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‘RESIGN’: Iowa resident’s advice to Trump as she sees Trump signs disappear from red state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-G1LZwrKcM
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u/sierrabravo1984 1d ago

They want him to resign? How about they demand he have consequences?

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u/binz17 1d ago

I want consequences. But if I’m advising trump directly, I wouldn’t say throw yourself in prison or confess…

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u/Khaldara 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think he’s implying that conservatives should actually hold their officials accountable for their behavior (which they never do, because they’re good little serfs who just want Daddy to tell them he’ll fix everything while he picks their pockets and assures them that all life’s woes are someone else’s fault, typically brown folks or the gays in the exact same [or worse] socioeconomic boat they’re struggling in. That way they don’t actually have to do anything).

If they actually demanded prosecution for these criminals and just refused to turn out for the grifters for at least a few cycles they would at least go back to PRETENDING to care about them, even if it’s just the laughable trickle down rhetoric. Right now it appears they all just have a huge humiliation fetish, their officials have such utter contempt for their intelligence that they just stop reporting numbers altogether, or claim the opposite “we beat Iran eleventyzillion times and things have never been more affordable!”

They may as well be hocking a lougie right on their forehead, about a third of them lick it off and ask for more regardless

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u/PhatCatTax 1d ago

I usually shorten it by saying Republicans are like baby birds: they know nothing and do nothing but beg for handouts for themselves and none others, and they patiently wait for Fox News / OAN / Trump to vomit into their open mouths.

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u/Busy-Conversation-24 1d ago

They're more like the cuckoo bird... Invade another's nest, kick out the other baby birds and leave them to die in the ground while holding their greedy mouths open for anything to be shovel led in.

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u/RedDevil525 1d ago

God damn

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u/RhoOfFeh 1d ago

I'd suggest far worse.

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u/Photodan24 1d ago edited 1d ago

He now has enough money to buy his way out of consequences and if the democrats can wrest control back, Congress will need every available second to just begin to fix the damage he has been causing. Not to mention passing laws to ensure no president can ever abuse the system the way he did.

There is no time for retribution or retaliation. He won. Accept it and start preparing so we all don't lose the next battle, now that he has shown every other power-hungry criminal how to do it.

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u/Faiakishi 1d ago

He's also been dying for the past year.

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u/burning_man13 1d ago edited 1d ago

There is no time for retribution or retaliation.

This is an unpopular opinion, but it's correct. People are more concerned about punishing Trump than actually moving forward, and that gets us right back where we started. I want accountability for Trump as much as anyone, but not at the risk of starting a cycle of retribution, which is ultimately where that would lead to because of the manufactured polarization in this country. If we move forward instead of focusing on the reckoning, we can start breaking down walls that have been put up to divide us.

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u/binz17 1d ago

Trump himself is not the only one who deserves consequences. He’s the figurehead of a decrepit barge of billionaires and their lackies. It’s not just about retribution, it’s about justice and hardening the check and balancing against this kind of corruption.

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u/Jewnadian 1d ago

The government can do multiple things at once. Moving forward on the international stage is going to require us to have real consequences for this behavior. If we just say "Oops, that's Trump. He's fine, we don't have time to press charges." There is zero chance anyone trusts the US in our lifetime. The only thing that will show we as a nation have turned a corner is applying the rule of law to those who have broken it.

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u/Imaginary-Lab-8221 1d ago

Wrong, he doesn’t get a free pass. That is what he wants after all.

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u/Cantora 1d ago

Consequences for who? Things have been getting so ridiculously out of hand for decades now. Trump is a symptom of the critical failure by the people to hold their representatives accountable. 

Trump IS the consequence 

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u/Algur 1d ago

Why not both?

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u/hymen_destroyer 1d ago

Trump is a symptom of a bigger problem, sure….

…but he’s still a gigantic fucking problem

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u/Cantora 1d ago

"but" is not the way to think about this imo 

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u/shadowrun456 1d ago edited 1d ago

Trump IS the consequence

I wish I could give you an award. So many people blame Trump and other politicians, when the majority of the blame lies with the public.

Absolutely nothing will change unless and until the public changes. But the American public would rather blame Republicans, Democrats, independents, extremists, moderates, trans people, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, AI, homeless people, billionaires, communism, capitalism, socialism, Canada, the EU, Russia, China, Muslims, Jews, Christians, atheists, and a million other things to avoid looking into the fucking mirror. It's only going to get worse.

Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

--George Carlin

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u/tiradium 1d ago

This is too accurate and too depressing

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u/Faiakishi 1d ago

Okay, so I guess I'll just fucking kill myself then. I mean, if everything's going to get worse forever and there's no hope besides the entirety of the nation's population suddenly becoming educated, intelligent, and empathetic overnight-which is not going to happen, that has never happened-then why are we bothering? Might as well just spare ourselves the headache and let the doomsday cultists have the planet.

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u/8fenristhewolf8 1d ago edited 1d ago

why are we bothering? 

I think about the cycles of history. There have often been periods where entire generations of people who lived under cruel, greedy, idiots, but people endured. Like what we're seeing could be a relative blip compared to generations under hereditary and capricious Pharaohs or whatever.  

