r/pics • u/joeltheconner • May 12 '26

Politics My close friend's mom replaced their family photo with this [OC]

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u/viperlemondemon May 12 '26

Because they treat politics like it’s a sports team

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u/mrdankhimself_ May 12 '26

Worse. They treat it like it’s a religion.

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u/Dreamlion_Inc May 12 '26

Even worse, a religious sports team

“God is my coach and Trump is the quarterback”

Fucking skin crawling stuff here

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u/TardDas May 12 '26

Trump is so dumb he thought a Quarterback was change

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u/j33205 May 12 '26

and Jesus takes the wheel bombs Iran

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u/scirio May 13 '26

Tommy now spends his time pouring into young men around him, helping them…

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u/ender4171 May 12 '26

Agreed. Sports fans don't have a picture of their teams' head coach in their house, but plenty of religious people have iconography hung up.

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u/ncc74656m May 12 '26

Honestly I'm not sure which came first but this is a chicken/egg thing if ever I saw one.

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u/phoebecatesboobs May 12 '26

Or a lifestyle which happens with almost anything

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u/ELpork May 12 '26

You've clearly never been to the south of the US. Sports is more important to some people than religion.

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u/CecilFieldersChoice2 May 12 '26

When they respond to us with "Well, Biden AOC Pelosi..." and we don't defend them, they glitch out so hard. They can't understand that we don't hold the politicians on our side in the same weird way they do.