“I’ve had people come to me and say, ‘You know I voted for [Trump], but if he doesn’t tone down the rhetoric, I might just stay home this time,’” Hardesty told Politico.
Meh. Overly hopeful.
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If it comes out that Trump banged a dude.
No really. The Breitbart comment threads have said as much.
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I’m sure even then there would be some way to spin this.
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there’s a whole sub-culture of straight men who hookup with other straight men so that they can say they aren’t cheating on their wives.
it all makes sense. somehow.
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Not if he banged, and got banged by, a black dude.
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“He was doing it ironically.”
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As somebody who grew up before this marketing category existed, I don’t get it
As far as I can tell an “energy drink” is a bag of Skittles and eight ounces of Mountain Dew in a blender
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Evangelical Christians: “but if he doesn’t tone down the rhetoric, I might just stay home this time”
so, its the rhetoric that bothers you, yes?!? jeezuz fucking christ, get the fuck outta here!
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and apparently by “rhetoric” they don’t mean actual rhetoric, they mean individual words. Dropping an incidental “god damn” interjection is all of a sudden the breaking point, not the very deliberate “these people are subhuman and should be exterminated.” The latter either hadn’t noved the needle or has been registering as a positive, depending on just how much of a Trumpvangelical you are…
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I like that term. I’ve been using “Anti-Christ Christians”.
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Honestly I think the whole thing would turn on whether Trump could be perceived as the dom or the sub through the eyes of a straight man.
I’m hoping that was they really mean is, “I’ve been feeling bad about supporting this guy for a year and a half and I’m finally willing to go the other way but I can’t turn against him for any of the things that I’ve already rationalized to myself because that would mean I was wrong so it’s got to be something I can point to from this week and there it is!” (Because if that’s what they really mean then they actually won’t vote for Trump again)
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That sounds about right. You can rape, rob and kidnap, run concentration camps and dehumanize black and brown people, but you have to do politely and always say “bless their hearts.” While not universal, the evangelical right is largely southern, and this baked into the culture down here.
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That thought occurred to me as well, which is why I added in the bit you highlighted. If Trump was the only one doing the banging they’d spin it as dominance.
Trumpers are fucking hopeless.
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That’s just an alternative viewpoint. Fine people on both sides.
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Probably making some comparisons to the founding fathers.
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That is both unsurprising and terrifying. And the question now is, can we survive until Jan 2021? I am less certain of that every day.
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I think to really understand Trump, you just take every sentence and figure out which one of the following Trump means:
- “I like X”
- “I do not like X”
- “I really hope you like me”
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Even “I (don’t) like X” boils down to “I really hope you like me” in his mind. His preferences are entirely dictated by popular opinion.
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This is far too true and people really don’t understand how deep it goes. I’m from here and I don’t understand either. They don’t care who you are or what you do really, they only care about what you say and how you appear. So long as you speak politely and put on a good face while attributing all success to your superior religion’s morals it doesn’t matter what you actually do in the world. It doesn’t even really matter whether you follow those morals so long as you profess them. I’m not calling out hypocrisy either really, there’s actual apologetics for this kind of thinking when you confront it, usually something around sin and judgement. The best I’ve managed to understand is that it’s really just claiming any kind of agency over your own morality that is a true sin. That may, in fact, be the only sin that is truly unacceptable in the context of the social and religious climate. That’s the reason I spent my whole life trying to get out of here really, more than anything else. I can’t stand the culture. To me, thinking like that is a sign of true cowardice and moral weakness and so I see most of the people around me as morally bankrupt cowards who are simply in denial of that fact.
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