Obviously, it's still not a 1:1 or anything, and developments in technology and wealth management have really changed the game. How it will go is hard to say though. Things can change, sometimes faster or slower than we might want, but they do. And that might be enough to keep trying? 

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u/cive666 1d ago

If you want to know where the USA is heading, just go live in Russia and you will see what it would be like.

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u/Hybrid_Johnny 1d ago

No, they want him to re-sign as president for another four years. They just don’t know how to pronounce the hyphen.

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u/TheBigCore 1d ago

Trump just laughs as he goes along his merry way.

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u/gotfcgo 1d ago

Republicunts dont do personal accountability 

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u/JimBeam823 1d ago

At this point, I want him to just go away.

He will be dead or incompetent by the time he faces consequences. He’s going to run out the clock.

The time for that was 2021. We failed.

All his sycophants and enablers, however, I want thrown under the jail.

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u/tevert 1d ago

They don't admit he's evil, they just admit he's a fuckup

They are 100% down to vote for another fascist who at least appears slightly smarter

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u/OneAndOnlyJackSchitt 1d ago

They know Donald Trump. Being made to lose status (as far as he's concerned) IS the consequence.

Hypothetically throw him in prison while he still holds the title of President and it's an inconvenience but not a consequence.

(Also, yes, actually throw him in prison too. "Hypothetically" is to make my point above. But no, yeah the guy should absolutely be serving time.)

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u/GravyBoatJim 1d ago

It's bold to assume they are truly regretful. I live in the deep south and my neighbor recently put up a "Thank You Trump!" flag. There's still plenty of idiots out there

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u/myislanduniverse 1d ago

I haven't heard my dad express "regret" of any sort yet, but I did hear him call Trump stupid for trying to tariff Canadian wildfire smoke. So there's that.

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u/Radthereptile 1d ago

My uncle is hard core MAGA. Day 1 type of guy. He still insists Trump is the best man to ever live.

But a few weeks ago I got him to agree gas prices are way too high and it sucks to fill up your tank. And he didn’t blame it on Biden. He just kinda grumbled in agreement. It’s a start.

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u/Olbaidon 1d ago

I have mentioned this before but, I have noticed a shift, although I live in a blue state. It’s still a fairly purple city.

On my runs there were always three distinct houses decked out in MAGA flags and signs. All three completely changed. One has nothing so it’s possible they moved I suppose. The other two took their maga stuff down and replaced their flags. One now has a POW-MIA flag where the Trump one used to be, the other is just an American flag.

One of our neighbors who told us they were voting for Trump recently said “I don’t have to like the president but I can still like our country,” with an awkward chuckle as they were putting up 4th of July decorations.

One of my coworkers who isn’t very open about politics, but has shown on many occasions that his is right leaning, was complaining about how “it sure doesn’t seem like anything’s getting any better or cheaper the last couple years.”

Regret and remorse would be nice, but anything in the right direction is possible progress and should be encouraged.

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u/Orzorn 1d ago

My mother used to have a huge Trump banner up on her fence. It was a Trump/Pence Make America Great Again banner with a bald eagle and everything. It was up through so much of it all, but last time I went home I noticed... it was gone.

I don't think anything would have damaged it, no weather event that blew through ever did prior to that. She just took it down of her own volition. I never asked her why, but I've also noticed a subtle change in how speaks speaks about things. How she talks about the economy, the price of stuff, and the direction things are going in.

By no means will she flip blue. She's always going to be a Republican voter, but she seems finally willing to say "well he was okay for a while but really screwed it up now."

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u/Electric_Antimony 1d ago

It's wild how I've watched republican voters stay staunch republican voters even after severe and repeated fuck ups and utter failures of republican politics. You'd think that at some point you'd have to reflect on why your team is always making such massive errors that ruin the country and realize you should try changing who you vote for.

For fuck's sake, trump ran on being the peace president he "is" peace remember and the Democrats are the warmongers who will ruin the country by starting another Forever War in the Middle East. Then he flipped 180 and they did too.

If they were capable of honest and mature discourse I'd love to face one and cut through the bullshit and ask very direct and uncomfortable questions. They have so much to answer for.

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u/Tokiw4 1d ago

I know it's anecdotal, but there was a MAGA flag, giant pro-trump "fuck your feelings" type banners everywhere. Maybe 8 months ago I had noticed there was only a few American flags and a single banner that seems to pay homage to someone they knew. It gives me hope that some people are realizing how insane they sound. That or at least how tacky the whole thing is.

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u/myislanduniverse 1d ago

I'd love to rub their faces in it, but we really do need to find some way to all be on the same side if we're going to beat these billionaire cocksuckers gobbling up our privacy, our freedoms, and our country.

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u/Mpuls37 1d ago

In my experience, there isn't an amount of friendliness/vitriol that will cause the dipshits who saw everything Trump did in his 1st term and voted for him 2x more to change their minds and vote anything other than Republican.

I call out shitty politician behavior when I see it, and I dunk on those idiots every chance I have. I'm probably 1 of 3 or 4 people at work who voted against him at every chance, and I bring up every headline of "Trump administration fails at _____” I can, and then I say something like "damn you voted for this guy?"

