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Man who flies exclusively on private jets complains about public air travel.
Trump must really think we're all fucking idiots.
Sadly, the people who attend his rallies are.
The word "idiot" ultimately comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs 'a private person, individual' (as opposed to the state), 'a private citizen' (as opposed to someone with a political office), 'a common man', 'a person lacking professional skill, layman', later 'unskilled', 'ignorant', derived from the adjective ἴδιος idios 'personal' (not public, not shared).[3][4] In Latin, idiota was borrowed in the meaning 'uneducated', 'ignorant', 'common',[5] and in Late Latin came to mean 'crude, illiterate, ignorant'.[6] In French, it kept the meaning of 'illiterate', 'ignorant', and added the meaning 'stupid' in the 13th century.[7] In English, it added the meaning 'mentally deficient' in the 14th century.[2]
Taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
Seems to be accurate. Very accurate!
I mean that's a reasonable superficial analysis and you can probably get through life on that without a lot of trouble... unless your smart, engaged son or daughter starts talking this bullshit one day, and you have to figure out what is really wrong, so that you can help them. Because calling them a fucking idiot? Ain't gonna save them.
I think this is a defense mechanism on your part. It's hard to deal with this, that so many people are so badly removed from reality that they cannot see these simple, important facts. But it's a lot like someone sees a homeless person, and they immediately jump to denigrate that person, to help them cope with their own emotional needs at the expense of their own empathy.
Oddly, I don't have a lot of empathy for people who support a guy who has promised to destroy anyone who opposes him. There are only 4 basic reasons to support Trump: you're really stupid, you're really hateful, you're a Christian fundamentalist (heavily overlaps with "hateful"), or you're really rich. Usually it's a combination of those things.
The guy was president for 4 years and showed exactly who he was. You don't get to use the "Oh, they're just misguided souls" excuse any more.
Calling them idiots isn't an effort to save them and in no way needs to fulfill that objective. Further, swallowing Trump's bullshit and honestly believing it is itself sufficient to qualify someone as an idiot. If someone is, in your words, so far removed from reality that they cannot see the simple important facts, then they are by definition not also smart and engaged.
You say that like I wouldn't jist discipline and/or disown them for it
The problem isnt this obviously true fact you stated; it's that in the made up scenario in my head, your parenting skills are sub-par
I guess we aren’t really the ones he’s “speaking” to though.
He flat-out said "I love the poorly educated."
“Poor kids are just as bright as White children" -Biden
One of his many gaffes, and his biases are showing. But you could print a book of the horrible things said by Trump, and he meant every one of them.
His voters are, thats the problem
Sure sounds like Trump is advocating for more government intervention.