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.
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u/Grand-Pen7946 17h ago
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.