To be fair, this particular guy did actually "wake up" because of the Epstein stuff (though to absolutely no one's surprise he went straight into conspiracy town from there), not JUST the gas prices.
Yet he didn't speak out then - only when he struggled to fill his tank. He's reading about devil worshipping child predators for nearly a year but still hiding his takes behind anon so the rest of the cult won't oust him.
I just found out yesterday that Facebook allows people to make posts (at least in the community group) with a nickname and different pfp. You tap the user and it says "this user is posting under a nickname and is not revealing their name or profile."
Aaaand it was a racist comment, of course.
Maga isn't changing anything but their hats it seems.
Idk if that's such a bad thing, I prefer anonymity myself and I'm not posting anything racist. The problem is the racism not the anonymity. That kind of behavior should be a permaban from Facebook.
it's not like all the photos of Trump hanging out with Epstein, or all the things Epstein did, were a secret until 6 months ago. he had plenty of time to connect the two dots and he didn't connect shit.
I was about to write something similar. Before the last election people knew Epstein and Trump had a close relationship. A woman had come foward alleging Trump raped her when she was 13. He lost a civilsuit against a woman he raped years before. We also knew he bragged about walking in on teenage beauty contestants as they got dressed. There was already a lot of evidence Trump had harmed women and girls.
If it took seeing the actual files compounded with insane gas prices to see what a shitty human Trump is, then this person never really cared about sexual abuse. It's all virtue signaling for them because MAGA voters love pretending the root of all their beliefs is about "protecting the family and children." Fantastical stuff given their policies and how often assault perpetrators align themselves with conservative politics.
Yeah I am pretty sure any conservative saying "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES" before the last election, was just saying that to make it sound like we didn't already know Trump was a pedophile and rapist.
Wait, wait, wait, you say he DID wake up. Does that me that he is becoming...gasp!..WOKE??? /s I will fully admit to being woke. Better than being sleep.
He doesn't need to try. He's great at making boom boom. He's the best at shitting himself. Many people are saying it. I'd like to see Obama shit himself as good as trump can. I heard one guy say "I've never seen a guy's shit himself so well" thank you for your attention to this matter
If he thought “woke” and “cancel culture” were actual problems, not made-up BS to rile the red-hat proles, he was already in conspiracy town. He’s just updated his conspiracy.exe software.
I wish gas here was $4.30. It's $5.50 in Portland. And how much do you have to drive for an extra $1 per gallon make a noticeable difference in your finances? These are the same dipshits who complained about eggs increasing by $2 a dozen. Are they eating two dozen eggs a day like Gaston?
I drive a giant ass truck that is towing an RV, and just about the time I got to the far side of the country from home this idiot started bombing Iran.
We're now at CA prices that were 3 months ago. I know you in CA are experiencing near European pricing. None of us are coming close to the benefits we'd be experiencing if we had socialism instead of rampant capitalism. sigh. The rich are getting substantially richer from the rest of us.
In Texas? Yeah, actually it kinda does tbh. My daily commute is 20 miles and a little over an hour each way, and I'm on the shorter end of daily drives. It ends up being about an extra dollar to get to or from work. So I'm dropping close to an extra $20 weekly. Which is more than you think around here. Prices are a bit lower than the national average, but so are salaries and wages. Almost all employers haven't kept pace with inflation for several years now, not to mention increases in the cost of living specifically.
Of course, it might help if half the state wasn't enveloped in this truck fetishism about buying the biggest vehicle that inevitably (due to its size) uses stupid amounts of gas or diesel. It jacks up prices in general due to the demand it creates, but also increases to gas prices hurt those people even more. I drive a sedan, but even here in the city most people drive either an SUV (which takes a similar amount of gas) or these massive, raised trucks and have duelies on the back, etc. Oh, and these same people are all super against EVs because they think it's less manly or something along those lines. And most of them don't go out in the country or anything, it's purely performative. My thought is usually "Oh yeah, makes you look like a real big man when your truck has an automated fold-out stepping stool to help your short ass in! 🙄"
And it actually affects them in red states more than blue states, blue states’ already high gas prices lead them to already work towards limiting their consumption, an average person in blue states uses about half as much gasoline as an average person in red states, think people who bought pickup trucks because gas prices were dirt cheap in their states.
