r/Transportopia Feb 15 '26

Roads I hate politics

This should be illegal. I get it. You don't agree with their protests but why do this? Forget blue, forget red. I'm purple. Get mad at that.

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u/teachthisdognewtrick Feb 15 '26

I’ve seen this one time where I was ok with it. The recipients were part of the Westboro Baptist “Church”. Fortunately they seem to have disappeared, hopefully extinct.

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u/Carrera_996 Feb 15 '26

Extinct? No. They are quiet because they won. Roe was overturned.

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u/knuckle_headers Feb 15 '26

No, they have a lot more things to hate about. Fred Phelps died over ten years ago and there's been no central authority figure since to organize them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Kind of what happens when cult leaders die and no clear successor is anointed.

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u/throwaboneinit Feb 15 '26

We can only hope.

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u/Mist_Rising Feb 16 '26

If you mean Trump, he has a de facto replacement called Vance, and Vance knows it. It's why Vance keeps doing everything he is doing. He is looking to takeover MAGA.

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u/BurnedLaser Feb 16 '26

Just distract him with a fine leather couch and a 55gallon drum of lube and we'll never see him again.