Piss off you orange fuckwit, so you're going to call other people names but get upset when people rightly call you a cheeto and a thin-skinned orangutan, and yell about respect you don't deserve? It's always with needing his safe space of thousands of morons blindly supporting all his actions without a care about actually doing his job properly. In some ways this is worse than when he just fucked off to play golf, because there he couldn't do any damage.
And then you realize that the OP article isn't even the worst part of the story either
Donald Trump Mocked Both John McCain, Who Is Dying, and George H..
Why is he still holding rallies.
I mean, I know why, but just... fucking stop wasting money doing it
I am baffled at this, but he is getting worse. I'm growing very uncomfortable as the basic foundations and morals of our society are crumbling under the weight of one colossal idiot.
Wow, McCain's one thing - we know Trump's had a hard-on for him for a while - but mocking Bush Sr. over losing his wife? That's just friggin' low. And they're both fellow Republicans even.
Trump also bashed a common campaign slogan of Bush’s, a “thousand points of light,” which was a call for volunteerism and symbolized diversity around the country. The current commander-in-chief said he
never understood the phrase.
"Thousand points of light," Trump said. "What does that mean? I know one thing: Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one.
What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? It was put out by a Republican wasn't it.”
Good lord
Pretty sure we're seeing the rise of a dictator right now, it'll take serious governmental checks and balances to do anything about this and I'm growing more skeptical.
The rise of a dictator in the US, and that dictators own mental decline being a very terrifying potential reality is enough to cause anyone existential dread.
I firmly believe that if the left were ever to somehow cease to be a political entity the moderate right would simply branch off and become the new opposition to the far/alt right.
Appealing to the lowest common denominator: The President.
Although I'm not sure, he may even be that denominator.
He isn't even hiding it anymore. What is it going to take for someone in America to do SOMETHING?
This is the rise of the stupidest dictator backed by some of the dumbest people supporting him. It's a fucking historical marvel. Hitler had charisma and drive behind his intelligence. This guy is literally just a bottom of the barrel dumbass who had more money than sense and somehow struck political gold when running.
I want to live long enough to be able to read a full historical breakdown of how we got to where we are.
It's his 2020 campaign.
You ever think if past civilizations ever considered how they'd be represented in history books? Or how they'd react if they saw ours?
Because something tells me that future history books will just say, "Unlike other chapters, the late 2010s era will not be covered, as per the request of the denizens of that era for 'being too embarrassing - please, just... just go to the next bit and skip us, we'll be fine.'"
I want every detail recorded in the finest level of granularity.
I think part of it has to do with America's anti-intellectualism and the worship of businessmen.
There's this whole culture of rugged individualism, believing that you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and anything bad that happens to you (well, other people at least) is entirely avoidable. There's this push to take "you can do anything you put your mind to" from a motivational goal to some sort of law of reality.
You'd think promoting individual achievement would promote intellectualism as well, but apparently the idea that you might have to admit "I was wrong about climate change / evolution / vaccines / taxes / etc." goes against the idea that reality bends to your whim. It would concede that there's a greater truth - one besides the book saying "the universe was designed by a guy just like you and he made literally everything just for humans, and especially you, because he loves you so much". Sure, Christianity isn't limited to the US, but we have a special relationship with it here, where it mixes with capitalism and turns into the idea of manifest destiny and prosperity theology.
Science being right would also mean that those self-made businessmen we aspire to be got to where they were through being bad people, which is impossible! My heroes, especially ones I want to be just like one day, can't be bad people! Everyone else is just jealous.
As for being poor - I'm not poor! I'm just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Anyone ELSE who's poor deserves it for being lazy and dumb, but -I- have an excuse. Anyone ELSE who gets an abortion is a murderous whore, but -I- have an excuse.
There's also how the Cold War got us to be scared of going anywhere near communism, which leads to a greater embrace of capitalism, which in turn means businessman worship.
And there's how the rich are able to basically legally bribe politicians through lobbying, as well as buy out news channels to promote their agenda, which leads to more people in power and in the news saying that anything that would disrupt business profits is fake news.
And there's our two-party system, which has lead to a sports team mentality where people are more concerned about WINNING and the other side LOSING than doing things that actually help people. And the other side wants to increase my taxes, which means they're bad, and since they're bad, the things they say are bad and wrong.
It's a mix of what you said, but I would contribute it more towards the sense of American supremacy that people seem to have. That warped patriotism/nationalism that makes you think America is this bastion of a country that can do no wrong and that every country aspires to be. Therefore, as an America, you are the child of this perfection. You have the American Dream, the thing everyone wants, so you are already at the top of the ladder. It's all false.
I think the anti-intellectualism and refusal to admit fault stems from that. How could I be wrong or something be done better if I am already at the top? I would go so far as to say that Christianity/religion is a product of anti-intellectualism on its own, and just feeds the cycle.
