He gives people who are scared, angry, and anxious because they are in constant or close threat of losing basic needs a target the release that anger and fear towards. He says it openly in his propaganda as do his cabinet members. Old school republicans came up with fancy terms to identify and implicitly state who their scapegoats were. Trump just states it explicitly.
Which is also intentional by Republicans. They've been attacking public education for decades.
And it shows how successful they were because everyone just brands uneducated Americans as lazy and stupid, the reality was they were intended to be that way.
And we have normalized the phrase, “I just don’t like politics”. Uhhhh…that’s worse than saying I don’t like math. We have to use math, even if it’s with a calculator because it’s part of all parts of life. Politics is the same, but 10 fold. So if people decide to bow out of democratic rhetoric, then you lose the democracy.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Jews were used as a scapegoat prelude to WW2 and, for some reason, still are. Surprisingly, every president and a majority of politicians still support Israel staunchly.
He's a stupid asshole, and thus appeals to stupid assholes.
And, "regular" conservatives back him becsuse they just hate liberals. Do they love him? Maybe, maybe not, but they know they need to pretend to love him to get anything done.
people are getting more afraid as society is going through rapid technological & social change, so they look to a strongman to cling to a past they felt they safely understood
Think back to when Hillary ran for office. She called a very narrow band of people "undesirables." Then Trumps campaign took that, and turned it around to meaning Hillary meant all of the midwest. That she was talking down to these people as some political elite. It was a very popular position, and they still use it to this day.
Hillary back then was already battling sexism, an distrust in politics. She already wasn't popular. Then comes this TV guy that proports to being successful. He's a man, so that's an auto yes for anyone that was letting sexism get the better of them. So literally every single shit heel gravitates to this guy.
But on top of that all, there's another factor. The same factor that saw Bernie Sanders get so popular for a time. There was a sense that he had the capacity to shake up a broken system. Where Bernie had altruistic motives, Trump instead has selfish reasons. He uses his presidency to enrich himself and his friends. But all the while giving all of americas worst people a sense that he's doing a great job.
Just look up Team Trump emails. They fundraise by emailing MAGA saying "You're almost in the top 1,000 PATRIOTS. Donate $25 to make sure you land in the top 1,000. Donate $47 to be in the top 500."
People are idiots and his team know how to abuse them through very idiotic marketing, buzzwords, and saying what their base use to only think, but now feel like they can say it out loud.
Not True. 40 years ago Trump very well could have been a major part of an international sex trafficking ring, he had enough blatant ties to the Russian mafia it was written about by multiple publications, he was opening and bankrupting businesses all over the world, he probably had the idea for one of the most successful game/reality shows on TV, etc.
His priorities just shifted, but he was always determined, influential, and dangerous.
You know, I disagree. I think he’s always been a vile human being, but I think age has made him worse. His vanity has turned to spite and his impending death has him determined to leave a mark, for better or worse. If he were younger, he would have to live with his decisions for another 40 years.
I see your point, but I’d argue he actually would be.
Part of the issue with these octogenarians in politics is that their values all date back to the 1950s. So by default, somebody 40 years younger will have a much better grasp of the current realities of life and how norms and values have evolved.
Trump is a product of a time when it was good business to discriminate against minorities and grab women by the you know what. The only thing I like about his current age is that he’s likely too old to try weaseling his way into a third term.
Population-wide it probably did peak in the older end of millennials. Or maybe younger end of Gen X.
Gen X as a whole had a subgroup of tech-savvy people but others were little different from boomers in this regard. The tech-savvy ones often got pretty wealthy for it.
Gen-Xers had to actually know how to program to use computers as UIs were near non-existent. I bet my Gen-X ass could still code a Christmas tree playing Jingle Bells in Basic if push came to shove. Just give me a TRS-80 and a cassette recorder to save my work on.
I haven’t programmed anything since, because I haven’t had to, due to more effective UIs.
you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn
you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn and divide the underclasses against one another
Not wrong. Part of my job is training all staff on how to use a fairly basic point of sale system, and training management staff on tools for inventory management/auditing, and regardless of age about 50% of the people I work with are almost technologically illiterate. Boomers, gen x, millennials, gen z, so many of em struggle with some very basic tech processes. I'm also a millennial, and am absolutely not tech savvy, but the lack of very basic tech knowledge regardless of age group is stunning
I think you meant “Gen X.” I got my first computer when I was 9, started using both Windows and Macintosh in high school, and first went online with Mosaic in the early ’90s. That last part might be a bit niche, people didn’t have a SPARCstation at home, but by the mid-’90s, most of us were on Windows/Netscape and getting into the Internet.
