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There's an interesting dissonance here; he praises Putin for being a strong leader, a good leader, but then he compares himself to Navalny. How does this even work in his mind? If Putin is good and strong, then surely Navalny should have been killed for opposing him, right? And where does that leave Trump, if he's like Navalny?
Wait, are you thinking about Trump in rational terms? I think you're in the wrong man if you're looking for a rational person.
I'm just amazed that the people listening to him can't immediately see this. It's such a glaring inconsistency that it should be impossible to miss.
They get training on how to accept inconsistency and irrationality every Sunday.
Gotta think about him in delusional terms it's the only way anything makes sense. Even then it's hard to wrap your head around. Maybe we need to take some shrooms.
Trump wants cover from putin and his loyalists will spout what ever it is he says; true, false, incoherent, or otherwise. Say something enough, like you're the enemy of your only ally, and enough people will believe it so that no one else questions it.
He's projecting that he and Navalny are/were both completely at the mercy of pootin and can be finished on a whim.
Scared little hands. You can see it in him whenever he met with pootie.
To me the single uniting thread between all the different narratives Trump attempts to weave is simply: he thinks the vast majority of voters are really, really dumb.
Sadly, given that he consistently has the absolute support of about 1/3 of the Republican party (about 1/6 of the country), and the moderately strong support of another 1/3 of the Republican party, that's not the far from reality.
Your idea is right, but your numbers about population are wrong. Republicans definitely don’t make up 50% of the country given that your voter turnout for presidential elections tends around 50-60% and many who vote Republican in a given year are independent or swing voters who aren’t rusted-on voters. It’s hard to get a 100% clear number on it, but I’d estimate that Republicans only make up around 20-25% of the country at most.
It only seems like they’re 50% of people because they win a lot of elections, but a lot of that has to do with the Electoral College, First Past the Post voting, and a lack of mandatory voting coupled with low voter turnout.
Well, if we are talking about Rapey McTinyD's base, then he's not wrong.
Cause he's under putins boot too. If he speaks out against Putin, very bad things will happen to him too.
Oh so you’re saying we have a chance? Because Donnie has a hard time controlling his ugly ass mouth whenever slightly provoked…
The man's brain probably looks like Swiss cheese. I'm amazed he can form individual words.
Logic and consistency don't figure in Rapey's mind, just rhetoric and feels. He loves power; Putin is in power and is the boss of a corrupt state, so he admires Putin. Navalny is oppressed, but still admired and loved, and Rapey feels oppressed by the lawsuits and criminal charges against him, so he compares himself to that as well, never mind that Navalny was never in power.
I'm being her just says the name to have so e association with whomever would be swayed by it, and likely has no idea or care for who it was
As far as i can tell this blathering mouth-breathing monkey never says anything. People spend tons of energy trying to attribute meaning to the grunts and farts this turd emits.