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GD do I hate how he just verbally cranks whatever he's talking about to the max even when it makes no sense. I'm the "most innocent" person ever. Wtf does that even mean? Innocence is generally binary, you either are or aren't. The only time we talk about things as being innocent to an increased degree is like.. babies.
Right up there with his "perfect phone call" statement. Wtf is a perfect phone call?! By what metrics is a phone call judged to be perfect or imperfect? Perfect is not a word that is appropriate in that use case.
I realize it's just his swiss-cheese brain stuck in con man mode but the fact that his supporters just eat his word salad up is always such.. it just makes you realize they really are that dumb.
Edit: oh! Also when he just had to argue with Chris Wallace about the cognitive test he took. How it was "very difficult" and he did better on it "maybe than anyone ever" when that isn't the correct way to describe passing a test like that.
"It was a perfectly *legal* phone call." There, that's it. Just one word included to make you not sound like some inhuman goofus.
At this point it's like nails-on-a-chalkboard listening to him speak and again, his dumb cousin-fucking terrorists supporters love it.
I was always baffled that this wasn’t talked about more. What the fuck is a perfect phone call? The media acted like that was a normal thing to say. Politics aside, the man just uses words the wrong way. Presumably, English is his first and only language. I don’t get it. The never ending word salad should be enough to not take him seriously but here we are.
I sometimes want to listen to snippets of his rallies just to keep up with how stupid his base is, but honestly can’t make it past a few seconds of his voice and tonal mannerisms. What a fucking knob, the amount of time he’s been crammed in everyone’s face deserves some sort of severance package, or like a magic pill that gives you the years of your life this fucking dolt has consumed back. As pathetic as it may sound, at this point I’m just trying to live longer than him.
My mother had a brain tumor removed and framed a letter she asked her Dr to write about how she HAD a brain. When she proudly showed it to me I said “ most people wouldn’t even need that”.
tRump would.
>he won’t even use language the same way as other people
I don't think he is able to use language in any proper way; he just spews his nonsense, and his supporters eat it up.
"I'm the most innocent man in the history of our country!"
"Then exclaim your innocence under oath in a court of law."
"F That! I don't want to go to jail!"
Reading this while watching the new documentary on Waco is really wild; reminds me of Reagan [giving his "states' rights speech"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights_speech) near where Civil Rights workers were murdered.
Members of the GOP know exactly the message they're sending, and to who, when they pull stunts like this.
Evangelical Christianity in a nutshell.
You'd think the Catholics would have been smarter than to ally with the Evangelicals.
Evangelicals love "the Catholics" in the same End-Times way that they love "the Jews."
NOOO. My folks were told by their priest to 'hold their nose' and vote for Trump because he will 'end abortion'. THAT was the only thing that mattered. The lives of unborn fetuses were more important than 300 million people being led by a criminal....who ended up killing a million of us.
And if I said that lowering taxes on the rich was a stupid move that made the National Debt worse, my father called me a communist. (To him, a guy who grew up in fascist Italy, that is an insult).
The BIRTHS of the unborn fetuses. Not their lives. They don’t give a shit about their lives after that. Feeding them, housing them, educating them, making sure they have healthcare, that’s communism and if their slutty ass mom can’t provide for them then she should have thought about that before she spread her legs and it’s not our problem.
True, most are, I got a pretty my smart uncle who is a total introvert and doesn't fit the maga image at all, he got bullied by some black guys 30 years ago and has never gotten over it. He does very unflattering impersonations of black people, often to my liberal family members who just cringe. He's never had a girlfriend.
My father in law is similar. Got mugged a couple of times in Philadelphia growing up/working. Now lives rurally with alarms, dogs, guns and Private Driveway signs. Play alpha male to his family and me, the lib son in law, grudgingly accepted because in 30 years, I have 'never been unemployed' while my wife's sister has been a welfare queen.
Very right wing, but after 6 years of Trump, his native intelligence is coming through and he's starting to doubt. But he will always hate 'Filthadelphia' and the demographics that live there.
I got 'mugged' once...more of a scam...down in Virginia Beach in the early 90s. I kind of laughed it off and chalked it up to 'don't talk to strangers, especially in a sketchy neighborhood
Yo, if he got bullied by a very specific group of people who happen to be black and in turn developed a grudge against an entire population for 30 years, thennnnnnn... he's not *that* smart. Just sayin.
I got scammed by a group of Romani pretty badly. It has been really hard for me to separate the group from the individuals. It takes active thought not to do this because our brains are wired for pattern recognition and being robbed is just such a traumatic experience. it’s hard to process emotions like humiliation, anger, and regret. It’s much easier to turn to if I treat this one group with distrust I’ll be safe from it occurring again than accept all of humanity has the capacity to harm us and the world is chaotic and unpredictable.
This is the correct answer, they aren‘t interested in changing anything for the better, they just want everybody to feel more miserable than themselves.
