This is a significant part of the problem in the US.
I can’t claim to understand the thinking that goes into this.
I fear it’s rooted in the idea, which isn’t uncommon in the US, that your government (small g - it’s the system itself, not a party thing) is at best misguided and at worst actively out to oppress/frustrate the rugged individual. It doesn’t often show up on the cinema screen but the EPA official in Ghostbusters is an example.
They like Trump because he’s a rebel, a disrupter. He’s a felon only because the system used its bad courts and laws to make him one. He’s Robin Hood, if you like, or Han Solo.
The police are seen as conflicted. On the one hand their job is to deal with law-breaking, but on the other they will personally be inclined to side with the Good Guys (that’s ‘us’, right). So we’ll at least support the officers on the ground. We like the first cop on scene in Die Hard, who spends his time mostly in conflict with his useless/overconfident bosses. We like Dirty Harry too.
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They haven’t moved on from idolising outlaws and Dodge City. Superficial pillocks, Hollywood is the USA.
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- Farage…
My guess is that he feels like you’re giving it to the man,same as farage/johnson etc. For some reason they think these people are one of us.It really is bizarre
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“The Dissociative States of America”
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The Ununited State of America.
Good recycling there, I never thought ecoTrumptard would be a thing.
Is there some arcane kabbalistic reason why Trump goes for running mates whose names end with …nce?
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Or whose descriptive pronoun ends ‘nce’ ?
Like… nonce ?
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It did cross my mind.
Republicans are starting to sow the seeds with the MAGAs that if Trump loses this election it will have been stolen, and that the Dems have learnt from last time and are going to be better at hiding the evidence.
Oh yeah
Can’t wait*
*yes I can
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I will.
Trump Inc are claiming Dems are using AI-generated images of Harris/Walz rallies, while video of Trump/Vance empty room presentations are published.
The racism card has come out early.
Do his base really live in places that look like the pic on the left ? Maybe it’s just that they want to ?
West Virginia (solidly Trump) looks like this, and that’s after he’d already had a term in office
(from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2sBk5YaVa0Q). There is a Stars-and-Stripes in one of the front yards though.
If I Google ‘rust belt’ the pictures that come back look like this
(that’s Detroit, and Michigan is a swing state).
So that’s both sides of his picture which are a fiction.
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Was that slogan not used by the Tories at some point in the past ?