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u/DrJohnnyBananas74 11h ago
Big dummy, he literally said he'd do this and mooks like you voted for him.
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u/Middcore 10h ago
Yeah but you weren't supposed to take him seriously! Or you were supposed to take him seriously but not literally, or something.
(Note that if you express concern about the stuff he talks about doing now, like invading Greenland or Panama or having a third term or cancelling elections, people will still dismiss you as hysterical and say you shouldn't take it seriously.)
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u/pabloescobarbecue 10h ago
That’s the magic of DJT. You can just pick and choose the things you take seriously, so that it fits whatever scenario you want to subscribe to.
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u/phonage_aoi 9h ago
I remember, the "wall not being a real wall" cope during the first campaign too.
It's double-think at its finest.
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u/FlatTopTonysCanoe 9h ago
He’s just an avatar for them to project whatever their interpretation of the perfect president is. It’s literally never mattered what he actually said to them. We are circling the drain and they’re still telling themselves they’re winning.
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u/Darwins_Dog 9h ago
I was surprised just how many people voted for him with the full confidence that "politicians never do what they say during the campaign." A sad state on so many levels.
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u/besthelloworld 8h ago
But he was totally going to lower grocery prices day one 👍 That's the one we believe
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u/Public-Policy24 8h ago
"politicians never do what they say during the campaign," which means there's no difference between voting for someone promising to do bad things and someone promising good things! /s
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u/BeefistPrime 9h ago
Anyone who says he'll do what he says he'll do is a very dumb partisan leftist! You have to use your secret Trump decoder ring to understand what he's really saying.
By the way, I love him because he tells it like it is!
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u/barfobulator 9h ago
"Seriously but not literally" is the most braindead phrase of the trump era.
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u/bookingly 8h ago
I have no idea what the fuck that expression or phrase is supposed to even mean. Like provide some element of gravitas to Trump even if he says and enacts the most stupid shit in our nation's history?
There has to be a reckoning politically soon with Congress to step up to Trump. They have every capability in theory to overturn these idiotic and generationally destructive tariffs.
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u/VirtualBeyond6116 9h ago
That's the beauty with trumps blabbering nonsense. He gets to say everything! He says so much, and the idiots who believe in him hear what they want and get to tune out the rest. If they even admit he said something ridiculous or something thats a horrible policy, they just Say "that's not what He meant" or "you don't know what hes really saying".
Also, I like this guy is basically admitting he "might have been wrong", but praising himself at the same time while not saying he was wrong. 1. "I'm a man of honor". Just say you were fucking wrong and apologize to the "partisans" you slandered. No need to brag about yourself or your honor. 2. "Trump 2.0 is different"? How did all those "partisans" know who he would be? This is the "I'm not admitting I was wrong" part.
So, part of me wants to give him credit, but nah. He's a piece of shit.
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u/MoonshineEclipse 8h ago
He said he would deport all illegal immigrants or criminals. Doesn’t matter how small the infractions, he’s doing it.
He said he would implement lots of tariffs, we now have lots of tariffs.
So when he says he wants to annex Greenland or Canada, we should think he’s joking? He’s not joking. He’s very serious.
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u/Grand-Pen7946 8h ago
It's one of things I find fascinating on the conservative cult subreddit, they attribute so many of his bad traits to being a joke, and I'm thinking when has this man ever said a joke?
Like legitimately, he has never told a joke, except for insults at someone else's expense. In fact, he's almost never even claimed to make a joke, even when itd be beneficial to say "I was joking" or when people thought he was kidding. He couldve said covfefe was a joke, he didnt.
So why the fuck do they say he's joking when he never is? Where does that come from? Normally youd think its right wing media working round the clock to propagandize for him, but I actually havent seen that. When he sharpies away a hurricane, it wasn't OAN or whatever saying he was joking, his base organically believes him to be joking. And if its a joke they disagree with, they dont outright disagree with it, they'll say "this is bad optics", as if its the optics that make him wanting to defund NOAA for going against his sharpie drawing be a bad thing.
You're seeing it right now with him talking about a third term. Its a joke. How? Whats the joke? Whats the setup and punchline? Their only issue with it is that this joke hurts his chances with moderate voters.
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u/Interesting-Pin1433 9h ago
I member all the MAGAts saying "he's not actually gonna do it, it's just a negotiating tactic"
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u/mtdunca 6h ago
They are still saying it's a negotiating tactic.
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u/Synectics 5h ago
r-conservatwat had this literal comment about his blanket tariffs. "It's negotiation."
The fuck it is.
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u/Willing-Theme6042 9h ago
MAGAs are the most gullible people on this damn planet
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u/polexa895 7h ago
Idk if I'd even call them gullible, that implies they're easily tricked but they aren't. They're told exactly what is gonna happen and then get surprised when it happens
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u/MasterBeaterr 9h ago
You gotta realize at some point that it was also 'He literally said he'd do this and mooks still didn't vote Kamala Harris". The amount of people who didn't vote for such a black and white election still astonishes me. There's no way the orange man wins that one in 99 universes out of a hundred.