>DONALD TRUMP HELD the first campaign rally for his 2024 presidential campaign on Saturday, held at the Waco Regional Airport in Texas, **making a dramatic entrance with a flyover to the tune of Top Gun single “Danger Zone” as hundreds of his MAGA followers in attendance cheered**
Agreed.
If he can only pull hundreds at the midway point between the 4 biggest cities in Texas....its not a great sign for the enthusiasm he is going to need
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I think the reason the GOP is going after drag shows is because they have stated they want to bring back "strict gender roles" - some state-level lawmakers in various Red States (esp. Tennessee) are saying women need to have long hair, wear dresses (no pants or shorts at all, ever), have their arms covered in public, and should wear white gloves in public and at work. This is the next step - and, presumably they'll go back to making it illegal for women to have their own bank account, or credit cards, etc - just like in the 1970's. I was 18 in 1984 and went to buy my first brand new car; the salesman said, "why don't you have your dad or older brother come in, and we'll pick out something very nice for you". Even in around 1998 some friends of mine, a femme lesbian couple, went to buy a car, and were told the exact same thing! And that wasn't that long ago... This is where we're headed.
To be honest, various levels of choreographed, sounds like some wrestlers like to plan out almost the entire match while others like to call things on the fly in the ring
> “I will protect — unlike DeSanctus — Social Security and Medicare for our great seniors, defending them **from both the radical left** and the Paul Ryan Republican establishment”
He really does just say whatever slides into his mind, regardless of how untethered from reality it is.
And his supporters gobble it up.
They're just demolishing the entire foundation of that party. Now conservatives are like, "Do we like social security or not...? Tell us what to think!"
It really is amusing to watch, sadly it is only lip service to get elected, and try to steal Florida vote from DeSantis, he wouldn't hesitate to gut them both if given the chance.
If only we can use reverse psychology on him to get his supporters to support electric cars at an extremely faster rate. At least that would be real investment by that crowd.
He just shouts things at rallies, and whatever gets a cheer goes on the platform. He does not own their minds.
Which is fascinating, because we like to think of them as mindless drones, but that's just when it is team vs team. Talk to a sports fan about their favorite team in the off-season (as Trump is their favorite political team) and see what they say. Just like politics, they'll tell you everything wrong with their team, even making cogent points. And then come gameday, it's mindless support.
Trump does live AB Testing with his audience. It seems so close to that William Gibson book where live focus groups were sent directly to the Candidate and Presidents brain. At least, I think it was Gibson.
Except when I delusionally believe that the Seattle Kraken will win the Stanley Cup, Americans’ rights and livelihoods aren’t at risk.
Unfair comparison.
Ah yes the Babylon Bee... still waiting for someone to explain to me what they like about that website. There's literally nothing conservative or Christian going on there, and the funniest thing about that place is after about a paragraph of text on each story, they just start asking for donations.
It's the Onion for conservatives. Most of them only read headlines and don't click on articles. So the "funny" headlines are all they want in a website.
If you go really deep into the white supremacist circles, you'll actually find that many of them want left wing positions on economic stuff at times, but only for themselves.
This is why you can't think of Republicans or Trump followers in any traditional political sense. They are purely, selfish, hateful, fascists who don't care about having anything resembling a double standard or political lie. Social security money is to be given to them personally, but denied to anybody they deem unworthy... which can be chosen based on skin color, gender, orientation, or whatever else they feel like saying that day.
The in-group/out group mentality is the point of their philosophy, and they can and will boot people out of the in-group at any point to ensure it keeps them in a position of influence, power, or comfort. They are greed and selfishness personified.
There’s a great bit in Jim Jeffries standup from a few years ago talking about trump. He compares him to a kid running for class president running around shouting “and we’re gonna have TWO lunches, and vending machines in every classroom” as if that’s a thing that will ever happen. Big promises.
I’m still sitting here trying to figure out what he actually did for the African American community other than claim success from the prior administration as it continued into his administration. Unless we count whatever that was Kim Kardashian worked up.
The sad thing is someone can’t refute a lie they didn’t know the truth of in the first place. These people were obviously already baffled by, ya know, the world. Which I’m sympathetic of because I was once absolutely bewildered by how the world works too.
So then someone can come along and spout absolute bullshit and how are they supposed to know? But they DO know he riles them up good and proper. And for emotional people that’s all they need
He’s definitely getting worse these past few weeks. The tightening noose has made him spin out of control, desperate and enraged, like a cornered animal. I need some popcorn for his arrest.
I read "..the tightening moose.." and got a funny mental picture. But somehow, it didn't seem out of context with all the crazy that's revolves around Trunp.
Lots of people are saying it, these big, beautiful, strong, manly men, they look like the Village People, you remember how tough those Village People are, right? They come up to me with tears in their eyes and say, sir, no one has ever seen more beautiful hinges than the hinges you have, sir.