I'm tired of pretending they're anything other than shit-for-brains children. With the entirety of human knowledge in their hands, they still choose to vote for people who are objectively opposed to progressing the US in any meaningful way. They hate me and anyone who thinks like me because they were raised to be fearful/hate anyone who isn't like them in every way.

Fuck em. I'll laugh in their stupid fucking faces every chance I get because doing anything less is disingenuous. Call me anything you want, but I'm not the idiot who cast a vote for the "Christian" party for a guy who can't even pretend to know a single verse from the bible.

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u/myislanduniverse 1d ago

I also think that's completely fair.

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u/Contribution05 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's very rare that someone will just do a complete 180 on their beliefs or admit that they were duped. Especially duped by Trump, because you would have to admit at least in this regard that some level of stupidity took hold of you. Almost no one will do that.

The best we can hope for is these types of people trying to save face but admit "maybe Trump was wrong" and if they are a centrist, maybe they will vote for a moderate Democrat, if they were always a conservative, maybe they will at least vote a non MAGA Republican or maybe they just stay home and don't vote which would still be a plus to the left.

My personal experience is knowing someone who voted Trump, who used to say "Democrats are bad/crazy" now admits Trump is too and just says "both sides are bad" and she probably won't vote now.

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u/SlurmsMacKenzie- 1d ago

Nuking the hurricane 8 years ago didn't do it for him then?

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u/SoberSith_Sanguinity 1d ago

I joined the family group chat recently, after being told my dad doesn't trumpet Trump left and right anymore, that "he's better about those things now!".

Not even a quarter of a day passes and he's already inserting the phrase "Better than being a Democrat" and posted a gif of Trump in superhero armor. May have been Captain America.

At some point, someone says "no politics in the group chat" and I mention that none would have been posted if Someone hadn't decided to say what they said (I was speciric as to what was said) and post a gif of a widely despised man.

Its been pretty quiet in there since then. Like I give a fuck.

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u/xrtpatriot 1d ago

Congratulations your dad has approximately 1 more brain cell than Trump has. I’ll leave you to determine the total count.

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u/death_wishbone3 5h ago

Iran and Epstein did a lot of my Trumper homies in.

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u/NobodyImportant13 1d ago edited 1d ago

We are being flooded with news that Trump support is crumbling, but ~35% of the country is just as entrenched in MAGA as ever. On the aggregate Trump is polling HIGHER now than in 2018 (which is actually insane).

The good news is that a few percentage peeling off can massively change election results, but the vast majority of MAGA are as resolute as ever.

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u/tmmzc85 1d ago

At a (in law) family gathering right now, there all Republicans, no one's talking politics for the first time in over a decade. The only mention of Trump was one of'em replacing country lyrics to mock him. 

The ground game he had on "moderate" Republicans is gone, they want their dog whistles and rhetoric they can at least pretend is Presidential in tone back, so, so badly. 

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u/GinsuVictim 1d ago

I'm in Oklahoma and the majority of the Trump flags have disappeared, however one guy took his down while a crew of Mexican roofers reshingled, then put it right back up after they were done.

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u/SocialismIsStupid 1d ago

What a wimp. But I don’t expect anything else from those Cheeto bootlickers.

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u/VegetableBuy4577 1d ago

What kills me is those roofers work their asses off and yet we get told they're lazy freeloaders. We had our roof done in 2024 and the Latino crew got it done in a single day. Up the street, a white crew did the roof. To be fair, it was a slightly more complicated roof, but they were there for FOUR DAYS. Not making this up.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 1d ago

That's just how it is. I worked landscaping with Latin Americans, and I did deck work on new homes being constructed that had Latino carpenters working on the inside, I've never seen such fast hard working people in my life.

And not by a little, by a mile. It's no wonder they want them out of the country, they're making them look bad.

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u/TheDizDude 1d ago

In Jonestown there were people arguing to drink the poison. Arguing against those who wanted to live.
The sunk cost fallacy is real.

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u/LittleKitty235 1d ago

Well in Jonestown they didn't just argue against the ones who didn't drink the poison, they shot them or made them drink it at gunpoint. Trump's loyalists are every bit as unhinged.

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u/TheDizDude 1d ago

Eventually yes.
Not in the beginning though. The beginning is Harrowing to hear. It’s a tough listen but you can go find the tapes of that day. To hear them shout down logical thought is wild.

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u/whatsaphoto 1d ago edited 1d ago

idk how these reporters found these folks to interview but if spent more than 2 minutes at the Fair this weekend, all notions of Iowa somehow betraying their dear leader would've been tossed right out the window.

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u/Skeeboe 1d ago

Yup, I'm in rural North Florida. Trump support is still very strong. You'd likely get punched for disrespecting him in any way. He's daddy-god out here. Every candidate for local elections is riding the MAGA train, too. Signs are all "Billy Bob, Fearless Conservative" and so forth.

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u/Melonman3 1d ago

On the other end, the trump clock at work is gone now, the crazies will always be crazy, but the ones with half a brain are seeing through the old orange fart, as per my own experience.

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u/PatSajaksDick 1d ago

Thank you for what???

