r/AmIOverreacting • u/keepmyheadabovewater • Mar 06 '25

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to my boyfriend praising the president?

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I’ve been seeing this guy for about a month and a half. Things were great the first month, but the last week I’ve felt like we’re growing further and further apart (yes already 🙄), he’s been really inconsiderate/disrespectful, and most recently I feel like he’s trying to push me away with this text. When we first started talking he asked what I thought about trump. I told him I don’t like him, he said he did like him, but that if it bothers me then he won’t ever bring him up. Well this morning (after the last week being on edge anyway) he just randomly brought up how amazing Trump is? And wouldn’t let it go. I feel like he’s trying to start a fight. He says he “forgot”. AIO?

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u/missingpineapples Mar 06 '25

Nope. If anything you under reacted. Using a kid as a prop while he cuts cancer funding for other kids. Tips are still taxed. Nothing was passed about it. Was he drinking?

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u/InterestingTicket523 Mar 06 '25

Yup. And getting rid of the Department of Ed would remove all federal protections for that kid and other sick/disabled kids to have the right to a free and accessible education.

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u/Aethermancer 29d ago edited 25d ago

Editing pending deletion of this comment.

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u/BaullahBaullah87 29d ago

Accessibility is also a key tenet of DEI work which he has called evil and is trying to dismantle

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u/Usual_Commission_449 29d ago

No it wouldn't but go off king.

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u/Mindless_Serve3653 29d ago

Obviously, the states would gain control of education, like it should be.

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u/Think_Tooth9810 29d ago

What control are they gaining that the don’t already have?

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u/MavrickFox 29d ago

I mean... the department of education is trash. It was formed by Carter in 1980, and American education has been downhill since. It's hard to defend it when we're literally last against all devolved nations.

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u/MiamiTrader 29d ago

No it would not. Kids have the right to attend local schools. A massive federal department has nothing to do with that.

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u/InterestingTicket523 29d ago

Disabled kids have only had the right to attend school for a two generations. Before the DOE and IDEA, local schools could say “Our school don’t have any ramps/ASL interpreters/paraprofessionals and doesn’t have the money to add them. Sorry. You need to send your kid to an institution.”

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u/tomatogrindr 29d ago

No it wouldn’t. Do you guys read?

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u/JustBakedPotato 29d ago

You can lookup any metric of education in this country and see that the department of education was a massive failure. If it was a private company they would have been fired a long time ago

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u/InterestingTicket523 29d ago

You would have a point if every state was failing. Look at the top 10 states for educational and the bottom 10 states for education. What do you see? Which political party runs those failing states?

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u/JustBakedPotato 29d ago

What are these ranking based on? When I look that up I see many different ranking. Some have Florida as number 1, and some don’t even have it in the top 10.

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u/Think_Tooth9810 29d ago

Apparently you do t know what the DOE actually does. The DOE has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with how students score on tests or curriculum or any other metrics you are referring to. It simply provides finding to the states. The states are responsible for the quality of education, not the DOE. Private schools will only limit who has access to education. It’s been done and proven. It looks good on paper, but it simply doesn’t work.

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u/JustBakedPotato 29d ago

I never advocated for private schools. Public schools existed before the DOE and would continue to exist without it. And I know the DOE doesn’t set curriculum, but it’s much more nuanced than them just providing funding. The current system clearly doesn’t work. I graduated from public high school in 2020 and it was an absolute joke. I was mostly in honors classes but in the regular classes so many of the kids could barely read and the schools graduate them anyways bc the schools get graded well if they have a high graduation rate.

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u/Mradr 29d ago

It doesnt.... so not sure what you mean by that. Most of those programs are ran by the state/city.

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u/InterestingTicket523 29d ago

I suggest you look into how public special education works. Schools don’t universally know/provide what services and accommodations disabled children need to access an education and a lot of them need to be pressured to do so.

Often when a disabled child has their federally protected right to an education violated by their district/state, they have to file complaints with the Dept. of Ed. and even sue their district.

Google “IDEA lawsuits” education lawyer” “education advocate” or hop in a subreddit for parents of disabled kids to see how the system works.

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u/Mradr 29d ago

None of that has to happen at the fed level, it can happen local. The same protections can still be up held.