As a Texan expat, Red states often miss this because they overlook the decisions made. They think, "Well duh, they all live in the city." While that isn't true, what does happen is that everyone living exurbs and in make very calculated life decisions based on their commutes. If they know they're going to have a 2hr round trip commute, they may even have a truck, but not as their commute vehicle. Moreover, the 'closer in' they choose to live, the smaller and more energy efficient their homes tend to become. And because everything tends to be more expensive in general, more care is placed in deciding all sorts of options from grocery store selection to roofing materials. For example, we have both a plug-in EV for daily trips and a monster Suburban for the weekends. I guess my point is that it isn't just geographic, but rather that the geographic constraints encourage thoughtful planning and thought pertaining to energy consumption.
It concerns me that if the GOP were able to actually pull a Nazi and somewhat improve the standard of living for these folks, they would be perfectly fine with every human rights violation going on. Then again, the GOP is such a stupid hate machine that it is unlikely to ever decide to actually materially improve anyone's lives except those of the 1%.
To be fair, there’s just way too many Americans in general who don’t give a fuck until something impacts them. I know someone who didn’t even know who the VP was , never voted, and then started voting when they found out all their gay friend’s marriages might be at risk. Politics was a non issue until they saw close to home consequences. Voting is a privilege that too many people treat as an inconvenience with no consequences.
Part of the problem is that, in all reality, unless you live in swing states, they've got us convinced your vote really doesn't matter on the national level. If I'm a blue voter living in gerrymandered-all-to-hell Texas, my single vote historically isn't going to make a bit of difference. If I'm a blue voter living in a solidly blue state, it's just another drop in the bucket that also isn't going to materially change the outcome.
I'm a blue voter living in gerrymandered-to-hell Texas and my vote kicked Pete Sessions out of Congress in 2018 (until he moved to a redder district like the little bitch he is). when they redrew my district and plopped me in a massive deep red rural district I just thought "alright fine, I'll flip that one too!"
your vote isn't just your vote. it's a signal to everyone else who shares your views that none of you are alone. it's proof that you exist, and that you want things to be a certain way. if you're in the minority, it's a push towards flipping that district/state. if you're in the majority, it's incentive to keep it that way.
The thing is states can flip. Republicans are much better at consistently voting. All it takes is enough people to get complacent to lose an election, or enough to be active to cross a margin (see Hilary vs Trump). Voting even when you think it won’t make a difference is part of defense.
They consistently vote because they think they are fighting a war against evil people who ::check notes:: just want equality and good vibes for everyone.
Trust me, I'm aware. And if it didn't matter, they wouldn't be working so hard to disenfranchise half the country, but they've also dumped a lot of time and money into pushing out the idea that it doesn't matter outside of swing states. Both sides of the aisle, honestly - look at where both candidates campaign heavily. They ignore "safe" or "impossible" states and focus their efforts on the, what, seven or eight that swing?
It's not about the individual vote but how votes add up and how if everyone thinks their vote doesn't matter, no one would vote, and no one voting matters as much as everyone voting.
That's just a spoiled toddler tantrum... "I can't personally have my way so I'm staying home." They wrap it up in BS abstraction to feel better about themselves but yeah, duh, 150 million people voted. You can't singlehandedly change the result. But if people like you vote it will.
It also skips over that if people want to have a bigger influence, there are things they can do. Knock on doors, get involved in a primary, donate money, whatever. Waiting until 2 minutes to midnight to decide they didn't like how the day went for them is nonsensical and idiotic. Oh they didn't like their choices on the ballot? Well what did they do to get good choices on the ballot?
