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Originally Posted By Frank_B: Welcome aboard! I was for him from the get-go, because I had read his "The Art Of The Deal" several years earlier. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/77848071920e8e41ee5787820cfe4e3d16d55842/c=0-59-640-421&r=x633&c=1200x630/local/-/media/2017/01/13/INGroup/Indianapolis/636198984009306480-011517.jpg View Quote Second of all... I grew up in Queens NY... I know Trump (not personally)... When he won in 2016, I told my wife "OH SHIT! This country is not ready for Trump" I was right! NOW.... This country is ready for Trump. |
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Always, there was no other candidate that could have won and endured what he has dealt with
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I was for Cruz originally and Trump scared me. The guy seemed unhinged and unpredictable.
After his first week in office, I was a believer. He's one of the very few politicians that doesn't deserve to be hanging from a lamp post. |
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Originally for Cruz . Trump showed the way . The Bushes outed themselves. No more uniparty. Here we are .
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I’d still like to Make America Florida but Trump continues to have all the right enemies, so four (more) years of MAGA ahead for me.
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on the one hand there's [the media] and on the other hand there's the left wing progressives, and you can't really put them in the same camp that easily - JBP
Well, hopefully we will be putting them 'in the same camp' - Michael Malice |
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan
"Everything I want to do is illegal." - Joel Salatin |
Nvm
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Always on the Trump Train!! Choo-Choo!!
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Originally Posted By shaggy: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/5475/trump_jpg-3373076.JPG View Quote Like!! |
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Originally Posted By saigamanTX: I think a lot of us grow up with that mindset. With W it was the war in Iraq. I had a lot of good friends in school go over and come back fucked up. Just like my dad went to Vietnam and came back fucked up. It soured me a lot on the Republican party. Looking back my hatred was on the old guard Rino side of the gop which thankfully seems to be dying slowly. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By saigamanTX: Originally Posted By tveddy: I understand. I grew up similar and my first presidential vote ever was for al fucking gore. I fortunately voted republican every time since Don't forget democrats supported the war in the beginning too, they just turned and used it as a political weapon later. They are every bit as much pro war and these days more so. |
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Originally Posted By Homernomer: Most people don't blindly follow a party. Not everyone is exhausting. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Homernomer: Originally Posted By saigamanTX: Originally Posted By Jacon: Thanks for voting Trump, but youre exhausting. Most people don't blindly follow a party. Not everyone is exhausting. I don't blindly follow Republicans, but there is zero reason anyone should support the democrat party in any form. It is a party of evil and tyranny. If you want to vote libertarian, write in, or stay home whatever. But nobody with a brain should vote for a democrat. |
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Originally Posted By JustinU235: I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, but he began losing me with the bump stock band and that terrible debate just before the 2020 election, and then with his election denialism. I was not going to vote for Trump in 2024 until they tried to assassinate him, twice. Maybe that's a stupid reason to suddenly vote for him, but it is the reason I came back 2 days ago. FWIW View Quote I have some issues with how it was handled, but I do think there is enough doubt and circumstantial evidence combined with the blatant obvious disregard for election law in many states that denying the election was legit is appropriate in my opinion. |
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Originally Posted By Flushdraw: I was for Cruz originally and Trump scared me. The guy seemed unhinged and unpredictable. After his first week in office, I was a believer. He's one of the very few politicians that doesn't deserve to be hanging from a lamp post. View Quote I was exactly the same. It took me about a year to see what an amazing job he was doing during his first term. After that, I was totally sold. |
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Yes , I was on team trump since he announced. Not because I thought he’d be great but because he was hilarious. Then he became great to me. But I’m also the guy who was watching tv in a 7-11 on J6 laughing my ass off hoping that the protesters pulled off an 1812 lol
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In 2016 I started out in favor of Rand Paul. He got zero traction in the media and dropped out almost immediately.