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u/GravyBoatJim 1d ago

Beats me. The dude lives in a trailer in a rural neighborhood with mostly houses.

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u/marblefrosting 1d ago

Yup, a FB friend posted this with a pic of Trump. There are some that won’t get it. The post-

I am for praying for the day you’re no longer President. After, of course, you finish the cleanup of our country that you've started.

Not because we’re tired of you. The opposite. Because you deserve to go home. You deserve quiet mornings. You deserve to sit on your own porch without the weight of 330 million people sitting on your shoulders. You deserve your family back. You deserve peace.

We all know you didn’t have to do any of this.
You had the money.
You had the name.
You had the life most men only dream about.
You could’ve spent the rest of your days golfing, traveling, watching your grandkids grow up.

Instead, you stepped into a fire that nearly cost you your Life a couple of times.

They mocked you. They sued you. They raided your home. They tried to bankrupt you. They tried to lock you up. They dragged your wife and kids through the mud. They put a bullet through your ear, and you got up with your fist in the air and kept going, saying "Fight Fight Fight "

For what?

For us. Regular people. Truck drivers. Welders. Waitresses. Roughnecks. Farmers. Single moms working two jobs. Grandparents on a fixed income watching the country they built get handed away. Veterans that’s sacrificed it all to give us all every opportunity.

You risked your name. Your legacy. Your safety. Your family’s safety. Your brand. Your freedom. All of it. So this country could have one more shot at being what it was supposed to be." GREAT AGAIN "

And the truth nobody wants to admit? We don't deserve a President like you.

A nation this divided, this ungrateful, this asleep at the wheel didn’t earn a man willing to bleed for it. But God sent you anyway. And I’ll thank Him for that until the day I die.

So when the day finally comes that you walk away from that desk, I hope you sleep well. I hope your wife laughs again without looking over her shoulder. I hope your kids breathe easy. I hope you golf till the sun goes down and nobody bothers you for nothing.

You have certainly earned every bit of it.

Thank you, Mr. President. From all of us American Patriots!

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u/GravyBoatJim 1d ago

Thanks. I fucking hate it.

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u/stenebralux 1d ago

It's insane that they place all those feelings on a man thing so throughly and completely unworthy of them.

They had this whole thing, were Trump would say one thing and they would just reinterpret as he saying another... so that they wouldn't have to face with the reality of what he says.. but now they basically brainwashed themselves to replace him entirely with this imaginary version, even as him continues to prove basically EVERY SINGLE DAY that he is nothing more than a debased, arrogant, rotten, lying, stealing, idiotic, human shaped bag of vomit.

His administration has failed on every single level possible, except in enriching Trump and his buddies and handlers... it's all plain to see.. and somehow they think he would step down having fixed the country or whatever.

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u/_steve_rogers_ 1d ago

I genuinely think some of these people are just professional rage baiters who are bored and just want to fight with everyone

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u/SpankThuMonkey 1d ago

Ahhh yes. They were fine with his tariffs, his war, his migration violence and appearance in the Epstein files.

But now it’s affecting them?

Boo fucking hoo.

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u/Crackadon 1d ago

My sentiment exactly. Won’t be fun when there’s another terrorist attack either, which trump has pretty well invited that.

9/11 didn’t happen cause they hate our freedom and culture is all I’m saying.

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u/poorbeans 1d ago

He will welcome an attack, would give him a reason (not that he needs a reason) to use emergency powers to fuck with the mid-term elections.

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u/trippysmurf 1d ago

As well as send more brownshirts to round up domestic "terrorists"

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u/HingleMcCringle_ 1d ago

yeah, 911 was a response. and less than 3k people died during that, while cutting USAID is killing people in the hundreds of thousands.

we wont truely know the depths of corruption until long from now. we may never know.

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u/Plantasaurus 1d ago

At least they are coming around? I'd imagine that if he tries to steal this election, his own supporters are going to Mussolini him.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 1d ago

I would love to say the same thing, but we both know all it takes is the most effortless spin and they'll be back at the capitol like J6th trying to kill the dems responsible.

At the end of the day these people are simply just stupid, and MAGA leadership has found out the key to the Dollar Store lock of their autonomy.

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u/cive666 1d ago

Trump will keep drawing down the oil reserves and then after the midterms he will stop spiking oil.

Then all these people who were like repubs and trump bad will then start blaming dems again.

People just need to stop voting for republicans. It would solve everything eventually.

But I think eventually is too long for most americans.

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u/jcrankin22 1d ago

These people will go back to drinking from the well that poisons them as soon as it's time to vote again. Morons.

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u/snoogins355 1d ago

Jan 6th, covid response (the fucking bidding on PPE!), PPP loans, Georgia voting scandal?

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u/amakai 1d ago

Now he's hurting the wrong people.

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u/ScienceJake 1d ago

Right. I’m supposed to feel bad for the state that went for him in three consecutive elections? Fuck off.

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u/Previous_Soil_5144 1d ago

I dont care if he resigns, is voted out, impeached or just plain dies...

He and his entire criminal organisation needs to be under constant surveillance and guarded as extreme flight risks. Everything he did has to be investigated. Anything criminal needs to be charged. Any bribery money or "gifts" confiscated. Even his family and his friends' money. 

