If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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This is a thread dedicated to calling Trump supporters idiots. I wanted this so I had a place to go to get it out of my system for the day. I made it for myself, but feel free to use it if you need to.

How stupid does one need to be to be a Trump supporter? Stupid enough to go to a Trump rally, I guess.
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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Some Schmo wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:13 am
How stupid does one need to be to be a Trump supporter? Stupid enough to go to a Trump rally, I guess.
Do they really need to go to a rally? Couldn't they simply post some conspiracy gibberish on a message board?

The one thing that does seem surprising about Trump supporters is that they have never caught on to how badly Trump performs his con-artist schtick. A good con-artist would not tell as many outrageous lies. What lies they told would be clever. Trump presents a textbook case of a pathological liar, and yet his supporters lack the discernment to detect this or even worse, the moral fortitude to even care.
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moksha wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:57 am
Trump presents a textbook case of a pathological liar, and yet his supporters lack the discernment to detect this or even worse, the moral fortitude to even care.
This is one of the most alarming things about Trump and his hardcore base. He has not the slightest hesitation to lie or make up things, whenever he thinks it would benefit him, and sometimes even in cases where the truth would actually have served him better. Some of his base are simply too clueless or ill informed to realize the extent and frequency of his lies, and the rest of them apparently regard his incessant lying as merely a defiant and even admirable exercise of his first amendment rights to say whatever he wants to say.
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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How much more stupid do you have to be to leave your native country to come to a country where Trump is president.

I always chuckled at the Latinos in my mission who would spend hours cursing the US, captialism, and the racist horrors they perceived through our left wing media to exist in the US. Then I'd ask if they had ever been the US? No but I would love to go they would reply. I guess it's hard to get away from immoral racist, police supporting, gun carrying, religious people when they're the only ones in the world who can create a country with the economic opportunity you want. Maduro isn't racist nor Fidel Castro. They're also extreme democratic socialists. Would you like to live there?
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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moksha wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:57 am
Some Schmo wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:13 am
How stupid does one need to be to be a Trump supporter? Stupid enough to go to a Trump rally, I guess.
Do they really need to go to a rally? Couldn't they simply post some conspiracy gibberish on a message board?
For sure, that would say it all. I was just thinking that if someone goes to all the effort to go see him at a rally, let alone brave a pandemic to do it, they have to be pretty fu-cking dumb (if the Trump support itself wasn't enough of a clue).
moksha wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:57 am
The one thing that does seem surprising about Trump supporters is that they have never caught on to how badly Trump performs his con-artist schtick. A good con-artist would not tell as many outrageous lies. What lies they told would be clever. Trump presents a textbook case of a pathological liar, and yet his supporters lack the discernment to detect this or even worse, the moral fortitude to even care.
Yeah. He's the most obvious liar I think I've ever seen, which is why it's always been a mystery that so many people follow him.

Trump has taught me that people are generally a lot dumber than I gave them credit.
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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ajax18 wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:41 pm
How much more stupid do you have to be to leave your native country to come to a country where Trump is president.

I always chuckled at the Latinos in my mission who would spend hours cursing the US, captialism, and the racist horrors they perceived through our left wing media to exist in the US. Then I'd ask if they had ever been the US? No but I would love to go they would reply. I guess it's hard to get away from immoral racist, police supporting, gun carrying, religious people when they're the only ones in the world who can create a country with the economic opportunity you want. Maduro isn't racist nor Fidel Castro. They're also extreme democratic socialists. Would you like to live there?
There's too much ignorance in this one post to bother with it, except to say, what a fu-cking ignoramus.
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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I have to post this because this man can launch nuclear weapons:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/1 ... ory-429776

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ajax18 wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:41 pm
How much more stupid do you have to be to leave your native country to come to a country where Trump is president.

I always chuckled at the Latinos in my mission who would spend hours cursing the US, captialism, and the racist horrors they perceived through our left wing media to exist in the US. Then I'd ask if they had ever been the US? No but I would love to go they would reply. I guess it's hard to get away from immoral racist, police supporting, gun carrying, religious people when they're the only ones in the world who can create a country with the economic opportunity you want. Maduro isn't racist nor Fidel Castro. They're also extreme democratic socialists. Would you like to live there?
Are you talking about Schmo now?

At what point in his life did he leave his native country to come to a country where Trump was president?

Ajax, you are dealing in irrational bullsh-it here. Stop it.
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:19 pm
I have to post this because this man can launch nuclear weapons:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/1 ... ory-429776

- Doc
Dear god in heaven I can't take any more of his...never mind, I was going to write an nice mature post about his lack of judgement. Fu-Celestial Kingdom that.

I can't take any more of his undeniable mentally unstable, out there, off the rails, off the charts, insane fu-cking bullsh-it.

A Jersey Girl is running out of swear words. Let that be an indicator of the chronic, fu-cking out of his mind, thought obstructing, reality defying, goddamn killing me now, 4 year reign of rock bottom down in the dirt incorrigible behavior and habitualized INSANITY that he has inflicted on this country. The guy is crackers. Out of his mind. Lost the narrative, off in the ditch, can't even make up a coherent narrative.

Why do I even have to see this in my life time? A guy who meets all the criteria needed to have him Baker Acted at this point is in the White House calling the shots and hardly anyone is speaks out in opposition!

Nice to see you back. I hope you enjoyed your break. Stick around. You can witness my total break down. What's not to like?
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Re: If They're Stupid and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

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Gunnar wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:09 am
moksha wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:57 am
Trump presents a textbook case of a pathological liar, and yet his supporters lack the discernment to detect this or even worse, the moral fortitude to even care.
This is one of the most alarming things about Trump and his hardcore base. He has not the slightest hesitation to lie or make up things, whenever he thinks it would benefit him, and sometimes even in cases where the truth would actually have served him better. Some of his base are simply too clueless or ill informed to realize the extent and frequency of his lies, and the rest of them apparently regard his incessant lying as merely a defiant and even admirable exercise of his first amendment rights to say whatever he wants to say.

He's normalized crazy.
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