Losing Democracy is one thing, but what just really sucks is losing Democracy to possibly to dumbest clowns imaginable. Half of America is just really really freaking stupid. Are these REALLY the guys you are desperate to make a dictator for life to rule over everything in your life for generations??? Is this really where we are going?? Fck.
Well, he is including the years when he was minority leader. So, I guess he can claim the IIJA, the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS, and an impeachment of Donald Trump.
A group of people in an area of the United States elected this guy to political office where he makes laws that effect all of us...
The mistake is viewing people like Trump as dumb overall. Trump is an idiot with many things but he is a genius with things like marketing and branding. What he’s been able to do is tap into a deep seated sense of grievance and focus that on him. That does take vision and talent.
True....he has convinced his base that he actually passed anything that was good. When I hear old ladies in Iowa who swear he did such great things but no one can ever say what they were..............
Boy that has gotta hurt for the Rs to read ... Ohio turnout data suggests abortion rights are the 'most potent mobilizing force in politics'
People have different kinds of smarts. He’s clever and knows how to protect himself and dodge accountability. The one who ends up in jail (doing his bidding) on the other hand…
Having a nice 200 million dollar head start from daddy and robbing your siblings of their portion of the will doesn't hurt as well though. Trump is a master at media manipulation more than anything. He understands exactly what to do to get them to promote him for himself. He doesn't do quality marketing for himself honestly. His infomercials, his donation emails, etc. It's all garbage from a marketing perspective, and always has been. However the media, and previously the tabloid media back in the day are played like a fiddle by him, and the myth is created that he's something that he's obviously not. Now Trump the clown.... that's a product of Mark Burnett all day long. Burnett took him under his wing and supercharged his persona, and the way he manipulates situations to get what he needs to be "the show." It's all a myth that he manipulates the media world in creating. In his mind he's the producer of a TV show where he's the biggest celebrity and worshiped like god. Nobody else in history that I can recall has the god complex worse than Trump. There are former leaders who literally told people they are a god and weren't half as narcissistic as Trump. He absolutely has real talent at what he does do well in manipulating media, and creating a mythology for sure. HOWEVER I will say that he's only successful at this because literally half of America is really really stupid and gullible. Look at history though, and similar figures that were worshiped like gods like Hitler are also incredible clowns who would be laughed out of the room in any social situation regardless of time period. Napoleon was famously a stunted little prick too. This human societal condition isn't new for sure. But it still continues to boggle the mind that we've learned NOTHING as a species. NOTHING.
In the 1950s and for decades after, the GOP aligned with many religious leaders to fight "godless communism" . it is astounding to see that faith-based crusade has largely disappeared. and otherwise outspoken Christian politicians---including House speaker Mike Johnson---refuse to further help Ukraine in its war against communist Russia unless certain secular border issues are met her in the US. Over 85% of Ukrainians identify as Christians. For the GOP and its evangelical cohort not to be supportive of protecting Christians by the "godless Communists" was unthinkable---until Orange hair came along.
Supremacist pal of Paul Gosar and Wendy Rogers, who dined with Trump wants non-Christians 'executed' Fuentes said in part, “There is an occult element at the highest levels of society, and specifically among the Jews.” He railed against what he called “evil doers” and “people who worship false gods.” He said, “Those people, when we take power, they need to be given the death penalty. Straight up. … Absolutely annihilated.” He said, “This is God’s country. This is Jesus’s country. This is not the domain of atheists or devil worshipers or perfidious Jews … .” Gosar defended Fuentes on the right-wing social networking site Gab, saying, “The phony January 6th Committee’s partisan witch-hunt continues as they have now set their sights on young conservative Christians like Nick Fuentes. Rogers was a featured speaker at the America First Political Action Conference, and has pledged her gratitude and affection for Fuentes, tweeting: “Thank you, Nick Fuentes. We love you.” Fuentes had dinner with Donald Trump and Kanye West, with Trump later saying he didn’t know who Fuentes was or that he would be there — as if any old person could show up and share a meal with the president. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...gers-paul-gosar-pal-nick-fuentes/71900202007/
He's not a marketing genius. He says stupid **** over and over and stupid people believe him. He's using Goebbels playbook “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” inherently. A smart person would never believe this would work. A moral person would never try this. A stupid narcissist could absolutely become a "marketing genius" by his nature.
Russia isn't really communist anymore.... or godless.... in fact Putin openly supports and uses the Russian Church to push a christian nationalist agenda which is why you seem some of our right wing posters being far more supported of Israel than Ukraine.
They could be working on the budget, or crime, or education, or border security. Or even insurance rates which in Florida are a huge problem. But no, this is the priority skeletor is focused on.
To respond to yourself and other posters yes he’s a buffoon and says and does buffoonish things. The danger is underestimating him and dismissing his support as being made up of purely idiots who don’t know any better. While I do fully believe he is a conman he has tapped into something that was there before him and is widespread throughout the American society.
