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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/01/21 2:46:06 PM
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I get that as a politician he just kinda told a group of people they are never wrong. Great way to get a base sure.

But what did he DO beyond talk that has led him to have such a fervent base? People who are calling anyone who disagree with him a terrorist. Did he make some people more wealthy? Did his political actions make their lives better?

He isn't even a very good speaker quite frankly... so is that it? Is he seen as an everyman despite being a millionaire (at least at one point)?

He doesn't have (to me) the charisma that would warrant this level of love. I don't even think it is a fervor for the Republican Party since they are breaking apart at the seems over Trump shit.

What is it?

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Hexenherz
01/01/21 2:47:28 PM
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Cult of personality.

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Lost_All_Senses
01/01/21 2:47:45 PM
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4 years of disaster and embarrassment, it seems to still be "he's not a politician".

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Musourenka
01/01/21 2:49:50 PM
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He's the personification of "Owning the libs" trolling.

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Socrawheeze
01/01/21 2:50:38 PM
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he made being a spiteful troll mainstream. made it ok to openly hate for his base. they love that shit
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Turbam
01/01/21 2:51:12 PM
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Trumpers at work told me it's because "he's a real american

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cjsdowg
01/01/21 2:51:40 PM
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Same as David Koresh, Trump supporters would kill their grand parents if Trump asked them too.

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yemmy
01/01/21 2:52:48 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
Same as David Koresh, Trump supporters would kill their grand parents if Trump asked them too.

What does killing your grandparents have to do with David Koresh?

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Smackems
01/01/21 2:53:34 PM
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Sex appeal

Had dat DICK

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Scorsese2002
01/01/21 2:53:36 PM
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cjsdowg
01/01/21 2:54:56 PM
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yemmy posted...


What does killing your grandparents have to do with David Koresh?

The people in the compound started the fire that killed their families. And These people are not wearing mask that are helping to kill older people.

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yemmy
01/01/21 2:56:45 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
The people in the compound started the fire that killed their families

Yeah if you believe that bullshit

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ReggieBush09
01/01/21 2:58:06 PM
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Charles mansion type support.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/01/21 2:58:21 PM
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Scorsese2002 posted...
Gave 0 fucks

Is that laudable? Is that appealing?

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Scorsese2002
01/01/21 3:01:26 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...


Is that laudable? Is that appealing?



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ColdRainAndSnow
01/01/21 3:02:10 PM
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He pretty much said brown people are bad a lot in a roundabout way, sometimes even bluntly too

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harley2280
01/01/21 3:04:16 PM
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Xenophobia and Racism. He used the time honored tradition of facist every by making a group of people feel like they were victims and needed to rise up against minority's.
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cjsdowg
01/01/21 3:04:23 PM
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yemmy posted...


Yeah if you believe that bullshit

Branch Davidians started the fire. I complain about the government all the time. I would not side with them randomly.

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PesticideDream
01/01/21 3:09:05 PM
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He has the same appeal that Bernie Sanders does, spouts off a lot of grand ideas with no substance that people eat up.
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Prestoff
01/01/21 3:10:17 PM
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He's a literal walking meme acting as a POTUS. For goodness sakes, Trump even had a book calling his "running for President" stunt... a stunt to increase sales for his hotels. He never took it seriously, but when enough people bought into his act... it didn't become an act anymore.

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GrabASnickers
01/01/21 3:12:24 PM
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There's no one reason. Some people are super racist, or just want to own the libs. Some people are lifelong Republicans and even if they were more "traditional" the concept of turning somewhere else was unfathomable. Some people like chaos and hope it'll be an agent for change. Some people are susceptible to group dynamics and assume that if something has a big following it must be worth joining too. Some people don't want to admit they're wrong or feel like they've invested so much time and energy into a lie so they just dig the hole even deeper. Or all of the above.
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IMNOTRAGED
01/01/21 3:14:04 PM
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Scorsese2002 posted...
Gave 0 fucks

Seems kinda like a negative for someone whose job is to represent the people

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cjsdowg
01/01/21 3:14:07 PM
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PesticideDream posted...
He has the same appeal that Bernie Sanders does, spouts off a lot of grand ideas with no substance that people eat up.

Yeah getting a health care system and educational system like the rest of the world is this grand idea that just can't happen. And is just the same thing as wanting to ban all Muslim people from the country.

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GrabASnickers
01/01/21 3:21:40 PM
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Tbf Trump teased some leftist ideas, and generally those are much more popular when you detach them from democrat politicians or scary buzzwords like socialism. I think he drew some people in with that but he obviously didn't go far enough with them, even just as ideas, let alone in practice. He just throws shit at the walls to see what sticks and it works for his base cause they can just cherry pick it for whatever context they're in.

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thronedfire2
01/01/21 3:21:52 PM
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Racism

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Will_VIIII
01/01/21 8:45:15 PM
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He emboldened racism and bigotry.

Best case for the moral character of a trump supporter is they at minimum, tolerate bigotry.

