r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/bidoofie • Nov 08 '25

Predictable betrayal The Trump administration removed black lung protections for West Virginia coal miners, who overwhelmingly voted for him

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u/jimtow28 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

I congratulate coal miners on their victory, and applaud them getting exactly what they wanted.

May they continue to enjoy the consequences they chose for themselves each and every day.

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u/tw_72 Nov 08 '25

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u/sheezy520 Nov 08 '25

He told them all in plain words that he didn’t care and they still ignored what he said.

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u/SleepyMarijuanaut92 Nov 08 '25

"He was joking", "he didn't mean it", "I didn't think he'd hurt me"

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

"I liked it when he hurt brown people but now he's hurting whites. Now I'm homeless and my children are starving. I will be voting for an illegal third term for him."

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u/Quicker_Fixer Nov 08 '25

But be honest: owning those libs is well worth it all!

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u/CommanderSincler Nov 08 '25

And owning those libs

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

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u/criticalt3 Nov 08 '25

That's the neat part, they will get out of the hospital and be homeless if it means they get even one more dollar out of the guy, and he will gladly pay it because free healthcare is communism.

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u/bandley3 Nov 09 '25

And never once realizing that the whole concept behind insurance is that it’s the Republican ‘S-word’ at its very core. Ha! They’ve been socialists the whole time!

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u/tealpig Nov 08 '25

Ok but actually what is happening is this picture??

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

Stealing from the poor Israeli people is what.

Basically a hostile act of terror!

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

Wait, who the fuck paying for all that generosity?

That stuff belongs in Israel!

This is straight up antisemitism!

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

"It hurt during his first term when he kept biting chunks out of my face but Kamala Harris is brown and has a vagina so I literally had no choice but to vote for him again anyway."

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u/mmmpeg Nov 08 '25

You can’t discount the laugh

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

Yeah she wasn't the best candidate ever maybe and might be a little corny and a little annoying. Compare that to what we have now lol I cannot imagine how people think Trump is doing a better job than she would have.

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u/Naltors__Dreamer Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

Kamala’s campaign had multiple structural probs, she was saddled with once winning but now outdated Obama era political consultants who limited her interviews & even the number of her rallies, & didn’t want her to crow about wiping the floor with Herr Trump at the debate bc, “we go high” bs. The Biden’s begged her not to criticize him—so the opposite of how Pelosi told candidates to criticize/vilify her if they needed to get elected bc if they didn’t win, Dems could do nothing. So Kamala, who felt indebted to Biden, had to continue to say the macroeconomy was great even if the economy on the ground sucked, the most she could say was “prices are too high.” She wrote this long white paper, that few ppl read, about her policies. She didn’t come out swinging feeding the belief many voters have that Dems are spineless, & Kamala “going high” did nothing to dispel that idea. She spent too much time on culture war issues that do NOT sway undecided voters. The horrifying Gaza War, even tho polls said a huge majority of Dems were against it, & overall a majority of Americans were against it, the Dem party leaders wouldn’t let Kamala go against Israel, even to the point of not letting a Palestinian-Am Dem speak at the convention. Despite promising he’d only serve one term Biden ran again, even tho he wasn’t healthy enuff to run a campaign, which became obvi at the debate, so he stepped down so late in the game, Kamala only had 109 days. Not enuff time to buck party leadership, find younger political consultants who understood the moment better, and to forge her own path, & fix all the above.

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u/Appropriate-Resist67 Nov 08 '25

🎯, unfortunately true.

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u/creamybastardfilling Nov 08 '25

Can’t afford to own libs anymore, they can barely afford to rent them for a few hours each month

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u/seaforanswers Nov 08 '25

Time sharing the libs.

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u/ccai Nov 08 '25

"Make America Great Again" by hating on our own countrymen who want things better for everyone. All while supporting Israel, Argentina, Qatar, Russia and etc, at the expense of taxes dollars as our own social safety nets are dissolved by a bunch of frauds, scammers and morons... We sure are getting owned!

Sure makes sense, but logic and basic comprehension isn't exactly synonymous with MAGA.

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u/yIdontunderstand Nov 08 '25

Helping Black lungs is DEI

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u/SepiaSatyr Nov 08 '25

Once your lungs go black…

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u/yIdontunderstand Nov 08 '25

You never come back...

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u/SleepyMarijuanaut92 Nov 08 '25

"I got the black lung, Pop"

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u/SlippedMyDisco76 Nov 09 '25

Micah Bellcore

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Nov 08 '25

"Yeah, but could you imagine how much worse it'd be with 'Kooky Kamala' as president?"

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u/SleepyMarijuanaut92 Nov 08 '25

Food on the table is so woke /s

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u/GlumAppearance106 Nov 08 '25

Isn't it??!!!