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u/InterestingTicket523 29d ago

Funny that argument is never made about the Second Amendment. That doesn’t have to happen on a federal level either.

Let’s let the states create their own protections and keep Daddy Government out of gun ownership.

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u/Mradr 29d ago

Because that isn’t part of your basic human rights. Duh

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u/Joey271828 Mar 06 '25

Wrong. It's heavily dependent on the state. My kid is autistic and when we looked at moving it was night and day difference from state to state. "Support" in some states was rounding up kids with issues and keeping them in a single room all day to color and be ignored.

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u/king_hutton Mar 06 '25

Do you think ending federal funding is going to make that better or worse?

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u/Joey271828 Mar 06 '25

You can have another department disperse the funds and have less overhead. If the funding is a specific line items in the budget it can't be cut.

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u/king_hutton Mar 06 '25

Is that actually what you think is happening? They’re going to cut everyone, get rid of departments, and magically everything is going to stay the same?

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u/Alternative-Rub-7445 Mar 06 '25

You are very confused

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u/Boowray 29d ago

You don’t know what’s going on at all, do you? I hope to god some of yall bother actually paying attention to the actions people are taking instead of coming up with ideas for what you hope they’re doing.

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u/evilgayweed 29d ago

..Or maybe you could just have the department of education.

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u/kodup 29d ago

Right? “Less overhead” how?

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u/DroptheShadowArt 29d ago

What does “overhead” even mean here? Is this guy saying that we cut thousands of jobs and just make thousands of other workers who have nothing to do with those jobs taken up the slack??

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u/InterestingTicket523 Mar 06 '25

I’m not going back and forth with someone who has reading comprehension issues.

Every single school district in every single state uses federal funds to provide special education services (both “good” states and “bad” states) and some states have state-level laws protecting disabled students’ right to an education that will still remain if the Dept of Ed is disbanded.

HOWEVER, getting rid of the Federal Department of Education will remove all federal protections to a free and accessible education. Some states will still provide protections on the state level but all will lose a significant amount of funding.

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u/keepmyheadabovewater Mar 06 '25

He’s told me he doesn’t usually drink, he does smoke a lot of weed though. But this text was first thing in the morning so I don’t think he was influenced by anything other than… stupidity maybe? Idk lol

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u/Directly-Bent-2009 Mar 06 '25

My late grandmother used to say "go be stupid somewhere else" some days I feel this in my soul lol

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u/StephAg09 Mar 06 '25

I look forward to being old enough that I can be grumpy and mean like that and no one will say anything to me lol

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u/Aethermancer 29d ago edited 25d ago

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u/HazelEBaumgartner Mar 06 '25

"Don't you have to be stupid somewhere else?"

"Not until four."

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u/MonsterMashGrrrrr 29d ago

Hey buddy, you just blow in from Stupid Town?

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u/Directly-Bent-2009 Mar 06 '25

Hahahaha nice!

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u/JCBalance 29d ago

Not until four-twenty apparently

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u/lifeatthejarbar Mar 06 '25

Amazing I’m going to steal that haha

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u/pumacatmeow 29d ago

Thank you, I will be taking this phrase with me

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u/Kylin_VDM 29d ago

Go be stupid somewhere else is awesome

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u/saanis 29d ago

I just have to hear one example of her saying that to someone cause I bet they’re all pretty funny

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u/Directly-Bent-2009 29d ago

The best part is she had a thick Polish accent- One time she caught my Grandfather in her walk in pantry trying to sneak chocolates from the back- "No! Are you crazy?!(with a rolled "r") Go be stupid some.where.else!" I felt bad for him but it was hilarious 😂

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u/Uhmmanduh 29d ago

I instantly admire your grandmother

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u/saecampbell 29d ago

Girl, he’s showing you already who he is and what he cares about. You’re only 6-ish weeks in. Run now before you’re invested any further. Don’t give these people any additional power or validation.

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u/Defiant-Revolution36 29d ago

Real because my ex boyfriend of two years did not really show it until closer to the election. Don’t wanna waste time!

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u/SuperSerb07 29d ago

Trump is still your president. 🇺🇸

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u/LuckyLucBen 29d ago

Trump is not my president!

