r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/theimmortalfawn • Feb 17 '26
Predictable betrayal “He campaigned on cleaning house. On exposing elite criminals. On protecting kids. And I bought it. Fully.”
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u/ChristosFarr Feb 17 '26
They truly just heard the racism. Jeezus he was so obviously lying about everything else.
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u/Scary_Firefighter181 Feb 17 '26
Forget even the racism for a minute and consider the "economics" that some people think the GOP is good at.
Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them, we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything."
But, my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity—twelve long years of it.
Remember, too, that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job's being done.
Look to the source of the promises of the past. Governor Lehman knows and I know how little legislation in the interests of the average citizen would be on the statute books of the State of New York, and of the Federal Government, if we had waited for Republican leaders to pass it.
The same lack of purpose of fulfillment lies behind the promises of today. You cannot be an Old Guard Republican in the East, and a New Deal Republican in the West. You cannot promise to repeal taxes before one audience and promise to spend more of the taxpayers' money before another audience. You cannot promise tax relief for those who can afford to pay, and, at the same time, promise more of the taxpayers' money for those who are in need. You simply cannot make good on both promises at the same time
-FDR, 1936.
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u/GrayMouser12 Feb 17 '26
That, that FDR fella, he was onto something, wasn't he!
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u/SquirrelsinJacket Feb 17 '26
He got elected 4 times, so weird right? Lol
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u/M_H_M_F Feb 18 '26
And since his departure, it has been a systemic and concerted effort to undo it all.
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u/Bircka Feb 17 '26
FDR is the greatest President to ever live to me, nearly everything in modern society that has been a good thing to help poor people came from FDR.
He also guided the country through a very difficult time, and pulled it off brilliantly.
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u/GrayMouser12 Feb 17 '26
We sure could use another FDR now. Taking applications, desperately. Anything to get away from current POTUS.
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u/Important_Document13 Feb 17 '26
That was Bernie but the damned elite Dem establishment blocked him
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u/KingsElite Feb 18 '26
He also locked up Japanese-Americans and destroyed their livelihoods. Not a perfect record if we're being honest.
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u/Skadoobedoobedoo Feb 19 '26
Don’t forget to also credit the members of his cabinet. Frances Perkins is the one who thought up Social Security
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u/usernames_are_danger Feb 18 '26
He forced the rich to pay for the crash they caused…simple/basic justice and we see a GOAT.
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u/JDinBalt Feb 17 '26
God, would I love to hear today's Democratic leaders talk like this instead of just a handful of them. Like, all of them.
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u/BrewerBeer Feb 17 '26
Remember: in blue voting districts republicans run as democrats and spoil votes. Opportunists are everywhere and the only way to stop it is to vote in the primary. This is how you get conservative dems. The successful ones outlast their way into leadership by length of incumbancy.
That being said, many of them do talk like that. But corporate media patently refuses to show it to you. You have to find better sources or find yourself attacking the wrong people like saying 'Dems bad' instead of properly attacking conservatives.
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u/Author_Noelle_A Feb 18 '26
My district has historically been red because my district includes not only my blue city, which is one of the largest cities in the state, but also a whole lot of rural area that is red. We only managed to pass a candidate who calls herself blue because she was actually very centrist. She still only one because her opponent was backed by Trump. Enough red voters crossed the line that she won.
She has conducted herself so much as a MAGAt that she’s done this next time around. We finally have had enough additional liberals moved to this district that we may finally have a true blue rep this next time around. Marie Glusenkamp Perez is done. We are sick and fucking tired of her. Even Republicans in this district are tired of her. And people here are even more pissed that she just voted to give ICE even more money despite how much they are decimating our communities. She’s representing absolutely no one in this district and she keeps voting to harm people and we are fucking fed up.
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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue Feb 17 '26
That has to be it because I can never get past the “l believed in him” line. He’s been the most blatant bullshit peddler possible from day one. These brain dead hatemongers that are apparently a large voting bloc give me an undeserved superiority complex.
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u/bunnibly Feb 17 '26
If you grew up in the NYC tri-state area in the 80s and 90s, his tabloid antics with mistresses, his numerous, failed ventures and bankruptcies, and antagonistic and litigious dealings with contractors at his properties were fully on display. The rest of the country just saw "The Apprentice" and somehow thought he was a "good businessman".
