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    Symptoms of dementia flare up under stress.

    Looks like the Epstein scandal is really getting to him.

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    I’m glad we got rid of the old guy that did a bunch of shit to help average Americans and replaced him with another old guy who is a felon rapist and potential pedo who we already impeached twice and is only serving the interests of the grotesquely wealthy.

    Looking reeeeeeal smart America.

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      Because Trump is a fame whore he has always loved any connection too Fame and celebrity even if it’s infamy, it’s still seen as cool to him.

      Sociopathic malignant narcissist does not care about the downstream of anything only the viewpoint of the here and now.

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        I’m surprised he never claimed to have personally known the late, great Hannibal Lecter as much as he used to bring him up.

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          “He’s a great, just a great doctor, very talented, very knowledgeable, many say, a lot of clever people, very clever people who know a lot, they say he’s maybe the best mind doctor, the best, definitely, head-mending doctor, and I know, I know him, he’s a great friend, and people say did I need a shrink, which is funny really, he said I have the greatest sanity, I’m more sane, than the sanest he’s ever seen and, truly, he’s a super clever guy, smart, real smart, a lot of people say so, and I didn’t need to see him but we’re just friends, we have dinner together and did I mention he’s such a good cook, I mean Michelin stars, this guy should have Goodyear stars, right, buy American, but anyway, he cooks so good and he said I have the best mental balance of anyone he’s ever met and he knows, he knows, I mean he’s the expert in… in… expert in… expert…covfefe.”

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      He also bragged that he owned the tallest building in New York after 9/11.

      He’s a felon rapist, potential child fucker, and all around trashcan of a human being.

      And conservatives identify with him.

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        Watch your last line there. This community exists because conservative comms already on Lemmy didn’t represent me and my beliefs. I also believe Trump is all those things. I see a lot of my party mates drinking the MAGA KoolAid and I am not alone.

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      Same stream of consciousness rambling that old senile fuckers always do.

      “When I was a young man, snickers were a nickel and people minded their own damn business! When somone beat their child, you said, 'Good for them! That’ll teach ‘em!’. And when they got a little too handsy with their daughter’s little friends you looked the other way and pray for them because he was a deacon at the church. Cary Grant once came to town and took a shit in the Piggly Wiggly restroom down the street. I used to play Eucre with Reagan’s third cousin, and that bastard cheated every damn time… what year is it?”

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      Because Americans love this shit. You’re talking about the “late great Hannibal Lecter” guy who said that during the election and still won.

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    There’d be republitards screeching from the rooftops. If it weren’t for hypocrisy conservatives wouldn’t haven’t anything except for being on epsteins list

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        I do know a lot of conservatives who looked at how trump is handling the Epstein shit and have admitted they were wrong about him, but I also live in Canada. Dunno what it’s like in burgerland.

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          Dunno what it’s like in burgerland.

          Lifelong Burgerland resident here. Conservatives may reach the point that the majority condemn Trump for this one thing, but the bottom line is they’ll line up to vote for the next racist rapist felon traitor that comes along. Hell, they’ll get onboard with a 3rd term for Trump. Because they’re 100% cool with treason if it’s their team doing it.

          Did you see them speak up when Trump pardoned hundreds of J6 domestic terrorists and allowed them to be released back into our society? They’re only mad now because their Daddy blatantly lied directly to their faces and it’s undeniable. They’re mad because THEY were affected this time.

          Edit: OP is deleting my comments, so read it while you can. Lot of snowflakes, despite being summertime.

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            They believe Jan 6 was overblown and it was “just a bunch of old people touring the White House.”

            Which is absolutely ridiculous to claim.

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              I feel most of the loud MAGA you hear believes a little too strongly in “history is written by the victors” and don’t have enough self reflection to realize they can’t always be the victors. It’s arrogant and disconnected.

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          Theres an entire spectrum of conservatives, but many of them now consider themselves “independent” or even Democrats at the moment due to the hostile takeover of the Republican party with the slow rolling Southern Strategy.

          The vocal MAGA is the loudest segment of conservatism in America right now, and for EVERYONE no matter their political affiliations, it’s often easier to see people who disagree with you as a single cohesive entity rather than individuals with nuanced opinions.

          Conservatism is a necessary and important part of politics, helping to preserve culture (all culture, but that’s a different topic), helping keep and modernize tradition, and forcing progressive elements to carefully and fully bake new policies that benefit everyone. They’re the moderator to the progressive catalyst.