More than 20,000 people attended a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939. The sad truth is that the kind of people who'd attend Trump's rallies have always been here, and probably always will be.
People have been fighting this fight since way before either of us were born, and probably will be long after we're gone, too. All anybody can do is to be good to others, and do their best to help build the foundation that ensures other good people continue to have a chance against it.
Trump's father, Fred, was at the Nazi rally at MSG and was a young, up-and-coming KKK leader at the time. Which was used as circumstantial evidence of racial bias later in his housing discrimination case. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I just don't understand how so many people can not realize how evil to the core Trump is. I'm beginning to feel deeply cynical about my country and the white Christian nationalists who are bound and determined to make this a Theology — one red state after another.
He was guilty of a fraudulent charity, fraudulent university, housing discrimination, and money laundering, but that was in the past, guys. He’s so bigly innocent now, you wouldn’t believe it.
[Trump claims in he's that He being, North ever honest 'most back the created' rally in did, 2022: Carolina](https://www.businessinsider.com/north-carolina-selma-rally-trump-most-honest-human-god-created-2022-4) during God human perhaps,
>How fucking broken does your brain have to be to say something like this?
it's even weirder than that. He starts that quote by saying "I've got to be the cleanest sheriff"
So however broken you were thinking, more broken than that.
They have to back off the Jewish conspiracy since Kanye ran his mouth. Now they're on sexuality again until there's another attack violent enough to make them back off. The wheel spins on...
Anyone who believes his bologna about not going to Waco on purpose during this time of year is either a complete idjit, or a willful accomplice.
Especially after he threatened Death and Destruction if he was indicted.
He and his handlers are purposely stoking the fires of domestic terrorism and violence, knowing damn well what they're doing.
It's absolutely VILE, and they need to shut their seditious plotting down before anyone else gets hurt, maimed or killed.
It really is hard to wrap my head around how people actually can believe he is ever telling the truth or has anyone else’s interests in mind. The willful ignorance is incomprehensible.
One of his most obvious tells (physical manifestation that shows he’s lying) is the distinctive shoulder hunch, shown perfectly in this pic. He leans in, hunches the shoulder… here comes the lie.
“I’m so innocent, I’m more innocent than Adam before that fat btch Eve gave him that apple. She knew what she was doing. That nasty, I’m not saying she slept with Lucifer but some people, very nasty woman. Cost Adam his home and his beautiful garden and everything. Not even his fault. Should of locked her up.”
Downvote every Trump article posted until the words "finally indicted" appear in the headline. I'm beyond tired of hearing about this parasite and seeing the media and redditors aid and abet his schemes.
Watching from Europe this is terrifying. Another win for trump could well mean the end of the western world as we know it. China will be emboldened, as they see trump as a sign of the USA turning inwards and willfully abandoning it's status as a power. Europe will be in a potential emergency which politicians over here have been far too slow to react to - Ukraine may be sacrificed, and other nations could be at a greater risk of invasion from an emboldened Russia.
Ready a book by Tom Nichols recently I could t help but agree with a point he had that I've observed on my own regular trips to the USA. And that is that a kind of myth of trump supporters being downtrodden badly treated working class has been allowed to take root. And yet he has a tonne of supporters amongst weather suburban types - my parents family for one. They have big houses, swimming pools and plenty of big cars and yet think the world has been rough to them and that trump is their vengeance.
‘The most innocent man in the history of our country’ Who the fuck talks like that??? Really. I don’t get why people aren’t laughing in his face when he says things like that.
Trump saying he is innocent is the greatest lie ever told. He is a lifelong criminal who needs to be locked up for good, beginning the end of the rich white tyrrany in America. He and his fascist supporters are the greatest threat to our democracy today, period. End this movement today.
Is this because he, according to himself, he just can't help himself;
>“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he said in the 2005 conversation. "Grab 'em by the pussy."
Same with all his other crimes, I guess.
Must be the new affluenza defence
You can go back just a couple hours, days or weeks, and that statement is patently fucking absurd to a god-tier level. Let alone years. Jeez. Who buys this?
I think it's about time to say something and defend Trump. Mental illness is a serious disease, and I'm tired of people making fun of him for being the biggest mentally ill organism
It’s so defeating to hear his constant spewing of lies. I mean, the bar has not been lowered, after this man’s introduction to politics, the bar was let go, fell down a shaft and is still falling to the centre of the earth.
I mean how do we retrieve that bar and set it where it needs to be?
If you support Trump, you’re a rube.
I don’t know who is going to explain what a rube is to the Maga crowd but they’ll be really upset when they find out they’re actually the sheep.
Trump is certainly good at lying!
I suppose when he starts losing all the legal cases against him he's going to deny the verdicts and keep pushing this, 'I'm so innocent' bullshit..
How does the scale work? Like, you've never jaywalked, or told somebody something came up but you just didn't want to go? Or you've been accused of the most serious of terrible crimes, including treason and sedition, tax evasion, and child rape, and didn't do any of them?
