How did that miserable mediocre doddering idiot of man become a Culture hero!? [venting]

[Nexus2]

And to millions such that long term, loyal, actually functional members of his group get booed and outed in they don't get in line to kiss his butt and worship at his shrine!? To the point, that 46% of them believe a brazen provable lie! That's repeated so much that 30% of people that don't support believe it too!

[mobeau69]

1. The Holy Trinity is easier to explain.

Incomprehensible.

[Ocelot II]

8. Yup. At least Jesus wasn't an asshole.

[dchill]

2. They see themselves in him. (?)

[Blue Owl]

3. He's a hero among zeros

[pandr32]

13. +1

[Dream Girl]

4. I never understood how he appealstaring from a superficial level. He is so nasty looking.

Toanyone.He looks like a sweaty pig, that nasty looking hair. Terrible clothes. Then there’s his moral depravity. Then there’s is sheer ignorance and incompetence. Then there’s his his stupidity. Wat that that say about the people who worship such a stupid, morally depraved man who didn’t know wat the hell he he was doing?

[smirkymonkey]

9. Have you seen what these people look like?

Have you heard them being interviewed?

Explains a lot.

[ChubbyStar]

21. I don't have a TV and I select watch Lefty sites on my PC

Occasionally though I catch a glimpse of those people you mention and I just say "Holy shit are these fuckers for real?" I say it every time because they are something else. It is terrifying.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. That's what is really depressing.

The fact that there are so many millions of racist, stupid, gullible assholes in this country.

[Blues Heron]

6. He gives them permission to hate and be violent

the others pale beside that.

[jalan48]

7. Right wing media created this image and the rubes fell for it. Propaganda is used all over the world

to shape public opinion.

[FelineOverlord]

10. How did that miserable mediocre doddering idiot of man become a Culture hero!? [venting]

At the recent QAnon conference: Trump is their religion.

🤢🤮

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Ocelot II]

11. This has baffled me all along.

There is absolutely nothing about him that's positive, or attractive, or decent in any way. He's physically unattractive; even as a young man before he went to seed completely he looked squishy and oily, and now he's a fat, greasy orange mess with a mouth that looks like an asshole and hair the color of urine - yet some demented women think he's hot. Morally and ethically, he's utterly foul, driven by nothing but his ego and his urges. Though he possesses a level of criminal cunning he's not smart or cultured. He's vulgar, crude, bullying and malicious. I can't think of anything positive about him at all.

Even the previous presidents I disliked intensely had a few redeeming qualities: Nixon was smart; Reagan could be charming; Bush #1 was gracious; Bush #2 liked dogs. Dolt 45 was never even any of those things. But millions of people voted for him, and many of them still worship him. I will never understand this.

[ChubbyStar]

22. Trump is Jabba the Hut in an ill fitting suit

Repulsive.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Pretty good take on him.

I agree with you that he does not have one single redeeming quality.

However, AFAIC, there are currently no words in the English language to adequately describe the extent of his horribleness. He is the most vile creature on the face of the earth in my opinion.

[andym]

12. PT Barnum was loved in his day too.

Though much of Barnum's fame arose from hoaxes he perpetrated and exploited-- he cynically manipulated the public, and the public loved him for it-- many understood even then that they were being fooled-- but wanted to be. Why? He brought a sense of excitement to their boring everyday lives.

Trump goes further, he not only brings constant "excitement" through his Twitter feed and the news, from being continually outrageous, telling big lies, but he also makes his followers seem more important to themselves-- that comes at the cost of having created an "in-group" and an "out-group"-- why Trump is the Great Divider.

[Poiuyt]

14. It's worse than you stated

65% of all Republicans don't believe that Trump lost the election:

Almost two-thirds of Republicans believe that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, even as more than six-in-ten Americans overall believe he won fair and square, according to a new Monmouth University poll.

The survey, conducted February 25 – March 1, found that 65 percent of Republicans believe that Biden’s win was solely the result of voter fraud. What’s more, 29 percent of Republicans say they will never accept Biden as president.

The belief in widespread fraud among Republicans persists despite a multitude of probes, intelligence assessments and court rulings that have found no evidence that either domestic fraud nor foreign interference affected the election results. But former President Donald Trump spent months spreading baseless allegations of widespread fraud nonetheless.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1261306#blogHeader

[Nexus2]

17. Some of the true believers and utter zealots still refer to him as 'President Trump'!?

See: Lindsey Graham

[Poiuyt]

19. Actually, it's proper to refer to an ex-president as President X

I did, however, hear one of Trump's senior officers (I think it was Mick Mulvaney) refer to Trump as "the President." That is NOT correct.

[Nexus2]

20. If you say so, I've only heard Former President towards most, referring to even non disgraced former

presidents being often treated as a mistake.

[moondust]

15. Racism and greed.

You know what else was driven by racism and greed?

Slavery and the Confederacy.


The more things change...

[Progressive Jones]

16. A minimum of 38.76% of Americans just aren't very bright. Even more are morally defective. nt

[JHB]

18. They told us back during the 2016 primaries:

"He says what I think."

[smirkymonkey]

24. That, right there, is the problem.

[Progressive Jones]

25. The unevolved found a messiah. nt