“The first thing for me was he didn’t release the Epstein files. They’re even acting like they didn’t exist,” he said, before moving on to his other grievances. “And, of course, they’re sending Israel and Ukraine all of our tax dollars just like the numb-nuts before him did. Putting America last, and now he’s blaming the beef farmers for the price of beef.”
Mitchell added, “Hey, I’m not biased, man. He talked a good game; he tricked me. I was fooled. I admit it.”
“Yeah, I do think that Donald Trump is that beast of Revelation 13:3.”
Hey, I’m not biased, man. He talked a good game
No he didn’t, what he talked of was he was going to be a shitty, you’re just a horrible person and annoyed he’s not shitty enough for you…
Anybody saying “I would take a bullet for x” and never going anywhere near x in order to be able to intervene, is just talking out of their arse.
He talked a good game
No he didn’t. You’re just incapable of thinking critically. ESPECIALLY since we already saw what a phony he was the first time he was in office. There was no possible way to be “fooled” at that point unless you’re so full of hate that you WANT to be fooled.
The problem with that is that they all get different news. It’s all propaganda. My Trumper buddy thinks that liberals are killing everyone. The difference in media is astounding.
This rhetoric might feel good, but its counterproductive. Someone changing their minds is a good thing. Its also not wrong to say Trump is a propaganda machine.
Everytime I see a post like yours, it reads far more like “look how good a person I am and have been for so long, where’s my up votes?”.
It’s even worse.
He wasn’t fooled. He knew very well what he signed up for. And he was fine with it until things personally affected him. And now he claims he was “fooled”.
Nah, he’s the same racist, Nazi supporting piece of shit he’s been for the past ~10-12 years at least, but now that it’s negatively affecting his life, he’s trying to leave the sinking ship.
That was the point in the article where I just started laughing. Imagine telling the entire internet you’re just gullible as fuck, willing to be swayed by someone’s cheap words. Basically an open invite for con artists to flirt with him.
this is how conservatives are swindled by scams, like crypto so easily.
Why are there so many shitty UFC fighters?
Like, I expect that there are shitty WWE fighters, but a lot of them turn out to be pretty decent people behind the scenes. What’s with MMA that attracts all the shitheads?
You’re talking about people who chose to actually fight people for a living vs performers who’s success also depends on their fans at least to some degree. I equate it to asking why cops are generally so mean but clowns are lovely. To be honest though I know some pretty mean clowns.
Well, one of those is an acting gig and the other one is a literal Bloodsport so there might be an inherent difference in the type of people that those industries attract
I don’t think a man with chronic work-related concussions is the most reasonable voice.
He’s a
meatheadstrong, alpha man in a position with a lot of public eyes that othermeatheadsstrong, alpha men can look up to for guidance.Hey, if his admission to being tricked by Trump’s lies causes other
MAGA folksstrong, independent thinkers to have a little introspection and change, I’m all for it.
djt’s bio is about screwing people. You all knew that. Why you thought he’d change at 70+ years old is well beyond me.
Now that’s a good revelation for the wrong reasons lol
(sending) Ukraine all of our tax dollars
That’s not what he’s doing
No mention of Argentina either but take what you can get 🤷♂️
Do you think even knows Argentina exists?
Expecting Bryce to know about that, optimistic 😅
And, of course, they’re sending Israel and Ukraine all of our tax dollars just like the numb-nuts before him did.
Helping Ukraine destroy the top US enemy while not losing men is probably the beat deal US ever had, this argument is BS. Remember, Trump is a problem/in power because of Russia, and Russia will do everything to keep destroying US from the inside out. Israel is fully understandable, but this guy no longer supports Trump because of helping Ukraine? Fuck off
I mean, people voting for Trump thinking he’d put America first probably aren’t the brightest to begin with, and International Relations can be complex enough even for the educated.
We have the benefit of access to news and information and a host of knowledgeable people to help us understand why putting a damper on Russian military confidence is a valuable objective, whether the efforts in Ukraine are achieving that and how supporting them is a worthwhile investment.
If he’s stuck in a bubble with nobody to lay all of that out for him, figuring out that Ukraine is a good deal is a tall order.
(That, by the way, is why I think the Humanities need to be taught more. I don’t think the above is hard to understand if someone points out the connections and historical precedents, provided you have the basic education to understand how those mechanisms work.)
but if we start teaching people critical thinking skills they might not make nice compliant factory workers
It’s interesting that there’s still no self awareness and no personal responsibility - like: “it was written all over the wall but I was blind to see it because of my biases and judgments”. Instead it was “I was lied to”.
That’s the only path to getting these people turned around. They’ve, rightly, been called cultists and fascists. Keep telling them they’re wrong, they double down. We already saw this the first time around.
I’m very forthcoming when I’m wrong, but I still have an easier time saying I was bamboozled than plain stupid.
That’s how I see it.
There’s also something that folks forget about people that get suckered in like this: It’s not their first rodeo.
