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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

And you can reasonably claim that cordyceps is dumb as shit. But you can’t argue it isn’t getting what it wants.

Totally agree.

If you want to talk about a politician being a dumb-fuck, you have to wonder at what Barry was thinking when he got in bed with both the Wall Street scorpions (who would immediately stab him in the back in the mid-year cycle) and Silicon Valley (which twisted in the wind for another decade before firmly aligning with MAGA).

I think he had a very common liberal, capitalism-sized blind spot. I'm willing to admit I had the same one at the time. He also was definitely beholden to interests and was 0% of the communist / socialist that everyone continually pretended (and still pretends) he was.

Trump found some useful propaganda to circulate in order to get people to break his way.

One of his team of lackeys presented him the annotated photograph and he confused it with reality. He's oceans worth of stupid and there are countless examples of this.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

One of his team of lackeys presented him the annotated photograph and he confused it with reality.

I mean, back in his first term he put up a table full of blank paper and made a photo-op of it, claiming it was all the regulations he planned to undo.

"Trump didn't realize he was standing at a table full of blank paper" is a quick jab at his intelligence. But the reality was merely that Trump used a prop to sell a lie that played well with his base. And the photo-shopped knuckle tattoos were another prop to sell another lie.

Was it as cleverly rolled out and executed as the Killian documents that brought down Dan Rather or the Aluminum Tubes video that gulled Congress into war with Iraq? No. But it didn't need to be. We're getting the same results regardless of the fidelity of the image.

He’s oceans worth of stupid

He got Congress to sign off on a $145B increase to the ICE budget by leveraging AI generated smears. That's not what I'd call stupid.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

But the reality was merely that Trump used a prop to sell a lie that played well with his base.

His base is stupid too. We've already been over this. 🥱

And the photo-shopped knuckle tattoos were another prop to sell another lie.

It wasn't mearly photoshopped. It was annotated. He insisted that the 20pt Arial annotations were actually tattoos.

If you want to believe he's some type of genius, it's clear I'm not going to be able to convince you otherwise. So I'll man woman person TV camera see my way out. Covfefe!