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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs I was eating breakfast at a truck stop......
Fox News was on the TV. The statement on the scroll stated that Obama changed his position on deportation when he was president. One of the guys setting at another table says see Trump isnt as bad as Obama! I simply said what Trump is doing is illegal and irrationals. The guy asked why? I said because Obama deported criminals and Trump is trying to be a dictator, deporting as many as they can. The guy turned pale and said that I was a hater. I replied if you say so, but before you call me a hater, you might want to check your own self in a mirror. He gave me a dirty look, but never utter another word!
Oh how thee is so stupid to believe in a criminal dictator.

CentralMass
(16,365 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:00 PM - Edit history (1)
biophile
(847 posts)Good for you to speak out
calimary
(87,193 posts)A GREAT one, actually.
biophile
(847 posts)Its been around a while - still rings true!
eppur_se_muova
(39,545 posts)https://www.instagram.com/p/CGrDNfFBSDu/?hl=en
The quote, taken from a 2016 Vanity Fair article, has since been gilded and embellished to become something like Donald Trump is a stupid mans idea of a smart person, a poor mans idea of a rich man, and a weak mans idea of a strong man.
The embellished version has become the more-quoted quote, because theres an obvious emotional truth to it. (When the legend becomes fact, as another famous misquotation has it, print the legend.) That Trump is an avatar for a childs idea of a lot of things, especially masculinity, is key to understanding the entire current political moment. This idea was expressed perhaps most credulously, if unintentionally, by comedian Andrew Schulz a couple weeks back.
https://www.gq.com/story/is-donald-trump-cool-actually
Here's the Schultz quote:
Therell be people that theyll DM me like, You see what your boys doing? You voted for this. Im like, I voted for none of this, Schulz said. Hes doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for. I want him to stop the wars hes funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget hes increasing it. Its like everything that he said hes going to do except sending immigrants back, and now hes even flip-flopped on that, which I kind of like.
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/andrew-schulz-regrets-trump-vote-1236453153/
Alice Kramden
(2,723 posts)biophile
(847 posts)BlueKota
(4,435 posts)tsf, are giving themselves is that he's a well documented flip-flopper and liar. Any one with a half functioning brain would have realized they were being conned by a frequently exposed con man, and voted for Harris . Those who got fooled have only themselves to blame, and deserve the consequences that result from their foolish actions. I might feel more forgiving, if those of us who voted for Harris, and those who weren't able to vote, weren't suffering because the tsf's sheep refused to listen to the truth about tsf. So 🖕 them and their excuses.
Liberal In Texas
(15,453 posts)Why they want to warehouse these people in cages is just to be cruel. Democratic presidents had those here illegally deported. And they also tried to accommodate asylum seekers and foreigners here as legal workers or tourists.
I know you always think later on what would have been some good comebacks, but you did good.
mucifer
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was just awful. Yes, it is MUCH MUCH worse now. But, it was awful then.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/exiled-obama-administrations-horrifying
https://immigrantjustice.org/press-release/obama-administrations-reckless-expansion-of-family-detention-system-puts-mothers-and-children-at-risk/
President Obama did a lot of things right. Immigration was not one of them. I know he was fighting for reform. But, it sure didn't happen under his watch.
Baitball Blogger
(50,591 posts)hunter
(39,718 posts)If I see the television tuned to a news channel I'll ask right away, "What is that shit? What's the fuckwit king done now?"
Or something similar.
I don't visit many places where the television news is on. If places do have a television, like my doctor's office, it's usually tuned to something less controversial like HGTV, or more likely in my part of the world, football, not the U.S.A. kind.
barbtries
(30,614 posts)In Phoenix a few years ago I was staying at Hampton Inn and the guy at the desk said he was not allowed to change the channel. I went outside to smoke, tagged the place on fb and said I would never go back there because they insisted on feeding right wing propaganda to their clientele.
15 minutes later I walked back in and the tv was on CNN.
harumph
(2,880 posts)Alice Kramden
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FoxNewsSucks
(11,238 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,740 posts)Hit em where they live.
Scrivener7
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AllaN01Bear
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Seinan Sensei
(1,079 posts)tRump called our Veterans Suckers and Losers
If THAT doesnt stop the BS, they sputter, but hes a good businessman. Unbelievable. Six bankruptcies and failed businesses stops that crap.
I could talk about felonies, cheating on wives, grifting, lying, & breathtaking stupidity but they dont want to hear about that. Cutting Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, Soc Sec? Nope. I dont waste my time.
And they REALLY dont want to hear the Bible part
the all-things-Jesus-was-for-Dump-is-against. part
I have found, however, that an occasional well-timed Bullshit! works wonders 😊
Initech
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JoseBalow
(8,024 posts)mwb970
(11,889 posts)mdbl
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Karasu
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mouths.
It is fucking impossible to for these Gestapo agents to hit that number without "arresting" (read: kidnapping) shit-tons of innocent people every day.
pansypoo53219
(22,442 posts)yardwork
(67,343 posts)I've noticed this. They don't have any facts to back up their position. They have group think. They have Fox News telling them they're right. They have the cult like "every reasonable person thinks..."
But when confronted with a fact they get surly and silent.
Johonny
(24,264 posts)Legally using the system. Immigration wasn't out of control, they weren't ignoring the issue, and Trump hasn't fixed anything by ignoring the law, spending billions on prisons while arresting people that have been here working for 20 plus years.
The whole narrative is bullshit RW lies created to cause fear in this truck driver. He had been played. Sadly so many in America want to be played.