• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    I do not understand the cult of personality around Donald Trump he’s the least appealing looking human who has ever existed, surely they could have found a more attractive cult leader. Most cults do.

    Also how do you manage to get into politics and simultaneously be completely politically inept? You just get a free pass in the US if you just turn up?

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      That’s what gets me too. America has always been in a weird place where they blindly worship everyone famous. And they treat politics like a sport. So it’s not surprising that some guy rolls around selling them monorails. But i expected that guy to look like george Clooney and the charisma or Vince McMahon or something.

      But instead they get ripped off by the dumbest, absolutely vile looking and provably smelling human being i couldn’t even imagine. He looks and acts like someone that a scientist had to invent in a lab. He is the villain from an Austin powers movie.

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        2 days ago

        I’m honestly surprised that some Hollywood action movie actor has never actually become president. I’ve honestly surprised it isn’t Tom Cruise.

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      I think the US is so morally and socially bankrupt that a large percentage of the population basically worships money and by extension the people that have it. So trump being a literal slug man with no humanity but mega rich is a great example of how this works.

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      He’s the weak man’s idea of a strong man, and the dumb man’s idea of a smart man.