Wait, so is he saying walls do nothing?

When I described him in 2016 as a "wannabe Lex Luthor comic-book villain", someone said I was exaggerating. The truth is that at the time I was somewhat exaggerating. That person made a fair assessment of what was an emotionally-charged reaction to the election results.

I dislike how accurate the description ended up being.

Like, who even says this shit for real? And who laughs at it? What even? I can't understand it at all; and it sort of scares me to know that I might one day randomly encounter someone in power who laughed when he said it.

Deplorable is pretty good. One of the most annoying things was the cretins who didn’t really know what deplorable meant, just they figured out it was meant to be bad, and started calling themselves “proud deplorable!” and so on.

wtaf is this tho?

https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1707886438476329025

Well of course. They make a shitton of money from the mere existence of Trump. It's the same reason places like Fox aren't actually particularly upset when a dem wins, it gives them free clicks

It's a Catch-22. He's a contender for the presidency and the former president who has a real shot of winning. He's also under indictment in multiple jurisdictions. The things he says are news, regardless of how stupid they are, because he's saying them to become president and avoid jail.

The first time around they didn't have to give him so much coverage early on in the primary race. This time, they don't have a choice because it's actually relevant news. That said, most networks have toned down coverage of Trump significantly. Actually most news orgs are more focused on the shutdown than the recent debate and Trump's bullshit.

I think any irony is lost on the stable genius.

His voters are a disgrace. Imagine listening to this degenerate jerk whine and ramble and flatter himself and lie and bully people and think “oh yeah, I want this guy in charge”.

To humanity. They are a disgrace to humanity.

These are their morals, though.

What’s not Christian about violent assault?

Right where they always were.

Luke 19:27

But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”

Ableism is a huge systemic cultural issue, and like most other huge systemic cultural issues, Trump just exemplifies it. His entire 'value' lies in echoing condensed sound-bite versions of commonly-held antisocial beliefs. He's an empty vessel of a person, a human-shaped Pandora's box.

All we can really do is name those beliefs and actively work against examples of them in our own spheres of influence.

Physically disabled. He mocked a physically disabled journalist, Serge Kovaleski, who has a degenerative joint condition.

Another thing those Traditional Values conservatives can hold against him.... 🙄

He'd be like Eric Cartman. Talks a big game, gets riled up and ready to fight, but cries like a baby on the first hit of his arm.