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u/ranchojasper 8h ago
Well the thing is, it was quite literally a BLACK vs WHITE election, and that's why. I mean honestly that's why. There are still way too many sexist, racist people in this country that they would still choose literally the worst possible candidate for president in the history of humanity than actually vote for a black woman.
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u/OregonHusky22 11h ago
Trump 2.0 doesn’t have John Kelly, doesn’t have Steve Manuchin, doesn’t have any of the Jared and Ivanka faction. None of those guardrails are there, just yes men.
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u/gcg2016 10h ago
And, to be clear, most of them were also awful in their own ways. They were mostly about self-enrichment rather than installing a new world order.
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u/Breadloafs 8h ago
There is a bit of a self-correcting apparatus built into that kind of greed, though. The Kushner types are thoroughbred parasites; they still need a living host to keep sucking wealth out of. The newer breed of Trump sycophant is just ripping the copper wire out of the walls. We've hit the crackhead era.
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u/Old-Bat-7384 7h ago
Yeah, I'm afraid of this. I'm afraid of the US ending up being a husk of a nation akin to Russia. The worst Kushner-style parasites would do is mold the US into China, which at least resembles a functioning nation.
This current lot wants to steal and sell anything not bolted to the foundation and then sell the foundation to the highest bidder.
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u/Iboven 7h ago
Maybe if he does enough damage and everyone really feels it for a while it will change things. I've always said the only way politics will change is if the Republicans actually get their way for once. Well they're getting their way now. Even Trump's first term was mostly the same as earlier conservatives--a tax cut and then pretty much nothing. This is just all of their extreme desires being carried out. Every republican is going to feel it.
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u/ElegantHuckleberry50 7h ago
I’m afraid they will die on Trump dung hill rather than admit they screwed the pooch.
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u/Iboven 6h ago
Hungry dogs turn on their owner rather quickly. They just haven't been hungry yet.
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u/EnvironmentalHour613 5h ago
They never will be. The elites have learned to keep us fed (with shit).
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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 6h ago
GW Bush was president for 5 years with a Republican House and Senate. Worth noting the entire global economy melted down toward the end of that period. So it's not like this hasn't happened before. Somehow they managed to re-frame that time period as "That time Democrats made a bunch of poors buy houses they couldn't afford" and their followers actually deeply believe that narrative.
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u/deviltrombone 5h ago
Nothing that unusual about W.
Every “Unified Republican Government” Ever Has Led to a Financial Crash
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u/Icy_Comfort8161 6h ago
I'm hoping that this is the case, but this administration is corrupting everything so quickly and thoroughly it will be very difficult to fix.
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u/OregonHusky22 10h ago
Oh yeah they were terrible too, but just immersed enough in the modern liberal world order to round off the roughest edges of Trumpism.
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u/BeefistPrime 9h ago
This is true, but if some assholes save us from committing economic suicide because it's going to hurt them too, they still prevented damage.
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u/Irradiated_Apple 8h ago
Kinda nuts how the only thing keeping him somewhat in-check the first time was the competing self interests of different factions in the White House.
As crazy as it sounds I think that is still happening a little bit. Vance is owned by Peter Thiel while Trump is owned by Musk. There's more overlap in their shared goals but there is still some head butting.
But crashing the world economy so they can buy everything up/be kings of the ashes is something the two corporate blocks fully align on. So hold onto your butts boys and girls, it's going to be one hell of a ride....
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u/TheRealBlueJade 7h ago
True, but keeping trump controlled and veiled led to public acceptance for a second term. If he was full force for the first term, there would be no second term.
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u/unsurewhatiteration 5h ago
But at least self-enrichment required that the US continue to remain solvent. The current group of loonies is trying to dismantle the entire country.
This is why I longed for Romney after Trump was elected the first time. I don't agree with basically any of his politics, and I'm also ex-Mormon and inherently question his morals and motives, but I at least believed that he was doing and would continue to do what he thought was good for the US, even if I vehemently disagreed with that that actually was.
Can't really say that for anyone in charge right now, and that's what's scary and dangerous. It's like seeing a careless kid playing with a lighter vs. a known arsonist walking around town with a blowtorch and several jugs of gasoline.
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u/Mattie_Doo 9h ago
Right. We didn’t make a big enough deal out of the fact that so many of Trump’s staffers from the first administration were either discarded or turned on him. That’s very telling. Now he is surrounded by Yes Men and sycophants
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u/Open__Face 9h ago
After seeing what he did to Pence on Jan 6 no one sane would risk working for him
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u/lazy_rage 8h ago
More than Jan 6th, they are just better prepared now. Trump 1.0 wasn’t prepared to make all the changes they wanted to do. Trump 2.0 came with a complete step by step game plan to dismantle everything very quickly and without any opposition. John Oliver explained it in detail.