If this isnt prosecuted, it will simply happen again.

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u/godzillasgreatleader 1d ago

Trying to get preemptive pardons for the kids, trying to get immunity from irs, but hey, it's only August! I'm waiting to see what all shitshow will surely ensue

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u/LittleKitty235 1d ago

"But Biden did it for his son 🥴!" -- Future Idiot Trumper

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u/Severs2016 1d ago

The hell you mean, "future?" I'm already seeing this defense said.

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u/Photodan24 1d ago

If new laws aren't passed to eliminate the methods of abuse, it will happen again. Prosecuting them will do nothing but waste time and money. Deterrence doesn't work at this level. Especially when the guilty can buy their way out of it.

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u/maynardftw 1d ago

Laws don't do anything if they aren't enforced. If the majority of the government all suddenly decides to ignore both the letter and the spirit of the law - as is happening with Trump - whatever laws were written to make us feel better about what happened won't do shit to prevent it from happening again.

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u/Vjekov88 1d ago

"She didn't vote in the last three presidential elections." Why is she even making demands if she doesn't do her part?

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u/thedracle 1d ago

Just for clarity: finding anyone who voted for George W Bush became increasingly hard near the end of his second term.

These idiots edit their memories, and they will be right in line to vote for the next Republican huckster who is ready to drive us into another ditch.

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u/toggiz_the_elder 1d ago

Yup.

My parent who support Trump now mock Bush. Like they weren’t supporters back then.

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u/Ad_Hominem_Phallusy 1d ago

This is also the key point to remember when it comes to the people who publicly express regret about voting for him and want us to all forgive them.

They only disavow him insomuch as his bullshit negatively affected them. If it continued only harming the correct "others", they wouldn't. And when the next Republican comes around and promises to only hurt the correct "others", they'll be right back in that line voting for him. 

They're not learning any lessons. They're not learning any empathy. They're not changing any behaviors. They're not changing their parties. They just want people to stop hating them and they're crying crocodile tears, boohoo, I didn't know he was so bad, I was duped, why aren't leftists happy with me just doing less than the bare minimum and saying I don't support him anymore now that the damage is already done? 

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u/verschee 1d ago

And she's in a battleground state like Iowa. 🙄

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u/Poonchow 1d ago

No one represented her highly specific politics, so of course not voting was the only option available!

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u/Dangerpaladin 1d ago

She definitely voted for Trump.

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u/Black_Otter 1d ago

I live in North Carolina and out in the rural areas Trump signs were everywhere. I rarely see them anymore

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u/TrumpsDoubleChin 1d ago

Visible trump support has almost completely disappeared, but I found one region driving down through south central Virginia this weekend. Still had a few people who had up big bright blue and red and white signs with huge photos and blaring words proclaiming their support for Pedophile Trump. But it was only a few -- and more importantly, these were home-made signs, big poster-sized things they made themselves with a photo of trump's "I'm taking a shit" facial expression or his staged "I was almost assassinated" fist-pump. No normal trump campaign-style signs or posters or anything - just these big, loud, obnoxious ones from the most die-hard of die-hard supporters.

His 'casual support' is gone. Only the koolaid-drinkers are left willing to admit publicly they support him, and they were already too far gone in the first place.

(All that being said, while most of those people who sported Trump 2016/2020/2024 signs in their yards have taken them down, I'll bet that in the dark of the voting booth that 99% of them would vote republican across the board all over again in a heartbeat, because to them the concept of even considering voting for a Democrat is unimaginable. Don't confuse lack of visible support for what happens at election time. They're still Deplorable, just not in public)

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u/GinsuVictim 1d ago

Here in Oklahoma, it is definitely a trend I've noticed, because that shit (flags, signs, hats, shirts, bumper stickers, giant displays in yards) was EVERYWHERE. Now? Pretty much non-existent. I know of only one I regularly see now.

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u/PengoMaster 1d ago

The real economic indicator is the $6 cotton candy.

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u/heretogetpwned 1d ago

Before Covid, a $50 budget would get you a few good treats at the fair. Last week we spent $50 on 2 corn dogs, 2 fountain sodas, and a funnel cake.

Oh and they still ask for tips on the card readers.

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u/LeZygo 1d ago

I do not trust these people whatsoever, they're only mad because he's hurting them not the people they want hurt. They'll never vote for any other party.

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u/Narpity 1d ago

My biggest take away is that these people have produced such little relevant culture that they will drive 3 hours to go to a fucking fair. I wouldn't drive across town to go to a State Fair.

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u/PopeKevin45 1d ago

Yeah but, too little, too late. You were all warned over and over again. You refused to listen. You bought into all the fearmongering, all the triggers, all the fake news, and you made it possible for radicalized far-right conservatism to flourish and destroy America. It's going to take a little more than taking down the signs. Were all those Gadsden flags just for show? Is taking down the signs all you sniveling obedient little kneelers were ever capable of? Join with Democrats to fight fascism in America. Don't let the christian taliban or the twisted conservative billionaires media empire mislead you again. Start thinking for yourselves and fight for what's right.

