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“There’ll be people that they’ll DM me like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this,’” he said. “He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for. I want him to stop the wars—he’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget—he’s increasing it.”
If only there was a way they could have seen this coming...
Some kind of warning sign that trump was a fucking liar...
It’s almost like we had 4 years with him already
“Trump doesn’t keep his promises” rings hollow of an excuse for regret when we have 4 demonstrable years of his garbage.
All the Biden Break did was normalize shit and hand a megaphone to anyone who thoughts Dems wouldn't help us.
"Blue no matter who" just depresses future turnout, Dem voters need to be excited about who theyre voting for, not scared of who they're voting against.
It's basic bitch psychology. Neoliberals think like conservatives, and lack the empathy to understand the Dem voting base (or anyone for that matter) thinks differently.
That's because the Democrats are a conservative party. The US doesn't have a true Left party because the Dems and the GOP rigged the system so only they can compete. Serious electoral reforms are needed. At a minimum, first past the post has got to be replaced by ranked choice, and the electoral college needs to be tossed.
this fucking guy. Still coping with being complicit in genocide.
And that's only if you ignore the 40 years before that of Trump being widely known as a scammer, swindler and liar.
Some kind of document that literally laid out how this project would work in 2025, perhaps. Oh if only.
Joe Rogan, who previously endorsed Trump, has slammed the administration’s “insane” immigration raids targeting ordinary laborers, despite Trump’s original campaign pledge to focus deportation efforts on the “worst of the worst.”
“I don’t think anybody would have signed up for [this],” Rogan said in July.
Joe Rogan is so incredibly dim. Anyone with half a brain could see at election time that this is exactly what you'd be signing up for by voting Republican.
Joe Rogan has turned out to be the worst person from a TV show that included Andy Dick.
RIP Phil Hartman.
... also: Jimmy James is Milton Wable
I think he's just lying. He might be dumb on top of it, but I think he's just seeing what direction the wind is blowing and trying to get ahead of it.
Rogan is one of the very few who I think is actually just the right kind of dumb to explain his actions.
I'm not a fan. Anyone who says they like him I appreciate, because they're telling me exactly how much weight to give any opinion they voice from that point forward.
I weigh Rogan against other stupid people. People like Hulk Hogan or kid rock. Those guys would still be cheering for Trump if he was literally pissing in thier faces, not even for any benefit. They're just helplessly stupid. Too stupid for me to reasonably even comprehend. Absolute enigmas.
There are others who completely understand how nuts he is but are just doing a bit to enrich themselves... like Owens or Coulter or Shapiro.
I've never seen anything from Rogan to suggest he's got any calculus in what he does. I'm open to hearing examples, though, if anyone has any.
It must drive the others nuts that he blunders into a success they can't engineer through methodical manipulation.
I think you're right, Joe Rogan is like a perpetually stoned teenager. His mind is easily blown and he enjoys that feeling but he also likes the way cash smells and is easily manipulated.
I don't know how many concepts are actually cemented in his head enough to form ideals and I would never accuse him of being a good person, but he's clearly a different kind of stupid than the malicious cruelty seen in so many right-wing chuds.
Like everything he's doing is exactly what he campaigned on, and is laid out in project 2025...
He's being disingenuous. A beta male cuck bitch. He knew what trump was gonna do but now he gets to play the victim because he never said out loud that that's what trump was gonna do. Idk 🤷♂️ oh well these are the people in charge.
These fucking opportunistic grifters played their audiences like fools, and now want to distance themselves from the fallout they helped create?
No. Fuck these idiots.
You're gonna have to do some heavy fucking lifting to help break what you helped create.
You're not the enemy of my enemy just yet.
Fuck all of them, they'll turn around and support him as soon as it's convenient again.
A thing that struck me today is like...there was an article talking about how the speaker of the house didn't like the Superbowl pick. And it's like, who let these fucking political dorks so far out of their lane?!
Like did Newt Gingrich like the act at the 1996 Superbowl? I don't know, and I don't give a fuck. When did everyone start to give a fuck about these stupid asshole's opinions on entertainment?
Go piss up a tree you dumb fucks. Oh, and btw, do your fucking jobs. The government is shut and you're busy talking about your fucking music preferences. Nobody cares.
When you stand for nothing popular, you need to distract people with a culture war. It's all by design, they are utilizing rage bait to keep us from realizing they are actively fucking us.
This isn't new. People keep asking celebrities about things they have no expertise on, and politicians have been more celebrity than political servant for a long time it seems.
