Hello Micawber,
Originally Posted by
Micawber
Everyone saw this coming. We were betting on whether he would last his term.
It's been a wild ride. President is an incompetent clown and everyone knows.
To the first part I would tend to agree, but to the second part I do not.
Trump support has become a cult. Trump fanatics appear somewhat transfixed by his words, and often refuse to answer to pointed comments which do not paint the President in a beneficial way. The standards for how Trump fans conduct discussions of the President's actions and statements can be summed up as: "Deny, deflect, attack."
I have been unsuccessful in getting any meaningful response out of any Trump fan on whether it is OK for a generic President (anybody in that office) to withhold congressionally appropriated military aid to a fledgling Democracy in return for a personal political favor which is not in alignment with established foreign policy.
Every time I try to get a Trump fan to just say whether that is OK or not, they change the subject.
People who are not under the influence of a cult mentality are able to answer such questions. Trump fans cannot do that, because they immediately read beyond the simple question and look at the implications of the obvious answer. That raises their automatic defenses which routinely kick in to protect the President. Because of this cult mentality, they ignore his lies and misconduct, pretend they never happened, block it out from their mental process as if these things were never pointed out. Shifting the subject to something else, such as the Bidens or Burisma, is the standard reply.
It's like trying to have a conversation with a vending machine. The selections are limited.
Quite sad to see.
It also causes them to look the other way at the trillion dollar deficit. It is as if it simply does not exist.
Unfortunately, because of this cult mentality, Trump fans actually do not know that Trump did wrong. They are incapable of considering it.
There is no crime the President could commit that they would convict him of. Instead, they would always protect him, no matter what.
Trump fans are not loyal to the USA. Their loyalty lies with President Trump, absolutely. The portion of their brains that would question his misconduct has been switched off.
Although, for any misconduct of Democrats or liberals, it is heightened.
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