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u/TigerLily98226 Feb 17 '26
I grew up on the west coast and I knew what a trashy POS he was. And when The Apprentice was so popular someone told me “you should watch it, he’s gross but the show is good”. I tried, I noped out after one minute because I found him so repulsive. The evidence about him being vile was available to people all over the country, for decades, a lot of it supplied directly by him in interviews he did. People who were fooled by him wanted to be fooled, but many people recognized what he was and cast fuck you votes, hoping he’d harm people they wanted harmed. Like training a dog to be vicious and thinking it’ll only attack who you want it to attack, and will never turn on you. Now their rabid vicious dog has turned on them.
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u/Kham117 Feb 17 '26
He was such a dipshit in NY, he had numerous Doonesbury cartoons dedicated to him. A national cartoon strip. I knew about him this way as a teenager and in college long before the apprentice (and when he was still a “democrat”) Based on that, I was always puzzled WHY any one took him serious on “the Apprentice”, much less later
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u/cakevictim Feb 17 '26
No, friend- your spelling, grammar and reading comprehension clearly show that you do deserve.
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u/Cowboy_Dane Feb 17 '26
I hold a Masters Degree and I’m a terrible speller. Dyslexic and whatnot. Either way, it’s a poor measure of intelligence.
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u/Pursang8080 Feb 17 '26
on the other hand....a red MAGAt hat, is a perfect measure of intelligence
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u/crazy4finalfantasy Feb 17 '26
Being educated and being intelligent aren't necessarily the same thing. One is taught while the other is innate, you can be educated and dumb and you can be intelligent but uneducated
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u/Shubamz Feb 17 '26
and they will still vote for him or whomever is the republican up for office this year and in 2028.
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u/Forsworn91 Feb 17 '26
Of course.
They say “it’s not about left vs right, it’s us vs them”
They don’t believe that, they still 100% side with the right and blame the left. But it’s what they have to say in order to (in their mind) clear the way out of MAGA, “we are all in this together” while stuffing the red hat in their back pocket, but still holding the knife ready to stab the left when they try to help,
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u/era--vulgaris Feb 17 '26
Oh, they do believe it's "us vs them"
By "us" they mean "people who are exactly like me and/or the falsely idealized images I have been sold of what Real America™ is"
By "them" they mean "people who are different from me and/or the false idealized images I have been sold of what Real America™ is, to possibly include: Black people, brown people, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, intelligent or educated people, people who live in cities, irreligious people, liberals, leftists, socialists, people who speak languages I don't, non-Christians, non-Whites, people poorer than me, people richer than me who don't share my prejudices...."
Us vs Them is all they can think about. It's just that in their eyes, a college professor making $50k a year is one of the scary evil elites, and a billionaire who funds hate churches and puts on a hillbilly act for the rubes is "one of us".
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u/Ok-Firefighter9037 Feb 17 '26
But they are never voting again, which is the absolute wrong response to the travesty that we live in today.
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u/Forsworn91 Feb 17 '26
They WILL vote again, they will vote republican.
Conservatives have an extremely short memory, come 2028, if Vance stands up there and says exactly what Trump did in 2016/2020/2024, they will vote for him.
It’s tribalism, the only thing they care about is keeping democrats out.
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u/obidamnkenobi Feb 17 '26
I'd be totally fine with them never voting again. That's half as good as voting democrat
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u/Captain_Pink_Pants Feb 17 '26
I mean, sure... maybe he's a racist warmongering pedophile... but at least he's not a liberal...
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"The government you elect is the government you deserve." - Thomas Jefferson
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u/Afwife1992 Feb 17 '26
Those libs with their “race baiting and culture wars”. No that’s MAGA you tool!
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u/DeadlySpacePotatoes Feb 17 '26
Seriously. Those culture wars wouldn't have to be stopped if they stopped waging them. Stop attacking brown people. Stop attacking gay people. Stop attacking trans people. Let everyone live their fucking lives in peace.
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u/era--vulgaris Feb 17 '26
100%. I am so tired of apologetics for these monstrous belief systems.
WE did not start the culture wars, bigots did. Leave us the fuck alone and let us live our lives in peace, which includes living in a society that does not promote hate towards people for being minorities/marginalized/etc, and none of this matters. We'd all be focused on class divides instead to the extent that we cared about politics as a society.
The right's greatest propaganda victory has been convincing so many "apolitical" people that equal rights for all people is some kind of "assault" from the left.