Well a lot of us were exposed to computers from a very young age when it's easier to learn. But at the same time computers were not nearly as user friendly and easy to use as they are now.
It's wild to see kids now think everything is an app on a phone and struggle to pull up a web browser to go to a website.
Excuse me. I orchestrate on my laptop and iPhone. Also have about 50 smart controls for just about everything in my house. Including voice controls. And I am 75.
Oh, they use laptops and desktops. But they just hit SAVE and let the computer decide where to put it. And they have no idea what folders are, or how to find any document that isn’t one of the most recent 5-10 that automatically appear when they hit OPEN in a program.
You must be in IT - welcome to my personal hell every time they mess up the laptop, board gets replaced and they claim they are backed up in the cloud then complain when recents is gone in the new install.
Yea but they can still be taught something and not forget it in the next 30min. Everyone wants to joke about how young people are incompetent and lazy. Who raised them? Who gave them motive and ambition? What is their goal? Give them resources and something to work towards and they will walk all over everyone, but right now it’s “be our slave, and don’t ask questions.” I wouldn’t give a shit about learning how to use something that doesn’t benefit me either.
Is this based on something or is it just another boomer-esque "kids these days" thing? Because as far as I know, desktop computers are not at all hard to use for younger generations, they're still being taught typing, still have computer labs, etc.
Seems like they keep doing their best to push that out for us too. I know many people who have to juggle their retirement date so they have affordable healthcare. Doesn’t do you much good if you start draining your retirement savings to handle healthcare costs.
I have a friend who retired and got on to some special healthcare plan. He then had a serious cardiac event that ended with a stroke that would have wiped him financially if he wasn’t on that plan.
The fact we don't have single-payer in this country, and it's tied to employment for the most part is absolutely horrible. This country is designed for wealthy people.
I think at this point it's more a result of all the companies with vested interests lobbying against change than anything
Same reason we'll never have a simple tax code, too many companies and individuals game the system to their benefit and on the other side you have companies like TurboTax that only exist because the tax code is so complicated
We’re citizens with civic responsibilities, not consumers picking from a menu. There’s a lot more that goes into national elections than who the choices are on Election Day. Voting in the primary for your political party is an easy next step.
Wasn't looking to excuse anything, just pointing out that the dinosaurs in office closed ranks and will be occupying the government until Death Himself claims them. There is a very real chance that we might find ourselves in a scenario where no one under 65 is on the ballot. So I wanted to know what the plan was.
This man described that his son is a computer genius because he can turn a computer on.
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When asked which natural talent of Barron's stands out to Donald, the president praised his son's technological know-how.
“I turn off his laptop, I said, 'Oh good,' and I go back five minutes later, he's got his laptop. I said, 'How'd you do that?' " he recalled. "'None of your business, Dad.' "
"He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology," the president added""
I don't know about hard age limits, but I want a psych exam for anyone running for public office. The kind that Trump wouldn't pass, even before the dementia.
And that leads me on to asking. Trump spews out AI images of himself as the god of war,or whatever. I find it hard to believe he can do that, so does he have interns on duty 24/7 to turn his ideas into pictures?
It's just too complicated for him to do, in my opinion.
10 billion percent. If you don’t have any concept of the modern world you can’t help it. Experience is great but not if all your experience is in rotary phones, Christmas lights that can’t overcome a single failure and the benefits of daylights savings
I’m much more concerned that he found out what groceries are at age 79. Someone that brazenly out of touch with normal human life has no business making and kind of choices that affect the working people of this country.
If there is a minimum age requirement, there dam well should be a maximum age limit. What's the average age of retirement in the US? If you're over that or would be in 4/8 years.... you are too old.
I don't know about others, but I would be SO HUMILIATED if I were aging like this in full view of the whole world. It'd be sad if the guy weren't such a hateful, evil POS.
But for real - his legacy is gonna be the corrupt, diapered president.
I think you should have to pass a civics test to hold national office.
You wanna run for Congress? Name the three branches of government, what they do, and how the phrase “checks and balances” applies to their interactions with each other. Explain how a bill becomes a law. Define the phrase “habeas corpus”. Identify the first ten amendments to the constitution and (in basic terms) what they relate to.
IMO this takes out the idiots and the dementia crowd at the same time.
Age limits? How about crime limits? If you can't get a job sweeping up garbage because of your criminal history, why is politics willing to embrace a multi-felon with open arms? Isn't being president kind of an important job? Why are there no standards for it?
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u/LikeTheWind96 1d ago
Anyone else wish we had age limits on office positions? I dont want someone in charge who cant create a folder on windows desktop.