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u/TheSpitefulRant 8h ago
I mean there were multiple videos of previous Trump staffers saying not to vote for him. Pence went on TV to do so
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u/charlie_marlow 6h ago
It was a fairly large component of Harris's campaign ads. Now, why she didn't have one ad blasting his COVID response or listing terrible decisions he made in his first term is beyond me.
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u/ranchojasper 8h ago
I spent the vast majority of early and mid 2020 desperately trying to make people understand that if he wins again it's going to be 1000 times worse because this time he actually understands that being president is not the same thing as running a business and that there are checks and balances and he has spent the last four years unilaterally removing every possibility of having anyone in his orbit that would be willing to try to stop him. Like John Kelly and Mike Pence are horrible, terrible people yet they refused to violate the constitution for him. Trump learned his lesson, and this time around way before the election he had already removed everyone but the most ass kissing sychophants.
There is literally no one who will even try to stop him anymore. Our country is done. We are fucked. We are completely fucked. And the number of people who don't realize this yet, the number of people who still believe that someone or something will be able to stop him is astonishing to me. We are absolutely goddamn fucked in every possible way. No one is coming to save us, no one is going to stop him. We will be an authoritarian oligarchy within 18 months
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u/Timely-Hospital8746 8h ago
>Yes Men and sycophants
And a lot of very wealthy and powerful people whispering in his ear. Trump's a man that is willing to make deals, you know he's happy to listen when Musk and Thiel start yapping, as long as there's a bag in for Papa Trump.
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u/Rampant16 9h ago
Yup, Trump's first cabinet had at least some people that were actually qualified for their positions, had at least some sense of morality, and stood up to Trump eventually.
They were obviously all replaced with unqualified loyalists that would never have gotten anywhere near the Oval Office in any other administration. It all points to the broader goals of Trump's administration of identifying and removing obstacles to Trump's authority.
As disastrous as many of Trump's orders have been so far, the real pain is still to come once power is more fully consolidated.
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u/eeyore134 9h ago
And it also has people pulling his puppet strings with an actual plan. It's a slapdash plan that they have no idea of the ramifications of, but they have a plan.
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u/Icy_Research_5099 8h ago
Just wait until he decides to do a real war instead of just dropping apartment buildings in Yemen. Mattis was there to knife-hand him back into reason last time, now we have a roided up drunk.
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u/Smartimess 8h ago
Trump 1.0 did not expect to win so he had to chose every person who said yes. Many of them where extremists in their field but non of them where idiots like every person in the actual administration.
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u/TSiQ1618 8h ago
The scariest part is this isn't just about the tariffs, these yes men are in charge of the FBI and the military and who knows what else? If he doesn't get checked hard on this, he's going to push the limits even further with no one to tell him No. You know, we might see what happens when you try to stop a hurricane with a nuke this time around
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u/JesterMarcus 7h ago edited 7h ago
Fuck, I'd take Rex Tillerson at this point. I can work with somebody who's greedy, but these current fucks are just sadistic.
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u/Diligent-Phrase436 8h ago
Baby Trump has no guardrails and his diaper is full. Look out for the shit storm.
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u/Delicious-Ganache606 7h ago
Jesus Christ, we actually miss the "Jared and Ivanka faction"...
We really drew the short straw with this timeline, didn't we?
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u/1ndiana_Pwns 6h ago
Trump 2.0 doesn't even have a Scaramucci.
Not that trump 1.0 had one for long, either
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u/Heel-and-Toe-Shifter 11h ago
So who is (checks notes) "fairly stupid" now?
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u/joyofresh 9h ago
The whole world
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u/PixelBrewery 9h ago
No, just 51% of America
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u/make_thick_in_warm 8h ago
Not even
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u/spokenmoistly 7h ago
I would include those who chose not to vote in the stupid portion of the country, about 2/3 of them.
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u/10000Didgeridoos 6h ago
262,083,034 Americans were voting age in 2024 as of last spring.
77 million voted Trump. 75 million or so voted Harris. And 140 million or so didn't vote at all.
So yes, about 217 million Americans either directly voted for this, or enabled it by not voting at all. So the percentage is actually even worse: 82% of voting age Americans.
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u/lord_of_worms 5h ago
This problem was highlighted during his first run at presidency thing. It was hugely publicised and they, the majority of people let it happen again!!
Reminds me of something one of their wise men once said:.
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u/MiddleFishArt 8h ago
More like 80%. Those who voted for Trump + those who didn’t vote.
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u/DatDominican 7h ago
Damn those children not voting for Kamala catching strays
63%of eligible voters voted . So 69% of of adults if we lump in trump voters with non voters
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u/KlingoftheCastle 6h ago
Yeah, the world didn’t elect Trump. Only America did that
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u/stereoroid 11h ago
Admitting he was wrong counts for something, though.
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u/Low_Chance 11h ago
I'll definitely give some respect for that even if it comes with a humblebrag
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u/GarlicThread 11h ago
TRADE OFFER
You : admit you were wrong
I : provide respect and a donkey hat
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u/Blubasur 10h ago
The art of the deal
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u/titanofold 9h ago
A better book: The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal. (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/negotiating-the-best-deal)
The best deal is the one where everyone still wants to work with you after the deal is done. Not necessarily that everyone gets everything they want, but they're still willing to develop the relationship.