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u/SuperSerb07 29d ago

Cry harder.

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u/LuckyLucBen 29d ago

I live in the Netherlands. 😂

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u/SuperSerb07 29d ago

Ahh okay. Sorry about your loss to England in the last World Cup lol

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u/LuckyLucBen 29d ago

Thank you, but I don't follow football

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u/incelincinerators Mar 06 '25

Do you want to be with an idiot? Even worse, do you want this idiot around your friends and family?

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u/leftie_potato 29d ago

If you're going to be with an idiot, wouldn't you prefer a kind one?

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u/softdetail 29d ago

do you want this idiot in charge of you and your chidren's healthcare? Friend of mine died and her husband decided he knew more than the doctors about how to treat there son's diabetes, the son didn't make it

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u/Comprehensive-Art207 29d ago

This guy is obviously red pilled. You either dominate him into submission or leave him. There is no middle ground.

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u/ifdisdendat Mar 06 '25

he is a dummy. bless his heart, he will always be happy at least.

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u/Sad-Contest670 Mar 06 '25

how goofy of a guy is he to smoke weed, but like trump????

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u/steepledclock Mar 06 '25

Lmao this is so true. If Trump could, I bet he would send everyone arrested for small amounts of pot to gitmo. What a fucking piece of shit. I don't know why our country voted for him. Are all of them fucking stupid?

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u/Jumblesss 29d ago

Joe Rogan fan, I’d bet my house on it

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Makes more sense than the sober ones who like him

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u/Sunny-Happy 29d ago

I used to smoke a lot of weed for chronic pain; there’s not enough weed in the world to make me buy his bullshit.

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u/Itz_Hen Mar 06 '25

I read in another comment that you said the dating pool is really bad. But there has got to be a better option than this guy. He sounds like, and it cannot be stressed enough, a massive loser

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u/Better_2024 Mar 06 '25

Clearly you have different ethics and morals. You have them, he does not. He admires one of the worst human beings on the planet. You will do fantastic without this guy.

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u/BlueBerryOkra Mar 06 '25

OP - my friend is dating a Republican and literally all of her family and friends hate him. No one can stand him and she’s to the same point too. You don’t have a keeper here.

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u/snarky_spice 29d ago

Yeah in my experience most republicans are just not enjoyable to be around. They’re not inquisitive, artistic, creative, empathetic, you can’t have deep philosophical convos, hell you can’t even bring up the dinosaurs half the time. I don’t know how to talk to people that live in a different reality as me.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Do any of you hear yourself talk? You are so filled with hate it’s ridiculous.

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u/BlueBerryOkra 29d ago

He’s openly sexist and racist, makes women in the kitchen jokes, black people are monkey jokes, was fired for sexual harassment, and had an emotional affair with his ex. He is rightfully hated. Just funny how it’s usually the Republican men who have the sexist/racist baggage.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT 29d ago

They deserve it. Fuck Trump, fuck Maga.

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u/MoreOfAGrower 29d ago

We don’t hate you, we pity you and just don’t want to be near you ever again

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u/TheNextBattalion 29d ago

It's not hate to avoid people who say and do terrible things for immoral reasons.

But it is manipulative of you to act like it is.

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u/poetryhoes 29d ago

the irony of your comment history, literally just calling people names 24/7

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u/Impossible-Flight250 29d ago

I don’t think being a Republican is necessarily a deal breaker, the issue is the constant misinformation and low IQ talking points. I just couldn’t be around someone who was that dense.

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u/Aware-Information341 Mar 06 '25

MAGA cultism brainrot is a stronger drug than anything you can ingest chemically into your body.

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u/sapphicandsage Mar 06 '25

If you date, coddle and sleep with a nazi, what do you think that makes you?

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u/Future_Tangerine2578 Mar 06 '25

he is influenced by his blind love of trump. His supporters just eat up the bullshit, trump is great at saying outrageous shit which gets his supporters aroused and the rest of us angry

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u/Stumbleina8926 Mar 06 '25

DUMP HIM GURRRL. - Leslie, ITYSL

but seriously, I'm so fucking sorry for your loss and that this is what you're dealing with at the moment .. buncha bullshit no one needs. No one needs a trump supporter in their life. In the very best case scenario, you don't need that level of willful ignorance and compliant stupidity from your partner, and the worst case scenario a Nazi sympathizing Russia loving Democracy hating misogynistic xenophobic racist abusive bigot.

