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It boggles the mind that this sack of shit is even in the running.
He has the charisma of a wet sponge (and the appearance of someone you'd think twice before buying a used car from), he can hardly string together a sentence (let alone hold a speech), hi lies, he commits fraud, he's a convicted felon..
That's hardly brushing the surface, yet people go "fuck yeah, this guy should run the country".
Jeebuz fuckin christ.. what's happening?
Unless you got home schooled by Heinrich Himmler, there's no excuse. You can't possibly offer your political support to such a scumbag.
Running the country again...
I'm willing to believe someone could have voted for Trump the first time in good faith. Voting for him again after seeing the shitshow of his first term, however...
Plenty of vote with middle finger in 2016 to DNC over the Bernie betrayal. I doubt those people are voting Trump or third party again. However, I know people who just want to see "the trans out of bathrooms" and that's it.
I was at a pumpkin patch 25 minutes out of Chicago on Saturday and there was a man proudly wearing a shirt with Trump on it and the shirt said, “I’m voting for the convicted felon”. His voter base does not fucking care, at all.
They are under the assumption that both sides are equally bad and want to see it all burn down I think. They don’t think much further however.
I know a lot of Trump supporters. Without fail their support is based on hate. LGBTQ, immigrants, the belief that Democrats are child molesters, etc. I've heard it all. They don't know what his policies are, nor do they care.
30 or 40 years ago he would've been laughed out of politics the moment he came down his gold escalator.
Idiocracy. We live in Idiocracy... 500 years faster than expected.
President Camacho legitimately wanted to find solutions to the problems his constituents faced, AND he had the wisdom and self-awareness to know he needed someone smarter than himself in order to achieve that. He's willing to try things and change his mind when he is presented with new information. Furthermore, when he is successful, he shares the credit equitably with the other people involved.
We're doing much worse than Idiocracy.
Idiocracy was a movie working from the naive assumption that people are greedy and shortsighted, and that these attributes lead to social (and eventually genetic) decay.
Americans have to deal with a much harder truth. That being smart doesn't make you virtuous and lust for power more than simple hedonistic greed is what cultivates the worst social policies. Our story is a story of pure hubris. Its a story of reasonably intelligent and educated people gaming a system that causes pain in order to pay them a profit.
America's sins aren't sloth or lust or gluttony nearly so much as they are wrath and pride.
I dont remember much about genetic decay.
There was definitely educational decay.
Its the opening scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
Yes. It left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
Nothing to do with genetics.
He may have been a tad impatient, but he eventually saw the green
It’s not fair. I at least wanna go get a burger at Buttfuckers.
When a society puts money above all else Donald Trump is what happens. He was a celebrity failed businessman long before he became president, he knows what gets Americans excited.
I don't watch a lot of TV, so I don't see ads much, but just saw an ad from the turnip who was railing against they/them pronouns....the level of hate from the turnips is insane. It's like if Hitler was running and railing against jews. How is this shit allowed on tv...next he's gonna be saying minorities should be hung.
Hanged. Execution by hanging is hanged not hung.
Maybe he thinks Trump wants immigrants to be hung as in have huge dicks to be eligible for an entry visa?
They can be hung by their own huge dicks as long as it's not to death.
He tells people it's ok to be angry. That's all they want to hear.
Only the stupid people say that. The smart people say that the woman running against him is just as bad as him despite being measurably better in literally every conceivable metric.
Guess there was not enough money in the public school system after all.
I was talking with my mom the other day and apparently their neighbors, who up until now had never shown any political affiliation at all, put up a Trump flag. They’ve been neighbors for like 20 years haha, my mom was shocked.