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ultimate reaver
01/01/21 8:46:15 PM
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he was a loud populist who campaigned against the "elite"

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SPE
01/01/21 8:46:25 PM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
I get that as a politician he just kinda told a group of people they are never wrong. Great way to get a base sure.

But what did he DO beyond talk that has led him to have such a fervent base? People who are calling anyone who disagree with him a terrorist. Did he make some people more wealthy? Did his political actions make their lives better?

He isn't even a very good speaker quite frankly... so is that it? Is he seen as an everyman despite being a millionaire (at least at one point)?

He doesn't have (to me) the charisma that would warrant this level of love. I don't even think it is a fervor for the Republican Party since they are breaking apart at the seems over Trump shit.

What is it?

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SPE
01/01/21 8:53:02 PM
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Botw spoilers:

the skeikahs felt down on their luck, they felt they were losing their standing in hyrule society. // certain sector of the US felt down on its luck and they felt they were losing their standing in the us society.

then ganon promised the sheikah that he would restore them to their spot of privilege and blamed the other (hylians, royal family) for their misfortune // then Trump promised the maga people that he would restore them to their place of privilege and blamed the others (minorities) for their misfortune

and so the yiga clan/MAGA voters were born. They usually pretend to be victims to get your attention and make you lower your guard and then they attack!!

that is the gist of it

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BilalPowell
01/01/21 8:56:30 PM
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He said things nobody else would say. Seemed like he was actually being himself when speaking instead of an actor like most politicians.

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LightHawKnight
01/01/21 8:56:57 PM
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Lot of racists out there.

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mustachedmystic
01/01/21 8:57:56 PM
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White trash thinks he has class.

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ReggieBush09
01/01/21 11:05:18 PM
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Maga

drain the swamp of regular government.

Then covid came and destroyed Donald.

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masterbarf
01/01/21 11:14:32 PM
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He provided "validation" for the tens of millions of racists, xenophobes, and other bigots who populate the US.

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TheRealDill2000
01/03/21 3:34:04 PM
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He's likely the most charismatic politician I've seen in my lifetime.

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SPE
01/03/21 3:37:58 PM
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TheRealDill2000 posted...
He's likely the most charismatic politician I've seen in my lifetime.

hahaha.this says more about you than him

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MagnusX
01/03/21 3:58:31 PM
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Scorsese2002 posted...
Gave 0 fucks
He only gave zero fucks because he's too incompetent to understand what a government actually does and too stupid to do anything about it. Well, besides perpetually spew bigotry, roll back pollution regulations, disallow transgender people from serving in the military, give national secrets to less than favourable countries, try to ban an entire religion from entering the country, have constant jerk-off rallies with a bunch of ignorant cultists, and a whole lot of other heinous shit.

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jpenny2
01/03/21 4:06:25 PM
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His appeal says more about his supporters than it does about him.

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Solid Snake07
01/03/21 4:10:36 PM
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Think it's really just as simple as he wasn't the traditionally fake ass politician.

Problem was he's a real asshole and a compulsive liar

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Frisk
01/03/21 4:12:37 PM
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harley2280 posted...
Xenophobia and Racism. He used the time honored tradition of facist every by making a group of people feel like they were victims and needed to rise up against minority's.

This

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SPE
01/03/21 4:46:27 PM
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harley2280 posted...
Xenophobia and Racism. He used the time honored tradition of facist every by making a group of people feel like they were victims and needed to rise up against minority's.

this.
its the text book/manual of every populist, either right or left wing

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Antifar
01/03/21 4:48:05 PM
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He believes everything he reads online, which his followers find very relatable.

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LinkDaLunatic
01/03/21 4:50:05 PM
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there are a lot of people in love with his status, in love with his wealth, in love with his rhetoric

the kinds of people who are okay with his racism and sexism. if any other candidate in history had been on record saying 'grab her by the pussy' they would be toast. but not this guy.

he appealed to stupid people, and well... we have a lot of those here. biden's victory was not even as wide a gap as I was hoping it would be. nearly half the country still supported trump. after everything he's said, after every slip and every fuckup. every embarrassment to this once great country.
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Ving_Rhames
01/03/21 4:51:07 PM
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Relatedly stupid, relatedly hateful

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harley2280
01/03/21 5:07:47 PM
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LinkDaLunatic posted...
in love with his wealth,

You mean with Russia's wealth. Trump is poor as hell.
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LinkDaLunatic
01/03/21 5:09:20 PM
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maybe. but he's known for being really wealthy and that's all that matters to people. he has the image of someone very successful as defined by the majority of americans.

even though he's a fat, lazy, stupid failure who has far more Ls under his belt than Ws.
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harley2280
01/03/21 5:14:45 PM
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LinkDaLunatic posted...
maybe. but he's known for being really wealthy and that's all that matters to people. he has the image of someone very successful as defined by the majority of americans.

even though he's a fat, lazy, stupid failure who has far more Ls under his belt than Ws.

I really love Mulaney's description of him. He's like a a cartoon rich person.
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