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I’ve been a loyal Trump supporter since 2016.

I lost a job, friendships, been smeared online, doxxed, and pressed charges on people who’ve stalked and harassed me for supporting him.

If Trump doesn’t want my support, because I care about the Epstein Files, then I’m done.

Bye.

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    11 hours ago

    Obvious stupidity aside went to the “non-satirical” r/conservative and even there the temperature looks bad for Trump. I’m actually surprised that there is so much negativity against Trump there now the mods were not able to delete enough comments.

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    16 hours ago

    Thoughts and Prayers

    Maybe… just maybe people shouldn’t worship politicians, or anyone rich/famous to begin with. But what do I know, I’m just a simple person who doesn’t want to deport/imprison people for the color of their skin or take Medicaid and food away from the poor.

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    19 hours ago

    I wonder how many of these people will put 2 and 2 together and question every other time Trump used the same blame the dems + shoot the messenger strategy.

    It’s almost like he’s a corrupt piece of shit and this is literally his strategy for eve-ry-thing that makes him look bad.

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      18 hours ago

      He’s already back to tweeting shit about how Trump’s bday letter to Epstein is fake. So they e learned nothing.

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    The part that chaps my ass about this is… The damage is already done. Trump can not get voted in again. He’s on his second term, of two max.

    So all of this shit is too little too late. You fucked up. You fucked everything up. And now you realize the guy is a piece of shit because he won’t release a list of rich people who are paedophiles and rapists? A list he’s very likely to be on?

    This is the line?

    Holy shit. Of all the terrible stuff he said he would do, and all of the terrible stuff he actually has done… And you fucks put him in the office again.

    And this is the point where you finally stop supporting him?

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      20 hours ago

      The damage has been done, yes, but we can stop further damage. If MAGA finally turns on him for being a prolific pedo, we can roll the clock back on some of this stuff. I’m afraid they’re going to have to catch him live with his dick in a minor for his base to believe it, though.

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      23 hours ago

      Honestly, I’m a bit relieved at the current situation, because I wasn’t nearly as certain he was done. With incidents like January 6th, all the claims of voter fraud, his clear abuse of systems like presidential pardons and executive orders, I really thought Trump had a genuine chance of overturning the 2-term limit and twisting the US into a bona fide dictatorship.

      I’m relieved to see his astounding incompetence finally reaping results in his polling numbers again and again, because it’s breaking the spell he seemed to have over half the country. Hell, it’s even breaking the allure of fascism in the elections of other countries at this point. His gross incompetence during this presidency is single-handedly moving the whole world a little more to the left.

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        You overestimate his supporters long term memory. You’re still only 6 months in, still 3.5 years left to go. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

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        If I were you I wouldn’t be getting my hopes up. In four years, if elections still happen, MAGA is still going to vote for Trump and Vance because “A Democrat as president would be worse.” Don’t think that term limits are going to stop Trump.

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        20 hours ago

        I really thought Trump had a genuine chance of overturning the 2-term limit and twisting the US into a bona fide dictatorship.

        Realistically speaking, whatever chance he has had never lied with a legal election result. He was going to have to go against the constitution in a pretty blatant way anyway. So if he ever had a shot at it, he still does. Popular support no longer matters that much one way or the other, either he’s out in 2028 because he follows the rules of the democracy no matter how popular he is, or he just carries on against the constitution, which doesn’t need popular support anyway.

        Still room for him to be melodramatic about something or another and declare a bogus national crisis that requires suspending elections and such. He’s declared everything an emergency to claim he has various authority, he doesn’t have to stop short of the elections themselves.

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        Who would have thought the way to make the world better would be to elect the worst of the republicans, not that other republicans are much better.

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          First of, Trump is not a Republican. He is Trump. Secondly, Trump has had since his first mandate a nefarious effect in politics worldwide, and he is in part why the far-right and nationalistic movements across the globe, are also rising, through the spread of misinformation on the Internet, that transcend US borders. While I was very well aware that there was a thing like anti-vaxxers in the US, that was never a problem here in Europe, and the rise of misinformation, with the pandemic, and with Trump and the MAGA movement, that became a thing now here, along with other conspiracies on Facebook, like the “Moon landing being a staged hoax”. Retired boomers, that have nothing better to do all day, gobble up that shit as if it is ambrosia!

