It seems that the importance of…ahem, “telling it like it is” cannot be overstated. i.e., racism is an extremely powerful effect.
“telling it like it is” is just coded language to say “he says the shitty things that I think are true, so it makes me feel less shitty and empty inside”
it is pretty powerful having your beliefs be broadcasted and repeated ad nauseum by a figure you consider of authority. like discovering the idea you thought you had originally being already out there said by someone you hold in respect. for trump followers him just being the nominee of their party of blind choice is already worthy of praise and admiration.
trump just loves their endless money pit, and will say just about anything to get it. they love that they have a former president with attention from the media to propagate their delusions.
What convictions?
He himself has one conviction (civil, not criminal) so far, for sexual assault on E. Jean Carroll.
The people around him (Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Weisselberg, etc.) have many convictions, including guilty pleas. If you include the January 6th insurrection, hundreds of them.
And his charity org being found fraudulent, etc.
And to think only a few decades ago, Bill Clinton was nearly impeached for receiving extramarital oral sex and lying about it, all the while the public not knowing he palled around with Jeffrey Epstein…ah, simpler, dumber, but still monstrous times.
Absolutely none. These people are rabid in their wrongness, and are incapable of any rational thought. Just a constant drone of “orangemanbad” playing over and over in their heads.
Right? People just hate on things that are harmful for no reason. “Orangemanbad” “Carbonemmissionsbad” “Snakevenombad” “Christofascistwannabedictatorbad”
Fukkin snowflakes.
I get that you’re being sarcastic, but you know what? You’ve changed my mind. Trump was as bad as carbon emissions and snake venom. Did you see his followers walking aimlessly in the capital on January 6th? Thank god that rebellion was quelled and we installed the, “better choice” that tangibly made American lives worse to fund a quagmire war in Ukraine. Then, after a complete lack of pushback, because, “at least he’s not literally Hitler,” he went on to hurt our lives even more to commit ACTUAL genocide in Gaza, using American livelihood to fund it,
But you know, nobody on his “team” dressed up in a bear skin and larped around a defunct government building. So, you know, he’s the good guy.
_I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your TV
Oh, I’m the cult of personalityI exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
Oh, I’m the cult of personality_Deep cut.
It’s a great song. I recently learned that they’re still performing. Would buy a ticket if they played here.
How sad for them? I think @christophorious is projecting: how sad for the rest of us.
When you have nothing left but fear and hate…
Insecure people want simple lies over complex truth.
Also worth mentioning this problem is decades in the making and it’s not just America. In Canada we have systematically destroyed our healthcare and education systems to the point where people and trusting them less and less. People, myself included, are not right wing and are checking out of a system that is not doing anything to protect me and mine.
I am NOT voting conservative but I can see the allure. People latch onto rhetoric when Maslow’s hierarchy of needs isn’t met. When you feel threatened your options disappear regardless of if they’re there or not. Stress impacts your ability to think properly.
As stated elsewhere we are heading down a dark path and few of us have flashlights and are scared AF at where the mob is going to lead us.
History is repeating itself because we stopped following history and the ones we used to trust we don’t anymore.
For a conspiracy or a cover up to be real in this day and age it needs to be small, otherwise it just involves too many people to stay secret.
Trump and his “believers” are a different story. They know it’s not real, instead they’ve all silently (and not so silently) agreed to reject reality and substitute in their false god’s reality.
I think the lumpenproletariat who support him so fervently are true believers. Granted, on that side of the political cube lies and honesty all get muddled together into mush.
It feels logical, clever and safe to say that, but it’s not remotely true.
It’s a lot easier to be dismissive than actually think about the topic, i know.
Oh the irony…
sad the fucker believes national governments can’t keep a secret, it’s too hard, despite all evidence to the contrary, like when they release the files thirty years later and it turns out they were and the crazy people, were not.
What crazy thing declassified did I miss, because I remember a ton about UFOs, Kennedy assassination, etc going to be declassified and I don’t remember any earth shattering stories
That says a lot about literally every other politician going
I wAnT a CrooK fOR PrSedEnt bC a CRoOk KnoW HoW cRooKs OpeRaTe And WiLL shUT thEm Down!
Yeah Trump is all that, but so is everyone else. Everyone lies to convince everyone else their share should be bigger.
