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Funtatlaguy

(10,878 posts)
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 10:30 AM Aug 2018

Yeah, this guy is a con man.

That’s what I’m waiting to hear from some family and friends that voted for Trump.
None of them are quite there YET.
But a few are starting to question SOME of what he says.

Does anybody have an uplifting story of a Trumper in their life who has seen the light?

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Funtatlaguy

(10,878 posts)
3. The silence in this thread makes me think
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:50 PM
Aug 2018

That few Trumpers have flipped yet.
Admitting you were wrong and you were conned is not easy to do.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
4. I don't know a single one that isn't still on board.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:55 PM
Aug 2018

Of course, I don't really talk to any except on discussion boards, where their incoherence and whataboutism make any rational discourse impossible.

All my relatives (save my 3 siblings who hate him as much as I do)? I don't talk to them. Détente.

Funtatlaguy

(10,878 posts)
5. Mine are the low tax low regulation
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:58 PM
Aug 2018

Small government type Republicans.
They don’t like Trump but they like the tax cuts.
The Helsinki thing got them thinking. They are worried what Mueller has on all of the GOP.
I can’t even talk to the other type of Trumpers - the racist, sexist, ones.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
6. Even that's a scam.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 01:02 PM
Aug 2018

They like plenty of the things our taxes pay for, and plenty of the regulation that stops corporations from poisoning us.

They just hate that someone they don't like might get something they need with a portion of those taxes.

Republicans are filled with spite and resentment.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
10. And a really inept one.
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 01:07 PM
Aug 2018

He keeps giving away the con, but the media promote him as a real billionaire with real businesses, and people go right on thinking he's something more than a grifter.

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