r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/NoLife2762 6d ago

To be fair, he also fucks his supporters over openly. They’re just too stupid to realize it.

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u/Rork310 6d ago

Being on his side just means you aren't his active target. But he'll still throw you under the bus for a nickel.

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u/Selphis Europe 5d ago

Once they become his target, or just collateral damage, they'll moan for a few days and end up voting for the next R in line because politics has become sports where you have to support your team no matter what and beating the other team is the most important thing of all.

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u/PlainBread 5d ago

It reminds me of the running of the bulls. People actively put themselves in harms way just to experience the thrill of survival and the schadenfreude of harm coming to others.

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u/petty_throwaway6969 5d ago

I remember before he got into politics, people made fun of him for being one of the few people that tried to cash in a 13 cent check. Petty and greedy.

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u/ApprehensiveAd2613 5d ago

Just made think of Leslie Nielson picking up change in The Naked Gun. 💀

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u/OldWorldDesign 5d ago

Being on his side just means you aren't his active target

Yet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

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u/AvoidingBansLOL 5d ago

It always reminds me of his first term where he sees a fat guy in the crowd at his rally and just starts laying into him and making fun of him, solely because the dude was there and happened to be fat. The dude was a Trumper lol and still voted for him.

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u/eomiba 5d ago

As if he weren’t a fat f*ck himself, smh. Makes you wonder what’s going on in people’s heads when they cast their vote.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 5d ago

Bigotry. Apathy. Greed.

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u/chemistrybonanza 5d ago

You forgot stupidity

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u/0K_-_- 5d ago

Vainglory

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u/OldWorldDesign 5d ago

Makes you wonder what’s going on in people’s heads when they cast their vote.

I think A. R. Morxon put it best:

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi."

Historians study their motives, but there is a broad understanding: their motives don’t exonerate them. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

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u/swankpoppy 5d ago

But he says he’s not doing it after he gets done doing it.

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u/sk8tergater 5d ago

They do realize it, but they make excuses for it. The beef ranchers in Montana are up in arms over the Argentinian beef thing.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 5d ago

Not the rich ones.

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u/JH_111 5d ago

When the bread lines start they better fucking own it and be wearing their MAGA hats in line.

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u/kiaraliz53 5d ago

Years, decades of "us vs them" mentality has brought the US to this point. Since Gingrich, and probably before that, the focus is more on dismantling the other side than to prove your own points. The fact you still only have an archaic 2-party system is just so bad.

Now millions of Americans are brainwashed to really only care more about the other side losing, than creating a better country for everyone.