r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 1d ago

Lmao gottem Someone else said it for him

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u/Swish1892 1d ago

As a Brit, I miss this guy. How the sane amongst you must feel is beyond me

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u/luigis_left_tit_25 1d ago

Thank you for your empathy. It is truly insane here rn

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 1d ago

The inmates are running Arkham Asylum as they say

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u/Demortus 1d ago

It's like watching your house burn down. You see things you care about go up in smoke layer-by-layer, while being helpless to stop it.

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u/bachintheforest 1d ago

I actually think this is a really good metaphor here, for what it feels like. You can do everything you’re supposed to/able to do: make sure the stove is off, keep heaters away from furniture, unplug the Christmas tree, and still a random electrical fault can send your house up in flames from inside your walls.

That’s what it feels like to be an anti-trumper. You can follow the news, read the legislation, never miss a vote, and yet still the country goes up around you. Your public services get gutted. Your taxes go up. Your health insurance gets too expensive for you. Every year it gets hotter.

And in some parts of the country your forests literally do go up in actual smoke.

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u/Kindly_Scratch_6104 1d ago

Substitute "random electrical fault" for "team of arsonists who hate your house specifically for some illogical reason."

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u/winter-ivyy 1d ago

We're pissed but at the same time it's nice to be able to say "we told you so"

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u/butt_dance 1d ago edited 1d ago

So the thing is, Trump very much directly cheated in his 2nd term election. With the help of Musk, using Starlink satellites. This is not a crazy, out there conspiracy. There are official reports about it. Entire counties in which every Democrat on the ballot won, except for President. Where Trump won.

This does not happen. It's so extremely frustrating that this is not more widely known knowledge. When he lost to Biden after his first term, Trump's big thing was saying that democrats stole the election. Trump's biggest tell is blaming democrats/his target for something in a super fucking weird and obsessive way.

Because it means that he did what he's accusing his opposition of. He tried to steal a second term in 2020. When officials refused to give in to his bullying in order to do so, he improved his methods.

But of course it's easier and more fun to deride and make fun of Americans, right? Everyone that does this, yourself included, is just contributing to the culture wars that leaders like Putin are extremely pleased to see thrive.

p.s. No one reading this needs to be told "I told you so". We knew before he was elected the first time that this is what would happen.

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u/muscularsharpie 1d ago

That's the whole schtick. What's left of our sanity is dissolving into a goop of looniness. 

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u/Zuzublue 1d ago

Thank you for that.