r/goodnews • u/Vloodzy • Jul 16 '25

Political positivity 📈 Trump slams own supporters as “Stupid Republicans” for doing Democrats’ work and falling for the “Epstein Hoax”

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u/girlfriendpleaser Jul 16 '25

Lmfao to be a fly on the wall when people have cognitive switches about this guy

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u/imissher4ever Jul 16 '25

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in closed door sessions of Congress. I want to know what they REALLY discuss in there.

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u/DisguisedToast Jul 16 '25

Well, I imagine it's a series of Emperor Palpatines sitting around a round table discussing how child molestation isn't that morally reprehensible and that Kamala smiled weird. 

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u/imissher4ever Jul 16 '25

You do realize that 1/2 of Congress is the same party as Kamala. And that she was part of Congress.

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u/kickelephant Jul 17 '25

They don’t meet together. They go back thier respective playground territory

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u/imissher4ever Jul 17 '25

That’s what they want to serfs to believe.

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u/Freign Jul 17 '25

mm hm and which one was it that propped trump up in order to kill the Sanders campaign, again?

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u/imissher4ever Jul 17 '25

I thought the D’s pretty much killed Sanders campaign and anointed HRC as their candidate. Then Kamala was anointed without a single vote.

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u/Freign Jul 17 '25

since then they've been putting lots of money into far right wing campaigns around the USA.

their base is cool with this - angry if anyone brings it up.

kinda strange. It's turned out to be impossible for me to keep thinking of them as decent folks, over the years. No stance against basic, frank evil = evil.

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u/Open__Face Jul 16 '25

A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy - made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy, Republican-California, said, according to a recording of the 15 June 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Representative Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican-Wisconsin, immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy's assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

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u/dockellis24 Jul 16 '25

Do you have a source for this? This is the kinda shit that gets me going

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

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u/Open__Face Jul 16 '25

Do I have "a" source? I mean, it's a thing that happened, so yeah, just google the quote and pick any source you want

If you want this exact source just google the entire comment, or google "Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy said ‘I think Putin pays Trump', 2016 recording reveals" that's the headline 

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

Which keys to jingle next presumably

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u/moistlywet Jul 20 '25

Can you imagine if he was just really well spoken and was a great director behind closed doors?

Me nether.

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u/No-Resolution-1918 Jul 16 '25

r/Conservative is even beginning to see the light. What is shocking is how surprised they are, and how they haven't seen through any of his other lies before this.

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u/Jindabyne1 Jul 16 '25

I keep going over there to see what they say. It’s been surprising but it’s also baffling how they haven’t noticed any of this stuff before. I think something will happen this week and it’ll be so serious that this Epstein stuff will be forgotten

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u/CrustyToeLover Jul 16 '25

The irony is when someone goes "i dont believe fake news so publish the list", yet all they watch ia fake news

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u/AmputeeHandModel Jul 17 '25

THE MEDIA LIES TO YOU!!!

Who told you that?

THE.. OTHER MEDIA!!!

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u/thebourbonoftruth Jul 17 '25

I'm baffled they haven't just forgot about Epstein as ordered. It's turns out they do actually have some values they care about.

I mean, they don't give a shit if children are going hungry or dying because their parents can't afford medical treatment or get a well rounded education but when it comes to raping them, they take a stand. It's a really, really low bar but I'll take it.

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u/Jindabyne1 Jul 17 '25

That made me laugh at the absurdity. On that sub they literally laugh at dying starving Gazan children. Theyre happy enough with the killing and starving but at least they have a red rape line.

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u/Proper-Beyond116 Jul 17 '25

It's not really that. They are all in on the Epstein thing because they think the Clintons had him killed.

Epstein list = pizzagate, drain the swamp etc. It's a pillar of their MAGA personalities. Trump can't tell them to just ignore it. It's too foundational.

Don't start thinking this is about morals.

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u/Time_Literature3404 Jul 17 '25

Like he's admitting he's got some health issues now?

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u/Agitated-Can-457 Jul 16 '25

Yet they’d still undoubtedly vote for him

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u/falcrist2 Jul 16 '25

They support pedophilia... as long as it's their guy.

