cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26592059
Summary
Donald Trump is upset after King Charles warmly welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Sandringham, making Trump’s own state visit invitation seem “less special.”
Trump’s allies allegedly asked the British government to intervene, but officials stated the king makes his own decisions.
Relations may also be strained by Trump’s criticism of Canada, where Charles remains head of state.
The U.K. government denied tensions, reaffirming strong U.S.-U.K. ties.
It blows my mind that so many Americans saw this petulant, orange manchild and thought yes, this man should lead us.
Easy:
They saw themselfs in him: a grown up child
I’m at the point where I don’t want to be cynical, and I don’t have any proof, but…would anyone put him past rigging the election? That’s where my head is at right now. It makes sense. I don’t know how he rigged the election. I don’t know how TO rig an election.
But seeing him, and being told he won the popular vote…my brain can’t process the core concept of trump being popular. But if you say he rigged it, my brain can follow that concept without having smoke come out my ears.
They relate to him. They feel put upon by the burdens of a world that left them behind. They’re struggling financially while those “liberal elites” laugh at their misfortune. They grind 40 or 60 hours for a pittance that barely keeps food on the table these days. They watch TV and are bombarded by a culture that embraces sexual deviancy and vices that demonstrate the rot at the heart of their once fine upstanding country.
From their perspective, of course. Forged by propaganda and misinformation that they are too furious to examine. This idiot man-baby we see? They see a fucking savior. A man who like them knows how things ought to be. A man with the willpower and knowhow to “save America.”
Where we see petulance, they see righteousness, and they sympathize. These people are furious. He’s got them completely weaponized.
Finally, someone gets it.
I much prefer him privately fuming rather than publicly fuming.
I’d much prefer him dead.
alas, I’m a coward.
The Venn diagram of c/theonion and c/not the onion is just a blurry circle now.
It’s like that child who pouts because he doesn’t get presents on his brother’s birthday.
They can have a place reserved for tiny hands Donnie in a special needs class. That should do the trick.
Oh no, poor Donnie! You want Elon to come and suck your toes? (I heard it’s something the cishets do, they’re weird like that)
