Out of the hundreds of reactions to President Trump’s unprecedented indictment on Thursday, one stood out.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1453322
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1453322
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Admitting that one is a fascist to get media attention still makes one a fascist.
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Just wow…
“You can call it a cult of personality, that’s the negative way of saying it, but at the end of the day, he’s simply popular and people do like him,” he said. (emphasis added)
That’s the NEGATIVE way of saying it? I guess he takes umbrage with the word cult, because he completely agreed that more than anything else, Trump’s supporters just like him. We’re back to the 5th Avenue shooting perspective, I guess.
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Wasn’t Ozzy and or his wife on the Apprentice?
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It loses a lot in translation from the original German.
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Ideologically speaking, he went on, the known world admires only people like me. Were there any beyond my ken, they also would admire me. If they did otherwise I would have to conclude they were not really human and were, therefore, worthy of elimination. Ain’t I something, he remarked, observing his reflection.
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Trump ain’t got no soul or values.
Dumb Fucks.
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Like dogs to dognip.
“I like to roll around in Trump soul!”
– NY Republicans, Young Division
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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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“Get attention” = “Get $$”
They’re doing what grifters do – figure out how to shake more money out of the rubes. That those rubes include billionaires like the Mercers just goes to prove that money doesn’t correlate to intelligence…
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JFC, these are stupid people who are just trolling their way through life. What a bunch of losers and posers.
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We need a sociologist of the caliber of Margaret Mead or Franz Boas to explain the twisted nature of the Trump cult.
Strike that; Richard von Krafft-Ebing would be more appropriate.
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I must be getting old because I remember when saying things solely to get attention was considered a bad thing and a disservice to the cause one was espousing.
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they “like Trump for Trump, they like his gait, they like his mannerisms, they like the way he carries himself.”
Gait? He can barely walk on level ground. They must salivate over the prospect of hearing what he can do with a squeezebox. Those hand mannerisms have some polish, eh?
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I believe the Nazi twisted cross explains them well enough; and doesn’t baffle so much with b.s. (apologies to sociologists and other academics who do their work with integrity.)
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“You can call it a cult of personality"
Like with this guy?
Or maybe this guy?
Or perhaps him?
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“You can call it a cult of personality, that’s the negative way of saying it , but at the end of the day, he’s simply popular and people do like him,” he said. (emphasis added)
I think Wax using cult is more palatable than going for what Trump really wants, which is to me messianic, which is one step beyond.
Trump needs attention like most of us need air and water to survive. He’ll dance around being seen as a religious savior, he’ll welcome it as long as the followers adore him as if he was.
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Or Italian.
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