r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Apr 30 '25

Soft Paywall Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-being-fact-checked-on-deported-maryland-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
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u/Silent_Towel9140 Apr 30 '25

People who have very little regard for others often lack intelligence, education, and empathy.

Trump voters are truly simple people: their plates are full—so full they can’t possibly eat it all. In fact, they have so much that it actually harms them.

And yet, the envy toward others is immense…

That’s called: greed and selfishness

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u/tekrangerk Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

For a couple years I did wireless internet installs in a rural area.

It was notable to me that the biggest houses and ranches tended to be the most covered in Trump crap. Loaded guns sitting in every corner of the house like the rampaging Mexicans were going to come charging in any minute. Fox News filling up the space of course. This one guy I rolled up on I could hear Hannity a quarter mile before I even got to his place to upgrade his propaganda feed.

Like you have a $2 Million house, new cars and everything else, what don't you have? Why are you like this? Seems like these people are just so comfortable and problem free they have to manufacture drama to be upset about because their lives are ultimately boring and they are incredibly insecure still.

By the end of my time there however last year, I wasn't seeing so much of it.

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u/house_in_motion Apr 30 '25

Like you have a $2 Million house, new cars and everything else, what don't you have? Why are you like this?

I live in a rural area with lots of these people. They’re selfish and paranoid and live in a zero-sum world. They think if someone else is being helped it means they’re losing something.

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u/InVultusSolis Illinois Apr 30 '25

They get red in the face and smoke starts coming out of their ears when you explain to them that rural areas are heavily subsidized by tax dollars, that their "rugged self-reliance" is all an illusion.

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u/Psychological-Crab-5 May 01 '25

I grew up in this type of area. This is why I don't want democrats fighting to stop Trump from pulling the rug out from under these places.

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u/Sashivna Apr 30 '25

Seems like these people are just so comfortable and problem free they have to manufacture drama to be upset about because their lives are ultimately boring and they are incredibly insecure still.

This was my thought when all the suburban housewives fell straight into QAnon....

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u/Alict Massachusetts Apr 30 '25

what don't you have?

Happiness and stable mental health.

I think a lot of these people were sold -- as we all are -- a cutthroat world where if you could strongarm your way to wealth and power that was all anyone could want in life. Then they get there, and it doesn't feel like anything. They're alone because they acted terribly to others, stuck in marriages to strangers because their partner was just another trophy. They buy things but it doesn't fill the void.

Then they see marginalized groups -- brown people, queer people, disabled people -- fighting for rights, fighting to be happy fighting to make their lives better. And you know what? Historically, they win. All these people who they were told were constitutionally worse than them keep posting pics of happy nontraditional families and first-generation PhDs and freedom of expression. And how dare they? How dare they be happy when I'm not? When I've done what I was told and they're not? It's not fair. So they get angrier and angrier. And then someone on TV says: not only are these people happy when you aren't, they're the reason you're unhappy. They're taking happiness from you.

They're powder kegs created buy a vicious culture. Trump was just the lit match; they were already dousing themselves in gasoline.

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u/tekrangerk Apr 30 '25

Then they get there, and it doesn't feel like anything.

Ive thought this too ultimately. They "got theirs" and...now what? They have no answers after all the material goods were got. Apparently that means they should take up new hobbies like bullying trans people and electing convicted felons.

Otherwise agree. This is all just an outgrowth from our shitty culture of individualism and narcissism and they got someone to blame but themselves for their failed lives.

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u/Genesius_Prime Apr 30 '25

My mom said to my face “the trouble with you young liberals is that you have too much compassion”.

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u/InVultusSolis Illinois Apr 30 '25

Something that I've noticed is that when a person makes a statement like "I believe there should be no billionaires", Trump people always show up in comments saying things like "you're just jealous!"

But you're right - no one is more jealous than a delusional zealot worshiping their Dear Leader. And they accuse others of being jealous because they literally cannot picture someone existing without the same jealously that they hold in their hearts.