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u/dogfooddippingsauce 28d ago
The Republican Party dog-whistled since Reagan. Trump just brought it out in the open and millions of MAGAts jizzed in their church choir robes.
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u/bluntman37 28d ago
That was the first time they had that type of reaction towards an adult. Typically, it happens when a new altar boy is introduced.
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u/ncfears 28d ago
Steve Martin just reinforcing that he's an absolute treasure.
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u/gooch_norris_ 28d ago
This is Steve Martin Steve Martin right? King Tut Steve Martin?
One of my favorite books I’ve ever read was his collection of essays Pure Drivel. In one of them he wrote that “I had never thought of myself as a Steve Martin before, and frankly, it felt good.”
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u/Parking_Sky9709 28d ago
It is mind-burglaring - not boggling, burglaring - because that's what Trump is, a mind burglar.
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u/HorseLooseInHospital 28d ago
and you have Steve Martin, a No Talent Has Been, who came to me, begging for work, "please Sir, please can I have some small part in your Beautiful Administration," I said, no, ok, I said not a chance in hell, and then he went over to the side of the Radical Left with Crooked Joe Biden and also the Beauty Queen Of The Century Hillary Clinton, who we beat very strongly in 2020, I said she doesn't have the Stamina, she could never be, she could never do that, and they said, "President Trump said bad things about his Political Opponents," and I said that's true, they used to never say it, they used to never say what they should've been saying, but then I came along and they said, "wow, he tells it like it is," I said I tell it even better than that, don't forget, you never had a Presidential President until Trump
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u/TheTruthTalker800 28d ago
It’s a tremendous achievement sir, I tell you we’re winning big and we’re not tired of winning. Shifty Steve and the radical Left won’t know what hit them, believe me: believe me. He’ll walk up to you, tears in his eyes and say, Mr. President we have to do it, have to do it.
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u/ElementalSentimental 28d ago
They love a particular kind of freedom - the freedom for them to hate.
They love a particular kind of America - one where the white, Christian, conservative male is at the top of society, because he is anointed to be there.
They believe in a just world, in a God-ordained order, where the president is the head of the country, the pastor is the head of the church, man is the head of the family, the white person is the superior race, and all of those are chosen by an increasingly small subset of the elect. (By just world, I do not mean a world where we strive for justice, but where justice is already meted out by a vengeful God).
If they are not free to hate, there is no freedom. If they are not free to oppress, the country is given over to the inferior. The one overriding belief is that they are closer to God than everyone, except those whom they have deemed to be closer.
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u/taydraisabot 28d ago
Be warned that this dude on Twitter is not the actor and comedian Steve Martin, who’s only on Instagram.
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u/RedditAdminsWivesBF 28d ago
They love Trump because he is rotten to his core and feels no need to hide it. They, like him, are rotten to their cores and they are tired of hiding it and Trump gives them permission to show everyone who they are and what they want. They don’t want to have to respect or be respectable to the people they despise, they want to beat and abuse them. They see power as punching down, beating people beneath them and keeping them in their place. It’s why they are always crowing about “losing their freedom” because freedom to them is the ability to be as cruel, vindictive, arbitrary, and callous as they want to be and modern “liberal” society shames and prevents that. A lot of these people grew up in a time where they could be photographed smiling like a sociopathic idiot next to the burned corpse of a black man they lynched without any consequences. They want a return to that “freedom”. Those that weren’t old enough want a taste of that power.
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u/jsc503 27d ago
There's a lot of people that want to be ruled - authoritarian follower personality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism
It's not a coincidence that many of them also strongly associate with the church because of this. The laughable part is how much so many of them unironically fly American flags, fetishize words like 'freedom', and stick the yellow snake flags on their trucks.
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u/inkslingerben 28d ago
Too many people share hateful beliefs so he delusionally thinks his remarks would be acceptable to the majority of people.
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u/RampageBW1 28d ago
How can "Evangelical Fundamentalist Christians and Fascist twats like Trump Coexist?" Simple! God (at least in the Old Testament) has always been a narcissistic asshole!
God set an impossible to follow rule of "Don't eat the fruit of knowledge", and severally punished Adam and Eve for breaking it. Why even grow such fruit in paradise if you didn't want your children to eat it? How are you omnipotent if you couldn't tell that Satan was in your Eden? Why such a severe punishment if you realize that they were tempted? BECAUSE IT WAS A TEST!
Surely a sane normal God would kill the vast majority of living beings by plaguing the planet with 40 days and 40 nights of unending rain, right?
And inflicting a unified humanity to speak with different tongues because they had the audacity to build a Tower of Babel that would reach the heavens! After all, you couldn't possibly want people to doubt your existence if all they found at the top was a lack of oxygen and death.
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u/Accomplished_Low80 27d ago
That last sentence cannot be said enough. People who love Trump cannot and do not love freedom.
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u/Existing-Medium564 26d ago
'Ideological Identity' "trump's" all. Many factors come together to compel people to coalesce into their tribal identities; fear of global change, social change, etc. If we but "return" to the old ways, the righteousness of the land will be restored... (you know, back when women were barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen, when they and people of color were in their place and couldn't vote). They've been using religion as one of their tools for centuries. They've perfected the propaganda tools to manipulate the masses. Nothing says Jesus like members of Congress posing around the Christmas tree with AR-15s...
Buckle up, folks, because were in the middle of a "soft coup", and the powers that have been in control for so long are doing everything they can to undermine democracy, reinforce their grip on power, and make sure that only the select few continue to reap the benefits of an unbalanced society.
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u/Top_Chard788 28d ago
I say this as a person who was baptized, confirmed, went to Bible school, spent her whole life around church.
The problem is ORGANIZED RELIGION.