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u/Additional-Tap8907 8h ago
Yeah Trump’s book is about how to burnish your ego and feel like you’re winning whether or not you actually are. A better metric is how to establish long term mutually beneficial relationships with others so that you create an entire self sustaining ecosystem around you. Trump knows nothing about that.
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u/Freethecrafts 8h ago
The best deal is where both sides have vested interests and want whatever venture to succeed.
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u/Diligent-Phrase436 8h ago
Trump is lecturing us on The Art of Creating a Cult, much more powerful than any deal, best or not.
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u/mak484 9h ago
Nah. Trump is not different, the people backing him are just way more organized. They were not subtle about any of this. Anyone who believed he wouldn't do the things he and his people literally said they wanted to do, is willfully ignorant. People like this are not trustworthy. All it will take is a slightly better lie to get them to turn on us again. Admitting you were wrong about something so obvious doesn't deserve praise.
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u/ScrotallyBoobular 8h ago
Trump 1.0 was forced into surrounding himself with more typical NeoLib Republicans who kept their same usual trajectory of just mildly fucking Americans and the budget without making too much of a splash.
Trump 2.0 is embracing the more radicals who openly want to tear America down and rebuild it into a white nationalist Oligarchy.
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u/DukeOfGeek 7h ago
I don't think Moscow cares for it to be rebuilt. You are right about the first part though.
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u/mortgagepants 9h ago
i'm just a fairly stupid partisan on the left so i don't get it.
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u/VirtualBeyond6116 9h ago
Yeah, he's not admitting we were right by the way. He's just saying trump 2.0 is different,,, but he couldn't figure it out ahead of time,,, but he's also a "man of honor".
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u/Diligent-Phrase436 8h ago
And trump 2.0 is like a revamped version of Trump? If anything is just Trump knowing full well that he either dies in office or stays in office until dying. Democracy is not longer an option for him.
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u/Licensed2Pill 9h ago
It’s almost like if there wasn’t a record of his previous tweet, he wouldn’t admit being wrong at all.
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u/CompetitiveGood2601 9h ago
ya, 2.4 million views, it wasn't going away! Its interesting he's addressing it publicly they must be getting a lot of calls over at geiger, trying to calm some nerves maybe!
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u/noonegive 9h ago edited 9h ago
Nerves are a librul hoax, like measles or "consent".
(Am I doing this right? I'm new to the grift;)
Fuck, I forgot to use ALL CAPS!!! AND COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF EXCLAYMATION POINTS!!! AND NOT TO USE THEM FAIRY COLLEGE WORDS LIKE COPIOUS!!!!
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u/carlitospig 8h ago
I mean, will it impact his future voting? No? Then I will remain in the ‘fuck him’ camp.
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u/Playful-Abroad-2654 9h ago
He was debating it, that’s why he had to say it out loud. Part of him wanted to delete it, but then he had to remind himself of who he was and wants to be. I don’t think this is about humble bragging, I think this is about fighting the natural instinct to save face
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u/HBODHookerBagOfDicks 9h ago
It’s not a humblebrag though. It’s just more projection, calling everyone who said he would do this (literally EVERYONE outside the cult) stupid.
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u/IRateRockbusters 8h ago
Honestly, I hate the way that some guys can only admit to shortcomings by twisting it into a kind of meta self-compliment. I knew a guy who would refer to cheating on his spouse by saying “I’m a big enough man to admit that I made a mistake.”
I always thought there was something deeply pathetic about how he could only possibly acknowledge betraying his wife if he could transform it into an opportunity to mention how honest and self-knowledgeable he was. Embarrassing.
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u/OrneryZombie1983 10h ago
Better than Fox News pulling the stock ticker from their screen.
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u/philodendrin 10h ago
He based his professional viewpoint upon "(fairly stupid) partisans on the left". He deserves ridicule for that alone - but then to be proven wrong and own it, thats just what one is supposed to do. Its called Integrity, but its become so foreign that it just doesn't occur to us when we see it but don't recognize it immediately.
Guy believed in Trump and he looks foolish. Thats what happens to you when you put your trust in him. But its a cult.
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u/taintedblu 7h ago
If he's like most of the folks on /r/conservative, they are still pleased they voted for Trump because of multiple "good" policies he has put in place. This one, eentsy-weentsy bad policy doesn't detract from the overall greater good as they see it.
The problem being that this "eentsy-weentsy" bad policy is literally taking a sledgehammer to US economic supremacy on the world scale. As long as Trump deports brown people and has DOGE take a sledgehammer to our institutions, they're happy to let the origin of US world-order and wealth turn to ash right before our very eyes, not to mention our 401ks.
