The fellow in this video asserts that Donald Trump’s dumbest lie is that the cost of things like gas and groceries have fallen since he took office, since it is so provably false, and is directed at the MAGA base.
I’ll grant that the typical Trump supporter doesn’t care if the president is all over the Epstein files, or that the war with Iran was stupid and illegal. But there is no evidence that there is any more than a trickle of disaffection over consumer prices.
The fascism of the early 20th Century taught us all the key elements of the playbook (see below).
In particular, when a leader identifies an enemy like Islam as a grievous threat and pledges to eliminate it, one might think that such a position would generate suspicion, rather than adoration.
Not so here in the United States, where tens of millions of uneducated Americans would happily elect Trump an absolute leader for life, in the way of Putin and Xi.
In addition to all the sane, honest, and compassionate people in the U.S., I’m sure there are many Trump supporters who would agree.
Rich people may love the tax breaks, but very few of them want their kids to become criminal sociopaths.
There may be several explanations for this trend, but the most obvious is that the political right in the United States stands for lawlessness, i.e., the opposite of what law schools teach.
The Trump administration is essentially a criminal organization. You won’t find many intelligent and honest people, e.g., the professors and students in this setting, who support things like pardoning (and then rewarding) the thugs who stormed the Capitol and beat up law enforcement personnel.
Tucker Carlson has made what is perhaps the most dramatic flipflop on U.S. political history, from a Fox News host moron to a liberal intellectual. I had to smile when I came across this video, where he cautions an Israeli leader not to describe Iran as a “terrorist regime,” when Israel itself is murdering thousands of children in Gaza.
My only problem with him at this point is that I have to think he’s completely insincere. Can someone go from a Trump supporter to Bernie Sanders on the basis of some awakening late in life? Isn’t it more likely that he sees better financial opportunity with his current position?
I recently met an attorney who told me that his specialty is traffic. “Really!” I replied. “That sounds interesting. Could you give me an example of what you do, and for whom?”
He explained that people who get hefty citations hire him to get their cases dismissed, or have their fines greatly reduced. He summarized this as follows, “I take money away from local governments, and keep bad drivers on the road.”
Holy crap, I was thinking. Not everyone is a Mahatma Gandhi or MLK, but should anyone fashion a career out of making the world a more dangerous and degraded place than it already is?
I’ll grant that this is an extreme example. But consider that there are millions of people working in industries like fossil fuels, tobacco, sodas, and building war machines. Then we have our elected officials whose job it is to destroy public education and environmental health, while others work on gerrymandering so as to keep themselves in office and dismantle our democracy.
Sure, the attorney described above has a disgusting profession, but he’s not alone.
The appeal to America’s most stupid people is heating up, and the meme here is a great example.
First, let’s realize that the percentage of Muslims in the U.S. is somewhere between 1.1% and 1.3%, compared to Christianity at 67%.
Then, try to imagine any process by which our local, state, and federal laws, conforming as they all must to the U.S. Constitution could be replaced by Sharia law, which calls for the amputation of thieves’ hands, lashing as punishment of consuming alcohol, and the stoning to death of adulteresses.
At left we see an example of how the rest of the world views Trump and the United States of 2026.
A blend of pity, contempt, and ridicule.
At the top of the news is the Trump’s administration’s day-long prayer event featuring speakers from President Trump’s cabinet and a program that drew connections between the nation’s founding and Christianity.
However, as shown below, there is in fact no such connection.
I spend a decent amount of time on social media–enough to see the 5- to 10-fold increase in posts that are essentially long-debunked myths about solar and wind that has taken place over just the past few months.
