r/politics I voted 8d ago

Soft Paywall The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” | The national-security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal
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u/poop-dolla 8d ago

How many Trump voters have you converted to vote against him just by talking?

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u/SnooPickles4465 8d ago

Not him but I've tried to convince my friends dump is bad for everyone they won't listen to reason they always say "Oh you're just spouting liberal propaganda" as if they don't do what Fox tells them to say or it's the "deep state" controlling the world and dump is so smart he's playing 5d chess.

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u/AML86 8d ago

My mother has been voting red for a while for some dumb reason (husbands). Between her kids and clients that won't shut up about how Cheeto is ruining their lives, she has flipped to agreement. Honestly don't think she knew what she was even voting for, so not exactly the toughest case. Still, I'd guess that half or more of that 47% or w/e of votes are noncommital and just used to picking the team colors.

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u/Leopold__Stotch 8d ago

Oh none of course! But the other option is total silence on the topic and that won’t convince anyone of anything either. They voted for this and that would rather not talk about the yucky stuff but I won’t give them that option, especially since it is starting to directly impact me and my family 🤷‍♂️