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      A-fucking-men. These people need to know that just because the scales have fallen from their eyes, we will not be welcoming them back to the ranks of civilized society anytime soon. They may be pissed about this, but we’ve come down a long road of atrocities that they either supported or ignored, and they have a LOT to answer for in that regard. Their enthusiastic dismissal of simple human - and American - decency will not be forgotten, and all MAGAs have a long way to go to redeem themselves, which in many cases will be impossible.

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      What’s stopping him from doing a Nayib Bukele and sending the National Guard to Congress to force through legislation?

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      At least he has a bottom line, and might think a little more critical next time, maybe. Some people just close their eyes and chant the propaganda.

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      Meh, doesnt matter. Dude already fucked us, he doesn’t get to feel redeemed because “he saw the light”

      Dude is a piece of shit, and moreso now that hes a scab. If he wanted to feel good he shouldve paid attention when it actually mattered. Fuck em

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        Yes fuck em, but maybe republicans will see what they did and vote blue next time. Maybe? If this guy truly learned from this then he is redeemable and so do some other republicans.

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    23 hours ago

    I googled this guy to see if this story was in any way significant, and his other posts are so Poe’s Law batshit that I have no idea which of them are serious and which aren’t.

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      Sums up most of MAGA. At this point there are so many conflicting narratives that these people literally have no idea what to believe. They lack the ability to fact check anything or think critically. So in the absence of critical thought, they do the only thing they know which is to parrot the party line and try to fit in with their other MAGAts.

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      Not that surprising. Republicans have been painting Democrats as Satanist baby killers for decades. Republicans have also been campaigning on the lie that the Epstein list is all Democrats, Woke Hollywood, and Silicon Valley Tech Bros. To the average brainwashed minion, there is zero reason to hide the client list. They want their righteous lynchings.

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        Also note that Trump has campaigned on “draining the swamp” a lot, and now people realize that he himself is the swamp that he rallied against.

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          Swamps are great. They’re havens of biodiversity. Trump is the logging machine from Ferngully, and Stephen Miller is Hexus.

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            Swamps are great. They’re havens of biodiversity.

            i know right? in my next life there’s a 50% chance that i’ll be an insect living by a swamp

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              I spent a week kayaking in a burning swamp full of alligators, and I can honestly say it was the best time of my life.

              Shout-out to Stephen C Foster state park in GA.

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      All the other bad stuff is generally stuff they wanted. They wanted authoritarian punishment of “others”, minorities and news outlets that were telling them things they didn’t want to hear. They were true believers that government regulation was incompetent and that the companies would self-regulate more effectively because capitalism would, somehow, punish them otherwise. The general grift and corruption may not have been desired, but they accepted rich people do rich stuff.

      But here we have a cause that Trump’s team jumped in and cheered with these guys, and ultimately they turn around and call them fools for believing in the very same cause that folks including Donald himself said had merit.

      This combined with the medicaid cuts (even as many of them were benefitting, most assumed cuts would punish some nebulous “unworthy” benefits making the system better for them) and all sorts of other austerity to… generally get no new tax cuts. The downsides are starting to hit and the logical tradeoff upsides are nowhere to be seen.

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      Republicans went hard on the conspiracy crowd for support. QAnon, antivax etc. /r/conspiracy became a conservative propaganda group. A lot of the diehard Trump people are very invested in this narrative.

      It’s going to be difficult for the party to say, “oh yea, that thing we’ve been feeding into for years, please stop immediately” and have people listen. Some are going to go along, but a lot won’t. It’s become their identity.

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        So when he got elected the FIRST time. He got elected twice so far don’t forget that, i was 100% convinced that people can not be this stupid and when they realize how vile and stupid he is, they suddenly just cut all ties and are gonna pretend they never voted for him and only idiots did. But no, they doubled, tripled and quadrupled down so often that i think americans are just build different and they actually don’t need a way out.

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      I suspect that possibly, it’s actually not about the Epstein files but about the BBB.

      Notice that it’s probably not a coincidence that this drama broke out 1 week after Trump signed the BBB on July 4, which is gonna put millions of people of Medicaid.


