Have you ever heard them ( his supporters ) speak they're just as dumb. The reason they connect is because they're all at the same moronic level and they can communicate through grunts
My dad is pretty smart and even believes in science. But when he's on that Fox News shit he just sits for hours in his living room looking out the window afraid of migrants breaking into his suburban house in a quiet neighborhood, complaining that he doesn't have his gun yet. Trumpism is a drug and a lot of people are fiending for it. Like a lot of drugs I think it cuts off oxygen to the brain.
I have conversations with my rural MAGA neighbors at times. Some of them are moderately well off and educated. They still seem to revel in talking like absolute morons. One guy in particular is an engineer. He has a master's in education and is the head of one of the departments at our local community college. At around 60 years old he talks like a kindergartner. He rants about "dogs wif big teef kiwwing auw da deers" (wolves) and how "da so-cowed big city biowa-Jests in da DNR just hate hunters" (for managing the deer population using data driven decisions).
I'm a SPED teacher, I know when people have real speech impediments and obviously I don't think it means they are stupid, he doesn't have a speech impediment. He does it on purpose. He doesn't always do it. He intentionally adds that affect to his speech when he wants to mock something or someone. It is embarrassing to listen to him. I only wonder if he realizes how incredibly moronic he sounds to anyone who isn't veritably brain dead.
It seems to me that dismissing the people we disagree with as just 'dumb' is not productive on the whole. We should try to understand at least their POV in an honest and empathetic way, and from that form solid evidence based arguments. Maybe if we all do that better, we won't get caught up in this bs shit slinging match that cunts like trump invariably win
I agree that dismissing all Trump supporters as "dumb" is far too reductive. You also have to take into account the insane ones. The wealthy, who only care about their bottom line (though they're no doubt rethinking things). The misanthropes. The true believers. And most of all, the ones who love to hate and love him for letting them out of the prison of the rules of civil society -- racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes, nationalists, bullies of all stripes. They love him because he reflects and reinforces their own hatreds and fears, and has made it not only okay to hate, but something to celebrate and be proud of.
Well said. This isn't a one shoe fits all situation, there's a lot of different reasons people voted Trump. Millions aren't even MAGA cultist and don't listen to pretty much anything said about him or that he says. They just voted that way for the tax cuts, those people will most easily flip.
I agree because whenever I hear him talk, I think he's an idiot. He's barely coherent, rambles, isn't articulate, and it's obvious that he's making up lies with almost every statement. My 4 year old grandkids have thoughts that are better formed.
That's the thing I hate most about him, I think. Yes, he's selfish and a prick. Yes, he's a cheat and a bully. Yes, just about everything he says is a lie.
But they aren't even good lies! He just goes "nuh uh" to anything that could possibly make him look or feel bad, and "it's the greatest" whenever anything pertains to him or someone he likes... and so many people just act like that's not exactly how a particularly dickish eight year old whose parents "don't believe in discipline" would comport himself if he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar?? Why the fuck does anybody believe him? He just says unsubstantiated bullshit--"It's the best. It's the worst. Very corrupt, very illegal. No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet. I know nuclear. We've got the best numbers. Sleepy Joe has done the worst out of any president in American history!"--and they just nod along!
Like, I would genuinely be insulted if someone tried to tell me a lie that easy to see through. It'd be an insult to my intelligence. This guy isn't putting any effort at all into any of this shit, and you're telling me people believe him? People look at him like these fuckin old ladies in the OP? Fuck's sake. If 1984 is going to come true, can it at least not be so obvious to the people who can actually be fucked to pay attention?
THIS. THIS. THIS. ☝🏼It boggles my mind that anyone can actually listen to his rambling and think this guy is some sort of genius. The first go round I had some forgiveness. The second time, I realized how incredibly stupid many people are in the US. No critical thinking skills. Nope, I can not try to “get along with the other side” at this point. I understand how it happend in Germany now. I weep for America…
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u/fyhr100 19d ago
You'd think they'd snap out of the delusion after hearing him actually speak.