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Welp, Donald Trump’s America Has Made Me a Conservative
The Daily Beast ^ | Jul. 3 2025 | Michael Ian Black

Posted on 07/03/2025 1:02:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 07/04/2025 3:14:15 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

I’m a conservative now, I guess? It’s a surprising turn of events for me, a man once referred to, repeatedly and affectionately, by the late Sen. John McCain as a communist. He wasn’t too far off—for as long as I’ve been old enough to wear Birkenstocks, I’ve been a supporter of liberal causes and candidates. As a kid, my favorite record was the feminist children’s album, Free To Be You and Me. I’m a vegetarian, for God’s sake! Everything in me rebels against institutional power.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: agitprop; arizona; dailybeast; johnmccain; michaelianblack
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Public education? The U.S. spends more money, and get's worse education than anywhere else? Approving of that is child abuse.
1 posted on 07/03/2025 1:02:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

This guy is trying to argue that conserving the status quo is “conservative”. I don’t think he mentioned the Constitution once.


2 posted on 07/03/2025 1:09:06 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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me, a man once referred to, repeatedly and affectionately, by the late Sen. John McCain as a communist. He wasn’t too far off—for as long as I’ve been old enough to wear Birkenstocks. I’ve been a supporter of liberal causes and candidates...

AHA! Straight from the horse's mouth. Liberals are Communists.

3 posted on 07/03/2025 1:10:04 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“It’s a trap! Don’t fall for it, Jim”


4 posted on 07/03/2025 1:11:01 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Does he know what that is?


5 posted on 07/03/2025 1:11:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Reading the excerpt from Michael I’m Black does not make me want to read more. What a snotty jerk!


6 posted on 07/03/2025 1:11:57 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: nickcarraway

Stick to television, Michael. You may think your article funny irony, but its banal, uninspired and has been done many times before.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 1:13:00 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: nickcarraway

https://dnyuz.com/2025/07/03/opinion-welp-donald-trumps-america-has-made-me-a-conservative/


8 posted on 07/03/2025 1:13:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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"I’m a conservative now, I guess, because I believe in the social compact? Because I believe in such a thing as “the public good.”

Dude is giving away a ton of work to declare this-- a middle finger in Hollyweird's face. Deal with it.

9 posted on 07/03/2025 1:18:04 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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He certainly does want to conserve the Marxist social order that he helped to create.


10 posted on 07/03/2025 1:18:31 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Recovering_Democrat

When little Mike denounces Mahmdani I might wonder. But just, no. You are not conservative Mr. Black. Find a new job, you suck at comedy.


11 posted on 07/03/2025 1:19:17 PM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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He admits he wants everything Trump has cut…..globalism….big govt waste and fraud. He conveniently forgets how badly these institutions actually have been run for a very long time. They have been supported…. Far too much far too often. Theyre dogs…. Losers…. Inefficient grift factories. He wants to preserve the silly nonsense that has got us in this bind were in…. not conserve whats left of a good thing.


12 posted on 07/03/2025 1:19:39 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: nickcarraway

Welcome sir now work to make America even better.


13 posted on 07/03/2025 1:19:42 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: StAnDeliver

One, he’s saying he’s a Joe Biden “conservative”. That’s not going to lose him any work in Hollywood.

Two, he hasn’t been working that much lately, so far as I know.


14 posted on 07/03/2025 1:22:05 PM PDT by x
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It’s clickbait to smear Trump. He’s a snob and a communist, defending the IRS.


15 posted on 07/03/2025 1:27:17 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: ChessExpert

I’d like to know what Mikey thinks of that rapist pig Harvey Weinstein.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 1:28:47 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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“we engaged in exactly the kind of respectful but passionate conversation all of us good little libs have been encouraged to have with our Trump-supporting friends and neighbors.”

Right after you spit in their face? Total horseshit.


17 posted on 07/03/2025 1:29:01 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: nickcarraway

I doubt it.


18 posted on 07/03/2025 1:29:22 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Truthsearcher

He’s just another limousine socialist.


19 posted on 07/03/2025 1:31:56 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Okay, Mikey. I guess I can play your game. How’s this?

I must be a liberal. If being a liberal means you want to liberate the country from the tyranny of authoritarian and redistributive economic policy, if being a liberal means liberating the country from the scourge of open borders, trans insanity, woke DEI ideology and moving towards a merit based society - then I guess I’m a liberal.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 1:40:02 PM PDT by mbrfl
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