Being loyal to ANY politician is insane.
I love Bernie. While I don't agree with him on everything, he's consistently been on the moral right side of most issues. Here he is being arrested for protesting segregation in 1963:
However. If he did even 1% of the things Trump did, I would call him out for it, demand he do better, and support his primary challengers if not. Unconditional loyalty to a politician doesn't keep them in check, and actually harms us all...
+1.
Even if someone wholesome (Mamdani?) somehow took over the Democrats, or any cool party, I would never be "loyal" to them.
Maybe this is my old millennial ass shaking my fist, but I don't get why folks are loyal to influencers. Loyalty should be two way and reciprocal, to friends and family one knows personally, not asymmetrically to someone who makes a living from thousands following them.
Respect and admiration? Fine. But this guy's a poster child for why loyalty is too far. After all, what does Trump think of him?
Seeing “old millennial ass” just seems so wrong.
We’re the young generation, right? We’re like, 25 at most. Right?
I’m 40. Oh my god. I need a Camaro and a broccoli haircut so I can fit in with the hip crowd. Broccoli hair is still a thing right? Haha
Man it goes so fast.
Trump literally told them that he will not need them after this again. No, he does not want or care for their support!
"In four years, You don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good. You're not going to have to vote."
Yeah, describing yourself as a "loyal" politician supporter basically means you'll ignore whatever wrong doing they do and root for your "team".
Being loyal to anyone who doesn't know your name personally is borderline insane.
I can vaguely imagine soldiers being loyal to a general in a war. If a general always seems to find a way to win, even against the odds, I can picture his soldiers being willing to... well not to die for him, but the opposite. I can imagine them being fiercely loyal and trying to protect him because he's making sure they don't die.
I feel like that ought to extend to everybody. I'm "loyal" only to the acts/values I'm on board with, and even then, not really, because I'm always open to changing my mind based on new information.
The concept of sticking with someone out of loyalty, regardless of who they are, after they've done something horrible, makes no sense to me, personally.
Imagine losing a job and friendships to worship the star of NBC's The Apprentice.
Imagine thinking you are the victim because you supported trump.
Imagine voting for quite possibly the biggest conman in the 21st century and get surprised when he pulls the rug out from under them.
To vote for this idiot you must be an idiot. Yes, everyone who is ok with trump is idiot.
Or a rapist.
Or a felon.
Know when you get the joke a few minutes after everyone else laughed at it and it's pretty embarrassing?
Imagine being a decade behind the curve.
Too bad they didn't get it before November and locking us in for 4 years.
Anyways, I'm glad all those bad things happened to him.
4 years if we're lucky
it wasn't even a decade, its been probably 40 years of trump having terrible media coverage
At least he wasn't a national problem back then.
I've never heard of people harassing a Trump supporter unless the Trumpet was baiting them.
This is a cult schism. Epstein is the point of cleavage between the grifters and the grifted. The grifters believe in nothing and would of course accept Trump trying to make the list go away because what they care about is keeping the gravy train going. The grifted, though, really believe in a cabal of powerful people molesting children. And however destructive they have been as a political force, they actually want to end what they think is a terrible ongoing crime. They won't just accept it being swept under the rug.
He's conditioned to be in an abusive relationship. He'll be back.
You'll be back, soon, you'll see
You'll remember you belong to me
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
A tenner says this guy is one of those obnoxious pricks who decaled the truck he can barely afford with "Let's Go Brandon" and has a personality that entirely revolves around owning the libs.
Imagine expecting the guy who had Epstein killed to prevent his name from being revealed to be on the list due to his public 15+ year besties-ship with him, to release the list of pedos known to associate with Epstein
Exactly. Just something else to ratfuck.
Caring about the Epstein Files, while also voting for Epstein's long time good buddy. Hmm...
They hate Jews and love the Israeli government, too.
You could, y’know, stop being an obnoxious twat about being a trumPet and that would solve 90% of the personal problems you describe.
Well bye, I guess. Took him 10 years to figure out that voting for the "Punch me in the dick, repeatedly" party wasn't a great idea.
Oh no, he'll still vote Republican
Maybe he'll vote for the Musk party instead, exchanging one big ego for another to worship and get disappointed by.
Yes, please split the idiot vote.
Shhhhh
Never interrupt your enemy while they're busy fucking up
How much you want to bet what he calls stalking and harassment was nothing of the sort?
I’ll say it again: I’m concerned about the wildlife. the leopards are going to die of morbid obesity.
I'm glad there actually is a moral line for these people. But, as best as I can tell, we're still not over it for most of them.
I hope no one ever lets them forget how much had to transpire before they found where that moral line was. I am going to go to my grave being spoken of as that nice old man who had a kind word to for everyone until the moment he would find out they were a Republican.
Obvious stupidity aside went to the "non-satirical" r/conservative and even there the temperature looks bad for Trump. I'm actually surprised that there is so much negativity against Trump there now the mods were not able to delete enough comments.
He'll be back
I bet he uninstalls League of Legends a lot.
That’s where you crossed the line?! Wow
It is well known he will eventually turn on people working "for him". Now he is turning against people that vote for him. Brilliant. Of course he won't need them next time, when he does the election Kim Jong Un style. But still... :: eating popcorn::
When owning the libs goes wrong
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