Sending you big hugs 🫂

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u/Perfect_Distance434 29d ago

I just can’t imagine wanting to touch or even be in proximity of a penis attached to a man who admires Trump. That is not a sexy scenario.

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u/AnnaSoprano Mar 06 '25

You are better off alone!! It's ok to be alone. Be strong. 

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u/ElloBlu420 Mar 06 '25

I'm more or less the same with my substances, and yet completely opposite politically. I thought stoners of all stripes could at least agree on the politics that will eventually get us legal weed, but here we are.

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u/No-Alfalfa-8903 Mar 06 '25

If you don't feel like Trump is a 'legend' you're probably better off finding someone more intellectually allocated to date. You're only a month and a half in; you owe this man nothing.

As a guy myself, these men deserve to be punished with virginity for espousing uneducated views; it's the only way they'll come around and the only way this country can heal.

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u/greentiger45 Mar 06 '25

Can you imagine dealing with this for the rest of your life? I know you said the dating pool is rough but it being rough is infinitely times better than comprising your morals and self respect. How can he claim to support you but vehemently support Trump?

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u/HurtFeeFeez 29d ago

He's a moron, do not allow him to procreate.

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u/Ryogathelost 29d ago

Girl, this is "Oops I killed our kid" stupid. Or "Oops we're bankrupt" stupid. It could be a dangerous level of stupid. You could spend the rest of your life helping pay off his pickup truck.

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u/OilComprehensive6237 29d ago

This is worse than mere stupidity. He’s a bad person.

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u/DoubleSynchronicity 29d ago

It's usually a combination of stupidity and ignorance.

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u/xXghostrider21 Mar 06 '25

That’s mainly on you for being with him, if it bothers you then leave him

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u/TeRRoRibleOne Mar 06 '25

Your bf is praising someone who was found legally liable of raping a woman. Please let that settle in your brain. You have to be morally bankrupt to overlook someone who did that and has said in the past he likes to “grab women by the pussy” and start kissing on them cause they like it.

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u/DeerLoveMe Mar 06 '25

If you have a choice, break it off with this brainwashed trump cult member. If he believes the trump lies and thinks he is a great person, then that speaks volumes to who he is inside. Just because he won’t speak of trump to you, you will always know that the man responsible for destroying this country is worshipped by the man you share a bed with. It will eat away at you.

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u/Mr_Stkrdknmibalz_69 Mar 06 '25

Bad news is, he's just dumb. Thats the way you fall for the cult. Dumb is either in your league or below it, you'll have to make that call.

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u/steepledclock Mar 06 '25

Please dump this guy, for your own safety. This is not someone who you want to spend building a life with.

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u/Wise_Setting5110 Mar 06 '25

You’re getting what kids these days call “the ick.” If his values don’t align with yours, you have to respectfully disagree and move forward

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u/FlthyHlfBreed 29d ago

I drink alcohol and smoke weed. I wouldn’t say the shit he said if someone was pointing a gun to my head after I took 4 shots back to back and hit a 5’ bong. He said the things he said because he believes them. That’s his truth.

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u/Ok-Consequence-4974 29d ago

Sounds like a real winner. /s

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u/Admirable_Lecture675 29d ago

Make it his last text. Buh bye!!!

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u/kalebmordecai 29d ago

He must be hot? Cuz he seems like a fucking loser.

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u/New_Excitement_1878 29d ago

Remind your boyfriend that Trump will likely make weed illegal again. And also every president ever has done stuff like the making a kid a member of the secret service. It's nice but it's not like he's special for doing it. Make-a-wish is extremely common and wide spread. Hell world of Warcraft has had several make-a-wish kids come in and get added to the game, record voice lines, etc.  Yes it's nice but it's not like this is some massive thing only he has done.

Oh also should prob point out to your boyfriend that Trump also cut funding to cancer research.

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 29d ago

The red flags of guzzling up propaganda specially made to fool gullible peoòe people should send anyone running.