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u/Lehelito 11h ago edited 9h ago
That follow-up barely counts for anything when it's used as an opportunity to humblebrag ("I'm a man on honor") and backtrack ("well ackshually Trump 2.0 is very different, other than that I was totally right, you know! ☝️🤓"). Nowadays I am finding it increasingly difficult to be forgiving of people who believe, trust, and worship Trump, especially after the decades of Trump proving himself to be an evil charlatan.
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u/Airway 11h ago
Exactly right. He basically said "I was wrong because Trump is acting different now, who could have seen it coming?"
When in reality he was wrong because he's stupid and it was easy to see this coming.
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u/mrbadxampl 9h ago
it's hard to really even credit him with "Trump is acting different this time around" no he's not, he wanted to do all this kind of shit the first time but there were adults in the room to stop him!!! WHERE ARE THEY ALL NOW?!?!?
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u/Annual-Ebb-7196 9h ago
Yup. No one in any way qualified will work for him. It’s just the sycophants now. And stupid ones at that.
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u/antenonjohs 10h ago
I hate Trump just as much as everyone else, but I like to take these things at face value. He’s not implying “who could have seen it coming?” He admits he was wrong, simple as that.
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u/Blubasur 10h ago
I wish people took trump at face value. No one should have assumed he was lying about anything until he proved otherwise…
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u/naryfo 9h ago
I mean he lies a lot and plays both sides but yeah this wasn't a surprise to anyone who isn't obsequious towards a party.
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u/Blubasur 9h ago
Doesn’t matter that he does. He should be taken at face value. If he says things that look like he is planning to commit voter fraud, force a 3rd term, do stupid shit like tariffs. It should have been taken at face value, even if he genuinely never would have done it.
We shouldn’t be voting for people like that, hard stop. They shouldn’t even be allowed in politics.
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u/OkConcentrate5741 10h ago
I don’t see how you can say that, considering that Trump said that this is exactly what he was going to do during his re-election campaign. GP chose to ignore/dismiss Trump’s actual campaign promises, and call anyone who took Trump at his word, “fairly stupid liberals.” I mean, talk about a disingenuous argument on his part…
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u/TheWeddingParty 10h ago
What do you think "Trump 2.0 is very different" means? What does that sentence mean to you?
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u/Radiant-Quit9633 9h ago
Trump 2.0 IS very different. Even myself, who predicted a trump driven recession and has been preparing for it for a few months, believed that Trump couldn't fuck it up in 6 months. The first term he tested the waters, this term he is full blown out of control.
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u/Airway 10h ago
"Trump 2.0 is different", to me, sounds like he's saying it isn't his fault he was wrong because this isn't what was to be expected.
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u/Imeanttodothat10 9h ago
No redaction on the "very stupid" people comment. And I would also guess no opinion change on the next issue "the very stupid left" has an opinion on.
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u/TinFoilBeanieTech 10h ago
That fuckwit, "Trump 2.0"? Trump didn't change, he just managed to ditch his somewhat sane handlers and surround himself with worshippers. Trump 2.0 is Trump 1.0 unfiltered.
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u/PandaImaginary 10h ago edited 8h ago
To paraphrase: "This was a chance to get back at all those foreigners who created all our problems."
All our problems were created by lazy ass bigots and xenophobes who place the fault for the problems our own poor character and stupidity created on the heads of the nearest scapegoat.
And, quite aside from that, when you get back at foreigners, they'll get back at you. They'll behave, in other words, exactly as you do. Who indeed could have guessed that?
Who could have guessed that other people would make our tariffs reciprocal? Surely not the people suggesting reciprocal tariffs.
Who could have guessed that Trump was "truly going to implement 20% tariffs on everything?" Who could ever have guessed that a dangerous megalomaniac would ever do exactly what he said he was going to do when in power? After all, Hitler proved to be all talk.
Credit for saying the words, "I was wrong," though. It's a worthwhile act that's disappearing from the world fast.
However, an apology that indicated he had learned from the experience would have concluded something to the effect of: "I'm going to have to think twice about calling my opponents stupid when in fact they were smart and I was stupid about this. In fact *I'm dreaming, of course* maybe name calling should be eliminated from politics and all of us should advocate for our points of view while being open to changing our minds based on new information."
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u/Deep-Thought 9h ago
Also, he doesn't take back calling the left stupid even though they absolutely called it.
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u/SnortMcChuckles 9h ago
Bravo. This was no apology or admission of error. This is a typical wool over your eyes excuse.
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u/kraghis 11h ago
God just take the support. This isn’t a Reddit argument it’s the fate of the modern world
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u/chewbacca-says-rargh 9h ago
Yea if anything I view these types as being even dumber because tariffs were literally one of the major platforms Trump ran on. This dude was just so up Trump's ass he didn't want to believe him so he could own the libs or something equally as stupid. Trump says he'll do something, this dude says no way only the stupid libs believe that, Trump does the thing, and idiots like this are all like "OMG he did the thing he said he'd do"
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u/SmallsLightdarker 8h ago
Yeah, I'm not seeing the "honor" even if he would have been proven right. Let's say he didn't go with the tariffs like this guy assumed he wouldn't. How is it honorable to vote for someone who didn't do the things they run on and were just trolling, or just spouting nonsense, or whatever other excuse they would give him?