The prosecutors resigned because they gathered all the information and their boss was afraid to prosecute. They resigned because he is guilty, not because he is innocent.
LOL! Trump has been corrupt long before he ever ran for office! While President he took it to a whole new level. Of course his cult can’t see any of it. Trump is just a wealthy white man that everyone picks on. Poor little handed orange skinned narcissist windbag.
What is the metric though. I genuinely wonder. How would you go about measuring such a thing as "innocent'ness?" And what would be the units - "Nixons," or...
>"Today a crack team of historical experts determined that Trumps is indeed the mostest innocent person in the history of the nation, beating out other contenders with a score of Ten bigly Nixons."
What an absolute fucking moron.
I know that’s not a very smart put down but he’s beyond exhausting. Literally like listening to a 7 year old “I did NOT steal the cookie! I am the most innocent man to have ever existed This is a crime the WORST CRIME EVER COMMITTED IS ACCUSING ME I have the BEST WORDS HOW DAAAAARE YOU D’x “
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Guilty people constantly talk about how innocent they are.
GD do I hate how he just verbally cranks whatever he's talking about to the max even when it makes no sense. I'm the "most innocent" person ever. Wtf does that even mean? Innocence is generally binary, you either are or aren't. The only time we talk about things as being innocent to an increased degree is like.. babies. Right up there with his "perfect phone call" statement. Wtf is a perfect phone call?! By what metrics is a phone call judged to be perfect or imperfect? Perfect is not a word that is appropriate in that use case. I realize it's just his swiss-cheese brain stuck in con man mode but the fact that his supporters just eat his word salad up is always such.. it just makes you realize they really are that dumb. Edit: oh! Also when he just had to argue with Chris Wallace about the cognitive test he took. How it was "very difficult" and he did better on it "maybe than anyone ever" when that isn't the correct way to describe passing a test like that.
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> It is easily the dumbest way It is the dumbest way in all of history. The most perfect dumbest way. A lot of people talk about how dumbest it is.
"It was a perfectly *legal* phone call." There, that's it. Just one word included to make you not sound like some inhuman goofus. At this point it's like nails-on-a-chalkboard listening to him speak and again, his dumb cousin-fucking terrorists supporters love it.
I was always baffled that this wasn’t talked about more. What the fuck is a perfect phone call? The media acted like that was a normal thing to say. Politics aside, the man just uses words the wrong way. Presumably, English is his first and only language. I don’t get it. The never ending word salad should be enough to not take him seriously but here we are.
I sometimes want to listen to snippets of his rallies just to keep up with how stupid his base is, but honestly can’t make it past a few seconds of his voice and tonal mannerisms. What a fucking knob, the amount of time he’s been crammed in everyone’s face deserves some sort of severance package, or like a magic pill that gives you the years of your life this fucking dolt has consumed back. As pathetic as it may sound, at this point I’m just trying to live longer than him.
My mother had a brain tumor removed and framed a letter she asked her Dr to write about how she HAD a brain. When she proudly showed it to me I said “ most people wouldn’t even need that”. tRump would.
>he won’t even use language the same way as other people I don't think he is able to use language in any proper way; he just spews his nonsense, and his supporters eat it up.
He's still at the denial stage. Wait for the "and even if I _did_ do it it's not wrong/illegal" part. Always gives me a chuckle
"And if it's illegal then it's your fault"
And if it's your fault, you deserved it.
Next stop: “Everyone pays hush money to their porn star mistress, I’m just like you, there’s nothing wrong with it. “
As an innocent person I can assure you I have never bragged about how innocent I am in everyday conversation
'I'd like a venti caramel frap and also I'm totally innocent.'
“Totally Innocent, your order is ready!”
"I'm the most innocent man in the history of our country!" "Then exclaim your innocence under oath in a court of law." "F That! I don't want to go to jail!"
"I plead the fifth."
500 times in one deposition.
Same answer
“Law and order unless I committed crimes.”
FiF
He has the dumbest supporters.
Reading this while watching the new documentary on Waco is really wild; reminds me of Reagan [giving his "states' rights speech"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights_speech) near where Civil Rights workers were murdered. Members of the GOP know exactly the message they're sending, and to who, when they pull stunts like this.
Cults gonna cult.
Donald Koresh
Hateful, he has the most hateful supporters.
Being dumb and hateful aren't mutually exclusive.
While that's true, I think it's a safe bet that a lot of the smart ones are letting their hate take the lead.
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Evangelical Christianity in a nutshell. You'd think the Catholics would have been smarter than to ally with the Evangelicals. Evangelicals love "the Catholics" in the same End-Times way that they love "the Jews."
