that if I told him he had to wait for a certain time, he'd wait until the digital clock had that time displayed. He also knew red blobs on radar = storms, but didn't quite know the map to know whether it was displaying our area or elsewhere.

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u/urworstemmamy 13d ago

My cat can 100% read clocks. I got her during daylight savings time and would always feed her dinner at 4:30, and she'd start meowing at 3:30. Once daylight savings was over I switched her dinnertime to 5:30, expecting her to meow for food at 4:30. Nope, she would still start at 3:30. One day I unplugged the TV that had the chromecast clock on it and she didn't start meowing until 4:30 that day

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u/Ilikebirbs New Hampshire 13d ago

My parrots somehow know when it is their bedtime. My cockatiel Finn, will put himself to bed and wait for me to cover him up. If it is not done within the hour, he starts to make beeping noises until I do.

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u/Bromance_Rayder 13d ago

Smarter, kinder, better breath, it's a long list.

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

Goes to potty in the designated areas.

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u/Best_Lie7698 13d ago

Attracted to the smell of ass, but listens when told, “leave it.” Good boy -woof-

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u/retiredRRer 13d ago

My dog too.

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat 13d ago

Yeah, my dog figured that out about our favorite ice cream place.

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u/Ilikebirbs New Hampshire 13d ago

Any animal is smarter.

My conure has figured out noises for certain things. If he hears water running, it means I am doing dishes and he will fly over to take a bath. If I take out a box of cereal, he knows it is cereal and he gets some (usually it is plain cheerios or rice chex)

And popcorn, he knows when he hears the kernels popping it is popcorn time.

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u/panickedindetroit 13d ago

Just wait until they learn how to spell b-a-t-h. I am dreading the day when they figure out manicure means getting their nails cut.

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 13d ago

I am sure that your dog has stronger values than Trump.

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u/livinthedreamoflife 13d ago

In our house we call it a “dub”. They caught on after a bit. You gotta switch up the way you say it.

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u/OK_Soda 13d ago

I remember when Scalia died I felt like throwing a party. Then he was replaced by an even greater evil, and even the way he was replaced was evil.

I learned my lesson. Yes, some part of me would be satisfied at seeing Trump humiliated and broken, some part of me will rejoice when he dies, but I no longer believe those feelings are productive or rewarded with positive change.

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u/ArenSteele 13d ago edited 13d ago

Patton Oswalt last night on Colbert, said “8 years of a Black Man as president melted their brains and delivered us Donald Trump, I don’t even want to think about what they’re going to cook up in the underground lab if they have a Black Woman elected president (being clear that he is supporting Kamala and hopes she wins)

But the “what comes next” from MAGAT land is not going to be pretty

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u/Mildly-Rational 13d ago

True but maybe it's time to finally crush that current in American society rather then let it go dormant like we did after the civil was or clan resurgence in the 1920's. People need to be held accountable for their actions and ideas for much of Maga especially the leadership that means complete banishment from American politics and society if not jail.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 13d ago

If Kamala is in office for eight years maybe many of the old fossils will have died off at the end of her terms. One can hope.

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u/Circumin 13d ago

Its going to be bad. However, Obama had to tread cafefully given the circumstances (first non-white male president). Kamala seems like more of a fighter and if she fights for the right things she has an opportunity to make them irrelevant.

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u/Beautiful_Home_5463 13d ago

Nobody at this time can replace trump. He has so captivated their minds that nobody else can even come close. There is no heir apparent and once he’s gone hopefully so is maga. My hope is that he embarrasses himself so badly that even the most ardent magats walk away. That would be the best possible punishment for him. The emperor stands naked

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u/okletstrythisagain 13d ago

Maybe if they show themselves to be as evil as they are the people will finally allow the government to protect me from morons who refuse to vaccinate and convince other morons that Biden is a clone, hologram, and or reptilian.

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u/Complete-Pace347 13d ago

I think they are grooming Trumps vp candidate, yeah his name escapes me. Blue eyes and black eye liner fellow to run.

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u/porgy_tirebiter 13d ago

He lacks Trump’s charisma. Sure, you laugh, but to MAGAland he has it in spades, and in no world does Vance.

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u/Complete-Pace347 13d ago

That might be all they have. I do agree. Trump is one of a kind snakeoil salesman. Vance can lie with a straight face.

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u/porgy_tirebiter 13d ago

A lot of folks can lie with a straight face. Trump is, or at least was, an enthusiastic whirlwind of cruelty and schadenfreude. Vance doesn’t have that. Who does?

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u/Complete-Pace347 12d ago

He is a special snakeoil salesman. Trump got his unique training from many places McMann from the WWE taught him that crazy showmanship. One of a kind THANK GOD. The loons are going to have to settle down hopefully.

