america as a country may now simply be too stupid for democracy https://t.co/MNPCTOeKjF
— Fordow Focused (@canderaid) July 12, 2025
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as this gets worse you're going to see endless efforts at reputational retcon by people who knew EXACTLY what they signed up for
and by people who were too ignorant or dis/misinformed to understand what they were signing up for, but lack the humility to own that— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) July 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Of course the PodBros are lying — they encouraged their listeners to vote for Trump because another Trump administration would be entertaining, and besides, at least he wasn’t a Black female Democrat. But the Epstein files botchery is giving them an excuse to pretend they were somehow mislead by yet another dishonest pol. Per the Daily Beast:
Podcaster Andrew Schulz gave Donald Trump street cred in the world of chronically online young men, but he’s been having second thoughts.
On a Thursday episode of his Flagrant podcast, the comedian torched the president for “doing the exact opposite” of his campaign promises.
“There’ll be people that they’ll DM me like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this,’” he said. “He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for. I want him to stop the wars—he’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget—he’s increasing it.”
Schulz voted for Trump last year even after laughing in his face during a 90-minute podcast that has racked up nearly 10 million views. Schulz erupted in a fit of giggles after the then-Republican candidate called himself “basically a truthful person.”…
The podcaster, who commands an audience composed chiefly of young men, predicted that Trump would win by a landslide after their interview. He was gleeful after a listener declared that “Flagrant is gonna get Trump elected.”
But the recent controversies that have roiled the administration, from its aggressive deportation blitz to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s megabill, have forced Schulz to rethink his support.
“I already expect politicians to not do most of the s-–t they say,” he said. “I don’t want to be too cynical, but now I’m getting to the point where it’s like, ‘Can they do anything?’”…
Actions have consequences? What hellworld is this?
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