No I am talking about the fake Times article you are referring to. You can link the video if you like?
Edit: I was wrong and thought about a fake article where he said the republicans would believe anything. Sorry Reddit! I underestimated his clowness- huge mistake. Sad!
Were you a child when it happened and are somehow bad at using the internet? Or do you just live under a rock? He said this out loud in front of cameras.
Well no and yes. I have to edit my original comment as well but I can’t believe it.
So I am actually pretty old and for a long time a fake article was circling the net saying trump claimed: if I will ever run for president I will be a republican. They believe anything.
In my stupidity I thought he couldn’t possibly meme it like this, but I underestimated him, realty and this timeline
That’s why Trump thinks ”tariff” is such a ”beautiful word” - his supporters don’t know what it means, and if it’d been called something easier like ”import tax”, they might be more skeptical.
You think he realizes the Arab etymology of the word Tariff? and how it was diffused into the English language through the French? I'm so glad he finds a DEI woke word so beautiful.
Or realizes the same origin of numerals (*)? Or a lot of commonly used words like alchemy, alcohol, algebra, assassin, apricot, admiral, arsenal, azure, azimuth, aubergine. And that is just a few starting with A...
(*) even though actually they go back to India, hence being called Hindu-Arabic numbers
What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Mel Brooks was a genius. And the delivery made it even better. Watching them both lose it makes the entire scene.
It also highlights that this type of anti-intellectualism is a cornerstone of the social fabric of our country.
The morons part of the line was unscripted. That's why they laughed like that. I love it was so brilliant that it was kept. Doesn't make it any less true.
Thats what makes them even worse. We can't even blame it on innocent buffoons just not being educated enough, they actively avoid even accidentally becoming educated. Its like they know that if they become smarter they won't be able to believe all the dumb shit they believe and that would be boring.
So to make it simple with made up numbers, say you're making $99,999 and the tax for that bracket is 20%, but you get a raise to $100,000 that bumps you into the next bracket and that bracket taxes at 30%. They now think that all of that money gets taxed at 30%. They don't understand the US income tax is progressive.
Oh, that was all Trump. Bad business deals, incompetent money laundering, failed to keep the whales happy, even had two close together and they ended up competing. He's a bloody nitwit.
Surely it should have been a clue for them when he essentially declared that education was the enemy. Or that proof, or fact-checking, should be villified. Or a thousand other things.
Just talked to someone at work and had to explain what tariffs are. I spoke with this person back in November and tried explaining all of this then, including Project 2025. At that time they said "yea, but both sides are bad." Tried to explain what that's exactly the sort of logic that gets the worst case scenario and that they have children and elderly parents to worry about but was brushed off. Some people are just perfectly happy to go through like with their heads buried deep in the sand.
I don't think they're happy to go through life that way, they're just so deluded they cling to the wishful thinking that it won't affect them and they can't get past that.
I don't know. Lots of people I talk to regularly (real life, not online) seem perfectly happy not knowing anything about politics and refusing to learn. It's really frustrating.
Nah, the problem with a lot of " Republicans " is that they have literally been groomed, a la you know what, to believe that anything a rational person says that doesn't follow the group is wrong. I had a pair of non Christian friends who were diehard trumpers. They were also both permanently on SSI.
Thought they were smart until they spent 1.5 hours before a gaming tournament arguing that an assault weapon ban was stupid because one of them could use his cane to "assault" someone.
Trump and the current GOP need to have the population as under educated as possible. I live in a purple area in a very red part of my state. Due to a systematic wording issue with ballot initiatives, our education has gone to pot. This is because the bill writers tend to write them so that scare words are all over the place.
Its been in the works since around the 70s when they started to cut education funding. Then they moved to school funding based on test scores with the higher you test the more funding the schools got so the schools started making the tests easier and its been a downward spiral since
Really a stagnation of public education over 30-40 years. We aren't getting out of this shit show. We are too dumb and we are just getting dumber given policies and support programs for the working class going away. Adult literacy in the United States has generally improved overtime, but it's actually declining in recent history.
Couple that with a dumb, fanatically racist and sexist culture along with social media propaganda and psyop efforts and we are doubly fucked. Especially since we aren't doing anything to address misinformation and foreign interference in our election process. In fact the GOP has embraced misinformation and propaganda psyops because it's what gets them elected.
Then you have the apathy, which really is the reason Trump won. If Democrats voted with the same numbers as they did to elect Biden, Harris would have won.
We have slipped on the slippery slope. The only way to really stop it was to impeach and remove Trump from office the very first time for coordinating with Russia to help get him elected. This is the downfall.
Oh for sure, which I called out as well. I mean MAGA cultural movement really started with nationalism from 9/11, racist backlash from Obama being so successful, anti intellectual cultural movement, and shitty public primary education.
Each of those things can feed back into the other, but the primary cause is primary education stagnation in the richest country in the world. Education combats all of these things.
I wonder what they’re going to blame it on. The retaliatory tariffs? The corporations for raising prices? It would be so funny if we got class solidarity out of this
Also faith. They don't understand the mechanisms of government but Trump is a racist savior to them that whatever he is doing will turn out well for white conservative Christians.
With that perspective it makes sense anyone not in that bracket is against what he's doing and thier warnings fall on deaf ears until thier face begins being eaten.
It's also scary that when his supporters start to really feel the pain of Trump's policies, they're likely to blame Biden/Kamala/Dems. Even when it's obvious that it is Trump's decisions doing this.
Oddly enough, they also rely on tRump's ignorance, which as we've seen, is bountiful. (unlike his "luscious hair") He couldn't totally bankrupt us the first go-round, but by God, he'll succeed this time! And all while playing (and winning) in every fake golf tournament his own golf clubs host. He's such a renaissance man! How many other presidents could simultaneously destroy the world's greatest economy and democracy, and STILL cheat his way to multiple golf titles? I can't believe I didn't vote for him 3 elections in a row! Excuse me while I go vomit... 🤮
His approval rating is still around 43%. The uneducated are staying uneducated. The only way this will change is by educating people whose only exposure is Fox and local news. Two problems - they don't want to listen, and we don't want to meet them where they are.
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u/liquidhell 1d ago
Nothing surprises me anymore.