• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    If you want to destroy him, double-down on these delusions.

    Why stop at Elvis? Get him talking about his theory on aliens, ask him to compare himself to Jesus and whether he’d do a better job of spreading Christianity than the big man himself, get him to discuss how to split Gaza to make everyone happy, ask how a successful coup of the whitehouse would look like, maybe even ask if Rosa Parks was being reasonable by not getting up out of her seat.

    You don’t destroy people like this by pointing out how stupid they are, because those die-hard followers will still worship him if he answers all the above. Where he’ll be destroyed is in having those on the fence go from “he’s a bit crazy, but he’ll do something, so I’ll vote for him” to “he’s fucking nuts, he’ll do something crazy, so I’ll vote for Biden”.

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      Have you seen his, ahem, retruth of the video ‘and God created Trump’ video? He’s literally comparing himself to Jesus. And his followers went wild!

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    If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn’t, that will be weird.

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      It is entirely within expectations of the fucked up timeline we’ve found ourselves in, though.

      Call for for treason and insurrection? Uproarious Cheering.

      Fuck children? Endless defense and excuses (and cheering)

      Wants to fuck his own daughter? “Well hell yeah, I’d fuck my daughter too if she looked like Ivanka!” - Disturbing number of republicans when looking at a pre-teen picture of her.

      But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

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        Politics works under WWE rules now. Trump is the heel they like. As long he’s doing fucked up shit to the face characters, they keep on cheering.

        Him trying to be a face character is bad because people only like him for being the heel.

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        But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

        Is there any evidence that anyone who cheered for him in the above is in that boat? I’m pretty sure it’s a subset of the people upset about the treason, sexual assault, seemingly incestuous desires. Because speaking as someone who finds Trump utterly despicable, I fail to see why in the world I should care that he is vain enough to declare himself like Elvis. That’s utterly harmless narcissism on normal scales, let alone grading on the Trump curve.

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      Not really. His followers revere him because they believe his is so strong. Pretty much the only strategy that can work against him is to make them believe he is failing or is becoming a joke. When they become embarrassed about him.

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    I agree. He looks like a man who took too many drugs, ate too much junk, and then died on his bathroom floor mid-shit.

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      I was gonna say, I can see a mild resemblance to the Elvis before he died, but even then Trump is a lifelong 4 or 5 and fat Elvis was still an 8.

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        So Trump is zombie Elvis with a fake tan and a comically bad comb-over…

        Still nowhere near as crazy as many of the Qanon consist theories over heard

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    The man is a narcissist, and constantly compares himself to other, much more successful people. He will hint at it if the person is controversial or outright state it if benign.

    He’d like to be seen as intelligent as an MIT professor, as honest as Lincoln, as famous as the Mona Lisa, as dangerous as Al Capone, as persecuted as Mandela.

    He’d none of these things, but he wants to plant that association in your head. It’s transparent and a consistent core of his disorder.

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    No fucking shit he’s demented. Seriously, this is the first time we are seeing this in a headline? And it’s from rawstory, and it’s in quotes?!

    Goddamn, corporate news media - do your fucking goddamned jobs and call it like it is - YES he’s got dementia. He’s also a rapist and a convicted fraud if you want to really get down with the trüfax instead of the weak ass bullshit you normally run to goose this pathetic horserace as per your republiQan owners’ instructions.

    Oh yeah and he orchestrated a failed coup to stay in power that got some people killed. Dunno if you knew that or not based on how you talk about him and what he does. I’d be happy to direct you to ALL THE GODDAMNED PROOF if you need, just hit me up there. Corporate news media. You utter shitbags. This entire trump fiasco - all of it - is absolutely your fault. You can’t be destroyed fast enough.

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    With each passing day we march further and further into “no reasonable, rational person would vote for that man” territory.

    How fucking brain damaged is this country?

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      I think those that didn’t properly vet him for everyone else hold a lot of blame, too. So many people in the media knew exactly how awful he was, at least as far back as the 80s. And they even gave him a game show for a while.

      That game show did a lot of damage to this country, that’s for sure.

      But let’s be fair, if it wasn’t going to be tiny d, the cons would have pushed up a Palin or a Boebert or a Marge (or, more likely, a male version) and thanks to our bullshit way of voting in Presidents, might have succeeded instead of it being tiny d. Because having Obama as President drove them absolutely nuts.

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      We (anyone not alt-right) are to blame too. We click and watch and view stuff with the rest of them…

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    There are some women that think his bank account is as big as he claims and the behavior of golddiggers like that may lead to his delusion.