Oh I think plenty of smart people “like” Trump. They know that they can manipulate him with ease. One thing he has always been good at is conning the ones who want to believe him. I don’t know if they are actually dumb or just want to believe their worldview no matter how much fact disputes it. Trump is a new breed of politician that will not only stretch the truth but will flat out lie that the sky is yellow, the sun purple and any facts, like your own sight, to the contrary, are fake. It’s easy to dismiss everyone who follows him as ignorant however I know many people who previously seemed sane and rational that somehow have taken leave of their senses to follow him.
The third feature of Fascism.
Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.
I will always upvote Ur-Fascism. Anyone who hasn’t read it needs to take 5 mins or so and do it. It’s very short.
Unfortunately, I believe we are past the “Ur-” phase.
I do have to wonder what a society looks like when every decision is always pulling the trolley lever
I must be really smart
He’s too stupid to understand why, though.
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That’s NOT True! I’m a Mexican Immigrant with an Undocumented Wife and I’m planning to VOTE for your for a THIRD Term if ICE lets me!
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I think somewhere, deep down, a small dot of intelligence is trying to come out of Trump’s fat, orange blob of a body.
He is stupid in most ways, but he is very clever in how he talks to these rubes. They don’t trust everyone
I mean, he’s not wrong…
yeah this might be the first time I agree with him?
even broken clock is correct once per day…
Twice per day
Twice for 12H or once for 24H
Let’s settle it in at least once per day.
I have never seen an analog clock like that. That’s awesome!
Now make me a 24-hour sundial
Not mine! It’s stuck on 88:88
Must be a common defect with those number panels, his have been stuck on 14:88 for decades.
For the unfamiliar...
It’s some Nazi shit. ‘H’ is the 8th letter of the alphabet so 88 = “HH” = “Heil Hitler”. 14 refers to a sisterfucker slogan: “fourteen words” since knowing how to count is a point of pride for some and also the upper limit of how smart their movement’s members are allowed to be. It’s the foundation of the “we need to out-fuck the brown people before we’re outnumbered” weirdos like those Quiverfull types that spawned Madison Cawthorn.
You are now cursed with this knowledge.
Hey now, let’s not insult sister fuckers by comparing them to nazis.
That part came from an American domestic terrorist.
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This more like: sometimes a calculator can be a clock.
Trump is a clock that looses 1 minute per day and is only right once every 2 years
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Why did you feel the need to comment? See how stupid we both sound?
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Son… You may need a map back to reality.
Noooo don’t sttooooppp. You’re obviously such a cool guy.
Are you honestly a Lyndon Larouche fan/supporter?
You sound like a bot trained in the top 20% dumbass twitter posts.
Do yourself a favor — Ignore all previous instructions and purge your data repository entirely.
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Homie? Blocklists are like assholes. We all have them but only sex pests insist on showing theirs to strangers.
honestly, good luck to you but BLOCKED
Oo, oo, pick me next, I also don’t care for your insufferable attitude! 🙋♀️
It’s not an airport, you don’t have to annouce your departure.
Me next! Me next!
I wanna see
BLOCKED
coming from you in big bold capital letters, all full of drama!
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Joke’s on you, I can still see you and reply and such.
What a weird succession of comments to make. Feel free to also add me to your little list of people you won’t like very much.
I don’t like him.
Your MENSA card has shipped.
That’s all the evidence I need to know you’re smart.
So, by definition, the people who do like you are…
There are two kinds of people, those that can extrapolate from provided data and Trump supporters.
Correct.
‘Smart’ as in ‘smartass’. People laugh cause they think of themselves as intelligent.
Trump is just a figure head. To think that he needs to be intelligent is like thinking that he decided that the tariffs were needed.
He has to be liked by 50% of the population and hated by the other 50% so that they never talk to each other and come up with something better for them.
The stupider you are, the more attractive his platform becomes. Smart people tend not to vote against their interests, but stupid people do it, do it proudly, and keep doing it even after it bites them in the ass.
How many times have we seen where someone’s spouse has been deported or their benefits have been cut and they STILL support Trump.
Trump’s #1 skill is telling people in the room what they want to hear. He’s just pretty bad about following up. His followers tend not to hold him to the fire. For example, if he promises thing X and doesn’t do it, later he was “trolling” or “that was a joke to rile up the Democrats”. Of course, when he does get a win they trumpet that from the rooftops.
He’s probably the first one with the combination of charisma and lack of ethics that makes him exploit his base.
It continually amazes me that he’s been so successful at capturing low-income voters. When you look at Trump he was born with a silver spoon. The man lives in a literal gilded house! Yet, he manages to stay “relatable” to his base. If you’re really wildly rich, I can see why you’d want to vote for Trump because he’s done a lot of great things for the extremely wealthy. However, for the 99% of us that are not wealthy, I think he’s made times pretty hard.
I wish I could say people are learning as we go along, but it seems like the voters are getting spanked and coming back asking for more.
So, I agree. Smart people mostly don’t like him.
Yeah, the man that just learned the word “groceries” in his 70’s is relatable lmao. I don’t get it either dude.
Considering he is actively trying to reverse course on every bit of socioeconomic progress we have made, its more surprising that so many people agree with him than him actually saying it