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u/Former-Drama-3685 10h ago
He is still wrong. Trump 2.0 is not different. It’s still the same MFR.
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u/call_me_old_master 10h ago
Admitting he was wrong counts for something, though.
What does it matter if they never actually do anything about it? This is like transgression #1000, and yet the death cult will never renounce.
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u/thelightstillshines 10h ago
Yeah, giving props for admitting you were wrong was valid in 2017. But like come on lol, being wrong now you’re just dumb.
Something something fool me twice.
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u/Telemere125 10h ago
Yes, but it’s a long way from agreeing that everyone that voted for a spray tanned toddler was an idiot.
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u/Glittering_Estate_72 11h ago
"I was wrong on the tariffs..." but not about calling all of you "...(fairly stupid) partisans..."
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u/FUPAMaster420 10h ago
Exactly. If he said "In this case, I was the stupid partisan", MAYBE I would have a couple ounces of respect. That'll never happen though. This doesn't mean shit.
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u/ehtw376 9h ago
No you see Trump 2.0 is completely different than Trump 1.0…. Nooooo one could have seen this coming cuz it’s a different version of Trump.
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u/CrazyCalYa 9h ago
"Different", not worse. He can't even admit that it's a bad idea. He says it like he's just not figured out Trumps amazing 4d chess move. He's waiting for the moment he can reply to this tweet with "Aha! It was all according to plan. Checkmate, stupid leftists".
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u/TriviaNewtonJohn 9h ago
The few times I have looked at the conservative subreddit to see what they are posting, I noticed they are always name calling anyone they perceive as left wing - “libtards”, “stupid liberals” “idiot left wingers” etc. Its sad
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u/doc_birdman 9h ago
I noticed they are always name calling anyone they perceive as left wing - “libtards”, “stupid liberals” “idiot left wingers” etc. Its sad
It wouldn’t be conservative ideals without ableist hate speech
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u/OutlaneWizard 8h ago
I pop in every now and then when I need a laugh. Recently there was a post about how it was time to "be the bigger people and bridge the gap with the libtards". Can't make this shit up
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u/Jack__Squat 8h ago
They always throw in a dig. I assume it's because they don't have anything to back up their arguments.
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u/thoraxe_the_impaler1 8h ago
It’s because that’s Trump’s MO. Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary, Lyin’ Ted, etc.
He is incapable of mentioning anyone that’s remotely against him without giving them some dumb shit nickname. This has been the norm now for like a fucking decade.
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u/Deeliciousness 8h ago
They learned from their daddy. Disparage and insult the opposition, turn any debate into a dissing match. You'll never need to address any issues in a serious way.
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u/TheRappingSquid 9h ago
Centrists piss me off even more these days because they just muddy the waters so fucking hard with absolute nonsense
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u/getstabbed 8h ago
In most countries what they consider liberals or left wing aren’t even liberal or left wing. They seem convinced that the other side is just as radical left as they are radical right and it’s bizarre.
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u/RabieSnake 10h ago
“I voted for him because he does what he’s says”. “No one actually thought he would do what he says”
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u/Rampant16 9h ago
"Actually he's playing 4D chess and even though it looks bad, Trump's actually smarter than every single economic expert in the world and has a secret super plan."
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u/BullfrogCustard 6h ago
This guy is playing his own version of "Rock, Paper, Lizard, Spock" and nobody else knows his rules.
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u/savpunk 10h ago
We were laughing about this on Blue Sky yesterday. “Man of honor,” my foot. He knows he can’t escape the screenshots.
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u/nycdiveshack 10h ago
I’ve been saying this since before the election happened that the goal of all his talk of tariffs is an era of isolation for the U.S. through a version of globalization written out in Project 2025 by the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald and Peter Thiel the main partner in Palantir. Tariffs, threats of military action against Panama Canal/Canada/Greenland are bluffs to allow specific American companies to get a better hold in those countries for resources or transportation.
The threats against Panama Canal stopped literally when BlackRock Inc. bough for $23 billion 2 of the 4 ports in the Canal and over 40 ports throughout 20+ countries. The threats against Greenland will stop when the same happens and acquiring Canada is very much real in the way the current relationship between Denmark owns Greenland.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blackrock-panama-canal-deal-ck-hutchison-trump/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250121-the-enormous-challenge-of-mining-greenland
While all that happens the dismantling of the federal government, the services it provides and the bureaucracy that exists to ensure all that wealth isn’t abused. This is why Palantir (Peter Thiel’s company which is the 2nd biggest defense contractor for the CIA/NSA and the U.S. military along with the UK and Norway) found Elon Musk his kids and adult DOGE teams. The goal is to privatize everything in the U.S. so the government is no longer held responsible by Congress or the judicial branch. First defund the agencies and services to make them useless and make Americans angry then give an out by privatizing it all.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-peter-thiel-trump-administration-connections/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/30/doge-privatize-government-usps-trump/
It’s written in Project 2025 the goal is to sell off all the property from the Post Office/take the money from the pensions and leave the debt for the American taxpayers, defund the IRS so no one goes after the rich, sell off all federal lands including national parks to allow for drilling and mining for oil and metals. For those saying they don’t have the power to do it, they do because no branch will stop them.
