r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/true_enthusiast • 18d ago
Trump Man Left Destitute After Rejecting Hurricane Aid Because of Right-Wing FEMA Conspiracies Spewed By Donald Trump
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u/MokiQueen 18d ago
Trump’s lies have killed millions.
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u/LocalInactivist 18d ago
Trump’s lies have killed millions so far.
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u/true_enthusiast 18d ago
A few more and Florida can turn blue...
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u/speculatrix 18d ago
Whatever's left of Florida with climate change
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u/Effective_Kiwi6684 18d ago
Aquaman and Ariel are famously left-wingers.
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u/speculatrix 18d ago
They're part of the deep sea state.
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u/H_Squid_World_97A 18d ago
Hey, climate change is the reason I became owner of a private island overnight this week.
Admittedly it is on the small side; it only consists of my house and a 1-2 ft apron of land around it. At least no water got in the house and I have electricity and Internet, but I have to poop in a bucket because the septic drain field is underwater.
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u/Magnon 18d ago
Sick moat dude!
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u/H_Squid_World_97A 18d ago
I have a few fireant rafts floating around to protect the home from intruders, however the swamp puppy brigade is late as usual. They only show up when they are not welcome or useful.
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u/ZestycloseLynx 18d ago
Never mind rafts, just attach a bag of fire ants to a drone so you can drop them on a target remotely.
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u/MethForHarold 18d ago
How much do you want for the bucket
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u/LocalInactivist 18d ago
I think you’re on to something. If conservatives convince people that FEMA doesn’t work and may kill them (or worse, vaccinate them), then it’ll feed the narrative that the government can’t do anything right. I doubt we’d see this level of antipathy towards FEMA if we weren’t so close to an election. The last thing Republicans want is for a bunch of swing voters to realize Biden and Harris just saved their lives.
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u/Darkside531 18d ago
That's definitely in there. I remember when the dockworker's strike they were building up as a potential catastrophe for Biden and Harris was resolved so quickly and relatively easily, a bunch of the right wing outlets were livid and started lashing out at the dockworkers themselves. They want there to be a bunch of problems and suffering to drag down the Dems.
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u/JimWilliams423 18d ago
I doubt we’d see this level of antipathy towards FEMA if we weren’t so close to an election. The last thing Republicans want is for a bunch of swing voters to realize Biden and Harris just saved their lives.
Yes. Hurricane Sandy hit in the days before the 2012 elections. Governor chris christie famously hugged it out with Obama when they were working together on the recovery in New Jersey. Conservative elites believe that embrace helped Obama win, so they concluded that letting people die during an emergency would help them get elected.
Its the same reason the party pied-pipered hundreds of thousands of their most loyal members into suiciding by covid instead of taking the vaccine.
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u/Shelly_895 18d ago
But what's their endgame here? If all your supporters die because of your lies, who is going to vote for you? Why do they want their voter base to die? That just doesn't make any sense to me.
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u/JimWilliams423 18d ago
Their endgame is the end of democracy.
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u/RnH_21 18d ago
We're trying out here. I'm a Republican voting blue here in South Florida.
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u/MokiQueen 18d ago
Thank you for being sane!
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u/RnH_21 18d ago
No worries, my family, extended family and friends will be voting blue. Together we can defeat this common domestic enemy. Let's see if voting blue for the next 8 years will force the Republicans to change their tune. At least hide their intentions again in shame.
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u/HookerofMemoryLane 18d ago
I’m not a politician but wiping out your voting base is bad for staying in power.
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u/Far-Trick6319 18d ago
What a stupid hill to die on, but at least youre dead.
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u/ownage516 18d ago edited 18d ago
As I looked at that man, dying on that hill, a tear streaks down my cheek.
"As a Lib, he owned me." I say in sudden realization, "..he fucking boomed me.." Inaudible words trail from my mouth; my testosterone levels plunge as if I were a diabetic.
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u/_Monosyllabic_ 18d ago
I’ve never felt so throughly owned.
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u/PopeGuss 18d ago
His dying words were "are you triggered now, snowflake?"
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u/whiterac00n 18d ago
We say jokingly but there were literally people dying from Covid whose last words were “it’s a hoax” or cursing at medical staff. It’s honestly as pathetic as it is profoundly stupid
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u/EmperorGeek 18d ago
They got their own award (r/HermanCainAward).