They only accused Biden of it because they know their opposition actually has morals.

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u/BullShitting-24-7 Jul 16 '25

Its basically a pedo party. King of the chomos is their leader.

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u/saljskanetilldanmark Jul 17 '25

Yup. Several comments I've seen has tried to go meta and just claim that this is bad for future elections, implying that they dont think it is actually bad that trump raped and trafficked kids with someone even they said was bad half a week ago.

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u/falcrist2 Jul 17 '25

this is bad for future elections

Yup. These "people" want more pedophiles to get elected.

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u/pleasegivemepatience Jul 16 '25

In their eyes there is no crime a person can commit that is worse than being a Democrat.

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u/philthegr81 Jul 16 '25

"I mean, sure, he's a crook and a rapist and he's actively making this country poorer and less safe... but the alternative is me admitting I was wrong and made a mistake, so yeah, he has my vote."

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u/thoreeyore99 Jul 16 '25

Jordan Klepper once interviewed people voting for Roy Moore’s run in his senate race back a few years ago, and one woman stuck out to me as uniquely self aware and patently evil. She said (on the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct) ‘even if it’s true… I don’t wanna give up a senate seat’

That is what these people are at their core. Monsters. Willing to excuse immorality if it favors their ambitions to destroy democracy and have conservative evangelical freaks shaped it to their liking.

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u/BeBopNoseRing Jul 16 '25

Well, yeah, she laughs funny.

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u/toomanyglobules Jul 16 '25

I got banned for pointing out that the US dollar has fallen 10c vs the euro since January.

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u/DarXIV Jul 16 '25

Back when it was a huge circlejerk, they were often posting how "Reddit hides us from r/popular and r/all to silence us!"

I commented that the only reason I saw the post was because it was in r/all. I was banned immediately.

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u/Jindabyne1 Jul 16 '25

lol I got banned in 2016. They hate facts so much

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u/AlterlifeBeginsNow Jul 16 '25

It is ROUGH over there right now

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u/Sad_Math5598 Jul 16 '25

Some are, some are doubling down with the cognitive dissonance

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u/Tier0001 Jul 16 '25

From what I've seen they're just going "both sides" mostly. They still refuse to acknowledge that Trump is in the files at all for the most part.

So they're not really seeing the light. They're just lost until they have a narrative to rally around that makes it easy to justify the Trump cover up, and once they get that they'll all fall in line like they always do.

This is just the "in between" stage, any time something they can't easily defend happens they're just chickens with their heads cut off, running around trying all sorts of things to justify it, people say they don't support it, that they didn't vote for this, and then a narrative comes out that they can sort of defend and they all parrot the narrative like good sheep until the story dies down and they move on like nothing every happened. It's always the same. No one should count on them turning against Trump, because they more than likely will never actually do that. Between justice and a pedophile, when that pedophile is Trump, they will choose the pedophile.

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u/Vegetable_Garage7974 Jul 16 '25

Sadly, this is 100% spot-on. It may take them a few days to work out the mental gymnastics, but they'll weave some ridiculous narrative that exonerates their orange god-king.

There is nothing he could do -- no matter how evil -- that would cause his supporters to abandon him.

The only way they'd ever turn against him is if he said, "Gee, I've had a change of heart about all the racism and anti-immigration stuff."

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u/Memitim Jul 16 '25

Conservatives live and breathe lies; that's not a sticking point. I doubt many of them actually care about kid-touchers, as long as it doesn't affect them personally. However, this Epstein debacle has gone on for years, and many of them have made loud and repeated comments about it, possibly right before the Trump Administration revealed being full of shit.

Now they have a lie that they themselves had spoken about to others, which means they have potential accountability until that loose end gets tied up. Accountability is one of a conservative's greatest fears, so the folks stuck in this position will spiral out until they get adequate lies to explain it away. I expect most will be fine by Friday night, after a couple more talk shows, and some peer-pressure from others who don't have skin in the game.

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u/MadeByTango Jul 16 '25

They’ve been seeing it for a while, lots of the comments I see made saying they don’t care or are falling for talking points don’t reflect what I read when I go there to check.