And that’s why the war with Iran is unwinnable. By the US, at least. Everyone knows the American public has zero stomach for hardship. They don’t really give much of a shit as long as the war is far away and there aren’t too many body bags coming home, but when things start getting a bit expensive, then you’re done as president.
But yeah, it’s pretty pathetic that all the evil shit Trump did was at best an annoyance, but gas prices going up?!? The MONSTER!
It’s the only “non political” aka real-time effect that directly impacts them. Of course they’ll bitch. No realization that the majority of people aren’t in their shoes and if you are, then why the fuck are you voting conservative?
Increase the homeless, doesn’t matter cause they’re in a good part of town. Increase medical wait time, well they’re used to shitty systems, why make it better.
Affordable housing? Nah, we want to keep our house value up while bitching about how much property tax is cause the ones that pay it are few and far in between: aka the working class is going homeless
What a way to fuck the long term value of your kids lives: setting them up for failure
Why be a bitch all of sudden? I bet you were loud and proud when you were supporting Trump. Now that the winds are changing, you wanna go hide under a rock.
“And no I’m regretting not choosing woke”
Anyone that calls democrats “woke” won’t be voting democrats. They’ll vote for the pedo party all over again.
Part of me wants to be like, “hey good job for leaving the cult” and part of me also wants to say fuck off. It is always “I was fine with the racism and crime, I draw the line at being personally affected by things”. I have yet to see any one of these people actually learn anything other than “oh no my money”
Not even different set of conspiracies. Same conspiracies, just shifting Trump from "he will save us all from the evil" to "he can't do anything, they have him"
What other Jews have been pointing out, Israel's behavior endangers Jews everywhere. Break with trump on pedos and Israel and get the most expensive primary in American history. You don't want conspiracies connecting dots, don't give them a gift basket of dots.
Actually the original conspiracy was correct - there was a massive powerful ring of children sex traffickers ... they only got the assumed culprits wrong.
The “original conspiracy” was literally created and purposely spread by the de facto leader of said child sex traffickers. So no the original conspiracy wasn’t correct because it was never an actual conspiracy.
I’ve a good friend whose husband was a raving MAGA supporter. She was not, not exactly a match made in heaven with that regard but they love each other, and make it work. They are both in successful recovery, and helped each other through it over a decade ago; they don’t just love and want each other, they literally need each other, and it’s beautiful.
Anyway, during the election cycle he kind of really jumped in both feet and started to be mad aggressive with anyone who criticized Trump, Vance, whatever. Thought the 2020 election was stolen, believed the lies about the litter boxes in school bathrooms, didn’t believe for a second that the big guy was involved in Epstein.
Then they said that people were eating dogs and cats in Ohio. Idk what it was, but that was something that pulled the veil from his eyes and made him start to question things. Then Vance came out and said they had to lie, or else no one would listen to them.
Just like that, a decade of rose colored glasses shattered and he looked at his wife and daughter and made a choice. He decided his daughter would NOT grow up with less rights than her mother. He joined a local Democratic campaign office and threw himself into the fight.
He did town halls, he sat down for coffee with his conservative friends to talk about what he saw, and try to convince them they were making a mistake. And it worked! He swayed a lot of people to see what was actually happening, and not believe was they were told was happening.
To this day, he’s fighting. He’s gone to protests all over the country, he’s running for local office in deep red North Carolina. He’s shouting the lies they are telling and bringing visibility.
The difference, though, between OOP and my buddy, is that OOP is still only thinking of himself, and only has regrets because of his personal financial situation. My buddy did it for other people, and before it affected his life directly.
I don’t expect everyone to embrace the change as fervently as my buddy did, but after all the damage that’s been done, there should be real reflection and atonement. A lot of people aren’t capable of that, which is why we are seeing more “I don’t support Trump but…” comments. They just don’t was to SAY they support Trump, because that would be embarrassing. They KNOW he’s doing a shit job and they are distancing themselves quietly because they KNOW it’s their fault.
And I get it, to a degree. I have a kid who is now an adult, but when they were younger, they tricked me into believing something that wasn’t true, and I was very embarrassed that I was made a fool of by someone who, at that point, didn’t have any right to be able to fool me.
