IlliniDave wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:07 pm
I'll be in a blue state that in national elections is controlled by one large city, so I can pretty much submit a protest vote with no guilt about potentially altering the outcome. But I'll have to lie about it because my blue friends there are not as tolerant as my red friends here.
this was hil(l)arious to brute in this last election. all humans were screaming "go vote! go vote! it's important! trump!".
in California. it's literally a waste of time to vote Democrat in California. but they really needed to make it 99.99999% instead of 99.99998%.
brute's take on Trump is very close to the "wheaton level 2 high schooler".
have humans here ever known a tall sales guy from a wealthy family who's a bit of a jerk? that's how Trump strikes brute. just being talk, talking loudly, and having some money goes a long ways in many circles.
brute knows such sales guys. they're not bad or evil humans. they'll lie, but psychopath is the wrong word. Trump seems to lie like humans lie to get females into bed or males to buy sports cars.
almost nothing bad has originated from Trump so far. ok, Muslim ban: stupid and unnecessary. tariffs: stupid and unnecessary. throwing that MOAB the one time (wow it seems so long ago): stupid and unnecessary. but that's about it.
Trump is pretty incompetent at the job in a sense, but so were all presidents. brute honestly believes that flipping a coin for president would roughly achieve the same outcomes over 8 years. thus it doesn't matter that Trump can't keep a thought straight.
it alters the aesthetic of US politics. Obama had a certain aesthetic. some humans loved it, some hated it. Trump is pretty much the opposite. some humans love it, some hate it.
but Trump has not actually attacked the press any more than calling them names. he hasn't started a war. there doesn't seem to be any evidence he colluded with Russia to meddle in the election. (the accusation of "dealing with Russians" is hilarious to brute: since when is it illegal to deal with foreign nationals?! this is Obama-is-Kenyan-level absurd).
hating on "principled Republicans" for not speaking out against Trump also seems insincere to brute. no principled human has become president since.. Teddy Roosevelt? no, Teddy was a populist, too.
the only strategy in this game is to nominate a charming performer, latch on to him, and then try to work on policy while he's in power. performer in power does and says stupid shit? well, at least he's <this side>'s idiot! the exact same thing happened under Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan..
brute thinks everything will be just fine. Trump will be in the news every day for the next 7 years. humans will be outraged. some policy will get passed. the country will survive just fine.
the only reason brute sees for Trump not winning reelection is if the economy crashed shortly before. but that wouldn't have been Trump's fault, since the economy is pretty independent of the President.
brute sees Trump a bit like that jerk of a sales guy. he'll talk shit, he says mean things sometimes, brute has to roll his eyes and shake his head a lot. but he's hardly a threat to the system.