3507 wrote:
I watched the first 2 or 3 minutes of it.
Those Trump supporters are not exhibiting any good logic, depth, nor t***h in the part that I watched.
But maybe it does represent how many Trump supporters think, or how they tend not to think a whole lot. Just this hour I found an example of how Trump talks: This is from April 2021, and I'm quoting from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/politics/donald-trump-republicans-mcconnell.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210917&instance_id=40616&nl=the-morning®i_id=60870106&segment_id=69157&te=1&user_id=65e16ae06c16ccec824f99d9aa7b6ce0
He's talking about what happened on J*** 6.
-> 'In an interview on Fox News with the host Laura Ingraham late last month,
-> when asked about the security around the Capitol, Mr. Trump said:
-> “It was zero threat right from the start. It was zero threat.”
->
-> 'He added: “Some of them went in and there they are hugging and kissing
-> the police and the guards. You know, they had great relationships. A lot of
-> the people were waved in and then they walked in and they walked out.”'
Is Mr. Trump some kind of example of how many Trump supporters talk or behave? Yes.
Was it "zero threat", as he says? No.
Is there some underlying t***h, meant by saying it was "zero threat"? No.
Were they "hugging" the police? Probably not. Were they "kissing" the police? Probably not. In all the many pictures of the event, do any show them hugging or kissing the police? Probably not.
Do Trump supporters care, or does Trump himself care, about whether what he says is true or false? Not really.
But they do like the sentiments that he expresses. And what are those sentiments? Recalling Trump expressing himself over the past several years, those sentiments include:
1. Disdain.
2. A willingness to insult people and countries.
3. A willingness to condemn and a lack of thoughtful restraint.
Among Trump supporters there is disregard for factual t***h or falseness in anything _Trump_ says. The people who support him are undeterred by any falsehood he may say.
Trump supporters say it's his "policies" that they like. I haven't noticed any good formulations of policy from Trump. What there was similar to "policies" coming from his administration didn't look to me like good ones.
I guess that Trump supporters support him because of sentiments 1, 2, and 3. As a fellow human, I can identify with wanting to express disdain, to insult, and to condemn without thoughtful restraint; sometimes I feel that way, but not against Trump's targets (more against Trump and his supporters). If somehow a god or a high official came along and allowed me to express my sentiments 1, 2, & 3 without restraint, and be officially excused for it, I might be happy at that, if I could believe that such a thing could really work.
But in the real world (and with a truly supreme being (top god)), it is better to behave with more restraint and thought, and to care about the difference between a true fact and a false fact.
If Trump really had a real important policy, which represents what he's about, what would it be? One such policy might be something like, "It's okay to insult anybody and be threatening and violent; and nobody has the right to tell you what to do or not do." This policy would be attractive to a lot of people. They are a significantly large number of the Trump supporters. They _feel_ that policy emanating from him. He acts that way partly because as a wealthy heir he could get away with it, and partly because that's how he gets their support. It's pandering, but maybe he and they don't think of it as pandering.
I watched the first 2 or 3 minutes of it. br br T... (
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I have disdain for vicious frelling liars like the entire media is. They get people hurt, k**led, livelihoods wrecked, smear anyone of a particular political persuasion they h**e...like innocent high school kids.
Frell the media and frell being nice to vicious, nasty, manipulating, PAID liars.