I went to some "find your best-fitting candidate" website (yeah I know) and played 20 questions with it until it gave me my "match". It was Trump. After that, reading his positions, I was all in favor of him, especially on immigration and H-1B. He was the ONLY candidate who talked about restricting H-1B visas to talented immigrants whose skills were actually needed, instead of being the flood-the-market-with-cheap-indentured-serf-labor scam that it has been under every other president. The website was probably a complete fraud, and may have even been part of the Hillary campaign's "pied piper strategy" gaslighting -- remember the DNC leaks, when it turned out Hillary was so scared of Jeb! that her campaign instructed the media to push Trump, Cruz, and Carson as "the only electable Republicans"? LOL! -- but that scam sure backfired on that bitch and got us a flawed but great president. For 2024 I was initially hoping for DeSantis, since Trump had failed so badly during COVID, allowing Fauci to fuck over the entire country with his fucking stupid lockdowns and masks and social distancing and all the rest, but I'm still fine with Trump and glad he's going to be back. I honestly believe the reason DeSantis got zero traction in his campaign was because the media was afraid of a repeat of their 2016 gaslighting backfire and so they intentionally refused to report on him. |
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I was skeptical at first. I honestly don't remember if I voted for him in the '16 primary or not. I've voted for him each time since, though.
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Originally Posted By triburst1:
I just assumed it was an FBI or ATF surveillance op. Now I'm worried that it might be site staff. |
Not really a huge fan, but I can respect plenty of what he's done. And I definitely voted for him.
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"This deeply secularist, post-modern society knows who its enemy is. They’re naming it. And we should believe them. They’re telling us who they are. We should believe them."
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The first year I could vote was 1999, and at that time, I had figured out myself that the Republican Party was, my party.
Even though my shit-head step-dad was a half decent guy, he flipped back and forth between parties, I saw it as weak, and he was voting for whoever would give him free shit. In 1999 he said I’d never be able to afford my own home, I made it a fucking challenge and bought one solo at 21 years old, told him to fuck off. I voted Republican every single election, my entire life, no matter what, I saw Democrats as weak losers that want free shit. So yeah, I happily voted Trump, every chance I had. |
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Originally Posted By mancat: I initially voted for him in 2016 not because I thought he was the best pick, but because I sure as shit wasn't voting for Hillary, and frankly Trump was hilarious. I figured if nothing else his presidency would be highly entertaining. He turned out to be the best president in my lifetime. View Quote All of this. |
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"You can't tourniquet a taint, folks." - Andrew Branca
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All in aince day one.
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For me it was and is very simple. Every professional politician hates him. Every career bureaucrat hates him. Every national media figure hates him. Every liberal hates him. That is the guy for me..... |
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Started with Cruz, hated Trump. As he got more popular I called a dear friend who had worked for him for 10 years.
She said he's the nicest, most generous and decent men she's ever met. That a lot of what we see is manufactured persona to get attention. Started watching him manipulate the media, and realized how smart he is in getting people to do something he can maneuver around. Once I realized that, all in |
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I have never been a fan of Trump's style and bombast. And I sometimes wonder how to square his current image with his longtime support of the DNC in the past (lots of that may simply have been his being located in NYC where the democrats are the only game in town).
But when it comes down to who is the better choice for America, especially when compared to what the DNC is right now, there really is no choice. Trump's win this week may have been the last chance to get America back on the right track. Trump losing this week really would have been the worst thing that ever happened to America - possibly even worse than having had Hillary win in 2016. |
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As far as I can remember, DNC is a hard no for POTUS for me!
2016 - Trump 2020 - Trump 2024 - Trump |
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Originally Posted By Federov: I went with Trump in 2016 because I wanted to disrupt the system. 2020 because I thought he did a good job. 2024 because I think he gets it. View Quote |
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Always.
I was even at the inauguration of Trump, front row and center. |
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Less pro Trump than anti Swamp.
They tried to give us Hillary, Biden and then Harris, not a hard decision. Tulsi Gabbard could have been tempting, instead of the DEI hire. |
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Nobody will be coming to save you, plan accordingly.
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An evolution.