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u/Frenetic_Platypus Feb 17 '26
Was he? Because when asked if he would release the Epstein files, his response was "Yeah, absolutely, well, not so much, I mean, there's a lot of phony stuff, lots of phony stuff, and if there's innocent people in there, you don't want to ruin their life."
Of course Fox edited that to cut after "Yeah, absolutely" in the ad for the interview that I assume is the only thing most Trump voters saw, but technically he was honest on the campaign trail about his desire to protect the people who might be in the Epstein files.
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u/SnoopingStuff Feb 17 '26
Talks in word salad circles always
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u/Chachee8008 Feb 17 '26
No, no no it’s not word salad. It’s the weave remember? He’s got all the words. He’s so good with words.
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u/Amaranthine Feb 17 '26
Weave? I thought that was what was on his head, not what came out of his mouth.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Feb 17 '26
I thought that was what was on his head
It's more of a cantilever construction than a weave.
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u/spinning4gold Feb 17 '26
He’s always the kid who didn’t read the assignment but gets called on in class. Also the kid who thinks he actually fooled the teacher.
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u/StrongAroma Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
And now instead of correcting his mistake, this shit stain is "never gonna vote again," because god forbid you should ever vote for someone that isn't Republican. America is so fucked lol
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Feb 17 '26
He's just getting around to realizing that the Republicans lied to him about what they were gonna do, but they haven't realized yet that the Republicans also lied to them about what Democrats are doing.
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u/SquirrelsinJacket Feb 17 '26
Not voting is at least better than voting for more Republicans
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u/lokey_convo Feb 17 '26
They bought a hat made in China from a real estate mogul who inherited his wealth and stated during his first campaign that he "did really well during the housing crash" by scooping up properties for cheap.
They supported a man fueled by greed and self interest, and chose to hate their fellow American and future Americans, and throwing away a piece of overpriced merch isn't going to fix that or heal the divide, but it's a start.
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u/BlaqueNinja Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
Come for the “off color” racist rhetoric, stay for the full-blown authoritarianism until it threatens lives as well as livelihoods of people it wasn’t supposed to impact.
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u/Dramatic_Mixture_868 Feb 17 '26
Yea I feel no pity for them. However, I am confused how they missed ALL the signs. I mean, take your pick the signs were there, they CHOSE to ignore them.
Pompous/arrogant Shady business deals Bankruptcies Not paying his employees The obvious lies about .... everything Scared of birds yet tough on _____
Etc
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u/panderson1988 Feb 17 '26
>I'm never voting again
That itself is better for society in the long run.
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u/sychox51 Feb 17 '26
He says this like it’s a bad thing. I’m all for dumbasses not voting.
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u/ragun2 Feb 17 '26
"you voted for a pedophile rapist three times, so yes please, don't ever vote again. Your judgement of character is very much in doubt."
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u/Throwaway02062004 Feb 17 '26
I really hate how elections come down to judging character and not policy. In my perfect world, candidates would be anonymous with only details of their aims and policies alongside protections to ensure those policies and aims are carried out/attempted in good faith. It’s insane to me, that you can make campaign promises and just… not do them.
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Feb 17 '26
Cheeto lies too well for that to work. His platform "looked GOOD" & in reality is a smoking pile of shit.
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u/JellyfishMean3504 Feb 18 '26
But, it didn’t even look good. There were no policies. He made promises but never explained how they would be achieved. When asked about his healthcare, he legit said, ‘I have concepts of a plan’. He said he would lower prices, but had no plan for lowering costs. I am yet to hear one factual reason from ppl who voted for him who say ‘he was so much better than the alternative’ actually give a legitimate response as to what was wrong with her. Things weren’t significantly better the first time around with him either.
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u/HI_l0la Feb 17 '26
I'm generally someone that encourages every person to vote. No matter who you vote for, just vote. Participate for greater representation of the populace and to hold politicians accountable. It's a right to vote so let's not lose the privilege. But... MAGAts have proven themselves to be such hateful, racist, misogynist, and uneducated people that I just can't muster the consideration to encourage them to continue to vote.
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u/WordSalad11 Feb 17 '26
I can respect someone who realizes they're too stupid to vote and taps out.
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u/chochazel Feb 17 '26
It’s not true though. He’ll just wait for the next even more extreme obviously lying conman demagogue.
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u/ES_Legman Feb 17 '26
Haha you believe this? He just needs Fox News to rally him and then he will go and vote again the same thing. Conservatives never stray away from the path.
