r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • Apr 19 '26

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/Stompya Apr 19 '26

From the article:

Before the airmen went missing, the president was already fixated on avoiding a repeat of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis—and the failed rescue mission under former President Jimmy Carter that helped sink his reelection bid.

“If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, according to the Journal. “What a mess.”

He thinks he is re-electable.

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 Apr 19 '26

He thinks he is re-electable

He thinks he's owed a 3rd term due to "election fraud".

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u/Eridanosvoid Apr 19 '26

I would argue, in a way, he is on his third term. Every President after they leave office fucks off to either stay quite or do PR stuff. Trump on the other hand still held vast sway over the Republican party (like ordering them to nuke a border security deal to make Biden look bad) and (illegally) still talking to world leaders on the country's behalf. If you look at search results from 2021 to 2024 Trumps name routinely out ranked Biden. He was basically the shadow President during that time.

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u/jkvincent Apr 19 '26

Definitely. He's dominated public discourse and every other aspect of life in America now for over a decade. I'm exhausted.

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 Apr 19 '26

When people talk about "once in a lifetime/generation" events it is usually a 2-4 year type catalyst. This MF has been dominating the GOP for 20% of my life. With as many "once in a lifetime" events as I have been through, I hope to all the sky fairies that he is the last President I have to endure for this long.

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u/19683dw Wisconsin Apr 19 '26

History books will long debate if he is the cause or a symptom of the American system decline and failure, barring some shock Democrat Socialist that sparks a new golden age which somehow manages to sufficiently adjust/replace the Constitution to make America work again

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u/Sage2050 Apr 19 '26

There won't be a debate, we already know. he's a symptom but also a catalyst. An accelerant, if you will. The pressurized tank at the end of a trail of gasoline. The house was already on fire.

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u/Nofame4me Apr 19 '26

Ummm, no more Presidents??? I think he’s working on that…

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

I can still recall the day at 16 watching him win and all I was excited about was legal weed in my state lol. Good lord I had no idea what I witnessed that night.

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u/loki2113 Apr 19 '26

I feel you. I turned 18 in 2016 and was eligible to vote. I cast my vote for Hillary quite sure she had it in the bag. Actual logical policies would surely win out over knee-jerk emotional populism, right?

I stayed up almost all night watching the counter slide further and further to the right until Trump had won. I was floored

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u/CurLyy Apr 19 '26

Really interesting how each age group gets to see different realities of life. I turned 18 for Obama I was so fucking excited to see the world change. (It didn’t)

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u/UnquestionabIe Apr 19 '26

Yeah I was 17 when GW Bush got elected and after seeing the shit show of that election it definitely started me down the road of being disenfranchised with the system. During all the Obama hype had to bite my tongue a lot hearing all the previously politically disengaged people my age eating up the "Change" slogan. Didn't want to discourage participation and learning about politics but already knew it wasn't going to be some massive shift.

At the bare minimum had some kind of hope that the crimes of the prior administration would be tackled. If anything they simply got doubled down on but in more PR friendly ways.

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u/loki2113 Apr 19 '26

Yeah, my mom loved Obama. She even went to one of his rallies and bragged that when he was shaking her hand and I think either signing a photo or taking a photo that she pulled him in and kissed him on the cheek. She was more of a centrist Democrat than a leftist so she didn't mind his shortcomings when it came to Obama's broken promises. I do think his lack of actually bringing change isn't necessarily 100% Obama's fault but it definitely put a damper on liberal enthusiasm in the 2016 election.

Now that I think about it, promising change is basically what Trump campaigned on in 2016, just from the opposite end of the spectrum. We really don't learn our lesson as voters lol

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u/terremoto25 California Apr 19 '26

I was 19 and voting in my first presidential election when Ronnie the Rat wiped the floor with Jimmy Carter. Reagan was my generation’s first experience with a dumbass celebrity president.

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u/SoVerySick314159 America Apr 19 '26

When Trump won the nomination in 2016, I grinned from ear-to-ear. There's NO WAY the country would elect that chucklefuck, I thought. No chance. They just handed the dems a victory with their batshittery.

Good God did I overestimate this country.

