I know they're lying about his cognitive tests : TooDumbToImagine

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago

My god, learn how to use crop tool

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The cognition tests given were just to put shapes in their matching hole, but he found the loophole that if you keep turning the shapes and forcing them in, they all fit in the square hole.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Bidens just gonna claim chapter 11 cancer and get better guys it’s okay he can still win in 2028!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This historic period is completely embarrassing .... and I'm up in Canada!

When we read about historic politicians and the things they said 100 years ago, the US had Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. There are political debates about the good and bad things they did but all of them had sensible and meaningful quotes about society, philosophy and government .... they were educated in rhetoric and everything they said and wrote came from a base of a lot of education and understanding.

The US in the 2020s has an 80 year old man who could barely manage the country and a clown that never makes any sense.

They will laugh at all of us in a hundred years for the stupidity we all put up with in our world leadership.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Perfect time for this sub

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

And just think - a large percentage of Americans think he's a genius.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Apparently 1 in 10 Americans think the Earth is flat.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think he's an incredibly good con man. He puts kindness in his voice and acts like a father figure to poor, abused lost souls and others that think he's on their side in the grift. He also hires really smart people to do his dirty work. There are a lot of mob bosses that are similar. His follower believes in him even though he's thrown so many people under the bus, because "I'm not as stupid as they are, right?"

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No he is a dumb shit. As his minions are. He's just getting votes because of his extreme populist strategy and wealth (this dumbfuck is still a fucking billionaire and this definitely plays a big role). Most people are just politically illiterate.

I mean would you ever buy something from him personally?

[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Unfortunately, yes. When he speaks, he uses hypnosis techniques and he truly has no morals, so I can't hear any deception in his voice. He doesn't believe anything, so he doesn't really lie in his fucked up head. So yeah, when he speaks, I put him on fast so I don't fall for the sing-song voice and the vague slowness of his speech.

I wish I could find the person's video that was on reddit from his first term. She explained how cult leaders do it and he does it to a tee. It was super old, like from the 60s or 70s, but she could have been talking about trump.

Edit: I fucking found it! I can't believe how many times I looked for this video. Ironically, I have it at 2x speed and I still understand what she's saying. You can watch the entire thing or start at around 23 minutes or so to get the trump effect. Here we go folks.

Transcript of portion:

In order to hypnotize someone you don't have to do like stage magicians of swing watches or have a person look at the Eraser on a pencil or stare at a spot on the wall. You can do it by controlling your voice by doing as I'm doing now. Get it a bit more sing songy and chanty and you can watch people's breathing and pace your phrasing so that you can start cooling them down and getting them into a light trance.

And then, most trance induction that's used by various cults, then utilizes guided imagery in which the speaker appears to be telling a parable, repeating a verse over and over again, telling a story of his childhood in a soothing rhythmic way, in order to get the person into a trance state.

Why would a cult leader want to get a person tranced out a bit. What hypnosis and trance induction does, is it gets your attention and my attention highly, highly focused so we don't have critical thoughts. We don't judge what we're doing. We just trust the person that's giving the visual imagery and the relationship, and it makes us much more malleable and suggestible in that state.

So that, once the leader gets us into a light trance, then the speech, the sermon, the message that they put in. has a lot more impact than had they done it without doing the trans induction first. So that's why they do it. It makes us more malleable, more suggestable, and it shuts out that critical mind chatter that we have.

Such as, while you're watching this video, you're asking questions and saying, “I wonder if she means...?”, “I wonder if she's going to get to…?” If you were being tranced out, that kind of questioning, thinking, gets put aside. And you're just listening to the voice, the image. And then, what the words say to you you're much more likely to incorporate into your thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRBFhMEQFk

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

The fuck are you talking about? Hypnosis techniques are bullshit pseudoscience, except in very specific clinical settings with trained therapists. And even then, it isn't foolproof. You cant actually hypnotize people like in the movies.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

How do you think cult leaders get people to follow them? We're talking about a lot of people who are very smart, accomplished and with degrees.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

They find willing people who want to believe them. Having degrees doesn't mean someone doesn't want to think for themselves, which is why a lot of very knowledgeable scientists keep their faith and religions.

Cult leaders filter out the people who don't go along with their shit as well. They don't just go up to random people on the street and hypnotize them to become followers.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you think very dumb people can't get degrees you've never been to college.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just because Trump is dumb doesn't mean he doesn't have the ability to manipulate a large percentage of the population with his public speaking. It's more than the public liking the hate because otherwise Desantis would have won the primary.

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