There's no excuse for Trump.
I am not offering an excuse but I'd like to explore a reason. One of many that led to Dolt45's popularity.
He makes stupid people feel justified, and there is no shortage of stupid people.
Additionally, grifters flock to crowds of stupid people, and encourage the stupidity as it makes for riper pickings.
Tribalism makes them feel all warm and good and justified and almost none of them question the good feeling. I mean, they feel like a group now, they got branding and songs and little ear tampon rituals.
We SORELY miss the necessity of ritual in our daily life and for some reason he gives his people rituals they like to participate in and he tells them they are all the good boys and girls and all the bad people that have been mean to them will get bopped on the nose.
It's very popular.
Hot Take That Will Make You Downvote Despite Agreeing with the First 80%: A large part of this is due to the demonization of religion by the left, and this has been going on for hundreds of years.
Humans have a religion shaped hole in them that can be filled with any number of things, but it is baked into our psyches and I don't think we are complete without participation in group shared values rituals.
Funny thing: Sports events hit all the exact same notes so before you ratheists come and reeeee at me, no part of anything I have written is dependent on the existence of a supernatural entity.
Humans have a religion shaped hole in them
lol
That's not even a dog whistle. That's just out in the open racism.
I didn't even connect the dots with his skin colour damn wtff. I hope every black American turns against him for this. Show trump how smart they really are...
If you really wanted to squint and put your fingers in your ears and hum, you might possibly be able to interpret him as talking about congresspeople.
But he was actually talking about black people, so that isn't necessary.
Thank you for explaining it. I have been confused about this for hours. I thought he was talking about congress members. I don't think I could have ever figured it out.
This was my take from this as well.
I mean, it's possible he could have been talking about politicians or government people or something.... But he certainly wasn't. He could have, he did not.
It's only vague enough to convince those living in a trough of disillusionment to be convinced that he wasn't blatantly being racist here.
Maybe Republicans would be a reasonable take, although I don't know anything about this guy to say he's smart, but Republicans tend to be "not quite so good."
Obviously, this is not what Trump meant, but also he was a Democrat before he realized how easy Republicans were to dupe, so he is aware of this fact.
did trump ever apologize for anything?
I'm sure he's said the equivalent of 'I'm sorry you feel that way' several tens of thousands of times
No but he doubled down and said they should be executed anyway and strangely no one cared...
That rancid walking chunk of miskept afterbirth has been skating along his entire life doing things 100x more horrible than any normal citizen can get away with and I am so fuckdamn tired of it.
He needs to be imprisoned for life with no parole and a 24/7 webcam feed so we can mock him till he dies alone in his own steaming shit of old age.
To be fair, you can say the same thing about white people. Some of us aren't smart.
You can say the same thing about almost any group of people. But you shouldn't.
But you CAN say it about ALL people, and it rings true even there.
Across all classes, ethnic groups, political ideologies, religions or lack thereof: A good chunk of humanity is just pants-on-head stupid. More than we want to admit.
what! gladys! vernon is over here with his gibberish! can you tell him to tell her to tell that internet person to SPEAK LOUDER
Maybe he means politicians? He doesn't have a good track record for recognizing people are black.
/s he's racist as fuck.
Hard to imagine being a black republikkklown. Not only are you selling out your family, you're selling your soul. It's pretty pathetic to be honest.
It's a complex issue.
Some are self hating, some are of a house servant mentality, some believe they will be spared if they kowtow hard enough, some even legit believe in segregation SO HARD they are welcome amongst old rich white men as almost equals.
Some just want lower taxes and don't care about fascism.
This year GOP groups started making the argument that Kamala Harris and Vivek Ramaswamy are ineligible to be president because you have to be white to be a citizen.
That should be every minority dropping the GOP like a hot rock. For notes on what it looks like if you help the people who want to take your rights away win, watch the first season of Handmaid's tale. Specifically the subplot of Serena Joy, the commander's wife. They do not care. The person next to you might care. Your husband might care. Your white friend might care. But the people in charge are going to strip your rights anyways.
But sooooo lucrative.
Clayton Bigsby
He's talking about GOP Reps, right? Right?
One Of The Good Ones™.
Obvious racism aside… is this like “bring your hard hat to the rally” day? Get a free mustard dog? Or is he handing these out to people sitting behind him? Or did he hire a bunch of Village People impersonators as extras to increase his crowd size that he cares so much about?
You joke but literally they hire people to be behind him. Usually it is attractive women, POC, working class appearing folk or elderly women. The hard hats probably fit wherever he was speaking trying to claim he's talking to the working class or something
Probably a rally at a construction business or something similar.
Trumpanzee Repubs still need to see a signed and notarized affidavit of racism before they'll own up to it.
Incorrect. They would then disbelieve the validity of signatures and affidavits. Lol
Dude come on. We're literally talking about racism. Black people have been compared to monkeys for centuries, this isn't new.
I don't recall comparing black people to monkeys. You don't want anyone comparing Trumpers to apes?
I think I recall respecting some of your other comments, so I will definitely take it under advisement, though.
I like the term because it is rude and describes that they are outrage- and fear-addicted Fox News watchers who don't care about long term success for the country. I wish there was something comparably derisive to replace it with.
And even then they'll act like it doesn't matter.
No because then they would all suddenly become sovereign citizens and not recognize the authority of the notary.
Does "Trumpanzee Repubs" imply black republican (given the post's context)? If so, that's offensive as fuck. Even if it doesn't imply black republican, I'd still avoid ever using that term ever again, just in case.
No, it implies his cult are as smart as a chimp, and about as docile.
This reminds me of a trump impersonator i talked to at a kendrick lamar concert. I asked him what he thought of kendrick, he responded with oh hes one of the good ones, very talented very talented.
I found the video of me meeting and asking the question.
nailed it
"You see, some negroes can be nearly as smart as white folk. It is hard to believe, I know, but it can happen. Then of course you have the rest who act as god intended them to; in a manner to test the strength of the white man's tolerance."
-- Trump's not so subtle subtext.Source https://youtu.be/iioIRryc4_o Yikes... I think in context he was referring to politicians but he might have mentally been thinking "black politicans".
Yeah he "might have been".
saving that
Trump's not racist. He has never said a racist thing in his life! /s
I heard it the moment he said it
You could almost hear him say the silent words... out loud
my thoughts actually jumped to "scummy politicians" but your explanation also makes sense
Perhaps he is talking about JD
