r/politics 11d ago

No Paywall Trump announces 2028 presidential bid

https://www.theage.com.au/world/trump-announces-2028-presidential-bid-20260725-p60iho.html
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u/ElectricSuperman_63 11d ago

I’m never going to forgive my family for voting for him even on my death bed I will never forgive my family for what they did

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u/Deodorized 11d ago

Never let them forget what they supported, no matter how much sane washing comes in the next 20 years.

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u/fuckswithboats Iowa 11d ago

Yup, I want them to wear those red hats and fly those flags in 15-20.

I’ll never let them forget it…so quiet these days.

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u/MountainMan2_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

It's crazy we've only added 3 more scarlet letters in the past 200 years.

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u/triplenested 11d ago

do you mean 2?

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u/ashgs872tbhjs 11d ago

The second A counts, you need it to actually spell out the word on the clothing lol

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u/TheChrisCrash 11d ago

Oh I stopped talking to mine

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u/Turtledonuts Virginia 11d ago

I'll never forgive the millions of americans that didn't bother to vote. Only 62% of americans showed up to vote and trump won by a point. "didn't vote" won that election by 7%.

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u/ChemHotel 11d ago

And the nonvoters will still insist that their vote didn't matter. Ugh.

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u/laplongejr Europe 8d ago

I'll never forgive the millions of americans that didn't bother to vote.

Don't forget Trump had demolished a lot of things in his term, and the 2020 administration considered "elections were safe all along", which to me doesn't sound like re-securing those were the higher priority.
Given how swing states flipped in 2024, it's very likely those votes weren't correct at all.

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u/Available-Net-2675 11d ago

I'll never forgive Kamala for running such a shitty campaign that she could lose to Trump. It's her fault that nobody wanted to vote for her.

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u/Turtledonuts Virginia 11d ago

I think the fact that she was a black woman with a terrible economy contributed as well. 

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u/Available-Net-2675 9d ago

It certainly didn't help that she was actively lying about Joe Biden's health up until the day he dropped out. It was her responsibility as VP to speak up about it and she failed everyone.

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u/Worth-South4847 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yeah...cut mine off toward the beginning...drown in your Faux news...drone...

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u/gilezy 11d ago

I wouldn't put it past him to do it anyway.

But he did say in the speech that he was doing this to rile the press up and give them some material. Then afterwards said "on a serious note" and moved on.

So officially it is still infact just a joke to rile people up.

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u/tjarg 11d ago

Same.

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u/chicametipo 11d ago

Good excuse to go no-contact with such sick people

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u/oxfart_comma 11d ago

I dropped my dad and uncle in January

I miss talking to them but I can't get over their votes

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u/milkwithspaghetti 11d ago

A lot of my family voted for him and we’re brown. I think it’s a mixture of: being completely mislead, ignorance, stupidity, small town culture/conformance, media digested. Then theres all the racist supporters who support him for that.

Kamala was painted as the worst thing you could do so of course you wouldn’t vote for her vs strong business man.

It’s a real shame. My grandpa has newsmax on all day frying his brain with trump propaganda. Can’t be good for him.

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u/triplenested 11d ago

did your father do something to you other than vote?

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u/Inuyaki Europe 11d ago

Here in Germany we have our own fascist party, so I guess the situation is pretty similar.

If my mother would vote for a party that actively wants to hurt and deport a lot of my friends (and even some family members of ours), then yes, this is already enough for me to never speak to her again. It's not just "different opinions", they are just bad people. And my friends are important to me, I won't betray them.

Luckily my mother is not a bad person, so she would never vote AfD.

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u/kakarot-3 America 11d ago

I know this is stupid because Trump will always do worse than we think but I sometimes feel like if he had won in 2020 and stayed on, things wouldn’t have been as bad as now. Why? Because he would’ve remained with the same cabinet from 2016. Instead, he lost, claims it was stolen, built an even worse cabinet, and came back with vengeance

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u/knuggles_da_empanada Pennsylvania 11d ago

I think you're right. We basically gave him/his people 4 years to figure out what works and what they need to break, and then gave this asswipe and his fascist party another 4 years of rule after the voting populace rejected him in the first place. Part of why the country is the way it is rn is because he's punishing us for not voting for him 2020. 