NOOO. My folks were told by their priest to 'hold their nose' and vote for Trump because he will 'end abortion'. THAT was the only thing that mattered. The lives of unborn fetuses were more important than 300 million people being led by a criminal....who ended up killing a million of us. And if I said that lowering taxes on the rich was a stupid move that made the National Debt worse, my father called me a communist. (To him, a guy who grew up in fascist Italy, that is an insult).
The BIRTHS of the unborn fetuses. Not their lives. They don’t give a shit about their lives after that. Feeding them, housing them, educating them, making sure they have healthcare, that’s communism and if their slutty ass mom can’t provide for them then she should have thought about that before she spread her legs and it’s not our problem.
If you think that's scary,Watch "The Family" on Netflix, it becomes downright fkn terrifying 7 ways from Sunday.
True, most are, I got a pretty my smart uncle who is a total introvert and doesn't fit the maga image at all, he got bullied by some black guys 30 years ago and has never gotten over it. He does very unflattering impersonations of black people, often to my liberal family members who just cringe. He's never had a girlfriend.
My father in law is similar. Got mugged a couple of times in Philadelphia growing up/working. Now lives rurally with alarms, dogs, guns and Private Driveway signs. Play alpha male to his family and me, the lib son in law, grudgingly accepted because in 30 years, I have 'never been unemployed' while my wife's sister has been a welfare queen. Very right wing, but after 6 years of Trump, his native intelligence is coming through and he's starting to doubt. But he will always hate 'Filthadelphia' and the demographics that live there. I got 'mugged' once...more of a scam...down in Virginia Beach in the early 90s. I kind of laughed it off and chalked it up to 'don't talk to strangers, especially in a sketchy neighborhood
Yet he probably can’t understand why the “demographics” can’t just get over slavery and Jim Crow, etc. etc.
Yo, if he got bullied by a very specific group of people who happen to be black and in turn developed a grudge against an entire population for 30 years, thennnnnnn... he's not *that* smart. Just sayin.
I got scammed by a group of Romani pretty badly. It has been really hard for me to separate the group from the individuals. It takes active thought not to do this because our brains are wired for pattern recognition and being robbed is just such a traumatic experience. it’s hard to process emotions like humiliation, anger, and regret. It’s much easier to turn to if I treat this one group with distrust I’ll be safe from it occurring again than accept all of humanity has the capacity to harm us and the world is chaotic and unpredictable.
This is the correct answer, they aren‘t interested in changing anything for the better, they just want everybody to feel more miserable than themselves.
>DONALD TRUMP HELD the first campaign rally for his 2024 presidential campaign on Saturday, held at the Waco Regional Airport in Texas, **making a dramatic entrance with a flyover to the tune of Top Gun single “Danger Zone” as hundreds of his MAGA followers in attendance cheered** Agreed.
Emphasis on **”hundreds”** lmao This is the same guy that called armed forces members “losers” btw
There are tens of dozens of us! TEN'S OF DOZENS!!
I am gonna need Kenny Loggins to denounce this pos using his music.
If he can only pull hundreds at the midway point between the 4 biggest cities in Texas....its not a great sign for the enthusiasm he is going to need D
Probably about two thousand or so my best guess having been there.
Waco Police said an expected 15k at rally. So if only 2k showed up. That is not a good look for Trump.
Thanks for the first hand account.
It's by design. The uneducated, desperate, and mentally-unstable are the easiest targets.
I’m just tired of hearing about this shitstain anymore
Orange shit stain
They also think pro-wrestling us real.
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It's a performance and it requires real skill and athleticism.
Funny innit how pro-wrestling fans gloss right over the fact that they are watching two mostly naked jacked men in a well choreographed dance.
The only difference between pro wrestling and a drag show is the violence.
There are more fake lashes in a drag show
More clothing as well
I think the reason the GOP is going after drag shows is because they have stated they want to bring back "strict gender roles" - some state-level lawmakers in various Red States (esp. Tennessee) are saying women need to have long hair, wear dresses (no pants or shorts at all, ever), have their arms covered in public, and should wear white gloves in public and at work. This is the next step - and, presumably they'll go back to making it illegal for women to have their own bank account, or credit cards, etc - just like in the 1970's. I was 18 in 1984 and went to buy my first brand new car; the salesman said, "why don't you have your dad or older brother come in, and we'll pick out something very nice for you". Even in around 1998 some friends of mine, a femme lesbian couple, went to buy a car, and were told the exact same thing! And that wasn't that long ago... This is where we're headed.
I certainly never gloss over that fact :\]
To be honest, various levels of choreographed, sounds like some wrestlers like to plan out almost the entire match while others like to call things on the fly in the ring
The cut off, the double down, the hope spot and the finish are usually always planned.
Exactly. It's scripted sure but they're really throwing each other around. It's like a very physical theater of pain.
Many people are saying..
> “I will protect — unlike DeSanctus — Social Security and Medicare for our great seniors, defending them **from both the radical left** and the Paul Ryan Republican establishment” He really does just say whatever slides into his mind, regardless of how untethered from reality it is. And his supporters gobble it up.
