An extended rumination on the turd-heap upon which we find ourselves standing, while slowly sinking.
(I know, I know, it’s rather too extended. It’s not so much a blog post as an essay, and you’re in no mood to read a frigging essay. I hear you. I get it. TL;DR: Americans don’t know Jack Shit about anything, and that’s becoming a real big problem.)
About a month ago, just before noon, a late model Bentley luxury sedan, enormously powerful and weighing upwards of 6,000 pounds, took a run at the American customs checkpoint at the U.S. end of the famous Rainbow Bridge, which spans the Niagara gorge at the U.S.-Canada border. The Bentley was travelling at a dangerously, even suicidally high speed, racing at the checkpoint at what must have been at least a hundred miles an hour. Just before crashing through the perimeter fence, it rode up over some sort of concrete protuberance that acted like a ski jump, thus launching itself on a dramatic upwards arc. It was straight out of the action flicks. The Bentley’s momentum took it right over the fence, and propelled it through the air for what looked to be close to a hundred feet, before it hit the ground with a massive explosion that all but atomized the vehicle. In the aftermath, all they found were coin-sized pieces and a big chunk of engine block.
Look! screamed the voices on the American right, amplified by the lunkheads and professional cranks on Fox News. That was a car bomb! Somebody just launched a terrorist attack on our northern border with Soviet Canuckistan! Perhaps it was thought that this fit in nicely with the unrelenting propaganda about Biden’s “open borders”, one of MAGAs favourite wedge issues, though prior to this the fear mongering had always been about drugs, illegal immigrants, and terrorists flowing in from Mexico, not to or from Canada. Maybe the idea was that the terrorists had snuck in from Mexico, then drove their gold- plated, multi-hundred thousand dollar car north to wreak havoc where it was least expected, way up at the border with Canada. Or maybe the idea was just to depict the Biden administration as incapable of preventing terrorist infiltration, however and wherever it occurred. I’m not sure they’d fully developed a theory of the case. It didn’t really matter anyway, did it? The main thing was to scream OMG, now the Islamic Jihad was attacking us at the northern border too! Or something like that. Nowhere was safe! That’s because any unvetted, suicide vest-wearing enemy of the U.S. could slip into the country any time he pleased! Damn that Joe Biden!
The usual suspects in the Republican Party jumped on the bandwagon. This is a tweet sent out by Ted Cruz, who’s smart enough to understand that at the time he posted it, it was far too soon for anybody to be sure what really happened:
There was no evidence of terrorism, of course, and there wasn’t a bomb, either. At that velocity, there didn’t have to be. The car was occupied not by jihadists, but by a thoroughly ordinary couple, Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani, both 53, of Grand Island, New York. Kurt was the one driving. They’d been planning to attend a Kiss concert, but had settled for amusing themselves in one of the nearby casinos when the group had to cancel. All very ordinary, and nothing hinting at home-grown radicals, or ties to ISIS, Hamas, or Hezballah.
It wasn’t long, just a few hours, before the possibility of a terror attack had been all but categorically eliminated, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul held a press conference to reassure the public, as was duly reported by all the legitimate media outlets. By then, though, it was already too late. The Fox narrative was out there, spreading like viral mind cancer across social media, and all those folks of the Base, sealed in their comfy little information bubble, were eating it up.
We may never know what led to the unfortunate incident, whether it was a flaw in the vehicle, the onset of a medical condition affecting the driver, road rage, or a marital spat, but whatever it was, nobody was screaming “death to America” in Arabic when the enormous luxury auto cleared the fence and thundered in. Does that truth even matter? I wonder, how many Fox and Newsmax viewers are convinced to this day that America suffered a verified terror attack on that unhappy day at the Rainbow Bridge?
The lie gets out there, proliferates, gets amplified by the sleaze balls on Fox and the cynical Republicans in Congress, and it’s the story that lots of people will always believe, no matter what the facts eventually show. Like the man said, halfway ‘round the world before the truth gets its boots on.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the apparently overwhelming power of distortion, disinformation, and outright lies, and the ability of Trump and his MAGA henchmen to sell a delusional narrative of grievance, victimization, and impending disaster to the credulous, angry masses of white people who form the Base, and who seem to think their country is being taken away from them. Within broad swaths of the American population, Trumpism has, in a very short time, become something close to a religion, while managing, it seems, to have banished both reason and common sense, not to mention common human decency. The cult of MAGA has taken over the GOP, and upended the entire American political system.
