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I don't get the hyperbolic responses to fucking everything by Trump. It's always got to be biggest, best, worst, loudest. He fucking has no middle ground in any of the bullshit he spews.
I was so entertained when he brought up the immigrants eating pets and how he got called out for it by the moderator. There were a few times they straight up called him out.
Because his base apparently absolutely eats it up. They don't like nuance. They like crisis and outrage and hate and things they don't have to think too much about or have gray areas. They are purely good, the enemy is pure evil, etc.
The country is collapsing, she is the worst ever, etc. It's easy.
Not all of his followers are like that, but holy shit is it way more than I ever would have guessed. And it works so goddamn well.
The last decade has been the sad and frustrating process of the world realizing how absolutely goddamn stupid a large portion of the country is
It's surely a bit of culture too, the american hero, american films portraiting the good, the bad as 100% pure good/bad. Religion being omnipresent. Etc etc.
The stupidity is equal in all countries IMO.
No get off the couch and vote please! Because that seems to be another cultural thing in the USA, to not vote.
It's simple word association. And subliminally, it works a lot better than you think it does. When you think of Trump, you think of words like "Biggest, best, loudest", etc. You think of it because you know that Trump will use those words to lie about himself. But all Trump cares about is that you associate him with the words "biggest", "best", and "loudest". He doesn't care why.
It's how he communicates. Short, easy to remember words and phrases that your brain will easily link with each other after enough repetition. Why your brain makes the connection is irrelevant. He only cares about the connection.
And if Trump is good at anything, he has absolutely mastered this skill.
That's weird, cause the only words I associate with him are "bullshitter", "con man", "real estate swindler", "narcissist".
I recommend adding "rapist", "convicted felon", and "moron" to your list
Also "Russian asset" and "Saudi lapdog".
It’s not weird at all, because you aren’t part of his brainwashed, dementia-riddled constituency.
At some point, I started noticing the same thing in a lot of Fox programming. If you watch Hells kitchen or tons of other fox shows. It's the toughest challenge, for the first time, most dangerous.
It's gotten to the point that I can't ignore it, it's like the Wilhelm scream.
Strange, the words i think of are more like: "narcissistic" "obnoxious" & "asshole" with a side of "moron" thrown in
"Send the message to the dumbest of your audience"