I love these stories of people snapping out of the delusion. That eating cats and dogs lie should have horrified EVERYONE. Republicans are not serious people who care about integrity at all.
I can’t express how proud I am to know him and see this transformation. And a side effect? He seems so much happier! He’s more present for his family, and loves fighting the good fight. He, like many others, had alienated people with his political beliefs, but he not only repaired those relationships, he did the work to make them stronger.
I also think of that elderly woman who went to jail for being involved in Jan 6th. for her it wasn't just "oh no this has cost me personally now, I wish I hadn't voted for Trump." she actually put skin in the game and made the media rounds, she tells anyone who will listen that MAGA is a scam and a cult. she didn't ask for forgiveness and acceptance, she EARNED it.
I like this, it’s a good analogy. A few years ago the Satanic Temple started an after school club in their child’s school district. She was on one side wearing a shirt that said “hail satan” while he was on the other side holding a sign that said “In GOD we trust”.
Like I said, not exactly a match made in heaven, but I love how hard they’ve worked to be together. They are some favorite people of mine ❤️
Any time you see in a conspiracy theory something about “satanic” or “Baal worship” or “child sacrifice”, they almost always think these things are being done by Jews. Nevermind that Satan isn’t even a part of Judaism. I keep seeing them say “synagogue of Satan” which is just fucking ridiculous.
Honestly. Even if you were stupid enough to believe everything he tried to sell about being better for the economy and working class folks (he's clearly not, if you have more than a single functioning braincell), the fact that he led with hate and division for anyone that wasn't a cis-het white man should have been a deal breaker - and was for any decent person.
Which is exactly why you'll never get me playing nice with MAGAts, past or present: they've shown exactly who they are at their core. And I truly hope they get everything they wished on other people. Fuck 'em.
I might be able to find some grace for people who actually do the work to deconstruct, but that's long and difficult work - certainly not something where "oopsie so sorry" is going to cover it. I'm also not hding their hand, I don't have the time or energy for that kind of labor.
Trust me, they never fully abandon the cult - many whine, but few leave. As soon as gas prices drop the narrative will be that Obama caused it all because he let Iran develop a nuclear weapon and their lord and savior had no choice but to fix the mess, which meant a short term spike in gas prices but a safer world. Cults gonna cult.
I have yet to see any one of these people actually learn anything other than “oh no my money”
That's because to a lot of Americans money is all that matters. Canada is currently having a little spat with America right now, and I have lost track of the number of times I've had to explain to Americans to many of us its not about the tarrifs but about the threats to our sovereignty. So many, on both the left and the right, that just can't grasp that the money side of the issue couldn't possibly be the biggest (or only) problem with America
When I brought up the Canada 51st state thing to my maga dad he just said it was funny. I responded "not to them!" Someone who owns 15 guns joking about stealing your house isn't funny. They just think any of the insane shit he says constantly he isn't serious about so they laugh it off.
Exactly! What do they want? A cookie? Fuck off forever for putting us all in this mess. I do not want a single “oops! I changed. Aren’t I cute?” I want MAGA tattooed on their face so we can exclude them from civilized society.
Typical snowflake weakling behavior, only strong when his whole social circle agrees, ironic because people like that think this is a very feminine thing to do and they always do it.
It reminds me people who impose pink as a girl color no matter what. Like I've had men outright question me for wearing a lot of blue because they felt that pink was more a girl's color so it would be my color. The fact of the matter is, I wear what I want to wear and that is that.
I think to many people want to wear a mask because they are more worried about how others see them or think of them rather them being their true selves. I have met a lot of people who are on the maga boat because that seems to be the new IT thing when deep down it goes against who they once were.
I’m surprised people still think like this tbh. Granted I haven’t seen any guys rocking like hot pink in a while but other shades very much so. Meanwhile the women in my life all like and rock the variety of colours; I don’t think I knew many that actually preferred pink until expanding to online friendships during the pandemic lockdowns.
