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Opinion: Here’s What I Learned From Trump’s Victory: I’m the Problem. It’s Me
The Daily Beast ^ | Nov 6, 2024 | Michael Ian Black

Posted on 11/06/2024 9:16:31 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Welp. I thought we were past this. I really did. I was wrong.

For the last years, my Twitter feed has been filled with MAGA trolls telling me that people like me “are the problem.” I never believed them. At least I didn’t until last night, when my nation confirmed it. Turns out, people like me really are the problem, and I must admit, as Donald Trump begins the process of assuming his second presidency, that I don’t know what to do about it.

The thing is, people like me don’t want to believe that half of my countrymen support the things Donald Trump supports. We thought four years of corruption, lies, ineptitude, graft, and cruelty cured our dalliance with our authoritarianism. Turns out the following four years of recovery only whetted their appetite.......

What do my fellow Americans envision mass deportations are going to look like? A country that only 80 years ago locked 120,000 people into internment camps are now going to do the same to millions? This is what my fellow Americans just voted for. Unless they don’t really believe he’ll do it. In which case they’re voting for somebody they believe is lying to them. Forgive me, I don’t understand.......

People like me feel foolish today. Not because we lost an election, but because we put our faith in those stupid higher ideals that founded our nation. I know, I know. Trump supporters will say the same, and both of us will believe that the other side misread those same, stupid founding documents. But when I read the opening of the Constitution, I don’t read it in the voice of Donald J. Trump. I hear it in the voices of my immigrant grandparents and great-grandparents.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: braindead; dailybeast; demagogicparty; demagogue; maga; michaelianblack; trump
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Obviously a globalist that doesn't understand those of was wanting to be left alone to live free from an overreaching government.
1 posted on 11/06/2024 9:16:31 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Get a clue dumbass, it’s a repudiation of all things woke.....that and nobody wants millions of illegal aliens bringing their crime and disease here.


2 posted on 11/06/2024 9:17:35 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

And they still don’t get it.


3 posted on 11/06/2024 9:20:54 AM PST by Dave911
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
It's a case of we don't want to be living in the world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: an elite class, a gigantic serf class and endless wars.
4 posted on 11/06/2024 9:21:26 AM PST by RayChuang88 (.FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Dear Michael Ian Black

Leave the country. You are free to go anytime. It sounds like Cuba, China or North Korea maybe more to your likening.


5 posted on 11/06/2024 9:22:55 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Really dumb article.


6 posted on 11/06/2024 9:23:19 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: RayChuang88

I am stealing this statement by you.


7 posted on 11/06/2024 9:23:59 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So sad. The world’s smallest violin plays for him. 🎻


8 posted on 11/06/2024 9:24:50 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: V_TWIN

Exactly! I’m tired of the left lying, cheating and stealing with no consequences for it.


9 posted on 11/06/2024 9:25:18 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“We thought four years of corruption, lies, ineptitude, graft, and cruelty cured our dalliance with our authoritarianism.”

That’s the reason why Trump was elected. To put an end to the corruption, lies, ineptitude, graft, cruelty, and authoritarianism.


10 posted on 11/06/2024 9:25:55 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Here's your problem...

We thought four years of corruption, lies, ineptitude, graft, and cruelty cured our dalliance with our authoritarianism. Turns out the following four years of recovery only whetted their appetite.......

You live in a Bizarro World where everything is opposite. NONE of what you believe is true.

11 posted on 11/06/2024 9:26:13 AM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why post an opinion of an idiot? Why pollute the pristine landscape of the Free Republic ideas-sharing space (at least today...) with some pseudo-intellectual garbage?


12 posted on 11/06/2024 9:26:19 AM PST by exinnj
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yeah, this “my problem is that I’m too good for this world” is exactly the kind of introspection they need.


13 posted on 11/06/2024 9:27:09 AM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Don't worry, Mike.

Schlep over to Touchdown Timmy's house.

He'll give you a "back massage", you little crybaby faggot.

14 posted on 11/06/2024 9:27:42 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: V_TWIN

We were this close to Directive 10-289.


15 posted on 11/06/2024 9:28:45 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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A country that only 80 years ago locked 120,000 people into internment camps are now going to do the same to millions?

Psst, Michael - that was your kids.

16 posted on 11/06/2024 9:30:25 AM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: exinnj

To put forth that maybe all dems are not evil, some may just know so much that isn’t so (per RR).


17 posted on 11/06/2024 9:32:04 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: exinnj
Why post an opinion of an idiot? Why pollute the pristine landscape of the Free Republic ideas-sharing space (at least today...) with some pseudo-intellectual garbage?

Cause their tears taste so nummy. OM NOM NOM NOM. Today is absolutely the day to post this stuff
18 posted on 11/06/2024 9:32:11 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: Dave911

Proverbs 26;11.

And they never will.


19 posted on 11/06/2024 9:32:25 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What Mr. Black needs to understand is that President-elect Trump is a true patriot who loves the United States of America and will do everything he can to make life better for all Americans.


20 posted on 11/06/2024 9:32:46 AM PST by rwa265
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