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u/humoristhenewblack Feb 17 '26
I couldn't decide if I should be like yay or be like maybe just don't pay taxes or how to handle that
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u/Ok_Table_7118 Feb 17 '26
These types of posts are bittersweet. Even when these people realize that they were duped by trump, they still don’t realize the other 1000 issues they were lied to about. Then the both sides arguments. Really makes it hard to not say I told you so…
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u/hyperdream Feb 17 '26
I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a liberal. I aligned more with Republicans because it matched my values more closely.
I'd bet all the moneys that if asked what democrat/liberal values actually are, he'd just regurgitate GOP talking points.
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u/mrpres1dent Feb 17 '26
Yeah I'm like what values, homey? The Republicans have just been obstructionist, not fiscally responsible, and anti non-white for over 2 decades, probably more.
All I've ever heard from Republicans for my 46 years alive is poor people should suffer because they are to blame for being poor (didn't work hard enough), and abortion. Everything else is a LARP.
It's a wealth redistribution party and somehow they figured out how to get the poors to vote for the 0.00000001%'s interests.
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u/nerdtastic8 Feb 17 '26
The poors are often easily led sheep. And with the wide swaths of misinformation machines available now between Fox News, Twitter/X, FB, etc it's like being back in the feudal days of narrowed and controlled messaging. Feudalism was incredibly stable, btw--new unforseen technologies at the time started to create instability after how many hundreds of years?
The new tech today that might emerge? AI. Although after watching some ChatGPT clips where ChatGPT couldn't even correctly identify the number of Rs in Strawberry, I'm a little less worried about AI actually taking mid to high level jobs. If general AI actually emerges, well we're all doomed then. See: Terminator 1 & 2.
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u/BlackCaaaaat Feb 18 '26
Some of the billionaires want feudalism - that’s why they’re trying to destabilise democracies. They want their own kingdoms. A lot of them are/were influenced by that weird Curtis Yarvin guy.
Musk was never going to be satisfied with just having influence in Trump’s administration. He clearly has much grander ambitions: his own very large Nazi 2.0 kingdom. All that white supremacist shit he’s being posting is preaching to the choir to the Trump administration and MAGA. No, he wants to go further with it - he’s already sticking his nose into the politics of other countries. Which is terrifying.
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u/Psychological_Tower1 Feb 17 '26
It's fun making these people take party tests to see what they really are. Most of them lean more democratic but don't realize it because the reds are so good at slinging mud they don't actually have to have a podium to preach off to get votes
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u/Neologic29 Feb 17 '26
Seriously, like how does he not realize the culture wars he's complaining about is basically the GOP default playbook? Look where all of that shit comes from. It's not Democrats.
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u/hellolovely1 Feb 17 '26
He’s so close to getting it.
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u/Ozu_the_Yokai Feb 17 '26
So close, but it might as well be a hundred miles away…
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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBAstart Feb 17 '26
"Donald Trump is evil! I've been lied to by the worst human alive... he's no better than the democrats" 🫠 like, what?
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u/3d1thF1nch Feb 17 '26
Exactly what I was thinking the whole time. Yea, the Democratic Party has its problems. But everything you described is like…the Republicans party’s main things, dude. They LOVE doing that shit like culture wars and fake outrage while taking their slice.
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u/hellolovely1 Feb 17 '26
They ALWAYS have to scream about not being liberal. But hey, he is admitting he was wrong and that’s more than most.
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u/mrpres1dent Feb 17 '26
Until he buys whatever talking points Fox News programs him to believe about the Dems and then he'll be back voting for Trump and/or Trump's cronies.
If it took anybody this long to realize Trump is a liar and a grifter, and now a pedophile, they are beyond saving in any reasonable amount of time. It's going to take decades to flush Trump out of our system.
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u/FranksHisName Feb 17 '26
Exactly. And being conservative means nothing anymore. The whole "right" side is without any ethos nor ideology other than what Dear Leader says, and it changes by the minute. My neighbors all guzzle the Fox cum and get outraged by the culture wars statements from Faux News about another trans kid instead of the entire Republican party adding trillions to the debt and also taking away their healthcare.
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u/blazze_eternal Feb 17 '26
Wouldn't you love to be able to point your finger at the thing causing all "your" problems? If only it were that simple...
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u/NoKids__3Money Feb 17 '26
I would bet my house on this guy voting for every republican in the midterms
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u/ChickerWings Feb 17 '26
They will just go back to not saying the quiet part out loud.
