rant · moment 5 of 20
Ricky's Facebook Relapse Posts and the MAGA Sponsor
from Subsistence Hustlers · #21
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2 minTim reads aloud a rehab friend's spiraling 'renegade' Facebook posts as a sign of relapse, then discusses his old AA sponsor who now poses in front of Trump's childhood home instead of doing AA.
- 13:24Tim posts inspirational health pictures on Instagram, then follows them with filthy rest-stop cheesesteaks.
- 13:56Some people never escape cycles of self-sabotage—the quinoa-and-salad posts followed by destructive behavior repeat forever.
- 14:14People start using drugs for a reason, and once they've destroyed every relationship, there's often nothing better left.
- 14:29Tim's old AA sponsor is an extreme Trump supporter who visited Trump's childhood home and made it his profile picture.
- 14:50The sponsor has a photo of himself holding a football in Trump's childhood room—the images look like drug-induced hallucinations.
- 15:14After sobering up, many addicts exchange AA for another cult; Tim's sponsor quit AA entirely and now does Make America Great Again.