To any lurking MAGA volk---you need to wrap your head around this simple reality:

[Atticus]

SPEECH DOES NOT ALTER OR CREATE FACTS.

Read that again. THINK about it.

Stated more simply, saying something does not make what you said true---no matter how loudly or repeatedly you say it.

Trump is NOT intelligent.

He is NOT a good businessman.

He is NOT strong.

He IS a habitual liar.

He IS a sexual predator.

He IS a coward.

He did NOT "make America great again".

He did NOT win the 2020 election.

He DID call for and incite the attempted coup on January 6th, 2021..

For those of you still reading---and not curled up on the floor in a fetal position with your thumbs in your mouths---I know the above may have caused you extreme discomfort and spiked your blood pressure. I make no apology for that. It is simply the price of your willful ignorance.

Your "handbasket" has arrived. Climb in with the rest of the Red Capped Bobbleheads and strap in for the ride.

[samnsara]

1. maybe they have their own 'parler watch' here...

...if so, they should be afraid.....very afraid.

[Beachnutt]

2. I'll post this again for the lurking magaloons

[Justice matters.]

19. But, but, but, he's King David's "return"

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. +1

This needs it's own post.

[machoneman]

3. Great analysis! Thanks for the post.

[AllTooEasy]

38. Actually, Trump is very intelligent, however...

...do not confuse "intelligence" with "morality". The two terms are independent of each other. Trump is a disgrace. Like Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Dr. Harold Shipman, etc. Trump has lots of brains, and absolutely no soul. No decency. No humanity. No morality. He manipulated the bigotry of Repukes to defeat established Repukes for the 2016 Repuke nomination. He then manipulated the stupidity of enough Americans in the right states to win the electoral college. On top of that, he's swindled untold numbers of business partners and clients, and at the age of 76, he's still hasn't spent one day in jail while enjoying a cult following. Stupid people don't accomplish that, and Good people don't want to do that.

Underestimating the intelligence of your enemy is a path to a humiliating defeat, because your faulty paradigms blind to what's coming. Google John Oliver (who I'm a big fan of) begging Trump on Last Week Tonight to run for POTUS in 2016, and then later apologizing for it.

Please stop underestimating this slithering beast. He's already done enough damage.

[lastlib]

41. I would say that what he has is *cunning,* more than intelligence....

[niyad]

4. Exactly. And loved the very correct "volk".

[MuseRider]

5. Nicely done.

Thanks! I always like to read something easily put down to make a great point.

[plimsoll]

6. I think this statement misses the mark a little.

SPEECH DOES NOT ALTER OR CREATE FACTS.

And that's true, but they're not living in a world bounded by facts. They live in the world of myth, and speech does create myths. The cautionary tales and comforting bedtime stories of childhood reforged for adults who don't want to come to terms with reality.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. That's the explanation right

the simple fact is, they don't live in a world that is based in reality. Reality matters nothing to them.

[FakeNoose]

8. They can only avoid the truth about Chump for so long

[IronLionZion]

9. He represents his worst supporters very well

they are into it because seeing him be deplorable makes it OK for them to be deplorable.

[Initech]

15. Trump brought out the worst in America.

[calimary]

22. Yep. He gave them his big yellow-haired "okay" sign.

No wonder they damn near worship him. Finally the validation for every “don’t do that!” they’ve heard throughout their lousy lifetimes.

[Different Drummer]

31. This exactly! n/t

[Unwind Your Mind]

10. The world had an arrangement with Iran that was working

Trump fucked it up

[multigraincracker]

11. He is one of the best

conmen in the world.

He does see you as suckers.

[oldsoftie]

14. I was told that just over 10 yrs ago by a man who knew him. HE died in '13

So he never got to see his predictions come true.
He told me that trump wanted SO bad to be a mob boss that he acted like one all the time. And that he WOULD run for president because it was the ultimate con.

[multigraincracker]

27. Might be the only one to

run for President and lost his home town and home state twice. They know what he is.

[LisaM]

39. The problem isn't the con men. It's the people who get conned.

Why are they so gullible, and how are they allowed to bring things down for the rest of us?

[keithbvadu2]

12. According to Trump, he did make America great.

Rs, what did you do to take away America's greatness?

According to Trump, he did make America great. For a short while, he had the slogan Keep America Great for his campaign. He even had the hats with KAG on them. For whatever reason his thinking was, it devolved back to MAGA. What happened?

What did you do to screw up America, Donald?

[lpbk2713]

13. Some will stick to the same line of crap to their dying day.

It's a sad world for people like that.

