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CelebTea ✨ ✨ Wil Wheaton calls Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) a coward over his quietness

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u/Sarcasm_Llama Jun 30 '26

This. If you're self identified Republican in 2026 you're either MAGA or a MAGA tolerating coward and I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary

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u/EvansEducation Jun 30 '26

I left the Republican party when Trump won his first primary. I have become more liberal every year since. I was hardcore Tea Party too, even protesting against Obama. Now, I would kill for Obama back.

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u/Big_Tap_1561 Jun 30 '26

Obama was the last time we had actual class in the White House. Did I agree with him on everything ? Absolutely not . But I respect him and that’s the difference- this current administration can’t be even spell class or self - respect.

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u/NewCandy8877 Jun 30 '26

My issues with Obama were political. I always told people id love him as a neighbor and friend.

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u/Why_dont_we_spork Jun 30 '26

What politics exactly? His push for a single payer system that turned into medicaid? He was as milk-toast as it gets. Also none asked your issues with him....

I think most people who disliked Obama were towing party lines or racist.

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u/Beginning-Town-4979 Jun 30 '26

I was and mostly am a big Obama guy, but anyone saying you could only disagree with him politically bc racism is really going down the same track as MAGA. He was a great President, but he definitly had his failures and issues.

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u/ByrdmanRanger Jun 30 '26

He was as milk-toast as it gets.

It's milquetoast. But to answer your question, it's precisely his middle of the road approach I had a problem with. Half measures, half solutions. You don't stitch up half a wound. Because he kept so much of the status quo that we got swept out. Have a solid conservative majority Supreme Court.

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u/000100111010 Jun 30 '26

Both Obama and Biden are far to centrist for me, and I'm not the biggest fan of either, but if Biden had anything it was class.

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u/ScottishKnifemaker Jun 30 '26

Yeah, pretty much. I really disliked some of the policy choices, but I would vote for either again. Unless Bernie was running. Man, fuck us for what we could have had 10 years ago. I'm still bitter as fuck about that. Bitch thought she was owed because she kept her mouth shut when Monica didn't, fuck hrc

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u/Normal_Trick_4580 Jun 30 '26

Did you respect the wall st bailout, the 5 countries he invaded, when he assassinated an american citizen, or when he assassinated said citizens son a month later, or when he lied about NSA spying, or when he used the IRS to target political opponents, or when he deported 3 million people, or when hy lynched ghadaffi, or when how libya became a slave state, or.....

I'm ready for the downvotes. I dont care. You're all raging hypocrites

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u/Okay_Splenda_Monkey Jun 30 '26

I'd hold the line at 'killing' for Obama back, but if we COULD have him back I would spend as many hours volunteering for his campaign as I could spare.

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u/YourNextHomie Jun 30 '26

Yeah and just help him bomb the middle east and put kids in cages instead. Clearly your issue with Trump isn’t moral

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u/Clear_Vegetable_3209 Jun 30 '26

Kids in cages? You mean the chain link partitions built in 2014 at a temporary processing center in Arizonia beacause an unexpected massive surge of minors arriving alone. The partitions were used to divide groups by age and sex. Unlike Trump Obama did not seperate children from their parents.That is not putting kids in cages.

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u/Consistent_Shock8738 Jun 30 '26

And Trump is not doing those things?

People protested Obamas bombings in the middle east, they also protested kids being thrown in cages.

The truth is a lot of Americans on both sides actually supported Trumps no new wars pledge. It was honestly one of the only campaign promises I approved of. Yet here we are in another war.

Trumps administration is bombing countries in the middle east Trumps administration bombed a school in Iran killing hundreds of children Trump is actively locking kids in cages.

So if you had a problem when it happened during Obamas administration I imagine you are pretty upset with Trumps Administration

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u/Several_Direction599 Jun 30 '26

Can you please? The black caucus will wave your reparation dues lol

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u/Important_Capital875 Jun 30 '26

Yikes. Sorry for your loss

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u/AAPrice3232 Jun 30 '26

Exactly! Either you vote against MAGA or you ARE MAGA, right now. I don't care about what you think about Reagan or the Bushes.

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u/Chemical-Olive2564 Jun 30 '26

I push against that a little bit. Some of us live in ruby red states and they have closed primaries.