          The MAGA movement is a radical REGRESSIVE movement towards hyper conservative Authoritarianism, which is of course in the conservative spectrum but isn’t consistent with all conservative values.

          I’m a firm Democratic Socialist progressive, but I know people who are conservative and have been alienated from MAGA, I also know people who are really more moderate conservatives that have been caught up in MAGA due to the fear and distrust brewed up by the likes of Fox News, Facebook influencers, and worse.

          If MAGA people have any chance of coming back to reality we need to better regulate the media, social media, and these people need deprogramming and improved media literacy. Moderate conservatives like the people we find here in this community are a key component and ally in that, and I’m so very tired of having to defend them against attacks from (well meaning) fellow progressives who should be building coalitions with them against this existential threat to us all.

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            Conservatism is a necessary and important part of politics, helping to preserve culture (all culture, but that’s a different topic), helping keep and modernize tradition, and forcing progressive elements to carefully and fully bake new policies that benefit everyone. They’re the moderator to the progressive catalyst.

            Sorry to break it to you, by you’ve fallen for the lie. Conservatism isn’t about preserving “tradition,” and never has been. Conservativism has always been about maintaining hierarchy, and only happens to correlate with tradition to the extent that hierarchy has been the status-quo.

            Make no mistake: whenever the status-quo is egalitarian, conservatives work to change it as rapidly and radically as possible.

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              You don’t think it’s possible for people to not have progressive ideologies, want to preserve tradition and culture, want to keep progress careful, and not just “preserve hierarchy”?

              I’m so fucking tired.

              Thank you for proving my point I guess?

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                You don’t think it’s possible for people to not have progressive ideologies, want to preserve tradition and culture, want to keep progress careful, and not just “preserve hierarchy”?

                Those people are called “liberals.”

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                  I mean, what do you mean by “liberals”? Centrist Democrats?

                  Liberalism in political theory just means someone who values personal liberties. Its been co-opted by the same people who have conflated leftism with liberalism and rightism with authoritarianism, ignoring the fact you can have authoritarian leftists (Stalinist Communism) and liberal conservatives (Libertarianism in the American political stage).

                  Politics isn’t left vs right, and it isn’t leftist vs liberals. That kind of classification was literally designed to isolate and fracture political factions of progressives.

                  The political quadrants/compass, which while it has become a bit of a meme online encapsulates the spectrum of political beliefs much more accurately.

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            Trump couldn’t have won, either time, if only die hard MAGA voted for him. The vast majority of conservatives bit their tongues and voted for that shitstain. You can talk about the whole spectrum of conservatism, but they all fell in line to make it happen. Doesn’t look like much of a spectrum from where I’m standing.

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            We could be able to regulate traditional media, but regulating the flat earther, antivaxer, Christian fundamentalist on social media might prove to be a bit harder.

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    He’s so angry lately. This could be indicative of the descent into Alzheimer’s. We will never know.

    How long did it take for Reagan’s Alzheimer’s to be officially publicized?

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    • Delivered a Rambling Speech

    • Falsely asserted some random trivia that’s easily disproven with even cursory background research

    • Completely forgot the names / positions of key staffers in his administration

    • Concerns about senility

    Truly, imagine if Biden had fallen victim to any of these. Doubt he would have survived re-election.

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        Sure. And then Hillary tripped stepping off a plane, ordered pizza like a pedophile, and pissed off half the Midwest by defending NAFTA.

        Even then, so much of this just boils down to which media you’re consuming. Jon Stewart is slightly more critical of Donald Trump than Ben Garrison. Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity spend 25 hours every day screaming “The Migrants Are Coming! The Migrants are Coming!” while The Economist mostly wants to talk about how cool it is that people want to move here.

        Look at the NYC Mayoral Race. Every newspaper in the country was running “Mamdani Did 9/11” tier headlines for months, but he still won in a landslide with a base that tuned them out and just followed him on Instagram.

        A lot of these critiques are superficial and ultimately forgivable when the candidate in question champions policies you support.

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        I mean, Biden’s, “Corn Pop,” speech happened in 2019 and he was still elected. I’m not trying to say they’re the same morally (or even in terms of competency), but if the point is, “Can you imagine if Democrats elected a rambling, senile old man,” well…yeah, I can.

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    So they said firehose of propaganda but like I wasn’t picturing diarrhea. Just a stream of it in your face.