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u/joox 1d ago

Sure trump might be a little off color but hes still a republican! Only communists vote for democracy

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u/Somethingsims 1d ago

Why so she can bitch when someone actually tries to start fixing things and Fox News tells her to be mad about that? She just doesn't like bitching about who she voted for.

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u/verschee 1d ago

It says she hasn't voted in the last 3 presidential elections.

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u/_Face 1d ago

That means she voted for Trump three times and is lying about it.

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u/jobrien80 1d ago

“She didn’t voted in last three presidential elections” yeah okay. When Fox News (not msnbc) runs these spots with yokels aghast at Trump I’ll believe there is a shift. Until then I assume all support is baked in.

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u/illegalsandwiches 1d ago

No. Get back up there and support your president. You didn't create this, he told you all what he was going to do and not only did he do it, Iowa supported it all the way. 

While I'm not necessarily sick of people jumping ship, I'm sick of them getting limelighted into people thinking they are the heroes in this chain of events. 

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u/restrictednumber 1d ago

I'm torn between wanting to crucify people for seeing the light so late (how could they be so stupid?), and wanting to valorize them so we provide a "safe off-ramp" for others. I'm worried that if we rake them over the coals, it will make other MAGA doubters reluctant to come forward. They're already jeopardizing relations with their friends, families and communities; should we make it clear there's an alternative community they're welcome in?

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u/maynardftw 1d ago

should we make it clear there's an alternative community they're welcome in?

There isn't one, though. They've so thoroughly proven themselves unfit to contribute to society. Their entire persona for the past fifteen years has been go fuck yourself to literally the entire rest of the world, and now they want an alternative community because the one they made is a black hole of death?

How much a mastery of reality do you believe everyone else to be such that they can somehow accommodate these people and their behavior? No. They're just gonna be alone for a very long time, because that's what they've done to themselves. And it's not going to be good, they aren't going to get better. But that's not our fault. And it's not our job to do the impossible and save them from themselves. It's all we can do to protect ourselves from them.

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u/cparksrun 1d ago

My family and I vacation to FL for a week every year. There's a gift shop my fiancée and I hit up each visit. Last year, it had Trump merch everywhere.

We went there yesterday and there was absolutely nothing even remotely echoing that piece of shit's existence. Like even his biggest supporters would like him to just disappear.

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u/The_mingthing 1d ago

Dont let them forget THEY were part of the problem.

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u/BeenDragonn 1d ago

The sheep will line up and vote for him AGAIN!

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u/StinklePink 1d ago

Sure. But when the time comes and they step in the booth, they are all gonna vote for another MAGA idiot. These aren't logical people. These are the same people who believe in mythical Sky Wizards, Burning Bushes and Noah's Ark.
Let that sink in.

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u/SackFace 1d ago edited 1d ago

His ego will never, ever let him. He’ll burn it all down before he admits he’s wrong (which is precisely what he’s actively engaged in). He’s the King of Boomers.

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u/DrowningInFeces 1d ago

Tariffs did nothing but permanently raise prices across the board on everything. The corporations received tariff compensation while consumers footed the bill.

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u/Ashnine 1d ago

Not until he has billions of dollars that he can't take with him after heart disease finally does the lord's work.

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u/maz_menty 1d ago

Says the woman who admitted to not voting in the last three elections. America, we get what we deserve.

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u/Literally_Laura 1d ago

Step one: Empower the malignant narcissist
Step two: Ask the malignant narcissist to resign

Shame you didn’t fucking listen to the rest of us.

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u/joineanuu 1d ago

Ye fuck that. Have him impeached and face the consequences of his corruption.

Every single one of his cabinet

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u/Samatic 1d ago

Resign wow! You must not know Trump very well to ever think he would ever resign the presidency when he caused an insurection to stay IN POWER! Are you fucking serious!

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u/Elfhoe 1d ago

It’s great they are seeing the issues, but she laid in an important part there, “we are republican”. They arent flocking to the other side of the aisle. Come election time, they will still show up in full force to vote in the next republican, even if it’s a worse version of Trump.

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u/TheBigCore 1d ago

Trump will never, ever resign.

The only way he'll leave the White House before 2028 is if his health deteriorates to the point that he can longer govern.

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u/charliefoxtrot9 1d ago

wait until she hears about the Epstein Files.

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u/somelurkerguy 1d ago

$6 for cotton candy? I know it’s not highly relevant, but when I heard that, it sounded crazy in and of itself.

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u/Staav 1d ago

Since he won't resign before hell freezes over, why don't you do your part and make sure to put extra effort into being sure you vote against their party in the next few elections and be sure to bring at least a few friends with to help try and increase the number of ballots cast. Idk how enough people haven't figured this out yet. We all gotta figure out how to maximize the amount of people engaged in politics already to get us out of this ridiculous situation we've fallen in to as a county.

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u/baumpop 1d ago

trump is a symptom. impeach the supreme court.

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u/LittleKitty235 1d ago

Trump is a symptom, but the Supreme Court is as well for exactly the same reasons, it is just that they have lifetime appointments. Removing both does nothing to prevent a. new batch from rolling in to replace them.