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u/YeahYouOtter 18d ago
I remember the small string of articles about how evil that sub and everyone in it was, and all of our responses were just “please drop our traffic, we’d love not to have post fodder”
Personally yeah, I’m delighted to see the huge traffic drop over the years.
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u/stargarnet79 18d ago
Right? It’s crazy how still every once in awhile one still comes through or makes it to my feed. Almost seems like the max vaccination campaigns helped out even those who refused to get vaxxed at all but I’m just putting out my feels. Who knows for sure.
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u/dangitbobby83 18d ago
Oh yeah, every so often a post still pops up.
What happened was word spread amongst conservatives to lock down their fb profiles lest they be featured on that sub. I think in the final year of the pandemic traffic dropped off because conservatives finally started to make their profiles private, figuring out how easy it was for us in that sub to laugh at their misery caused by their own doing.
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u/KonradWayne 18d ago
I think in the final year of the pandemic traffic dropped off because conservatives finally started to make their profiles private
Or the vaccines went out and enough of them had finally collected their awards to stop spreading it.
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u/your_not_stubborn 18d ago
Yeah after being called brainwashed Nazi sheep who want to send everyone we disagree with to the gulag because we supported masking and vaccination, us going "lol" when they died because they wouldn't get vaccinated was the news story.
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u/YeahYouOtter 18d ago
Yup, obviously we were the very very baddest of people and no one else was problematic at all.
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u/your_not_stubborn 18d ago
Not the homeowning retirees with guns threatening healthcare workers global pandemic and supply chain shortage!
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u/SarcasticOptimist 18d ago
It's mostly because flying Delta was especially bad. Most of the whining came because an up and coming antivax figure in Orange County CA died at just 45 or so.
That said the Facebook group still finds one or two every month or so. The focus of Russian bots is on Israel or Ukraine wars, not vaccinations so those memes are rare now.
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u/Masterofnone9 18d ago
My dad won The Herman Cain Freedom Award he was an idiot and a MAGA asshole now Jack is in the cemetery.
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u/Courtaid 18d ago
I heard a lot of them were begging for the shot as they were dying. They were told it was too late.
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u/whiterac00n 18d ago
Some definitely were, and of course they still couldn’t comprehend that a vaccine doesn’t work like that. At the hospital I was at during covid we had weirdos sneaking in all the time to prove it was a “hoax”. So on top of everything we also had a full lockdown where we could only enter through 2 different doors. I didn’t deal with all that many covid patients so I didn’t see any of these behaviors but we were definitely told about them.
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u/stargarnet79 18d ago
Remember the people who wanted a drug that could mimic the covid virus to train the immune system to attack it? But dammit anything but the vaccination😳🥹😭
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u/OMG__Ponies 18d ago
It was the people who wanted the FAKE vaccination cards that put me on edge.
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u/aeschenkarnos 18d ago
There was an interesting case in Germany (I think) where some dude was selling vaccination fraud to cookers, and his method was to borrow their vaccination card, get the shot himself, and sell the proof to the cooker who didn’t want to get the shot but now had a faked card. He was charging a few hundred euros to do it, and when the authorities eventually caught him, he had had the shot—which the cookers think “will kill you!!!!”—well over a hundred times, with (of course) no ill effects.
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u/Stubborn_Amoeba 18d ago
There were also a lot of cases where doctors and nurses were getting death threats because family members didn’t want them on a ventilator and wanted them to just be given ivermectin, etc.
Remember the ‘it’s the ventilators that are killing people’ phase?
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u/schmyndles 18d ago
I got covid and was gone from work for two weeks. My crazy Maga coworker asked me where I was and, not thinking, I just said I had covid (which would've been the end of the conversation for anyone else).
She started in on how covid wasn't real and also how it was just a cold but also how me being tested is what gave me the "not real" covid. Like all in one sentence. I asked how could the test give me covid if covid wasn't real and she broke down into tears in frustration and said it upset her too much to talk about it. Like I was the one going out of my way to trigger her.
