Crybaby
Sounds like my dad after he makes some horrible fascist comment about immigrants being scared or how he thinks black women are ugly or gay people are confused or something equally horrific and I open up about how shit really is bad for people that I know personally and his granddaughters are terrified.
“Can’t we just talk about the good stuff?”
Fuck fascists
Arm yourselves they want you dead.
Civility is often weaponized by fascists. They’ll say and do some horrible things… But they do it with a smile, or do so with an air of pseudo-intellectualism. Then when people reasonably get upset, they cry about people being uncivil and redirect the conversation. It’s a tool to avoid having to defend the indefensible things they say and do.
And the sad part is that a sizable part of the population sees that as a “win” for fascism. Because it allows them to paint their opponents as angry unreasonable shrieking maniacs. Lots of people don’t actually listen to the content of what is being said; They just listen to the vibes. And that pseudo-intellectualism and civility has the vibe-listeners thinking that the fascists are the reasonable ones.
yeah, that matches my experience quite well.
in the case of interviews, these people often try to avoid answering straightforward questions.
the good thing is, they don’t have to give an answer. the absence of one also says something. the question is, what do the people think? they have to make up their minds.
“I just wanted a light-hearted conversation talking about my horrible views towards marginalized people and you’re over there bringing the mood down!”
My best friend’s dad will just randomly bring up the weirdest and most unrelated to the conversation attacks on even centrist institutions, like a joke he thinks is funny, but you mention something connected, especially if it’s in a more serious tone, and he’ll be like “what does that have to do with anything?”
gay people are confused
Methinks your dad’s a wee bit bi
Me too tbh
Is he hot?
He’s old now but he used to be real good looking
Fuck fascists
Oh come on… Sometimes they\re midly funny: https://youtu.be/-iegYa6wTeg
Or not, come to think of it…
Looked at the comments. About what you’d expect.
Be a man and answer the fucking questions. My God that guy is such a little bitch
It’s not even a negative question really. It boils down to “what do you say to the people who disagree with what your are doing/planning on doing?”
Oooooh the horror of confronting the very idea of people disagreeing with you. What a nasty question.
Definitely how a strong, confident, popular person would respond.
The fuck? The politicians I support most are Warren and Ocasio-Cortez but I would never describe my relationship with them as “I am in love with them” and I hope to god that they would never describe their relationship to me that way either. Why would he ever describe politician-supporter relationships as “in love”???
He’s a narcissist, everyone loves him!
Loves? Sure. IN love? That’s weird
I’ve thought about this a lot, and I have a theory - It’s a sign of his Sociopathic/ Psychopathic personality. He’s a severely broken human being, and a textbook example of a sociopath/psychopath, which includes a lack of understanding of all emotions. He doesn’t understand how people feel about things, and doesn’t understand the meanings of descriptive emotional words like Love or Beautiful. Because he can’t feel those things, he literally doesn’t understand what they mean.
OTOH, like most psychopaths, he is aware that others think differently than him, and so he needs to fit in by pretending to understand those concepts. But since he has always been a wealthy arrogant bully, he never really had to learn that skill to survive, he’d do fine even if every one knows he’s a psycho, so he’s never tried that hard. He still pays it lip service though, so he sprinkles those words in occasionally, hoping he’s using them properly, because he can’t be bothered to really care that much.
That’s why we end up with awkward, cringy statements about him and the fat Korean fuckjob “trading beautiful love letters” and “falling in love,” or the “big, beautiful bill,” or this amazing sentence:
“I don’t think that a beautiful baby girl needs – that’s 11 years old – needs to have 30 dolls,”
He just referred to an 11 year old girl as beautiful and a baby, in the same sentence. Not creepy or weird at all. /s
He thinks he is hiding among us by using those normal words, but he uses them so inappropriately that it only draws our attention to how deficient his personality is.
I’m old enough to remember when people voted for politicians without being considered nor wanting to be considered “supporters” of them.
I mean that’s generally how I am too, I just support Warren and AOC because they generally seem to make good evidence based decisions…
Wow, typing that out made me realize how low the bar is now
Poor baby Taco.
Taquito
Trump is such a coward, he even ran away from the G7 instead of facing the Mexican President
Trump is a sad sad incel
Trump is such a snowflake
when you elect a 80 year old with the mental age of a spoiled 5 year old
Toddler decries peas!
He’ll threaten and sue CBS for $billions for allegedly softballing Kamala…
He’s NOT a Snowflake!
That’s correct. He’s a big fat stinking turd.
So feeble.
Literally every President at every Press Conference ever.
That said, didn’t Trump already purge the press pool and install exclusively loyalist journalists? It’s funny to see that he’s still complaining. Almost as though he’s forgotten the reason why the press pool exists. They’re not there to be your friend, they’re there to get the Hot Goss and churn the news cycle.
You will never get a gaggle of reporters - of any ideological tenor - that won’t needle you and raise difficult questions. The only thing you get to choose is whether you badger you for being too Fash or too Soy.
Treene pressed: “So some of your supporters are wary of the U.S. getting involved in another foreign war, and some believe that we should support it.”
The split is happening inside his own party! You’ve got Tucker Carlson style fascists whining that US deployment to Iran means taking troops out of LA and off the US/Mexico border. They want their home grown campaign of civil oppression, not some <insert derogatory Jewish slur here> War on the other side of the planet.
Of course his loyalist flaks are going to want to know what side he’s on.
Literally every President at every Press Conference ever.
No, this is quite rare for a president to look so weak by whining about bad questions.
It’s absolutely not. Bush, Biden, Clinton, Reagan - they all whined about how mean the press was. I think Obama was the only president in my lifetime who just mugged his way through it.
And Nixon? Regularly squeeled like a stuck pig, if you work his way through the White House tapes.