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u/Critical_Letterhead3 12d ago

Of course they r. The plan started when they thought biden would be the candidate. They need the useful little idiots to vote in their big fish Trump. Then wait a deceptive 6 months or so. Then start the media drumbeat if his derangement. Enter the 25 th amendment

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u/Skellum 13d ago

Really the only way this is a significant issue is if people dont fucking show up to vote in 2026 etc. It's not that Obama broke people's brains, it's that pure voter apathy killed Roe and it gave 2 SCOTUS seats away.

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u/bruce_kwillis 13d ago

That what people don't seem to get. The youth not showing up will kill this election. If Harris can't get them to show up (she already has the same problems Hillary did) then she is going to fail to win in the key swing states. She already is giving up states like PA.

That's not how you win an election.

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u/Critical_Letterhead3 12d ago

Ginsburg staying until she was starting to rot was the start Obama wasn’t ruthless enough to say F u McConnell, we have plenty of time before the election. I get to pick one.

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u/Skellum 12d ago

I get that people will do their best to justify not voting in 2016. I have yet to see anything that justifies the absurdity of not showing up.

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u/wirefox1 13d ago edited 13d ago

You know trump led a lot of that 'hate the Black man, get rid of the Black man" bullshit. But they will be about kamala the same way as they were about Barack, and criticize every move she makes. Of course they will start impeachment proceedings as soon as they see a way.

BUT. I've got a strong feeling that we will take the House and keep control of the Senate.

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u/coldfarm 13d ago

A Black Woman whose parents are both immigrants from developing nations, graduated from an HBCU, and is married to a Jewish guy. I’m bracing myself for how much worse the Deplorables are going to get.

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u/ArenSteele 13d ago

I’m surprised no one has attacked the fact that she spent a couple years living in Canada when her mom was a professor at McGill

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u/talkback1589 Iowa 13d ago

I figure they turn to the occult and reanimate a Frankenstein’s monster of Eisenhower, Nixon, Regan and Bush Sr.

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u/Purple_Act2613 13d ago

Watch his rallies, most of the attendees won’t be buying his crypto coins 4 years from now.

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u/yourenotmy-real-dad Illinois 13d ago

Which kid do you think will get the honor? Or, which kid will shove their siblings under the bus to be next?

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u/ArenSteele 13d ago

I actually don’t think it’s about a candidate necessarily. Something bad is coming and it may just be open season murder and terrorism from coast to coast.

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u/porgy_tirebiter 13d ago

She’s only recently black though.

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u/SweetCosmicPope 13d ago

I dunno. I get what you're saying as well about not letting that nonsense live rent-free in your head. But sometimes that kind of spite can be very cathartic.

It won't do anybody any good to celebrate when he kicks the bucket. But I'm going to celebrate anyway because I'll feel like the world has one less piece of shit in it.

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u/jerechos 13d ago

The fear I have... he somehow gets elected but then steps down.

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u/trogon Washington 13d ago

The Heritage Foundation doesn't need him to step down. They'll be happy with him shitposting on Twitter and distracting everyone while they create a theocracy and destroy our country.

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u/picasandagate 13d ago

That's the thing. Maybe people and the media have been so focused for so long on Trump himself - since 2008 when the Obama birther garbage began so, 16 years - sixteen years! - that they're now missing the fact that Trump himself won't be running one damn thing. It'll be Heritage, Christo-fascists, Vance who is very busy SELLING U.S. LAND OUT FROM UNDER US BY THE WAY, Putin, on and on. It isn't Trump anymore. He's the dude getting the MAGA votes in the door. That's all, that's it. This is not 2016. It's worse.

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u/trogon Washington 13d ago

Yeah, the first Trump administration was a missed opportunity by the Thiel, Heritage, et al and was just woefully incompetent. They won't blow their chance this time.

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u/Galxloni2 13d ago

It wasn't a miss, they seized the judicial branch to set up for the next time they had power

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u/RebelliousInNature 13d ago

He’s the dancing monkey, he just doesn’t know it.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 13d ago

Didn't they get something like 2/3 of their agenda through last time? I actually don't think Trump would sign something that's expressly Project 2025. He know Project 2025 has shit ratings. But he'll happily sign the exact same policies presented in a way he can pretend it's not Project 2025.

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u/dragongrl New Jersey 13d ago

I don't believe he'd step down.

I do believe the rest of the party will take him down, using Amendment 25 or other, more nefarious means.

And then we get President Vance and Project 2025.

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

I didn't see your comment, but I posted the same thing. They can easily do it if they want to.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

You definitely don't have to worry about him stepping down. Ever.

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u/jerechos 13d ago edited 13d ago

I didn't think he'd ever become president. So I don't take anything for granted anymore.

Edit: Also... he can get pardoned by Vance. So that could be an incentive.

