“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”

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      Went to a family friend’s pool party and one of the guests was a full MAGA chud. She bounced between singing Trump’s praises as this immaculate saint figure and slapping shoulders because he was such a big swinging dick who loved snatching the poon.

      The Trump crowd doesn’t even strictly disagree with Ritchson. They’re just mad at the phrasing. If he’d made some cavalier remark about how Trump can fuck any woman in America if he feels like it and you should be honored when he grabs your pussy, they’d be singing his praises. If he’s joked about how Trump can pull the wool over every one of those idiot liberals’ eyes cause he’s just so wily, they’d cheer.

      The words do reach them. They don’t care. They have their iconic superhero of a President. He’s living the life they want, sexual assault and financial dirty tricks and all.

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        I don’t think that’s entirely true. He’s got an online following that is an extremely vocal minority, but that hardly accounts for the full 74.2 Million people who voted for him in 2020. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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      Yes, but casual insults aside I do actually wish they were more aware of the things happening around them. A lot of them go through the day to day life barely catching a glimpse of news from Cable TV, and they think themselves the “normal ones”.