uncadonego on 23/5/2018 at 18:47
But back to misrepresentations, his outright lies....
Why aren't his supporters getting fed up with it?
In fact, many repeat the crap in his tweets like they are research findings or gospel or something. WTH?
Renzatic on 23/5/2018 at 19:27
Quote Posted by uncadonego
In fact, many repeat the crap in his tweets like they are research findings or gospel or something. WTH?
That's the cult of personality in action. You have so many people who have invested so much emotion into him, that anything he says or does will be excused or ignored for the sake of saving face, even when it goes against his own word.
Pyrian on 23/5/2018 at 20:04
There's a reason they keep hammering on the "Fake News" meme. They absolutely need their flock inoculated from facts.
In practice, it seems that most of the flock catch on to the fact that their leaders are full of it eventually - that's actually a big reason why fringe tea party candidates and Donald Trump himself got nominated, the Republican base is sick of the nonsense coming from their more establishment candidates. But very very few of them ever make the leap from the fact that their leaders are self-evidently full of it, to the realization that the people those leaders keep claiming are full of it, are mostly on the level. (Mostly. Well, a whole lot more than the other side, anyway...)
Renzatic on 23/5/2018 at 22:43
I'm still amazed that most of the moderate Republicans were gobsmacked by the Trump Train. I mean what the hell else did they expect to happen when they went courting crazy for easy votes?
uncadonego on 23/5/2018 at 22:58
He is so shameless about his lies, that even when his own staff inform him properly, he still repeats the lies. It's like he's actually a psychopath...
From healthyplace.com:
Psychopathy can be thought of as a more severe form of sociopathy with more symptoms. Therefore, all psychopaths are sociopaths but sociopaths are not necessarily psychopaths.
According to the Society for the Study of Psychopathy, psychopath traits include:
Lack of guilt/remorse
Lack of empathy
Lack of deep emotional attachments
Narcissism
Superficial charm
Dishonesty
Manipulativeness
Reckless risk-taking
Sound like anyone? Can someone with empathy use the future of all those DACA kids as a political lever?
Each one of these traits can be associated with his actions or behaviours in my opinion.
demagogue on 24/5/2018 at 02:56
Some commentator said something along the lines of:
Trump opponents take him literally but don't take him seriously.
Trump supporters take him seriously but don't take him literally.
They like that the lies rile up liberal snowflakes and help bring down a system they oppose. Or something like that. The whole thing has an air of performance art.
Starker on 24/5/2018 at 03:27
The system being the United States?
uncadonego on 24/5/2018 at 03:29
Quote Posted by demagogue
The whole thing has an air of performance art.
Or a reality TV show?
Starker on 24/5/2018 at 08:35
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
Quote:
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https://www.vox.com/2018/5/23/17384096/mueller-investigation-poll)
A majority of Americans — 59 percent — say in a new survey that Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia and the 2016 campaign has not yet uncovered evidence of any crimes, even though in reality, Mueller has already obtained five guilty pleas and 17 criminal indictments.
I don't know and I don't care.