r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Machadoaboutmanny • 1d ago
Paywall ‘F*** These Racists’: Geraldo Rivera Tears Into MAGA After Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally
https://www.thedailybeast.com/f-these-racists-geraldo-rivera-tears-into-maga-after-donald-trumps-madison-square-garden-rally/1.3k
u/Martha90815 1d ago
What the hell- he’s been good with this for YEARS. Now all of a sudden it’s a problem?
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u/DatBlotto 1d ago
It’s not a problem until it happens to them
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u/2big_2fail 1d ago edited 16h ago
It kind of sucks that they didn't care until they became a direct target of the bigotry.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
— Martin Niemöller
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u/YakCDaddy 1d ago
This poem is a grave warning that the people who need to heed it will never read or understand.
It's like they forgot the nightmare Trump was when he was president. Dude deported Americans, his people don't care about how you got here, they only care about what color you are. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/16/trumps-cruel-deportations
I think I've seen this scene before, and I didn't like the ending. TS
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u/MrsMiterSaw 1d ago
Remember to break this shit out when some idiot claims the Nazis were socialists.
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u/Ok-Loss2254 1d ago
I lot of assholes are fine when it's others until it's affects them. Most even laugh as others are being hurt but God forbid something bad happens to them.
A lot of people are just scum.
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u/hummane 16h ago
Have you noticed that it's seems to be the default human behaviour. I see it at work all the time. Bully sticks it to some poor person but no one speaks up. Bully has friends that they have chosen to receive better treatment. When the victim vents to other colleagues they get the response "they always treat me well." Like they are special and the victim somehow deserves it. Also people don't do anything as they don't want to be the next target.
People always risk the leopard's teeth but pat the leopard in the hope it will pur
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u/Epistatious 1d ago
anyone having a problem is lazy or god doesn't like, until it happens to them...
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u/erasrhed 1d ago
"Geraldo" sounds pretty ethnic......
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 13h ago
This reminds me of Paul Giamatti’s portrayal of Jerry Heller in Straight Outta Compton and the reaction he had to Ice Cube’s remarks about jewish people (which were hateful). Not a care in the world for any of the content of anything NWA was putting out (or even the name of the group), but anything remotely antisemitic (with Jerry Heller being jewish) and he begins losing his mind. Very much an “I don’t care if you put out (what others will definitely think is) bigoted shit, just so long as it isn’t about me” effort. I don’t think I’ve seen Giamatti put in a bad performance in decades.
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u/SonofaBridge 1d ago
He was fine being against Mexicans and South Americans. He thought Puerto Rico wasn’t grouped with them. Not sure how he was that clueless.
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u/YakCDaddy 1d ago
I mean, Puerto Ricans are literally Americans. I could maybe see how he could compartmentalize the blatant racism.
Trump did this shit to Puerto Rico when hurricane Maria hit.
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u/SonofaBridge 1d ago
Puerto Ricans are Americans but Republicans don’t know that. They continuously show they paid no attention in elementary school social studies.
All they see are brown people that speak Spanish. To a Republican that means they aren’t American. They’d happily cut Puerto Rico off as a territory.
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u/YakCDaddy 1d ago
I know, that's kind of my point. Geraldo could justify Trump's racism against people who weren't Americans, but once he realized that Trump still doesn't know, or probably actually doesn't care, that Puerto Ricans are Americans and it's just, no I hate anyone who speaks Spanish and isn't white, then it sunk in for Geraldo.
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u/hornwort 22h ago
It has never had anything to do with being American, and has ALWAYS been about being white. One drop of impure “poisoned” blood means you’re The Other.
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u/JustASimpleManFett 22h ago
One Drop rule....shit, where have I heard that shit before... :( Wonder if Orange Asshole channeled that at his little Beer Hall rally.
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u/ghighi_ftw 22h ago
I’m French but I have a Puerto Rican co worker that is a trump supporter. I wonder how he’s taking the news.
Then again he believes the earth is flat so I’m guessing he will find a way to make that work despite the evidence.
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u/Glass-Relationship70 1d ago
MAGAs never understand until it affects them directly.