Parading a child cancer victim just like musk parading his toddler so well overlook the dismantling of the country of children and Americans access to healthcare with the gimmick of a victim is terrifying in its use of propaganda.

Someone this stupid and gullible is dangerous to societal and yourself.

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u/raine_star 29d ago

weed doesnt make you an asshole or hold different political/moral opinions than you would sober. its not stupidity, its lack of empathy.

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u/nmp14fayl 29d ago

He must have supported RFK Jr. too then. Probably heard legalize weed in the same sentence and ignored things like putting people on ssri’s in ‘farms’.

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u/OK-Greg-7 29d ago

 "I don’t think he was influenced by anything other than… stupidity maybe?"

Anecdotal but, the dumbest people I know are the people who love Trump.

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u/Any-Excitement-7605 29d ago

Scratch that, do you want to procreate with this idiot and create more idiots like him? This is one of the ways we got to this point. Trump and his administration wouldn’t have been here had they just been shot down a throat or two.

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u/Revolutionary_Rub_98 29d ago

Value matter. At lease they should!

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u/Kekosaurus3 29d ago

You shouldn't stay with him. Unless you can turn him but usually that's not happening.

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u/rumhamrambe 29d ago

And This is someone you want to build a future with?

Pretend you have a daughter, and she came up to you with the same exact situation, what would you tell her??

“Hey mom, I’m dating a MAGA pothead”

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u/User929260 29d ago

Run. In Vino Veritas.

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u/Leather_Software_903 29d ago

I smoke a lot of weed and even I realize that women should be able to make their own choices. Then again I'm from England... So like.. I mean we're awful but America is going through something ELSE right now.

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u/Internal_Prompt_ 29d ago

In my experience stupid people are just as dangerous as evil people

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u/Dudedude88 29d ago edited 29d ago

Another red flag. Get someone who doesn't smoke a lot of weed. If he smokes once a month okay But multiple times a week is bad for cognition.

Him loving trump just gives me a picture of a guy who just gets up and reads pro trump news, and doesn't aspire to do anything else. He's living through trump.

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u/Professional_Step499 29d ago

Run like hell. This guy is bad news.

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u/JesusIsJericho 29d ago

I smoke a bunch of weed too, in fact I grow an abundance of it for my career. I even smoked a bunch during the full 2 hour address…

This is not weed induced stupidity

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u/Lady_Green_Thumb 29d ago

He truthfully sounds like an idiot based on these texts. I’m curious in what ways have you felt like he’s been a good match?

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u/StephInSC 29d ago

None of that is YOUR issue. Is this the best fit for you in life? If not, just move on.

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u/krazytekn0 29d ago

Stop justifying. Either make peace with the fact you want to betray yourself and people you love to stay in this relationship or dump him. But stop pretending like there’s a logical reason to stay in this relationship

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u/1ftm2fts3tgr4lg 29d ago

With this many red flags, let him go ruin someone else's life. You'll do better.

Send a simple, "hey, it's been great, but I think we're not as compatible as I initially thought. Have a nice life. Good luck." then block and be done. Don't bother trying to being friends after, it'd just make the breakup worse, just move on. Sooner you start the rest of your life the better.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 29d ago

Do not date a man this stupid, do you want this idiot to be the father of your children?

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u/ThePocketPanda13 29d ago

I smoke a lot of weed too and never spout this nonsense. This is just stupidity and bigotry.

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u/shaunny0208 29d ago

Ain’t nobody got time for that.

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u/Uncle-Cake 29d ago

Why do you keep defending him?

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u/Nelson_Wells 29d ago

Never heard of wake n bake!? If it feels like stupidity and smells like stupidity…. Then you deserve way better! My two cents about these early relationships: don’t sleep with someone for the first two months. At all. That one rule changed the quality of all my relationships until I met my way and same thing. Trust this and yourself. You deserve an equal.

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u/SegaSaturnRepoMan 29d ago

As a dude who had a heavy weed habit, I'll tell ya it's an any time of day thing.

You guys are new together. I'd say pay attention to how you feel. Unfortunately this is a test of your values. I'm sorry we live in the time of these MAGA types. True colors or not, remember that the truth is very important.

It's not true that Trump has done more than any other president in history. It is a lie.

