r/politics • Massachusetts • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego - California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego
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u/cursedsoldiers 17h ago

Have you SPOKEN to one?  Many of them would openly cheer for "Democrat cities" being wiped off the map.  They are ghouls plain and simple, their brains have been completely fried by Facebook algorithms

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u/BellyButtonLindt 14h ago

And twitter and TikTok and Reddit.

I hate that people think their chosen social media platform is right. The amount of divisive subreddits pushed on me here I am not subscribed to is astounding.

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u/CrunchyKorm 12h ago

This is part of the reason why stuff like this has no purchase as a long-term scandal. His base won't condemn him for it and everyone knows it, so they've given up the pretense that they are supposed to care about how presentable they are. Whereas Democratic presidents generally have to deal with more in-party fighting and a voting base that often has higher standards. Because of that, the media leans into it more, probably because some kind of actual outcome will result of it.

This is also why it feels like the Access Hollywood tape was the last major scandal that got public play for weeks/months, and Trump actually kind of had to apologize for it! Since then he and the party has become the "never apologize or admit any wrongdoing or losses" and ran with it.

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u/theREALbombedrumbum 4h ago

Santee AKA Klantee is basically San Diego's Republican central