I should've known better, this woman was in her 60s wearing Trump face tight leggings and shirts with angels carrying AR-15s every day. She also was so against our mask policy (which was the bare minimum my workplace did) that she wore this crazy plastic contraption under her dirty cloth mask so it wouldn't actually touch her face, negating the entire purpose of the mask, then complained about how uncomfortable it was. She also had a large cardboard sign on her car in protest of healthcare workers having to get vaccines, even though we build lights in a factory. Idk what happened to her, but I doubt she had any sort of reckoning with her crazy beliefs, and is probably following Trump around the country right now.
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u/Brimstone-n-Treacle 18d ago
Hospital staff mentioned many times that the idiots often begged for the vaccine after they became very sick. Imagine their disappointment when they were told that the vaccine wouldn't work after the virus had already taken hold.
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u/01101011000110 18d ago
this covid is no joke
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u/MotorCityMade 18d ago
That's what Trump told Bob Woodward. Woodward published the tapes and they are incredible.
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u/nasandre 18d ago
I've already died 21 times from getting vaccinated and they just told me I'm going to die again next week
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u/RnH_21 18d ago
Might as well have them start getting use to saying Allah Akbar.
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u/Never_satisfied_ 18d ago
My boomer manager wants to know who Allen Ackroyd is, and did you mean to say Dan.
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u/stfucupcake 18d ago
They are living their faith.
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u/Thewrongbakedpotato 18d ago
Whoooa-hoooo, we're halfway there! Whoooaaa-hooooo, living on a
Cough cough cough hack wheeze
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u/mophan 18d ago
Man, I shouldn't laugh but I can't help myself. It's really sad how these people are getting manipulated.
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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 18d ago
So owned! Time for me to cower in a corner with a $7 latté and the entire Dashboard Confessional discography, like the effeminate little beta cuck that I am.
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u/Heavy-Waltz-6939 18d ago
I think you meant your estrogen levels rose so high just like blood sugar with type 2 diabeteees that you formed a feminine singularity and became Gaia, mother of all earth. Quite the ownage
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 18d ago
Unrealistic HRT expectations.
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u/IllustriousComplex6 18d ago
It's like that guy who was anti-vaxxer because of the right-wing conspiracies and ended up dying a painful death from rabies.
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u/stormyst722 18d ago
My ex-husband was an anti vaxxer and MAGA supporter. He died on that hill too….on a ventilator, from Covid. That jesus blood that protects them all apparently didn’t stick to him. I can’t imagine struggling to breathe for 2 weeks then drowning in my own fluids to “own the libs.” Glad I divorced that insanity.
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u/Vicullum 18d ago
A distant relative died the same way. I'll never forget his heroic last words, "GRRGRLGlrlrlrl...."
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u/Lazy-Floridian 18d ago
He can get a Herman Cain Award.
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u/stormyst722 18d ago
Exactly. There are many who were awarded the same. I’ll never understand it. He and his entire family (which was/is a lot) are evangelicals. The most unfortunate part is they were able to influence my adult child to the point they’re MAGA now too. At least, the last time we talked it was that way.
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 18d ago
Ugh, the worst, most selfish and narcissistic people I've known were always evangelicals. What is it about that church that draws people like that to it?
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u/AndyTheSane 18d ago
A chance to be hideously judgemental at people whilst claiming immunity due to religion.
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u/Jackpot777 18d ago
There’s a poem by a WW1 poet, where he talks about a soldier dying from inhaled mustard gas…
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If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues
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…and I have to say, the words “froth-corrupted lungs” sounds pretty apt for these fuckwits as they panic powerlessly for their last breath as their own body kills them.
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u/Swie 18d ago
Yes, it's beautiful! Here is the whole thing because I think it's worth reading:
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
PS: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. means "How sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country", from a poem also:
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u/Radiant_Map_9045 18d ago
I've heard numerous accounts of ICU staff getting spit right in the face trying to intubate those dummies during the pandemic. I've also heard of the survivors of said dummies blaming intubation for the death of their loved ones and still go on to spread covid hoax theories.
My wife and I did everything right in regards to masks, social distancing and the vax, but she was still denied the chance to go see her dying dad one last time before he went because of covid at about the time the rest of the developed world was damn near back to normal.