How? And how come it looked so easy?
There are all kinds of explanations for the rapid rise of Trumpism, and I can only discuss them briefly here, but most of them take a holistic sort of view of societal changes and stresses to make the point that Trump came along at just the point that a large portion of the American electorate was ready to listen to somebody just like him. Factors like economic anxiety, racism, existential dread over demographic change, a sense of being scorned and abandoned by elites, the resulting urge to stick it to the Libs, and so on, are said to have combined to create the ideal conditions for the rise of a demagogue. Rachel Maddow, in her new book Prequel, argues that once a society reaches a certain level of dysfunction, it really doesn’t matter who comes along to offer an authoritarian solution to all the nation’s woes, because the people at that point have already decided that nothing but a strong man can put society back on track. They’ll seize upon the first would-be dictator who comes along, however ridiculous, unfit, and utterly unimpressive he might actually be. Impliedly, their buy-in to the strong man’s crude rhetoric and fascist ideas are mainly the result of a will to believe and an urge to be led, facets of human nature that are often dormant, but universal. Seen in this light, the rise of authoritarianism in any society can be said to be the product of a sort of recipe: a little racial animosity here, a dash of economic dislocation there, some alienation with the current elites, then throw in a couple of disruptive societal trends, like demographic change, or in our case all of that plus a recent plague, and there you have it – just add strong man.
If there’s any merit to this analysis, then what’s happening today in America could happen in any country, any time the conditions are right, and history seems to bear this out. I’ll buy that, I guess, but I want to add one further ingredient to the authoritarian recipe, one I’d argue is peculiar to present-day America, and makes Americans especially vulnerable to the crass manipulation of a freak of nature like Donald Trump: you see, the average American doesn’t know much about anything, and can’t think critically, even to the smallest degree. The American body politic lacks the antibodies to fend off Trumpism and all its attendant lies.
Ask yourself, what kind of person is duped by the style of reasoning lampooned by this Twitter wag with hilarious precision, poking at notorious right wing bullshit artist Joe Rogan, whose podcast has made him one of the most popular and wealthiest purveyors of dogpoop in the entire MAGA ecosystem:
That’s a brilliant distillation of the sort of deficient logic that Rogan and others like him deploy to support their right wing talking points, but it’s satire. So, OK, here, look at the real Joe Rogan in action. He’s a moron. Millions of like-minded morons hang on his every word. Here, he accuses Biden of suffering dementia on the basis of things Trump actually said in one of his typically disastrous, gaffe-filled, word salad speeches (the one in which he lost the thread on the teleprompter and ad-libbed that the Continental Army under Washington had “stormed the airports” during the Revolutionary War):
What calibre of mind listens to this guy’s drivel and comes away feeling informed?
And what sort of mind falls for lunatic exhortations like this?
It’s hard not to laugh, vile as this latest ridiculous bid for the Christian vote undoubtedly is. The problem is that it works.
Remember how Donald used to admit at his rallies that he loves uneducated people? He’d say it right to the crowd, and they’d cheer wildly at the implied insult: “I love the poorly educated!”, like so:
Of course he does; Trumpism preys on low-information voters. It’s not economic anxiety, it’s not racism, it’s not hatred of the libs, or anything else that’s primarily to blame for turning this ludicrous idiot into a force to be reckoned with. Those are all secondary symptoms. At the base of it all is the plain, ugly truth that the average American doesn’t know enough to smell the bullshit even when he’s in it up to his armpits.
Look – only somebody whose mind began as an essentially blank slate could have been bamboozled to the point that this is the result:
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1730003886881006033
Or how about this case of brainwashing:
https://twitter.com/HotMoozik/status/1730970044107301365
There it is, the classic last resort of the true believer when confronted with the cold, hard truth: That’s what they say, but I believe otherwise.
Get a load of what this whack-a-doodle knows to be true:
You can find any number of such “Trump-lover in the street” interviews, and it probably won’t surprise you that a lot of them are even more batshit than those pasted above. Like this (forget about the whole thing, just watch the first exchange):
At first, I thought the chemical substance the first guy was talking about, allegedly squeezed from the glands of abducted children, was this herbal supplement:
Instead, though, he’s probably upset by the supposed craving of certain elites for something called “adrenochrome”, a naturally occurring chemical compound arising from the oxidation of adrenaline. As it turns out, there’s a whole conspiracy culture around adrenochrome and its purported uses, something to do with supposed rejuvenating properties or some such, and supposedly it’s being harvested from child victims by a dark underground web of liberals/satanists/communists.
