Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class
Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class
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Opinion | Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class
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You have to be a really special kind of stupid to ever have believed that a billionaire conman is “for” anyone but himself.
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A sentiment also expressed in this meme: https://i.imgflip.com/1eyu8h.jpg
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He's a carpetbagger. Always was. I hope people are finally waking up to that.
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Not to be pedantic, but he really isn't a carpetbagger. I mean, he's absolutely the type, but "carpetbagger" specifically refers to a politician who moves into a geographical area to run for office. The carpetbag was a type of cheap suitcase, meant to conjure the image of a hurried relocation for personal gain. In that sense, a carpetbagger is an opportunist and egocentric, which definitely describes Trump. And he did move from New York to Florida, but he never ran for local office as a Floridian. He was elected President, and is running for that office again. He's always been from the United States. He could just as easily run for president out of New York or New Jersey or New Mexico. His political identity isn't related to where he lives.
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I thought carpetbagging explicitly meant what you said, but moving to reconstruction south from one of the union states.
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Thank you for your
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Yeah! Let's stick to just calling him a complete bellend!
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Yeah, for a better example of carpetbagging (and juicing some guy's beetle in public) we have Lauren Bobo.
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Why is the New York Times just waking up to that? They're supposed to be a news organization.
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All the news corps, are corps.
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his presidency already showed this
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But mah gas prices
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Soooo.... His base is like 10 billionaires now? That's a winning ticket.
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And a whole lot of serfs that just love their master, while saying they do it for freedom.
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Based on the number of flags, yard signs, car decals and dipshits wearing shirts/hats I still see on a daily bases, his base may be getting smaller, but it's still full of devoted cultists
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He doesn't pretend to have anyone's best interest in mind but his own. Why people don't see that, or worse support those aims, is beyond me.
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Great story of how Trump tried to get in good with the Manhattan elites. He'd been given a golden opportunity to impress them, and threw it away through stupidity, greed, and arrogance.
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That was a great read
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I love the twist appearance by John Barron
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Counter argument.
Trump did a press conference next to some breakfast sausages yesterday, and he promised to give me cheaper sausages.
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They’re not going to be Jimmy Dean, exactly, but he’ll flood the market with cheaper James Dean sausages. Live fast, die young.
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The way they were placed sounded more like a product placement.
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Watch for what he does and ask why? Notice he's also trying to make a case for stealing the election. Connect the dots...
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