1 of 2 - Who the fuck looks at this utter gimp and thinks "Yep! That's my guy!!" Volume UP >>>
His wife said, "Why are you making yourself look like some kind of weird lunatic?"
@mcfate @th3j35t3r He has an uncanny sense of what people will go for. I read that on one of his shows -- must have been The Apprentice -- there was a fat guy the producers wanted to drop, they thought he wasn't telegenic -- but Cheetolini insisted he stay, and it turned out he was right.
Which doesn't mean he ought to be president, of course. He does enough damage as a TV show host.
How come, with all this "uncanny sense of what people will go for", he's never had a majority of actual VOTERS "go for" him?
Explain that.
@mcfate @th3j35t3r Because to most voters he's obviously an idiot. But to a sizable minority, even a majority in some polls, he's Jesus. And a sizable minority can swing an election.
Let's not underestimate him as we did in 2016.
Let's not overestimate him the way you've been doing, either.
Polls are still completely useless horsecrap. They're all over the map, and their predictive ability remains in SERIOUS doubt. Not to mention that current polls are seriously lagging current events.
"Red tsunami", right?
An actual majority can "swing" an election a lot more easily.
Trump only won in 2016 because people believed Clinton was a shoo-in and cast performative votes for Stein, that's all.
@mcfate Your perception is at odds with what I heard back in '16. He didn't gain a following by talking about adrenochrome, that was his 4chan partisans.
Best example is a couple of supporters who met him before he declared his candidacy, who remarked on his ability to convince whoever he was talking to that he understood their situation and was on their side.
That, with billionaire money from both sides of the Atlantic (and the Volga), makes a strong candidate. Even if he's an idiot.
#politics
Never said that he did. Go and check. I said that the people he's got this supposedly "uncanny sense" for are credulous dolts who'll believe anything they're told, especially if it's in a meme.
He's not getting campaign money from "both sides of the Atlantic", much less the Volga. If you want to claim absurd stuff like that, bring receipts, I'm not a Trump voter.
You seriously want to appeal to a COUPLE of voters you saw someplace, sometime? Mm-kay.
@ImagineThat @th3j35t3r
Maybe his "sense" isn't that "uncanny".
Maybe he's just surrounded himself with a bunch of totally non-critical reactionary stans, who'd cheer and applaud him for picking his nose and eating the booger.
Being able to sway a minority of people who believe in things like "Jewish space lasers" and "adrenochrome" isn't precisely an "uncanny sense of what people want", not that I can see.
At best, he's good at reinforcing some people's irrational phobias.