Rabbits Against Magic by Jonathan Lemon for October 21, 2024

Trump Disciples are very disciplined in what they don’t see. Of course they are oblivious to Trumps mental breakdowns.

Trump Disciples have never heard of Trump’s ‘enemy within’ statements, nor do know about his plans to have tariffs on everything that is imported, except they believe it will totally, totally eliminate the deficit “in a very short period of time, I believe”.

And they’ve never even heard of Project 2025.

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And Haitian illegals eating cats and dogs? Never heard anything about that. Who would say stuff like that, anyway?

But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that – because, look, child care is child care. It’s – couldn’t – you know, it’s something – you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it.

But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly – and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country.

Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care. That – it’s going to take care – we’re going to have – I – I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.

Because I have to say with child care – I want to stay with child care – but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just – that I just told you about.

We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in.

We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people, but we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first, it’s about Make America Great Again. We have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question.

- Guess Who – Hint: It’s a Stable Genius who wants access to our nuclear codes.

Giving him orange-tinted glasses is a nice touch.

You are speaking to the RFK worm.

He’s too old. Period.

VOTE BLUE

This says it all. From Heather Cox Richardson’s 10/13 Substack:

“In a 1951 book called The True Believer, political philosopher Eric Hoffer noted that demagogues appeal to a disaffected population whose members feel they have lost the power they previously held, that they have been displaced either religiously, economically, culturally, or politically. Such people are willing to follow a leader who promises to return them to their former positions of prominence and thus to make the nation great again.

But to cement their loyalty, the leader has to give them someone to hate. Who that is doesn’t really matter: the group simply has to be blamed for all the troubles the leader’s supporters are suffering. Trump has kept his base firmly behind him by demonizing immigrants, the media, and, increasingly, Democrats, deflecting his own shortcomings by blaming these groups for undermining him.

According to Hoffer, there’s a psychological trick to the way this rhetoric works that makes loyalty to such a leader get stronger as that leader’s behavior deteriorates. People who sign on to the idea that they are standing with their leader against an enemy begin to attack their opponents, and in order to justify their attacks, they have to convince themselves that that enemy is not good-intentioned, as they are, but evil. And the worse they behave, the more they have to believe their enemies deserve to be treated badly.

According to Hoffer, so long as they are unified against an enemy, true believers will support their leader no matter how outrageous his behavior gets. Indeed, their loyalty will only grow stronger as his behavior becomes more and more extreme. Turning against him would force them to own their own part in his attacks on those former enemies they would now have to recognize as ordinary human beings like themselves."

Mr. Wiggly: He is in the last panel with Weenus, discussing Preston’s gullibility.

Most do see it. But they choose to overlook it all due to greed, or bigotry, or racism. or misogyny, or just some lack of guts.

Under incompetent Kamala Harris, America and American Workers will still have another four years of incompetent Joe Biden.

Since Fox and Newsmax will never say anything Negative about Trump they only report what their listeners want them to report. If they reported the truth about Trump they would not have any viewers

Why study issues, meet with experts and admit limitations when it is so much easier to lie, lie, lie.

I dunno. Why don’t Harris’ supporters hear that her “word salad” utterances routinely make the roundly and soundly insulted and lampooned Dan Quayle look like a beacon of intelligence?

There’s willful delusion all over the political spectrum.