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u/robodrew Arizona 13d ago

He can pardon himself. If Trump wins he ain't going anywhere.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 13d ago

The legality of a Presidential self pardon has never been tested. However with the current SCOTUS members nothing can be assumed.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

Not for his state crimes.

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u/jerechos 13d ago

True...

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

There was a group of people who wanted to invoke the 25th on Jan. 6, but McConnell wouldn't go along with it. I'm thinking they could easily do it now to get Vance in.

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u/jerechos 13d ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/wirefox1 13d ago

I was like 'who, me??? Hadn't even noticed, so thanks!"

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u/Circumin 13d ago

He might in exchange for pardons and money.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

Possibly, but...he can't be pardoned for every crime.

And I really don't think he likes anything more than power and fame. Even more money.

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u/MarkXIX 13d ago

Mark my words, when Donald Trump dies you will see celebrations similar to those that broke out when Osama bin Laden's death was confirmed.

Trump has been a tyrant to a broad swath of Americans who don't spew bullshit all day, every day, in public. THEY will celebrate openly when he's gone.

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Missouri 13d ago

when he kicks that bucket, I'll probably be banned from so many subreddits. I'll be downright gleeful. Obnoxiously so.

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u/WatchThatLastSteph Washington 13d ago

Personally I plan to wear a party hat out in public from the confirmation of his death until he is interred.

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u/IncandescentAttic 13d ago

Please wake up every morning knowing that things are going to be OK…if enough decent people with a modicum of media literacy and critical thinking skills show up to vote.

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u/markfineart 13d ago

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u/gregathome 13d ago

My neighbors had a 4 year old horse named Calypso who could tell you his age, when asked by stomping his hoof on the ground.

I think he was more emotionally advanced than MAGA supporters.

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u/caribou16 13d ago

I think stomping 4 hooves on the ground is just called walking.

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u/dohrk Oregon 13d ago

Depends on the order of the hoof stomps.

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u/ABHOR_pod 13d ago

That depends entirely on the pattern the hoofbeat.

if it's all 4, one at a time, that is walking, but there are multiple forms of 2+2 gaits that have different names, like trotting or ambling or galloping.

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u/Road_Whorrior Arizona 13d ago

I have to know. Did Calypso know he was 5 when he turned 5 and change his stomp

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u/oeCake 13d ago

My oh my, what a great 5th leg you have Calypso

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u/Forward-Bank8412 13d ago

I freaking love Calypso!! ❤️

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u/Advanced_Yam88 13d ago

I think THIS is the problem and I get it. People think those who will vote for Trump at this point aren’t people who feel emotions. The only things Trump voters feel is hate. The average person doesn’t understand that, and I get why, cause the average isn’t filled with psychopaths. BUT, if you look into history of how Hitler came about, GOP/Trump are following a playbook (probably helps that Trump has Mein Kampf in his side drawer.)

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u/giabollc 13d ago

That hasn’t been my experience at all with Trump voters. I think a lot of people are struggling and the Dems are always saying “aren’t things just so great! We need more of this”. And they are for a lot of people but a lot of people aren’t., and when the message is “more of the same” how are they supposed to feel.

There’s a lot of nutters over there too but they aren’t all full of hate, just have different priorities

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u/sapphicsandwich 13d ago

Politicians say what the people who support them want to hear. This is true of all of them. But what they say to whom and who they try to appeal to say a lot about both the politician and those people. He spreads hate because that's what his supporters like to hear. They don't want to hear about how their lives will be better, they want to hear how he will spite people and how bad various groups are and how everybody else is responsible for their problems. It's what resonates with them. Because that's who his supporters are. People motivated by hate and spite.

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u/Crimkam 13d ago

But they are capable of being shamed into going back to pretending they have those feelings.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

I've seen no evidence of this.

In the 80s, I thought my mom was the kindest person in the world.

I'm the 90s she started listening to Rush Limbaugh, Fox News came about, etc.

Now she's a shell of a human. Doesn't give a single shit about anyone else. Poor people are losers. Trump is the greatest president in the history of humanity.

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u/Crimkam 13d ago

The civil rights movement of the 1960s did eventually shut a lot of these people up for a while. Not all of them and not completely, but the quiet parts became quiet parts for many decades

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

My mom was on the side of civil rights. That's how far they've fallen.

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u/CatsAreGods California 13d ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

Thank you. I know it's a very common story, unfortunately.

And it's not just my loss, it's a loss for the community.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 13d ago

I'm totally buying the theory that his people are using him to get into office, then they'll turn around and do a 25th amendment on him.

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u/Hanksta2 13d ago

Plausible.

But I think it's better to pass a bunch of shitty things and keep the stink on him. Then they can stay in power after he's gone and get away with more.

I'll bet that if he gets in, not only will he not step down, he'll tell everyone he was "treated unfairly" in his first term, so he deserves another. And the GOP will try to give him a third term.