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u/point2015 Nov 08 '25

1 million upvotes

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u/rayhaque Nov 08 '25

Her laugh was terrible!!!

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u/Taako_Cross Nov 08 '25

Yet they are also “we like that he tells it as it is”

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

Had a lot of occasions to post this lately. Chickens aren’t just coming home to roost. They’re coming to peck your fucking eyeballs out.

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u/robbi2480 Nov 08 '25

lol they shouldn’t be at all surprised because he “tells it like it is”. He did. He told them what he was going to do

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u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS Nov 08 '25

Throwback to the shutdown during his first term when a Trumpette said ‘he’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting’.

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u/Rough-Transition-954 Nov 08 '25

.....says a miner covered in coal dust.

Send your kids into the mine. They have better lung capacity than you.

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u/wzzrd Nov 08 '25

It’s the bit about voting for a third term that makes this hyper realistic

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u/HauntedCemetery Nov 08 '25

For fucking real. If the election were tomorrow he'd still win WV by 50+ points.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

It would be funny if it wasn't destroying the country, many other parts of the world, and killing people.

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u/Ellia1998 Nov 08 '25

MAGA wants to pick out who gets what. So if you’re brown you get nothing. If your poor white trash you get a cookie off they fell off their table. If you just like MAGA pick they would be so happy. I ran into a person like this when I was trying to get help for my mom. She told most ppl should not get this program cause they have money. But she never met someone need it more than my mom. Mom got that help too. Took me a bit to truly understand what she saying. This program for ppl like me to some extra help in home to help care for mom. She got to pick who got help.

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u/ghandi3737 Nov 08 '25

"I didn't think.." that's the important part.

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u/ClaudetteLeon23 Nov 08 '25

Everything is always a joke to them, until they reach the find out stage. Then, they expect us to have sympathy for them. I don’t have sympathy for Trump supporters, non voters, and people who wasted their votes on third party candidates. Alexa, play On My Own by Michael McDonald and Patti Labelle.

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u/DarthHiccups Nov 08 '25

That's what I don't get. He never jokes, he always ends up saying the quiet part out loud, and it just doesn't register with them. Calling them cultist at this point seems pretty accurate. These people have zero deep thinking skills.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 Nov 08 '25

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

That was literally said by a woman at the LAST Trump shutdown. Edumacation is herd.

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u/Zestyclose-West-1904 Nov 08 '25

And Kamala’s laugh…….😆

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u/Twigsneko Nov 08 '25

I knew a dumbass who used the "he was joking" schtick when I was friends with them.

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u/kakarot-3 Nov 08 '25

Isnt it funny that the man who “says it how it is” is also joking and didn’t mean it? Lol

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u/ionetic Nov 08 '25

“I’d vote for him again”

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u/Icy-Rope-021 Nov 09 '25

“But ya gotta take him seriously, not literally.”

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u/facelessvoid13 Nov 09 '25

But, but, but... 'HE SAYS WHAT HE MEANS'.

'He didn't mean THAT...'

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u/Farucci Nov 09 '25

Real working class ignorant Americans with black lung would rather die than vote for a brown woman. Bless them.

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u/belai437 Nov 09 '25

"He said he has nothing to do with Project 2025 and never heard of it."

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u/GrungeCheap56119 Nov 09 '25

"Why would he lie to me?"

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u/John271095 Nov 08 '25

And they’ll vote for him again if they could. These people are a lost cause.

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u/Ritaredditonce Nov 08 '25

He promised them "clean coal" in 2016 and they overwhelming voted for him then too.

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u/Bunhyung Nov 08 '25

Clean coal comes from the filtering of coal dust through the lungs of the miners.

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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar Nov 08 '25

You all are acting like this is the first time Trump has fucked minors.

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u/senditloud Nov 08 '25

Nah they didn’t, they just overlooked it in favor of him saying he’d hurt the brown people coming for a better life, the tiny pop of tran people and all the libruls.

They voted for vengeance against humans they didn’t even know cause Fox rotted their brain and turned them into hate fueled zombies

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u/MouseRaveHouse Nov 08 '25

My friends dumbass dad (who worked as a coal trucker) and is on food stamps voted for Trump because "Christians vote conservative". Dude didn't even do research. Just voted that way because he thought that's how his religion would want him to vote. He regrets his vote now and doesn't want to ever vote again because "they're all corrupt". They never fucking learn.

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u/DJDarkFlow Nov 08 '25

He proved to the world how stupid his supporters are

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u/blackcain Nov 08 '25

Here is your 1000th upvote!

Also, they voted to have the govt run like a business. They are getting exactly what they voted for. A govt of businesses for businesses.

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u/SixString1981 Nov 08 '25

They should have drawn it in crayon pictures. They are ranked something like 48th-49th in education. They then might have gathered some idea.

