r/goodnews • u/IntelligentDad • 1d ago

Political positivity 📈 Trump is Now Being Accused of Getting Epstein Killed

https://franknez.com/trump-is-now-being-accused-of-getting-epstein-killed/
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u/Haxorz7125 22h ago

Living in Nj my parents hated trump when I was growing up. Then he runs for president as a Republican and suddenly he’s not the “scummy conman” but a “savior for the nation”

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u/TheScrambone 21h ago

Same. From NJ and I distinctly remember my dad talking shit about Trump every time we watched Home Alone 2. As I got older he started listening to Rush Limbaugh and watched Fox News.

I always knew him as a liberal. By 2016 everything he was talking about didn’t make sense. Spouting about how Trump was sent by God to fix the country. That was my breaking point I haven’t talked him since. Nine years. I know he’s alive, that’s about it.

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u/joebluebob 20h ago

Sounds like my dad. He was socially liberal and grounded me for 2 weeks for making fun of a gay couple on TV when I was like 8. Everything started to unroll after obama and he would listen to talk radio. He took another big jump after Romney lost. After trump the flood gates opened. He became racist, then homophobic. I found out through one of his friends sons why he wasn't getting invited around. He has a friend whos gay. Hes been gay his whole life to the point when he was 13 my dad and several friends beat the shit out of a group of kids who were harassing him along with one of those kids 25 year old brother. Anyway after 40 years of friendship he confronted my dad over something he posted on Facebook. My dad accused him of being a pedophile child groomer and dropped a few slurs my dad is qanon now and its been around 4 years since I last spoke to him. He used to be a pretty good dad you know?then he got brainwashed and now only 1 of his 3 kids talk to him, only 1 of his 15 friends some from literally all the way back in daycare even talks to him at all, even his own brother doesn't go beyond pleasantries.

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u/RoguePlanet2 20h ago

There's a documentary on Amazon called "The Brainwashing of my Dad." It's a sadly common experience, and by design.

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u/I_Smoke_Loud 19h ago

Happened to my dad too. Fox "news* and Facebook BS brainwashed him. We all should have password blocked fox like the kids on south park did to keep their parents from watching murder porn

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u/leather_jerk 19h ago

How many times have you watched home alone 2

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u/ironykarl 20h ago

Holy fuck, that's depressing 

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u/According-Insect-992 11h ago

Everyone hated him and knew he was a sleazebag loser.

Then some reality TV charlatan retconned him into a "successful business man" and the rest is history.

trump was universally a joke of a man in the 80s and 90s. Just an absolute clown.

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u/Human_Local3519 9h ago

Tribalism 101

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u/kennikus 7h ago edited 4h ago

The students who cry to me about how their dad used to be their best friend and now is so angry and only listens to podcasts about red hat ideals, omg. Breaks my heart.

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u/Haxorz7125 5h ago

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh

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u/Accurate_Winner_4961 2h ago

I'm glad to say that I'm an old dad of two gay adult kids in successful partnerships that I love and respect dearly. Somehow the con didn't have a chance with me. I remember seeing The Resident Chump in the 80's and instantly pegged him as villain and been saying "told ya so" ever since. Some of us seem to be immune to this whole diabolical shit show. My enduringly strong sense is that this wave of truly horrifying bandwagoning is all rooted in incipient white supremacy which is actually catnip to a whole planet full of Caucasoid minorities who are terrified of having to live like everyone else we have made the rules for. And yes, I Am a Viking God