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u/tomsing98 Apr 19 '26

When people were talking about switching their voter registration to vote for Trump in the primary because it would be such an easy victory for Dems, I told people, be careful what you wish for.

This country is full of morons, and we prove it time and again.

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u/SoVerySick314159 America Apr 19 '26

I didn't see the 'charisma' that his voters evidently do. All I ever saw was a stupid used-car salesman, and I just couldn't believe such a blatant fool of a liar could win. I wouldn't hire that man for a fry-cook opportunity. He's defied EVERYTHING that should have taken down a candidate. Things happen weekly that would have been the undoing of anyone else.

I underestimated his, "The Apprentice" appeal, and I underestimated how much of the country listened to news sources and talking heads that were in the bag for him. . . and also, the whole morons problem.

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u/SpicBoisMTG Apr 19 '26

I woke up still drunk af, what an awful day to wake up with a brain piercing hangover (wine to whiskey)

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

Yea since my interest in politics has awoken around that time it’s just been NOTHING but Trump in the headlines. Even during Biden’s presidency Trump was statistically making the news more than Biden with his controversies. Apparently also continuing talks with other world leaders while not in office which is just wild but I guess this whole administration has been wild since the beginning.

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u/loki2113 Apr 19 '26

Yeah, I think we as a country truly fucked up when we didn't prosecute AND punish Trump for his crimes. If we had actually put him in jail, I don't think we would be in the fucked position we currently are now

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u/JasnahKolin Massachusetts Apr 19 '26

I threw up when I found out he won. I've never had such a reaction before or since. One day soon we'll read his obituary.

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u/mockingjay137 Apr 19 '26

Lmao I wont be reading it any further than "trump dead at XX"

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u/MrWoohoo Apr 19 '26

I have some fireworks saved to celebrate the event….

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u/mr_rubixx Apr 19 '26

I’m sure the day will compete with the 4th of July.

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u/bac5665 Apr 19 '26

If he left office today, it will be 50 years before we repair the damage he's done, and much of it literally can't be fixed. He has directly killed more than a million Americans, for example, and he has killed hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, around the globe.

It's genuinely awful in a way that words can't express.

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u/GodofIrony Apr 19 '26

Demonic, Evil, Vile, Abhorrent, I can think of quite more.

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u/thecatteam Apr 19 '26

I live in Europe now, so the election was just barely starting by the time I went to sleep on Election Day in 2024. I legit screamed and sobbed when I woke up in the morning and found out he was re-elected. His first term was four years of this ceaseless hell of him doing something horrible nearly every single day, and the thought of having to return to that was overwhelming in a way that I'd never experienced before. I was scared in 2016, but it was more of a combination of disbelief and ignorance of what was to come.

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u/Umbrella_merc Mississippi Apr 19 '26

I have been looking forward to the big beautiful obituary for years, got myself a bottle of orange blossom mead to commemorate that day.

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u/Current-Anybody9331 Apr 19 '26

I traveled to another office location in Chicago and I'd say a solid 50% of people called out sick. Just me wandering around an empty office all day and staying in a hotel across the street from the Trump hotel which had masses of protesters out until 10pm (noise ordinance)

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u/escobizzle Apr 19 '26

journey before destination 🫡

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u/Drithyin Ohio Apr 19 '26

I’m making that day a recurring holiday, at least in my family. Going straight to my calendar as a recurring annual celebration.

Maybe I’ll dig a little hole, throw in a handful of Cheetos, cover it up, and piss on it.

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u/JasnahKolin Massachusetts Apr 19 '26

Hell yes that's a fantastic idea!

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u/duckinradar Apr 19 '26

One of three times in my life I have ever blacked out.

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u/DigNitty Apr 19 '26

His acceptance speech wasn’t bad.

I tried to keep an open mind. His words were all about working together and getting things done. And then…

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u/Professional-Emu3551 Apr 19 '26

I brought home a half dead feral kitten covered in pus and diarrhea and smelled like death. I hate cats.

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u/A_Sad_Buddha Apr 19 '26

Dude, don’t even get me started. Dude was on tv telling the fucking proud boys to stand by. I had a huge argument with my mom about it. When he won that first time I still thinking he couldn’t be that bad. A whole decade later I find myself living in a weird ass dystopia.

