Hate and mean-spiritedness is all your ilk have.
I think some on the left, maybe including you based on my reading this, confuses "reasoning" with agreeing with. I think it's important to realize that Trump supporters simply don't agree with the ideas and hopes of the left. Trump and his supporters want and support a different path than the left wants and supports.
"President...of everyone"The problem with this thinking is that Trump isn't your bestie. He's supposed to be the President...of everyone...not just the Alt-Right. Trump is first and foremost, a showman. Born and raised in a media driven culture. He knows how to spin and charm. Words are superfluous. They can be fabricated. Actions speak louder. And in Trump's case, he is a self-aggrandizing grifter. Someone who has surrounded himself with a clan of fascists running a playbook from the early 1930's in an attempt to return this country to a misty-eyed era that lives mainly in the nostalgic minds of his supporters. Not in any sort of evolved reality. His supporters can't see that the man is just out to line his own pockets and those pockets of his wealthy friends.
I understand why Maher (and Jon Stewart) are trying to strike a conciliatory tone. They just want the madness to stop. Maher just wants to smoke his pot. Stewart sometimes rails against the cottage industry of political humor that he himself helped create.
But the bottom line is that there is no reasoning with Trump or his supporters. That ship has sailed. If Maher is expecting Trump to have some great revelation and a come to Jesus moment.....I hate to be the one to break the news to him that he and his supporters are beyond reason.
Meh, my portfolio looks just fine, all minor losses were recovered and then some.
And? Again, these are words. Actions speak louder. I don't remember Obama or even Biden directly going after their political enemies to try and destroy them. I remember people trying to hold Trump accountable for his (in)actions on 1/6/2021. And in a normal world, you and I would see that day for what it was. An attempt to overthrow the government of the United States and an overt attempt to shred our Constitution. But for some reason, the man stirs an almost deity like response in his supporters. He literally cannot do anything wrong in your eyes. This is why I call him your Savior.
I hate to say it, but Maher is speaking about you.The problem with this thinking is that Trump isn't your bestie. He's supposed to be the President...of everyone...not just the Alt-Right. Trump is first and foremost, a showman. Born and raised in a media driven culture. He knows how to spin and charm. Words are superfluous. They can be fabricated. Actions speak louder. And in Trump's case, he is a self-aggrandizing grifter. Someone who has surrounded himself with a clan of fascists running a playbook from the early 1930's in an attempt to return this country to a misty-eyed era that lives mainly in the nostalgic minds of his supporters. Not in any sort of evolved reality. His supporters can't see that the man is just out to line his own pockets and those pockets of his wealthy friends.
I understand why Maher (and Jon Stewart) are trying to strike a conciliatory tone. They just want the madness to stop. Maher just wants to smoke his pot. Stewart sometimes rails against the cottage industry of political humor that he himself helped create.
But the bottom line is that there is no reasoning with Trump or his supporters. That ship has sailed. If Maher is expecting Trump to have some great revelation and a come to Jesus moment.....I hate to be the one to break the news to him that he and his supporters are beyond reason.
Because he has a track record of being right about things. I've watched him for well over a decade, his views are spot on.
No, that's not it at all. You have to know Maher and what his beliefs are in order to understand what he is saying here.
It's based on experience. Speaking with dozens of Trump supporters over the last decade, including two very good friends who I thought were pretty level-headed politically. It's almost like appeasement. The problem with appeasement is the aggressor will always take more, no matter how much you concede. At some point, you have to draw a line in the sand and say that this is a divide we can't cross over.
Again, he wants the Rodney King scenario..."can't we all just get along?"....uh, that ship has sailed.
