How a man this crass managed to be President twice, I'll never know. What a fucking disgrace...
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Because a plurality of Americans are equally crass, ignorant, selfish, and evil.
There are a metric f*** ton of people in the United States who just want to use the n-word.
How a man this crass managed to be President twice
He was elected for being who he is, not despite.
We've heard this line before but if you actually read exit polls you get a simultaneously smarter and more depressing view of politics in this country.
Trump was really good at appealing directly to the nation's strongest political capital force, which is the segment of our population who are armed, scared, dumber than toenails, insanely patriotic and can be made to vote for anything without hesitation or research. These are the kinds of forces that have built and destroyed nations over and over, of COURSE the entire establishment Republican and Democrat parties are going to salivate at the idea of one man able to hold so much power and do everything to keep him in the news cycle.
As for voters, most Americans aren't on Lemmy or Reddit or listening to political podcasts. They're listening to music and distraction and anything to get through their mind-numbing days and insecurity about the future. They get 30 minutes of political memes and clips of Joe Rogan on facebook once a week. They had no idea what they were doing at the voting booths, they said as much. The most common responses paint the clear picture that people didn't remember anything from his first term or were also checked out, and everyone was pissed at the price of groceries and Biden was the president so they drew that association between cost of eggs and Biden's face, and Harris seemed like more of Biden. These aren't even unique patterns in politics, there are names for them.
Trump, despite being dour and nasty and never smiled or laughed, that makes him seem more human than the alternatives who make it onto the national stage. He might not be honest, but he's genuine, and that difference is what made a lot of hopeless, uninformed Americans literally shrug and say "lets see what happens."
The horror-movie punchline here is that it will happen again. And again. And again.
I have lived a half century watching these cycles. We've been here before.
which is the segment of our population who are armed, scared, dumber than toenails, insanely patriotic and can be made to vote for anything without hesitation or research.
That's not patriotism. They're nationalists. That they don't know the difference makes it even worse.
Edit: here's some more info: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationalism-vs-Patriotism-Whats-the-Difference
The line is very blurry, but in this context I'm talking about how they're used, they can be used to back any idea if they think it's good for the country and "patriotic." Although all that said, giving up the flag really burned the left and sacrificed a lot of power. Nationalism is a political tool and has been used as a tool for a long time.
My comment is entirely addressing political capital and how power is used to get outcomes.
If you refer to what they understand, you can't use any word. If they don't like something, it's socialism. If they hate it, it's communism. It's woke, it's liberal, it's whatever the hell word they can remember from being indoctrinated You can't lower yourself to their level and still be understandable by normal human beings.
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Hes the perfect representation of the american spirit
Voter fraud. Social media mass manipulation. Scapegoating.
Old tricks but still work.
Fox has people brainwashed.
Because he's peak american.you may not like it, but he's the embodiment of what the world thinks when they hear america.
I'm old enough to remember the America of best education, top science and engineering in the world. The America that proudly went to the Moon. The America that developed the Internet on public money.
I guess I can feel the contrast with the idiocracy of today a bit more keenly than younger folks who have never known anything else.
I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America. My perspective of being a mid 20s American is that of a longing for the America that was all the things you listed. Not a kleptocratic oligarchy held up by social media misinformation and straight idiocy. Ever since the mid 70s: following all the debt caused by the Vietnam War, the disastrous consequences of Reaganomics, and deregulation of finance; income inequality has gotten to a point of insanity.
I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America
I'm so sorry. But it was like that. Sure it had its many, many flaws. But it was a place where studying hard, making it to and through college and being educated were valued more highly than being a vocal cretin, where science was respected, craziness was fringe, religion was retreating, working hard gave you a real - albeit small - chance at striking it rich, and where you could expect your children to be better off than you if you did everything right.
All that is gone. I really feel sorry for you and those of your generation who never got to experience the "good" America - at least good if you were white...
I am just jealous of how many older folks got their college education for free or just hundreds of dollars 50+ years ago…
Yes, we gen-Xers got a lot of things for cheap or free, and we had a lot more opportunities for sure - and our boomer parents even more so - because we rode the tail end of the post-WW2 economic boom.
I totally get the jealousy. What I don't get is the hate: I can't count the number of young people who actually hate me because I happen to have had it better than them. Sorry... It's not like I planned it or anything, and I didn't set out to ruin anybody's life after me neither.
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Which I always assumed was a hyperbolic stereotype based on things like the “Florida man” phenomenon.
Turns out it is a reality based description.
Because American voters are stupid. And don't care enough about their own country. But mostly stupid.
And because they cheated and were allowed to get away with it
Yes, because a few people are paid off, and the balance of the people are too stupid.
It's the way Americans are bred. Bovine docility to their masters, is in their genes.
American voters are stupid
Democracy is when you have two options, a wrong candidate and a right candidate. And the elections process simply an IQ test
Republicans got desperate. They also only vote R.
He represents half the country.
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Ha ha ha, I love Walz:
Walz responded to Trump’s vicious attack by questioning the president’s own mental state.
“Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on X, referring to the results of Trump’s latest medical checkup, which he touted at the time as “perfect.”
“Seriously Retarded”, you say, an ableist slur, and a self confession simultaneously, coming from someone exhibiting increasing signs of dementia.
I don't understand why people with power or a platform don't just literally make fun of him more with playground insults. Like dumdum donny or stupid brain hairpiece or something. He's so thin skinned he'd spend all his time responding to insults rather than fuck up the country more.
“Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone”
I've never met a Somali that wasn't a friendly sort having lived here my whole life. Had one bring in some of these pretty awesome dumpling things called sambusa(?) once to work just cause reasons. Very chill bunch far as I've ever seen.
Yup, sambusa. They're similar to samosas that you get in various forms all over South and South-East Asia. Delicious stuff.
It's funny how conservatives the world over trot out the same tired conspiracy theories. The conservative parties in Australia have regularly tried out the 'African gangs' idea without much success.
Trump doesn’t even understand elementary school math
Every time I see a post from this moron I lose even more respect for the mouth breathers that voted for him.
No, no, you see, when you go to buy medication now, the hospital pays you! Thanks Mr. Trump!
Just a reminder that whilst Trump is blocking migrants from "poor" countries, the architect and participants of 9/11 were all from Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.
Silly, they're not immigrants if they're rich!
The vast majority of Joe Rogan listeners (which is a massive portion of our country) believe 9/11 either was entirely holograms or was staged by rogue warlocks who work in the CIA to distract the public from recovered UFO wrecks. But either way, have had so much sensationalism and doubt injected into their mental narrative that they don't connect the historical event with reality anymore, so it's meaningless to try to connect it to anything.
It's very, very hard to care about logic and justice and also be informed about history and geopolitics.
Projection.
Drumpf is now fearing that the talk is right and he is mentally disabled.
I doubt he can admit his flaws to himself, let alone others
He projects everything. That's how you know what's on his mind at a given moment.
That inbred, diaper-wearing dementia patient has no fucking business talking about anything.
Gotta give my support to Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar, got it.
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Why does anyone have any respect for the office of the president?
It's been a joke for quite sometime already.
We should kill the Internet.
AI is on top of it
That’s an interesting euphemism.
Already dead.
The problem is all the people getting all their news and emotional validation from a corpse.
When Thanksgiving became Insultgiving!
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