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Site altered title “ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA” -- California governor Newsom riles Republicans with Trump-trolling posts

https://www.barrons.com/news/meme-lord-newsom-riles-republicans-with-trump-trolling-posts-05b74794
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u/FreneticPlatypus 1d ago

My uncle was a hardline maga fan and whenever he was faced with proof he was wrong or that Trump was the shitheel he is, he’d just turn away and say, “Well I don’t know anything about that.” He didn’t want to know. It’s easy enough for them all to cherry pick what belongs in their reality.

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u/bluemaciz 1d ago edited 1d ago

It really is always that line - “well I don’t know about that.” Like feigning ignorance somehow absolves them of doing any critical thinking.

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u/pagerussell 1d ago

At that point you tell them this is what they value, these are their principles, and if that's the case, you can no longer be in my life, because I am not going to tolerate people who believe hateful things.

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u/ToastedWave 1d ago

I recall a group of people back in the 40s or something that also said they didn't know about a bunch of atrocities....hmmmmm

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u/tom-branch 1d ago

Its either that or they pretend they are above the argument "I deign not to debate with you anymore!"

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u/InternetGoodGuy 1d ago

I get this all the fucking time from MAGA family.

"I'm telling you about it. So now you know. What do you think?"

They just wave it away and start asking what I think about some stupid culture war thing that isn't happening. Like CRT in grade schools or schools pushing kids to be trans. It's impossible to talk to them about any of this.

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u/PizzaInMyBread 1d ago

Same here. I gave up. I only expect the die-hard MAGA in my life to actually care when the shit lands on their doorstep and there's no more denying it. It's how they've been in the past with many issues unfortunately.

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u/bungerman 16h ago

What exactly would have to land on their doorstep? The Greater Depression?

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u/ArmedAwareness 1d ago

I cut contact with my magatarded family.

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u/salazafromagraba 19h ago

Praise to you broski

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u/buckyb4dg3r 1d ago

Or claim “well [insert Dem candidate] would be even worse!”

Source: my MIL

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u/FibonacciSequester 1d ago

My go-to response for that bullshit is, "Do you not know how reality works?"

I haven't gotten an answer yet.

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u/illecebra_games 1d ago

What he means is "I haven't been given any talking points on that."

Anytime there's a surprising development, you see the silence and confusion among conservatives, often for days, until their pre-approved talking points are handed down.

But some subjects are too dangerous to even issue talking points on. The propagandists decide it's better to just bury it and never speak about it.

It's our duty to bring these subjects up, relentlessly.

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u/kent_eh 1d ago

“Well I don’t know anything about that.”

"Maybe you should learn, then..."

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u/Nematrec 1d ago

"There's a lot of things you don't know about. I'm beginning to think it outnumbers the things you do know about"

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u/Horskr 1d ago

I had some of those conversations with a couple family members the first go round with Trump. Not even crazy maga people, just life long Republicans. At best I'd get something like, "I didn't know he did that, that's awful!" Then talking to them later they just went ahead and voted for him a couple more times anyway. I don't even bother now.

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u/3-DMan 22h ago

"Doesn't look like anything to me.."

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u/Chrontius 1d ago

“Well I don’t know anything about that.”

"That's worse, right? You know that's actually WORSE?"

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u/_BenzeneRing_ 1d ago

I'm sorry for your loss

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u/justadudeinohio 1d ago

exactly. the last person i talk to that voted for trump is suddenly "not political" after trump took office.

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u/PurpleSailor 1d ago

The cognitive dissonance hurts them so badly they have to deny the truth.

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u/Firm_Shower3326 1d ago

My FIL was sharing pro-Trump stuff with my wife randomly out of nowhere on fb messenger 2 weeks ago. My wife was a victim of sexual assault as a young child and so I told her to send a particular article to which I had many options to choose from because the guy is pedo. She sends it and what is his reply, “I don’t follow politics.”

These people need to see therapists.

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u/MiaowaraShiro 22h ago

“Well I don’t know anything about that.”

Well why not? seems to be a great reply to that.

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u/ehoyd 22h ago

This is my sister! We had a whole discussion about ICE and when I asked her why they are waiting outside immigration offices and stuff to catch “criminals” trying to live their lives here LEGALLY. She pretended not to know about it.

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u/FreneticPlatypus 21h ago

It can be really tough for some people to admit they’re wrong. Especially when it comes to points that they so vehemently championed and it turns out they aren’t just a little off the mark but absolutely dead fucking wrong. Some people just can’t do it.

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u/Relevant_Cause_4755 15h ago

“That doesn’t look like anything to me.”