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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,480 posts) Wed Jul 31, 2024, 01:33 PM Jul 2024

Burke: Is anybody really buying Trump's campaign trail patter?

Donald Trump says a lot of stupid stuff. And a lot of scary stuff. And a lot of stuff that makes no sense; that demonstrates his profound ignorance; that’s clearly projection.

I get that, he’s a terminal narcissist who loves to hear himself talk.

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Are they so stupid they actually buy into what he says?

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I mean, I’ve yet to hear a logical (or illogical) explanation of his “late, great Hannibal Lecter” riffs. He’s talking about a make-believe movie character who eats people as part of his campaign speech, trying to convince folks to elect him to the highest office in the nation. Just what do the MAGAs make of this?

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-is-anybody-really-buying-trumps-campaign-trail-patter/

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Burke: Is anybody really buying Trump's campaign trail patter? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP

Dementia? That's the most obvious guess I suppose. nt TBF Jul 2024 #1

the question is how ANYONE could buy Trump's bullshit Skittles Jul 2024 #2

That's the literal question - TBF Jul 2024 #4

hard for me to tell Skittles Jul 2024 #5

re: yet to hear a logical (or illogical) explanation of his "late, great Hannibal Lecter" prodigitalson Jul 2024 #3

" logical (or illogical) explanation" orthoclad Aug 2024 #6

Buford and Lurleen up in Squalor Holler sure are. Aristus Aug 2024 #7

TBF

(34,748 posts)

1. Dementia? That's the most obvious guess I suppose. nt

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jul 31, 2024, 01:58 PM

Jul 2024

Skittles

(160,304 posts)

2. the question is how ANYONE could buy Trump's bullshit

Reply to TBF (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 31, 2024, 04:37 PM

Jul 2024

I mean, EVEN NOW

TBF

(34,748 posts)

4. That's the literal question -

Reply to Skittles (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 31, 2024, 05:05 PM

Jul 2024

but I took it as more rhetorical in spirit because he seems to be in a different space now in terms of not even making sense when he speaks.

Skittles

(160,304 posts)

5. hard for me to tell

Reply to TBF (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 31, 2024, 05:14 PM

Jul 2024

the man has been speaking gibberish for as long as I can remember

prodigitalson

(2,953 posts)

3. re: yet to hear a logical (or illogical) explanation of his "late, great Hannibal Lecter"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jul 31, 2024, 04:57 PM

Jul 2024

ikr...is it as without context as it is presented? what IS his point about tlghl?

orthoclad

(4,728 posts)

6. " logical (or illogical) explanation"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Aug 2, 2024, 09:25 AM

Aug 2024

That's our weakness. We're looking for logic while the Right is busy pushing deep-brain buttons.

Emotional buttons beat sweet reason.

There is something deeply appealing about Lecter. He, not Clarice, is the star of the book and movie. He's the box office appeal. And T loves him some box office appeal.

Aristus

(68,617 posts)

7. Buford and Lurleen up in Squalor Holler sure are.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Aug 2, 2024, 09:59 AM

Aug 2024

You can tell by the way they wear continence garments in solidarity with their unsavory idol.

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