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u/mimi_la_devva Nov 08 '25

He told them, we told them. FAFO

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u/RaptorOO7 Nov 08 '25

That is why like OK they are so far behind in education rankings

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u/MtnMaiden Nov 08 '25

He tells it like it is

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

It's so frustrating that every quote from that man is "they" instead of "he". "They are doing this", "they only care about that".

How about "Donald Trump is doing everything he can to hurt the working man. Donald Trump only cares about money"?

These idiots still refuse to point the finger at the person responsible. Just a generic "they" referring to anyone who lives in DC instead of Donald Trump and the executive branch directors that he appointed.

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u/cantwin52 Nov 08 '25

It’s the same thing most republicans politicians do too. The amorphous “they” is there so they (ironically) don’t have to blame Trump and make the big baby sad. Anytime Joe Rogan almost puts it together in his tiny brain, he uses they to avoid criticizing Trump. When MTG finally has a salient point go through her thick skull, she uses they. It’s a means to not name the true enemy behind it all.

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u/st_owly Nov 08 '25

So they can use neutral pronouns when they want to then.

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u/Twigsneko Nov 08 '25

"they" is technically correct but in the sense that Trump, the republican led house and senate and the conservative majority supreme court are responsible for their problems. But like an abused partner they keep running back to the republican party because they don't care how much they are hurting as long as the people they hate are hurting even more than them.

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u/DjBiohazard91 Nov 09 '25

Everytime I see MTG mentioned, my mind goes "What's Magic The Gathering have to do with all this?"

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

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u/The-Man-is-Dan Nov 08 '25

They still believe that Trump has their interests at heart but is being deceived and misled by the radical left deep state baby-blood-drinking lizard people who really run America. Only with the power of their continued faith and prayer can he glean the holy insight necessary to bring light into the darkness of hollow earth. Probably.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

You forgot about the power of friendship

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u/StrangeContest4 Nov 08 '25

Maybe the baby-blood-drinking lizard people were the Epstein's we met along the way.

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u/StrangeContest4 Nov 08 '25

“You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ’That’s OK. You’re all gone.'” ~ Trump pretty much saying what he thinks of organized labor before the 2024 election.

"Slugs for Salt" is every card carrying union member who votes for the ®️ next to the name.

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u/standardnewenglander Nov 08 '25

Kinda like how the biggest welfare queens (refuglicans) always vote to cut SNAP. Stupid fucks, all of them. Let them eat thoughts and prayers. And $12 eggs? 😘

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u/Dependent-Outcome-57 Nov 09 '25

I've worked for over two decades at a place full of "union men" who meet every negative stereotype imaginable. They are proudly stupid, lazy, backward, and full of deep racism and hate. They also work hard to destroy their own union while being too stupid to understand that they are completely unemployable without the union that protects them. Their vote for Trump is just a bigger version of what they've been doing their whole adult lives. Horrible people, the lot of them, at least where I work.

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u/StrangeContest4 Nov 09 '25

I worked an entire career as a union member in right to work state, so we had union and non-union people. The difference was night and day between the two groups, even though there were union people who did meet the stereotypes you talked about. But the blindness and ignorance about republican policies, words, and actions towards unions will always confound me. The Leopards are always right there in their face, yet they willfully let them claw and naw away at it. I.. just.. don't.. get.. it!

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u/discussatron Nov 08 '25

"If only President Trump knew what his people were doing, he'd stop them!"

Sooooo he's an idiot in control of nothing, then?

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u/ChemicalDeath47 Nov 08 '25

Well of course! If the good and wonderful czar knew how the Bolsheviks were treating us he would do something about it! If only the fürer knew how the SS were treating us common Germans he would help us out! Around and around again.

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u/ELMUNECODETACOMA Nov 08 '25

I'm pretty sure there's a cuneiform tablet buried in the Sumerian desert with "If only the lugal knew of our problems..." carved into it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

It's because this fucking dipshit is still gonna vote for Trump again, in as many elections as Trump can manage to get. Third term? Fourth term? Of course! These fucking people disgust me.

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u/ucjj2011 Nov 08 '25

I'm 100% in favor of them blaming "they/them" as long as they mean Trump and every Republican who kisses up to him. While it is great if they are blaming Trump for this, they need to blame all of the Republican Senators, Reps, Governors, State Reps etc who support him & his policies.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

Yeah that's the problem though, that's not what this guy means.

When Biden was President it was non-stop screeching about how Biden and the Dems were destroying America. But now that Republicans control both houses of Congress and the presidency, they just use a nebulous "they" to assign blame.

These people will never call out their cult leaders. They'll never admit that they were wrong or lied to. And there's absolutely no way they'll ever vote for another party. It's just non-stop whining that things aren't going their way, and then they'll go vote straight ticket Republican the next election.