The tariffs are targeted for specific types of manufacturing that Cantor Fitzgerald and Peter Thiel want happening here while the rest of the products are being ignored. The point of all this to create manufacturing that focuses on using all those metals for making more tech like low orbit satellites (over 7000 thrown into low orbit in the last 2 years with thousands more planned for the next few years) for SpaceX for Starlink and Starshield. The long term goal is for Starlink to be the sole isp provider (Starlink has already partnered with TMobile). When they control the flow of internet they control what you see on it. This is why Elon’s adult doge team at the FAA is still trying to cancel the contract with Verizon and give it Starlink. This is why temporarily the DOGE team had hard physical access to all the federal agencies whose information they want to retain and become the replacement for those agencies like dept of education/USDA/NOAA/SSA and the IRS. This is why Amanda Scales who is an employee of Elon’s went over to OPM week one of Trump becoming president and setup a private server hosted in a foreign country to help facilitate the flow of all the data they wanted to copy and store.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-the-road-is-federal-employee
A few things are happening on September 30 of this year. The 6 month gap bill to fund the government ends, the deferred retirement program finally kicks in and at the very same time Elon has promised new code for the Social Security Administration will be written to replace the old. The government will either be allowed to shutdown or the new funding bill will not only gut the folks the who accepted the retirement plan by affecting their pensions or even worse. The code would take years to ensure security and stability but Elon wants to use his AI company and Palantir to rewrite the code in months.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
While all this happens while agencies are being shutdown so that there less obstacles in their way what they want is autocratic control and most importantly Trump is only a puppet and will be thrown aside when he is no longer useful. That sounds good but his replacement will be Vance.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/18/jd-vance-springfield-scapegoating-00179401
The tech oligarchs (Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) took power with the help of investment firms like Cantor Fitzgerald (Cantor’s chairman is Lutnik now commerce secretary so Lutnik made his son the new chairman) who enabled and supported Russ Vought (head of Office of Budget Management) to write Project 2025. Peter Thiel born in West Germany, brought up in a South African town that at the time was a supporter of Nazism. He is a Christian nationalist that believe women shouldn’t vote, follower of Curtis Yarvin’s philosophy of replacing democracy and believer of scapegoat mechanism for which he says Trump fits the role (make things so bad and have it blamed on one person so when that person is removed the masses believe the problems are gone)
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u/Otherwise-Stranger55 9h ago
Thank you, you should make a post somewhere
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u/nycdiveshack 9h ago
Oh I’ve tried, got permanent ban from the news sub when I accidentally posted this comment twice in one post. Got temporarily banned by politics sub cause they said I posted this comment in too many different subreddits. So now I posted this and a few other “long comments” to my Reddit profile. The most recent is about NSA chief and his deputy being fired. You’ll have to scroll slightly down to see the other posts. I think it’s worth a read if you have time.
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u/That_one_bichh 8h ago
Commenting so I can be brought back to reread it and go in depth with all the sources. Love this.
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u/Injured-Ginger 6h ago
Let's assume he could scrub all records of his comments from the universe. Admitting you are wrong is worthless anyways if it's not accompanied by change. Saying "I was wrong. I guess gasoline is flammable." doesn't mean shit to the person whose house burnt down. Admitting you were wrong only matters when it is the first step in fixing a mistake. I would give a shit if started to do something good in return, but let's not pretend like he wouldn't just support another serial sexual assaulter and con man if they ran for office as a Republican.
By even referring to this as "Trump 2.0" he is:
Implying Trump 1.0 was worthy of support
Deflecting the blame of being wrong to Trump changing as if it's a different person doing different things
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u/forrestfaun 10h ago
"When Trump took office in 2017, the weighted average tariff on goods imported to the U.S. was around 1.5%, which he roughly doubled to 3% by the time he left office, in 2021.
Last year, under President Joe Biden, that rate fell to 2.4%.
But now the Budget Lab estimates that America’s tariff rate will skyrocket to 22.5% in 2025 — with about half of the increase coming from Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs alone."
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u/ZenMonkey48 10h ago
Betting on "Trump wouldn't be so stupid as to..." is a fool's bet.
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u/TERRAIN_PULL_UP_ 9h ago
We’ve crossed so many of those “He’s not really going to…” thresholds. He bullshits so much that his voters just assume he’ll only do the things they want him to do and everything else is bluffing/trolling.
People voted for him assuming he was lying…
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u/moschles 9h ago
"Haha silly leftists. Trump isn't going to actually invade Greenland."
{ Trump actually invades Greenland }
"This is the bold move of a genius which you Leftists cannot comprehend with your tiny minds."
