MAGA 'hypnotizing' mediocre 'idiots' to think they’re geniuses: opinion

[Deplorable Yankee]

President Donald Trump’s political brand is based on convincing unexceptional people that they are better than they actually are, but one critic says he's doing so at the expense of exceptional people who happen to belong to marginalized communities.

“Donald Trump is literally hypnotizing mediocre people into thinking that they are meritocratic geniuses, while telling highly accomplished Black, Brown, and Asian people that they are nothing — that everything they have was given to them by those same mediocre people,” liberal commentator Joy-Ann Reid said on Tuesday in an episode of “The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali and Joy-Ann Reid.” The pundit elaborated that Trump and his administration promote the idea that white men do not need to prove their merit because, by virtue of being white men, they are already exceptional.

“They're literally seeing a deficit of white men even trying to go to college now, because they're being told: you don't have to do anything, you just have to be,” Reid said. “You just have to exist as a white man and you're qualified to do anything. You can be a neurosurgeon — just walk in there, use your brilliant European brain, and start operating on people. You're fine. You don't need to know anything. But Black people, according to the late Charlie Kirk, can't even be a pilot — even after going to school to become one. If they're sitting behind the wheel of a Cessna, the claim is they don't know how to do it, that they were just pulled off the street and thrown into the chair.”

Not only do these arguments hurt ordinary people by encouraging discrimination, Reid argued; they also hurt the American economy and do damage to the government when second-rate leaders inevitably stumble at their jobs.

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BJ

This is actually an Alternet piece.
Never posted an Alternet piece before, but this was simply to delicious to pass up.

 

[Alicia J]

It's neither of those things since both apply to people no matter their skin color idiot. Calling Obama a homo, also not racist.

It's racism. Trump doesn't believe a black man can legitimately become president in this country.

And you agree with him because you are also a racist.

 

[Lockback]

It's neither of those things since both apply to people no matter their skin color idiot. Calling Obama a homo, also not racist.

Obama's queer as a $3 bill.

 

[BluesLegend]

It's racism. Trump doesn't believe a black man can legitimately become president in this country.

And you agree with him because you are also a racist.

(plays the recording from Last Action Hero) Yeah yeah yeah yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh...

 

[Alicia J]

(plays the recording from Last Action Hero) Yeah yeah yeah yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh...

So you believe a black Democrat can legitimately become president in this country? You disagree with Trump?

Of course you don't.

 

[BluesLegend]

So you believe a black Democrat can legitimately become president in this country?

That actually already happened, twice.

 

[Alicia J]

That actually already happened, twice.

Oh....so you admit the racist Trump was lying to you? Yet you are so pathetic you voted for him anyway?

Got it.

 

[Lockback]

Oh....so you admit the racist Trump was lying to you? Yet you are so pathetic you voted for him anyway?

Got it.

You throw around accusations like candy on Halloween.
Can you prove that Trump is a racist instead of just smearing shit on the wall?

 

[Alicia J]

You throw around accusations like candy on Halloween.
Can you prove that Trump is a racist instead of just smearing shit on the wall?

Already did....go cry somewhere else.

 

[BluesLegend]

Oh....so you admit the racist Trump was lying to you? Yet you are so pathetic you voted for him anyway?

Got it.

I admit Trump has unhinged you holy shit.

 

[Mashmont]

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Reminds me of the stolen 2020 election. Disregard the impossibility of a senile president being the most popular candidate in history, we are told over and over.

 

[pknopp]

There are legit criticisms of President Trump .

There is zero evidence that he is racist
At all
Real world.

Exhibit A.

Stephen Miller.

 

[pknopp]

There it is. The Jesse Jackson Rainbow Coalition scam. Trump has dated black woman. Explain that. You can’t so you won’t.

So did Thomas Jefferson.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Reminds me of the stolen 2020 election. Disregard the impossibility of a senile president being the most popular candidate in history, we are told over and over.

Reminds me of the most corrupt president in US history.
Only because Trump is, along with his regime.

 

[22lcidw]

Exhibit A.

Stephen Miller.

Stephen Miller is just one person that is no different than all of yours. The Republican Party was so far behind the Progressive way that you have almost taken over much of the nation and still are. However, Republicans are establishing beachheads in areas of the nation now even with some interference from supposedly their own.

 

[pknopp]

Stephen Miller is just one person that is no different than all of yours.

I have no people. What delusions are you living under?

The Republican Party was so far behind the Progressive way that you have almost taken over much of the nation and still are. However, Republicans are establishing beachheads in areas of the nation now even with some interference from supposedly their own.

Nothing you said disputed my point. It acknowledged it. "Yeah, he's a racist but he is just one person".

One person in charge of running the White House.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

So did Thomas Jefferson.

Cool story.

 

[Billiejeens]

Exhibit A.

Stephen Miller.

Now make the case that Stephen Miller is one.

With Facts

 

[Billiejeens]

Now make the case that Stephen Miller is one.

With Facts

It is always weird when a poster thinks he knows the exact answer, but when questioned he laughs instead of answering.

(Yes, I quoted myself)

 

[Lesh]

There are legit criticisms of President Trump .

There is zero evidence that he is racist
At all
Real world.

There’s actually plenty of evidence of it