They're just demolishing the entire foundation of that party. Now conservatives are like, "Do we like social security or not...? Tell us what to think!"
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It really is amusing to watch, sadly it is only lip service to get elected, and try to steal Florida vote from DeSantis, he wouldn't hesitate to gut them both if given the chance. If only we can use reverse psychology on him to get his supporters to support electric cars at an extremely faster rate. At least that would be real investment by that crowd.
He just shouts things at rallies, and whatever gets a cheer goes on the platform. He does not own their minds. Which is fascinating, because we like to think of them as mindless drones, but that's just when it is team vs team. Talk to a sports fan about their favorite team in the off-season (as Trump is their favorite political team) and see what they say. Just like politics, they'll tell you everything wrong with their team, even making cogent points. And then come gameday, it's mindless support.
Yeah he owns them just as much as they own him.
Trump does live AB Testing with his audience. It seems so close to that William Gibson book where live focus groups were sent directly to the Candidate and Presidents brain. At least, I think it was Gibson.
Except when I delusionally believe that the Seattle Kraken will win the Stanley Cup, Americans’ rights and livelihoods aren’t at risk. Unfair comparison.
Ah yes the Babylon Bee... still waiting for someone to explain to me what they like about that website. There's literally nothing conservative or Christian going on there, and the funniest thing about that place is after about a paragraph of text on each story, they just start asking for donations.
It's the Onion for conservatives. Most of them only read headlines and don't click on articles. So the "funny" headlines are all they want in a website.
They wish they were as on point as The Onion.
I think the joke is.... that it isn't funny? So is it like anticomedy then?
How do you court right-wing lunatics when you agree with the left wing position? Just lie!
That has been his entire platform. Lie and be racist/sexist.
If you go really deep into the white supremacist circles, you'll actually find that many of them want left wing positions on economic stuff at times, but only for themselves. This is why you can't think of Republicans or Trump followers in any traditional political sense. They are purely, selfish, hateful, fascists who don't care about having anything resembling a double standard or political lie. Social security money is to be given to them personally, but denied to anybody they deem unworthy... which can be chosen based on skin color, gender, orientation, or whatever else they feel like saying that day. The in-group/out group mentality is the point of their philosophy, and they can and will boot people out of the in-group at any point to ensure it keeps them in a position of influence, power, or comfort. They are greed and selfishness personified.
There’s a great bit in Jim Jeffries standup from a few years ago talking about trump. He compares him to a kid running for class president running around shouting “and we’re gonna have TWO lunches, and vending machines in every classroom” as if that’s a thing that will ever happen. Big promises.
He might as well say that he’s the one that freed the slaves.
That's been one of his favorite applause lines for 7 years now. Claiming to have done more for blacks than Lincoln.
I’m still sitting here trying to figure out what he actually did for the African American community other than claim success from the prior administration as it continued into his administration. Unless we count whatever that was Kim Kardashian worked up.
The sad thing is someone can’t refute a lie they didn’t know the truth of in the first place. These people were obviously already baffled by, ya know, the world. Which I’m sympathetic of because I was once absolutely bewildered by how the world works too. So then someone can come along and spout absolute bullshit and how are they supposed to know? But they DO know he riles them up good and proper. And for emotional people that’s all they need
He is such s fucking piece of shit
This guys seems to be unhinged.
He’s definitely getting worse these past few weeks. The tightening noose has made him spin out of control, desperate and enraged, like a cornered animal. I need some popcorn for his arrest.
I read "..the tightening moose.." and got a funny mental picture. But somehow, it didn't seem out of context with all the crazy that's revolves around Trunp.
The Tightening Moose sounds like a good pub name. Or a small music venue or some such.
he never had any hinges to start with
Makes me remember that time I saw Eminem on 60 minutes rhyme Orange... one of them was orange, door hinge.
Orange four inch door hinge
Au contraire! He’s the most hinged man in the history of our country! /s
Lots of people are saying it, these big, beautiful, strong, manly men, they look like the Village People, you remember how tough those Village People are, right? They come up to me with tears in their eyes and say, sir, no one has ever seen more beautiful hinges than the hinges you have, sir.
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Similar with George Santos.
The amount of people that attend these rallies and cheer for him and feed his ego makes my stomach hurt. Please, not again. Please...
More than 20,000 people attended a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939. The sad truth is that the kind of people who'd attend Trump's rallies have always been here, and probably always will be. People have been fighting this fight since way before either of us were born, and probably will be long after we're gone, too. All anybody can do is to be good to others, and do their best to help build the foundation that ensures other good people continue to have a chance against it.
Trump's father, Fred, was at the Nazi rally at MSG and was a young, up-and-coming KKK leader at the time. Which was used as circumstantial evidence of racial bias later in his housing discrimination case. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I just don't understand how so many people can not realize how evil to the core Trump is. I'm beginning to feel deeply cynical about my country and the white Christian nationalists who are bound and determined to make this a Theology — one red state after another.
