President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a ācome-to-Jesus meeting.ā
Bidenās comments, captured on a hot mic as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on the floor of the House chamber, came after Bennet congratulated the commander in chief on his speech and pressed him to keep pressure on Netanyahu over increasing humanitarian issues in Gaza.
Which is something that MAGAs say they like about Trump, but theyāre always trying to cover for his most outrageous nonsense by saying āno, thatās not what he meant.ā And in actuality, what he really does is say what he thinks will get the most applause at the time; and sometimes he overshoots.
Whereas with this, itās likeā¦reasonable stuff that has been caught slipping out of Bidenās mouth, just reasonable stuff that most politicians wonāt say.
Though I have to say, I really wish some reasonable stuff about a cease-fire and stopping arms shipments wouldāve slipped out a few months ago.
Yeah. With Trump itās a little different. I actually get it kind of. Heās authentic to himself in a way most politicians are not. Heās just a big fat mean asshole who likes shouting and cheeseburgers and raw-dogging porn stars. He doesnāt like paying taxes and he doesnāt like smart people who try to get one over on him. For the most part, what you see is what you get.
I think a lot of rural America has an absolute hatred for Washington, because Washington for the most part hasnāt given a fuck what happened to them for the last 50 years. And I think they see Trump, and say well, heās an asshole, but heās not one of those weird plastic people whoāve been stealing from my pension fund and making sure my health insurance doesnāt work, and he seems to hate them too and not afraid to get violent with them. Hey, that sounds pretty fuckinā good from where Iām standing. Heās got my vote.
Iām not saying their assessment of the impact of Trump on their pension fund is accurate. But their read of him as a person, I think, is actually the root cause of why they like him and I think that part is true.
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Yeah. They want a strong man to hurt all of the people that the alt-right media has told them are the cause of their problems. Onlyā¦
ā¦is the exact opposite of true (heās plastic, but angry plastic instead of bland plastic). Which brings me toā¦
I donāt think he is, though. I donāt even think he knows what that would look like. I donāt think he likes giving speeches, he just likes applause. I donāt think he wants to be president (and I donāt think he did in 2016 or 2020 either), heās just terrified of whatāll happen if heās not in the limelight anymore. I donāt think he likes Coca-Cola or Big Macs, I think he just does whatever will make the person/people in front of him say how great he is. I donāt think he has a self outside of what other people tell him it is.
Incidentally, thatās why he has a quarter million indictments.
Oh, I wasnāt saying he was honest. He presents himself as smart and rich, which is flaming bullshit. I think some of his followers believe him about that, but thatās not why they like him; there are plenty of genuinely smart and rich people they despise.
The awful neoliberal suit-wearing jerks are one kind of asshole whoās hurting their financial futures and the communities their kids have to live in, and they know that. But absolutely youāre right; Trump is something much, much worse and much more dark, and theyāre making a terrifying mistake by supporting him just because he is (genuinely, and with real authenticity) not one of those people.
You may get this then:
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about
After all these years, Iāve never read anything that explains Trump supports so perfectly.
This was a good read, thanks for sharing
Rural Americans by and large donāt have pensions anymore if in fact they ever did, and theyāve been thoroughly brainwashed to believe that their insurance worked better back when you could be kicked off your plan for costing too much and be blacklisted from getting any in the first place if you had a pre-existing condition. No, the thing that they liked about Trump was that he said he hated all the people they hated too, and he gave them license to speak their hate aloud after decades of being told that they were bad people if they hated somebody because of some indelible feature of their origin or identity.
I seem to remember back in the early 2000s there was some media coverage of some local scoundrel running for some office and people were really taken with it. I think it was essentially a Trump prototype. That media coverage probably entered the subconscious of millions of voters.
Also, letās not forget about Rob Ford. Peopleās love for an obvious con man is truly a vulnerability of all societies.
Lol, was about to comment something similar. He should have been publicly calling for a cease fire the second Israel made it clear they will murder civilians
I mean, even Trudeau put his foot in it with his āI think we need an immediate ceaseāuh, cease-cessation ofāaā¦we need to see the firing ceaseā¦ā
If Biden had done something like that, this wouldāve been over before Christmas.
Iām an idiot when I talk to people all day everyday. The gaffs in speech arenāt what I care about. I care that Biden kept publicly supporting Israel for so long.