I don't care about Ariana Grande's opinion on the Trump administration insofar as learning whether or not she's a fascist and I don't care what kind of music my governor thinks slaps during halftime.
Nah, it's newer than you think. A lot of it has to do with the rise of the right wing media ecosystem. That's part of why I brought it up in this thread.
Like yes, they were planting the seeds of this with brainless morons like Rush Limbaugh, but their rise to prominence as "cultural critics" was really in the last decade or so.
These dumbass podcast hosts helped immensely with that and so did Trump, who offers his opinion on art and entertainment and thinks it's the only one that matters.
The "left wing" media is somewhat complicit in it too. The American media ecosystem overall has shifted to this reality TV or podcast interview mode, where instead of focusing on politicians doing their fucking job they write up articles about their opinions on arts and entertainment.
Its culture war bullshit to feed the rabid base. Speaker Johnson doesn’t give a fuck about the Super Bowl halftime but he sure as shit knows his drooling rabid MAGA fanbois love football more than almost anything and so if he can stir up controversy around it and center himself as an force against “corruption” of their favorite pastime it will curry favor with them for whatever else he wants, because they trust him now
nope, absolutely the fuck not. not only did we warn you the first time, you had four years of him as a leader HELD BACK BY OTHERS, and four years without him, and chose him again. that is truly unforgivable and the more you act like you were taken advantage of the angrier and more bitter i become.
They were nothing more than useful idiots, the Party no longer has use for them, they will be among the first Americans sent to the camps.
No they won't.. they are submissives. Real people don't play the American game.
Too late now, dumbasses.
This article should be tagged NSFL because reading these cretins more or less claim no one could have possibly known what Trump was going to do nearly triggered a stroke and aneurysm in me.
Well, yeah - it was a giant freakin’ mystery on account of how he kept saying what he was going to do. Also the party plan of hundreds of specific things he said he didn’t know anything about but that was a fucking lie? So confusing bro.
It makes sense if you look at it from Trump’s financial backers Dark Enlightenment philosophy. It involves the mimetic theory of creating a scapegoat. So Trump dismantles democracy and triggers the collapse of the United States, is then scapegoated and removed by way of 25th amendment, then the Dark Enlightenment “Chosen One” JD Vance establishes the new patchwork of technomonarchy city-states from the ashes of civilization. Seems a bit rushed, I think they underestimated the amount of effort it would take to destroy the country.
Yeah, though - counterpoint - trump couldn’t think his way out of a wet paper bag, and is famous for blurting out the exact crime he’s committing.
You'd have to be pretty dumb to vote for or endorse trump in 2016 but at least back then the excuse of "I didn't know it would be like this" makes sense.
Sure, he's worse this term, but you know what he was when you supported him this time.
Following the dollar not the people.
Yes they did. They got exactly what they bargained for. They're just too fucking stupid to know it.
Absolutely none of these twats are even remotely redeemable.
In a just world, they'd be tried for accomplice to all of the GOP's crimes
They got exactly what they fucking bargained for, they made off like bandits with vast sums of wealth for capitalizing on the stupidity of millions of Americans who bought into the Trump "we need a king" grift.
The only thing that changed is now that the guy has had plenty of chances to deliver his promises to make america "great" again, and didn't, the people have gotten bored with the narrative, and so the grifters who follow popular sentiment are moving on. That's all, there's no regret, there's no "leopards eating faces" there's NOTHING FOR US TO BE FUCKING SMUG ABOUT. We are still in real danger of losing rights, benefits and democracy broadly, but now the administration has a greater chance of getting away with it, because the media hosts like Rogan are tuning everyone away from the mess he rode in on.
I despise this "satisfaction porn" that both sides indulge in within spaces like this. It's not a good thing that the only people who had access to Trump's circus are now moving onto cover new things because people are bored with it. It just means now they can do worse things without anyone watching.
You can't wash the stink off of you now that the reaping begins. Own it, you get what you were paid for.
They literally did exactly this eight years ago.
Rogan's gang of yes-men only got more popular by being "open minded" and constantly changing position to whatever direction the wind was blowing.
He's an Alex Jones and Rosanna sympathizer. You show who you are by who you are around.
Speaking of Roseanne, she once shat all over the national anthem at a baseball game and maga has conveniently forgotten that since she is also a racist twat waffle. If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.
Such brave, principled stands.
"Oh, no! I rolled in all this shit and now I smell like shit. What are we going to do about this, fam?"
Oh hey look, it's 2017 all over again.
They really are insufferable tools
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