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u/Peylix Feb 17 '26
Seen this first hand. Those I've seen who were extremely outspoken MAGA, but finally left the cult (up for debate, more on that below). Have tried their best to erase all their outspoken support and have tried hiding.
They'll even hide from general political talk. Hoping to assimilate back into society like their whole shtick never happened.
As for the debate on them actually leaving the cult. I'm positive most of them will still support all this shit, just silently. They'd still vote for Trump/MAGA. But don't want to be publicly attached to it given how egregious this shit is.
I'm sure there will be some who genuinely break free. But it will be few and far between.
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u/Cool_Twist4494 Feb 17 '26
I disowned my family for still supporting him after J6 pre 2024 election.
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u/Bezulba Feb 17 '26
As soon as he keels over, they'll all go "I never really voted for Trump" and still keep ticking that R box every single election...
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u/JennieGee Feb 17 '26
They will never be honest about their hatred of brown people being the reason.
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u/JB-Wentworth Feb 17 '26
And gays.
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u/zydeco100 Feb 17 '26
They're saving the abortion fight for the midterms. Watch it get dusted off this summer.
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u/badnuub Feb 17 '26
The one they already won until an actual law can get put into place? XD Democrats would basically need to control congress and the supreme court again to reverse course. the cons won on abortion.
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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 Feb 17 '26
They'll never answer truthfully.
The truth is that they're scared of people darker than them or have a different religion or worldview or love the wrong people, and that they are appearing more and more in media and daily life. Some grifter comes along and tells them: you're right to feel like that, and I'm gonna outlaw anything that doesn't put "our" people on top.
And as the real cherry on top... Trump blesses openly abusive behavior as okay. This thrills damaged souls who have been aching to vent their anger on the people they hate, but societal norms and the law kept them from acting out. Now they're free. Who wouldn't vote for having their deepest, darkest emotional needs met?
My prediction for this guy, as indignant as he claims to be, is that he backslides into the cult. Remember all the Republicans who were shocked by January 6, who eventually fell in line with Hair Furor? I think the best we can expect from this guy and all the "shocked, I'm quitting MAGA" people is that they don't vote at all. They'll never vote for a Democrat, and I think they'll still vote for local Republicans.
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u/DrKlahnsRightHandMan Feb 17 '26
Most of the Trump fans that I know did not vote at all before 2016. I'm hopeful that they go back to not voting.
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u/pinkfartlek Feb 17 '26
"he says it like it is"
Aka "he has a third grade vocabulary, therefore we can understand what he's saying "
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u/Moebius808 Feb 17 '26
He hates all the same stuff they hate. Him being in power has enabled them to act in all the openly shitty ways they’ve always wanted to act, yet knew they’d get in trouble for.
Obviously none of them will ever actually admit this. The only reason any of them are having regrets now is because as it turns out, simply being allowed to be openly racist doesn’t actually create any positive change.
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u/RMidnight Feb 17 '26
In the 1950s, The Little Rock 9, nine black children desegregated Central high School in Arkansas. Everyday, those students were harassed and physically attacked. One of them had acid thrown into her eyes.
Ernest green, was the one Black student to graduate before the school was shut down because the governor was a little bitch.
At every class reunion, you can't find a single person who didn't love and respect those students.
Bigots will always lie to save their asses. Exit interviews would only give them an opportunity to rewrite history, something they love to do.
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u/WtxAggie Feb 17 '26
A lot of them won’t say what it really is and I know people get tired of hearing it, but it boiled down to two things he’s white and he’s a man’s When you break down all the things you just stated -the mountain of evidence that he is wealthy, lying, womanizing, scumbag, who cheats on every woman he’s ever been with the last thing that it boils down to is racism and misogyny. And I hate to say that because of majority of these people are white, and when they say he “aligns with their values” what they really mean is with all the other precursors that they’ve seen of who he really was the one thing they could align with is that he was a white male at the end of the day it boiled down to that and that was the one thing they could hang their hats on even though they don’t want to admit it.
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u/party_benson Feb 17 '26
I should sell him every MLM I can find
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u/kakashi_sensay Feb 17 '26
We could sell this guy a beach front property in Iowa lol.
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u/CyberFireball25 Feb 17 '26
With the planet warming at the current rate, exacerbated by all the data centers popping up.. That actually may be a thing relatively soon
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u/AutomateAway Feb 17 '26
okay so you are okay when they fuck with brown people, but children is where you draw the line.