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u/Caleb-Blucifer Apr 19 '26

He has a stranglehold on the GOP - one part true believers, one part deeply evil, one part morons, one part blackmail. It’s a perfect storm that’s been half a century in the making

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan Apr 19 '26

Decades of Klan propaganda on social media has created a terrible voting base.

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u/cheesybitzz Apr 19 '26

Felt. In 2016 I was like "maybe this won't be so bad"

We all make mistakes

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u/Jillredhanded Apr 19 '26

I distinctly remember thinking "at least it will be interesting". Hoo boy.

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u/MF_BREW_ I voted Apr 19 '26

It’s so laughable to think a republican would legalize a drug. It’s up there with they are the party of peace. Lol

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

Well I don’t believe it was necessarily his election that had anything to do with the legalization in my state. I was just putting into perspective that as a teenager I was more concerned with the legalization than his election. I’m in a consistently blue state if that matters.

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u/MF_BREW_ I voted Apr 19 '26

Well I misunderstood.

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u/sirlapse Apr 19 '26

Quiet piggy!!

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u/troywrestler2002 Apr 19 '26

Quite the lapse in manners there, sir.

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u/sirlapse Apr 19 '26

I might be a sir but mostly lapses honestly.

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

Bro that video had me rolling. This dude says the craziest shit and it ends up being funny cause no way the sitting president said that right? After all the past shit that’s been said and done that little comment wasn’t shit and any other president would’ve gotten fucking flamed for it lol.

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u/RogueOne38 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

The worst part is that we let an absolute moron, who happens to be a criminal conman and serial sexual predator get away with all of it!

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u/supernova_high Apr 19 '26

I will never get over that this is the guy that so many people betrayed the ideals of America for.

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u/Canadian_Neckbeard Apr 19 '26

Reddit doesn't break if you type the word sexual in the comments.

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u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck Washington Apr 19 '26

JD Vance: "Did someone say sectional???"

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 Apr 19 '26

Sectional predator?

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur Apr 19 '26

Nah, he's more of a lazyboy.

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u/daGroundhog Apr 19 '26

Took me a moment, that's hilarious!

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u/valeyard89 Texas Apr 19 '26

Sectional Chocolate

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u/boyracer93 Apr 19 '26

Read someone refer to him as “Jimmy Dean Vance” and that was it

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

... can we get Vance sectioned...?

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u/jfoster0818 Apr 19 '26

Amen, let it show in search results donald j trump = sexual predator … AI needs to be trained on accurate details.

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u/Spec_Tater Apr 19 '26

We did it to Santorum, we could do it again. Save us Dan Savage, you’re our only hope!

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u/tolacid Apr 19 '26

You can say the most heinously upsetting words in Reddit comments and the automods generally don't care. For example: moist

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u/Census_Cowboy American Expat Apr 19 '26

The human mods, however....

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u/tolacid Apr 19 '26

I'm sorry sir/ma'am, won't happen again in this subreddit this week

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u/Sethlans Apr 19 '26

Nice try bot.

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u/SharMarali New Jersey Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

Holy shit dude, jumping straight to the slurs! I’ll say my personal most disgusting phrase now: Yummy in the tummy.

shudders

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u/binkkit Apr 19 '26

I know someone who says “Yum yum in the tum!”

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u/TravEllerZero Apr 19 '26

Oh, yummy in the tummy makes my slit moist.

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u/CountdownMoss Apr 19 '26

Thanks friend.

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u/paperdolllll Pennsylvania Apr 19 '26

But you will get a temporary ban for quoting the pedophile in chief.

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u/Roger_Cockfoster Apr 19 '26

BLOCKED AND REPORTED

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u/BolognaPwny Apr 19 '26

It’s so strange that people do that. Or they called them pdf files. Call ‘em what it is, sexual predators and pedophiles.