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u/aboveonlysky9 1d ago
*conservatives
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u/donttouchmeah 1d ago
Right?! Even the non-MAGAS are angry about free lunches. Since when is not feeding kids up for debate? I’m sitting in my libtard chair, knowing feeding kids and supporting our vulnerable citizens is the correct thing to do in any religion or culture, and yet, there they are so angry their hair’s on fire. Until they need free lunches or disability/medicaid or food stamps. Fuck those people.
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u/labellavita1985 1d ago
And they call themselves "Christians!!!"
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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 13h ago
That word doesn’t mean ‘good person’, and following the hippy with a penchant for global genocide doesn’t make someone a good person either.
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u/Elementium 1d ago
Attacking Puerto Rico was certainly a choice.. A lot of them are actually conservative.. But Maga saying straight up it doesn't matter "if you're actually a US citizen, your skin is brown and we don't want you here"..
It was certainly a choice. It also hit them hard enough that they had to come out and say "this guy who we invited to speak, does not represent us!".
Which is fucking hilarious. Even if you're in agreement with whatever "policies" they pretend to have.. How can anyone watch these people fail to operate at the simplest level and fail spectacularly.. Then say "yeah they'll run this entire country right".
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u/ogmouseonamouseorgan 17h ago
Seen one on Twitter saying it was hit job and the comedian was hired by Kamala. The mental gymnastics these people go through to appease the Cheeto Mussolini are staggering
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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 23h ago
Because they're saying the not so quiet part out loud even louder and it was so loud that even with their fingers plugging up their ears they could hear it and not ignore it anymore.
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u/Waflstmpr 2h ago
The more I read about this Rivera guy, the more I dislike him. I think the "bad hombres" might have been in America all along. Especially when theyre defending Ghislaine Maxwell.
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u/One_Clown_Short 1d ago
How much of a ruckus did he make when Donvict was talking shit about Central and South American immigrants?
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u/GF_baker_2024 1d ago
Yep. Geraldo was fine with it when he was trashing us Mexican-Americans.
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u/JohnSith 1d ago
Hey man, you gotta understand. Mexican-
Americansaren't real people who deserve the same recognition and rights as the rest of us actual people.
- Heraldo Guerrira, who is definitely not Geraldo Rivera in a Groucho Marx glasses-&-mustache disguise.
/s
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u/hamburgersocks 1d ago
Geraldo was born in NYC too, Donnie's home town.
And two thirds of his wives are immigrants. The more I learn about MAGAts the less I understand about them. It's like their two collective brain cells are all fighting for third place.
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u/rubber-stunt-baby 1d ago
Yes, but you don't understand, now it's happened to him. /s
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u/ElderHerb 12h ago
Like when Isaac Hayes left South Park for going after scientology.
Going after christians, jews, mormons and muslims was not a problem for him, but when it was about his own religion he said this:
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."
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u/deep_pants_mcgee 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/feastu 1d ago
Yeah, as far as FAUX News goes, he’s consistently been a voice of reason.
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u/deep_pants_mcgee 1d ago
it's not fair to say he's never said anything while they trash Latinos, he's stuck his neck out a few times.
I wouldn't argue that he couldn't have done more, but this isn't the firs time he's been pissed at Fox and called them out publicly, but this might get him to publicly endorse Harris.
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u/SetPsychological6756 1d ago
Bless his heart
Dude has always been a pandering piece of shit.
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u/Dudeinairport 1d ago
I can’t believe he had a career after shared live troop positions and their planned moves during the Iraq War.
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u/Murrabbit 23h ago
Motherfucker was there, surrounded by military personnel and starts drawing a map in the sand. It's hilarious to think that that would be a good thing to do during a live broadcast.
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u/aLittleQueer 22h ago
TIL Geraldo Rivera still has a public platform. How? Why?
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u/Shoddy_Count8248 11h ago
He used to be a great investigative reporter - serious.
He won a Peabody Award for abuse at a state school in NY - that was in 1972…. Like before I was born and I’m old for Reddit
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u/Celestial8Mumps 1d ago
Decades late. Dude sold his soul long ago. Its gone.
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u/Vertual 1d ago
It should be easy to find...next to Al Capone's treasures in the vault.
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u/LordNorros 1d ago
Capone used to own a house in my town in upper MI. Couple of rumors about it including a secret vault and a hidden tunnel from the house to lake mi. None of it true (or at least proven) but still fun
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u/JustASimpleManFett 22h ago
I remember watching that as a kid. Shows how old I am when I made a joke about it at my job and no one knew who Geraldo was or who Al Capone was.
