Just a brief post, but reading The Guardian today, I am reminded that Jesus said, "The poor will always be with you." He could just as easily have said the same about the stupid:
Trump pleads with supporters for cash to help pay soaring legal bills
Former president lashes out at New York attorney general in email urging loyalists to to ‘chip in and stop the witch-hunt’
Donald Trump on Thursday again asked loyal supporters for cash to help him meet mounting legal expenses and keep the “filthy hands” of the New York attorney general off Trump Tower and other properties.
Under the headline “Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!” a Trump fundraising email sent to supporters read: “Insane radical Democrat AG Letitia James wants to SEIZE my properties in New York. This includes the iconic Trump Tower.”
The twice-impeached Trump – currently the presumptive Republican presidential nominee – continued: “Democrats think that this will intimidate me. They think that if they take my cash to stifle my campaign, that I’ll GIVE UP!
“But worst of all? They think that YOU will abandon me, and that you will GIVE UP on our country. Here’s one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”
On Thursday, on Truth Social, Trump also called Judge Arthur Engeron “crooked” and James, who is Black, “corrupt and racist”, alleging both were involved in “election interference”.
In his fundraising email lamenting the threat to Trump Tower, he said donations would help send “Biden’s corrupt regime … the message … that our patriotic movement CANNOT BE STOPPED!
“So before the day is over, I’m calling on ONE MILLION Pro-Trump patriots to chip in and say, STOP THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP!”
What stirring rhetoric. What an absolute buffoon. What idiots the MAGA cult members are if they swallow Trump's swill.
It is disheartening that there are no more learning experiences. The top always doubles down on wrong rather than admit it and the rest just stick with being wrong because it is easier to be wrong than allow for the possibility that this is not the only issue they are wrong on.
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I like it when I'm wrong because then things can be changed and it all gets easier. There is a caution tho
If you admit you are wrong in front of the non-changing always right crew
They will discredit you on every subject ad infinitem as you have been wrong previously by your own admission.
Somehow , the average man is pretty clueless and 1/2 the population is below average. Best scam wins.
I agree completely, lungta. Being wrong can be a learning opportunity, one that a decreasing number of people choice to undergo. To think that one is diminished by being wrong betrays weak thinking and fragile personalities. The fallacy of thinking you address in your second observation is all too clear, especially if you look back at the anti-vaxxers, who take every scientific blip or error as proof it is all 'junk science.'
DeleteMuch of Trumps support comes from evangelical Christians who are superstitious in their beliefs.
ReplyDeleteTrump has successfully placed himself in the Superstition category!
Breaking his superstitious following is becoming somewhat like trying to convince someone there is no God.!
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Their zeal is the equivalent of religious fanaticism, TB.
DeleteTrump is becoming a religious figure.
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And for his acolytes, TB, he can do no wrong.
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