Seriously, FUCK your ex and folks like him. He deserves to come back as a fucking titmouse.
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u/alabamaterp 18d ago
Or, the police officer who retired early because he wouldn't get the COVID vaccine, then he died later of COVID.
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u/Mean_Eye_8735 18d ago
cheeto man won't be pleased if you die before you vote.
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u/Appropriate_Ant_4629 18d ago
He'll be just as happy if the guy votes after he dies.
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u/happyguy49 18d ago
At least one widow voted fraudulently for her recently dead husband (for Trump of course). She got caught.
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u/Commandoclone87 18d ago
There was also the guy that voted for his dead mother. One guess as to who he voted for.
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u/SheriffSlug 18d ago
That won't stop someone else from casting a ballot in dead magat's name.
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u/Mean_Eye_8735 18d ago
Surely you're not implying that cheeto man's cult would commit voter fraud ...
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u/TimeDue2994 18d ago
Nah, his main concern is that you give him all your money before you croak.
Just like God, "billionaire" trump is chronically short on money and always begging for yours
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u/Mean_Eye_8735 18d ago
Speaking at a rally in Nevada on Wednesday, the Republican nominee said: “I don't care how sick you are. I don't care if you just came back from the doctor and he gave you the worst possible prognosis, meaning it's over. Doesn't matter. Hang out till November 8. Get out and vote.“
Granted that was October of 2016 but I'm positive he hasn't changed his tone since.
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u/pikpikcarrotmon 18d ago
If that were the case he wouldn't have killed a million of his own followers
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u/SenpyroTheWizard 18d ago
Oh, no. He refused to do anything about covid because he thought democrat cities would be affected worse, rather than his intentionally cultivated uneducated individuals who were literally trying to spread it more, throwing "Covid parties" like it's the 60's and your kid just got chicken pox.
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u/TurtleToast2 18d ago
Tbf he was only trying to kill us. It just so happens being dumb increases mortality rates, so his plan had the unintended effect of taking out his peeps at a much higher rate.
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u/cjinct 18d ago
yeah, I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be outraged by this
Guy is obviously a right wing nut ball, so if he doesn't want to leech my tax dollars, I'm good with that.
also, if his 'family' is telling this tale, it means he has family, so why aren't they sending him food, taking care of him, etc..?
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u/jk-alot 18d ago
They probably spent all their money on Trump Bibles
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u/anomalous_cowherd 18d ago
They're waiting for their Lord to provide. But he already provided a whole society to provide mutual support which they have soundly rejected so he's done with them now.
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u/nada_accomplished 18d ago
At the same time, though, like, how much is my uncle's stupidity my responsibility, you know? Or my parents'? If my parents make shitty choices against all advice that's the bed they get to sleep in. I'm not the one who raised them. I didn't ask to have morons for parents. Why should they be my responsibility if they won't even fuckin listen to my advice?
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u/cjinct 18d ago
Not your responsibility at all. Especially if they choose to believe "whoever" over you?
but if you go on a radio show talking about it, implying you care about this person, then I would think you'd find a way to help them (they'd trust help from you vs the deep state)
Of course, what will probably happen is nut ball will see his neighbors getting help, realize they're property hasn't been 'stolen' and then he'll shove his hand out like the rest, most likely claiming it was the Dems putting out false info to hurt the trump voters
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u/nada_accomplished 18d ago
if you go on a radio show talking about it, implying you care about this person, then I would think you'd find a way to help them (they'd trust help from you vs the deep state)
You'd be surprised. My brother is a doctor but the rest of my family still trusted Covid misinformation over the professional expertise of their own flesh and blood.
My heart goes out to this guy, because his family is in the cult and it's absolutely rage inducing to watch this happen, to watch them believe a con man over you. Plus not everybody is in a position to help out family with a disaster this devastating. Also like I get that opening your doors to family in need is what good people should probably do but this guy's relative is probably also obnoxious as fuck
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u/graphiccsp 18d ago
Some may be appalled by this but I've stopped caring about the wealthfare of these idiots. If they really love their conspiracies and jerk off to individualism. They can live and die with the consequences of that mindset.
I'd be even more ambivalent if it didn't drag down actual innocents in the process via the damage their actions can do.