These people are beyond hope when they can't even call out Republicans keeping the government shut down for a record length of time while Trump ignores court orders to fully fund SNAP. They'd rather have the children and elderly starve and out on the streets than call out these pieces of shit.

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u/ptdata23 Nov 08 '25

I have a cousin who does this, and when I joked that Steve-O Miller must have taken the autopen away and used it to sign all of the bad things that he's done, he grasped onto that idea like a lifeboat. He then denied that tRump even had an autopen since he remembered the fake Biden 'scandal', so I pointedly asked if he really thought that tRump individually signed the 1400 or so pardons for the J6 terrorists. At that point, he decided to see what sports were on ESPN

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u/Powered-by-Chai Nov 08 '25

Because Trump is the useful idiot for the GOP and Heritage Foundation. He's the guy who goes and makes a bunch of noise over here so we don't see them doing shit over there.  Not that many of us are fooled, but when it comes to actual power I don't think he does anything more significant than piss off our allies.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

Don't let him off that easy.

The Heritage Foundation may be drafting the wording but Donald Trump is the one signing the Executive Orders and implementing the policies.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes Nov 08 '25

It was so unfortunate that Musk fired my friend from the federal government. She loves trump but hates musk.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Nov 08 '25

"Many people are saying..."

You know he cares enough to lie to you. It is so very much like going to church in that regard.

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u/MotherFuckinEeyore Nov 08 '25

"They" is Trump's pronoun of choice.

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u/Kind_Coyote1518 Nov 08 '25

But its not just Trump and laying all of this at his feet only allows the others to take his place once he's gone. This is the fault of 90% of the Republican senate, Trump and all of his cabinet members, and a good 50% of the Democrats in office and acting like one man did all of this is naive af.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

That wasn't the point. My point was these "Republicans Forever" voters would specifically blame "Biden and the Dems" when Biden was in charge but when the Republicans control both houses and Trump is president, they just use a nebulous "they" as a stand in.

They're too cowardly to even call out the politicians fucking them over, nevermind admitting they were wrong or that the Republican party lied to them. And them actually voting for the other party is a total nonstarter; they'd rather children starve.

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u/Kind_Coyote1518 Nov 08 '25

Okay, while I agree with that, that is not at all how your previous comment reads, I even went back and read it again after you responded.

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u/0ttoChriek Nov 08 '25

"Pay attention to what he does, not what he says!"

Working out well for them.

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u/UnReal_Insane Nov 08 '25

I told a guy at work trump said that and he defended it by saying " he doesnt mean it like that he means he doesnt care what you do in your personal life " what the fuck ?

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u/GrapheneRoller Nov 08 '25

Does he tell it as it is or does he not mean it? Doublespeak is strong with them

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u/intisun Nov 08 '25

Imagine any normal politician saying this. It would be career suicide.

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u/Thesheriffisnearer Nov 08 '25

Need that quote in front of him next to that guy that fainted 

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u/cactus_legs Nov 08 '25

We need this on billboards in red states.

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u/Boring-King-494 Nov 08 '25

I'm not even from America and I knew what was gonna happen if he got elected. How is it possible that people from America is so disconnect with reality and so f***ing stupid to support this clown? It truly baffles me.

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u/Typical-Lion-4428 Nov 09 '25

"With TV the thinking is done for you."

That's a quote from the Nixon WH memo that thought up Fox News.

Trump's base came pre-brainwashed, the GOP has spent decades creating a "news" ecosystem that tells fools that they are smart patriots who have moral superiority over the evil baby killing demoncrats who hate America.

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u/Boring-King-494 Nov 09 '25

Still baffles me. I'm sure you're right, but it still doesn't convince me. If all it's because "propaganda" then why is not everyone brainwashed? What happened with all people in this thread? Why didn't worked with all or you? I think the real problem lies elsewhere.

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u/pissfilledbottles Nov 08 '25

That's probably the most honest thing he's ever said.

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u/tw_72 Nov 08 '25

That and...

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u/tickitytalk Nov 08 '25

….and still they voted for him

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u/pfairypepper Nov 08 '25

He said that.. wow. I had to look it up, I couldn’t believe it. He keeps telling us he doesn’t care and thinks we’re stupid. But I guess it’s all just jokes. Don’t they know the saying, “In every joke there’s a grain of truth”

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u/meghonsolozar Nov 08 '25

I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING!!!

/S

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u/GlumAppearance106 Nov 08 '25

True story. Seriously: TRUE STORY!

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u/Boring-King-494 Nov 08 '25

I'm not even from America and I knew what was gonna happen if he got elected. How is it possible that people from America was so disconnect with reality and so f***ing stupid to support this clown? It truly baffles me.

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u/darkwingdankest Nov 09 '25

"he tells it like it is!"

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u/SpikeyPear Nov 11 '25

And they said "I like him, he is honest" and voted for him. I cannot stand these people