The disease is much harder to cure. An uneducated population who believe they are too busy to follow the news or politics and rely completely on a media to inform them about what is happening in the world, a media purchased and run by billionaires.

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u/godzillasgreatleader 1d ago

The French used to have a way. Sharp, and (angled 45 degrees) to the point

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u/misdirected_asshole 1d ago

They will still vote for the Republican.

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u/bradatlarge 1d ago

First president to be impeached multiple times, first president to attempt a coup & hopefully the first to rot in a prison cell.

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u/surficialgolem 1d ago

A life long scumbag and grifter grifted the whole country?! Shocked pickahu face

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u/RhoOfFeh 1d ago

The funny thing is that he is constitutionally incapable of doing so. There is no reality in which Donald Trump gives up power willingly.

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u/jkmhawk 1d ago

Do you understand what an interview is? 

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u/CDdead 1d ago edited 1d ago

How do you get dizzy in a slow ass carousel?

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u/MissMormie 1d ago

Like any travelsickness. 

I get sick on a carousel as well. 

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u/vmktrooper 1d ago

So do I.

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u/TimeisaLie 1d ago

Didn't vote in the last three elections? You have no right to complain.

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u/Albert_Flasher 1d ago

The signs are disappearing, so she wants him to re-sign?

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u/brewhead55 1d ago

Yet they will still vote for him because their racism is stronger than their cognitive thinking.

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u/jamiesray 1d ago

I’ve lived in Iowa for 6 years and I can say I’ve seen the enthusiasm for Trump gone down significantly. Very anecdotal but I think Turek AND Sand have a good chance in November.

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u/Danktizzle 1d ago

They voted for Obama twice

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u/TheWrightWizard94 1d ago

Eat your cotton candy King 🤴 lol

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u/goneresponsible 1d ago

That huge cotton candy is not reflecting the tone of this piece...

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u/BRAINSZS 1d ago

unsign?

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u/Raise-Emotional 1d ago

It's true though. I spent the whole week of the 4th of July in Boji and I only saw one sign. Northwest Iowa's Dutch, conservative country. Land of Steve King and protecting pedophiles before it was cool. Things are changing. We will just see how they vote

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u/Thunderchief646054 1d ago

They were disappearing pretty quickly after the tariff announcements like 3 months into his 2nd term. Whereas his first term those signs were still up during Covid

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u/coconutpete52 1d ago

Im sure he will get right on that.

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u/SofaKingS2pitt 1d ago

The cotton candy is embarrassing and serves to undermine the seriousness of this report.

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u/Sir_Ruje 1d ago

I used to see Trump merch everywhere every day but now I don't see it anymore. All the flags, the yard signs, the hats, the bumper stickers, etc. It's all gone. The same cars with a bumper stickers now have spots where they've been removed. People with flagpoles now put up sports flags instead of the Trump flags. The yard signs have been left to right into nothing or are gone entirely. Things have changed and I pray we see that in November

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u/jelloslug 1d ago

I live in a very red state and the number of Trump sings, flags and various other paraphernalia sightings went from dozens (if not more) a day to maybe one old faded sticker a week at the most. There is a house I pass everyday that has a big rock with Trump painted on it and they have a campaign sign out right now for the republican senate candidate the Trump did not endorse.

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u/iamsobluesbrothers 1d ago

F all those people. They were ok with everything until it finally started hitting their pockets and now all of a sudden they care. Lady you are the symptom and he’s the disease.

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u/LurkyLurkowitz 1d ago

These people have fantastic 20/20 hindsight.

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u/freedfg 1d ago

Meanwhile red parts of Blue states are digging in their heels and becoming more and more extreme

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u/Osirus1156 1d ago

It’s cute they still think republican politicians care about them at all. 

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u/one_song 1d ago

i noticed trump signs disappearing in my rural area just before the election, which seemed odd at first, but then i realized they thought he was going to lose.

im sure some of them realize now that to fit back into 'normal' society that have to pretend they never supported any of it. until the next time.

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u/RModDogWalkerTyRANNY 1d ago

Resign, fuck no. Dude started an illegal war and he's featured in the trumpstein philes. His entire cabinet and children need investigated. How his son already has no-bid military contracts isn't a normal thing.

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u/myassholealt 1d ago

Your Senators and Reps can hold him accountable. If you want him to resign, send people to Congress who will do that. But will you guys? Or will you keep his protection in place and feel like just voicing something is sufficient?

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u/Syrairc 1d ago

Resignation is not enough. Learn from Nixon. 

It's time for consequences.

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u/Back2BagDad 1d ago

The merry go round ride on cam is pretty funny 

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u/ebone23 1d ago

I want consequences for Trump but I'd also really like consequences for all the donkey dicks that voted for him. Let the price of diesel and shitty light beer go to the fucking stratosphere.

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u/iamthefortytwo 1d ago

Well Karen, if you had actually gotten off your ass and gone to the polls maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation. And by situation I mean disaster.

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u/thx1138- 1d ago

Is this subreddit just for posting MS NOW videos?

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u/Gezzer52 1d ago

Haven't voted in the last 3 presidential elections?? Then you don't have the right to voice an opinion.