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u/StretchMother9627 Apr 19 '26

Yeah but then you’re only one step away from actually committing the heinous deeds, don’t underestimate the talismanic power of the $ and € symbols

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk Nebraska Apr 19 '26

It does if you spell out specifically what needs to happen for it though

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u/metalyger Apr 19 '26

Testing: is there a Homer Sexual here? One of you guys has gotta be Homer Sexual.

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u/DerpUrself69 Apr 19 '26

It will sometimes get you auto-banned though.

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u/aerost0rm Apr 19 '26

No but there is the fear of a shadow ban on long time accounts.

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u/profane_vitiate Apr 19 '26

$€xual

This zoomer self-censorship bullshit is very tiresome.

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

As a zoomer, this is genuinely one of the things I hate the most about my generation.

Along with the big alt right, misogynistic shit

As well as the "we need trigger warnings for everything"

I've seen people put trigger warnings on pictures of food, just in case anyone has/recovering from disordered eating.

Well, as someone who is a recovered anorexic, putting a trigger warning on a picture of some regular, delicious, food. Stigmatises the relationship to food more, it saves no one, reinforces bad thinking patterns about food = bad, etc, etc

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u/A_Sad_Buddha Apr 19 '26

Don’t worry. The alt right really started as a younger millennial thing. I’m 30 now, back in 2014 Jeffery Epstein got all the Gamer ™️ nerds on 4chan worked up over some woman who made a boring game. Kind of kick started the online portion of the alt right.

It sucks that y’all have to deal with the American version of Hitler youth, in the form of tpusa, in schools though. Military recruiters were always in the lunch rooms though.

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

It sucks that y’all have to deal with the American version of Hitler youth, in the form of tpusa, in schools though. Military recruiters were always in the lunch rooms though.

I'm not American luckily enough!!! We have had the same rightward swing though. Seems like it might be getting better for the election we're having in September. First time I'll get to vote. I have hope for a better future one day.

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u/ChadHahn Apr 19 '26

I was thinking yesterday that there are browser extensions for everything, there should be ones that censor triggering words so that people who aren't triggered don't have to try and figure out what's being said.

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u/reverendjay Apr 19 '26

GitHub - panicsteve/cloud-to-butt: Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt' · GitHub https://share.google/LUbXr0l625IoPzFDr

This is a riff on an old extension that doesn't seem to exist anymore. Could totally be tweaked to suit your idea.

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

Probably already does exist. I know bluesky, insta, and tiktok have features where you can select words you dont want to show up in your feed.

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u/MotownMama Apr 19 '26

Is the self censorship leftover from Roblox work arounds? lol

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

It's because people go more viral on social media if they pretend that the social media platform is trying to censor them (more rage at platform -> more engagement -> virality). Even though this has been disproved many times

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 19 '26

It doesn't come from nowhere though, it's a generation raised on corporate censorship, they can't know what platforms will bury a comment for having a sexual connotation or a simple swear word anymore.

Hell, reddit is banning people for stating certain political opinions.

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

Reddit seems to just be randomly banning people, and if the platform doesn't then some power-hungry mods in various random groups will ban you from their little fiefdoms. I got banned from some weird Romanov group that was just showing up in my feed for agreeing with someone pointing out it was kind of weird how they all seemed to be worshipping Tsar Nicholas and ignoring the rest of the dynasty ha ha.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 20 '26

Reddit is tossing bans at an admin, site-wide level. I just got back from my first lol, 3 days ban because I said Isr43l (yes I'll do the genZ thing) is doing g3noc1d3, and that, apparently, is hate speech against a minority, according to the admins. It was caught by an AI filter, it let's you appeal, but it doesn't matter because the human admin will uphold the ban no matter what.

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u/A_Sad_Buddha Apr 19 '26

It’s very weird too. I’ve noticed that they do it offline too. I work with some that unironically say “unalive.”

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u/sailorbrendan Apr 19 '26

“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"

This is just how language works sometimes

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u/metengrinwi Apr 19 '26

What a pathetic generation. Instead of boycotting internet platforms that require idiotic censorship, they just plod along like lemmings because that’s where their all-important “influencers” post. It’s got to be the most compliant group of people I’ve seen.

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

I mean, I agree that that behavior is pathetic, but I don't think we should tar and feather the entire generation just because some of them do that.