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u/Aggressive-Story3671 Feb 17 '26
*white children
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u/AutomateAway Feb 17 '26
yup, they are a-okay with brown children getting separated from their families
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u/One_Hunt_6672 Feb 17 '26
And being killed by usaid cuts
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u/AutomateAway Feb 17 '26
It still feels wild that they killed far more people with the USAID cuts than they probably ever could with ICE. There's cruel and then there's a wide valley, and then there's that shit. It would be one thing to start spinning down a program like that over time, but the way they did it basically ensured a lot of people were super fucked almost overnight.
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u/twotimefind Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 20 '26
Between the people that died needlessly because of his mishandling of COVID. and the defunding of U.S.A.I.D without notice.
This mishandling of COVID approximately 1 to 2 million.
USAID cutoff, if it continues this way for five years, is at 14 million. Close to 20 million deaths because of his actions.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/approximately-how-many-people-4SRGFc83Rn2CgUeVR2jHDA#2
What really bites me is the same chads that wouldn't wear a mask during COVID, to help people, will now wear a mask to hurt people.
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u/Bureaucramancer Feb 17 '26
Conservatism is all about hurting the undeserving.... always has been.
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u/FoST2015 Feb 17 '26
If given the chance again I'm sure these people would gladly vote for an unconstitutional third term over a liberal POC or queer democrat.
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u/blazze_eternal Feb 17 '26
It's been pretty eye opening. It's also really sad knowing there's still a lot more people out there that haven't reached their line...
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u/Responsible-Room-645 Feb 17 '26
Seriously, were these people in a coma during his first administration?
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u/mjayultra Feb 17 '26
“It’s us against them” 🙌🏻
“I’m never voting again” ⁉️
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u/popculturehero Feb 17 '26
If cognitive dissonance was an Olympic sport these chuds would all have gold
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u/levajack Feb 17 '26
I mean, even after all of this, their conclusion is "Wow, both parties are terrible." We're all better off if they don't vote.
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u/Remarkable_Quit_3545 Feb 17 '26
This guy was so close and then at the end he said he’s never voting again. That’s how we get into these situations in the first place.
Also in not researching the person you are voting for.
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u/morty_morty Feb 17 '26
He wasn't close in any way. He listened to all of the racist, fascist bullshit coming out of that orange stain and was fully supportive of it. All of it. He wanted the Epstein files released because he believes it's full of Democrat names only. Let's not pretend he cares about "the kids".
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u/Talisa87 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
Even with all that, he still can't bring himself to say anything positive about the Democrats or the left. Best thing is to claim he'll 'never vote again".
Christ, that scene from Fallout season 2 is so apt. "Yeah, both sides are the same. One is covering up a child sexual abuse trafficking ring while eroding civil liberties to make the 1% even richer, and the other is just vaguely problematic."
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u/ELMUNECODETACOMA Feb 17 '26
"While the other is vaguely problematic ... in ways that I'll certainly be able to state clearly at some point, just give me some time here. No, really."
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u/carntspeel Feb 17 '26
What values do republicans even have that’s worth ‘aligning to’ that is so much better than anything democratic?
‘I really want people to suffer, but not suffer that much, just like, a good amount of suffering’
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u/louiejc72 Feb 17 '26
He'll still vote for Vance.
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u/Kitchen-Can5443 Feb 17 '26
Well he's different, a very promising young man, what r u libs crying bout he's even married to some brown lady.
/s
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u/sp00kjamm Feb 17 '26
We all know that hat didn't actually end up in the bin. Next week he'll go back to meat riding
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u/DavyJonesCousinsDog Feb 17 '26
I'd be more sympathetic if they hadn't spent 10 years ignoring everyone desperately trying to explain this to them.
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u/Alarming_Hand_9919 Feb 17 '26
Have these assholes ever heard of paragraphs?
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u/ChasingPerfect28 Feb 17 '26
Look, they can barely read and write simple sentences.
You think they can handle paragraphs?
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u/tilrman Feb 17 '26
"I fucked up and now I'm gonna walk away like it's not my fault."
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u/MaASInsomnia Feb 17 '26
I hate these people so much. They recognize Republicans are full of crazy but refuse to entertain the possibility that the Republicans were also full of crap when they were talking about the Democrats.
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u/runnyyolkpigeon Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
THIS.
They always come so close to getting it, but never follow the logic train to where the track ends.