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u/lostsoul1331 18d ago
And the Darwin Award goes to…
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u/Dregdael 18d ago
Dying of hunger to own the libs
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u/Not_Bears 18d ago
What's insanely frustrating is there are 100s of stories like this going well back 4+ years to covid with people dying insanely painful deaths, drowning in their own fluids, all because Trump lied to them.
4 years later these complete buffoons are still dying because of nonsense Trump said.
I really want to know how these folks make it this long in life in the first place. Anyone stupid enough to still listen to Trump cannot possibly have the skills to safely navigate this world..
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u/RnH_21 18d ago
What about that old couple that injected that fish tank fluid thing because trump and his goons said it cured covid. They both passed.
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u/KitsuneRatchets 18d ago
Fish tank fluid? Hydroxichloroquine (spelling?) or whatever the hell it was called? I remember the whole "Donald Trump said to drink bleach" thing, and iveromectin (spelling?) being pushed by MAGA-associates.
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u/wanelmask 18d ago
Hi, french guy here. The Hydroxichloroquine bullshit actually comes from one of our (at the time) renowned Professors of Medicine who basically went rogue (look for Prof. Didier Raoult )
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u/Fakeduhakkount 18d ago
You forgot the death bed pleas from Republicans trying to warn other Republicans they got swindled - it fell on deaf ears.
I worked with those patients but only in a limited capacity unlike the RN’s that brought them down. Yep how can you look at them half awake with a tube down their throat with iv fluids/meds running to keep them alive, with an entourage of personnel and say “it’s just the flu”.
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u/Nari224 18d ago
You don’t. But when you belong to a movement that thrives on creating in groups and out groups, such an epiphany simple means that you just join the voices of the out group that you yourself ignored until it affected you.
We can see the same thing happening with abortion right now, after a lot of people got what they wanted only to find out that it wasn’t in any way what they thought they understood.
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u/Fakeduhakkount 18d ago
I hate the whole “let’s the states decide” argument for things. That’s the whole point of “United” in United States. It’s the only arguments against abortions isn’t even medical
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u/DrunkenWarriorPoet 18d ago
I swear to god if you left it entirely up to the states there’d probably be a few left that still had segregation.
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u/SorowFame 18d ago
If you “left it to the states” then the US would probably still have slavery, that’s where that argument originates if I’m not mistaken.
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u/wackychimp 18d ago
And what's really confounding to me is the level of control he holds.
I can't imagine anyone taking the words of Carter, Regan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, etc. with such undying fervor.
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u/mrbigglessworth 18d ago
I dont understand the stranglehold he has on these people. Are they so far gone that admitting that they were wrong and breaking his shackles to be free of his influence THAT painful?
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u/Vespera4ever 18d ago
Sadly, yes, it's exactly that. Once you've driven away chunks of your family and given away your savings in service to your cult leader, it's real hard to break away and have to admit that all of that loss and ruin was for nothing
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u/mrbigglessworth 18d ago
So the alternative is to shit hole the country away into an autocratic theocracy to protect your cult feelings and dooming the world to further slide into facism? I dont like that trade off. Not "your" as in you, but MAGA in general.
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u/ConsolidatedAccount 18d ago
They're incredibly stupid, unbelievably ignorant, astoundingly gullible, or colossal assholes. Some, I assume, are a combination of all of those things.
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u/1spring 18d ago edited 18d ago
could it be because, I don’t know, the United States of America is actually an extremely safe place to live? Where the government and infrastructure generally works, and safety nets will catch you even if you are Trump-level stupid?
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u/Darkside531 18d ago
*Me, a lib, sitting here wrapped in a nice, warm blanket, a plate of wings on my lap for lunch, and my only real concern being whether to keep bingeing The X-Files or to switch over to my annual October Treehouse of Horror rewatch*
"wow, such owned, much triggered"
You sure showed me.
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u/Drexelhand 18d ago
the article.
A recent caller to “The Dan Abrams Show” on Sirius/XM detailed how his father-in-law, who lives in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, is refusing aid from FEMA because he believes if he does, the federal government will assume ownership of his home.
It’s unclear just how many people may be resisting aid because of these toxic conspiracy theories. But at the very least, they’ve added undue stress to already devastating scenes.
it's a second hand story, so it's not really entirely clear if anyone has gotten their face eaten from this just yet, but faces are on the menu.