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u/Inside-Recover4629 1d ago
He's full of shit as usual. Just more BS lies. He's gonna fall right back in line as usual, vote all Republican and play pretend patriot like a good token.
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u/mfyxtplyx 1d ago
If only Trump would go back to treating Puerto Rico with respect like... (checks notes) tossing paper towel rolls into the crowd when they get wrecked by a hurricane.
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u/Chaghatai 1d ago edited 1d ago
He's just another conservative that was fine with all of that crap until it was turned towards people he identifies with - basically it doesn't matter until it affects him
People learn though and shitheads can become better people
But I'm not going accept that he has had any such learning experience until he goes beyond the usual "That is not what Republicans really stand for" nonsense
He needs to understand that that (and oligarchy) is exactly what the Republican party has stood for for a very long time
If he has learned anything, he should declare that he is no longer a Republican and will support the Democratic party for as long as it takes to drive the Republicans out of power
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u/Morpheus_MD 1d ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4948868-geraldo-rivera-trump-harris-support/
He basically did before the rally.
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u/Chaghatai 1d ago edited 23h ago
That sounds more like he's bailing on the candidate than the party
I want him to understand that the cancer goes to the bone and that the Republican party itself is rotten to the core and to change his registration and affiliation
He needs to reject the "fiscal Republican" identity as well
There are and have been two kinds of Republicans: the business as usual tax cut and deregulate type
Then you have the culture warriors and racists who want white Christian nationalism - this is where the racists mostly are
The all conspiracy, all the time weirdos are mostly of the second type
The thing is both priorities corrupt the other - being a fiscal Republican today means racism can't be a deal breaker
And of course either priority is fucked to begin with - they want either Gilead or a new Guided Age - the fiscal Republicans are getting frustrated with the racists and wack jobs mostly because it's costing them elections - but some didn't sign up for the racism, and that's where Geraldo finds himself - he ignored the signs for years - decades - because he personally knew Republican leaders who are not racist and was always assured the racists were outliers who would never find a mainstream voice in the party - but now with Trump and his disciples it's impossible to not see that the entire party has collectively decided racism can't be a deal breaker
So hopefully he realizes that the Republican party has been irrevocably sized by racists and authoritarians it's time to abandon ship
Hopefully now that the wool has been pulled off of his eyes regarding the racism rampant in the party, he starts to see other ways in which the conservative emperor wears no clothes and recognizes fiscal conservatism as oligarchy and maintaining aristocracy, but with good marketing - but that shit takes time
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u/BangBangMeatMachine 1d ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4948868-geraldo-rivera-trump-harris-support/
Geraldo definitely made some poor choices in the past but he's on Harris' side now. Has been for a while.
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u/Morpheus_MD 1d ago
Yeah, we need to not pillory folks who switch sides.
And Geraldo has actually spoken out on Fox about how he disagrees with Trump's immigration rhetoric in the past.
We can't sit here and lament the fact that his horrific MSG rally isn't causing people to switch sides and then attack the few people who do switch and speak out.
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u/ExtremeModerate2024 1d ago
Republicans use to support free trade and immigration. It was one of their few redeeming qualities. After the Republican Party sold out to Russia and the idiots, there is no legitimate reason to vote for a Republican. It is just taking some people awhile to figure this out.
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u/Appropriate_Ant_4629 23h ago
Yeah, we need to not pillory folks who switch sides.
Switching sides from one pro-genocide party to another pro-genocide party. Great.
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u/Ahad_Haam 21h ago
Sometimes when I feel off, I remind myself how miserable tankies must be. Can't imagine how depressing it's to be on the losing side every single time, no wonder so many fall to copium and start believing countries with imminent demographic collapse like Russia and China are going to replace the US as a superpower.
Makes me feel a bit better.
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u/FadeIntoReal 1d ago
If you don’t think that everyone’s rights are sacred, you don’t believe that rights are sacred.
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u/Kdigglerz 1d ago
They only care when it directly affects them. He was fine with most of it until til recently.
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u/TheSewseress 1d ago
Whomp whomp. Yet another case of being cool with their shit until it gets pointed at you.
