Post #170348
2026-01-26 23:28 UTC
Replies (40)
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@tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2026-01-27 01:05
Nah, a republican looking at the optics, saying some good words, and hiding for a bit.
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@magnetosphere@fedia.io 2026-01-27 01:39
He took one step in the right direction. ONE STEP. That’s better than nothing, but he’s got a long way to go.
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@radio@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-26 23:45
He knows he has exactly zero chance of winning the state when his party is the one sending murdering thugs to it's streets. Now he gets to pretend to be a good person and avoid an embarrassing loss.
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@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2026-01-26 23:33
If he's still a Republican, all he had is a pang of guilt, not a sudden onset of conscience. It's a start though.
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@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 01:55
If you registered as a Republican in the last 60 years, that is exactly what you signed up for. You joined the nazis and you _knew_.
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@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2026-01-26 23:44
Good Republicans don't stay Republican for long
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@W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2026-01-27 04:54
He’s probably pulling out because of polling, but regardless, I appreciate him blaming the GOP immigration policies.
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@riskable@programming.dev 2026-01-26 23:38
Note to the reactionaries about to diss this guy: He said "Hispanics and Asian" people. *Not* black people. So he could be telling the truth 🤔
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@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2026-01-27 21:44
> I did not sign up to that. Yeah. He did. At no point did Trump or MAGA lie about their intentions. From the beginning they said exactly what they were going to do. And he signed on. Maybe its because he didn't believe they would actually do it and now he regrets it. That's fine. But regardless, he *literally* "signed up to that" and he has to own that.
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@inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 15:18
I don't doubt that this guy actually feels anger and is actually struggling with his feelings of guilt and some kind of morality crisis. But that's only because this is actually happening to him and the people he knows firsthand. Because that's how Republicans are, these types of actions are fine when it happens to others but the minute it affects them personally, then and only then are they all of the sudden concerned about things. They just don't have any sense of empathy or thinking about others at all. It's just all about me with them.
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@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-27 00:35
The guy got blowback for being Jonathan Ross' attorney ***right now***. Conscience my ass.
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@ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2026-01-27 04:43
I'm always amazed people keep having new lines they cannot cross. I really just assumed that if you were gonna vote for Mr. "Grab 'm by the pussy", you were already AOK with basically anything, as long as it came from the party of Reagan.
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@jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2026-01-27 02:08
On the one hand, better late than never. On the other, the Republican party has been the party of maximum scumbag since like Nixon.
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@Cherry@piefed.social 2026-01-27 09:15
Has he made any effort to criticise or stand up to to ICE or is it all passive and about himself?
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@minorkeys@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 04:16
You did though, it's not a new part of the GOP.
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@slothrop@lemmy.ca 2026-01-27 00:19
He's representing the fascist assassin Jonathan Ross....
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@digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 2026-01-27 00:06
Lets not pretend that he's grown a conscience. What he doesn't want is a humiliating defeat that would tarnish any dreams of a legacy he wants going forward. They will be back just not at this very moment whilst the party is super unpopular there.
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@Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-27 03:22
This guy is just blowing out because he'd get slaughtered. Just quitting to fight another day.
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@Fedizen@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 23:19
They did this after january 6th as well and then media memory holed everything a couple years later and revised the event. The media will memory hole this as well.
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@shittydwarf@piefed.social 2026-01-27 00:25
You did in fact, sign up for that
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@boogiebored@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 20:47
Lol don't be a republican? Like, it IS what you signed up for dude, where have you been for the last 30 years+??? Virtue signal bullshit.
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@Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 08:57
This guy screams lying bullshitter.
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@WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 20:40
At this point I will take any ally in this situation. Piece by piece we can and will take this corrupt administration down. With or without any support from either side of the political spectrum.
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@NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 00:38
It took until now for that to sink in? This isn’t morality, this is simply jumping ship after taking way too fucking long to read the room. This is a scared rat on a sinking boat, nothing more.
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@Gladaed@feddit.org 2026-01-27 14:53
Minnesota is a blue state. Hence this is meaningless.
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@BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 20:54
Sounds like the exact reason he should stay in the race. His presence alone prevents one of the Confederates from posting a candidate.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-01-27 08:36
no hes doesnt, hes defending renee's murder, johnaton ross. plus TRump is only dialing back ICE because he suddenly dropped out of the race.
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@boaratio@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 15:01
Yes you did.
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@JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2026-01-27 00:41
Conscience? No. This is just common sense. He knows there is no chance in hell he'd win and no way to defend the ICE fiasco, so he's making a shiw of dropping out. Smart. He's giving himself giid PR for an election when things are less heated.
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@NorthwestThrills@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 03:16
Hey guys, way to take a win and say "yeah actually he's in the wrong for this"
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@regdog@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 10:35
Arrested Development narrator voice: "He did sign up for that"
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@blitzen@lemmy.ca 2026-01-27 00:35
Well, it’s clear he’s still republican because even in his statement he makes it about *him.* “*I* did not sign up for this.”
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@sploder@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 21:11
Stay in the race and hold the spot from some other asshole. If you win, don’t be a shitty ass republican; if you lose then some shitty ass republican didn’t win.
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@Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 23:07
Chris is 10 years late.
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@SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2026-01-27 05:34
Conservatives only have an demon and a devil on their shoulders. They only question the approach for committing evil.
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@HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2026-01-27 01:24
No such thing. More like a Republican who lost faith in Trump's ability to steal his election for him.
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@protist@mander.xyz 2026-01-27 01:35
Mike Lindell is going to win anyway 
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@one_step_behind@quokk.au 2026-01-27 00:51
Shame he didn't drop dead.
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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-27 17:37
Holy shit, someone with a modicum of principles! Fuck him for it taking THIS LONG. but I guess its something.
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@becausechemistry@piefed.social 2026-01-26 23:54
People in this thread: “This guy did something okay-ish, but I’ll only consider him to be a good person if he personally kills the president and then himself”