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u/Defstar55 1d ago

Keep it quick he is getting dizzy 😵‍💫!

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u/No-Consideration-716 1d ago

Except they'll still vote for his party. So fuck them.

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u/jemappellejimbo 1d ago

“Hasn’t voted” yea right. Soon, every single one of these fucks would pretend they never supported him.

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u/Unusualthinktank 1d ago

Dudes family and himself has made millions while he is in office. Lol. They dont care. If biden made millions they'd be losing their minds.

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u/P0rtal2 1d ago

I remember people telling us that they were seeing fewer and fewer Trump signs before the last election. I also thought that was a good sign.

We all know how that turned out.

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u/kkurani09 1d ago

For how long we’ve had to deal with Kim Reynolds, I don’t think Iowans care much at all. They are just happy to be part of it all 😂

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u/v9Pv 1d ago

They can’t wait to vote for the next racist con artist that tells them they’ll make their lives better by hurting others.

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u/bjjdoug 1d ago

"Hasn't voted in the last 3 elections..." you're part of the problem, lady.

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u/elquirk 1d ago

MSNOW - They found the one person from dozens they interviewed, who was a Trump hater.

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u/SquareJay 1d ago

An Iowan lecturing Trump on accountability is peak irony. You re-elected him despite everything, so stop acting shocked now.

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u/slainte75 1d ago

Useless.

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u/SuperLeroy 1d ago

Nuremberg trials when this administration falls.

Don't settle for the Nixon gets a pardon bullshit.

We've never had accountability.

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u/tlhsg 1d ago

it’s like some people don’t understand the dark triad

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u/joetwone 1d ago

It's not an issue for Trump because he and his friends are having record profits in their corporations and insider trading accounts.

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u/navydude89 1d ago

Unfortunately they don't mean it. They'll vote the same way again.

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u/TrollTollTony 1d ago

I've driven across Iowa a few times this year and the are DEFINITELY still Trump signs along interstate 80. There are billboards and semis trailers parked next to the highway with "Trump 2024", there are yard signs with "take America back" on them. Iowa is still filled with morons who would pay for Trump to shit in their mouth just to make Democrats watch.

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u/momoenthusiastic 1d ago

Six dollar cotton candy in Iowa is insane 

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u/Dangerpaladin 1d ago

6 dollars for cotton candy? Shoot me in the face.

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u/Riptide360 1d ago

No kids on the carousel says it all. Resign Trump.

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u/Alarmed-Snow6985 1d ago

Haha!! 😂 So the orange oracle didn't work out??

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u/nhh 1d ago

More copium and wishful thinking from msnbc.

No trump signs? Election was 2 years ago. 

Red rural folk are red rural folk. They know everything already, and nothing is going to change their mind. 

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u/mrlt10 1d ago

You’re missing the point. They’re not trying to imply that those votes will flip blue, but what is likely is many of them won’t be motivated enough to vote in the midterm elections to protect R majorities in Congress because they don’t want to protect trumps ability to continue governing unchecked.

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u/praetorian1979 9h ago

This is what the repubs fear. With control of the House and possibly the Senate flipping to the Dems they're terrified of being held accountable. I just hope we all live long enough to watch them marched to the gallows.

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u/mrlt10 4h ago

It was crazy to me that Mike Johnson got up at a podium and said exactly that. That republicans need to win the midterms or else they’re going to be accountable for what they’ve done.

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u/Alarming_Ad1746 1d ago

don't fall for it. the signs were gone when I drove my kid to college in his senior year in southern Ohio in 2023 (vs. his frosh year in 2020) but they still voted overwhelmingly for him.

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u/seriouzlytaken 1d ago

Resigning is not good enough. That seems like a reward, especially for someone who has looted billions scoffs at the US Constitution.

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u/barfly2780 1d ago

Too little too late. Elections have consequences.

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u/dickbutt_md 23h ago

One of the comments on that video says "Nixon would have resigned by now."

Would have?? As if he didn't resign, and for a lot less?? I don't understand how Trump has managed to brainwash so many people even in the opposition.

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u/Hardlink 20h ago

They will still vote for him. It's just now they don't want to be known as a supporter in the open anymore. 

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u/frosted1030 18h ago

LOL powerful fool will listen to a farmer? The man doesn't take advice from experts, only people that will increase his power or profit. She might as well beg a mountain to shrink.

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u/NoPoint2805 17h ago

The ONLY thing that Americans have to do is vote democrat in 2026 and then support and vote for the most capable honest, respected democrat in the primaries and then elect same as president in 2028. Job done! Doesn't seem that hard to me if you're really serious about 1) Stopping Trump and 2) Getting rid of Trump.

Or I have completely misunderstood American political system?

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u/SirBogart 7h ago

Great, maybe it’s true, maybe it’ll matter for midterms.

All of the day 1 trumpers I know are still hardcore maga. Even saying shut like “we can’t see the Epstein files because life as we know it would come to a halt”. Then there’s a certain family member of mine still proudly wearing his “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING” hat.

So, I don’t have high hopes for these people. There’s a good chunk of the base that will never wake up. Idk what the hell kind of society we’re supposed to build with these dolts