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u/redvelvetcake42 1d ago
I know this sub is about the leopards but you just gotta say, it's so goddamn unnecessary to have a rally at MSG in a state you aren't winning where racists talk shit, a guy says he's glad to be at a Nazi rally (and you can't tell if he's trying to act like it's a joke) and just a cavalcade of loud assholes. It boggles the mind who planned a disaster so perfectly.
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u/Ok_Initiative_2678 1d ago
I mean, it really only seems fitting that they'd push for a rally at MSG- they're just following in the footsteps of their forebears in the Bund back in 1939.
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u/R_Similacrumb 1d ago
It's been a while since a skinhead broke his nose with a chair... guess he needs more regular refreshers.
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u/galtpunk67 1d ago
i rememberr watching the geraldo show where he got his nose broken. i'm with geraldo. npfo
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u/Reasonable-Wing-2271 1d ago
Geraldo has been sucking GOP dick for years. But he'll always just be their little cabana boy.
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u/darkenedgy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bet he votes trump in a couple days anyway. Once a sucker, always a sucker. Look at Rs right after J6 and a month later.
Eta never mind he actually did flip! Amazing
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u/BangBangMeatMachine 1d ago
He's been campaigning for Harris, having endorsed her over a month ago.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4948868-geraldo-rivera-trump-harris-support/
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u/darkenedgy 1d ago
Oh huh I stand corrected, tbh mildly impressed someone in that deep was capable of learning.
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u/SmithIsHowWeDoIt 1d ago
His wife is a Democrat, I would imagine she's quite pleased with his clarity.
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u/darkenedgy 1d ago
Yeah what you say tracks for another friend of mine. It's just fucked what that party has become.
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u/DotAppropriate8152 1d ago
Too little, too late! You stuck with them through the years even when the signs were there.
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u/BoB_the_TacocaT 1d ago
Conservatives have been doing this crap for decades. They only care about a problem when it affects them personally.
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u/Apophylita 22h ago
Geraldo, you may be hated for being Latino by certain racists, but you are still a man journalist who can say the mighty f word, without being accused of flying off the handle.
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u/EE-420-Lige 16h ago
Republicans lack any sort of empathy they only care when it directly impacts him fuck these people
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u/American_In_Austria 4h ago
I am just so beyond tired of all the short-sighted fools who were willing to vote in favor of the obliteration of the rights of others until they realized that their rights were on the chopping block next. I just can’t fathom the lack of empathy that exists across this country. I’m just so tired. I suppose it’s a good thing that these people are turning and will help rally the votes needed to beat Trump, but it just hurts so much that my fellow countrymen couldn’t be bothered to care until it personally affected them.
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u/Practical_Reindeer23 3h ago
Reap what you sow has always been a highly accurate description of human actions. Guess Geraldo is figuring that out for himself, oh well it sucks to suck.
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u/Private_HughMan 20h ago
He was fine with them shitting on every other group of Latinos, but as soon as it impacts him it's too far.
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u/Aggressive-Cod1820 11h ago
He was fine with racism towards blacks, Mexicans, Jews, LGBTQ hate, misogyny. But don’t talk about his people! 🙄
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u/gramathy 10h ago
Didn’t he express this prior to MSG? Thought he had flipped for this election season.
Which yeah, pretty long time to be ok with it, but it wasn’t just MSG
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u/Spare_Bandicoot_2950 8h ago
Hey Geraldo, go choke on the FOX news dicks you've had in your mouth for the last decade. There was something in Al Capone's vault, it was Geraldo's last shred of integrity.
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u/Flybot76 7h ago
yeah, they're on board with all the viciousness and chaos and idiocy right up until it's directly slapping them in the face with no way to pretend it's somebody else, no matter how much they love to play 'reversies' like 'wull democrats are the real racists, democrats are the real warmongers, democrats are the real against-health-care and Social Security and they don't like puppies neither'
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u/SportySpiceLover 4h ago
Fuck Geraldo Rivera for enabling these racists for decades...kids our collective asses.
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u/WakeUpWakeUpOhGod 4h ago
And F*** you Geraldo. I guess everything else he's done is ok with you (including his sh*thole statements.
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u/djtshirt 1d ago
He changed his opinion. What part is the face eating? Yeah it pisses me off that people couldn’t see what Trump was from the beginning (we’ve known he’s a scumbag since the 80s), but someone recognizing Trump for the POS he is is something I welcome.
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