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Never forget that Mitt was happy to have Trump's support in 2012. Mitt even made a few mild 'birther' jokes from time to time.
Even now he can't come out and call Trump a traitor and a convicted sex criminal because that might hurt the Party.
You know my favorite part about this? Even a guy who believes that a man who told fortunes by looking at a rock inside his hat one day dug up some golden plates and an angel helped him translate them and then took the plates away and that's why he has to wear magic underwear realizes that Trump supporters are out of touch with reality. (Even if he does qualify it with 'some.')
Even a guy who believes
The Mormon, the Scientologist, and the 7th Day Adventist all making fun of those silly QAnoners. 🤣
Trump supporters are out of touch with reality
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'
~ attributed by journalist Ron Suskind to an unnamed official in the George W. Bush administration who used it to denigrate a critic of the administration's policies as someone who based their judgments on facts
These idiots and assholes have always been with us. Trump's really piled on the clown make-up, but you can find like-minded delusional assholes going straight back to the administrations of our nation's founders.
My fortune telling hat has an angry rabbit inside who screams obscenities that only I can hear, it's my sorrowful duty to listen and report whatb he says.
Some?
Most are out of touch with reality, the rest aren't dumb, but are completely corrupt and seek to take advantage of a trump government to give themselves more power. They know how Trump and the republicans is, what he's trying to do, but the truth is it will benefit them and that's all that matters.
You can absolutely be both. Some of these assholes start out cynically playing the part and, as the grift grinds on, begin to get high on more and more of their own supply.
You can trace this back to Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and Ludwig Von Mises. Then on to William F. Buckley and Rush Limbaugh. And now we've got the Ben Shapiros and Tucker Carlsons and Jordan B Petersons. They're creating a new generation of Andrew Tates, Joe Rogans, and Elon Musks. People shitting out garbage and holding Big Gulp Challenges to see who can swallow the most of it down. And those people become the prophets of the next generation.
There's always some amount of money in being the most high profile dupes. That keeps the wheel turning for the rest of us.
That's how Romney spells All
Some?
The title of the article doesn't align with what he said (which is "a lot").
Yeah, I imagine the rest know exactly what they're doing.
Being out of touch with reality is what it takes to vote Republican nowadays.
You can thank corporate-owned "local news" for that.
Some?
I think “Some” is fair, there’s a good number who are all in on authoritarian fascism.
I laugh at articles I see which site "independent voters". If you're still claiming to be undecided on Trump in 2023, you're brain dead or full of shit or both. You know exactly who he is by now
I mean, Fox News and right wing radio shows have been pushing disinformation for years. It was there before Trump. I mean, how many people believe Obama is a Muslim? Election denial is just an off shoot of that with many of their propaganda pieces.
Nowadays though there's just a cinematic universe of shows (PragerU, Shapiro, etc) for right wingers to cosplay their fake reality in.
Although, I'll step in and say I don't know if Ben actually is an election denier. I don't think he would be.
understatement of the year...
and it's only 18th jan
Some?
Because cults.
Remember the good old days when Mitt Romney was the worst Republican
he was never the worst but he is a Republican
Wait, uneducated religious fruitcakes are out of touch?
Yeah, and he said MAGA chuds are too
Broken clock, blah blah blah
[note: I do know Mittens is highly educated]
These people are out of touch with reality, now, let me tell you about my imaginary invisible friend who will torture us forever if we don't do what the men in robes and hats say he wants and tithe 10% of our income to them.
He said before declaring he would be voting for Trump in the general.
Trump's racist politics is a reflexive reaction to 8 years of Obama Trauma by white people who swore they'd never let a black man get one over on them