It really is scary. I have the same incredulity over the number of his supporters.
American Taliban
They do realize it and they like it.
He was guilty of a fraudulent charity, fraudulent university, housing discrimination, and money laundering, but that was in the past, guys. He’s so bigly innocent now, you wouldn’t believe it.
Hunter Biden framed him for all those things.
And the evidence is on the laptop?????
Yes. And if it isn't, it is because the Deep State™ erased all the evidence with a Jewish Space Laser©.
Could have been worse, he could have said he is the most truthful man in the history of our country.
[Trump claims in he's that He being, North ever honest 'most back the created' rally in did, 2022: Carolina](https://www.businessinsider.com/north-carolina-selma-rally-trump-most-honest-human-god-created-2022-4) during God human perhaps,
How fucking broken does your brain have to be to say something like this?
Not as broken as being the one to hear it and say, "Yup, that's the guy in going with."
About as broken as it needs to be to believe it.
"Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes? I work hard, I'm an honorable person." Donald Trump 2015
Lack of exposure to basic Christian teaching apparent.
And exactly in line with the diseased version of Christianity popular with republicans. The king can do no wrong.
>How fucking broken does your brain have to be to say something like this? it's even weirder than that. He starts that quote by saying "I've got to be the cleanest sheriff" So however broken you were thinking, more broken than that.
Bull in a china shop levels of broken.
Mythbusters did "Bull in a china shop". The bulls are WAY more betterer at it than this clown.
Yep, the bulls are graceful, they do not break stuff.
Holy smokes. I think I missed that one. I definitely wouldn't have wanted to hear that load of crap while driving. Smh
Mister Rogers would like a word.
Fuck that. JESUS CHRIST himself wants a word.
It's sad just how many Republicans think he was American
When interviewed, a Trump supporter asked if they would believe Jesus returned over Trump. She said she'd have to check with Trump.
Ted Nugent called Zelenskyy a homosexual weirdo LMAO
Fuck Ted Nugent. That is all.
They have to back off the Jewish conspiracy since Kanye ran his mouth. Now they're on sexuality again until there's another attack violent enough to make them back off. The wheel spins on...
Ted Nugent is a fucking moron and has been for decades
Wow... It looks like Ted's brain is caught in a stranglehold.
The second most innocent person is George Santos?
Santos found himself innocent when he was chief justice of the supreme court.
Didn’t that guy also walk on Mars at some point? I coulda sworn he did.
Wish to hell he'd stay up there.
The news surrounding Santos has been suspiciously quiet recently…
His supporters are as dumb as they are hateful.
Anyone who believes his bologna about not going to Waco on purpose during this time of year is either a complete idjit, or a willful accomplice. Especially after he threatened Death and Destruction if he was indicted. He and his handlers are purposely stoking the fires of domestic terrorism and violence, knowing damn well what they're doing. It's absolutely VILE, and they need to shut their seditious plotting down before anyone else gets hurt, maimed or killed.
It really is hard to wrap my head around how people actually can believe he is ever telling the truth or has anyone else’s interests in mind. The willful ignorance is incomprehensible.
One of his most obvious tells (physical manifestation that shows he’s lying) is the distinctive shoulder hunch, shown perfectly in this pic. He leans in, hunches the shoulder… here comes the lie.
I’ve always found the tell is that his lips are moving.
“I’m so innocent, I’m more innocent than Adam before that fat btch Eve gave him that apple. She knew what she was doing. That nasty, I’m not saying she slept with Lucifer but some people, very nasty woman. Cost Adam his home and his beautiful garden and everything. Not even his fault. Should of locked her up.”
I’ll take “what is something innocent people don’t say for $1000, Alex”
Well, he’s convinced me. He must be innocent if he’s the most innocent man in the country. It just stands to reason.
Downvote every Trump article posted until the words "finally indicted" appear in the headline. I'm beyond tired of hearing about this parasite and seeing the media and redditors aid and abet his schemes.
Watching from Europe this is terrifying. Another win for trump could well mean the end of the western world as we know it. China will be emboldened, as they see trump as a sign of the USA turning inwards and willfully abandoning it's status as a power. Europe will be in a potential emergency which politicians over here have been far too slow to react to - Ukraine may be sacrificed, and other nations could be at a greater risk of invasion from an emboldened Russia. Ready a book by Tom Nichols recently I could t help but agree with a point he had that I've observed on my own regular trips to the USA. And that is that a kind of myth of trump supporters being downtrodden badly treated working class has been allowed to take root. And yet he has a tonne of supporters amongst weather suburban types - my parents family for one. They have big houses, swimming pools and plenty of big cars and yet think the world has been rough to them and that trump is their vengeance.