      Also notice that a lot of conservatives are probably pissed off about Medicaid but realize that it’s difficult to move their fellow people to care about this, as the point of not giving “free handouts” has been enforced too much. Instead, they focus on Epstein as it’s a moralizing drama, that people get very emotional about rather easily.

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    Hitler did away with the SA, you think Trump is going to worry about some disappointed magas?

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    If I could ask these absolute pickle-brained weirdos one thing: “What else do you think he’s lied about?”

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      I love Bernie. While I don’t agree with him on everything, he’s consistently been on the moral right side of most issues. Here he is being arrested for protesting segregation in 1963:

      However. If he did even 1% of the things Trump did, I would call him out for it, demand he do better, and support his primary challengers if not. Unconditional loyalty to a politician doesn’t keep them in check, and actually harms us all…

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        Do you fly a Bernie flag or constantly wear a Bernie hat, or constantly spout Bernie beliefs?

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        Agreed. I like Bernie and AOC not because I always agree with them but because they both seem to be trying to make things better.

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      +1.

      Even if someone wholesome (Mamdani?) somehow took over the Democrats, or any cool party, I would never be “loyal” to them.

      Maybe this is my old millennial ass shaking my fist, but I don’t get why folks are loyal to influencers. Loyalty should be two way and reciprocal, to friends and family one knows personally, not asymmetrically to someone who makes a living from thousands following them.

      Respect and admiration? Fine. But this guy’s a poster child for why loyalty is too far. After all, what does Trump think of him?

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        Seeing “old millennial ass” just seems so wrong.

        We’re the young generation, right? We’re like, 25 at most. Right?

        I’m 40. Oh my god. I need a Camaro and a broccoli haircut so I can fit in with the hip crowd. Broccoli hair is still a thing right? Haha

        Man it goes so fast.

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          Nah bro. We fucking pogslammed right into middle age. Our TalkBoys are rapidly approaching hearing aids. Our tamagachis are now our actual children.

          We old brother.

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          (hehe), sure brother, you’re still young. ::cracks open a beer and hands it to you:: have a seat in this lawn chair next to Gen X and tell us about it.

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            What’s funny to me is I grew up on gen x music and I remember looking up to those guys so much. They all looked like grown folks to me.

            Now when I watch the videos, I see kids. It’s crazy.

            This is a relatively new thing for me too.

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              At least you still have hair! I started shaving my head a few years ago at 35. Still haven’t gotten used to it, but I think it looks better than when it was thinning out in the front and getting stringy.

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                Not only am I blessed to have a full head of hair, but my younger brother has always been so much more handsome than me. Girls clawed to get to him, they fought to get to him.

                It was so funny the other night when I was on a video call with him and his wife, and I don’t even remember the comment that I made, but she pointed out that he was bald, and I had a full head of hair and I nearly lost it.

                I’m sorry that probably hurts you. It’s just a win for me, it was always so fucking easy for him. Now he’s bald and mad about it, and here I am with a beautiful lion’s mane.

                He could read this comment easily, he knows all of my usernames and shit online.

                So hey, I have a full head of hair asshole. Where’s your hair?

                It’s so crazy though, everything I ever did, he did it better. Just across the board entirely. Still to this day, shit I busted my ass on for 25 years. He’s doing it better with no effort.

                So all I really have is my hair. He has it all, the lucky bastard. It’s only right that he went bald. Nobody should be able to have it all.

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                  Ehhh I made it longer than all the other males on my moms side. They all went bald in their mid 20s. Gotta hurt.

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      Trump literally told them that he will not need them after this again. No, he does not want or care for their support!

      “In four years, You don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good. You’re not going to have to vote.”

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      Being loyal to anyone who doesn’t know your name personally is borderline insane.

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        I can vaguely imagine soldiers being loyal to a general in a war. If a general always seems to find a way to win, even against the odds, I can picture his soldiers being willing to… well not to die for him, but the opposite. I can imagine them being fiercely loyal and trying to protect him because he’s making sure they don’t die.

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          You basically plucked the thought from my head as to why I added ‘borderline’ to that sentence. Yes, in a desperate situation, it’s not insane to glom on to the safest option available.