All of this, with some weird Stockholm Syndrome sprinkled in because of this idea of America being the pride of the earth and #maga. It blinds people to anything outside the echo chamber.
I honestly want to think that the everyone in the Generation X and earlier crowd are honestly just blissfully ignorant as a result of not knowing how to handle information. I want to believe that Millennials and Gen Y, who are accustomed to the internet can use the internet and critical thinking as a result of that exposure to dedicate seconds needed to fact check outrageous claims and statements.
Unfortunately, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" really applies to Gen X and Baby Boomers. It seems that the only way to fix that problem is to wait for it to, quite literally, die out over time.
We already are.
Unless you're calling for his assassination.
Trump prefers to run for president over actually being President. As President, he represents and has to listen to the American people as a whole, but that's really bruising to his ego so he prefers to be a candidate and only listen to his own base.
He really does only think of his base (when he isn't thinking of himself), too. He was interviewed on TV over the independence day holiday celebrations and the interviewer lobbed him a massive softball and invited him to say some nice little meaningless platitude about being proud of the American people for the 4th. Trump missed the hint by a county's width and immediately replied with talking about how his voter base are great people.
I'm pretty sure you could pick out any other US President from any point in its history and sit them down in front of a TV camera with an interviewer and pitch them that question and they'd respond with something patriotic and unifying, even if we knew they didn't mean it. Trump is too incompetent and too ignorant of the responsibilities and expectations of his office that he fails to succeed in a task as difficult as flipping a light switch on.
I mean, the man is in practical terms illiterate; he chooses not to read. If he can't have it explained to him on TV before he gets bored, it's not worth knowing. When HW was in office, Trump was busy having affairs and screwing people over in NYC real estate.
As a political figure, I have a lot to disagree with over HW Bush's administration, but compared to Trump, he was a fine President and Barbara was a lovely and caring woman.
I'm waiting for him to start ripping Saint Reagan into pieces and for the Republican Establishment to sit in the back and nod while pushing down their internal discomfort.
Welcome to fascist US, it stopped being a hyperbole a while ago.
I'm still blaming any fucking retard who voted for Trump.
This kind of shit was obviously going to happen but they still voted for him. He talked and acted like a third grader with a behavioral disorder yet they still thought he was fit to lead. We're an embarrassment to the world and our legacy and we could have stopped it all if a huge fraction of this country wasn't a bunch of cousin-fucking braindeads.
A lot of people who voted for Trump voted because they were desperate and actually wanted to believe in the stuff he was talking about. As much as I dislike him and any of his cultist level supporters, you can't blame desperate people for voting the way they did. It was also in part Clinton's own fault for screaming about Trump being bad instead of actually, I dunno, looking for votes. If she had just stepped up her game and convinced more people to come out and vote, those swing states wouldn't have swung, and we'd be in a different position now.
American Exceptionalism to oversimplify. Which as it turns out isn't so exceptional to begin with. On average Americans are no better than anyone else. It was simply the circumstances surrounding America's rise to power after WWII that made that sort of thing possible to begin with. That combined with the rise of anti-intellectualism in particular made for some rally bad potential. Unfortunately things like gay marriage and electing a black president (combined with other issues such as never properly addressing the rising issues with our economy and health issues and such) ended up boiling over into Trump.
You are forgetting the hordes of Trump fans in 4chan and Reddit. Is not an age issue ( and a mistake to think that the far-right only exist on the elders ).
The power of brainwashing through propaganda knows no limits.
Remember when some people still say that stupid shit
A very small and loud majority as far as I am concerned. On the whole, through things like proper polling, I think that we are better off than 4chan/t_d would have us believe.
Why don't you.
Probably because he's from / in Denmark.
And the really shitty thing is that all the horrible, rude things he's saying? Ranging from "grab them by the pussy," "bad hombres," etc? You had droves of people nodding their heads in agreement.
Trump is too much of an idiot to become a dictator on his own.
Look at the meteoric rise of Hitler. Hitler gained entry into office by being charismatic enough to convince a majority of the population to support him, then used the death of his superior to finally assume chancellorship and begin to instate total rule. Stalin is also a decent example, as he forged the will of Lenin to gain power, deport Trotsky and purge his cabinet. Stalin then recruited his own lackeys in order to form a "Cult of Personality", a Cult so unstable that it was dismantled almost immediately after his death. These were two very intelligent men who were ruthless in their path to power. Trump is comparable to the Soldier from TF2. Some bumbling idiot who runs around with not a care in the world. The only reason Trump one was because there are a lot of bumbling idiots through out the USA. He couldn't even win the majority vote.
Keep in mind i said "on his own", because i'm sure if the GOP wanted to, they could get a man elected to office who'd slowly push reforms that'd effectively make them rule for life, but considering that fact that right now they're in the minority, it'd be to risky of a move.
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