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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTomorrow evening, Donald Trump will declare that the Earth is flat.
He may also inform us that the sun and stars rotate around the Earth.
And he may even tell us that leeches sucking your blood is a cure for Covid-19 and everything else.
But what I find scary is how many people will believe him. They're certain he's not lying to them. Hell, he doesn't even know when he's lying to them.
So here's some advice. Turn off your TV until, maybe Wednesday afternoon. The insanity that he spouts will just drive your blood pressure through the roof, and you may even throw something heavy at your television set.
Joe and Kamala are going to win this election. And they're going to win it big.
Shut out the background noise and the ravings of a lunatic.
What if this reaches the Supreme Court? Would they really march off a cliff for "Dear Leader?" I don't think so. At least five of them know that appointing him as president would be the end of democracy, our freedoms, and the beginning of that second Civil War that all of us paranoids worry about. "As Joseph Heller said in 'Catch 22', "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't really after you."
So keep this in mind. The world isn't flat. The sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. And Trump will be what he hates most. "A loser."
lame54
(35,130 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)when people can't or don't critically think, distrust science, and are vulnerable to authoritarian character, they are lost. My feeling is that they are lost forever. It is hard to deprogram a cult.
I think we could take any bizarre idea or theory or concept and 40% of the public would believe it.
THIS is why infomercials are so common...and sadly, why they work.
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)He really is so pathetic and predictable.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)The sun and earth BOTH revolve around their common center of gravity, and that's before accounting for the perturbative effects of the other planets. But I digress ...
FM123
(10,050 posts)that as soon as trumpy announces he won the election - they ALL post/tweet that they won the election! The candidate from the Libertarian party, Green party, Reform party, etc etc oh yes, and of course Kanye must announce that he won too:
Yo, trump, Im really happy for you, Imma let you finish, But I, Kanye had one of the best wins of all time!