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X ^ | 01/19/2025 | Joe Gebbia
Posted on 01/20/2025 5:24:18 AM PST by DFG
I have a confession to make:
I did a bad thing.
Something the younger me
Would hate myself for doing.
Something that only a few people (and maybe Bytedance) know:
I voted Republican last November.
I know, I know
I can hear the crush of disappointed voices: Say it ain’t so, Joe.
And yes, I can hear other voices cheering in the background, welcome to the club.
So I would like to take a few moments to explain this choice to my younger self who cast his first ballot for Al Gore in 2000.
Young Joe, first of all, stop frosting the tips of your hair, it’s not cool.
Secondly, those Democrats you’ve voted for your whole life aren’t the same party they used to be.
Like your fashion sense, they’ve lost their way.
Hopefully they’ll make an effort to win people like me back.
Yes, I know I’m late to the party on this, and there’s already a thick gold chain in the punch bowl.
(I hope he drops the Facebook Files in there next.)
But today we stop hiding the truth from our close Never Trumper friends: That we support a party that isn’t going to run this country into the ground.
A country that people from all over the world dream about living in.
I love our nation, our people, and even our standard measurement system.
We were told by the media that loving this country meant hating Trump, and for many years I believed that.
Until I committed the second greatest sin that I’d like to confess today:
I did my own research.
And I found something that shocked me.
He is not a fascist determined to destroy democracy.
He deeply cares about our nation. (I also happen to deeply care about our nation.)
He deeply cares about safe cities. (I also like my car still being where I parked it in the morning.)
He deeply cares about government efficiency and spending. (I also care about the next generation, and love the whole DOGE initiative.)
He cares about bringing common sense back to our country. (So do I.)
He cares about making our borders secure. (I actually don’t like going through the customs process myself, but I do respect the fact these safeguards exist.)
I did, however, find a problem, something that stopped me in my tracks, besides dropping a meme coin on the eve of the inauguration:
One of his cabinet picks, RFK, is saying some pretty out-there things.
I think the establishment may even be more afraid of him than Trump.
For starters, this crazy guy wants to make our tap water safer to drink.
This guy wants us to stop over-medicating.
This guy wants to make our grocery store aisles less poisonous.
This guy is clearly a threat to our way of life. Doesn’t he know how much money these companies make slowly killing us?
So I did that bad thing again and looked into these ideas with an open mind.
Lo and behold, I found out that they were exactly what our country needed. Desperately.
Make America Healthy Again. Make America Great Again. Make America America Again. Say it with me, MAAA.
I’m guessing even young Joe wouldn’t have liked living in the eggshell ages of these last few years.
A time of silence, shaming, and fear, where calling a duck a duck meant you hated ducks.
It was kind of like the dark ages, complete with its own plague, but with more modern forms of torture, like having to watch CNN for news.
So, if like me and many others, you also had a woke-up call, it’s time to talk about it. Better late than never.
It’ll unburden you, and you’ll no longer have to live a lie, pretending like the other party had a good plan in place.
And if you disagree, please don’t remove me from your Christmas card list. I certainly won’t remove you. I hope listening to each other will become the new shouting at each other.
Together, we can make this nation great again, from the Gulf of America in the South all the way to the great state of Greenland in the North.
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airbnb; maga; trump
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1 posted on 01/20/2025 5:24:18 AM PST by DFG
To: DFG
2 posted on 01/20/2025 5:29:18 AM PST by mairdie
To: DFG
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Complete transformation!
3 posted on 01/20/2025 5:32:38 AM PST by Westbrook (.ts are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
To: Westbrook
Better late than never. It should be thought of as a maturation process. No teenager wants to take stands that will get in the way of getting laid. Eventually they come around as they mature and see the bigger picture.
4 posted on 01/20/2025 5:35:18 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
To: DFG
“woke-up call”
I like that
5 posted on 01/20/2025 5:37:37 AM PST by zeebee
To: DFG
What a wonderful post on this beautiful special day...
6 posted on 01/20/2025 5:39:41 AM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
To: DFG
Loved it and I agree completely !!!
To: DFG
Welcome to the club Joe Gebbia ...
8 posted on 01/20/2025 5:43:46 AM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
To: mairdie
MAGA is fully Deep State, globalist infiltrated, which IMO is why Trump was set up to win.
I know most here don’t see it that way.
9 posted on 01/20/2025 5:44:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: 9YearLurker
You’re right. Most probably don’t see it and I definitely don’t.
If MAGA is globalist, it’s because the global culture has been contaminated and the common sense of MAGA will spread, just as the filth spread before, to bring back common sense to the larger communities. In that sense, MAGA is global but definitely NOT Deep State.
10 posted on 01/20/2025 5:48:18 AM PST by mairdie
To: DFG
Enlightened self-interest strikes again!
Compassionate capitalism is good.
11 posted on 01/20/2025 5:48:20 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: mairdie
Musk isn’t Deep State?
Do you know how many military/intel techs he is a front man for?!?
12 posted on 01/20/2025 5:57:54 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: mairdie
As the globalists said a century ago, and I paraphrase, if the people want an opposition leader, we will give them one.
13 posted on 01/20/2025 5:59:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
To: DFG
I liked Joe Gebbia’s line “Make America America again!”
It was Obama who announced that the “transformation of America” began with him. It did not take long to unfold.
This is starting to look like one of those stories where the centralized control from the bad guys is broken, and everyone snaps out of it all at once (Logan’s Run movie, “The Pool of Fire” from John Christopher’s White Mountains trilogy).
14 posted on 01/20/2025 6:06:10 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
To: DFG
I went through a similar transformation in my 20s. My first two presidential votes were for McGovern and Carter. In retrospect, both of those votes were not cast in a serious vein.
Then I graduated from college, and entered the Army in 1976. It would take a year or two to get me to wake up. Funny how being a Platoon Leader and being responsible for 8 missile systems and 40 soldiers can mature a formerly naive and unserious college grad.
As the 1980 election neared, my German neighbors in Traben-Trarbach pleaded with me to vote for Carter, they were convinced that Reagan would start WWIII. I was a fierce advocate for Reagan, he was the right man to make America strong. One maxim has followed me over the past 50 years: the world is a safer place when American is strong.
Today is a day for celebration...thank you, President Trump!
15 posted on 01/20/2025 6:13:00 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: DFG
Wow! This almost seems too good to be true.
Bros...have any of you checked out the legitimacy/validity of this piece?
Quite a piece of writing!
16 posted on 01/20/2025 6:18:07 AM PST by ma_che62 (Bring back "Fat Shaming" and the obesity epidemic will disappear)
To: DFG
I apologize but this seems too good to be true. American big shot CEOs don’t have awakenings like this. Sure hope I’m wrong!
17 posted on 01/20/2025 6:20:55 AM PST by ma_che62 (Bring back "Fat Shaming" and the obesity epidemic will disappear)
To: 9YearLurker
Adore Musk! Just grateful he saw The Light and came to Trump. The partnership can change everything. Trump has the vision but Musk has more power. Together they’ll Win!
May he have more and more children to help build a better next generation.
18 posted on 01/20/2025 6:23:42 AM PST by mairdie
To: DIRTYSECRET; DFG
“Better late than never. It should be thought of as a maturation process. No teenager wants to take stands that will get in the way of getting laid. Eventually they come around as they mature and see the bigger picture.”
Or, as Winston Churchill wisely observed, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 40, you have no brain”.
Obviously this guy has a brain.
19 posted on 01/20/2025 6:25:36 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
To: mairdie
You are so sucked in I don’t even know how to respond.
20 posted on 01/20/2025 6:26:25 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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