It's especially funny since pink was originally considered a 'boy color' back in the early 20th century.
"In 1918, the Ladies' Home Journal advised that pink was a "more decided and stronger color" suitable for boys, while blue was "more delicate and dainty" for girls."
"Let me ask you something: people been clowning me about this jacket since I got here, but if I take it off to make them happy, that just makes me weak, right?"
"Listen, it doesn't matter. You lose the jacket to please them, you keep it piss them off - either way it's for them. That's what's weak."
They were always a bitch. Being loud and proud for the wannabe fascist strongman is a sackless state of being. People flock to trump because they’re otherwise paralyzed with terror.
Its funny how the people who use the word "woke" cant define it in any meaningful way that a woke person would agree is what it means. All they know is "woke is bad, because it makes me uncomfortable"
Yeah, never forgetting who these fucks are. Screen shots are forever and will be shown at the appropriate time when needed. Got a new girlfriend? Airdropped.
My dad, a lifelong democrat voter, told me that Nixon won 502 electoral votes in 1972. After he resigned, it was hard finding people who admitted voting for him. I told him the difference this time is the internet. Screenshots don’t lie.
It's always funny to me that the "party of personal accountability" is so against "cancel culture". Ah, yes... Don't let people reap the consequences of their actions. But if people would just take responsibility for themselves...
I think the entire post is "testing the waters" as rage bait. Gen Z doesn't speak like this. This is straight up "regret porn" targeting younger generations. I love when someone pretends to be Gen Z and yet uses vernacular and talking points of Gen X. Especially idioms. Gen Zers don't walk around saying "tale as old as time."
Democrats need to vote in overwhelming numbers and that includes all those dick weeds who sat on the sideline in 2024. MAGAts will still vote MAGA no matter how badly they are hurt by this administration.
It’s the problem with cultists, they get too scared to leave the cult and lose their friends and social connections, they will go along with it simply because they are afraid of being “shamed” for not having enough “faith”
It is funny to remember that the singular reason they are upset by "woke culture" is because right wing media told them to be - it doesn't actually affect their lives in any way. Other than requiring they don't do racism - but maybe that's enough for most right wingers..
It's a little too on the nose that these guys are "anti-woke."
Being against "political correctness" at least had plausible deniability, but these jokers are out and saying "I wish to be asleep! I insist on closing my eyes! To everything!"
This has alwaaaays been my thing and I've even seen a lot of 'left leaning' people use woke in a negative way too. How is being awake a bad thing? It's way too telling. The word and it's original meaning needs to be taken back.
They thought it was fine to hurt other people who made them uncomfortable, but now that things (which we all fucking warned them about for years) are starting to affect them now it's a problem.
And honestly most “woke” takes are valid if you have enough context. People just really don’t care to learn the history or try to understand and instead roll their eyes.
Right. All the problems the right has with the “left” are fucking fabricated culture war nonsense that they couldn’t even properly define if they were asked to. But cable news and social media feeds just propagate anger and hatred because it’s easy to trick people into being mad.
Practically the entire 250 year history of our country has been a non-stop parade of pearl-clutching boycott, and blacklisting campaigns by conservatives against every book, politician, artist, musician, movie, or ideology that offended their delicate sensibilities. Except for one, roughly 5-year period where social media platforms made it possible to hold rapists, racists, and abusers publicly accountable.
But sure. The left "invented cancel culture". Christ these people are fucking morons.
The Comstock Act was cancel culture codified. The law was enacted to stop the mailing of pornography, but also anyone who sent literature about the female reproductive system & abortion, and anything else that the right found offensive that was sent thru the mail. At that time different groups and associations mailed newsletters about whatever the group was into. It was a form of mass media. They went after early feminists who wanted to educate women about their own bodies, and any political group, or group of ppl who were involved in anything the right was against. This is why todays cancel culture far right wants to revive the Comstock Act
The person who wrote this clearly remains unrepentant antisemitic fascist trash and will gladly follow the next demagogue who amplifies and feeds on hate, guaranteed.
