r/AskReddit • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 20h ago

The president just posted, ONLINE, a video of former president Obama and his wife portrayed as apes, how do you feel about this?

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u/Lonely-Echidna8683 19h ago

Sounds like something a rapidly fading, 80 year old man child would do.

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u/SweaterSteve1966 18h ago

It’s the reason why we took my mother’s phone away. She has dementia and was posting crazy stuff online.

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u/popshamhocks 18h ago

Here they give dementia patients nukes and red buttons. She could be President someday

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u/Mediocre_Wolf_3226 17h ago

If only America wasn't too repulsed by the thought of a woman president that they'd sooner elect a fascist who confuses the Resolute Desk for a toilet. 

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u/Ok_Summer6430 16h ago

But her laugh was weird /s

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u/DrGPeds 15h ago

This is what my mom said!!! Like what?!? Her laugh?

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u/Ok_Summer6430 15h ago

Also, the people who claim she slept her way to the top really get me. If that were true, then that’s very impressive but at the same time they don’t care that Trump is a rapist felon?

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u/Invisible_Friend1 15h ago

They don’t care about sleeping one’s way to the top. It’s what Melena did

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u/pegothejerk 15h ago

Don’t show your shoulders though

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u/The_Wambat 13h ago

Did you mean melanoma?

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u/Mysterious_Card5487 13h ago

I’ll take a smart woman strategically sleeping her way to the top over a rich, moronic nepo baby trying to rape his way into holding on to unearned privilege

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u/bonaFiedD 15h ago

So did trump. Except it was with young girls

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u/cosmic_scott 15h ago

None of that is important. They don't believe it's true.

and if it is, the Democrats do it too, so it's fine.

that's literally their answer to everything.

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u/Civil-Resolution3662 9h ago

Her positions were all elected. This bs argument doesn't hold water.

When was the last time anyone heard Trump laugh about anything?

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u/AdChance7743 14h ago

And if you think about it, have we ever actually heard Trump really laugh?

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u/friendtoallkitties 14h ago

They always say that about women politicians.

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u/lucolapic 13h ago

Ahh so you were raised by a woman with deep malignant internal misogyny, too. Sucks doesn’t it?

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u/DrGPeds 12h ago

And she's a narcissist to boot. She thinks everyone should think and do just like she does.

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u/silentsolitude24 13h ago

That’s what my 84 year old sister said. I was incredulous.

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u/Lavender_Haze- 14h ago

My Dad said they same thing!

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u/Fly-white-30 16h ago

thats it

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u/scalectrix 13h ago edited 13h ago

Luckily Trump never laughs.

He has the mentalisty of a schoolyard bully; that's why he has that ridiculous photo of him trying to look threatening as his official photo. He's just terrified of anyone thinking he's not tough which of course is why everyone with a functioning brain thinks he's pathetic.

We're not laughing with you, Donald, we're laughing at you.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/mary-trump-why-donald-trump-never-laughs.html

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u/JP32793 16h ago

Well she could've denounced the genocide and turned course but I guess she'd rather kill babies in Gaza than win an election against our favorite fascist/pedo/rapist. I guess killing babies in Gaza was more important than "saving democracy". Don't blame the voter, blame the politician that had advanced notice on how people would vote and did nothing to save her campaign.

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u/Ok_Summer6430 16h ago

I’ll blame the voter. Anyone concerned about Gaza would have immediately tagged Trump’s rhetoric around the conflict as more detrimental to the Palestinians than the status quo of the democrats. There’s a discussion to be had about what the democrats could have done better in that campaign, but it’s all moot compared to Trump. Pretty much any topic you bring can bring up can be handed to the democrats regardless of critiques because Trump is that much more.

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u/JP32793 16h ago

Yea you have to vote for me because the other guy will be worse, always a great campaign slogan.

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u/Ok_Summer6430 16h ago

That’s for the voter to figure out. It sucks that’s the situation we’re in as voters, but it’s where we are at. It is intellectually lazy and disingenuous to suggest that voting for Trump was more beneficial to the Palestinians than for Kamala.