Imagine you’re someone that gets below average marks in school, makes a lot of simple mistakes, and has to work to meet average expectations in life. All this gets called out and checked a lot by people that seem to be having an easier time at everything. A lesson the world teaches people like this is: never admit you screwed up, because maybe this time nobody noticed. It’s an environment where you just get emotionally beat up if you don’t protect yourself. So, to me at least, it’s not a surprise that a lot of people react to being called out by defending their ego every way they know how.
That’s a fresh and compassionate perspective, thank you.
If you <INSERT LITERALLY ANYTHING INTO THIS BLOCK>, they’ll just double down.
At least if I mock them for being blindingly stupid racist bigots, it satisfies me as they double down.
The issue is that they haven’t learned a damn thing. So we’re not out of the woods. They’ll vote in another T like person/administration because former cult members are attracted to cult leaders. I need to start accepting that for the rest of my life, us will be an extra shitty place to live in.
Re-educate who you can, help the lost the best you can, educate the young as if humanity depends on it. Ignorance isn’t a lack of ability, but often due to lack of some resource. You’ll never sit in the shade of the trees you plant, and that’s also something we all need to accept
Nero (the Roman Emperor) was the beast of Revelation
fucking christians, learn your own fucking code
Oh Nero the Emperor! I always thought it was talking about Nero the CD burning software. Seems obvious now.
Nero Burning ROM was titled after Nero burning Rome.
Excuse me say what?! The old logo even shows a burning Coliseum and I still never put it together.
Jesus fucking christ… I always suspected I was dumb, but I didn’t realize it was this bad. I’m going back to licking windows, this is too much
Me and you gonna have some clean windows.
Lol I love those moments where you find something that is easy to overlook if you don’t think about it, but kind of a duh once you take a second to process.
I’m 54 and the revelations never fucking end. It’s a daily struggle.
To live is to struggle it seems. No worries though, at least we can keep each other company on the struggle bus.
Toot toot! Get in loser, we crying
Nero fiddled as Rome was burnt onto a CD-RW.
Ooo, where can I read more on that? I’ll just google it if you don’t have a specific link you like. That’s the first I’ve heard that.
there’s a lot of writing about how the Christians were coding their language at this time because writing about the god king was sure to be death, especially if you’re trying to warn others
Anyways the code for number of the beast, 666 or 616 was basically Nero. He killed a lot of Christians. Revolations is code for the prediction of the fall of Rome
be real and think of that bronze age world and consider how much Rome controlled the world of people who could read and write. It was something very special to write a long message. It would be something that stands out like a big screen tv does to us. they had to hid meaningful things inside fantastic stories so when their caught, they have a way out
Definitely makes sense, I don’t know enough of this kind of history.
I kinda wrote history as a subject off because all my schools focused on wars and not much else. So “history” felt like a bunch of wars and almost all of them were some variation of people in power wanting to show off their micro PPs with a few important revolutionary wars sprinkled in where the common people got sick of the people in power.
So I’m lacking in my “important details of history” knowledge that really help frame conditions as they are now. Appreciate the info, gonna go look up more.
Just start with Wikipedia there’s no single source, it’s pretty widely recognized.
Hold my beer, I’m going in
Fair enough, thanks!
This is the one piece of weirdly uplifting news I needed to hear. If a bigoted idiot can see the writing on the wall, then there’s hope for us all
As far as I understand it, it’s not like he regrets his bigotry or anything. He just regrets believing Trump would do anything about it. He’s mad that Trump isn’t fucking the right people in other words.
Which is, genuinely, progress.
He was voting for a guy who he thought embodied his (fucked up) values, and is now becoming aware that the guy only values himself and fucks everyone. Hopefully next time he will vote for a politician he can actually trust, and actually reflects his (bigoted) values at a meaningful level.
He drew the line at Epstein and sending tax money to Israel/Ukraine. I’m actually impressed he noticed that that line had been crossed
He’ll still endorse Trump or his replacement in 2028. Just wait and see.
Well that will be the real litmus test, will he fall for the same tricks twice
Well, again. I don’t think it’s reasonable to try counting how many times they’ve fallen for it at this point.
hah, true
he talked a good game
Did he though?
Good enough to swindle millions of people.
Well the games these fighters usually play is brute force, suckerpunching and dull stamina. In the rethorical arena that is kind of Donalds game plan.
Though I’m unsure if that was the metaphor Mitchell was crafting here.
He did if you’re stupid and bigoted.
The Game: Racism, bigotry, hatred, greed, and Christian Nationalism.
MAGA: I take bullet for you.
My brain hurts from reading this
“Yeah, I do think that Donald Trump is that beast of Revelation 13:3.”
Man they just can’t help themselves but to continue being dumbshits even as they come around to the Trump grift can they.
you know not all people who follow God are like the very…odd people in the USA. Donald Trump is a very evil man.
I know it’s highly subjective, and highly open to interpretation, but I think you’d be surprised at how many ‘beast of Revelation’ checkboxes Trump fills in. It would be comical if not so real.
My fundy aunt thinks trump is the antichrist … and she loves him for it. They want that fucking apocalypse. Christians are so weird.
Its the party of projection. He claims the democrats are all evil satanists, its stands to reason that he’s fucking satan
That is indeed wild.