[rzemanfl]

16. K&R. "it?"

[usonian]

17. Yo! You with the red hat!

Everything you say or believe shouts out your inadequacy.

Every Accusation is a Confession
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216777247

If life begins at conception, why are kids ONE YEAR OLD,
one year after taking their first breath?

When dictators take power, you the "freedom fighters" become their biggest threat, and AWAY WITH YOUR GUNS.

Your MAGA hat has microchips and GPS trackers.

Your Führer will throw every goddam one of you under the bus for a packet of mustard if necessary.
JUST ASK ALL THOSE FAITHFUL IN PRISON BECAUSE THEY TRUSTED HIM.

[Wounded Bear]

18. K & R...nt

[SledDriver]

20. Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength

[patphil]

21. I always thought their slogan should be:

Make America Good and Great Over Trump.

Then they could refer to themselves as MAGGOTs.
A fitting label for those who live on the garbage of lies Trump spews forth.

[Different Drummer]

32. ...

[llashram]

23. excellent

they, with a shred of conscience left, need to read this. It is a smack of reality.

[jalan48]

24. I think they are at the point where what they want is blood. Reasonable arguments fall on deaf ears.

[Baggies]

25. SPEECH DOES NOT ALTER OR CREATE FACTS

No doubt. Sometimes it's right in front of you, but...

[Paladin]

26. Well said, as usual. (nt)

[dawn5651]

28. well said

[Marcuse]

29. The MAGA bough is breaking.

[Frostlight]

30. They don't care... because they don't understand how facts work.

They are epistemologically bereft. They don't actually understand how we can 'know' things. It all boils down to the same thing; they don't understand the nature of reality, so they think that all 'knowledge' is simply 'belief' and all 'belief' is simply 'chosen'.

Here:

"One applicable quote that I’ve been saying for decades is, “We expect of others what we expect of ourselves”. Most conservatives cannot understand science, so they can only presume that no one else really does either. At that point, they see others’ belief in science as the same adherence to authority that they perceive in religion. Looking at some of the above quotes, you may notice that they look at belief in science as adherence to authority. When low-effort thinkers are in school, they see the task in front of them as one of of simply ‘learning’ the answers and regurgitating them when necessary.
They are told that ‘2+2=4’ by an authority; a teacher whose ‘authority’ has been conveyed to them by another authority; their parents. So for them, it’s simply ‘adherence to authority’. They were told to believe that 2+2=4, so they have no reason to understand why 2+2=4. ‘Education’ is learning why we believe what we do. It is being shown how 2+2=4. As low-effort thinkers, conservatives don’t make that extra effort to understand any more than they have to. For them, knowing how the answer is arrived at just isn’t necessary.
To them it makes no difference because as far as they are concerned it’s all about believing what an accepted authority tells them to believe. Therefore, they think that all knowledge is simply dictated by an authority, and everything that anyone else believes is what they were told to believe by authorities on ‘the other side’. That ‘low-effort thought’ thing? That is part of why conservatives seem so much more tribal than non-conservatives; it’s simpler and easier to just ‘line up’ behind a tribal leader and believe all the same things your tribe believes than it is to put in the intellectual rigor of actually learning how things work. Of course this isn’t ALL conservatives, but they are overwhelmingly anti-science as they can only perceive science as another ‘ineffable faith’ that is in competition with their own. This is all because ‘science’ is just as mysterious to them as religion is."

https://bsbuzzsaw.com/2021/12/04/science-faith-why-conservatives-cant-tell-the-difference/ - Go there for supporting links, and humor.

The bottom line is that they believe that all knowledge is simply 'a belief' and all beliefs are subjective, optional, and chosen. They think that our claims are just as without substance as theirs are because they don't understand 'substance'... and the irony of that is completely lost on them.

[Atticus]

33. Great post. Anyone who can use the 8-syllable "epistemologically" appropriately should

definitely author more OPs.

[Frostlight]

40. ...

Thanks!

[hay rick]

34. You omitted the most important truth. Trump is a traitor.

Your vote for him was an act of treason. Do not be surprised if complicity leads to consequences.

[orangecrush]

35. HELL YES

[MustLoveBeagles]

37. This should be repeated over and over

[GenThePerservering]

42. I doubt this will

cause them any angst at all. They've heard all of those accusations before and it has done nothing because they're brainwashed into a cult. If anything, they'll just laugh and say "You libs are triggered, aren't you?"

We put our time and effort into beating them, not trying to change their minds - that last is not gonna happen. It's like taking out the trash, we don't sort it, we just dump it.