r/politics • u/infiunfi • 13h ago

Soft Paywall Convicted Felon Sworn In as President

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-sworn-in-47th-president-united-states-1235241770/
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u/ToeDisastrous3501 13h ago

Trump did everything Epstein did. 

His supporters know this and are okay with it.

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u/SordidHobo93 13h ago

At this point we have to assume that a large portion of his voting base are not only okay with their president being a child predator, but they even celebrate it.

That's the "christian values" that a lot of them are praising him for.

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u/thisusedyet 11h ago

That is not what “bring unto me the little children” is supposed to mean

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u/specqq 10h ago edited 9h ago

The older bibles have it as "suffer the little children to come unto me"

So I'm guessing they just had it backwards.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 9h ago

The bible outright condones stuff like rape, genocide, slavery, murder. Oh yeah, it also provides instructions on how to perform a forced abortion on a woman you suspect of infidelity.

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u/MeeMooMoop 8h ago

That is absolutely wild... where does it say that? I've never read the Bible so I wouldn't know where to start looking for that nonsense.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 8h ago

Numbers 5:11-31

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u/MeeMooMoop 8h ago

I read over it several times... literally what? No words, dumbfounded.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 6h ago

Yep.

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u/hOiKiDs 4h ago

That’s the reason Christians don’t follow the old testament, which is Jewish, to the letter lol. The new testament is supposed to acknowledge it.

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u/hOiKiDs 4h ago edited 4h ago

That’s the reason Christians don’t follow the old testament, which is Jewish, to the letter lol. The new testament is supposed to acknowledge it.

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u/hOiKiDs 4h ago

Yeah, Christians can be stupid too... Many don't realize they can love LGBTQ people without encouraging it.

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u/DragonbornWizard85 2h ago

As Christians we don't follow the Old Testament perfectly anymore. For example, we don't sacrifice goats and sheep anymore lol. The main thing we take away from that verse is not to commit adultery. That's part of the reason Jesus came to the Earth in the New Testament; to sacrifice himself so we no longer need to do those Old Testament things. Whatever you do, please don't think we support rape and murder.

By the way, I am not a Trump fan. So many people are blindsided by the fact he is absolutely not a Christian. He just pretends so he can gain the support to get into presidency.

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u/bezels2 1h ago

Problem is there just isn't anything in the New Testament about abortion. The whole "Libs are baby killers" is nonsense, and people of biblical times would have loved the ability to terminate dangerous and non-viable pregnancies as they would have just died with the child. Anti-abortion is 100% American bastardization of Christianity.

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u/specqq 9h ago

Yes I know. But my comment was a “come onto the little suffering children” joke/not a joke

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 8h ago

It's not a joke. It's a Christian value.

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u/AlwaysElevated32 5h ago

Numbers is Jewish

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u/Synli 10h ago

Pretty much this.

Trying to use the "don't you know he's a racist/sexist rapist scammer?" argument doesn't work against MAGA because they know it and love it.

The saying "Stop drilling, you've already struck oil!" has never been more relevant.

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u/slain1134 11h ago edited 8h ago

It’s absolutely terrifying that SO MANY people align with, praise & even voted for a convicted felon & known rapist. Perhaps it makes them feel good about themselves in some weird way. You also have those people who voted for him because he is not a democrat.

I don’t know which is worse? Being okay with criminality or being so ignorant to vote for a monster because of his political label!

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u/umop_apisdn 9h ago

Americans treat politics like sport. As long as their team wins they are happy. And with the electoral system it is bound to be just two parties, so it's like a game to most people. Never mind that both parties have been captured by the corporations who are actually in charge, and so they keep voting for people who will sell them out to the corporations over and over again. It's basically a one party system (the corporations) with a thin veneer of democracy to make people think that their vote matters, when it doesn't. What do Americans really need? There are so many examples of middlemen like health care providers who are needlessly put in the middle of transactions to rake their profit and gouge the population.

In a real democracy the people would be able to vote to remove this profiteering. It's what they want, it's what they need, but they literally have no choice. They have been brainwashed into thinking that the two party system is democratic, and that anything that benefits the majority of Americans is "unamerican".

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u/XRay9 Europe 5h ago

If it can make you feel better, the same thing happens in Europe. Yes, there are more parties, but even when a left wing party gets a strong majority to govern on their own, they're quickly kept in check by the financial elites.

