There are real consequences for the lies these morons are spreading.
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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I try to explain why they're like this here.
This process started years ago with Rush Limbaugh. He provided alternative news and spent years disconnecting people from “mainstream media”. Now many only listen to right wing news that is disinformation. Not sure how we come back from a party that embraces the destruction of democracy and authoritarian leaders.
I think Trump has been such an emotional white knight in shining armor for them, that they don't actually believe he could be a risk to democracy, national security, or the global world order that has American military power as the basis of its stability.
He gives his supporters, humor, a safe space, a big smile, and unflinchingly accepts their moral short comings... So they do the same for him in return.
Except he has more disdain for his supporters than anyone else, even the "radical left" that he puts on a show about disliking. But his cult are the ones he lies to, grifts away all their money on a deluge of just garbage with his "brand" on it, and just thinks they are the dumbest and most useless people. He has made comments about them not having lives and being unstable.
“I saw him when the cameras were off … Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers. On a hospital visit one time when people were dying in the ICU, he was mad that the cameras were not watching him.”
She continued: “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’”
-- Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s former press secretary
Source: Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says former press secretary
That's correct. It is irrational. But he did give them permission to be bigoted in public, and they really like that.
Except that regularly calls many of them garbage and they seem to like that kinda thing.
He's got plenty of credit with them to burn, and if he burns it right, they like him more.
Like when people have plastered their vehicles with your name, and they follow you from place to place in convoys flying flags like something out of a mad max movie? You can call them whatever you want and get a way with it a bunch of times without any consequences what so ever.
It’s like burning plastic. It’s toxic garbage destroying their lungs but somehow addicting
Damn, that wasn’t popular but you’re making so much sense. Good comment.
Nooo, youre supposed to say that both sides are the same :(
This mother fucker literally had worm eat his fucking brain, due to eating undercooked bear meat. He also cut the fucking head off a whale and hauled it around as it drop blood and guts on him. This man needs to be put away in a mental institution not in control of our health care. Please fucking vote because if Trump wins this man will be responsible for what treatments you get.
I mean I don't get how Trump's Covid response was never discussed during this election when the only reason he had a pandemic was because his plan was to pretend it didn't exist or wasn't that bad, even as it killed millions. All while yelling at anyone who actually wanted to do something.
It unironically could have been worse, at least he let Anthony Fauci talk a lot during the whole ordeal.
But yeah Trump sucked ass at preventing outbreaks. Obama stopped an Ebola Outbreak and Republicans freaked out, the incompetent buffoons in the GOP.
Obama foresaw and left a detailed manual for dealing with a pandemic and Trump basically threw it in the bin.
That same pandemic combined with his weird terifs caused all the inflation we have now too but somehow they keep saying he's strong on the economy. The news says it all the time. Like wtf
Nah, the weird inflation is because companies realized they could just raise prices and blame it on things like covid.
Since there's only like 10 companies in the US, their actions affect everyone, even small operations.
He also made a statement that the Covid-19 virus is racially targeted at white & black people, and doesn't affect Chinese and (of course) Ashkenazi Jews:
What a dystopian society we are going to be living in soon if Trump wins.
Measles isn't real, it's just a skin condition. You just gotta rub a little whale oil on it.
This is misinformation and you should be ashamed of yourself for spreading lies like this. Injecting oil directly into your toes and drinking hyena sperm is the real remedy. Heard about it on Rogan.
Gotta shoot it BETWEEN the toes to hide the marks, duh-doy!
So.....gop maga are just punishing people for voting for them. It gets worse and worse....
Man, wouldn't be hilarious if Trump won and put RFK Jr in charge of public health and he just abolished all vaccines and everyone got sick and died because of all these ancient diseases were fucking us up again? Yeah.
To discredit and destroy them, yes we know this play
Looks like he’s sharing Don’s bronzer
That’s only a completely terrifying prospect.
all this would be hilarious if it were the plot of a tv series. hmmm...tv...
Or a movie about a government run by idiots. An Idiocracy of sorts.
Like all to much of modern politics, a movie would fail miserably because no one would believe the insanity. Movies have to be plausible or logically consistent.
Maybe if you positioned it that way, like Silence of the Lambs, or A Clockwork Orange ….
heh. yeah RL is very much more insane than the movies
A black comedy could also work. A comedy political drama could work.
Don't worry. Trump just wanted Robert out the way so he could have that sliver of super-crazy voters back.
As soon as he gets in, RFK will be getting nothing. If Trump is consistent in anything, it's betraying people the second he's done with them.