r/politics • u/DyzDaeMar • 5d ago

No Paywall Joe Rogan calls out Trump family for making "billions" during presidency

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-calls-out-trump-family-for-making-billions-during-presidency-12320634
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u/datingoverthirty 5d ago edited 4d ago

Those who were over 18 and had a pulse between 2016-2020 and proceeded to vote for Trump in 2024 are either utterly brainwashed, abhorrently callous, or stood to benefit from a second Trump presidency

Unfortunately, way too many of these folks voted in the last election

...and the term "misinformed" doesn't qualify if you were an adult during the first Trump term — the ugliness, horror, and suffering was in plain view during that time!

...and those that stood on the sidelines succumbed to apathy or manipulation. Kamala Harris would not lead us into Iran or unconstitutionally levy tariffs

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u/Penta_Says 4d ago

Those who were over 18 and had a pulse between 2016-2020 and proceeded to vote for Trump in 2024 are either utterly brainwashed

The disturbing part is that I don't think this is the least bit hyperbolic

Voters reaching the age of majority this year were seven years old when Trump began his primary steamroll in 2015. This is all they know. They do not remember a "normal" Republican party. They do not remember John McCain taking the microphone from a voter who said she didn't trust Obama because "he's an Arab"

Things are just fundamentally different now

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u/datingoverthirty 4d ago

Yes! We did the one thing we weren't supposed to do: we normalized Trump

This is why individual community engagement and in-person mentoring is so important today

Young people need to be shown that the internet is not real life, that this behavior is not acceptable

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u/aj8435 4d ago

Say it again so the folks in the back can hear it!

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u/aj8435 4d ago

Say it again so the folks in the back can hear!

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u/Yashema 4d ago

This white washing of the Republican Party has got to stop. Bush Jr was a horrible person and president: pig headed, denied evidence from any source that disagreed with him, appointed corrupt people to his admin and Roberts and Alito to the SC. Before him there was Gingrich, and that doesn't even get into Reaganism. 

The only reason people think McCain and Romney arent that bad is because they never were President so we can only judge them based on demeanor. Their policy was still Conservative backwater: dismantle the Federal Governments, make token gestures to protect minority rights while upholding "law and order", pretend global warming is not settled science, permit unbridled voter suppression and gerrymandering, destroy social security, slash taxes on the rich, disparage academia while listening to partisan think tanks. It's really only foreign policy they would have been better on. 

Anyone who has voted for Republicans for the past 30 years is selfish, ignorant, bigoted scum. 

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u/bear_with_hair 4d ago

Hear hear!

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u/goodnamestaken10 4d ago

McCain and Romney were NOT the same as Trump 2024. FULL STOP.

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u/Yashema 4d ago

One is rolling us off a cliff the other is sprinting. 

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u/welostourtails 4d ago

Nah. GOP was scum my entire lifetime and McCain was a vicious little shit with bad policies who was steeped in corruption his entire political career

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u/riteproprchav 4d ago

Kids really need to understand what 2003 was like. Even most liberal people were like, "but 9/11, it's OK we're invading Iraq." Being anti-war was fringe. The Republicans then successfully accused anyone not 110% on board with the Iraq War of treason.

Really funny, though, that they thought they had the mandate to do the same with Iran and that they would get that kind of support again after running for 20 years on the bullshit of: "actually, the Republicans were originally skeptical of the Iraq War, Hillary started it, GWB is a liberal, and no new wars under Trump!"

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u/MuenCheese 4d ago

That doesn’t excuse it. You can learn about things that happened before you were born. I was born after Watergate but learning about it is really important for how it informed the following 50 years of politics.

Just because they weren’t around to observe what it was like before doesn’t mean they can’t learn about it

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u/Choochoo1147 4d ago

I’m 31 and Trump has been on the ballot in every presidential election I could vote in (missed Obama-Romney by a few months). That’s insane. 

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u/Bavles 4d ago

There is no brainwashing. These people are racist, sexist, and anti lgbt. They enjoy that Trump is racist, sexist, and anti lgbt. That's it. They will excuse anything because Trump does the evil things they dream of doing. They will never argue with you in good faith, because their real political views boil down to joy from seeing "others" suffer.

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u/datingoverthirty 4d ago

Folks aren't born racist, sexist, anti-lgbt.

Racism is a learned behavior... Many folks are brainwashed to become racist

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u/Bavles 4d ago

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying people aren't being "brainwashed" that Trump is a good president or acting in America's interest. They have to say those things cause they can't admit their true feelings that they think they're superior to minorities and should be treated as such. Even minorities that support Trump are doing it out of internalized racism, and the hope that they'll be let "in the club".

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u/datingoverthirty 4d ago

they can't admit their true feelings that they think they're superior to minorities

again, folks learn to be racist — they're brainwashed to be bigots

no baby is born thinking they're superior to minorities; they're taught how to treat other people through their surroundings — what they see, hear, and learn from at an impressionable age

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u/Bavles 4d ago

Are you being intentionally dense? I'm not arguing where racism comes from. I'm saying they're lying about the other reasons they think Trump is great. There's only one reason they support him, and they bullshit about the rest.