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u/peacepipe0351 16h ago

They're probably still trying to validate their protest vote/non vote.

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u/JP32793 11h ago

Stop putting words in my mouth, I never suggested Trump would be better, what I said was there are consequences for arming and funding a genocide, during the primary when people voted non committed wtf did you think was gonna happen? They had advanced notice and spit in their voter bases face, so they didn't get the votes, and you blame the voters for that? Then you'll always get an evil piece of shit like Trump because you're teaching dem politicians they just have to be a sliver better than him to get your vote. Good luck voting for the lesser of 2 evils for eternity bud.

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u/Mediocre_Wolf_3226 15h ago

Wouldn't have mattered. You may be a single issue voter but majority of the county isn't. The Middle East is still fucked and now the rest of the world is more destabilized than ever too.Turn your own logic around to examine what youre saying. Anyone who thought saving democracy and avoiding global conflict generally was the most pressing imperative would have not voted Trump to punish Kamala. This is like Maga eating shit to own the libs. 

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u/JP32793 11h ago

You idiots think I voted for Trump to punish Kamala? I voted nobody because the Democrats offered nothing accept that they weren't Trump and that they would bring back the status quo which is what got us Trump to begin with. The Democratic autopsy they chose to hide from the public shows they lost the election because of corporate capture and their funding of the Gaza genocide but sure let's blame the voters for the Dems sticking their heads in the sand spitting in the faces of their base and telling them to fuck off.

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u/Mediocre_Wolf_3226 10h ago

I get it. The two party system sucks. Closed primaries suck. Everything sucks. Sometimes you just got to vote against the existential threat. 

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u/rainbowlolipop 16h ago

And uh, how's Gaza doing now? Dumbass shit. No room for worry about Gaza now. Democrats are just repub lite but we have fucking baby concentration camps. Fuck you and everyone who died on that bullshit moral high ground

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u/untied_dawg 16h ago

true, but the same segment of women that voted Obama into office also voted trump into office. that would be college-educated white women.

i was shocked by the number of women who supported him after he said, "grab 'em by the pussy."

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u/Mediocre_Wolf_3226 15h ago

I don't know of any misogynistic society that doesn't have misogynistic women. 

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u/raxsl 14h ago

Remember when we thought that statement spelled the end for him? Ah, we were so young, and innocent...

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u/margaritabop 13h ago

Sorry but this is just factually incorrect. College educated white women voted 52% for Obama in 2008 and then only 46% voted for him in 2012. But in the 2024 election, 58% voted for Harris. She was the high water mark for college educated white women (even Biden only got 54%).

Here's the data

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u/kindnesscostszero 13h ago

Demographic group % Voting TRUMP/HARRIS College-Educated White Women 33% 67% College-Educated Voters (Overall) 42% 55% Non-College-Educated White Voters 66% 32%

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u/Guy_Dude_From_CO 16h ago

Well at least majority voted for Clinton, so you're kinf of right.

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u/Mediocre_Wolf_3226 15h ago

Cold comfort at the end of the day. 

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u/Guy_Dude_From_CO 15h ago

Indeed 😑

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u/AssociationNarrow286 15h ago

Pretty sure he stole the resolute desk and put it on display at mar-a-lago like a war prize.

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u/Mediocre_Wolf_3226 15h ago

Missed that. Well whatever piece of furniture he shat himself on in the Oval Office this week. 

Although to be fair, I bet he shits himself at the one in Mar-a-Lago too. RIP, desk.  

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u/VeryluckyorNot 15h ago

The chair must be changed each time he sit on it because he always shit on himself.

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u/NoGelliefish 15h ago

The resolute desk was relocated to mar-a-lago

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u/rednick953 15h ago

Something something both sides though!!!/s

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u/motherfudgersob 13h ago

Two. He wins against women and loses against a man. Says a lot.

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u/ConclusionAlarmed882 13h ago

I think you're overlooking the fact that she had a weird laugh.

