It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president than Donald Trump

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It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president than Donald Trump

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These are not my words. They are from the New York Times editorial board, which is backing Harris. The article continues:
He [Trump] has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest,” the newspaper wrote of Trump. “He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks.
For these reasons, the outlet continued, Harris is “the only patriotic choice for president,” regardless of “any political disagreements voters might have with her.”
Most presidential elections are, at their core, about two different visions of America that emerge from competing policies and principles,” the Times editorial board explained. “This one is about something more foundational. It is about whether we invite into the highest office in the land a man who has revealed, unmistakably, that he will degrade the values, defy the norms and dismantle the institutions that have made our country strong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opin ... -2024.html
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Re: It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of than Donald Trump

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It's pretty simple. Only ignorant, stupid, belligerent and insane people will vote for Trump.

Bottom line. Do you hate America? You want to be a traitor? Are you a moron who wants to lash out at the world? Vote Trump. He's the spokesperson for damned morons.
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I'll just say: if America elects Trump again, this is the stupidest damned country in history, and it deserves to damned suffer.

A Trump voter is a damned moron, and they deserve the broken country they helped make. And of course, they're too damned stupid to be ashamed of themselves, which they would be if you had the intellectual power to understand anything. damned idiots.
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Terrible qualities will only endear Trump more to his supporters. Mormons and Evangelicals will admire him and Republicans will foment a revolution if Trump is not elected. The worse Trump is the stronger the admiration of his base.

It's like a portion of America has succumbed to the effects of Bizzaro rays.
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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:04 am
It's pretty simple. Only ignorant, stupid, belligerent and insane people will vote for Trump.

Bottom line. Do you hate America? You want to be a traitor? Are you a moron who wants to lash out at the world? Vote Trump. He's the spokesperson for damned morons.
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Just take a second and imagine calling 80-90 million American citizens ignorant, stupid, belligerent, insane, haters of America, traitors, and moronic.

Just imagine that.
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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:11 am
I'll just say: if America elects Trump again, this is the stupidest damned country in history, and it deserves to damned suffer.

A Trump voter is a damned moron, and they deserve the broken country they helped make. And of course, they're too damned stupid to be ashamed of themselves, which they would be if you had the intellectual power to understand anything. damned idiots.
Imagine typing that.

Just imagine it.
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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:04 am
It's pretty simple. Only ignorant, stupid, belligerent and insane people will vote for Trump.
Most people on this board should know, far better than I do, that it's hard to break out of cult conditioning.

To repeat something I said three years ago, in response to Moksha:
Moksha wrote:
Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:21 pm
Fox News knows that it needs to step up both its denial of reality and its lying if it hopes to compete with Trump's new social media and other Trump-friendly media outlets.
This is true. Early in 2021, Fox News shied away somewhat from endorsing the "stolen election" lie, and some of its viewers threatened to turn to Newsmax or OAN instead. If Fox News reports the truth, it will lose money and influence. Can't have that.

But the problem isn't Trump per se. Take COVID. Trump set the tone early on: he didn't want COVID to be a big deal for fear it would hurt his reelection chances, so he downplayed it as long as he could. Therefore, COVID denialism took root among his supporters. But he also wanted a vaccine to be developed, because he simply wanted the disease to go away. By the time it had been developed, the denialism had gone far beyond anything Trump intended to create and metamorphosed into anti-vaccination paranoia. When Trump told his own rallygoers to get vaccinated a couple of months back, he was booed.

But the conservative base aren't the sole culprits either! White rural America has always been conservative, and even in the 1950s, nonsensical conspiracy theories circulated there, exemplified by the John Birch Society. But the John Birch Society never dominated rural America the way Bircher-style paranoia dominates it today.

I think the best metaphor for today's American right is a feedback loop. The conservative media echo chamber and the people who watch and listen to it amplify each other, gradually growing more extreme and more detached from reality. Republican politicians are mostly playing catch-up with their increasingly fanatical base. The best example is Eric Cantor, who virtually commandeered the 2013 government shutdown negotiations away from John Boehner because Boehner wasn't conservative enough — and then was ejected from his House seat because he wasn't conservative enough for the voters in his own district. Trump got way out ahead for a while, but his attitude is now mainstream within the party.
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Manetho wrote:
Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:32 am
White rural America has always been conservative, and even in the 1950s, nonsensical conspiracy theories circulated there, exemplified by the John Birch Society. But the John Birch Society never dominated rural America the way Bircher-style paranoia dominates it today.
I remember back in the early 1960s when Ezra Taft Benson and Cleon Skousen were unleashed back onto Utah, the State became a loony bin of Bircherism. I remember a neighbor coming to our door with a local campaign to prohibit fluoride in the drinking water because fluoride caused communism. It was as though the Bircher movement severed the cerebral cortex from their brain stems.
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