The Left has been correct about everything since the New Deal. Lies are the only thing they have left.
Conservatives heard Stephen Colbert say “Reality has a liberal bias” and concluded that the only solution was to declare war on reality.
Conservatives thought Colbert was one of them at first. Then again, they didn’t know Rage Against the Machine hated them or The Boys was mocking them, either.
The Boys isn’t mocking!! Homelander is one of us!
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He’s the ubermensch!
It’s just simple abuse. It’s no more complicated that that. Trump is not some genius, he’s just an abusive asshole with a megaphone.
The whole point is to constantly be testing the loyalty of supporters, while punishing detractors. For the supporters, the constant “attention” is a reward. Every opportunity to say “there are three lights” is making themselves part of the lie. For the rest of us, the constant, unavoidable gaslighting is exhausting, and the visible, ever present degradation of our civic institutions is horrifying. Yet we are forced to either witness it and confront it day after day if we are to oppose it, or check out and let it happen, just hoping it ends quickly.
Trump is not some genius, he’s just an abusive asshole with a megaphone.
As the son of a former abusive asshole myself, there’s truth in it. A large percentage of people will accept abuse for close to a decade, but usually they inevitably snap and try getting away from the abuse. It just requires constant small losses to realize, and you can’t let them rot alone. Otherwise they fall even deeper into a cult-like thinking. Maybe it should be seen a little akin addiction, they need to remember there’s a small way to get back to how things were before.
Does he have book smarts? No, but this guy has a genius level ability to promote himself. He’s increased his inherited fortune by billions by selling himself (even if he could have don’t better just by putting his money in index funds). His worth is all in his brand.
Even for those of us who see through his lies, you still can’t stop fucking talking about him. People are always fucking talking about him, all the time.
He has gotten half of one of the largest countries in the world to blindly support him.
It makes me cringe to say it, and he is a terrible, terrible person, but to argue this guy isn’t a genius is to ignore reality.
Part of it is narcissism. I see the word thrown a lot, to mean a lot of things. A major component is unable to face being wrong. If it comes out his mouth, he believes it to be true, right down to his roots.
I was 40 or so until I realized my mother had never once in life said she was sorry or admitted fault. One time my ex and I nailed her to the wall with her own words. You could see the cognitive dissonance boiling away. And compared to her, Trump has weapons grade NPD.
First off, fuck Trump. Just wanted to get that out of the way.
Second, this article is summarizing another article that it links to at the beginning. The original article was written in 2017. If they’re going to
plagarizeparaphrase another article, could they at least choose something more recent?Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies since then and has plenty more convictions on the way. Surely they can at least try to update the article.
