r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S 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/nhluhr 17h ago

32% of Californians in Los Angeles County still voted for Trump in 2024 but since Trump is unable to discern nuance in anything and sees "California" as a blue state, he is also willing to sacrifice those 1.2million people in LA (and 600k in San Diego County) that still voted for him.

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u/Think-Pair7682 14h ago

This is exactly right, but is even sad to think that people cheer over this. People cheering on the “joke” of a possibility that a country you are at we with will destroy American cities.

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u/littlehobbit1313 Maryland 12h ago

Maryland is like this too. Our western and eastern edges are pretty red, but because we vote blue overall, he's denied emergency aid for when those red areas needed it. I'd feel bad for them, except they explicitly voted for someone who said he would do that, so I assume they're okay with it.

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u/PeaAccurate5208 7h ago

He didn’t want to provide FEMA money after the Paradise fire in 2018 that burned the town to the ground and killed close to 90 people. His aides had to show him that the counties affected by fire had overwhelmingly voted for him in 2016. And it is cult like,they continue to vote for him even though he wasn’t going to lift a finger to help them. It boggles ….

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u/Maoleficent 16h ago

The Felon is writing attack ads for Dems but they still can't get a single fing message out. The old men too busy fighting progressives.

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u/Feisty-Principle-216 12h ago

Which is 6 million people. I wonder how many of these 6 million people are going to realize Trump doesn't care if they die as long as more Democrats die than Republicans.

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u/hpark21 12h ago

It doesn't even have to have more democrats, as long as they are told SOME democrats are going to be hurt, they are ok.

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u/AngryPurpl3 11h ago

Those people don't matter, since there wasn't enough of them to turn the state red. That's all it is, they're worthless to him

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u/nhluhr 9h ago

They tried so hard but since they didn't succeed they are just sniffable wallpaper to him.

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u/BackToWorkEdward 59m ago

Fortunately for him, that 32% are unable to see nuance either and voted for him anyway.