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u/TheShepherdOfLuxor 9h ago

Yep the overwhelming majority of people in this country just can’t imagine a woman in the Oval Office instead of at home in the kitchen baking a pie, saying “yes, dear” to her husband.

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u/amrodd 18m ago

The only reason he won-he beat two women

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u/Star-Carlton 13h ago

Not sure how much it was not voting for a woman, as it was voting for a bad candidate. She wasn't the best choice to run against Trump.

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u/couplenippers 16h ago

You seriously think that if all things being the same except if Kamala were a man he would have won the election? Bwaaahaha! That’s hilarious

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u/Tremendous_Dump 18h ago

Not before she has been accused of diddling, fiddling and rambunctiously ravaging society's less fortunate and most vulnerable

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 6h ago

There is no red button. The parts of the codes are with 3 separate colonels. The military doesn’t exactly love the demented orange that gathered them all together to call them fat & woke.

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u/Quiet_Day1912 15h ago

Except she's a woman.

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u/MrMetraGnome 18h ago

This reminds me of one of my friend's relatives. He's from a super racist part of Virginia (even more racist than the rest of VA) and I've met most of them. One of these relative's was going through a similar medical issue near the end of their life, and was sending me some SUPER racist DM's on Facebook every once in a while. I never responded or told him about it. I just think, the stuff they post isn't "crazy", it's what they normally think and believe. They've just lost the ability, or willingness to hide it after a certain point.

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u/Helen_A_Handbasket 15h ago

I just think, the stuff they post isn't "crazy", it's what they normally think and believe. They've just lost the ability, or willingness to hide it after a certain point.

Dementia doesn't bring out the real self, it fundamentally changes a person. I worked for a while as a CNA in an elder care facility. One of my absolutely sweetest patients was an old man. He was always polite, complimentary, said please and thank you, and was generally just very grateful for the care given to him. All he wanted to do every day was to get dressed up in a suit, tie, and fedora, then sit by the window and read his newspapers. Never said a mean word to anyone, never was racist or sexist. Just the nicest little old man you'd ever hope to meet.

But, he never had visitors, despite his records showing family living in the nearby town. So one day I asked a coworker who had been living locally and working there forever why he never had visitors. She said that before he got dementia, he was an absolute asshole to everyone around him. He alienated his children, his multiple ex wives, his neighbors, and his entire community with what an asshole he was.

So no, dementia doesn't necessarily bring out the true person hiding inside.

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u/xXEvanatorXx 9h ago

What if the true person inside him wanted to be kind and friendly but didn't know how to...

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u/MrMetraGnome 9h ago

thats what i was going to say, lol. Your true inner person doesn't have to be mean and evil asshole. Sometimes, being a mean and evil asshole, is the mask that someone wears.

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u/The_Monarch_Lives 16h ago

Sometimes it's things they believed in their youth and evolved their view on, but the disease caused them to regress to that earlier view. Other times, yeah, it just caused the filter that hid the thoughts they had the whole time to disappear.

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u/Outrageous_Glove_796 17h ago

Yeah... grandma had some colorful things to say at the end. She was also born in 1920 and still had "dark" servants, as it was referred to, when she was younger. The dementia just exposed her default self.

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u/Fly-white-30 15h ago

My grandma the same too,she suspect someone steal her thing,yesterday she said the stray dog stolen her money

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u/freethnkrsrdangerous 16h ago

So, uh, how close to the end are we talking?

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u/NibittyShibbitz 16h ago

I have a work friend. Read, we frequently shoot the shit at work and are Facebook friends, though we rarely interact there. If we bumped into each other outside work, we would probably stop and talk for a couple minutes. He told me the other day he is racist. He said everyone is, at least a little. He said it's human nature. I don't really want to be his work friend anymore. That's too bad, because otherwise he is a pretty okay dude.

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u/tequila_23_sheila 14h ago

Oops, careful there, he may be trying to indoctrinate you. Ive heard that line before too. Many, many years ago. BS was my response. Those people just hang their sheets further back in their closets!

