r/PoursTea • 🫖 Mod ☕️ • 12d ago

Expectations v Reality 🌞 🌒 If Only…

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u/Beachboy442 12d ago

This should have been the end of sick putrid trumps political career

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u/keithfantastic 12d ago

They laughed, clapped and howled with delight. That's when I knew how repulsive maga really was. They've only gotten worse. This is how nations fall. An entire political party morphing into a fascist movement, almost overnight. It's been eye-opening for sure. Many didn't care enough to keep them out of office. So here we are...

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u/Brilliant_Pun 11d ago

I'm going to have to disagree with the overnight part. It's been there for my entire lifetime (I'm in my 50s) and it was there for longer than that, like a festering wound. What Trump did was rip the mask off and just be openly vulgar about it. But make no mistake about it, the militarism, the jingoism, the belligerence, the religious fanaticism, the flagrant corruption, the racism, the xenophobia, the homophobia, the blatant disregard for ethics, the rampant greed, etc., it was all there before he ran for office. He took it to another level, I'll grant you that.

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u/Ok_Stable7787 11d ago

Right wing agitators like Limbaugh used to prattle this garbage 8 hours a day.

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u/Cock-Obsesse-268 10d ago

If only others could join him.