The answer to how Trump has succeeded is really simple: He lies nonstop, and lying works. Sure, there are other factors in play—he tapped into and intensified a certain strain of profound proletarian resentment of liberal elites, and … well, that’s about it. But mostly, it’s the lies.

…And, to reiterate, Trump tells many such lies a day. He talks to the press two or three times a day most days, which probably adds up to what, 45 minutes, an hour? Spitballing it at one lie every two minutes, which may well be low, that’s around 25 factual lies a day.

  • DaMummy
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    4 hours ago

    No, not that he would get corporate money out of govt, fucking hell no. Just that he would be bad enough for American government to realize that “well, we can’t let that happen again” and get corruption out of our system. Similar to how Germany stopped corruption after Hitler. And for like 14 months before Oct 7th, there were constant protest in Tel Aviv over Bibi’s corruption, I hope that as soon as possible, Israel also ends their corruption in government. But I’m really seeing now that it will have to get way worse than Trump for corruption to end in America.

    • mojofrododojoEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Just that he would be bad enough for American government to realize that “well, we can’t let that happen again” and get corruption out of our system.

      valid. I thought, on j6, “well thank goodness this is the end of him”… because no country in their right mind would let that shit pass.

      and here we are. fuck.