He speaks to their "truths." He feeds their hopes. He bolsters their fear of a diminishing relevance. He says things they want to hear in a way that they understand.
He's the only one who holds a branch out to them and they clutch on to it like the trumpanzees they are.
Except it's not a branch. It's a clutching hand seeking their wallet, but they're too fucking stupid to see it.
A fool and their money are soon parted.
When you have nothing left but fear and hate…
Nothing left but fear, hate... and also, if polls hold, the senate, the house, the presidency, and they already have scotus, state-level politics, and huge tranches of circuit courts.
Yes, they're going to be crying so hard after they read all these dank, critical memes. That'll show 'em!
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"
"He's making it so that I can say the shitty things I have always just thought."
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.
"Instead of taking the time to reflect on why people call me an idiot I'll try to get someone like me in power!"
"He hates those n-words just as much as I do!"
The racists want an idol to say it's okay to be racist
The problem with democracy is that most people are ignorant ...
edit: changed retarded to ignorant, I apologize to anyone who felt offended by my use of the term.
It drives me nuts that people just casually toss out that slur.
English has so many other words you can use without insulting a whole group of innocent people and using this slur is just lazy.
It drives me nuts
Arrr...
insulting a whole group of innocent people
What innocent people are being insulted? The euphemism treadmill has ensured nobody is being legitimately described this way anymore, it is just an insult. Btw, idiot and stupid both used to be the correct medical terms for unusually slow mental development, it's just a matter of how much time has passed.
Chapeau! That is in fact the video I had in mind when I wrote my original comment. However, I was informed that the choice of words is considered offensive nowadays, so I changed it because it was not my intention to hurt anybody's feeling.
I wAnT a CrooK fOR PrSedEnt bC a CRoOk KnoW HoW cRooKs OpeRaTe And WiLL shUT thEm Down!
"You're not the problem, it's those other guys" is a very appealing and hence powerful message that people want to believe (in fact, the worse things are, the more they want to believe it) so it easilly bypasses rationality.
You might have noticed that in America it's not just Trump using it or even just his party.
Well, that is what advertising and propaganda is.
Eh... At this point it's more of a religion. People just believe what they want to believe. And that is the underdog who is the second coming of Jesus and will fix all problems that were created by immigrants.
At this point you have entire media silos filled with privatized propaganda, which is just ripe for this shit to happen. And this model is cropping up around the world.
We need to react to this somehow or we'll be toast. If we can't reclaim the media landscape for professional journalism for it's own sake, we're headed down a dark road indeed.
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.
Never forget this "man" was convicted of sexual assault & bragged about grabbing women by their genitals.
How sad for them? I think @christophorious is projecting: how sad for the rest of us.
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.
Important note, it did not meet the legal definition of rape for NY because they define it specifically with sexual intercourse. In common terms however we'd of course call it rape.
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.
Is that why his face is orange? Is he Bizzaro Trump? Did the Bizzaro universe steal our Trump and replace him with theirs?????
Edit: if he is not Bizzaro Trump can you imagine how decent of a person Bizzaro Trump would be?
Well there are plenty of "journalists" over at fox that are dedicated to deceiving people.
as bad as trump is obama and biden chained a presidential candidate to chair for eight hours to keep her from debating with them and to make sure it stays only two parties
biden and harris immediately went back on campaign promises and fired staffers who admitted cannabis use
national police reform promises have stalled in his time in office over policing have gotten worse looking at you cop city in georgia
national health is at risk of going in the gutter even further and that was another failed promise
list goes on
but hey vote biden he is not facist or as bad plus he is not trump
but hey vote biden he is not facist or as bad plus he is not trump
Umm yea, pretty much all the bullshit you spewed before this sentance is irrelevant (most of it is nonsense btw), since I'm gonna have to go with the NON fascist even if he isn't perfect...
Just curious. What do you propose Americans do instead of voting Biden?
I mean, every single group mentioned has proven not to be trusted. You think the history books just coincidentally happen to all be written by the good guys? There's that one time the smart people marketed this safe and effective diet pill. FDA approved. Yeah, turns out it killed you. And then, orange guy.
Also, you seem to be the kind of guy that likes to be completely accurate in the ideas you present, so I believe the word you're looking for is "charges". There have been no convictions.
His co-conspirators have absolutely been convicted. People have been imprisoned for doing his bidding.
And not just the crazies he sent to the Capitol. Michael Cohen did 3 years for following Trump's orders regarding Stormy Daniels, and now Trump himself is on trial for the same crime and Cohen is cooperating after serving his time.
Who DO you trust? Its not sustainable for very long to distrust everyone. Some people are not bad.
What's the ballpark figure on the sustainability? Two, maybe three decades? I'm not seeing any slowdown.
You take for granted so much the FDA protects you from. You have no idea how much red tape there is to get a drug approved. I don’t know what diet pill you’re thinking of, but most are supplements and aren’t approved by the FDA. There are only a half dozen or so long term weight loss drugs approved by the FDA.
