Correct.
I don’t like him.
So the ‘Trump IQ Scale’ than. We can determine someone’s IQ by simply observing their approval of Trump. The more they agree the lower the IQ, the less they disagree the higher IQ. Trump himself is the reference point. Someone can maybe come up with a new way to represent it. Though we could just keep the 100 point scale, with Trump being the reference point. So we put T=0 and then you can be ± 99 from center. So someone could say “Yeah my TIQ is +73” or something. Seems like it would be more accurate than the made up IQ scale. Though some nuance to that… since a TIQ of +99 might as well be just as bad as a -99. I believe in his first term, he put for a bill around the cruelty of animals, so if you’re a TIQ if +99 you’re just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing and aren’t taking into account what is being said/done. So the scale would be nuanced.
The situation is so, so much worse than a relatively easy-to-define divide between “smart people and stupid people.” If it was just a segment of the population who are stupid on some quantifiable level, we could work with that, we could work on outreach and education and compensation by making issues easier to understand and so on.
But it’s not just stupidity, there is a larger, society-wide phenomenon that is plaguing the world right now, which is the systemic suppression of thought.
This is a very unpopular fact when I post it, but it remains true: the last three federal elections we held in the US had the highest voter turnout in American history. It wasn’t a matter of people not caring or staying home, the issue shown in exit polling is that most voters had no idea what the candidates represented and felt basically like it was a coin-flip, and mostly went with their “gut” and said they had concerns about grocery prices that seemed to go up under Biden and Harris didn’t make them feel confident enough that she would do things different from Biden, and that Trump seemed to at least promise things. Many Americans haven’t paid solid attention to politics since.
So the picture is this: people who work 6 days a week, have no time or energy to read forums or browse for facts are just pulled along by facebook posts and ignore politics broadly to stay submerged in a lifestyle that simultaneously overworks us, and provides us with so many comforts that we’re not incentivized to exercise thinking skills or be curious about anything broadly. Work, scroll, work, scroll… how many of you right now are on Lemmy on work-hours looking for things to keep your brain distracted? Imagine that but across hundreds of millions of people on their phones endlessly scrolling through youtube shorts, ads, clickbait headlines, bad science stories, drama and hype around insignificant bullshit and so on.
Even if you’re not leaning one direction or another politically, you’re going to scroll past a thousand memes of both political parties saying absurd things about each other that you don’t feel connected with at all, because at the end of the day, no matter what they read about Epstein or Palestine or tariffs or “HE SAID WHAT” headlines, people are still just trying to not feel anything while they grind through the day so they can order a cab for their burrito later, and only really care about what that burrito is going to cost tomorrow… and I promise, Big Burrito has worked out exactly how high they can raise prices and how slowly they can do it before people start to feel uncomfortable.
It’s not an accident you always have only just enough money to make your ends meet. This is all by design. They made a population of cattle and they milk us daily and keep us drugged and placated.
It’s fucked up that he says it like it’s some sort of flex, and his cultists eat it up.
I know that there has been a demonization of higher learning for a very long time in Conservative america. But I’m floored by how pervasive it’s become that a vast majority have been completely gaslit by it.
The stupider you are, the more attractive his platform becomes. Smart people tend not to vote against their interests, but stupid people do it, do it proudly, and keep doing it even after it bites them in the ass.
How many times have we seen where someone’s spouse has been deported or their benefits have been cut and they STILL support Trump.
Trump’s #1 skill is telling people in the room what they want to hear. He’s just pretty bad about following up. His followers tend not to hold him to the fire. For example, if he promises thing X and doesn’t do it, later he was “trolling” or “that was a joke to rile up the Democrats”. Of course, when he does get a win they trumpet that from the rooftops.
He’s probably the first one with the combination of charisma and lack of ethics that makes him exploit his base.
It continually amazes me that he’s been so successful at capturing low-income voters. When you look at Trump he was born with a silver spoon. The man lives in a literal gilded house! Yet, he manages to stay “relatable” to his base. If you’re really wildly rich, I can see why you’d want to vote for Trump because he’s done a lot of great things for the extremely wealthy. However, for the 99% of us that are not wealthy, I think he’s made times pretty hard.
I wish I could say people are learning as we go along, but it seems like the voters are getting spanked and coming back asking for more.
So, I agree. Smart people mostly don’t like him.
Considering he is actively trying to reverse course on every bit of socioeconomic progress we have made, its more surprising that so many people agree with him than him actually saying it
The whole Trump Derangement Syndrome nonsense is so messed up.
It should be the opposite meaning. You have TDS if you cannot process the notion that Trump is bad or wrong
Literal newspeak, straight from 1984.
The dementia is taking hold.
Even a broken cunt is right twice a day.
Yeah, they have you figured out to be a fool. BTW he’s talking about 5+ year old people.
Wow… I came here thinking it might be a change from being around right wing websites, but you people have some massive obsession with Donny. You ever get tired?
Wait - you used to hang out on right wing websites, then came here because you apparently stopped liking right wing websites, and are upset because this community does not celebrate right-wing causes or Isn’t centrist enough?
Reads like some kind of centrist smerconish-like political flex.
Check their history. Overtly nazi.
I mean their name is Ernst Rommel
Haha, look at all these people upset that a bad person is doing bad things! What a bunch of obsessed losers!
If you don’t like hearing us complain, feel free to slither back under whatever rock you crawled out of.
their name is Ernst Rommel, do you really think they are here in good faith?
Yeah that shit tactic no longer works on us because you blow shit out your ass with extreme accusations. You truly are stupid and don’t talk to me, before you kill my brain cells.
before you kill my brain cells.
Pretty sure that ship has sailed.
What you see here is the reaction to actions made by your cult leader. Now go back to fox to continue your brainwashing.
Okay USA
I just wandered past from All, but are you seriously complaining about a politics sub posting about a contentious world leader?
Never in my world have I ever seen people blow shit out the ass the way you people react about 1 president . I thought George Bush was idiot in my days, resulting in 2 wars and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Just purely anger from you people.
Have to think. In 25 years, Republicans have had two presidents, Bush and Trump.
Dems had Obama and Biden. Where was the country then? Even in Trump’s first term, it wasn’t world shattering. Now you have a dementia and aged Trump surrounded by yes men. It’s having a huge effect across the globe.
Also, Trump has always dominated the news cycle. It’s just par for the course during his presidency. Sad, but here we are.
Literally just told you i’m not a reg.
Edit: nvm, just checked post history. Block the special needs chihuahua and move on, folks
lol… oh really? Obama in a tan suit. Republicans lost their shit when that happened.
Pol Pot would supposedly round up and execute people wearing glasses because they were seen as “intellectuals”.
You are not as far from this as you want to be.
Are you sure he wants to be far from that?
I wasn’t talking to him.
In the words of Clay Davis: “Shiiiiiiiit.”
Love to see him calling his supporters morons.
Yet they drop to their knees and say…“please sir, can I have some more?”
That certainly explains his antagonism towards science and education.
Yeah, because even a moderately intelligent person recognizes him for the criminal fraud that he is. We’ve been saying it from the beginning:
He’s a stupid person’s idea of a smart person.
He for once set the bar too high. Its normal people dont like him. To him normal folk are smart.
Yeah I’m a dumbass and I hate him too