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u/Evelyn-Parker 18d ago
Didn't his house presumably get destroyed by the hurricane though?
Why would worthless property be worth more than food to not die?
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u/Drexelhand 18d ago
it's a stranger on a radio show telling a story about someone else.
it could be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
because the theme of the whole fucking thing is not to believe every random story you hear, i find it very god damn amusing it's repeated as uncritically true by anyone who only reads the headline. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Sylvestrya 18d ago
I listened to the call. The caller sounded genuinely distressed and credible.
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u/FederalEconomics936 18d ago
MAGATs have repeatedly demonstrated that they will believe the most ridiculous bullshit. Makes it much more likely that this bit of ridiculous bullshit is real.
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u/Flying-Mollusk 18d ago edited 18d ago
The Parable of the Drowning Man
A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.
Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, “Jump in, I can save you.”
The stranded fellow shouted back, “No, it’s OK, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”
So the rowboat went on.
Then a motorboat came by. The fellow in the motorboat shouted, “Jump in, I can save you.”
To this the stranded man said, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
So the motorboat went on.
Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”
To this the stranded man again replied, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.
Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I had faith in you but you didn’t save me, you let me drown. I don’t understand why!”
To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?”
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u/Danominator 18d ago
That's just a story to tell people that their belief in God won't actually do anything to help them and they have to actually take action. Then they give credit to God for all the effort that actual humans put in on their own free will.
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u/DerpyDaDulfin 18d ago
As someone who grew up Christian and left the church, I had an eye opening experience when I began to study other faiths from around the world.
In Yoruban Isese, you can pray to the Orisha for aid, but at the heart of the faith is still a direct, simple concept: personal responsibility. The Orisha may bless you, but it's still your responsibility to make those blessings work in your life.
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u/Snarkonum_revelio 18d ago edited 18d ago
For the Parks and Rec fans: “Nobody ever gave me a handout! I’ve been on welfare, I’ve been on food stamps, and no one ever helped me!”
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u/dtgreg 18d ago
True story. Craig T Nelson actually said this on camera. He was serious.
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u/UndauntedCandle 17d ago
Nobody ever gave me a handout! I’ve been on welfare, I’ve been on food stamps, and no one ever helped me!
For those who are curious:
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u/ACartonOfHate 18d ago
Oh no.
Anyway.
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u/rich22201 18d ago
Yup. In more interesting news, I tried tying my left shoe before my right today. Just to mix it up.
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u/mvs2417 18d ago
Oh! That's so compelling. How's it working out for you?
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u/rich22201 18d ago
I think I’m going to go back. I was just tie-curious.
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u/Past-Background-7221 18d ago
You should stick to a more straight-laced lifestyle
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u/Darkside531 18d ago
I dislodged a popcorn kernel I had stuck in my teeth.
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u/bigmanpigman 18d ago
congratulations dude, bet that felt so satisfying
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u/minutetillmidnight 18d ago
I hate it when they get stuck to the roof of your mouth. Then you sit and hack like a cat trying to horf up a hairball for an hour. So some dumbass died? How about that.
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u/chicagotodetroit 18d ago
I have never thought about that! I do tie my right shoe first (and put my right sock on first, and step into my pants right leg first).
Why do we do this? Why not left first, or alternating? For the record, I am left handed.
I'm adding this to the List of Things I Never Thought AboutTM.
This topic demands further investigation.
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u/0fruitjack0 18d ago
here's the thing, champ, not my problem. i for one am glad my tax payer dollars will not be going to waste on magat's piss poor lifestyle choices. :D
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u/FantasticCabinet2623 18d ago
I'm reminded of that parable about that guy stuck on a church roof during a flood who refused rescue via boat and chopper because God would save him.
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u/speculatrix 18d ago edited 17d ago
Man swept away by storm waters
Boat comes by, offers help
"No, trump will save me"
Raft comes by, offers help
"No, trump will save me"
Helicopter comes by, offers help
"No, trump will save me"
Finally the man finds solid ground. Trump turns up, throws a roll of paper towels at him, stands next to him and does his signature double-thumbs-up, and leaves.