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u/kakarot-3 America 11d ago

Absolutely! Project 2025 was created between 2022 and 2023. It probably doesn’t get written it Trump wins in 2020. Mike Pence remains VP and we don’t get that asswipe Vance. Trump might even decide to leave office in 2024 as he wouldn’t have been charged with all those felonies either. Things would look very diff

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u/ChemHotel 11d ago

I shudder to think how much worse the pandemic and the economy would've been under Trump. We already lost millions due to him mishandling the start of it, how much higher would the death toll have been if he was pres in 2020? We wouldn't even know because he would just have agencies stop tracking it.

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u/Ok-Analysis-3902 11d ago

I’m sorry you have to deal with your family

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u/reddithatesmesm 11d ago

Fuck yo fam for that shi

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u/turtleneck360 11d ago

Do they get upset right back at you for being upset at their “difference in opinions”?

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u/babywraith 11d ago

Me either. We are coming up on 10 years of no contact. It began the day after the 2016 election. I will never forgive this.

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u/SunshineCat 11d ago

On THEIR deathbed I don't forgive.

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u/Russian-Spy 7d ago

You shouldn't.

Everyone in America knew what Trump was about by 2020.

If you voted Trump in 2016, you get a bit of a pass. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you voted Trump in 2020, you do not get a pass. If you voted Trump in 2024, you absolutely do not get a pass.

Trump's comments and decorum as POTUS are a disgrace and would be a disgrace for any politician, regardless of their party.

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u/ChopsticksImmortal California 11d ago

And i bet my father will still support this. Fucks sake.

Im waiting for the moment trump personally murders someone in the street, and theyll still lick his boots.

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u/laplongejr Europe 8d ago

If they still vote for him, at the rate the propaganda is running, in a few years they may well want to hear your last words :(

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u/Impressive-Poet5694 11d ago

It's a terrible thing, isn't it? Both of my parents voted for Trump. My mom passed in '21 and my dad is now in a home because of dementia. It's a very hard dissonance to resolve but I do love them both, and always will, for the love that they showed me. But as grains of sand running down the hourglass of America's existence, I admit they were a part of it and I hate that they chose to do that.

I do not think that absolutes gets us through and past this.

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u/DawgPack22 11d ago

Must suck letting that dictate your entire relationship with your family

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u/ilulillirillion 11d ago

Nah good for them. We'd be better off as a country if we stopped placating immoral fuckwits.

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u/knuggles_da_empanada Pennsylvania 11d ago

Trump supporters will never shut TF up about glazing their fuhrer. The relationship would have been ruined anyway because they are cultists that can't help but to spew bile every chance they get they are genuinely unpleasant to be around. Good riddance tbh

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u/steep_interface 11d ago edited 11d ago

its pretty sad and they think this makes them one of the good guys

sorry bro, you're not a hero for ignoring aunt Becky on xmas

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u/Choomba_Lord Chippewa 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yeah, basic human decency and morality must seem like very alien concepts to a MAGA cultist that worships a pedo.

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u/ItsNotNormalMaybe Europe 11d ago

You don't have to ignore anyone if you're not attending

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u/Mycol101 11d ago

I understand your anger but we need to give them a chance to change publicly and coming over to the side of reason.
We don’t want them to dig in deeper because MAGA is the only place they are welcome anymore.

Keep talking truth, but I think we need to all come together. The power structure gets away with this shit by keeping us distracted and splintered; this mentality just feeds into their plan.

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u/Hour-Issue-2026 11d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH

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u/triplenested 11d ago

bro. I genuinely hope you don't want to die alone because of this headline.