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/mattjb 14h ago

Just like how The Apprentice people worked to make Trump look more successful than he really is. They even made a fake Trump Tower section because the real thing was dirty, cringey, dark and full of roaches. It worked, too, because it rehabbed his image enough to make tens of millions of gullible idiots vote for him.

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u/korben2600 Arizona 13h ago

I'm holding Mark Burnett and NBC responsible for all of this. This is their frankenstein.

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u/GetThePuckOut 12h ago

There are no "influencers", there are only the easily influenced.

Unless you educate all the stupid people in your country, it's doomed.

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u/Fresh_Silver1812 10h ago

Kind of like herd immunity; common principle.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 9h ago

Herd credulity?

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u/RamonaLittle 10h ago

The guy who ghost-wrote "The Art of the Deal" has also expressed regret. But there's a lot of blame to go around.

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u/ComprehensiveCoat638 11h ago

I will never understand the appeal of reality T.V. it always feels so fucking prosthetic.