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‘I voted for none of this!’ Trump-voting comedian unleashes scathing rant

www.rawstory.com ‘I voted for none of this!’ Trump-voting comedian unleashes scathing rant

Comedian Andrew Schulz voted for President Donald Trump — but he's fed up with the president now after months of broken promises, Fox News reported on Thursday.On the "Flagrant" podcast this week, Schulz explained that the major issues that caused him to break with Trump are the passage of his "big,...

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I can't understand how any of these idiots expected anything different from Trump. How could they possibly not see all of this coming, a mile away?
- These people are completely incapable of reading subtext.
  Or text for that matter. They only saw the headline ”Make America Great Again” and went for it.
  
  What subtext? It was clear what these assholes were about. And even if it wasn't, they were warned a gazillion times by literally everybody else.
  
  Saying that he will end war while also praising Putin and Bibi.
  Or that ” enemies from within” means people who disagree with him.
  Or when he says he understands tariffs more than anyone else, he probably don’t.
- They DID see it coming, but they thought they were part of the in-group that wouldn't be affected. A disturbingly large number of us Americans are A-OK with fascism because they think they'll reap the benefits with none of the downside. We love punishment when it happens to The Other.
  
  Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be  moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut

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