This is the perfect example of what’s making me mental. At some point, some scoundrel or other, pushing, for God knows what reason, another ridiculous conspiracy theory – I dunno, maybe it was QAnon – convinced millions, buddy here among them, that as a result of all the adrenochrome harvesting, 800,000 children actually go missing in America every year. At first blush that does indeed sound like some sort of holocaust, and that ought to prompt a number of follow-on questions, but doesn’t, not with this guy. This poor, misguided slob can’t reason that if such a thing was really happening the way he believes, he wouldn’t just be reading about the crisis on Reddit, or 8Chan, or wherever the hell he picked it up. The whole country would be in an uproar. He doesn’t have the wit to say to himself wait, that can’t be right, that’d be a national emergency dominating our politics if it was true. He can’t reason that if that many kids were being snatched, never to be seen again, elementary schools would be depopulating, and neighbourhoods all over the country, including the one he lives in, would be plastered with “missing” posters and dotted with frantic, wailing parents. Kids would be escorted to and from school by armed guards, and otherwise locked down under strict curfew. They’d all have GPS trackers woven into their clothing. This being America, there’d be posses of armed vigilantes hunting for the abductors. And so on. He’s completely incapable of logical reasoning. He can’t say to himself “if X was true, then Y would have to follow”.
Now, If he just did a little bit of Googling to find the reputable sources he’d never believe anyway, he’d find that yes, anywhere from 400,000 to 800,000 kids are reported missing every year, but “reported missing” is not at all the same thing as “vanished permanently into thin air”. Something like 98-99% of those reported missing are later found, very often within hours (something discoverable with the merest amount of on-line searching). Also, when it comes to child abduction, the usual culprit is a family member, probably in connection with a custody dispute following divorce, not a secret coven of liberal socialist commie child harvesters, and anyway, children’s bodies really aren’t a bountiful source of oxidized adrenaline compounds, no matter how hard you squeeze the little bastards in the wine press. He doesn’t know enough to suspect that a massive, nation-wide, child-murdering conspiracy to distill helpless kids down to some sort of elixir of life doesn’t even make a lick of sense from a biological perspective, let alone grasp any of the 800 odd other reasons why it’s a crazy idea. So he believes it. Fervently.
The same uncritical acceptance of utter nonsense is the very essence of MAGAworld. Watch CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota struggle in vain to talk sense to Trump supporters as she interviews this focus group of Big Lie true believers:
They can’t tell fact from fantasy, and believe everything they hear from the MAGA gaslighters. When pressed, they wind up sputtering that they really don’t have any basis for their beliefs, but they believe anyway. They all came into this with empty heads, just waiting for somebody making the right noises to come along and fill them.
If you’d like to see plenty of others in this genre, just search “Jordan Klepper” on YouTube. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to blow your own despairing brains out.
It’s really dire. Swear to God, the MAGAmaniacs of Trumpistan don’t know anything about anything, and apparently never did. They’re oblivious to even the most momentous current events, unaware of the most rudimentary science, totally in the dark about what we used to call introductory geography, utterly ignorant of even the most important events of history, at a complete loss on every matter that involves an understanding of the most dumbed-down introductory economics, and hopeless at even the most simple arithmetic, like the times tables. You know, the basics, not anything of any depth or granularity. Nothing beyond what it’s reasonable to expect. I’m not asking the average guy on the subway to tell me about the South Sea Bubble, or the commercial ups and downs of the Hanseatic League; I just want him to have heard of, oh I don’t know, the Second World War. I don’t need your typical gal to explain nuclear fusion and how it works in the Sun; I’ll be happy if she can tell me whether that Sun goes around the Earth, or vice versa. That’s all.
You think I’m exaggerating the scope of the problem? Nyah-uh! Nope! The astonishing lack of basic general knowledge among modern adults can really knock your socks off. Folks these days are spectacularly ignorant. It’s as if the average American was home-schooled by a family of raccoons that took him in when he wandered away from the campsite and got lost in the woods. I shit you not. Have a look at these:
To paraphrase Churchill, never have so many known so little about so much.
