aquascoot wrote on Aug 5
th, 2025 at 7:59am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 5
th, 2025 at 6:56am:
You'd all reduce your risk of arthritis in the fingers if you realised that Trump is not a cause, he's a symptom.
He's the bastard child of a strange alliance between American conservative immigrant peoples and Appalachians.
You're overanalysing.
Trump is just a good marketer who understands how humans " buy".
They buy on emotions.
Skippy thinks they sit down and analyse the statistics from the department of trade.
People can't even watch a 15 second tok tok without fast forwarding it.
When there is zero focus. People just fall into the frame of whoever has the more stimulating and self confident narrative.
The more the left react to Trump. The more he seems like the legitimate dude who everyone is reacting to.
We are hard-wired to accept whoever gets the most attention as the legitimate person of high status.
Trump would wither on the vine if the millions of Skippy's just ignored him.
Donald who ?
Never heard if him.
Truly they are the foundation on which his power is built.
His core investors.
Like a submissive in a co dependant relationship, they can't leave the abusive relationship because they are addicted on the emotions he provides.
Ask them to come up with a democrat leader and they too lose focus immediately and go back to the source of stimulation.
The very definition of TDS
Your misstep here, Scoot, is thinking this is about Trump the
individual, it's not. It's about his actions, past and present.
When you suggest that ignoring Trump will make him wither, that only makes sense if you're viewing everything through the lens of a cult of personality. And maybe that does describe you and all your "study" of him. But that's not what the rest of us are reacting to.
What people are focused on are his actions. You're asking us to ignore sexual abuse allegations, his long and well-documented history of sexualising children, his connections to Epstein, and most of all, his transparent attempts to cover it all up, especially when it comes to the Epstein files.
That aside, in the context of this thread alone, you're also asking us to overlook the damage of his economic policy, real, measurable damage. And instead of addressing it or defending it on merit, what did he do? He fired the messenger. That's not a historic footnote, that's a current, observable action.
He is deliberately lying to the public. He's making no attempt to hide it, because he assumes, rightly in yours and Frank's case, that there's a base willing to swallow the lie whole as long as it protects the image of Dear Leader.
You want us to ignore all of that, simply because it's inconvenient to your narrative. Because it doesn't paint Trump in a flattering light.
That's not principle. That's not analysis. That's blind devotion to a personality cult. And yet you accuse others of having TDS?
Scoot...
Come on, mate.
Even you don't believe the garbage you're shovelling here.
Nah.
I'm right on this one.
Your and the millions of leftie intellectuals who talk down to Trump supporters are making them double down.
Again you don't understand human behaviour.
If someone supported Trump for 4 years that's a lot of investment.
Could you change their minds.
Of course.
You would have to be very kind to them, very subtle, very nuanced, seek first to understand before asking to be understood.
This is all well understood.
But it's easier for the smug left to just criticise them relentlessly. Never a moment of collaboration.
You are dumber then them if you think that could ever improve the polarisation
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