Vivek?
Kudos to the author of the meme here.
With the possible exception of Trump, this smarmy used-car salesman is the most transparent liar that American politics has ever seen.
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Trump and the Masses
Here’s another reminder of the “chicken-and-the-egg” question that we face in our attempt to understand contemporary American politics. Did American hatred and ignorance cause Trump, or was it the other way around?
In any case, we have a country in which about one-third of its people believe that woke liberals hate America and are trying to destroy it.
Note that this is much different than the way the Republican party characterized progressives just a few short years ago. Until Trump, the GOP would say that liberals were ill-informed bleeding hearts, hoping to create a utopian society built on impractical ideas.
Now, we’re evil. Quite a switch indeed.
Since the beginning, Trump has counted on the idea that a huge swath of the American electorate would believe anything he said. And, for a long while, it appeared that this “swath” was large enough to keep him in power and immune from criminal prosecution.
Now it appears that this notion is simply wrong. Thank God.
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Why Trump Will Not Be Re-Elected
Rock legend “The Boss” has nailed it. Trump supporters are somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of the American electorate.
And that’s now, before the entire world is exposed to the extensive evidence proving that Trump committed 91 felonies, most of which were associated with his attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.
Sadly, there are people who don’t care that Trump is a criminal conman, who would happily vote for anyone or anything rather than a Democrat. But fortunately, they’re in the minority.
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How We’re “Wired”
Here is a short video made by PBS that addresses how each of us as individuals perceive the outside world in different ways, based on the “wiring” of our brains.
I bring this up to make a larger point about how we hear what we want to hear. To me, Trump is a criminal conman in the process of getting his comeuppance. To one of his supporters, he’s done nothing wrong, and he is under a corrupt attack by the Biden crime family.
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Trump as an Authoritative Leader
From NPR: “All authoritarian leaders have cults of personality,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University and author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. “Meaning, they propose themselves as all-powerful, as the only solution possible to the nation’s ills. ‘I alone can fix it.’ “The story linked above is well worth four minutes of your time.
We’re a full eight years past the point that Trump arrived on the American political scene, and, at least to some of us, all of this still seems surreal. It’s just hard to imagine that this happened in the United States.
At the core is Trump’s lies. There are still tens of millions of American voters who believe that Trump won the 2020 election, and that massive fraud pushed Biden into the White House.
And getting rid of him won’t be easy, as he’s effectively holding the country for ransom. You either elect me as the 46th president, or watch me create several orders of magnitude more chaos and mayhem than you’ve even seen before.
Tucker Carlson and Your Retirement
I appreciate the offer, but I’d rather trust my retirement savings to an honest investment advisor than a professional liar.
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Actively Destroying Education in America
We’re banning books while we muzzle and starve our teachers.
We’re sending the cream of our public school student population to charter schools, leaving the most difficult kids behind.
We’re creating the perfect set of conditions for a democracy to implode.
Why This Man Is Distinctly Unhappy
Let’s suppose that Trump has 50 million supporters, and let’s admit that, for most of them, there is no crime that their leader could possibly commit that would affect that loyalty. Or, put more specifically, there is nothing he could do that could cause them to vote for a Democrat.
Yet based on the look on his face, it appears that the fellow at left may be a counter-example.
He’s clearly pissed, perhaps because he knows that he’s very likely to spend a considerable chunk of the rest of his life in a filthy state penitentiary. Then, when released (disbarred and disgraced), he’ll have to find some way forward.
Of course, it’s possible that he’s angry at himself for having been stupid enough to have fallen for the con.
In any case, it’s just another example of what happens to people who have anything to do with this sociopathic criminal.
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GOP Bingo
When I was a marketing consultant to the Fortune 100 tech companies, there was a thing known as “business bullshit bingo,” where meeting participants would keep track of the use of various corporate clichés and shout “bingo!!” as soon as they heard any five out of the hundreds of possibilities like:
We have to get our ducks in a row
It’s basic blocking and tackling
We’re pushing the envelope
Let’s grab the low-hanging fruit
It’s not rocket science
It’s a win-win situation
Think outside the box
I’m not sure anyone ever risked his career by actually doing this, but the concept was somewhat funny.
At left is an analogy from today’s Republican party. Kudos to its creator.
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Most Trumpers Will Remain Loyal to the End
Regarding the meme here, a message to its author: Present day Trumpers, i.e., those who think their leader has done nothing wrong, will never regard their loyalty to the former president as any form of “stink.” They will go to their graves believing that Trump is an honest servant of the American people who was corruptly persecuted by the radical left.
