The answer to how Trump has succeeded is really simple: He lies nonstop, and lying works. Sure, there are other factors in play—he tapped into and intensified a certain strain of profound proletarian resentment of liberal elites, and … well, that’s about it. But mostly, it’s the lies.
…And, to reiterate, Trump tells many such lies a day. He talks to the press two or three times a day most days, which probably adds up to what, 45 minutes, an hour? Spitballing it at one lie every two minutes, which may well be low, that’s around 25 factual lies a day.
Finally? The guy that phoned in to a newspaper pretending to be his own publicist in the 80s?
I dislike the unintentional association of “America” being those who support trump. America is not a trump supporter. 32% of the voting population does not constitute “America.” The majority of voters did not vote for trump.
The majority of voters did not vote AGAINST Trump.
The majority of voters did not vote for trump. No idea what point you’re trying to make.
One of the craziest things I saw in the 2016 election was when they showed Trump voters messages from real New Yorkers who talked about their hometown boy.
New Yorkers hated him for destroying a historic building façade he’d sworn to preserve; they hated him because he called for the lynching of the Central Park 5; they hated him for the way he treated his first wife; they just hated him.
The Trump people thought that if New Yorkers hated him he must be good.
Doubt
“Hey, libtards, you keep saying Donald Trump is dumb, but if he’s so dumb, how come he got elected president twice?"
Because his level of ignorance makes him relatable to voters who also don’t know anything. 🤔
This is the same thing that keeps getting people like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, MTG, and Boebert elected.
“They don’t know anything! They’re just like me!”
Kakistocracy
Press (X) to doubt
When we say America, hopefully, here in Europe, we’re mainly thinking about up to 50% of the voting population. The great majority are not the loud morons
no it isnt
Everyday I’m amazed at the stupidity of the people surrounding me. It was always obvious
This. I remember people that I know who lived through the 80s and knew this fraud for the loudmouthed failson that he was back then still turn around and vote for him anyway, because, well, they had no choice.
What are they going to do, vote for a Democrat? Never mind a female one?
I really don’t want a war but I would not hesitate to pull the trigger on the pedofile worshipping Nazis in one because they are Nazis and the German Nazis believed stupid q anon shit too. Is there a way out of this without a war?
I remember hoping he would be enough for America to get corporate money out of government. It doesn’t look like we’re even close to it, and that it will something way worse for America to get there.
I remember hoping he would be enough for America to get corporate money out of government.
you really fell for that?
a man who’s bankrupted himself multiple times and failed at casinos, you think someone like that is going to ‘get corporate money out of government’?
I mean it’s easy with hindsight, we all made silly fucking assumptions. I assumed that after toying with this idiocy that we’d elect clinton, suck it up, and drive on with a democracy, because tho there’s a huge racist streak in america, no one would vote that cynically in the face of utter incompetence and stupidity.
silly fucking assumptions.
No, not that he would get corporate money out of govt, fucking hell no. Just that he would be bad enough for American government to realize that “well, we can’t let that happen again” and get corruption out of our system. Similar to how Germany stopped corruption after Hitler. And for like 14 months before Oct 7th, there were constant protest in Tel Aviv over Bibi’s corruption, I hope that as soon as possible, Israel also ends their corruption in government. But I’m really seeing now that it will have to get way worse than Trump for corruption to end in America.
Just that he would be bad enough for American government to realize that “well, we can’t let that happen again” and get corruption out of our system.
valid. I thought, on j6, “well thank goodness this is the end of him”… because no country in their right mind would let that shit pass.
and here we are. fuck.
This era of American politics will be studied for centuries. Like the fall of Rome. I’m sure that after he’s gone the truth will come out about who was really driving. His coddling of Russia in the context of Republican history is the biggest red flag. Especially when you take into account his penchant for money (bitcoin rug pull, Qatari Force One etc etc)
This era of American politics will be studied for centuries.
well put. I was wondering the other day - will any of them see consequences? I just couldn’t decide if it was generations away, or five years away.
and yeah, russia looms over every aspect of his 45/47 shitshow. meetings without translators (!), fucking ukraine over, past visits to moscow, parnas, the NRA, it’s like: yeah, we get it. he’s compromised. very compromised. then he stashes nuclear secrets in his fucking guest bathroom.
like, any single one of these should DOOM a presidency into infamy and wreck the party that rode it in, but…
$. and a spineless congress, and a bought and paid for supreme court, + citizens united = we’re fucked and no lube is on the horizon
The Conservative/Nazi party really isn’t for anything besides lowering taxes for the wealthy, they’re just against whatever the other side wants.
Really wish we at least had a side against that side. Instead we’re stuck with a pro-genocide, pro overthrowing the Venezuelan government, pro corporate money in politics, against primaring the dem leaders in power party. I’m getting really sick of the “It puts the lotion in the basket, or else it gets the Trump again” party.
I’d still rub it in on a tRump voter. They complain to me about losing Medicaid? I’d ask, “why are you so upset? This is what you voted for.”
Surely they’ll get it this time.
The fuck took so long?
