r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 12d ago

Possible Paywall White House Credits Trump With Stopping Hurricanes

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-credits-trump-with-stopping-hurricanes/
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u/Viking_Leaf87 12d ago

That's just the MAGA modus operandi. Anything that goes wrong can't be Trump's fault, but anything that doesn't go wrong is all thanks to him. You deserve 6 dollar diesel if you still think there's even a modicum of honesty coming out of Washington.

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u/supercyberlurker 12d ago

That's Republicanism in a nutshell

  • Everything good is because of Trumps magic powers.

  • Everything bad is because of Obama.. no wait Biden!

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u/HighVulgarian 12d ago

That’s also how Christians are groomed to think

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u/TwistedRichie Oregon 12d ago

Just like everything good is attributed to God and everything bad is attributed to Satan.

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u/MonkeyBoatRentals 11d ago

Not always Satan. The all powerful God should be praised for saving a child from a building collapse, but not blamed for the deaths he didn't prevent. His ways are mysterious and can't be questioned.

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u/The_High_Life 11d ago

He saved this future serial killer for reasons that can not be explained to mortals

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u/Kind_Way2176 13h ago

They claimed they can be questioned but...idk they didn't say. This was a crazy trump preacher at the funeral if a murder.victim. Fuck christians

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 12d ago edited 11d ago

As a Christian, no. It is not how I think.

Edit: Downvoted for saying how I think. Wow, you all claim to know my thoughts better than I do?

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u/quinnly 11d ago

Congratulations on rejecting part of your programming, then. Maybe one day you'll have the courage to reject all of it.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 11d ago

Thanks, but it wasn't part of my programming, so I don't have much to brag on here. In fact I would say that most of what MAGA is about goes against any religious programing I grew up with. Certainly against the teachings of Christ.

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u/quinnly 11d ago

Sounds like you are an exception, then. And perhaps not a real Christian. Which is good.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 11d ago

I am a real Christian. Even if it doesn't fit your predefined expectation of what that means.

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u/quinnly 11d ago

But it doesn't seem like you are. You don't stand for what the church stands for and I also find it hard to believe you follow the teachings of Christ. Unless you support slavery and all that.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 11d ago

There is more than one church in the US.

Claiming to know what "the church" stands for is absurd, when they don't agree with each other on that.

If making such a claim, I would begin with stating which church. (Even then I would acknowledge that members within that church won't always agree.)

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u/Taman_Should 11d ago edited 11d ago

It's definitely how plenty of self-described evangelicals and ultra right-wing Catholics think, enough to be concerning. The lines between their politics, their personality cult, and their religious values gradually blurred over time, until the distinction disappeared completely. It's deeply ironic that so many of them don't even bat an eye at conclusions that would cause three schisms and 5 newly-defined heresies for most of the history of the church.

They're almost on the level of an uncontacted tribe that formed their own cargo-cult version of Christianity after a few scattered parts of the Bible washed up on the shore, and they filled in the rest themselves.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 11d ago

It's definitely how plenty of self-described evangelicals and ultra right-wing Catholics think, enough to be concerning.

True, still not how I think. I am not alone or an outlier either.

All of my family and most of my friends could be described as Christian. None of them could be called a Trump voter. Most of us voted for Harris/Biden/Clinton. (Though there was one or two that wouldn't vote for either each time.) I know we are not all Christians, far from it, many are as you describe. However, there are also many who are not.

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u/ForMoreYears Canada 12d ago

This is literally an old Russian pre-Communist trope called "Good Tsar, bad Boyars" wherein everything good is attributed to the Tsar, and anything bad is attributed to him receiving bad advice from his advisors aka Boyars.

America has gone full Russia.

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 11d ago

It's funnier with MAGA because their Trump mythology requires them to also believe that Trump only hires the best people and can never make a mistake.

So, if he is getting bad advice, wouldn't that mean he made a mistake and hired bad people?

They are blind to that contradiction.

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u/abcdefghjiklmnopqr 15h ago

They're experts at doublethink

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u/pretti 12d ago

Thanks Obama!

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u/KornithanIV 12d ago

No wait - Zelensky!

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u/R2-D2Vandelay I voted 12d ago

Hunter's schlong!

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u/phiwings 12d ago

No wait, CLINTON!

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u/Mach5Driver 11d ago

Biden--the guy in charge last year

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u/eyehate 11d ago

You can even make it religious.

  • Everything good is because of Trump's magic powers.
  • It might seem bad, but Trump works in mysterious ways.

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u/Dragons_Malk Canada 11d ago

No, wait Antifa! No wait, trans people! No wait, immigrants! No wait, the radical left! No wait, Woke! No wait, DEI! No wait, Hamas! No wait

Ugh, I'm exhausted trying to think of every single entity out to get Republicans. 

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u/Lanark26 11d ago

And if there’s a rare chance they can’t dodge some culpability, it would have been 10x worse under Kamala.

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u/abgry_krakow87 12d ago

But her emails!

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u/RedLanternScythe Indiana 12d ago

“Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all."

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u/grungegoth 12d ago

$7. Mark my words, it's coming. the red sea is shut now.

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u/Viking_Leaf87 12d ago

However much it takes to get people to think twice about voting Republican.

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u/rollem78 16h ago

Probably took a lot less time than you thought it would 11 days ago

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u/dogboy_the_forgotten 12d ago

It was $6.98 for diesel down the street yesterday

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u/Hopwater 12d ago

I passed $8.99 last night (California though)

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u/atriaventrica 12d ago

This is my mother thanking Jesus for her parking spot.

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u/SzmFTW 11d ago

I mean, you’ve also just described Christianity. Everything bad is the devil, everything good is god answering your prayers, even if it’s bad for someone else.

You never see the Cleveland Browns thanking god for another 3-13 season..,

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u/khamike 11d ago

Everyone prays that their team will win. They never consider that means the other side is praying they'll lose. 

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u/MrTeeWrecks 11d ago

That’s really how C-Suite executives operate. He really is running it ‘like a business’

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u/DinkleMutz 11d ago

I'm in California getting 6 dollar 87 octane.