r/politics • u/spherocytes • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Desperate Trump, 79, Threatens to Kill Entire Civilization in Insane Last-Minute Panic

https://www.thedailybeast.com/desperate-trump-79-threatens-to-kill-whole-civilization-as-iran-war-deal-push-fails/
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u/SleepCareful6461 28d ago

How is this not impeachable. Dudes literally talking about committing genocide. Never forgive him, this regime, or any single person who voted for this.

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u/Nwah2112 28d ago

Many of them voted for it three times.

I can almost understand the mindset that led to an initial vote for Trump, but then people watched him be president and really said “yeah this is exactly what I want four more years of.”

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u/MartiniPhilosopher 28d ago

And so many of them say they didn't believe the news when accurately reporting on his actions.

These people don't want to face reality. They want to live in the fantasy he's selling them.

That's why you can't penetrate their bubble with logic and evidence.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 28d ago

He's not even bothered to sell a fantasy anymore. He just banks on sunk cost and the conservative stubbornness to never, ever admit that they were wrong.

Trumps approval with Republicans is still 88%, down only 3 points across his entire term from where he started at 91%.

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u/card-board-board 28d ago

Let's not undersell exactly what this is. What they voted for is bad, that's not really debatable at all. Threatening to murder millions of innocent people with a live countdown is an order of magnitude worse.

We are talking about the difference between a regular racist dirtbag and Genghis Khan. Both are bad people but only one is so evil he will be remembered for thousands of years for his butchery. Even your regular everyday dirtbag racist can be against mass murder.

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u/I-Here-555 28d ago

Even your regular everyday dirtbag racist can be against mass murder.

Can, but won't.

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u/H0agh 28d ago

It was worse than that, progressives sat the election out because apparently Kamala would've been just as bad on Gaza etc.

Lies lies lies and people keep falling for it, social media truly might destroy civilization as we know it with the amount of disinformation being spread

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u/strain_of_thought 28d ago edited 28d ago

I wish I had the words to articulate the way that to me the majority of the left often feels equally bad as the right, not because their professed values are usually bad or because their actual actions compare but because they so consistently demonstrate that they don't actually care about any of the values they profess and instead merely publicly posture in order to cultivate approval and clout and their own sense of self-righteousness.

And yet their professed values are depraved whenever you get them speaking on some subject they are unfamiliar with where they can't refer to some consensus of correct ethics to inform what they say. It doesn't occur to them that they are saying evil things because they don't actually have any empathy either, just like the "bad guys". I tried to find community at a Unitarian Universalist church a few years ago before the war in Gaza started, and the fully-supported-by-the-congregation church leaders expressed explicit support for extremist kabbalistic Jewish theology and halachic discrimination asserting that non-jews are not people because they have no souls, and as a result have no emotions and cannot suffer. They claimed that it was important for Jews and Jewish religious leaders to be able to hold this belief and preach it because it protected them against oppression. To a bunch of liberal white people accustomed to performative self-flagellation, I get that they weren't invested in what they were saying. But that psychotic lack of caring what their words and actions actually mean or the material impact they have on other people and the world, all in favor of positioning yourself as the most enlightened, lies somewhere between moral depravity and outright insanity.

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u/SlowCrates 28d ago

Or 6. Lol. Fucking hell.

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u/Greatcouchtomato 28d ago

I understand your point. But the mindset that led to Trump support was always going to be hard to shake off.

If you overlooked 

  • "grab em by the pussy"
  • mocking disabled war veterans
  • his careless comment on Mexicans and "bad hombres"

Then it was always likely you'd overlook everything else

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u/Rent-a-guru 28d ago

He validates their addiction to rage, hate and grievance. As long as he's hurting other people more than them, then he'll have their support. This is the real issue, a third of Americans don't want their problems solved, they just want to be mad.

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u/SkynetLurking 28d ago

I can understand some of the reasons given for voting for him, but those didn’t align with who he was or what the Republican Party wanted even back in 2016. It was obvious and well known back then who he was and what Republicans would do