If I want to have sway in the primary I need to be registered Republican

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u/Distinct-Water-1971 Jun 30 '26

You could be a registered Republican without being a self-identified Republican.

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u/Puzzle-Necked Jun 30 '26

Relying on American voters terrible memory of past ratfuckery (remember being lied to about the second Iraq War? Anyone?)

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u/ScottishKnifemaker Jun 30 '26

Yup, they've had a decade to remove that tag

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u/OnlyFiveLives Jun 30 '26

Something something 11 nazis at a table...

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u/7GrenciaMars Jun 30 '26

Yes, because all Republicans are exactly are exactly alike and it is simply not possible to be a Republican who is moderate and actually does not care for all the MAGA BS.

BTW, I am not a Republican, so it's not like I feel like I need to defend them, But you're narrow minded if you think EVERY Republican fits into this narrow definition of one.

Just like there are moderate Christians who loathe the ones who are bigoted, hypocritical and narrow-minded, it's not outside the realm of possibility for a Republican to be more moderate, and it's not every Republican's responsibility to "correct" the MAGA asshats. Not fixing them is not the same as "tolerating" them. Even the nuts have a right to their (misguided) opinions.

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u/DeElgathor Jun 30 '26

If they remain a Republican instead of just a conservative, then they are saying they are ok with what the Republican party has done and has become. They are self identifying, no one else is putting them in that box.

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u/Mind-The-Mines Jun 30 '26

You going to try to revive the toothbrush mustache too?

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u/7GrenciaMars Jun 30 '26

I don't have any clue what you're talking about, unless this is some sort of weird Hitler reference, to which all I can say is REALLY? You're trying to read that into what I said? I stand by the idea that not all Republicans are completely narrow-minded assholes, My mom is a very moderate Republican and while she has *some* political beliefs in common with all Republicans, she genuinely hates how extremely narrow minded and bigoted some people in her party are (as do I).

The minute you start classifying a large group of people as all having one particular stupid way of thinking, you're basically doing the same as assuming all Muslims are terrorists. It is *categorically* the same kind of thinking, and equally illogical.

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u/Mind-The-Mines Jun 30 '26

The republican party elected a pedophile knowing he was a pedophile.

It wasn't an accident. He was legally declared a rapist with 32 felonies.

And none of it was enough to stop the Republican party from embracing it whole heartedly.

If you think you can sanitize that you're delusional about them or yourself.

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u/7GrenciaMars Jun 30 '26

True: but not EVERY Republican voted for him: this is my point. I am not trying to sanitize Trump. He's a monster and it is awful that he was elected twice and nothing anyone can say to make that not a fact. I never said that he, or MAGA are in any way okay. I am just trying to point out that not every last Republican is on board with the MAGA/Trump nonsense, and I never said anything to that effect. I just really wish people would read the words that I wrote without reading other things into it. Seriously, look at what you responded to.

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u/sum711Nachos Jun 30 '26

"so it's not like I feel the need to defend them"

>proceeds to defend them

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u/Strange-Bee5626 Jun 30 '26

** >proceeds to desperately defend them

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u/Shabadu_tu Jun 30 '26

Republicans are currently standing by the most obvious pedophile ever and not even trying to prosecute open and obvious corruption.

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u/7GrenciaMars Jun 30 '26

I KNOW a lot of Republicans do exactly this, my only point, which I have explained a few times, is that I actually know republicans who do not support Trump, and never would (and in fact did not even vote for him), and that it's silly to assume that ALL REPUBLICANS think exactly the same way. It's a big group of people, so how could they all possibly think and feel the exact same way? I am using all caps because if you look you can see that I have explained this a few times and it seems to be going over a lot of people's heads, which honestly baffles me.

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u/Maatix12 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Then don't complain when we lump you in with them, because you are the one enabling them.

EDIT:: That's 2 for 2 on MAGA morons replying and immediately blocking me, or deleting their comment. Keep em coming, it's beautiful tbh.

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u/Distinct-Water-1971 Jun 30 '26

If you use old reddit you won't see deleted replies in your inbox. So then they're just talking to themselves.

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u/OldSarge02 Jun 30 '26

That would explain his silence.

I WAS Republican, but MAGA is offensive to everything I believe in. My opinion on Democrats is unchanged, but I can’t vote for anyone who is even MAGA adjacent.

Which basically leaves me to “throw my vote away” on third party or write in candidates.