          But war has never been a great place for being rife with sane options, it’s almost always created by one or more people being insane in the first place and making it their neighbors’ problem.

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              I disagree with you on that. Hell is just God’s gator gitmo. The dictator has no review board and has never been consistent about their ethical standards (they claim to have such consistency and such a code, but beyond a few basic principles, ~90% of their code is a direct appeal to authority (might makes right), and independent review finds the consistency claims about as on par with the claims of the current POTUS.)

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      Yeah, describing yourself as a “loyal” politician supporter basically means you’ll ignore whatever wrong doing they do and root for your “team”.

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      I feel like that ought to extend to everybody. I’m “loyal” only to the acts/values I’m on board with, and even then, not really, because I’m always open to changing my mind based on new information.

      The concept of sticking with someone out of loyalty, regardless of who they are, after they’ve done something horrible, makes no sense to me, personally.

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      The closest I could say to being loyal would be AOC and Bernie, since I agree with most of their political stances and the things I do disagree with them on is mostly what I consider non-issues. But I’m definitely not running around waving their flag or wearing a big dumb hat to label myself, and certainly not vehemently defending any political blunder they might make.

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    So many leopards eating faces. This is a cult of idiots, the only thing that seems to be pulling them out of the spell is this scandal that would make Watergate pale.

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    Why can’t you people practice basic discernment?

    This is in no way real.

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      Imagine losing your own family because they chose to do that.

      Oh wait, I don’t have to, went no contact years ago.

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        By being a cunt about it every hour of every day with coworkers and customers.

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          Yeah, you don’t get fired for supporting a political party, you get fired for bringing it up constantly and being an ass.

          If you asked my coworkers they wouldn’t know my political views.

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          Ah, so the same reason christians are “persecuted for their beliefs”.

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            "So are you being persecuted for believing that Jesus was the son of God? No? How about that Jesus sacrificed himself for humanity? Still no? That you should love thy neighbor as you love thyself? Not that either huh?

            I wonder what it could be…"

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        I’ve worked with several people that got fired in the last 8 years who claim it was their politics.

        True, they all were hard right republicans with Trump/MAGA bumper stickers.

        But they all got fired because of their behavior and misconduct. They are just claiming they lost their job for being Trump supporters because suddenly that means it’s not their fault and they were persecuted for beliefs and identify, not something they actually did wrong. Nobody really gave a shit about their politics and bumper stickers. Zero self awareness among this crowd; claim the victim cause of who they were then immediately turn around and spew the most foul rhetoric I’ve ever heard about LGBT youth.

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        They identify with a political group who’s primary recognizable characteristics are publicly wearing an extremely identifiable bright red hat and actively mocking and trolling their perceived opponents even in completely fictitious situations.

        It’s not much of a leap to say they acted similarly at work and got fired for being an asshole constantly.

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          They identify with a political group who’s primary recognizable characteristics are publicly wearing an extremely identifiable bright red hat and actively mocking and trolling their perceived opponents even in completely fictitious situations.

          This could also apply to a party built entirely around the Limp Bizkit song “Hot Dog,” I believe.

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      To vote for this idiot you must be an idiot. Yes, everyone who is ok with trump is idiot.

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      To be fair he wasn’t the star of the apprentice he’s just the loudest asshole willing to brag about being on a dumb TV show.

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        And he was never really “the star”. Everyone who watched that show identified him as the villain. They watched to see how creepy and douchey he would be.

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      This made me think, in an alternate universe, which already semi-famous TV personality from 20ish years ago would the worst segment of a population worship?

      That dog whisperer guy?

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          On a random note, like 10 years ago one of my friends in Colorado (where Dog the Bounty Hunter is from) made a post on a forum trash talking Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife.

          Shortly as afterwards a signed copy of Dog the Bounty Hunters book appeared on my friend’s doorstep that said something like:

          [My friend’s real name] - heard you’re a fan. I’ll catch you next time

          I should point out, my friend posted online using a user name and not his real name. It’s possible that he leaked his real name at some point?

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            A reality star bounty hunter exhibiting stalker behavior towards people he doesn’t like? That honestly makes so much sense. He deserves the shit talking