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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you have friends who told you they were voting for Trump because "he tells it like it is"?
I ask because every last damned person I know who told me that back in 2016 has spent the last three years telling me "that's NOT what he meant!" over and over and over.
SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)kind of hard to believe one single word of what this scumbag says anymore. Who is listening to him anymore other than his brainwashed, paid supporters?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)KSNY
(315 posts)Roy Rolling
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maryellen99
(3,789 posts)She voted for him to shake up the system. We dont discuss politics.
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)Just think when you pay her some of your money might go to mf45s campaign. I stopped shopping at CVS because they are a top ten contributor to mf45. Not a dime of my money will ever go to them.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)MFM008
(19,818 posts)My brother and I agree we should have beat her up more when she was little......
Autumn
(45,108 posts)I asked my 80 year sister, a very bright woman, a former teacher how she could stand to listen to him talk and the nasty shit he says in his rally's and his speeches.
She said... Oh I don't watch those and I never listen to him when he talks, his voice is irritating . Fox fucking News.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)and God doesn't use perfect vessels.
Takket
(21,578 posts)the ultimate irony is he doesn't tell ANYTHING like it is. nothing he said can ever be verified through actual fact checking.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)that's another I keep hearing...grates me like nails on board
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Like one makes up for the other!
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)They all tell it like it is too. The only difference is that Trump isn't drunk on alcohol.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)If Trump was drunk, he'd have an excuse.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)but I haven't heard anyone on the places I go say that.
I think most of the people I know just didn't like the Clinton's.
Nature Man
(869 posts)I've come across 2 time Obama voters who then turned around and voted for that orange fuckhole.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)He "talks like us".
They're free to interpret it as "whatever".
I have acquaintances who tell me they voted for Clinton and acquaintances who know they better not say a goddam thing.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)defense. Time and again, he's a fool for tweeting his raw & deepest feelings every single day. He is undermining his own case, doesn;t even know it adn likely rejects any attempts to shush him.
I do hope he keeps tweeting even more nonsense as he thinks it helps him. I say.,,,Go Trumpy!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)So it didn't surprise me that he went Repug in 1980 and Trumpian in '16.
Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)He just took their inconsistencies from a pretty much everything they say to literally everything they say.
A_Steel_Magnolia
(16 posts)These conversations don't happen often, but family and friends ask "what is your source?" Because I downloaded Mueller's report and the Intelligence and Judiciary reports, which I read, I generally give them as my response, if applicable. I definitely stay away from media, including the web, as they disparage those sources as left wing propaganda. Their source question indicates willful ignorance, and that they only watch Fux Noise. Like Republican senators, they think it is not in their bests interests to believe me, and they neither know nor care about democratic institutions. It appears that their definition of freedom is "I can do whatever I want, and 'screw you'". You can fix ignorance, but you can't fix stupid.
No friends who like the dotard.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)when it comes to friends. Dipshits need not apply.
TheFarseer
(9,323 posts)Remember the George Costanza line, its not a lie if you believe it. With Trump, I feel this is possible.
Ohiogal
(32,010 posts)But I read it all the time in newspaper comments.
The person above who said he says what ignorant white wingers want to hear is spot on.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,032 posts)Nope.
The Mouth
(3,150 posts)they hate LGBT
They hate any immigrants who don't assimilate completely
They hate non Christians
They hate taxes
I don't think *any* of them seriously voted "Because he tells it like it is", they voted because he given them an OK to hate the people they want to hate.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)He gets up every morning and spray paints himself orange. Case closed.
orleans
(34,060 posts)that told me in the summer of 2016 (when we first met): "i tell it like it is" which jumped out at me and i thought: trumper?
we've never talked politics but he's a pompous bully so i know exactly where he stands with politics and trump
thankfully not a single friend voted for or likes trump
nini
(16,672 posts)Cut them all off.