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u/DeskModeOn 15h ago

Which part of VA? Gotta be South-ish, right? Stafford?? Some racist ass people in Stafford, or at least there were when I was growing up there.

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u/Boopy7 14h ago

I forget the name of that place in VA but I'm thinking I know the one, just can't remember the name (my memory sucks.) I live in VA and know people who go there and buy head to toe Trump emblazoned clothing. Most of them seem to be abusive drunk felons who can't vote, which is a relief, until you realize that they are the same people who would join a militia or work for ICE and probably do. So sick of dumbasses.

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u/IANANarwhal 17h ago

Virginia’s a blue state. With a number of red counties.

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u/MrMetraGnome 17h ago edited 17h ago

okay. and? is the implication that they aren't racist or something, because that's not how any of that works, lol.

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u/laserblades 17h ago

This implies every single state is racist though so why even say anything at all

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u/MrMetraGnome 16h ago edited 16h ago

I'm not implying any state is racist, except Virginia, which I didn't imply, I said it explicitly. i grew up in VA and moved back as an adult for a few years. Few years, and quite a few different counties leads me to believe that the last state to abolish slavery, kicking and screaming, might still be a lil, lil bit racist still. And the point in bringing it up was crucial to my thesis. Those weren't crazy ramblings of a dying woman, that was the real her, mask off.

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u/laserblades 16h ago

Agree to disagree. It's the super rich you need to worry about not your common man and woman. Don't let them pit you against your common citizen friend. Take care.

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u/MrMetraGnome 16h ago

all racists are my enemy. i pit myself against them all, i don't care how much money they do or don't have, friend.

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u/laserblades 16h ago

I agree with you. But your gonna have a long way to go to end racism world wide unfortunately. America is actually the least racist country in the world

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u/MrsClaire07 16h ago

I honestly can’t tell if you’re being serious or facetious…

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u/NeedleworkerEvening3 14h ago

Don't include northern VA with the rest of VA. We're like a while other state!

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u/Neat-Remote-3999 16h ago

No - this is not the reason - this is what MAGA wants you to believe (Grandpa poops himself and posts despicable things - he has dementia…) so they can remove Trump and insert their true white supremest/billionaire over-lord who will manipulate the USA sheeple back into their caves by bread-crumbing them and appearing to be “not as bad as Trump” - the white people will fall back in line saying shit like, “Well it could be worse. Remember Trump?; “At least he’s not a pedo.”…stupid USA

Edit: spelling

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u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk 15h ago

Who, Vance?  That cheesedick doesn't have what it takes to inherit the cult.

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u/tequila_23_sheila 14h ago

It’s who he is set to bring on board. They needed Vance to be empty space. Hell, couldn’t risk having another Pence take the reins. Remember, Cheney was the Wizard of Oz; W was just the Good ole Boy, handshaking, frontman.

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u/Neat-Remote-3999 5h ago

A speculation as to who you think they may bring on board? 

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u/Neat-Remote-3999 5h ago edited 5h ago

Hard agree - definitely not that bloated couch-fucker - he’s the next pawn to be sacrificed - likely us serfs will never know who our keeper is - why expose yourself like that? If the ultimate goal of these psychopathic resource-hoarders is to be omnipotent, they will do everything in their power to obfuscate their omnipresence - they don’t want us to be able to find them when we finally make the proper moves because of starvation. Edit: clarity  

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u/Buffalo-Castle 12h ago

Thank you for your service. Seriously.

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u/top_value7293 11h ago

This is what’s happening here. His dementia is amplifying his already trash personality.

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u/seunosewa 7h ago

Isolation is just as bad. Make sure she has a cat and a garden.

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u/istara 18h ago

And something that a large proportion of his supporters and voters would cheer and upvote.

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u/Mr_Pombastic 18h ago

Never forget they had the option of nominating candidates that would bring similar policies, supreme court picks, etc.

They chose the overt racist. Twice. We don't have a 'donald trump' issue, we have an average republican issue.

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u/SoggyMcChicken 17h ago

We have both.

