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How sad it must be ... (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Jun 2023
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Maybe it's simply childlike. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny for grownups.
Frasier Balzov
Jun 2023
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Frasier Balzov
(5,086 posts)1. Maybe it's simply childlike. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny for grownups.
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)2. I LOVE STUPID PEOPLE says Donald trump
And every other elected republican.
Stupid People. A good choice for Time Person of the year, just like Hitler.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)4. "I love the poorly educated" -- tRump 2016
From Snopes regarding 2016 ...
Trump did well across the board in Nevada, garnering 45.9% of the vote, but he did even better among voters with a high school education or less. Fifty-seven percent of those voters supported him, according to entrance polls.
The next closest candidate among high-school-or-less voters was Ted Cruz, who had 20%.
That's a sizable gap of 37 percentage points.
Trump didn't just win with less educated voters ... he crushed it.
Afterwards, in a speech to supporters, Trump touted how many different demographic groups he won in Nevada, declaring that "We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated," before exclaiming "I love the poorly educated!":
dchill
(42,660 posts)3. To quote Donald Trump, "Sick. SAD!"
Warpy
(114,650 posts)5. Yet they all have plastic smiles pasted on their faces as they parade around
in his Made in China merchandise, waving his Made in China flags.
Those plastic smiles don't go anywhere near their eyes. Their eyes glitter with hatred of anyone outside the cult.
calimary
(90,465 posts)6. P.T. Barnum would be pleased.
The rest of us - not so much.