It’s easy to pick on Americans of course – you rarely see Canadians cornered on the street to face such interrogation – and no doubt these interviews are somewhat cherry-picked. Still, I don’t care how selective the editing, it ought to be simply impossible to set up a camera anywhere, on any street or university campus, and find multiple adults wandering around who can’t find or even supply the name of a single country on the map, not even their own, or tell you the product of 6×8 or 3x3x3. Yet, as the videos above attest, a shocking slice of the population, including those who’ve been exposed to post-secondary education, has almost no general knowledge whatsoever. None.
It gets worse. Take their complete obliviousness to how they’re governed:
Countless polls and studies have shown that the average American citizen knows almost nothing about the Constitution or has even the most basic understanding of how the country works. For example, one study found that a third of respondents couldn’t name a right protected by the First Amendment, and a similar amount couldn’t name a single branch of government. Another study conducted way back in 1991 found that a third of Americans couldn’t recognize the Bill of Rights, with 1 in 10 having no idea why it was drafted in the first place.
They have no idea how their own political system works. They can name the Three Stooges, but not the three branches of American government. When they vote, if they vote, they may have no idea what offices they’re voting to fill, let alone what the people who hold those offices are supposed to be doing.
Moreover, it isn’t just the sheer tonnage of the things they don’t know, it’s the piles of stuff they’re sure they do understand. If you ever want to have a few sad little chuckles amid the tears, just type “stupid things Americans believe” into a handy search engine. It’s wild. In vast numbers, they believe the most transparent nonsense, about vaccines, climate change, various natural phenomena like the weather and tides, supposed “chemtrails”, whether 5G spreads disease and can kill your dog, whether the Earth is flat, you name it. Here, enjoy this small sampling.
https://list25.com/25-unbelieavable-things-americans-believe/
Nobody’s curating the information flow any more. They read any old horse shit that any rando posted on Facebook, or Twitter, and swallow it all whole.
This is where it gets dangerous, because it’s one thing when the rubes take the Flintstones as scientifically accurate, and think humans once cohabited with dinosaurs, and quite another when they start to believe falsehoods with enormous political salience. For example, the latest surveys show that a stubborn 50% of Americans still don’t believe climate change is caused by human use of fossil fuels, while a troubling minority, maybe 5-10% depending on the polls, doesn’t accept that climate change is happening at all, even as half of their country burns down while the other half floods. Far too many still believe, steadfastly, that Republicans are good fiscal managers and the Democrats run up deficits, when actually the opposite is true. They likewise believe that Republican administrations create far more jobs than the Democrats, when again, the opposite is true (and the difference in favour of the Dems over the past several decades is beyond dramatic). They believe America long ago lost all its manufacturing capacity to Asia, when in fact, American manufacturing is booming, and growing stronger, to the point that the U.S. manufacturing sector, while still trailing China, now outstrips the output of Germany, Japan, and South Korea combined. They think crime is perpetually on the rise, when in truth, after a transitory spike during the pandemic, crime of all kinds is continuing in its decades-long pattern of decline, which, after the pandemic, has accelerated. When it comes to their perceptions of crime, Americans are apt to link it to immigration, and particularly undocumented immigrants, who are supposed to be major contributors to the problem. Again, this is the complete opposite of what’s true. Immigrants, especially the undocumented variety, have no desire to draw attention to themselves in a way that would breed hostility, or even get them deported. They’re here to improve their lives, and they mean to work. Native-born Americans commit far more crime.
