Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.
“How’s her husband doing by the way?” and saying a “wall around her house” didn’t do a “good job” of protecting her 82-year-old husband from an intruder who fractured his skull with a hammer during a break-in last year—prompting laughter from the crowd.
Hillary didn’t go far enough. Trump and his supporters aren’t just deplorable, they’re vile.
Wait, so is he saying walls do nothing?
No, he’s saying liberal walls do nothing.
When I described him in 2016 as a “wannabe Lex Luthor comic-book villain”, someone said I was exaggerating. The truth is that at the time I was somewhat exaggerating. That person made a fair assessment of what was an emotionally-charged reaction to the election results.
I dislike how accurate the description ended up being.
Like, who even says this shit for real? And who laughs at it? What even? I can’t understand it at all; and it sort of scares me to know that I might one day randomly encounter someone in power who laughed when he said it.
IMO no Lex Luthor comic book villain would ridicule a handicap man, say “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded” about a badly disable vet, rape a woman, or brag that he can “Grab them by the pussy”, among a hundred other examples. I’ve never seen or met anyone in my entire life who is as disgusting, obscenely cruel a human being as Trump.
Deplorable is pretty good. One of the most annoying things was the cretins who didn’t really know what deplorable meant, just they figured out it was meant to be bad, and started calling themselves “proud deplorable!” and so on.
It wasn’t good, no. Using an uncommon word like that made it easier for them to rebrand it than just speaking plainly would have.
Besides, “half of his supporters are a basket of deplorables” is a horribly inelegant sentence and she’d been in politics more than long enough to know that the right wing echochamber would remove the “half of” part from the collective consciousness and inflate their own numbers to make people believe she was talking about half of the population rather than 9%.
I mean it’s accurate. I do agree that her saying that wasn’t a savvy move.
Yeah, we’re agreed on both points then awkward 80s high five
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Media in 2018: “we realize we gave trump too much coverage and basically got him elected to office.”
Media in 2023: “ TRUMP GAVE INCENDIARY SPEECH SAYING SOMETHING SHOCKING!! FIND OUT WHAT!!!”
Well of course. They make a shitton of money from the sheer existence of Trump
It’s a Catch-22. He’s a contender for the presidency and the former president who has a real shot of winning. He’s also under indictment in multiple jurisdictions. The things he says are news, regardless of how stupid they are, because he’s saying them to become president and avoid jail.
The first time around they didn’t have to give him so much coverage early on in the primary race. This time, they don’t have a choice because it’s actually relevant news. That said, most networks have toned down coverage of Trump significantly. Actually most news orgs are more focused on the shutdown than the recent debate and Trump’s bullshit.
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And so the piece of shit continues to be a piece of shit. Though there is an irony in Trump mocking the ineffectiveness of a wall.
I think any irony is lost on the stable genius.
Irony died some years back.
The man is a disgrace to our country.
His voters are a disgrace. Imagine listening to this degenerate jerk whine and ramble and flatter himself and lie and bully people and think “oh yeah, I want this guy in charge”.
To humanity. They are a disgrace to humanity.
“Life in general. Maybe even the entire universe too.”-sincerely, pond scum.
Where are his and his bases so-called Christian morals? Just when you think he won’t sink lower.
These are their morals, though.
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
You can’t change the masses. They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful.
Joseph Goebbels
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
Christopher Hitchens
Right where they always were.
Luke 19:27
But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”
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I mean he got away with mocking mentally disabled people. His base eats it up.
Ableism is a huge systemic cultural issue, and like most other huge systemic cultural issues, Trump just exemplifies it. His entire ‘value’ lies in echoing condensed sound-bite versions of commonly-held antisocial beliefs. He’s an empty vessel of a person, a human-shaped Pandora’s box.
All we can really do is name those beliefs and actively work against examples of them in our own spheres of influence.
Physically disabled. He mocked a physically disabled journalist, Serge Kovaleski, who has a degenerative joint condition.
Trump loves violence. Not that he participates in much himself, he lets others do that, but it really gets him off. And it gets his followers off.
It’s so depressing.
What a piece of excrement.
