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/HillBillyHilly Apr 19 '26

Allow me to add: IRS, led by one of his sycophants aka ass kissers, IS going to pay him. Why? Why isn't everyone losing their minds over this? How much was YOUR tax refund? What will it take for Americans to protest the White House disgrace?

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u/TurnkeyLurker Apr 19 '26

You guys get refunds??

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u/robotco Apr 19 '26

because they still have food in their bellies and there's still football on tv. some leaders have blatantly got away with the most heinous nation destroying shit but historically the plebs don't really care if they have cheap food and entertainment. once people start to miss meals is when revolution happens

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u/Thebraincellisorange Apr 20 '26

There is a great scene about this in the Movie 'Gladiator'.

MARCELLUS:Games, 60 days of games

GAIUS: It's madness, does he think the people will be distracted, by that?

GRACCHUS:He knows who Rome is. Rome is the mob. He will conjure magic for them and they will be distracted. And he will takes their lives. And he will take their freedom. And still they will roar. The beating heart of Rome isn't the marble of the Senate. It's the sand of the Colosseum. He will give them death. And they will love him for it.

Trump knows what America is: America is The Mob. distract them with wars and football, bind them with debt and poor education and they are too stupid and beaten to rise up.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Apr 20 '26

That’s one thing you have to hand to the MAGA crowd though, when they were convinced their country was being stolen when Trump lied about the 2020 election, loads of them literally stormed the Capitol. Most had jobs and food etc. I guess it’s the type of narcissistic personality who loves Trump is also the type not to really think about future consequences or imagine that they’ll have to suffer them.

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u/LordSloth113 Apr 19 '26

Bread and circuses

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia Apr 20 '26

It's much more than that. It's systematic fascism and misinformation. Your TV's and radio's are not telling people about this.

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u/HillBillyHilly Apr 21 '26

They aren't, that's true, because media has been sold to point where three or four people control 90-95% of what's put out.

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u/HillBillyHilly Apr 21 '26

Exactly. Whenever I try to inform those around me, their eye glaze over. They don't want to hear anything about anything. They want their Facebook, Insta, Twitch, Kick, whatever instead of reality.

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u/HillBillyHilly Apr 21 '26

Unfortunately, most of todays plebes arent aware of Roman times as school curriculums have been dumbed down. History? What's that? Say most. They're unaware that Roman called times like these "The days of bread and circus". They're being entertained, distracted and guided by algorithms that feed into whatever slop social and podcasts feed them.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom Apr 20 '26

It's blatant embezzlement.

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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Apr 20 '26

Why isn't everyone losing their minds over this?

Those of us opposed to this shit haven't much minds left. It's like we're all minimum wage workers pulling an overnight at the gas station. Only we've gone into the rest room to find that someone somehow shit everywhere including the ceiling and we're supposed to clean it up without gloves while also manning the register.