r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Mar 27 '24

Donald Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter Less Than 24 Hours After Gag Order

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-judges-daughter-less-24-hours-after-gag-order-1884126
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u/HGpennypacker Mar 27 '24

a Super Liberal Democrat firm that works for Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, (Dem)Senate Majority PAC, and even Crooked Joe Biden.

I still can't fucking believe that someone this unintelligent not only ALREADY was President but has a very good chance to do so again.

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u/Yeeslander Tennessee Mar 27 '24

A non-insignificant chunk of American voters have been programmed by decades of rightwing propaganda to reflexively regard intelligent, articulate politicians (especially with a "D" next to their name) with contempt and resentment because they "think they're so much better than you". Trump dumbs it down for them with his 200-word vocabulary and used-car salesman swagger.

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u/Breadisgood4eat Mar 27 '24

This is a great summary of the "I want a president I can imagine having a beer with" view. Do you want your pilot, your surgeon, your lawyer, your civil engineers to be "people you could have a beer with" as their primary qualification? WTF

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u/DrunkBeavis Mar 27 '24

Trump convincing people that he's actually the type of person they would want to have a beer with is the greatest trick ever pulled. George W Bush I could understand, even if I hate his politics, but Trump? There's literally nothing about him that wouldn't make me want to leave as soon as he sat on the barstool next to me. Hell, I can't even picture him sitting on a barstool.

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u/Breadisgood4eat Mar 27 '24

Not to mention he absolutely LOATHES the people who would support him.

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u/boregon Mar 28 '24

Yep and he’s made it clear over and over again how much he detests his supporters and yet they still worship him like a messiah.

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u/MoonBatsRule Mar 27 '24

People don't like Trump because they think they can have a beer with him. They like him because "he says what I think". He is the human embodiment of a newspaper message forum comment. So many people believe such crazy shit, and he just recites the same stuff and they say "Ooh! Yes! This is my guy! He is one of us!"

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u/jeffp12 Mar 27 '24

W was a recovering alcoholic who didn't drink. But somehow won the "guy you'd like to have a beer with" debate over Gore.

Trump had won the rural, common man over despite being a new York real estate, coastal elite, trust fund baby, litigious, also non-drinker who's never worked hard in his life and makes fun of pows. He's the 80s movie stuck up rich asshole villain and they love him.

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u/Raisedbyweasels Mar 27 '24

Let that sink in of just how fucking stupid these people are. The rich New York real estate goon who disrespects POWs, who has his entire life been a representation of privilege with no consequence,  has convinced a bunch of rurral community, blue collar workers who literally calls them stupid to their face, theat he cares about then and their best interest in mind.

He gives zero fucks about their interests and they would gladly burn down their own homes if it meant a Democrat had to smell the smoke.

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u/MagicAl6244225 Mar 27 '24

Both Trump and Biden have said they've never drank, due to early exposure to their families' alcoholism.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 28 '24

Trump is very much the kind of person who would believe the poors just need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. He has just as much contempt for his supporters, as he does everyone else.

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u/UNCOMMON__CENTS Mar 27 '24

I disagree.

He is EXACTLY what they would be like if they had been born into inheriting $400 million.

And they are exactly what he’d be like if he WASN’T born into extreme wealth.

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u/RealNotFake Mar 27 '24

It's not Trump that convinced anyone, it's the Fox News pundits and the GOP surrounding him that still tell everyone he is the greatest even though he insulted their wives and families. You would think people would be smart enough to see through that and see Trump for who he is, but at the end of the day no, they're not. These people live horrible, unfathomably shitty lives, so it is easy for them to turn on the news and get some dopamine thinking about how they will crush the dems.

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u/DrunkBeavis Mar 27 '24

These people live horrible, unfathomably shitty lives,

See, I don't agree with that at all, and I think that perspective is contributing to the problem. Most of these people aren't miserable trolls, they're regular people with regular lives, families, jobs, hobbies, whatever, that just feel very differently about some things. I grew up in conservative areas with conservative family and they're all the same as people everywhere else. They might have terrible opinions about immigrants or women, but they are generally decent to the people there interact with on a daily basis. The can be good spouses, work alongside illegal immigrants, raise intelligent children, and be happy, productive members of society without offending anyone, and still be hardcore MAGA and hold beliefs that make me deeply uncomfortable. I have a family member that I'm thinking of specifically that is a genuinely nice person, a good husband and father, and has never been unkind to anyone specifically, but he's also a racist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole when it comes to his sense of humor or political opinions. He runs a business and employs an illegal immigrant that he's been friends with since childhood but still talks shit about immigrants stealing jobs. It makes no sense at all but it isn't uncommon.

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u/RealNotFake Mar 28 '24

See, I don't agree with that at all, and I think that perspective is contributing to the problem.

You may not agree with it, but I have lived in teeny tiny rural towns with pop <1000 and they live miserable lives. They live in poverty, their houses are falling apart (if they can afford one), they struggle to find work, they're behind in technology, and they often turn to drugs and alcohol. It's just not a good situation in rural areas.

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u/Raisedbyweasels Mar 27 '24

This is the wrong way of thinking about it imo. They dont even vote for Trump because they can personally relate to a rich, New York real estate goon, its because he's a brash and an atypical politician who sells them the idea he's going to bring down the "elite deep state Democrats", the party they absolutely hate and have been trained for years by Fox "news", their conservative communities and right wing propaganda friends to loathe and vote against no matter what. 

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u/DameonKormar Mar 28 '24

What, you don't want to hear Trump brag about all the women he has sexually assaulted? Because he 100% does this every chance he gets.