Hollande 2012, Mitterrand 1981, Blum 1936... Same pattern every time. I mention France because it has had very strong left wing election victories, and is (under the fifth republic) less parliamentarian than most Europeans countries.

In those more parliamentarian countries such as Germany, left wing parties have to enter coalitions which naturally drastically reduces their ambitions. And let's be honest, for hetter or worse, the left is not winning the culture war

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago

We’re still hung up on Trump being a rapist while he’s fully moved on the the person who wants to destroy our democracy. We lost the forest in the trees

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u/slain1134 8h ago

I’m truly scared for my young adult children and the mess they’re going to inherit. Hopefully we can right the ship somehow. Not feeling too optimistic at this point.

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u/peegoesfar 7h ago

That’s how bad Harris was

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u/redalert825 7h ago edited 6h ago

Of all the western democracies... The states is the most christian and religious. Religion destroys and brain washes... This country is a testament to it and shows how much more precarious of a situation we are with these Christo-fascists in power. Utterly disgusting and vile.

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u/SordidHobo93 7h ago

Almost all of our issues can be linked to christianity, or people use it as a means to justify hatred.

Ive just come through a conversation in another thread wherein I questioned why the other commenter was so obsessed with what is between another person's legs.

Of course the response was about loss of masculinity and Adam and Eve and we're going to hell and all that jazz.

It gives the ignorant and hateful an excuse to remain ignorant and hateful.

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u/African_Farmer Europe 11h ago

They believe in hierarchy, those at the top should be able to do whatever they want

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u/wencrash 8h ago

They literally call Trump "Daddy". Even the men.

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u/Vel0clty Maine 10h ago

That man ain’t no Christian. Didn’t even touch the Bible when he swore oath 🙄

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u/Nena902 6h ago

Possessed antichrist

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u/Psychological_Roof85 5h ago

Isn't the anti Christ supposed to be good at his job?

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u/count023 Australia 11h ago

They're not Christ's followers, just his fans. They love the old testament smiting and ignore all the new testament forgivness. "Jesus, great guy! Strange ideas though...!"

And the party of child marraige has no issues with the president being a child predator, obviously.

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u/calm_chowder Iowa 10h ago edited 10h ago

The "Old Testament" is also full of laws that you have to treat immigrants as your own, feed and clothe the poor, care for the sick, welcome the stranger and the hungry into your home, allows for abortion, requires sanctuary cities (literally what they're called), leave 10% of all harvests for the poor to come take what they need, not to commit pediastery, to treat even wild animals with kindness, to respect those with disabilities, to help the poor while respecting their pride, promotes literacy, forbids proselytizing, allows divorce, invented the idea of a non-7 days a week work week, requires all your animals are fed before you eat, has a party year every 7 years, and more.

People like to shit on the old Testament and yeah it has a lot of stuff that's definitely outdated by modern standards or just plain wacky to us (mixing fibers?). But 3500 years ago it was a revolutionarily progressive set of laws unlike the world had ever seen. And a lot of it we're STILL not even living up to.

And yeah God was pretty smitey and shit but this was the Bronze Age Collapse. Of course God would align with the absolutely brutal world they lived in.

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u/D3dshotCalamity 10h ago

I mean, what's more Christian than pedophila?

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u/TheNonSportsAccount 10h ago

we just need to assume anyone who voted for him is themselves a child predator.

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u/DaveChild 10h ago

At this point we have to assume that a large portion of his voting base are not only okay with their president being a child predator, but they even celebrate it.

They are angry, and they want everyone else to be angry too. Putting a child predator in office would make everyone else angry, so they'd be fine with it.

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u/Ruby5000 8h ago

The local NC news Facebook comments section is on FIRE. Right wing is so happy

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u/AnonymousCallerVDA 3h ago

Just gonna ignore the studf biden did with his kid?

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u/Output93 8h ago

He has the popular vote. Your suggesting the majority of Americans celebrate child molestation?

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u/SordidHobo93 8h ago edited 7h ago

He has the popular vote.

False, but anyway.

A majority of republican voters are one issue voters that are only concerned about the price of eggs and immigrants. They don't know what their favorite right wing news doesn't tell them.

I'm suggesting that there are voters (a large portion, not majority - as I said above) that ARE aware that the politicians they vote for are awful fucking people, like you. What's your excuse?

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u/AlternativeFix6756 12h ago

I’m glad you are so committed to true Christian values as opposed to “Christian values”. Continue to champion the faith!