It’s the RWA (Right Wing Authoritarian) mindset.
I think every American should be required to read Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians in school.
But asking our public schools, especially while under the influence of the unhinged right wing and the reactionary centrists, to give citizens a real education is probably asking a lot.
“He says what I’m thinking!”
– So many drumpffucks
I know, right? There are actual experts that Donvict could have sought out and tapped, but he chooses to load up his clown car with geniuses like this because actual experts probably won’t be quite loyal enough…
Donvict saw Petey on the TV and thinks that qualifies him…
Hand that man a Nobel Peace Prize!
This drunk dumbass has no business doing that job.
Life is hard and it seems like people are constantly fighting and dying around you from the moment you’re born. It’s all you know. Everyone around you is sick, destitute, and miserable. There are no jobs. You have no education. You know nothing but struggle and see no future for yourself.
The army is the only hand reaching out and offering to help pull you up, so you grab it.
I grew up in a very rural area. This describes the situation there decades ago.
I don’t have exact numbers, but I would say something like 10-15% of my class actually went on to higher education. Probably less, and definitely less than that finished.
Very, very many went into some branch of the military. When the first war on Iraq started I figured that might be our generation’s Vietnam and that many of my graduating class would be fodder for it. Luckily for them, that ended up not being the case.
In any case, songs like Born in the USA and Fortune Son really land pretty hard…
Well, that, and mail-in voting is very hard to disrupt by having people stand around in long lines during a workday or by stationing cops/ICE or whatever outside of voting locations.
I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman
That’s all this asshole ever was and ever will be, really. Guy made shitty real estate deals as a nepobaby failson and had a very big mouth. That’s pretty much all he is.
Most of the people in NYC, and probably most of the people on the Eastern seaboard, tended to know who he was even by the early 90s. If they paid even the least bit of attention. But that stupid gameshow and that dumb book gave a whole lot of idiots the idea that he was really something more and somehow worthy of giving any power.
Christ, what a fucking asshole.
Oh yeah, since he and his son surely promised they will kill any kind of news or entertainment that makes Pedonald have a sad.
I think you are also on the hook to pay American taxes, too. So I guess Pedonald would be taking the “unitary executive theory” all the way to King George territory and we have taxation w/o representation for the expats, too…
Probably has a lot to do with why he’s on his third wife and drinks.
It’s really too bad they haven’t found a way to safely augment penises. This might solve so many problems with people like this…
I wonder if this stupid Faux News host has ever even bothered to learn anything at all about the Scouts and their principles.
Exactly. What Donvict’s crime wave is doing is hollowing out everything that made us strong. The brain drain has already started.
The fuck your feelings crowd loves to mock the “reality-based community”. Which is kind of strange for a set of people that claim to value rationality over being emotional.
Why bother with such reality-based things when we have people voting based on vibes for people that have run their whole lives based on vibes?
Yep. I’ll be surprised if his numbers fall through the Sarah Palin Floor. Or the Nixon Resignation Floor.
Wake me up when his numbers fall below the Sarah Palin/Nixon Resignation Floor.
There are a certain set of people that support Republicans no matter what they do.
Even if Republicans completely reverse themselves on things like elective wars (Pedonald attacking and/or threatening to attack several countries), taxes (tariffs for everyone!), and deficits (see Cheney’s comments on deficits).
Back when Americans still were almost 100% operating under the stupid protein myths (these days, I think it is a least a little better, but there has been a huge rise in marketing protein to people as if they aren’t getting enough, lol, so I really don’t know if people have a better grasp of nutrition now or not, even with easily-available information sources now online. Back then, spotting a vegetarian in the wild outside of major metro areas, anyway, was like spotting Bigfoot and the very concept of not eating meat was something that made most people’s brains short out.) and virtually everyone thought you needed a big portion of some meat on your plate… my boomer parents were trying to scrape by, they would have liver about once or twice a week to make ends meet.
It wasn’t until a bit later when they read a bit more about vegetarianism that they realized they could easily sub in things like beans/rice to round out meals and not only was it far safer and a lot less disgusting, it was cheaper and had an incredibly long shelf life. And they didn’t have to worry about the family being malnourished or anything.
Anecdotally, conversations with the terminally online type of leftists shows many to be still quite self-satisfied about not voting for Kamala, though.
Because, bOtHsIdEs would have started a religious war on behalf of a secular country.