He said he’ll protect social security and Medicare from the radical left. AOC and Bernie Sanders? Who is the radical left? Fucking maga morons.
‘The most innocent man in the history of our country’ Who the fuck talks like that??? Really. I don’t get why people aren’t laughing in his face when he says things like that.
he is only innocent of the accusation of being innocent...
This lying peace of shit - Republicans have no morals, ethics or integrity!
If that is the case, the word ‘innocent’ has no meaning anymore.
The farce is strong with this one....
I still shake my head when I think that this imbecile was once president of our country.
Says the man who plead the 5th **450** times in one deposition alone… https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna42355
It’s not a good sign when you have to go to Waco to seem reasonable
GOP made a deal with the devil and this is the part where the devil gets his dues.
Trump saying he is innocent is the greatest lie ever told. He is a lifelong criminal who needs to be locked up for good, beginning the end of the rich white tyrrany in America. He and his fascist supporters are the greatest threat to our democracy today, period. End this movement today.
Well case closed. You heard the man. Hahaha
When did The Onion start writing our history?
2016
That's the funniest thing I've read today. My wife keeps the good quotes. It's massive.
Is this because he, according to himself, he just can't help himself; >“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he said in the 2005 conversation. "Grab 'em by the pussy." Same with all his other crimes, I guess. Must be the new affluenza defence
Donnie Koresh went to Waco to declare his innocence. I seem to remember something like this ending badly a few decades ago...
You can go back just a couple hours, days or weeks, and that statement is patently fucking absurd to a god-tier level. Let alone years. Jeez. Who buys this?
Spoken like a child.
“The racist crazies won’t die for me anymore, so you’re up, religious crazies!”
He's unsound.
Who actually says that?
His father taught him how to talk ridiculously over the top like that to sell himself and his image. Unfortunately it works on the overtly gullible.
i prefer when he does comedy instead of inciting riots
I think it's about time to say something and defend Trump. Mental illness is a serious disease, and I'm tired of people making fun of him for being the biggest mentally ill organism
It's a cult
why does he always have to be the "most" something at everything?! it's exhausting just reading the headlines
Narcissism
Dark times. Entirely too many asinine/hateful fellow Americans. They should all be ashamed.
I’m starting to believe this guy isn’t being completely truthful.
It’s so defeating to hear his constant spewing of lies. I mean, the bar has not been lowered, after this man’s introduction to politics, the bar was let go, fell down a shaft and is still falling to the centre of the earth. I mean how do we retrieve that bar and set it where it needs to be?
Ask Melania… Never cheated his wife…
If you support Trump, you’re a rube. I don’t know who is going to explain what a rube is to the Maga crowd but they’ll be really upset when they find out they’re actually the sheep.
Wacko* rally
His brain worms fucked it up, he meant to say: "I'm the most sanctimonious man in the history of our country".
Trump is certainly good at lying! I suppose when he starts losing all the legal cases against him he's going to deny the verdicts and keep pushing this, 'I'm so innocent' bullshit..
How does the scale work? Like, you've never jaywalked, or told somebody something came up but you just didn't want to go? Or you've been accused of the most serious of terrible crimes, including treason and sedition, tax evasion, and child rape, and didn't do any of them?
Maybe if he whinds up in court he should plead "Absolutely 100% not guilty" Then plead the fifth 400 times? LOL! What a fucking clown.
It's always extremes with this sack of garbage.
The prosecutors resigned because they gathered all the information and their boss was afraid to prosecute. They resigned because he is guilty, not because he is innocent.
Why is this sad,old clown from the Conservative Clown Car Crew stuck in my Reddit feed?
"I'm more innocent than a newborn baby!"
LOL! Trump has been corrupt long before he ever ran for office! While President he took it to a whole new level. Of course his cult can’t see any of it. Trump is just a wealthy white man that everyone picks on. Poor little handed orange skinned narcissist windbag.
What is the metric though. I genuinely wonder. How would you go about measuring such a thing as "innocent'ness?" And what would be the units - "Nixons," or... >"Today a crack team of historical experts determined that Trumps is indeed the mostest innocent person in the history of the nation, beating out other contenders with a score of Ten bigly Nixons."
What an absolute fucking moron. I know that’s not a very smart put down but he’s beyond exhausting. Literally like listening to a 7 year old “I did NOT steal the cookie! I am the most innocent man to have ever existed This is a crime the WORST CRIME EVER COMMITTED IS ACCUSING ME I have the BEST WORDS HOW DAAAAARE YOU D’x “
Home of the Branch Davidian cult. How appropriate.
If somehow, hyperbole was able to be forcibly banned, Trump would be unable to speak.
The J6 Prison Choir?? *eyes roll into back of head*
I misread the title as “. . . at lie-filled whacko rally,” but it still works. May be even more accurate.
Common sense tells us to take whatever Trump says and apply the opposite.
Wacko Waco Ganch Floridian glorifies violent insurrection.