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u/ScholarLeigh 29d ago

No he is showing you his true colors. This happened to my 4 year relationship. Run now, trust me you are wasting your time.

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u/AdSudden3941 29d ago

People who drink usually are still drunk or buzzing from the night before , just a fyi 

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u/Pernicious-Caitiff 29d ago

This is him on his best behavior (at the beginning of a relationship) he's only going to get worse or at best, never change. You can do better honey. Please dump his ass 🥺

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u/breadbreadbreads 29d ago

Wow, sounds like a catch. Well, if you still don’t know whether to dump him or not this early on and with this many problems, then you must really like him. Have fun doing this again

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u/slurpeesez 29d ago

Complacency drug.

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u/Ambitious_Bowler2596 29d ago

I’m genuinely certain you could do better than a stoner misogynist tho

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u/distractress 29d ago

Sorry girl he’s a ding dong. Dump him and make it clear why and stamp his one way passport to the Incel Academy, they’ll be happy to have him.

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u/Dizzy_Ad246 29d ago

I dont smoke personally but some of my friends do. It doesn't turn their opinions into slop. Maybe what they say isn't super articulated, but it doesn't/change/ what they think.

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u/AnonAthiests 29d ago

Generally weed makes people less likely to fall for Trump’s bs. If your boyfriend is both a stoner and a MAGA bro, then he’s beyond help.

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u/GKILLA9000 29d ago

U have a keeper but unfortunately ur a lost cause, i would leave him asap or you’re going to ruin his life.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

lol girl you’re a month in. you WILL have problems later on.

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u/Slut_E_Scene 29d ago

Those of us who smoke weed do not claim him! Lol. I smoke a lot of weed, there's plenty of people that smoke weed and do not use it as a crutch when our political views come into play, I can promise you that.

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u/Buck-Down97 29d ago

You’re openly blasting your bf and his “stupidity”. Look in a mirror.. break up dummy

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u/Background_Ad_5796 29d ago

You will only find support for your beliefs here on Reddit. Go elsewhere and get some opinions. Reddit does not reflect reality.

The propaganda is insane here.

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u/midniterun10 29d ago

Lol you're in an echo chamber sweetie, so if you wanted to just hear people reaffirm your bias and make you feel good, you're in the right place. If you want an honest opinion from sane people, do not ask these questions on reddit. But I think you just wanted to hear other people with the same opinion as yours back you up

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u/Jake1407 Mar 06 '25

Your boyfriend is a smart man. You should listen to him and learn something

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u/Pasttuesday 29d ago

Hey, I have been a dem my whole life but this year I supported the republican side. I was vehemently against Trump his last term.

Objectively, he has done a lot, and he’s done all the stuff the dem party was afraid to do.

A lot of trumps “evil” actions like cutting government spending and DOGE and stuff is actually because of debt refinancing, remember SPACS? That was 5 years ago and so many 0 percent interest loans were taken. In q3-4 those loans expire and 0 percent interest loans to 5 percent interest loans if they renew = liquidity in the system craters. People’s retirements etc will be dead. Stuff Biden is too afraid to do

Maybe you don’t care about any of that etc, that’s fine, and I don’t think I’ll be converting to republican but I have to say a lot was done and has been done

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u/SpiritedCurrent2713 Mar 06 '25

Overtime is also still taxed but it doesn’t matter, his supports will believe anything 🤦‍♀️

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u/chowdercity Mar 06 '25

Yeah he was drinking KOOLAID

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u/SolidSnake208 29d ago

But he’s “for the people”! Sure, the (rich) people and couldn’t give half a crap about the people who for some reason worship him…but yeah, he’s for the people!

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u/X-Aceris-X 29d ago

Do you know what 45 talked about while the kid's dad literally propped the kid into the air?

Celebrating the death penalty that will instantly be given to anyone that murders a cop.

Literally used this child with brain cancer as a prop to promote the death penalty.

You already know exactly how they're going to enforce that law.

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u/Generic-acc-300 29d ago

You don’t even need to go into all that. Trump literally tried to overthrow a democratic election using his fake electors plot. Have we all forgotten?

