Then there's the other type of brainwashed idiots, the kind who even after all that has been said and done in the past eight years, insist like a scratched CD on the divide-and-conquer propaganda (strongly pushed by the right) that bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe.

They insist on cherry-picked and distorted narratives, insist on a simplistic and stupid view, insist on some holy grail of perfection and purity test, waiting for some charismatic messiah figure with a magic political wand to fix things overnight.

In other words, they insist on some miracle godking figure that is the mirror image of what the orange shithead is to the maga crowd. And they will whip out a number of cherry-picked, out-of-context facts and figures to NOT lift a finger on Election Day. And these cherry-picked, out-of-context tidbits are enthusiastically and forcefully handed to them each day on a platter, pre-digested, by right-wing concern troll farms.

They are just as simple and stupid as the maga plague, and fancy themselves as smarter and savvier than everyone else.

Hardly baffling.

His supporters aren't looking for competence. They don't want someone who understands complexity or nuance.

They're looking for someone who will hurt the people they've been told to hate, and who advocates for the same kind of dumbfuck approaches to problems that they take. Ask a spoiled 8yo bully what you should do about any given issue, then run with that as policy.

That's what fills them with joy. Simple, direct, doesn't care what other people think, or what the results will be, he just says the thing they feel. My grandfather would have loved him.

What's baffling and infuriating is that the dems have no fucking clue how to counter the approach. None whatsoever. They keep trying to play chess with the 8yo bully, he keeps hitting them in the face with the pieces, they cry because it's an illegal move, and all the bully's friends laugh and cheer him on.

They haven’t the mental capacity to notice.

It’s malicious idiots all the way down.

He's not just any idiot. He's the most idiotic of idiots. He's an idiot the likes of which the world has never seen. Experts have told him that they've never met an idiot more idiotic than he is.

His supporters don't see these clips or read the transcript. Fox, OANN, etc, never show his disasters.

I truly believe they do care. They just somehow, some way, don't see the lunacy, immaturity, and blatant disregard for... pretty much everything even resembling decorum or political legitimacy. I live around some very maga people and their opinion of him is just so strange and opposite of virtually every single instance I see of the man. And I feel like I view things in a pretty non biased light. At first anyways.

I truly believe that the bulk of the support is just an incredible example of the power of media (and now social media) to just dominate one's thoughts.