Most important, when evaluating Trump’s chances in the upcoming election, is that a solid majority of Americans are both ignorant of all the things the Biden administration accomplished while it still had the majorities in Congress to pass legislation, and convinced that the American economy is in tatters, and that’s all Joe Biden’s fault. They insist that inflation is out of control, that joblessness is high, and that everything is trending the wrong way. This is utter nonsense. Due in no small part to Biden’s legislative initiatives, the economy is booming, to the envy of the rest of the industrialized world. Inflation is hovering at 3%, unemployment at about 3.7% (in economic terms, this is “frictional” unemployment, meaning it represents the irreducible minimum in a capitalist society) – over 14 million new jobs were created in Biden’s first two years – the economy is growing at a healthy clip, and so are real wages. Most economists were predicting a recession for 2024. Now it looks as though Biden has brought the thing in for an almost fabled sort of “soft landing” that statistically is practically too good to be true. All the metrics have America beating the whole world on this score. Yet as Tom Nichols, sane conservative never-Trump columnist for The Atlantic writes, none of that seems to matter. It’s no longer about what’s actually happening. It’s about what people feel:
Joe Biden presides over an economic “soft landing” that almost no one thought could happen, and his approval rating drops to 33 percent—below Jimmy Carter’s in the summer of 1980, when American hostages were being held in Iran, and inflation, at more than 14 percent, was well into a second year of double digits. (Inflation is currently 3.1 percent—and likely will go lower.)…Even in casual conversations, I find myself flummoxed by people who argue, with much conviction, that America is in fact worse off, even if their own situation is better. When I respond by noting that inflation is not going up, say, or that America is at full employment, or that wages are outpacing prices, or that pay is increasing fastest for the lowest-paid workers, none of it matters. Instead, I get a response that is so common I can now see it coming every time: a head shake, a sigh, and then a comment about how everything is just such a mess.
There’s no precedent for this level of disconnect between reality and what people feel about it. It’s not normal that people are unable to see even the most fundamental realities with any clarity, or learn to suss out reliable information and distinguish it from transparent nonsense, or even use their own life experiences as a counterpoint to the propaganda with which MAGA bombards them 24/7. It seems to make no sense – and it’s certainly unsustainable – that so many are so steadfastly and cynically skeptical about almost anything that’s readily verifiable, while being all but ready to fight a new civil war to vindicate the most ridiculous lies that ever duped a credulous clot of cretins.
Calm down, you might tell me, people have always been like this, and it’s never killed us before. Oh yeah? I can’t accept that. Nossir. I refuse to believe this isn’t a new phenomenon, at least in scope. I refuse to accept that anyone could have set themselves up on a corner in 1950, or even 1990, much less wander around a contemporary university campus, and encounter dozens of random passers-by who couldn’t identify the national Capitol, or tell you the year in which the Declaration of Independence was signed, or even from which nation America was declaring independence. You can’t tell me that the modern voter doesn’t know less, on average, than those of prior generations. You can’t convince me that the typical voters of today are no more clueless than they ever were.
The simplest evidence for my point of view is that the MAGA cult, unlike any before it (on our side of the world, anyway), has reached a critical mass sufficient to change all of society, with terrifying implications for those of us who never drank the Kool-aid. You can tell me to relax, that people have always been gullible, uninformed, and prone to believe nutty things, because it’s in our nature – remember when Paul was dead? – but this time it really is different. Sure, there have been folks who fell under the sway of fraudulent messianic figures a lot like Trump all throughout history, and have wound up gathered in small rooms waiting for the Second Coming, or for a comet to come by and take their souls to a higher plane of existence. But none of those tight little groups of lost souls was anything like the MAGA cult, in scope or potential impact. If, in years gone by, people wanted to believe the Moon landing was a hoax, it wasn’t going to kill me. If they wanted to gather together periodically, and wait for the world to end at the stroke of midnight, or attend seances to talk to their dear departed, good on ’em, it was no skin off my backside. If they wanted to follow Jim Jones or David Koresh and wind up as dead as proverbial door nails, that was too bad for them, but not for me. Even Scientology, one of the largest cults of its kind, was no real threat; I wasn’t joining, and they were never going to run the whole country.
Now things are different, and much, much worse. The fringe isn’t the fringe anymore. The loons are on the cusp of warping the whole of society to better suit their twisted beliefs. L. Ron Hubbard wasn’t going to ruin my life, or threaten a cascade of calamities that could change the whole world, and America’s place in it. Trump is. That’s because he has followers not in the hundreds or thousands, but in the tens of millions, and that’s because there’s something wrong with the American electorate that was never this wrong before. Now there’s a bare minority of the entire population, verging on becoming a majority, who can’t see through a preposterous, ignorant, inarticulate, carnival-barking pile of talking pigshit like Donald. Sensing this (he may be a moron but he’s not without a certain predatory cunning), Trump in effect decided to merge Scientology with Government. It’s as if L. Ron Hubbard was running for President on the Operating Thetan Level 8 ticket. That’s really the amazing thing. Somehow, oddball conspiracy theories have become affiliated with political ideology. These days, if you think the lizard people run the world, or that a secret war pitting international pedophile rings against decent white folk is being waged in underground caverns, you’re also, almost by default, a Trump supporter.