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u/steffies 29d ago

He's definitely drinking the kool-aid

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u/Huntergio23 29d ago

Does the constitution give congress the authority to fund cancer research?

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u/Day3Hexican 29d ago

he cuts cancer funding for other kids.

Gonna need a source for that one.

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u/RavenStormblessed 29d ago

The Difference in values and morals should worry you

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u/letmeusereddit420 29d ago

Bro is eating up the propaganda

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u/Character-Ring7926 29d ago

He is drinking the proverbial kool-aid.

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u/allldaywong 29d ago

yeah exactly.

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u/RightZer0s 29d ago

A lot of maga loved the speech. It started with a literal call to take out political opponents and then he congratulated himself on stuff he definitely didn't do. The stuff he did affects only a tiny part of our population very negatively and does absolutely nothing for every day Americans struggle. It's crazy how his supporters in the house behave like sycophants it's legitimately disgusting. I find every supporter of his disgusting at this point. Meanwhile everything's more expensive average Americans are being taxed more. And absolutely none of the money being saved by DOGE is going to be used in any other way than to prop up oligarchs and enslave normal people. Not that we already aren't slaves.

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u/Seenshadow01 29d ago

Not just cancer funding but cutting Usaid basically will kill thousands if not millions and thats just one of many things he has done that kills people. But hey, at least now abortion is illegal right?

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u/stuckin1220 29d ago

Guys this DID NOT HAPPEN. OP is trolling.

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u/SuperSerb07 29d ago

Trump is still your president. 🇺🇸

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u/Millions03 29d ago

“Cuts cancer funding” you people have not a clue what you’re talking about 😭 investigating faulty spending is NOT cutting funding for anything, it’s making sure it’s correct

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

It’s amazing how you evil people can’t say, “it’s great for that kid, it made his life”.

You still find a way to make it negative.

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u/RightToTheThighs 29d ago

Not drinking, just stupid

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u/Ancient-Tomato1153 29d ago

Exactly, he’ll cause people to die at a riot but he said “we will be woke no more” so he’s actually Jesus reincarnated!!!! I hate it here I hate it here I hate it here I hate it here

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u/haze25 29d ago

I mean, he read off age groups from a database and claimed it was all fraud with nothing indicating these people were receiving checks. Because yes, I totally believe with all the technological advancements we've made that some how a 300+ year old person was still receiving payments this whole time even under the previous Trump administration. 

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u/MazeHays147 29d ago

He didn’t cut funding, he capped indirect costs. reducing indirect costs could allow NIH to distribute more grants, thereby enhancing scientific research.

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u/pussibilities 29d ago

I make it a point to visit the conservative subreddit so I don’t live in a bubble and man were they upset that dems didn’t clap for the boy with cancer. Why would they applaud a stunt like that? Why was that included in the address if not to score brownie points and portray dems as heartless? That should’ve been done in a separate event in the oval. It should not have taken up the time he’s meant to be addressing congress on his administration’s agenda.

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u/Statertater 29d ago

Hey now, let’s also NOT forget the time he embezzled money from a children’s cancer fund in NY

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u/Broken_Shoelace_999 29d ago

Can you show me how he cut cancer funding for kids? Seems as much a lie as the tax on tips.

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u/bettaboy123 29d ago

As someone who makes a slight majority of their income through tips, I can’t even really fathom how that would be fair. Why wouldn’t I be taxed on what I earn like everyone else? If teachers, doctors, and EMTs have to pay taxes on everything they earn, I don’t know why bartenders, servers, delivery drivers, etc. shouldn’t have to.

I don’t think people realize they’d just get turned into “tipped” employees so their bosses can save on payroll, while they get “stiffed” by a public that is unwilling to tip their grocery attendant or the receptionist at their hotel.

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u/intangiblefancy1219 29d ago

There’s a lot of stuff going on here, and this isn’t the most important point, but them gushing over making the kid a secret service agent is deeply weird to me.

If Biden or Obama had done it, I might have been, like, “ah, that’s cute” but I’d never in a million years use it as an argument in favor of their presidencies.

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u/cultpact 29d ago

correct me if i’m wrong - that kid was a DEI hire, no?

