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This is how stupid he thinks we are.
This is how stupid his followers actually are.
In actuality, it’s more accurate to say that this is how uncritical and self-deceptive his followers are. The followers we are talking about here are Christian Dominionists (aka adherents of the 7 mountains mandate).
They largely don’t care about his insanity because they genuinely believe orangeboi and the regime are a means to an end - and, you know, they’ve finally got a shitload of Christian Dominionists in the regime’s leadership now. Them caring about the initial post was a rare outlier of them actually caring about this shit, because it began to tread - and reflect very poorly and obviously cultishly - on their messianic worldview.
A.k.a stupid
To be fair, stupid doesn't even cover it. "Moronic" gets closer but it's still lacking.
I suppose that number has massively decreased since he took control
Gives very church of LDS vibes. Don't question anything cuz I'm always right and you have to do whatever I say.
Well, y'all elected him twice, sooo...
Yes the millions of sane people who voted against him should just accept the blame for their ruined futures and lives. Thanks for this very smart and not garbage/shitty take. You are a morally good person and not at all a victim blaming cruel dickhead. The people upvoting you too. What a bunch of great people.
No wonder the left infights so much. People like you will act like you are full of empathy and want a better future for all, but then you love to point and laugh at innocent people if you can find a half assed way to justify it
I'm from a "third world shithole". Decades of being oppressed by your country has left scant pity for your current troubles. In fact, seeing all that current upheaval and strife happening there is pure schadenfreude.
I'm glad you found it in your heart to lump me in with people whose ideas I find abhorrent. Really helps the world move forward, "paying back" people who would otherwise have not hated you.
I don't really care about your hatred. I've got plenty already.
Lol no shit. You spread hatred and justify it with "but where you live is controlled by bad people you vote, speak, and protest against consistently but fuck you anyway because you were born there." I won't apologize for being born a place. You wouldn't give a shit if I tried apologizing for the bad things said and done to the rest of the world. All you care about is hating so enjoy that you miserable fuck.
Well, keep your head down. The moron is liable to lob some bombs your way the next time he needs to distract attention from something.
But Trump is the problem cause he stoopid. A Moran.
I'm sure he will. He is already eyeing South America "thinking" about that. But I'm not too scared about bombs, my guess is that our current (and any future) government would just bend over just as much the Venezuelan did. We'll only be really free when the USA implodes once and for all.
You all elected your current government, so don't cry to me.
You should heed your own advice too.
Wow, you got me. I used your own words against you, and then you used them again against me. Well played.
A shitty take is calling Trump stupid when clearly, he has manipulated 70 million Americans successfully to vote for him, and the 89 million who did not vote. No doubt, most people calling him "stupid" did not vote at all.
Sorry your shithole is crumbling, but this was a long time coming from a country that consistently piles on more and more power to one guy.
You are so sincere and definitely not a bigot.
Do you really think that it's fair to blame people who were given a choice between dog shit and horse shit? And were being lied to by both sides constantly.
I mean... Yes. The two choices weren't equivalent. Neither good but that doesn't mean the results were going to be the same. And that was clear and obvious.
Clear and obvious is that there are no sides, really.
In the election time, cmon, she was not able to construct a decent sentence, at least orange blew beautiful lies. Remember, defund the pentaghon, America first, stopping all the wars etc. He's crafty liar, and between the two he created better illusion, even though everybody pretty much knew that he's a charlatan.
If anything, people are just too good, too naive and they want to believe a beautiful story.
So yeah, it's nonsense to blame the people. There are no two parties, it's all by design to manipulate the masses. If one sucks, the other one must be the solution. And they play it, shit talk each other and throw blames around but essentially it's all just a trick for the masses. I mean, if you don't see this then you must be sharp as a tack, or something.
Oh seriously, stop with the “everyone is the same” centrism crap.
Do I think that most of the Democratic Party is “controlled opposition” by the rich? Yes, very much so given AIPAC and Billionaire donations.
However, do I think they will yield the same outcome? Hell no. Even though neither are great choices, they yield drastically different results as part of that controlled opposition is ensuring the masses are happy enough while they get what they want.
Harris would have kept the status quo. Is that the best thing for us? Nope, but it would have been a hell of a lot better than this bumbling orange idiot who is actively destroying the country.
Where "status quo" is steady progress towards expanded civil rights and added consumer protections.
Yes.
For the downvoters:
TWICE. TWO TIMES.
He thinks we are as stupid as he is.
He believes he is the smartest person in any room - great genes, uncle at MIT. He thinks we are more stupid than he is.
Exactly
They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.
30% correct
eh, I don't think it's that. deniability is operandum for the party line anyways.
ofcourse he did that, in private he probably claims he is the second coming of Jesus. that's how big his ego is.
as for why deniability. because it's deny by default. even things that tow the party line, deny by default. because you can always rebuke your own denial and say you witheld the truth out of fear when it works for you with a larger majority...