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teach1st

(5,928 posts)
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 10:36 PM Jan 2019

From The Bucking Jenny on FB: Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?

https://www.facebook.com/TheBuckingJenny/posts/1983618728383263?__tn__=K-R

"An anguished question from a Trump supporter: "Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?"

The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you chirped, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"


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From The Bucking Jenny on FB: Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid? (Original Post) teach1st Jan 2019 OP
. dalton99a Jan 2019 #1
vicious, selfish, amoral, stupid, or all at once Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #3
Jenny is channeling Nance Greggs. panader0 Jan 2019 #2
I thought that, too teach1st Jan 2019 #4
ditto. yonder Jan 2019 #5
These responses are great. Buckeyeblue Jan 2019 #6
K&R alwaysinasnit Jan 2019 #7
Why Do Liberals Think Water Is Wet? ChoppinBroccoli Jan 2019 #8
We'd all really like to believe the Trump supporters are people who've temporarily lost their way... Girard442 Jan 2019 #9
yep, they are stupid. nt mastermind Jan 2019 #10
There's a reason for common decency and for manners. PatrickforO Jan 2019 #11
For many, we don't think they're stupid, we think they're propagandized EndGOPPropaganda Jan 2019 #12
K & R !!! Progressive Jones Jan 2019 #13
And the ones that are not stupid...they're evil Demonaut Jan 2019 #14
So. Many. Red. Flags. moondust Jan 2019 #15
What Trump supporters fail to understand . . . markpkessinger Jan 2019 #16
Humayun Khan shadowmayor Jan 2019 #17
i don't think many of them are stupid. i think almost all of them are hateful bigots who love the JI7 Jan 2019 #18
Because trump supporters are all very stupid people Gothmog Jan 2019 #19

dalton99a

(81,073 posts)
1. .
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 10:39 PM
Jan 2019
That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids. has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “well, ok then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,764 posts)
8. Why Do Liberals Think Water Is Wet?
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:32 AM
Jan 2019

Because sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. If you voted for Trump and you're not a billionaire, you voted to cut your own throat. What do you want me to call that? SMART?

Girard442

(6,059 posts)
9. We'd all really like to believe the Trump supporters are people who've temporarily lost their way...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:33 AM
Jan 2019

...and can be brought back into the fold. History doesn't support that. It's more likely that a third of the people in this country always have had and always will have a fascist mindset and the only way the country can have a liberal, progressive government with civil liberties for all is for the other two-thirds to constantly beat back that third.

PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
11. There's a reason for common decency and for manners.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:51 AM
Jan 2019

Trump has neither.

And as to his supporters, those who hate in the same way deserve nothing but contempt.

Those who just felt like he was poking at the establishment by being politically incorrect, after two years of horror, deserve nothing but contempt.

EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)
12. For many, we don't think they're stupid, we think they're propagandized
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:58 AM
Jan 2019

Their stupid choice was choosing to believe Fox and Limbaugh.
Once they made that choice the rest of their world is upside down and they seem stupid about everything. Because they're being lied to.

Demonaut

(8,909 posts)
14. And the ones that are not stupid...they're evil
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:08 AM
Jan 2019

evil in the sense that their morality is reserved for those deserving

moondust

(19,917 posts)
15. So. Many. Red. Flags.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:15 AM
Jan 2019

Obvious as hell that he was unfit and should have easily been eliminated soon after he entered the race.

markpkessinger

(8,381 posts)
16. What Trump supporters fail to understand . . .
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:16 AM
Jan 2019

. . . is that "stupid" is about the most charitable explanation we can come up with to explain their political choice.

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)
17. Humayun Khan
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:18 AM
Jan 2019

Died serving his country as a soldier. A Muslim American patriot - the peeresident mocked his grieving family during the "ban all Muslims" episode of his reign of terror. And his supporters said "right on".

JI7

(89,182 posts)
18. i don't think many of them are stupid. i think almost all of them are hateful bigots who love the
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:21 AM
Jan 2019

hateful shit that he spews .

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