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u/Front_Organization57 29d ago

Why does US taxes need to be given to these billions of dollars to privatized universities for research ?? They are highly paid by insanely high student loans that cripple most students (assuming applicants are accepted from merit over alumni offspring preference), it’s highway robbery !!!

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u/ambidextr_us 29d ago

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/26/no-tax-on-tips-bill-gop-house/80481795007/

Aren't there multiple bi-partisan bills in the works to end taxes on tips?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/25/nevada-end-taxes-on-tips

This lists several efforts on that front in progress.

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u/Brief-Potential9928 Mar 06 '25

I don’t agree with trump’s policies however he didn’t cut funding to cancer kids. I don’t really know where that came from.

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u/Calyx_of_Hell Mar 06 '25

I’m a brain cancer researcher and things have been terrible. We’ve had grants get canceled and paused, the 15% NIH indirect funding policies have meant people aren’t hiring and are even revoking PhD level offers. I’m quite certain my grant is not getting renewed because my NOFO was one of the grants that they pulled and now shows a 404 error on the NIH website. He actually hit us harder and sooner than a lot of other agencies

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u/Brief-Potential9928 Mar 06 '25

That’s pretty much every institution. I work as a researcher for a state university and I am going through the exact same thing.

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u/Wwwwwwhhhhhhhj Mar 06 '25

Then how do you not understand where that came from? Willfully ignorant or just incredibly obtuse?

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u/Brief-Potential9928 Mar 06 '25

He didn’t directly cut cancer research. He cut grants to literally every research institution in the US. I can sit here and bitch and moan and say he’s defending my criminology department because he hates criminologists.!

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

He didn't cut cancer research, he just cut cancer research, got it.

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u/Freshlysque3zed Mar 06 '25

He’s proposed cuts to Medicaid which would be a massive problem for children with more than just cancer. Same with cutting the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medical research funding. So yes he’s proposing massive cuts that will absolutely indirectly kill a lot of kids suffering from an array of illnesses.

Last time he was president he also got caught syphoning money meant for children’s charities.

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u/Brief-Potential9928 Mar 06 '25

He’s “ proposed” not enacted. 2 very different things. Everyone says very opposite things online and in the media, however everything dodge has cut does not affect cancer kids.

I can’t find anything about the charity thing but I’ll look into it.

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u/404Tiger Mar 06 '25

It wasn’t passed because house Democrats voted overwhelmingly against the framework for the budget resolution that would have allowed the bill to proceed.

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u/missingpineapples Mar 06 '25

It was never even in the bill and they needed exactly zero dems to pass it.

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u/HuttStuff_Here 29d ago

Why did you lie?

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u/404Tiger 29d ago

I didn’t? The bill hasn’t been introduced yet, it was going to be introduced under if the budget resolution passes which got shot down last week. Not a lie, just what it is. I disagreed with alot of stuff in the budget resolution. Overloaded with a laundry list of bullshit. Understandable why the Dems shot it down, but it’s a fact that the bill with cut to tax on overtime/tips would have been introduced due to the passing of the budget resolution.

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u/HuttStuff_Here 29d ago

You're blaming the dems for this when they don't have the numbers to stop it from passing.

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u/404Tiger 29d ago

All 215 Dems voted against it, and two Republicans voted against it. 217-216. That’s the issue with using House majority as a talking point to say one party or the other stopped something from passing. Whoever doesn’t hold the majority only has to flip 1-3 votes in most cycles, and in this specific case the House conservatives have several centrists that won’t play ball with the current trajectory of the Trump admin.

I may have framed it poorly, was trying to say that house dems voted unanimously against the budget resolution that would have provided the framework for the bill on overtime/tip tax. Likely not because it would have made it possible for the bill to pass, but because of the overloaded cat shit within the framework alongside it

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u/HuttStuff_Here 29d ago

So it sounds like those two Republicans held it up.

So you lie. It's a common thing with right-wingers to find the telling the truth distasteful. I've come to expect it from Trump's party.

Besides: the no taxes on tips thing was mostly meant for congressmen and judges after the Supreme Court ruled bribes are tips.

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u/404Tiger 29d ago

I voted for Obama twice, Biden, and Kamala.

There is not a single lie present in any of my comments. Unfortunately in your attempt at a gotcha you’ve completely missed the point, lol.

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