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u/reggers20 10h ago
Imagine being this deeply stupid. It is shit like this thats so annoying about Republicans.
Who fucking cares that you can admit when you're wrong. We already knew you were wrong. You're the dumbass. You were the dumbass the whole time.
Dude needs to look in the mirror and understand the man looking back at him is an imbecile. He needs to come to terms with this irrefutable fact.
We need some sort of dumbass audit system for social media
Certified Dumbass watermarks or something.
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u/WoppingSet 9h ago
"I was wrong (never 'you were right') THIS time" seems to happen every goddamned time.
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u/dennismfrancisart 10h ago
Greed makes people stupid. That's the only answer I can come up with for this king of arrogant ignorance. We have nearly 300 years of history to look back on regarding the sheer economic idiocy of presidents slinging tariffs in this country.
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u/Low_Control_623 11h ago
So he’s admitting he’s the stupid one?
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u/atticusjackson 11h ago
Being stupid is the biggest trend in politics.
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u/Hideo_Anaconda 11h ago
Being willfully stupid is being on the winning team for the moment. Here's hoping that moment is over soon.
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u/alternativelyblank 11h ago
We as a country need to have a serious talk about the people who brought us all here when it's all said and done, but hey, if that's genuine regret and he adds his efforts to stopping this, then at least that's something we can use right now.
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u/Less_Likely 9h ago
We ceded political power to conspiracists, demagogues, sycophants, conmen, and haters of democracy.
The only way I see this end is in violence. I’m disillusioned, I hope I’m wrong about this, but been hoping that I was wrong about consequences of actions for about for 25 years since the Patriot Act and then Iraq invasion.
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u/BilliousN 9h ago
I've always enjoyed when Mario Kart gives me a nice blue shell.
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u/Flashy-Sense9878 11h ago edited 6h ago
$100 says this doesn’t make him introspective on his views about the left in any way.
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u/PlausibleFalsehoods 11h ago
>Man of honor
>Tweeting out bullshit to get Trump elected
Sorry man, that ship has sailed.
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u/LibertyJusticePeace 9h ago
Trump 2.0 is very different because the first time around the so called “deep state” was able to stop him from breaking so many laws and completely making a fool of himself. This time, he has insured there are no such impediments by firing all the watchdogs and anybody that knows anything or dares speak up. It’s looking to be a complete train wreck.
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u/MrBLKHRTx 10h ago
I have never seen a MAGA with principles.
This must be one of those Republicans I heard about as a child.
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u/sexisdivine 10h ago
“Trump 2.0 is very different.” Is he though? Is he really?
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 9h ago
Not in motivation, no. But in terms of total dismantling of the remaining guard rails, yes.
Part of why I think he improved his performance this time is that low info voters remembered the first couple years of his presidency in the fading glow of the Obama years and gave his economy a mulligan due to COVID.
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u/sackhuck7 9h ago
the response should of been "guess I was the fairly stupid partisan on the right"
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u/guysir 7h ago edited 7h ago
We got another one! Every single person who realizes and admits their mistake is a huge victory.
We got Richard Hanania yesterday, too: https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1907908222025085241
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u/yuribear 10h ago
After seeing all the backlash and the ridicule, numnuts over here thinks he can save his reputation by posting that. 🤣😵🤮
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u/TitShark 8h ago
I won’t disparage people who admit fault. Just need more of them; too many cowards clinging to their ideology
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u/GenerallySalty 10h ago
Except even worse, because it's every country except Russia and North Korea lol So it's not just stupid destruction, it's directly foreign controlled destruction.
USA bros, the dude is compromised and demented. Might wanna look into that
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u/Justagoodoleboi 8h ago
This guy has at least admitted it. Many trump supporters are saying a bad economy is good cause people won’t be buying unnecessary items anymore ???
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u/Spit_Take_5000 8h ago
Eventually, most of these “conservatives” will realize they’ve been duped. It’s a cult. Maybe now that they’ve lost a shitload of money, they’ll stop believing everything Orange Jesus says.
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u/CapableBother 7h ago
Sorry, Geiger Capital, but Trump 2.0 is exactly the same as 1.0: willfully ignorant, vindictive, and galactic ally unable to tell the truth. Us "mostly stupid" liberals saw it in 2016 or before. I appreciate your honesty, but you don't get a pass on Trump.
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u/Jaded-Weakness-8212 7h ago
Shot at least this one admitted it. I can’t get a single trumper to admit anything true
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u/Apart-Badger9394 10h ago
Props for admitting he was wrong. On all sides today people refuse to admit they were wrong. We also punish people for being wrong in the past.
All this does is prevent change. The people who want to change aren’t allowed to. This is the first step to healing from Trump’s effects on this country… allow the people who see the error in their ways to be forgiven.
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u/Turbulent_Summer6177 10h ago
At least he admits it. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to fixing your problem.
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u/metakepone 9h ago
Why don't these people understand that Trump 1.0 was insulated by the Obama economy and a group of professional public servants who forced Trump to set things mostly to cruise for 4 years?
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