r/agedlikemilk 20h ago

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u/Lehelito 19h ago edited 18h 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 19h 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/antenonjohs 19h 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/Airway 19h 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/antenonjohs 18h ago

That’s a pretty big stretch… I don’t read “Trump 2.0 is different” as “it’s not my fault I was wrong” in the context here

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u/Broad-Bath-8408 17h ago

How else could you read it? He's saying, 'I was wrong because of x' And the implication is that x is out of his control. So clearly he is saying he was wrong because of something he could not control, e.g., it is not his fault.