And fear.
Stir vigorously and you get capital H hate.
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they do know about the lies and empty promises because they think trump’s values align with theirs. they’ll put up with any abuse to get judges installed.
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Yeah, but you’re proving yourself to be the better person (sorry for the really low bar on that test) simply by admitting you don’t know what this is. (I don’t either, so I’m not going to propose a solution for anything. This obviously makes me ineligible for political leadership.)
The bad part is that although I see so much proof of this, I still find myself trying to reject the idea simply because I have difficulty believing anyone could be that stupid, or rather an entire group could be – it feels entirely too much like an ad hominem fallacy attack on their position, but it really is coming down to that, isn’t it?
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I’m related to a few Turnip supporters, and it’s both. My MAGAt uncle, for instance, likes to be an asshole, performatively and otherwise; he’s very much a real-world tr0ll. His (now ex-) wife is just a zero-information voter whose family was Republican, so she blindly votes for the party and just accepts at face value their claims. (E.g. that Turnip did all the things he promised/claimed, that Hunter Biden is somehow a major scandal, that being “woke” can’t possibly mean [actual definition], because all these people are talking about it as if it were so terrible…) She doesn’t even watch Fox (can’t get her tv working) - she just accepts vague, detail-free, second-hand summations of what’s going on (probably from people who are watching Fox) because otherwise she’d have to question her whole worldview.
Some (most?) of them realize he lies, but they’re convinced he’s not lying to them. He’s lying to “own the libs,” not to pull the wool over their eyes. Some really do accept what he’s saying. In a pinch they might say he’s exaggerating or joking.
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Witness the difference between that and the lovely Mutants here: when a term came up that some people didn’t know, they either asked for information in order to understand, or else looked it up themselves. MAGAts don’t do that.
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… and that’s the thing that Trump is really good at
That business where he stalked over to the wrong side of the stage when he was “debating” Clinton, that was shit monkey genius 
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You’d think someone campaigning for president in Iowa would have spent a few minutes looking up “shit people are worried about in Iowa.”
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Before he was elected, someone on a radio show asked him about the nuclear triad, and he very clearly had no clue what that meant.
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Just another farm subsidy from the folks who decry gubmint spending and “hand outs”
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I only knew what it was all about because of one of those “NPR moments” in the car where I sat running my engine listening to a story I couldn’t turn off. So kind of a Noetic Ouroboros.
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He is willing to hate whatever they hate. He doesn’t even have to know or understand what it is. It’s completely performative, but they seem to feel that is is at least paying some sort of attention to them.
I have found that some people are energized by being righteously indignant. They eat up Tucker Carlson and his like on Fox News. Personally, I just find that tiring.
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Wait, how did you know about my campaign!?! We don’t announce for another two weeks!
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All the more reason why it’s ludicrous that some people say we should listen to, and try to understand, that mentality.
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Never did get my GQP Healthcare Plan. Unless their plan was less ACA, because they did at least some of that.
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Yep.
And please, tell me more about the infrastructure bill Trump campaigned on.
Or how he “brought the troops home.”
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I’ll bet anyone $100 that that asshole spent more time in the previous 6 years in a chair getting his face sprayed and his hair done than he ever did reading or prepping for anything.
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