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Woah, that’s a big one. He’s just flushing his campaign down the toilet. I love it.
It seems like every other day, Trump does something that would have been absolutely career-ending for anyone else. I think he's kept his campaign from going down the toilet by just making sure it was completely clogged.
Trump operates by slowly moving the bar. He incrementally pushes the boundaries of acceptability, to the point that now nothing is surprising anymore. As a result, he can do these things that should be career ending, because his supporters laugh it off and his detractors, disgusted as they may be, still expect this behavior from Trump.
You would think that, but I just listened to an extended family member the other day talking about how “Harris slept her way to the top,“ and it’s comments like his going around that reinforce this idea.
You’d be surprised how effective these “a lot of people are saying” comments can be. You just put up the scaffolding, the pundits start over interpreting and adding general statements that are lies but too broad to be easily pinned down, YouTubers and breitbart and such amplify it and make it way worse for the fringes, and then millions of people just roll with it.
Bear in mind the person who said that to me is an intelligent, educated woman. But her partisan lean is so heavy she just accepts stuff like that.
My own mother "chose" to believe misleading Fox stats on officer-involved shootings after I did a web search and provided a much higher number. She said that. "I'm choosing to believe…". You don't need to convince me of how much people will delude themselves.
It takes courage to accept you've been conned by a Weird Grifter from New York.
Kind of an oxymoron.
Smart people aren’t immune to emotional decisions and if you think you’re the exception then you’re not smart.
I don't claim to be any exception. I'd just stueggule to call someone that répands that way "smart" without adding any qualifiers.
You know literally nothing about this person other than they are a woman, they hold 1 bad opinion you that know of, and that I qualified them as educated/intelligent. But please continue to lecture me about their cognitive faculties.
A lot of smart people hold a lot of wrong/bad ideas.
Hey man, I'm sorry, I was speaking more broadly about the type of person, rather than the specific individual, and I do need to work on my black-and-white thinking. Absolutely nothing to do with being a woman, the comment actually reminded me of a man in my life with similar views and I've had to come to the conclusion that I should value his opinions less.
Edit: also, I'd hardly call my two short comments (one I clearly didn't proofread) a "lecture".
That's a concept I've had difficulty wrestling with
All good
Yeah, but Trump famously needs to flush eight or ten times to actually get anything to go down the toilet.
Those gold toilets must be real crap.