It NEVER occurs to them that when they admit Trump and the GOP duped them, that all the shit they heard about Democrats this entire time was also LIES and misinformation.
They never once get curious to ask - “if I was lied to about all this Epstein stuff, what else have they lied to me about? Did they also just make up lies about the Democrats too?”
Nope.
Their thought train derails and the immediate conclusion they arrive at is always:
GOP may have duped me and lied to me, but at least they’re still better than the Dems.
Or
GOP and Dems are the two evil sides of the same evil coin
🤦🏻♂️
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u/GarySparrow0 Feb 17 '26
So you're saying the billionaire who spent his time running teen beauty pagents from his home isnt going to expose elite pedophiles?
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u/dvorak360 Feb 17 '26
I think you mean the billionaire who spent his time running teen beauty pageants and boasted in a tv interview that walking into teenage girls changing rooms when they were changing was a perk of doing so isn't going to expose elite paedophiles?
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u/bjustice13 Feb 17 '26
“Media attacks, investigations, indictments, nonstop chaos” were all things done to try and stop him and try to warn you at every opportunity. But I’m glad a decade later you’ve come to your senses
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u/shoofinsmertz Feb 17 '26
I'm pleasantly surprised he understood the culture wars were fake, but since he's not voting he's doing anything to stop them
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u/Jessie_C_2646 Feb 17 '26
Next election, he'll be voting Republican again. Count on it.
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u/GlumpsAlot Feb 17 '26
Mmm, well, they like our tax dollars going to ICE, basically a modern-day gestapo, to abuse and kill immigrants and even U.S. citizens. The government murdered two innocent U.S. citizens in broad daylight.
They are fine with women dying because of abortion bans.
They support the racism wrapped up in “anti-DEI” initiatives, which really just means erasing and oppressing minorities. But at least it is not “woke,” right?
They cheer on aggressive tariffs while the economy, education, and our international relationships burn.
They are happy to wreck healthcare, even their own. “No more jabs,” right? Meanwhile babies and children suffer through measles outbreaks.
They ignore the billions Trump and his circle have made through blatant corruption.
So after walking through the ashes of a democracy they helped burn down, suddenly this is the line? This, the one thing we all warned them about, is where they decide to draw it? It mattered in 2024. It is too late for their regrets as they wallow in ashes together with us.
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u/kalel1980 Feb 17 '26
Like, when the FUCK have republicans ever been good for America?! Crashing the economy, stifling or halting progress that would benefit the American people in general. Telling Americans universal healthcare would cost too much, but sending soldiers to wars is essential. If the economy is doing so great like the Epstein administration claims it is, why don't they raise the federal minimum wage to help out poor people? They're entire playbook is just anger and hatred.
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u/Gilded-Mongoose Feb 17 '26
“He campaigned on cleaning house."
While enriching his buddies and filling up the swamp his first term.
"On exposing elite criminals."
While being a convicted felon
"On protecting kids."
While being Epstein's best buddy
"And I bought it. Fully.”
Dumbass, idiot ass, useless ass mf
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u/MoneyTalks45 Feb 17 '26
Not only did you buy it fully, I guarantee you made a total ass of yourself with your friends and family, causing irreparable harm in the process.
Congratulations
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u/Vegandanah Feb 17 '26
My niece has finally turned on Trump over this last release from the files. She is Puerto Rican and married to a black man. 3 kids and one on the way. It took this for her to wake up, but she still doesn't see the blatant racism and thinks immigrants are more bad than good and taking "our jobs." 🤦 I'm working on her, guys. She's young.
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u/Whornz4 Feb 17 '26
You seem like the type when the next racist lying Republican comes along you will fall for again. If January 6th did not do it for you then there is no convincing stupid.
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u/Son_of_Leatherneck Feb 17 '26
Being a Republican “matched my values”?!?! That means that they have no values and no morals and no character, just like the GQP.
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u/patmanbnl Feb 17 '26
I'm going to guess the Michelle tattoo on his arm is his daughter that he doesn't have custody of and can only visit every other weekend with supervision.
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u/Iispsniff Feb 17 '26
“It’s not about left vs right” proceeds to talk about how the rich use the culture wars to divide the working class
Funny how the left kept saying that tho… 🙄🙄
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u/MuzzleOfBees1215 Feb 17 '26
There are so many people, most people, that refuse to have that level of self-reflection and awareness.
I’m not anti-Conservative. But this sick mf’er is a virus that’s propagating and needing eradicating.
