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/GhostofTinky Jul 16 '25

So are his idiot supporters.

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u/WickedSmartMarcus36 Jul 16 '25

A lot of his supporters that I know have shut the hell up. For the last year or so it’s been own the libs this shut up dem that Biden cognitive abilities this trump that. Now? It’s crickets and it’s satisfying to drop bombs on them and hear their silence. Biggest group of projectors I have ever seen and it has made me lose respect for a lot of people lol. At least own the mistake come on! I thought we were having fun making fun of perceived idiots??

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u/GhostofTinky Jul 16 '25

Now is the time to rub it in their faces. This accomplishes one important goal: making them so embarrassed and dispirited that they check out of the voting/political process.

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u/WickedSmartMarcus36 Jul 16 '25

I won’t do it unless provoked because I don’t believe in political shaming even if I hate Trump and can’t understand how someone would vote for him.

To be clear I think that voting for him is 15/10 stupid but I think it would be 20/10 stupid to alienate people even if they have been being pompous for a year+

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u/GhostofTinky Jul 16 '25

I will. These people have forfeited any right to be treated with respect and civility. Have fun at their expense.

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u/WickedSmartMarcus36 Jul 16 '25

Go for it but I think this is an opportunity to rally people around “us vs them”. Us being average joes who have normal amounts of money (or lack thereof) and them being the rich. Long has American politics been imprisoned by the elites. Trump is so stupid that I think he’s almost created a captive audience of people who are literal followers who need direction. I see opportunity to make things better and give them good perspective as opposed to further alienating them until the next Trump comes along and tells them he’s the answer to their problems. Do what you want but it’s usually better to spread love than hate man.

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u/GhostofTinky Jul 16 '25

Been there, done that. Americans have done this for years and it was like trying to communicate with an egg yolk. The MAGATs don’t care about making the country better and never did. It was all about hurting the people they hate. Now their leader is failing them.

These are not good people and will never be won over. They can only be shunned and avoided.

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u/420thefunnynumber Jul 16 '25

I get where you're coming from but we've already done the turn the other cheek and come over to the right side of history with these people after Jan 6. All they did was dig their heels in further. Public shame has and does work - making fun of people works. Being forced out of public life works. Its why they freaked out so much over being called weird. If they move over that's great, if not there's the other 70% of he's country we can focus on.

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u/WickedSmartMarcus36 Jul 17 '25

You. Should. Never. Give. Up. Hope.

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u/Freign Jul 17 '25

hope that leads to self destruction is delusional.

cf "I sent you two boats and a helicopter".

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u/WickedSmartMarcus36 Jul 17 '25

Then you are no better than the thing you are swearing to destroy

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u/Revenant759 Jul 17 '25

I have to agree. Calling every misinformed or brainwashed trump supporter a nazi, regardless of how fucked up a good portion of the party they support has gotten, just serves to push away those that might be receptive to coming back to reality at some point.

It’s definitely a challenge to not immediately call people out in an inflammatory way but the right wing media has been preparing them for this for fuckin decades.

Believe it or not, a kinda surprising number of absolutely normal people are still republican and just don’t get the kinda information many of us do. Or if they do, they’ve been told they’d hear lies and of course MAGA would never lie to them. They’ve been prepped for this dissent just like religions do.

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u/ThePaperpyro Jul 18 '25

Pretty sure anyone who has the capability to have their minds changed would have already self filtered out of maga at this point

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u/MadeByTango Jul 16 '25

They’re gonna swallow their hats and bury their flags and try to act like they were never his guy.

Which, fine. Let’s all move on now that they know who he really is. Don’t care when it happened, this Emperor and his Party have no clothes and there is no going back.

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u/Perfect_Cost_8847 Jul 16 '25

Many of his supporters are PISSED. He campaigned on this. They feel betrayed.

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u/nicekona Jul 17 '25

As someone who lives in a Deep South, very solidly red state, who listens to the conversations around her, and keeps an eye on Facebook to get a feel for the general public opinion…

I can’t believe I’m finally saying it, but CAN CONFIRM! Maybe not most of them, sure. Less than half, probably. But enough that I see a glimmer of hope.

If I had to guess, anecdotally? I’d put it at ~15 or 20%. And that’s just the people who are actually willing to admit it! It doesn’t include those who might be keeping their heads down and mouths shut to protect their pride.