Yeah but you weren't supposed to take him seriously! Or you were supposed to take him seriously but not literally, or something.
(Note that if you express concern about the stuff he talks about doing now, like invading Greenland or Panama or having a third term or cancelling elections, people will still dismiss you as hysterical and say you shouldn't take it seriously.)
I thought about it once and I thought about it once more, but I don't understand what double-think is supposed to be.(This is coming from a non-native speaker)
It's believing two things at the same time that can't both be true. Like Covid is a hoax and doesn't exist but also it was created in a Chinese lab. They will argue both ways to suit their needs and they don't even realize that they're doing it a lot of the time.
"Double-Think" is a term that originates from George Orwell's novel 1984. It means basically holding and believing 2 contradictory opinions at the same time. The Party - the book's totalitarian government - uses it to control the populace.
Double-think is a mostly self indoctrination tool where someone believes two completely contradictory facts at the same time normally with extra categories that also don't make any sense.
This makes it so that you can never debate or argue the real subject.
An example would be the color red is yellow; the color red is blue.
Now you know that is not true, but if you went to talk to them about it the conversation would go:
Red is not yellow.
I know, because red is blue.
No red is not blue.
I know, because red is yellow.
No red is the red.
Correct, but we are not talking about red, we are talking about the color red. The color red is yellow, and the color red is blue.
He’s just an avatar for them to project whatever their interpretation of the perfect president is. It’s literally never mattered what he actually said to them. We are circling the drain and they’re still telling themselves they’re winning.
Honestly, replace "DJT" with "the Bible," and it describes the religious mindset of most of the hypocritical Protestant and/or Evangelical assholes that voted for him.
I was surprised just how many people voted for him with the full confidence that "politicians never do what they say during the campaign." A sad state on so many levels.
"politicians never do what they say during the campaign," which means there's no difference between voting for someone promising to do bad things and someone promising good things! /s
My FIL, genuinely believed this. He kept going on and on about how Trump never does what he says, and how really, he was going to govern as a moderate republican.
Anyone who says he'll do what he says he'll do is a very dumb partisan leftist! You have to use your secret Trump decoder ring to understand what he's really saying.
By the way, I love him because he tells it like it is!
I have no idea what the fuck that expression or phrase is supposed to even mean. Like provide some element of gravitas to Trump even if he says and enacts the most stupid shit in our nation's history?
There has to be a reckoning politically soon with Congress to step up to Trump. They have every capability in theory to overturn these idiotic and generationally destructive tariffs.
That's the beauty with trumps blabbering nonsense. He gets to say everything! He says so much, and the idiots who believe in him hear what they want and get to tune out the rest. If they even admit he said something ridiculous or something thats a horrible policy, they just Say "that's not what He meant" or "you don't know what hes really saying".
Also, I like this guy is basically admitting he "might have been wrong", but praising himself at the same time while not saying he was wrong.
1. "I'm a man of honor". Just say you were fucking wrong and apologize to the "partisans" you slandered. No need to brag about yourself or your honor.
2. "Trump 2.0 is different"? How did all those "partisans" know who he would be? This is the "I'm not admitting I was wrong" part.
So, part of me wants to give him credit, but nah. He's a piece of shit.
It's one of things I find fascinating on the conservative cult subreddit, they attribute so many of his bad traits to being a joke, and I'm thinking when has this man ever said a joke?
Like legitimately, he has never told a joke, except for insults at someone else's expense. In fact, he's almost never even claimed to make a joke, even when itd be beneficial to say "I was joking" or when people thought he was kidding. He couldve said covfefe was a joke, he didnt.
So why the fuck do they say he's joking when he never is? Where does that come from? Normally youd think its right wing media working round the clock to propagandize for him, but I actually havent seen that. When he sharpies away a hurricane, it wasn't OAN or whatever saying he was joking, his base organically believes him to be joking. And if its a joke they disagree with, they dont outright disagree with it, they'll say "this is bad optics", as if its the optics that make him wanting to defund NOAA for going against his sharpie drawing be a bad thing.
You're seeing it right now with him talking about a third term. Its a joke. How? Whats the joke? Whats the setup and punchline? Their only issue with it is that this joke hurts his chances with moderate voters.
Trump supporters and MAGA live in a perpetual state of "Past and future" where past failures can be excused, downplayed or blamed on outside factors, while future concerns can be dismissed, treated as nonsensical and not based in reality.
However, through it all it's the "current" timeline that they will defend and deny as being "not so bad, it's not so bad."
“I like Trump because he tells it like it is and isn’t afraid to say what he means, but he didn’t mean it like that and wasn’t being serious, stupid libs!”
You’re supposed to believe him when he says things you like. If he says things you don’t like, he’s just trying to own the libs, and trolling half his constituents is a totally normal thing a president should be doing!
Yeah, he “tells it like it is,” unless he’s being sarcastic or kidding or having some fun or doesn’t understand the issue or isn’t good at communicating this or that particular thing or he’s new at the job or he didn’t actually say it or he did but didn’t mean it or he’s playing 4d chess or he’s trying to psych out his adversaries or
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u/DrJohnnyBananas74 19h ago
Big dummy, he literally said he'd do this and mooks like you voted for him.