but we've been doing that since 2016
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Maybe it's hindsight being 20/20 but, it seems so obvious ridicule would hurt a narcissist
Why are they a month late? I feel like it has been a thousand years since we learned that calling the chuds "weird" was the magic bullet.
Wait, you're telling me that the man that constantly calls people names and ridiculed his Republican presidential opponents can't take the heat?
This is not his Achilles heel. His Achilles heel is doubt. Populism depends on belief, and is inherently unstable. He started doubting. His people stated doubting. He is now going down, and the ridicule he always dishes out now also lands for him.
The mockery of him has been constant from day one.
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Um. Millinneals and zoomers figured this out the first time around, but they were too busy vote shaming us and squawking about emails to listen.
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We've known this all along, but these are Democrats we're talking about, so they have to try all the overcomplicated ineffective shit first.
I thought we figured this out way back when he was losing his mind over the "small hands" thing.
The establishment wanted to take the high road even though budget cuts meant the foundation hasn't been repaired since Reagan.
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As if it wasn’t the natural response
Trump doesn't know how to handle people laughing at him because he's never had anyone laugh with him.
I've been saying this for years. Trump is a LOSER, both literally and figuratively. His businesses hemorrhage money, he has lost in two presidential elections so far and in the one he won, he lost the popular vote, ~~which is practically unheard of for a Republican nominee~~. He wears lifts in his shoes to fix his weird posture that he got from a life of physical inactivity, he sprays himself in orange to look like some bizarre version of tan to cover up his hideous pasty skin. His hair has always been bizarre. He is a born loser, who only "succeeded" because he was literally born rich and has skated on his daddy's money ever since.
Call him what he is: a sad, ugly, weird little loser who people only tolerate in hopes they might pick up a few hundred dollar bills after he's done wiping his ass with them.
and every reasonable, somewhat aware person has known these things since the 80s or 90s. Prior to 2016, the idea of Trump being president would've made anyone who has read a newspaper or magazine laugh their ass off.
In the modern era the gop usually loses the popular vote. GW won it in 04 bc of the war and that's the only one since his daddy ended his term.
Before that I think the popular vote pretty much always lined up w the electoral college for both parties.
Non-idiots have been literally saying this for 13 years.
*30+
Trump has been ridiculed the whole time. The only people who treat him as a serious candidate are his supporters and the media. That was true in 2015, that's true today.
You're right. He has been mocked the whole time, and mockery isn't the determining factor.
He has simply played out his power arc. The same mockery that didn't land before now lands, because he's on the downside.
Populism depends on emotional support from the people, but if you don't have a framework that actually meets the peoples' needs (or is effective at controlling them) you just rise as the restless populace tries you, then fall as they toss you aside.
But having Obama bringing in the size of it's dick is somewhat of a new situation.
It hilarious and I am sure this does hurt little Donny deep into his heart.
You assume he has one to be hurt.
That is not the impression I got as someone not from the US. I mostly saw scared and angry from democrats, and scared, angry or reverence from the news media. And that seems to be what he thrives on.
Ridicule came from stuff like the tv comedians and internet sources like YouTube.. but these are easy enough to ignore.
Now that the ridicule is coming from the actual establishment, it cannot be ignored.
I find it very cool that the vile hatred, fearmongering and general dispicable behavior can be countered with joy, ridicule and a general cheerful demeanor.
Just the other day one of the GOP ghouls came out and actually said there is no joy.. ROFL.. they're melting..
Now dial it up to 11 dems.
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"Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated... but we are initiated, aren't we Don?"
"Stop calling me that!"