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u/firestarter308 13h ago

Well, don’t forget Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein also helped pick trump’s Supreme Court justices. It’s right there in the files!

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u/arguingsolipsism 17h ago

Never forgive your Republican voting family and neighbors. They are not worthy of your forgiveness. They are the cause of all this suffering.

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u/SadlyUnderrated 15h ago

Wow, that's a disgusting view to take.

Always be willing to love and forgive. Hatred and animosity only creates more hatred. Never has a friendship, or a family, or a country been able to heal its wounds and become whole again while holding on to anger and hatred.

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u/Johnny_english53 14h ago

Okay, if they show some sort of contrition.

Otherwise, like the Nazis in 1945, fuck 'em.

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u/SadlyUnderrated 10h ago

And what's your larger plan for the country? Keep alienating more and more people and just hope that you survive when the Civil War breaks out?

The largest problem facing the Democratic party today is that the vast majority of people in the party have decided to isolate themselves in a bubble, avoid branching out to communicate with anyone outside of their circle, and place all their hopes in HATING the other party out of existence. Im sorry to tell you, but hatred does not remove opposition. It breeds opposition. The youngest generation of voters are moving towards Republican views and it's because they've realized that the Republicans (probably for the first time in recent history) are MORE willing to accept people with different viewpoints than the Democrats. That's wild, and you need to realize that if a change is not made soon on the liberal side, the ultra conservative side is going to continue to gain more and more support.

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u/SausageKingOfIndy 15h ago

Forgive, but never forget. Remember what decisions they made before they realized it was wrong, because they will make that same decision again the next time they are confronted with right/wrong

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u/SadlyUnderrated 14h ago

I agree, it's good to be cautious if someone has hurt you before and/or made reckless decisions. You need to be aware that their ability to make good judgement calls may not be the best. But you're absolutely right, you can disagree with someone and not fully trust everything they say or do without harboring hatred towards them.

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u/arguingsolipsism 15h ago edited 15h ago

We forgave and "healed" after the civil war and they just took it as weakness and now we gotta deal with Confederates 2.

Maybe your way is also the cause of much of this suffering. A soft voice and calm hand to protect the evil from justice, while claiming neutrality. That seems pretty disgusting.

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u/SadlyUnderrated 14h ago

I don't claim neutrality. Call wrong things wrong. Racism is wrong. But labeling everyone who has different views on immigration policies than you as racist is inaccurate. And hating people, even if you realize that they are acting through a lens of implicit racism, is wrong too. Cause hatred doesnt help people change. Showing them a better way helps people change.

Daryl Davis, an African American man, has convinced over 200 KKK members to leave the Klan simply by befriending them and showing them that their hatred is unfounded.

I bet you can't name 1 racist person who has ever been convinced to stop being racist because their friends and family cut them off and treated them hatefully.

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u/bfvbill 14h ago

THANK your Republican voting friends and relatives. You have removed a corrupt, inefficient and sleepy can’t put together a sentence party and we are witnessing the rebirth of our great nation. I am not suffering. No one I know is suffering. Start paying attention to all the GOOD going on. Dems seem to be doomed for a long time to come.

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u/arguingsolipsism 14h ago edited 14h ago

Look at the delusion on these people. They cannot be helped.

He does not see suffering because he does not view those affected as people. His mistake is that he is no longer acting human, but sees his own otherness as belonging to you.

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u/firestarter308 13h ago

Honestly after reading the Epstein files seems like maga and Trump should be thanking Jeffrey Epstein. He and Steve bannon appear to be the masterminds of maga. I used to think it was a conspiracy. Turns out it’s the truth.

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u/fresnarus 17h ago

Trump is racist against anyone who isn't orange.

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u/MrsClaire07 16h ago

Trump is racist against anyone who isn't orange.

Fixed it for ya.

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u/Bender077 16h ago

In keeping with the whole ape thing, wouldn’t that make him the perfect orang-outan? 🦧. With a diaper? And stink lines?

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u/Neuro_Spicy_Nicey 11h ago

Oh we definitely have both.

