A soldier who “made you feel important,” a mother just days from returning home, and a son known to be the life of the party were among the first American troops to lose their lives in the line of duty in the war with Iran.
So much of what he does is so intentionally manufactured - very odd intentions and ideas about what to manufacture, just to say that briefly - that I have to believe he thought it would land well, advantageously in his permanently self-aggrandizing way - the several times he’s said this and similar stuff.
Which, after a little inspection, gives us such a weird tiny window both into what he thinks impresses people…but to a vaguer degree, by proxy, what does impress the people who he historically has always sucked up to.
This specific weird brag he did always stuck out to me as uniquely vile, at first I saw it as merely stupid and amazingly tone deaf (first very surprising campaign, IIRC), but there was something else there I couldn’t quite put my finger on, and it’s this. I think we have to acknowledge it’s always revealed something much, much worse.
How many times have we heard the ways “they” all truly feel, and recoiled at the base lowness of it, projected uniquely, confidently, smugly - out of their grotesque messiah’s mouth? He’s not uniquely vile. He’s uniquely vocal, about it, and that’s all.
[Edit: “they”, just above, of course means the terminally deranged, unsalvageable minds we call “elites”, it doesn’t mean Republicans, voters, any other groups of humans - hope that’s obvious but I prefer clarity]
Unfortunately for them, Trump likes soldiers who didn’t get killed in war.
So much of what he does is so intentionally manufactured - very odd intentions and ideas about what to manufacture, just to say that briefly - that I have to believe he thought it would land well, advantageously in his permanently self-aggrandizing way - the several times he’s said this and similar stuff.
Which, after a little inspection, gives us such a weird tiny window both into what he thinks impresses people…but to a vaguer degree, by proxy, what does impress the people who he historically has always sucked up to.
This specific weird brag he did always stuck out to me as uniquely vile, at first I saw it as merely stupid and amazingly tone deaf (first very surprising campaign, IIRC), but there was something else there I couldn’t quite put my finger on, and it’s this. I think we have to acknowledge it’s always revealed something much, much worse.
How many times have we heard the ways “they” all truly feel, and recoiled at the base lowness of it, projected uniquely, confidently, smugly - out of their grotesque messiah’s mouth? He’s not uniquely vile. He’s uniquely vocal, about it, and that’s all.
[Edit: “they”, just above, of course means the terminally deranged, unsalvageable minds we call “elites”, it doesn’t mean Republicans, voters, any other groups of humans - hope that’s obvious but I prefer clarity]