They invent outlandish conspiracies, and then rally to Trump because he’s going to do something about them. Honestly, it’s astonishing.
This is where somebody would be bound to throw Germany in my face. The Germany in which Hitler rose to power, as is generally known, had one of the most educated populations then extant, and yet they fell for a pack of ridiculous lies even worse (so far) than those spewed by Trump and his disciples. Correct. That was different. When Hitler was on the ascendant, Germany was in real turmoil. They’d lost a World War, been through a revolution, had huge territories stripped away from their control, and were forced to pay enormous reparations to the allied powers under a humiliating Treaty of Versailles. In the early 1920s, France used a failure to make payment as an excuse to occupy the Ruhr valley. There were Communist uprisings, an attempted coup, horrendous runaway inflation caused by bad monetary policy, and such a level of factional confrontation that civil war seemed likely. A succession of unstable governments rose and fell. That was all before the Great Depression hit, and it hit Germany hard, perhaps harder than in any other country. This was a nation in desperate distress, and yes, in desperate times, even educated people seek desperate solutions. The key point is that the German people didn’t need to be tricked into thinking things were awful and getting worse; they actually were.
In America, there is no comparable crisis. There’s no real crisis at all. There are issues, sure, with immigration, wealth distribution, and lots of other things, but America has pulled out of the pandemic to find itself sitting pretty, relative to its peer nations. Now that the scourge of COVID has receded – largely an achievement of the Biden administration – there’s been a complete absence of any of the “derangement factors” that geopolitical analysts look for when predicting political and societal upheaval. By historical standards, even historical American standards, nothing in particular is wrong. People generally aren’t destitute, employment is robust, and real wages are rising. The American dollar isn’t in free fall; there’s no runaway inflation threatening monetary collapse; no foreign power is annexing American territory, or squeezing the nation for huge payments it simply can’t make; there is no bitter national humiliation to sour the mood; for the average American, things are going pretty well. Yet they’ve been fooled into thinking there’s some sort of existential disaster now reaching a climax , that immigrants are coming to replace white people, that crime is rising, and inner cities are war zones, that Biden wants to persecute Christians and turn America into a Godless hellscape, that every second adolescent is bucking for a sex change because left wing lies have convinced them they need one, that critical race theory is being pounded into the heads of kids in grade school, which is a bad thing because CRT aims to distort history so that white folk will hate themselves and their country, on and on, whatever plays, all as part of a pattern of general decline that Trump alone can fix. Why? Because Trump tells them so. To hear Donald talk, beleaguered Venezuela is doing better than America these days. Oh, right, and also the 2020 election was stolen and Trump either should be, or actually still is, the President, so clearly it’s vital to vanquish the liberal forces bent on rigging democracy. Donald says so, so that’s good enough for them. In their millions, they believe him. In their millions, they look at the corpulent, spray-tanned, stumbling, often befuddled old guy with the ridiculous comb-over, and worship him as a demi-god. And that, folks, is the hallmark of a nation with far too many people who don’t know enough to come in out the rain.
Look, I’m sorry to come off like the sort of liberal elitist snob that the MAGA crowd hates**, but America is, to an unsustainable extent, a nation of dim-bulbs and low-information marks just waiting to be duped. It boggles the mind, and I don’t know what we can do about it in the near-term. In time, a re-examination of the education system and an overhaul of curricula might improve the situation – maybe – but at this point, there is no long term. For America, the clock strikes midnight in November 2024, and nothing’s going to change in the months we have left. I’m not sure Trump will resume office, understand; I’m just not sure that he won’t, and after all that’s happened, all that people saw with their own eyes, and everything that’s true, I ought to be. I ought to be able to take comfort in Donald’s permanent political exile and eventual incarceration. But no. A great mass of Americans continues to think Trump is in it for the little guy, continues to believe that Trump achieved things he never did, insists on believing that Biden has committed grave sins that never occurred, and believes that the Democrats are “communists”, even though, manifestly, they haven’t the faintest idea what a communist even is. They’ve been hypnotized, and they’re ambling towards a cliff under the influence of the power of suggestion.
Who’s going to save us?
I’ll just leave this here:
** No I’m not, actually.
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