Former President Donald Trump’s supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.

  • @radix
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    4210 months ago

    The only way you can control people is to lie to them.

    and…

    If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.

    – L. Don Trumppard

      • Ser Salty
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        That part is genuinely the most baffling part to me. Like, I can see why somebody would fall into the cult of a really charismatic leader, a great public speaker that gets to your emotions etc.

        But I can’t decipher half the shit that man says. He’s not just incapable of forming a proper sentence with a point, but he also has a terrible speaking voice, making his incoherent ramblings even harder to understand when not transcribed.

        • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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          2410 months ago

          He says the offensive stuff that’s been repressed for 60 years on the political stage. Trump could use the N-word with a hard R and his polls would go up.

        • phillaholic
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          2010 months ago

          His transcribes are incoherent. His speeches are like listening to music. You don’t even know all the words, but you get the feeling. That’s all they are looking for.

          • @Fuck_u_spez_
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            “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

            …for example.

          • PenIsland
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            210 months ago

            Like listening to Rob Zombie

        • @somethingsnappy
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          1110 months ago

          Clinton is a great example. Great speaker, knew everyone’s name, talked in broad generalities. He and Obama are two of the best republican presidents of modern times.

            • @somethingsnappy
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              010 months ago

              He couldn’t do much because of the do nothing congress, but the things he did do other than some health care reform were pretty regressive.

        • z3rOR0ne
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          610 months ago

          I’m from the future year 3023, we have cloned Sylvester Stallone and genetically modified him to somehow have an even harder to discern speech pattern than he has in your time. He is our great leader, bow before your incoherent God!!

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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          210 months ago

          Because America has spent decades elevating ignorance to be the highest virtue. Donald Trump is the end-point of American culture. He’s what everything’s been leading to.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          It’s a feature not a bug. By leaving thoughts half unfinished, changing topics in the sentence, people listening to him can fill in the blanks with whatever they want and it seems to them that he’s saying exactly what they would say. Because, they’re filling in with what they would exactly say.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        010 months ago

        I heard that towards the end his drug use broke his writing ability. Does that make you feel better?