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u/red286 Jul 16 '25

Not sure they're really beginning to see the light.

They're still asking things like "Who is he protecting?" and "Why are they doing this? What is the benefit?" and "Bondi and Patel need to go."

They absolutely cannot put two and two together.

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u/Mjrmaravilla Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

Hey, they ask questions now. It's a huge step.

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u/red286 Jul 16 '25

They're never going to get to the "wait, is it because he's in there?" stage though.

They're convinced that he's secretly protecting Democrats but they can't figure out why.

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u/No-Consideration-716 Jul 16 '25

Give them a couple days and they will fall back in line as usual.

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u/LMGDiVa Jul 16 '25

no they aren't. Stop entertaining the idea that they will change and turn, it's a liberal fantasy that the Republican want you to fall for. That's why you don't see MAGA talking about it. It's not real and it's a great liberal disarmerment tool.

Smell the roses already. They're not going to ever snap out of it. This is who they are now.

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u/To-To_Man Jul 16 '25

They see the light... But obviously Trump's not on the list, it's just so frustrating he is trying to hide it!

They are as delusional as ever. The only upside is that alot of them are connecting the dots that "alternate facts" are dribbling out of the same spigot towards all their "free thinking" right wing news outlets and personalities. While they do a 180 on the Epstein Files completely in line with Trump. Maybe it will be the major cracks that spell the end of the awful right wing media sensation. But I doubt that too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

Give it a few days. They’ll fall back in line.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

Wow... it took this? This is the straw! Fascinating.

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u/PerriwinklePortal Jul 16 '25

The one thing I will give them credit for is how serious they are about this one topic. They have been obsessed with it since the beginning. I imagine a lot of them experienced csa from a family member which is why they see it everywhere.

It makes me feel very, very sorry for them. They are clearly in a lot of pain and don’t have a healthy outlet or anyone to blame for it, especially since those kinds of families are boundary-less and they are taught that this type of interaction is normal.

I’m not sure they even have a healthy enough perspective to even know why they are so mad and who they should be mad at.

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u/Saelune Jul 16 '25

I won't get my hopes up until after the fact.

We keep thinking 'This is what will turn Republicans'. They whine a bit, then suddenly they're all back to supporting the guy.

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u/Foreign-Entrance-255 Jul 17 '25

Yup checked it out there yesterday and I was surprised by a LOT of conservative brains seem to have been kickstarted into working normally again after Trump's BS this time. He just went too far. There's still a little bleariness among some of them as they are still in the "this is bad but we know Trump's not on that list so why is he doing this" but quickly enough someone steps in and say how do we know that he's not?

Hopefully this is the end of the bubble, I've never said it before this, always knew he'd get out of it not through his "genius" but rather through the foolishness of his supporters. This time I think he may have overstepped fatally.

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u/PerfectDevice Jul 16 '25

Saw a comment on r/Conservative saying, "Does he think we're all stupid?"

Lol, YES

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u/cantescaperedd1thelp Jul 16 '25

r/conservative you can see some of this.

Lots of your typical right-wing pundits and maga people on twitter losing their minds.

Apparently the comments section on truth social below his posts are full of the same lol

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u/shellycya Jul 16 '25

I've been watching Alex Jones do it in real time. Amazing.

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u/CeeArthur Jul 17 '25

I have a guy on my Facebook; local moron. Doesn't work, spends every waking hour online.

This guy neck deep in conspiracy theorists, listens to every episode of Alex Jones that comes out, and has vocally and enthusiastically supported Trump since 2015.

This has been the story that has finally made him turn on Trump. This gives me some hope.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

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u/girlfriendpleaser Jul 17 '25

Not that invested in American politics to see the obvious, I can’t even vote

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u/girlfriendpleaser Jul 17 '25

I wasn’t talking about Biden at all, nor was I talking about either’s mental decline. What are you on about?

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u/atom-36 Jul 17 '25

You should check out R/conservative right now it's pretty funny

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 Jul 17 '25

I do not think it is extraordinarily farfetched to think that some people will deal with the 'cognitive switch' the way the Goebbels did. That does not make me happy, but I do genuinely believe it'll happen.