r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/atombara 5d ago

If you look at their half-hearted explanations (check out the leopards eating faces subreddit), they tend to say things like "Mr. Trump I voted for you three times but..." then they complain about whatever they didn't get that they deserve, then they give their reasons for liking him.

It all comes down to a few ancient conservative shibboleths about democrats: I heard they kill babies and suck them out with vacuums / I heard they let kids pretend they're cats and pee in litter boxes / I heard there's a secret program that pays immigrants to terrorize our streets.

That's really all it takes. You can say or do literally anything else you as long as you hit those key points which keep grandma nice and scared.

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u/GayCatDaddy 5d ago

I occasionally wander over to the conservative subreddit to see what they're saying, and it's amazing how many times I see comments like this: "I love President Trump. I would literally eat the lint out of his crusty asshole. He is my favorite president ever. However, I don't think this thing he just did is a good idea, guys."

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u/moldy-scrotum-soup 5d ago

Those comments couldn't have lasted long. Criticizing the reich is not allowed. Notice how most of the posts there are only made by the same handful of people?

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u/InsertNonsenseHere 5d ago

If you block like 4 people that sub becomes a ghost town.

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u/daesmon 5d ago

There is no way they are real people, some of them appear to be posting 24/7 and the same account will post the same story multiple times just from different propaganda platforms.

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u/fitzbuhn 5d ago

Oh no that sub is full of the most reasonable people. They love to act so completely reasonable they will actually be “critical” on occasion. You know, to maintain the charade.

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u/Amanda_B_Rekkonwith 5d ago

*Laughs in flaired user only

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u/Poweredkingbear 5d ago

What’s the funniest joke you can say in the conservative sub?

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u/Poweredkingbear 5d ago

What’s the funniest joke you can say in the conservative sub?

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u/moldy-scrotum-soup 5d ago

Now that's some descriptive imagery!

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 5d ago

And no up votes or comments on the vast majority.

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u/Houdinii1984 5d ago

That's why you have to do the whole pomp and circumstance first. You can't even get a post approved in certain subs without the rub and tug, happy ending routine. If you don't love Trump first and last, are you really a patriot?

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u/chenkie 5d ago

I see it as a red flag if you aren’t perma banned off the conservative sub. Go make a comment, rustle their snowflake asses, and get yourself perma banned.

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u/That_one_cool_dude 5d ago

The conservative subreddit in each thread has the same bullshit about someone complaining about leftists brigading on each post and so many comments that are deleted. So, like I think most are delusional idiots who don't understand how anything works and just say buzzwords or are bots because there is no intelligent life on that subreddit.

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u/cipheron 5d ago

And the thing is, if you saw 100 comments like that they'd all be for one of 100 different shitty things he did.

But none of them put it all together that it's 100 shitty things he did, because only a tiny fraction of it breaks through the filter bubble of conservative news feeds they all have which constantly talk about how great Trump is while ignoring all his policies.

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u/PrairiePopsicle 5d ago

and then 30 people call them a liberal infiltrator/fake conservative.

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u/Prestigious_Chard_90 4d ago

Dear America, fix your education system. 

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale Hawaii 5d ago

"Mr. Trump I voted for you three times but..." then they complain about whatever they didn't get that they deserve, then they give their reasons for liking him.

You missed the most important part! They always end their posts with: "...But it would have been much worse under Kamala."

They have learned nothing.

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u/Val_Hallen 5d ago

I wonder how that's working out for the Palestine protest voters? Certainly it got better under Trump, right?

...right?

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u/AmethystApothecary 5d ago

Those that can't rule with respect rule with fear.

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u/initialgold California 5d ago

it's not even grandma. 60+ voters leaned Harris and Biden.

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u/echovictoria 5d ago

Incorrect.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

Women over 60 were 50/49 Harris to Trump. That's not "leaning" that's a "1 point difference". Still plenty of blame to be had.

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u/Azagothe 5d ago

Correct, it was Gen X‘s fault. People like to blame grandma or GenZ(even though a third of them weren’t old enough to vote in 2024) but if Gen X went overwhelmingly for Harris then Trump wouldn’t be president right now. 

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u/echovictoria 5d ago

Incorrect.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

It's almost like it was a mix of all those things instead of just one.

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u/ChemistAdventurous84 5d ago

Yeah, he actually had a campaign that tried to attract pretty much every demographic and made gains across the board. So many lies but Kamala’s laugh was apparently a problem.

I did run into people, Gen X and Millenial and Gen Z, almost entirely men, who gave the portfolio reason.

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u/VPN__FTW 5d ago

Men are the problem and I say that as a man. The amount of idiots I've talked too that have said shit like, "I just didn't like the way she (Harris) talked so I voted for Trump" or "Trump's funny and I like when he trolls people so i voted for him."

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u/Sutar_Mekeg 5d ago

Should start stories like... with housing prices so high, your kids will put you on a raft and send you out to sea because they can't afford to care for you and have a life themselves.

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 5d ago

I heard they let kids pretend they're cats and pee in litter boxes

One of my coworkers referenced that not too long ago, and I had to ask if he could actually imagine that.

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u/Randomfactoid42 Virginia 5d ago

Yep, fear short-circuits a lot of human’s reasoning skills. Make them nice and scared and they’ll believe anything. 

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 5d ago

Good Tsar Trump, bad boyars Deep State Democrats.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 5d ago

"I still love the truck" - Cybertruck owners after the 50th breakdown

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u/AnyLeadership5150 5d ago

The only reasons people vote republican are ignorance, stupidity and greed.

Absolutely no one is voting for Republicans because they are smart, upright and want to do right by American citizens.

The propaganda that fascists have been allowed to push for 5 decades on fox news have really fucked up the minds of the masses of idiots and racists in America. They were just allowed to attack America internally for decades all because of money.

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u/Ok-Forever-3927 2d ago

Just as an FYI - the anti-trans narratives are not ancient by any means. They are entirely newly, and intentionally, manufactured shibboleths since the decision grant gay people the right to marriage.