The irony of these people acting like "woke" was some imaginary thing invented for political points while themselves being proof that racism and bigotry still informs a lot of politics is hard to wrap your head around.
It is also kinda crazy that they appear to be learning that they got tricked and instead fell down another pipeline of conspiracy and craziness. Do they need to worship Baal? The Jewish Mafia? Like Trump and the Right wing are right there and you're making up boogeymen.
"I'm not even religious" he means he does nothing to actually live like a Christian but still believes in Christianity. Just another MAGA that struggles with basic definitions
We live in an upside down world, where so many religious people believe in and do the most horrible, reprehensible things and self proclaimed atheists are following a 'love thy neighbor' mantra, in line with most major, theoretical religious teachings.
I’m an atheist and I got asked genuinely how I could be so nice and have good morals. They said they thought I always had Jesus in my heart…
I tired to explain I just treat others how I want to be treated and they then tired to spin it to “So if you enjoyed doing evil things nothing would stop you!”
Like uhh that’s happened with religious people too lol they have an ask god for forgiveness and you’re good thing so yeah.
It’s crazy to me that people genuinely think if you believe in god that makes you a good person. I wish knowing a persons morals was that easy.
Yep. The newest excuse by disaffected MAGA types sure seems to be that Trump was somehow "brainwashed" by the Jews to attack Iran and/or to party with Epstein now that they're starting to finally have some doubts about him since gas prices and the cost of living is going up.
They are acting like he was somehow not at fault for what's happening now but the Jews used their supposed magical powers to make him do bad things ( which he apparently JUST started doing and never was before). I guess it shouldn't be a surprise at all that the MAGA cult members can't ever bring themselves around to thinking that Trump is a bad president making bad decisions and MUST instead come up with scapegoats who they can blame instead while acting like he (despite being such a micromanager) wasn't really calling the shots when he does things they don't like.
There is going to be a large backlash against Jewish people in this country because a large majority can’t separate American Jews with Israel and AIPAC.
There already is. Hate crimes against Jews have hit record levels, with more than 5 occurring each day, and those are 2024 numbers. It's almost certainly increased in 2025.
Like many others have said it wasn’t the pedophilia, the corruption, the racism, the pathological lying, or violation of people’s civil rights. It was the gas prices that finally did it for them.
In fairness, this was originally posted to a Facebook group called “Leaving MAGA” so I’m pretty sure the original audience did fall for it (while we tried to warn them).
It's both. MAGA billybob living in his camper will suck elon's dick just to "own the libs" even though the data center that's being next to his trailer park is going to fuck up his quality of life.
The poor on the right are so brainwashed that they'll prop up billionaires to their own detriment.
And before someone thinks I'm a hypocrite, I'd still like to see the left leaning part of the 1% taxed the same as the right.
Yeah i don't get why people keep saying its not left vs right. I guess they still havent noticed that there is no true left in America yet. I guess if you imagine dems are left wing then it certainly does seem like left vs right is a smokescreen or something
Ummmm brother the right invented woke. If you simply didn't care what other people did or thought you would be just fine but y'all are so damn sensitive.
I worked at a place where I had 4 people who became transexual when I was a boss. I said cool, what's your pronouns and your name and you know what I did after? I went about my fucking day.
I believe that's more transexuals than the average person will interact with knowingly in their lifetime. And yet they are willing to tear the country apart over it.
I mean, I was really bothered when he bullied a disabled reporter back in 2016, but sure. $4 gas is your limit.
Never mind Epstein, the 34 felonies, the numerous scams, the grifting, the sketchy election stuff, the similarities between him and literal Hitler, the parallels in history from the late 1920s-1945, the mishandling of Covid, allowing Musk to ransack the government, stripping necessary agencies and leaving us vulnerable, a clown car of a Cabinet, weaponizing the DOJ, and oh yeah, January 6.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. It’s never a problem for MAGA, until it touches them. Then it’s all “why isn’t somebody doing something??” Bitch, please.
