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Zolorp

(1,115 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:21 PM Jan 2020

Do 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.

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Do you have friends who told you they were voting for Trump because "he tells it like it is"? (Original Post) Zolorp Jan 2020 OP
Tells it like it is? What part (that isn't a lie) is 'like it is'? out of the 16000 lies, it is... SWBTATTReg Jan 2020 #1
Yep, have heard it before. He says what ignorant white wingers want to hear. Hoyt Jan 2020 #2
Reminds me of this New Yorker cartoon. Different Drummer Jan 2020 #3
Perfect! He even tells the tale about trusting the snake at his rallies KSNY Jan 2020 #32
And this... Roy Rolling Jan 2020 #35
Yes my hair stylist maryellen99 Jan 2020 #4
I would stop going to that stylist and find a new one kimbutgar Jan 2020 #9
I totally agree gopiscrap Jan 2020 #18
I'm not that worried about that. She's paying on a huge third wheel motor home that costs 6 figures maryellen99 Jan 2020 #20
my sister just loves him MFM008 Jan 2020 #5
Yes, and all his misspeaks make him authentic and endearing. Autumn Jan 2020 #6
More like he keeps his promises Skidmore Jan 2020 #7
heard this from many mAGAts Takket Jan 2020 #8
He's a good businessman.. HipChick Jan 2020 #10
"...so what if he's a kidnapper?" FiveGoodMen Jan 2020 #31
When people say that I think of drunk men in a bar. LiberalFighter Jan 2020 #11
Made me think of a good bumper sticker... Mr.Bill Jan 2020 #29
I have heard people being interviewed say that leftyladyfrommo Jan 2020 #12
Defies comprehension Nature Man Jan 2020 #17
Big mouth tweeting carnival barker .He tells magats to fear and hate & magats like what they hear lunasun Jan 2020 #13
That's cuz Trump is not articulate LeftInTX Jan 2020 #14
No. Iggo Jan 2020 #15
Glad he does tell it like it is. He's a lawyer's worst nightmare as he's self-defeating his own..... machoneman Jan 2020 #16
"He tells it like it is" is exactly what my dad said about George Wallace. rickyhall Jan 2020 #19
LONG before this disaster came along republicans were contortionist Cosmocat Jan 2020 #21
Not so much... A_Steel_Magnolia Jan 2020 #22
Nope. cwydro Jan 2020 #23
Nope. I'm pretty choosy Codeine Jan 2020 #24
Yes TheFarseer Jan 2020 #25
Nobody I personally know, Ohiogal Jan 2020 #26
in 1 word, OneCrazyDiamond Jan 2020 #27
The ones I know just hate The Mouth Jan 2020 #28
I just say Mr.Bill Jan 2020 #30
there is this asshole i have to deal with orleans Jan 2020 #33
No I don't associate with people who support fascists nini Jan 2020 #34

SWBTATTReg

(22,143 posts)
1. Tells it like it is? What part (that isn't a lie) is 'like it is'? out of the 16000 lies, it is...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:23 PM
Jan 2020

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?

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)
9. I would stop going to that stylist and find a new one
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:51 PM
Jan 2020

Just think when you pay her some of your money might go to mf45’s 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.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
5. my sister just loves him
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:47 PM
Jan 2020

My brother and I agree we should have beat her up more when she was little......

Autumn

(45,108 posts)
6. Yes, and all his misspeaks make him authentic and endearing.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:48 PM
Jan 2020

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.

Takket

(21,578 posts)
8. heard this from many mAGAts
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 05:50 PM
Jan 2020

the ultimate irony is he doesn't tell ANYTHING like it is. nothing he said can ever be verified through actual fact checking.

LiberalFighter

(50,950 posts)
11. When people say that I think of drunk men in a bar.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 06:03 PM
Jan 2020

They all tell it like it is too. The only difference is that Trump isn't drunk on alcohol.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,869 posts)
12. I have heard people being interviewed say that
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 06:05 PM
Jan 2020

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)
17. Defies comprehension
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:48 AM
Jan 2020

I've come across 2 time Obama voters who then turned around and voted for that orange fuckhole.

Iggo

(47,558 posts)
15. No.
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 10:28 AM
Jan 2020

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)
16. Glad he does tell it like it is. He's a lawyer's worst nightmare as he's self-defeating his own.....
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:43 AM
Jan 2020

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)
19. "He tells it like it is" is exactly what my dad said about George Wallace.
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 12:40 PM
Jan 2020

So it didn't surprise me that he went Repug in 1980 and Trumpian in '16.

Cosmocat

(14,566 posts)
21. LONG before this disaster came along republicans were contortionist
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 01:11 PM
Jan 2020

He just took their inconsistencies from a pretty much everything they say to literally everything they say.

A_Steel_Magnolia

(16 posts)
22. Not so much...
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 01:44 PM
Jan 2020

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.

TheFarseer

(9,323 posts)
25. Yes
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:07 PM
Jan 2020

Remember the George Costanza line, “it’s not a lie if you believe it.” With Trump, I feel this is possible.

Ohiogal

(32,010 posts)
26. Nobody I personally know,
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:13 PM
Jan 2020

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.

The Mouth

(3,150 posts)
28. The ones I know just hate
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 03:49 PM
Jan 2020

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.

orleans

(34,060 posts)
33. there is this asshole i have to deal with
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:58 AM
Jan 2020

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

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