2016 primary season, i was voting for Cruz over Trump. I knew Trump's long history, schmoozing and emersed in NY. Cruz was the lesser of 3 evils. He was a lifelong Democrat. I honestly figured he was a RINO sent in to take out Cruz. When it was down to Trump and Hildabeast, a vote for Trump was the only option to keep that cunt out of the White House. I was not really impressed. First off was him selecting RINO Plastic Man as his VP. He should not have publically shit on Cruz's face like he did during the primary. Cruz should have been his VP. Second was when he made Feinstein spontaneously orgasm after the Vegas massacre. Not so much the bump stock ban, but him giving her the OK to "Work on that." "That" was her latest AWB. Then Covid. His "Operation Lightspeed" just smelled wrong. The Pfizer "solution" was already being greased for the public skids. To his credit, he did tout alternative treatment options. The main one being Remdezivir that he was reported being dosed with when he caught FauciFlu. The issue with Remdezivir is it killed a lot of people. It kills kidneys and livers. When 2020 rolled around, i sure wasn't voting for Obama's little bitch, Biden. I'd actually started liking Trump after witnessing his speeches at his rallies. Just that sheer effort he put into that was more than impressive. When they openly stole his second term with that F-curve business, i actually started to believe he might not be a flim-flammer. Watching his sorry ass SS detail almost get his head blown off was like getting a sucker punch in my own gut. Seeing that man stand up after almost being murdered put me solidly on the Trump Train. Him standing up like that showed solid physical courage that you cannot fake. My very first vote was for Ronald Reagan. I can state right now that I've never felt better filling out a ballot than i did when blackening the oval near his name on Tuesday. Waited 3 hours in a queue to do so. I may have just jumped on the caboose, but i am on the Trump Locomotive. Let's see if we can keep him alive and see where it goes. I'm actually excited. |
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Poking internet kooks with pointy sticks since '81
FL, USA
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I was not pro-Trump in the primary of 2016, and I confess that was primarily because I had not heard what Trump had to say. After he won the primary, I listened, and was 100% on board of the Trump train since.
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Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore the Republic!
A right should restrict the government, not obligate it! |
I didn't vote for him in 2016 because he's a clown.
I voted for him in 2020 because he did a great job as POTUS despite being endlessly attacked. I voted for him again Tuesday because I can't stand the underhanded shit they have done to him. The left are scumbags, end of story. |
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I went all in on Trump the moment I heard him say "I'm really rich"
I knew then and there that man was going against the grain. Donald Trump: I'm Rich! |
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Life long conservative republican. Trump was my third choice in the 2016 primary behind Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. I didn’t trust his credentials as much due to him being a long time dem and too middle of the road in many issues. I still supported him and grew to like him more when I realized how much the left hated him. Proud to have voted for him all three times he won the general election.
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“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men”
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I realized during a primary debate in 2015 that Trump was the only one on the stage that could beat Hillary Clinton. His bare knuckles style, that his haters hate, is
what was needed. That's when I started paying attention and not long after I was 100% for Trump. What's the phrase? "You know you're over the target when you are taking flak." Trump's been bombing their asses since day one. He got a good education during his first term. I expect him to go nuclear this time. |
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Did I just kill another thread?
We are in the middle of a Communist Revolution in the USA. There is no voting our way out of this. |
I've known who Trump is, since the 1980's, but only in the sense that he was rich and famous.
I cast my first presidential vote for Bill Clinton and like many idealistically naive young adults, I held a lot of left-leaning views. But even at that young age, I registered as an independent and have remained an independent, with the exception of two years, when I switched to Republican so I could vote in a primary, ever since. When Trump started campaigning for his first run at the Presidency, I paid attention and quickly decided I was not just voting against Hillary, I was voting FOR Donald Trump. So yes, as long as Trump has been on the political stage, I've been pro-Trump. I'm not a religious person, at all, but I do believe some things happen for a reason and I think and that's why Trump will be our next President. |
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Pour over coffee is best coffee.
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I've been on the train the whole time, but was quiet about it for much of the Ukraine situation. Trump hasn't said a lot that's incredibly stupid, but Don Jr. has.
I take solace in the fact Trump is shockingly unpredictable, coupled with impulsive. If he feels slighted, I don't doubt he will dump weapons on Ukraine. I like watching communists get set on fire. |
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"Here we are having a nice discussion on swords and the fucking pikemen gotta shit all over the place." - Silverbulletz06
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