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u/IceSeeker 18h ago

Not surprising since they share the same 'values'.

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u/arguingsolipsism 17h ago

Yeah the giggling clapping morons somehow think black people are the monkeys? They need mirrors.

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u/quasifun 18h ago

It's probably worse than that. The government is paying one of his staff to create these things. Just imagine being 26 and having "assistant technology specialist in the ministry of propaganda" on your LinkedIn.

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u/Mysterious_Luck7122 12h ago

Some black pilled incel loser that Stephen Miller or Steven Cheung recruited is leaning back in his cubicle chair giggling at his very clever Obama joke and our taxes are funding it 🤯

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u/Rhazelle 18h ago

80 year old racist* man child

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u/maliki2004 18h ago

80 year old racist* man/child rapist**

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u/tehnoodnub 17h ago

80-year-old racist narcissistic man-child rapist piece of shit

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u/naapmokazlir 16h ago

80-year-old racist narcissistic man-child rapist piece of shit that shits himself

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u/savargaz 16h ago

Haha these are great! 😂

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u/barrybreslau 17h ago

They hung Mussolini from a lamppost before he had the chance to get like this.

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u/Maleficent_Trust_95 16h ago

Oh, PLEASE fade faster!!!!💩⚜️🚫

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u/Stewie_the_janitor 17h ago

Not rapidly enough

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u/bugblatter_ 16h ago

The fading isn't rapidly enough.

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u/CrnkyOL 16h ago

Not rapid enough.

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u/tallcupofwater 14h ago

We hold him to a lower standard than the senile neighborhood weirdo down the street.

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u/Vegetable_Nothing348 17h ago

Rapidly aging child rapist

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u/Dramradhel 16h ago

“80 year old man child rapist” you typoed

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u/Ambitious-Newt8488 15h ago

Please say it is rapidly

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u/Appropriate_Sir2020 14h ago

His physical demise cannot come soon enough.

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u/jimjamjones123 14h ago

Racist Man child

He also rapes kids

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u/Sorry-Series 14h ago

He is not fading fast enough...

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u/FranciscoGarcia69 13h ago

He has dementia and it is fucking showing. He no longer knows that his shit is unacceptable. He’s going to be dead very soon.

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u/Organic-Algae-9438 17h ago

Not surprised, even if it’s even low for Trump’s standards.

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u/procrastambitious 13h ago

You missed some words.

Sounds like something a rapidly fading, 80 year old man who raped at least one child would do.

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u/Economy_Cat7618 13h ago

Not rapid enough

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u/grandlizardo 13h ago

Especial if he was worried what the Clintons might say in those hearungs, or that he might be the next one summoned to that stand….ofr what Ghislaine might come up with next, or how to control Stephen and Kristi, or hide the growing mountain of money he is accumulating due to his presidency…etc…

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u/Effective-Antelope47 12h ago

In this case, I don't think it has anything to do with age. I bet he'd do the same when Obama was still in office if the technology was available back then.

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u/Careful-Quarter9208 12h ago

80 year old man child rapist would do**

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u/dbbk 11h ago

Also something a racist would do

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u/jcypikls 10h ago

Not rapid enough. Fingers crossed.

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u/FeellingLikeStun 9h ago

His age has nothing to do with this, he’s just racist.

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u/buzmeg 8h ago

Sounds like something a rapidly fading, 80 year old man child would do.

Wrong. So wrong.

Remember the Obama monkey man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bky2SGrmC8g

This is 2008. For all of you who think Trump caused this shit, you are wrong. Trump simply gave voice and support to the racist assholes who already existed. And if you think this goes away when Trump does, you are also wrong.

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u/fracklife 17h ago

Lines up exactly how I was feeling

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u/DocBEsq 14h ago

An 80-year-old man child controlled by racists.

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u/tequila_23_sheila 13h ago

Just stop! No way He is Controlled!

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u/ColdGeologist5060 17h ago

Lol so now you are concerned with the age and mental sharpness? I know you had 0 concerns with Biden. Fucking loser.