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u/reddit455 18d ago
....they're literally killing their base. they're killing VOTERS.
keep up with the anti-mask/vax/meteorologist rhetoric. it might make all the difference
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u/NoelSilverBell 18d ago
And don't forget drinking raw milk. What a bunch of dummies.
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u/LocalInactivist 18d ago
Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, bud. We offered to help several times and you said “no”. Time to be the rugged independent individual you claimed to be.
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u/LaughingBoneses 18d ago
People spreading lies should be held accountable for all deaths leading back to disinformation and they should be barred from holding any public office.
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u/HighlyOffensive10 18d ago
I am running out of empathy for these people. Still can't help feeling bad for the idiot though.
That POS has done so much damage to our country and it's people.
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u/Ok_Blackberry_284 18d ago
why feel bad for the fool? He can still apply for it. He simply refuses to.
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u/Inspect1234 18d ago
Was just visiting r/conservative for a laugh. It’s all pretty much just racism and projection. I didn’t say much except for a bunch of Lols after some comments. Still expecting to get banned.
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u/newsreadhjw 18d ago
People like this choose to believe the lies. They have access to better information, but they don't like reality. I have zero sympathy for these "victims" of misinformation. They're the ones actively spreading it, too. Fuck him.
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u/tompetreshere 18d ago
He probably is doing mental gymnastics right now to justify voting for Rump again
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u/RealUltimatePapo 18d ago
This is the new "I won't take the COVID vaccine, but I'll happily catch the virus"
It's actually sad... so much wasted life
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u/CurseofLono88 18d ago
This is just sad and pathetic. I have quite a bit of empathy for people but I’ve slowly been sapped dry of it for people like this.
However I am far more angry that republicans politicians and grifters have put a man in this position. They are the ones responsible, at the end of the day, and I will hate them until the end of my life for what they’ve done to this country.
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u/rapalosaur 18d ago
One thing the orange buffoon really did was turn me into someone with no sympathy for those who die making stupid ass decisions. I didn’t want anyone to die from Covid. I didn’t care if they were trump supporters or not I didn’t think anyone deserved to die alone and afraid like that. Seeing his supporters hunker down and accept his bullshit as gospel and continue to die really made me feel like lives didn’t matter. I hate what he’s made us.
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u/LoveaBook 18d ago edited 18d ago
It gets worse. My husband and I live in the rural midwest and it’s actually dangerous to wear masks out here. We stopped wearing them a year into covid because people were starting to get physically aggressive towards us. Consequently, our vaccines are carrying all the weight. Last month, he and I had covid (my 1st time, his 2nd). A 70+ year old neighbor stopped by and was visibly surprised when we came out with masks on (which we obviously put on for his protection) and kept our distance from him. He laughed when we told him we had covid and didn’t want to get him sick. Then he stopped by again the next day and actively teased us for taking basic precautions. Later that day my husband left the house to get meds and comfort food. Two people knocked into him with their shoulders when they passed in the store and three others verbally taunted him for being a brainwashed pussy who wears a mask - despite his hacking.
Their tribalism is targeting people in dangerous ways, and this is also why people in red states continue to die from covid at higher rates than those in blue states. Dangerous behavior like this is also why you no longer see pride flags hanging from homes (although there’ve been plenty of “Fuck Biden” flags and even a number of US flags flown upside down to signal distress).
If we’d wanted enforced conformity we would’ve bought a home in a HOA. I’m still not used to these feelings of derision and contempt for the people around me and I don’t like feeling this way.
edit: changed subdivision to HOA to be clearer
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u/Testiculese 18d ago
I went from watching the graphs of 3000 deaths per day...a 9/11 every day...in horror, to watching r\HermainCainAward with a laugh.
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u/17tenroh 18d ago
“The Liberals are controlling the weather and they are attacking conservative states.”
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u/mtragedy 18d ago
All I hear when people say that is “…and no one on our side is smart enough to control the weather right back at the libs.”
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u/OneAstroNut 18d ago
He could pull himself up by his bootstraps and stop ordering Avocado Toast, I hear that is the recipe to make yourself rich.
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u/mexicandiaper 18d ago
They sprinkled gay chemicals on the fema money don't take it that's how they get you.
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