And a rousing chorus of:
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!"
What the fox say?
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If a Democrat said that then by now there’d be several competing strains of conspiracy about how unus meant UN-US and and they’d slipped up secret plans for a UN take-over of America to usher in the New World Order.
And the main difference between the strains would be how openly they blamed Jews for the plot…
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Yes, they do. I went to YouTube for a look at this speech so I didn’t have to set foot in the Xitter slime pool. I confess that even after all this time I was shocked by the intensity of the worship–yes, worship–of Trump in the comments. Over 500 comments and almost every one thanked God for Trump, admired his honesty, praised his magnificence, and applauded the good he’s brought to the country. Their words said “Thank God for Trump” but their fervor said, “God is Trump.”
It seems a certain percentage of avowed Christians have forgotten the bit about “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” in the Commandments. And those were handed down by the original Big G, not that wimpy Jesus guy the MAGAts have already spurned. Now it’s “Sorry Big G, Big T’s our Savior now.”
Jesus H. Christ.
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Remember, not every comment you see online is from a real live breathing human being… and of those that are, there’s a non-zero number of paid trolls (Russian and otherwise.)
This was true even before the Eldritch horror that is MLL descended upon us.
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I liked your first comment because I thought it was a comment on how our candidates are both ancient rich white men and we shouldn’t have to constantly settle for politicians so old that we literally have to worry about them dying or going senile before the election rolls around. But this is just absurd. Trump DOES have dementia. It’s been obvious for years and is only becoming more so with every passing week. This, unlike the evidence-bereft attacks on Biden, would be genuine cause for concern even if he weren’t a fascist monster. It’s not a political attack to point out an obvious and real problem, and given what a horrible person Trump is and how absolutely vital it is that he be defeated, I don’t see any reason to be polite, delicate and civil in the way it’s brought up. There’s really no comparison to be made between a fascist bully mocking people with disabilities and his victims fighting back by pointing out his very real befuddlement, hypocrisy and the threat he poses.
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If that had been the gentleman’s actual point, then I would also have been in emphatic agreement.
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MAGA apologist: “He did all of that on purpose! You just can’t follow his brilliance!”
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Hmmm, this sounds awfully similar to a different kind of apologist, for a much younger man who makes different but still astoundingly stupid blunders…
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The GOP is reaching the limits to this strategy though. Remember, Trump got more votes in 2020 than in 2016 after one of the worst presidential administrations in history. Despite the massive advantage that the “winner take all” electoral college system garners the GOP, Trump lost in 2020 because more people turned out to vote than in 2016. The scary thing to me, is that the people behind the scenes know that, and are readying for a more competent version of January 6th attack. And they are perfectly fine with "Weekend at Bernies"ing their orange shitstain around his dementia. “See the duckie? Sign the paper and I’ll give you the duckie.” Something similar was done for (to?) Wilson after his stroke.
When I’m feeling optimistic, I think that we are seeing the early signs of the breakup of the GOP alliance between the bigots and the plutocrats. It wasn’t SO long ago that the Republicans were know for being people that could be bargained with if you couldn’t beat the outright.
These guys are white nationalists wearing really poorly fitting Chirstian costumes. “My, what big racisim you have grandma.”
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Term two Reagan. I mean he was always a bit of a flimsy lightweight whose main concern about any policy was where was his mark and teleprompter but in term one he was usually awake when the decisions were being made.
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Charles Koch is at the intersection of those groups.
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Right? Quite a few of the plutocrats are either themselves bigots, or they don’t give two shits about bigotry, and will happily live in a society where bigotry is given the power of the law, as long as they can keep their hoards of money… They’re currently circling the wagons around Trump, so no, they’re not splitting the party. The only people who can do that are the rank and file within the GOP…
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More than that, their particular brand of “Christianity” is white nationalism. Has been for a long time. Their “religion” was simply their culture as a whole - the Bible was there to justify their beliefs; previously they also gave some lip service to some stuff Jesus said, but they’ve tossed that out the window, because it’s “woke.”
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Viewing it as a religion really helps me makes sense of it better too. I mean realistically for at least some people here the Christianity they were raised on literally has roots in the same Christianity that prevailed in Germany under Hitler and also the Christianity that justified slavery. I think it’s clear that for branches of Christianity the belief they should be creating a white ethnostate is actually a part of their faith.
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And more specifically, the US white evangelical movement formed explicitly as a backlash to desegregation. It expanded a bit to encompass all the other prejudices and social/political views of its adherents (e.g. elements of Ayn Randian objectivism, the cognitive dissonance created was solved by simply purging their Christianity of the bits that conflicted with it).
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You are. The power dynamic. When the arguably most powerful man on the planet is mocking specific people for disabilities, that’s a heck of a different thing than some rando on the internet starting a hashtag and some other random people pointing and laughing.
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