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sarchasm

(1,011 posts) Fri Oct 1, 2021, 08:12 PM Oct 2021

Trump-Supporting Friend--This Was Never About Donald Trump

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Trump-Supporting Friend--This Was Never About Donald Trump (Original Post) sarchasm Oct 2021 OP

yes Skittles Oct 2021 #1

Thing is, J.P., your friend was ALWAYS those things. Girard442 Oct 2021 #2

Fools love a fool. Scrivener7 Oct 2021 #3

Skittles

(153,098 posts)

1. yes

Reply to sarchasm (Original post)

Fri Oct 1, 2021, 08:22 PM

Oct 2021

Trump gives permission for your inner-ugliness to emerge.

Girard442

(6,063 posts)

2. Thing is, J.P., your friend was ALWAYS those things.

Reply to sarchasm (Original post)

Fri Oct 1, 2021, 08:45 PM

Oct 2021

He/she just lied to you because those attitudes weren't socially acceptable. The moment they became so, the masks came off -- and having come off, things can't be set right by putting them back on.

You were friends with people who did not actually exist. As Bruce Willis's Die Hard character John McClane famously said:

Welcome to the party, pal!

Scrivener7

(50,890 posts)

3. Fools love a fool.

Reply to sarchasm (Original post)

Fri Oct 1, 2021, 08:54 PM

Oct 2021

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