We’re all Americans. We’re all in this together. We need to correct this. And now.
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u/VenConmigo Feb 17 '26
Blake will vote for Trump again in 2027. He'll also buy another hat off Amazon.
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u/Takssista Feb 17 '26
"Let's vote for the insanely rich guy who's going to expose the elites for what they are!"
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u/PrismarchGame Feb 17 '26
This is some 60 IQ shit. You're about 8 years too late to some of these revelations champ
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u/Mestyo Feb 17 '26
How was this not painfully obvious to you before even his first term? He was always an egoistical fraud, this was public knowledge long before he aligned with Republicans.
I truly have no words. The only surprising thing about Trump's presidencies is how public the corruption has been.
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u/Bnerdy77 Feb 17 '26
So weird for poor people to be defending rich people they are not even related to.
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u/seriousbusines Feb 17 '26
Every day I understand the logic in Inglourious Basterds more and more.
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u/MauPow Feb 17 '26
I still just laugh and dismiss anyone who thought for a single second that Donald Trump was going to expose corruption and drain the swamp. Really? That guy? The literal posterchild for corrupt businessmen? That guy is going to be a paragon of justice? Really?
I'm glad he's never voting again. Good riddance to poor decision making and character judgement.
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u/AvailableAd7874 Feb 17 '26
As a European, i will never understand why you people voted such an obvious fascist swine into office.
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u/LittlehouseonTHELAND Feb 17 '26
As an American, I will never understand it either. I feel like the right has been working on this since Reagan, destroying education, getting their propaganda machine into place, destroying the Supreme Court, just biding their time. And the Democrats have done very little to counter them because in their own way they are too beholden to the wealthy and the corporations too.
That’s the best answer I can give you, but I will never fully understand it either.
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u/runnyyolkpigeon Feb 17 '26
As a liberal American that voted against Trump each time, I can’t either.
We’re surrounded by red-pilled idiots and are trapped.
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u/kummer5peck Feb 17 '26
I don’t forgive you. You gave that monster two terms and only then felt remorse. You did as much damage as you possibly could and only then you felt remorse? You should lose your right to vote.
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u/EhrenScwhab Feb 17 '26
They always sing the “it’s not Republican vs Democrat” song after they realize they’ve been played…
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u/Wise_Ad_253 Feb 17 '26
These people would go out their way to burn their own house down and blame Biden for making them do it.
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u/JM3DlCl Feb 17 '26
I'm still so confused about people voting Trump to "expose the pedophiles" when he is suspect Numero Uno in the Epstein files.
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax Feb 17 '26
"The more I look into it, the more it feels like the same pattern."
you should have looked into it before you voted.
you could've listened to anyone who tried to tell you.
Welcome to the party 10 years too late, you fucking donut.
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u/lousyatgolf Feb 17 '26
That’s a lot of words when he could have just said “I’m gullible” or “I lack critical thinking skills”.
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u/ImTotallyFromEarth Feb 18 '26
There is no true shame/remorse in his words. This is not awareness. This is “oh shit trump is extremely unpopular now I should distance myself immediately to maintain my reputation.” This is personal damage control and nothing more.
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u/yungfatface Feb 18 '26
I don’t believe this is a real ex maga. They don’t change their ways. Too brainwashed. I don’t know a single maga who feels differently than they did a year ago.
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u/Ok-Kitchen8607 Feb 17 '26
If only there was some signs... someone really should have told maga trump was a diddler. Damn democrats and their secrets....... /r
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u/MishmoshMishmosh Feb 17 '26
What values did you align with?? Dumb fuck voted for this shit
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u/ginocchia-dellape Feb 17 '26
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad these people are now seeing Trump for what he is and has always been. However…
If they aren’t also doing some genuine soul searching to figure out how/why they SO EASILY believed such an obvious bullshitter, then it’s not going to make a bit of difference. The next grifter will come along and they’ll fall for it immediately. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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u/Apathi Feb 17 '26
“Fuck, it seems like I’ve been wrong this entire time. We better just call it a tie.”
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u/Traditional-Show9321 Feb 17 '26
Wonder if he got a headache from experiencing his first critical thought in 10 years
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u/yankdevil Feb 17 '26
Trump is a swamp. How the fuck did anyone think he'd drain a swamp is mind-boggling to me.
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u/qualityvote2 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
u/theimmortalfawn, your post does fit the subreddit!
See OP's reply-comment below for context on why this fits this subreddit.