Y’all I can’t go through this anti Trump circlejerk anymore. It’s exhausting. Imprison him or something but god I don’t give a fuck about this shit anymore.
Unfortunately the pro Trump propaganda is strong. If the opposition isn’t reminding people how horrible he is he’ll get free advertising again and win.
If you don’t want to see it either block all political communities or get off social media.
Trump is old, but he appears energetic. He’s boisterous and aggressive, both traits appeal to his base. They don’t care if he gaffs or gets countries wrong.
Edit: based on people’s reactions, somehow you seem to think I’m endorsing him or like him. I do not.
To be clear, I’m trying to honestly assess why he might have a chance at winning. Our republic is fucked if he wins.
Have you seen his latest rallies? He has nowhere near the energy he did in 2016. He rambles about the dumbest shit, loses the plot, can’t tell countries and world leaders apart, just an overall mess. His previous attacks were pretty stupid but focused and determined. Now all he does is whine about how unfair the judges in his cases are. It’s low energy. Sad. Yeah, a lot of his base won’t care, but Maga Republicans have been getting absolutely bitch slapped at the voting booth.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, you’re not wrong. He absolutely does give off the impression that he’s young and energetic to his voterbase, purely because of what you said.
Before anyone gets upset with me as well, consider how Trump’s cult, and America in general, views traits like boisterousness or aggressiveness. To them, those are young/middle-age traits, not dementia-addled senior citizen traits.
Yeah when people try and pretend like Trump can’t speak to a crowd or isn’t charismatic I feel like I’m being gaslighted, it’s like they really don’t want admit he can be good at it for some reason. Being dumb af or evil is a separate thing than charisma, and if anything they’re infamously associated traits. He’s totally phoning it in a lot of the times now sure, but he can still turn it on when needed.
Trump and Biden are both historically disliked party leaders, so pretending people have unanimous respect for every aspect of one or the other is really strange to me. I remember in 2016 people trying to convince themselves Hillary was cool and could give some “fierce” comebacks to Trump if only given the chance, and I was just fuck stop doing this to yourselves this is sad. If Hillary wins it will not be because she’s a good speaker… I still lose it at her robot voice being like, “I first came to awareness of you, through the Cardi B WAP!”
Trump and Biden are some of the most unpopular candidates ever to run for president but neither party seems able or willing to put someone more likeable up. Dems wholly rejected the candidate who had every chance of beating Trump in the general, in favor of the one more friendly to donor interests and had a pretty likely chance of losing. This is basically the death spiral of the system producing these results right now ad infinitum.
Nah bruv, we have to take this shitcunt seriously and grind him into a fine orange dust.
Is it complacency or just raw genitals? There isn’t any debate to be had here. At this point nobody is going to read this thread and go, “oh, yeah, these are some good points. I guess Trump really isn’t someone I should be supporting.”
It’s just a bunch of people standing in a circle jerking it and that can be fun… for awhile, but eventually you just need a break.
It’s giving me flashbacks to early 2016 when I first realized this ornery duffer could actually be elected president, right when major news outlets started to cover him as a frontrunner, every tweet was analyzed as breaking news for the morning segments, it was just the Trump show 24/7. Himbo news presenters looking vaguely shocked through the layers of makeup and botox, in effect just crafting the brand he needed.
I generally like the Atlantic too, but I find them and New Republic have been on the extra-Trump editorializing lately. IE taking things known about Trump and re-emphasizing them with “it’s official now,” as if it wasn’t before, or as if something significant has developed. Jacobin has been really good at steering clear of this sort of pedestrian approach and it’s been nice to have them around the last few years.
Especially articles like this. Like yes, he’s old. Congrats. He’s been old for at least a decade. Do we… do we need this article?
I think this article was written because republicans always say Biden is too old. He is, but so is Trump
In every respect except for actual years, Trump is “older”. He’s not as mentally agile as Biden. He’s not as physically healthy as Biden. He very likely has fewer years left than Biden. When people talk about age, it’s these things that they are concerned about, but in this case, you can just look at these factors directly.
I remember when Jack LaLanne started promoting juicers, and he was on TV in his 80s. If you looked at him, you just knew he had a long time left. And he lived to be 96. Physical age is a very useful statistic, but it’s not the only statistic.
I’ll never understand “circlejerk” being an accepted term for what it supposedly means
A bunch of people metaphorically standing around masturbating each other to a particular topic doesn’t seem a relevant allegory to you? It’s a bit overused, but I think it gets the point across very clearly.
It’s gross and weird and no, I don’t find agreement to equal cock stroking.