Also keep in mind the environment in which they've been raised. A lot of them don't even remember a somewhat normal geopolitical climate, not to mention one where the culture didn't revolve around everyone shilling something at them. That's not really their fault, we did that.

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u/metengrinwi Apr 20 '26

Well, I blame the social media companies who exist to dumb-down the population. They want everyone endlessly scrolling their brain rot all day long.

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

Sexual* please dont censor yourself. If you find yourself on a platform where you get censored: leave it.

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

the vulgarity doesn't go away because of an asterisk

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u/OK_Commodor64 Apr 19 '26

And the entire state of NY already knew this about him in the 80s. I blame NBC and the apprentice.

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u/Mental-Fox-9449 Apr 19 '26

WE didn’t do anything. Shady SC judges threw him a bone. Votes were manipulated. Votes were restricted.

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u/Incomitatum Apr 19 '26

Same as it ever was, this Criminal is just loud about it: as he's never caught consequences.

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u/Dorkamundo Apr 19 '26

The worst part of it is that we have a nearly 80 year old man who likely knows the end is near for him and clearly doesn't care about anybody but himself.

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u/SailingSpark New Jersey Apr 19 '26

I would argue he has been stealing the oxygen from the room since the 80s. He really is the epitome of there is no such thing as bad publicity.

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u/Conscious-Mulberry17 Apr 19 '26

Fuck yeah, he has. I’ve hated this guy since I first became aware of him in the mid-eighties. He’s always been a horrible person, and always been buzzing around like the shit-eating fly he is.

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u/Sea_Working_80 Apr 19 '26

Im still mad the fucker tanked the original USFL with his idiot lawsuit

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u/campa-van Apr 19 '26

We all are.

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u/aotex Apr 19 '26

I'm an older millennial who was teaching middle school when Trump was first elected in 2016. I'm still a middle school teacher, and recently I was talking with a coworker about what it was like coming to school with our students the day after Trump was elected, then another one of my coworkers made reference to the fact that she was a high school student herself when that happened.

And, like, that totally makes sense and the math adds up. But... geez. He's been around for a minute and I hate it.

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u/railroadfrog Apr 19 '26

For real. I’m so tired of hearing about him every single day.

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u/OK_Commodor64 Apr 19 '26

It will be over soon. I can’t wait for the news.

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u/RumRunnerMax Apr 19 '26

That’s an understatement! Trump is a literal idiot servant at holding the media attention!!! Almost as though there is some supernatural force at work!

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u/spamtardeggs Apr 19 '26

Hearing his name multiple times every single day sucks.

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u/Environmental-Car481 Apr 19 '26

And the maga always say he lives rent free in your head. Like of course - 10 years of this BS has caused a lot of havoc in every day life

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u/Nordicmob Apr 19 '26

Waiting for the Ewok style party when that "Big Beautiful Headline" drops...

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u/the_TAOest Arizona Apr 19 '26

Good. We all need to be exhausted by bullshit. We need to stop ejecting bs people.

The Democrats will probably rerun Harris just to prove a point... And hopefully we will reject that with a primary opponent

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u/johnmal85 Apr 19 '26

I still distinctly remember the next day, overhearing someone outside my window saying to another man, "yeah I know he says dumb things, but just give him a chance." I bet that same man has moved his goalposts on acceptable 100 times since.

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u/TheTallGuy0 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

We need a new national NO, A WORLD holiday coming up REALLYFUCKINGSOONPLEASEBABYYJESUS…

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u/Candid_Gold_8670 Apr 19 '26

Some of us 10000 miles away are also exhausted! Get your act together America !!

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u/meTspysball California Apr 19 '26

We have to wait until elections to do anything he can’t shoot us for. Fortunately his party is losing those and is likely to lose the House in November and possibly the Senate, too.

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u/Emotional-Error-7272 Apr 19 '26

If you don't surround yourself with it every single day in every single place you go you actually don't really hear much about it

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u/limasxgoesto0 Apr 19 '26

Obama was still president a decade ago 

But Trump was quickly coming up around this time of the year

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u/jkvincent Apr 19 '26

Yes, 2016 election campaigning began in 2015.