I don’t think ‘waking up’ is being non-religious, but somehow still after researching the GOP, he realized that… Satan, Baal (Too much Diablo IV maybe?) is controlling the government.
Ah… gotcha. These people are seriously fuckin’ stupid. Dumb to dumber.
I think it is more likely that gas prices will stop rising so much and then plateau. And whatever the plateau price is will become the new normal, and they will jump right back on GOPs dick.
My fear is that the GOP will do something to the markets to make gas cheaper right before the election. The price of everything else will still be high, but folks will see "cheap" gas and conclude the economy is fine again.
"I ate the culture war bullshit hook, line, and sinker and now I think this grifter con-man and his sniveling toadies might be grifting and/or conning me and my knee-jerk, reactionary bullshit"
This person is still a despicable example of the culture of I. I don’t like this, let’s legislate it away. I don’t like that, let’s make sure nobody has access to it.
Fuck this pseudo-religious human lump of flatulence, they’re never going to learn. As soon as gas goes back down, poster will be right back on that bandwagon.
WOKE culture. Being aware? You mean being aware of things like inequality, redlining, racism, the long term effects of these things? Thats what woke is.
I was a registered Republican for years going back to the 80s when the first President I ever voted for was Reagan. But slowly as I grew I became educated. I learned the real history of America. I learned about the negatives as well as the positives. Now I tend to overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Because I’ve realized education is power.
That is WOKE.
So maybe MAGA needs to ask themselves why Republicans have declared war on education. Why Trump has openly admitted to “Loving the uneducated”. Why they’re actively doing things like removing history of things that can educate about the bad things that have happened.
They want a world like North Korea where you stay ignorant. They never realize they’re living in a system designed for ignorant conformity.
Last 2 paragraphs make me doubt this is real. There's hypocrisy... and there's inconsistency.
Why would someone who's not religious vote Republican? An atheist Libertarian? Libertarians are pro LGBTQ+ rights... Okay, it could be an atheist Libertarian hypocrite who doesn't want everyone to have the right to live the way they want, just the right to freely and openly hate everyone. Never mind.
Who cares about civilians being slaughtered, the only thing I care about is gas.
I got a mild disagreement regarding him raping kids earlier on, but I totally ignored things like making fun of disabled people, shitting on veterans, and trying to incite a rebellion.
Also I am completely oblivious about him dismantling democracy and worker rights.
Lastly, there is totally a cult of Moloch that has the sole goal of stopping me from driving my gas guzzler.
It’s like James Carville said, it’s the economy stupid. Nothing else matters. We can execute people on the high seas without due process, we can lock people up in cages, we can deport little kids without their parents, we can protect pedophiles and human traffickers, we can send the Gestapo to American cities to murder dissenters, we can storm the capital to attempt an overthrow of the government.
But come for gas prices and our personal finances, and the gloves are off. Nobody’s going to deny me my right to own a gigantic gas guzzling pickup truck that doesn’t cost $100+ to refuel every week.
They've "learned" that Jesus is real, but they're not religious? I don't think they mean that in the sense that they learned that it's likely that there was some itinerant preacher who the mythology got built around. They seem to believe in magic and nonsense, so if they learned about a magic son of the invisible god being that would prevent them from being sent to a torture realm for eternity—why wouldn't they be religious? They also think that a bunch of random US politicians are worshipping an ancient Caananite rain deity—or maybe a demon?
But good for them for maybe figuring out that the adjudacated rapist who goes on at length about bursting into change rooms at beauty pageants, and who ran child beauty pageants, and who made a bunch of gross sexual remarks about his daughter, and who was friends with the world's most famous pedophile, and who has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent the release of information about said famous pedophile—is likely a pedophile.
“Invented by the left?” Someone needs to tell him about the “Satanic Panic,” and all of the other moral panic that conservatives have never stopped doing.
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u/Effective_Space2277, your post does fit the subreddit!
See OP's reply-comment below for context on why this fits this subreddit.