this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
1199 points (96.9% liked)

News

23014 readers
6 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Former President Donald Trump's supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only way you can control people is to lie to them.

and...

If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.

-- L. Don Trumppard

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least Hubbard could form a complete sentence.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That part is genuinely the most baffling part to me. Like, I can see why somebody would fall into the cult of a really charismatic leader, a great public speaker that gets to your emotions etc.

But I can't decipher half the shit that man says. He's not just incapable of forming a proper sentence with a point, but he also has a terrible speaking voice, making his incoherent ramblings even harder to understand when not transcribed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

He says the offensive stuff that's been repressed for 60 years on the political stage. Trump could use the N-word with a hard R and his polls would go up.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

His transcribes are incoherent. His speeches are like listening to music. You don't even know all the words, but you get the feeling. That's all they are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

...for example.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A verbal masterpiece. One for the history books.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Japanese translators hate him!

No, really, they hate him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

One for the history books. Right next to the Declaration of Independence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who ever said this ought to be president!

  • Trump voters 2016
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Biden is senile!"

  • Trump voters NOW
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It does sound like some of the boomers I know when they just talk. Like my mom will ramble on like that. My friend's mom, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like listening to Rob Zombie

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clinton is a great example. Great speaker, knew everyone's name, talked in broad generalities. He and Obama are two of the best republican presidents of modern times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

He couldn't do much because of the do nothing congress, but the things he did do other than some health care reform were pretty regressive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm from the future year 3023, we have cloned Sylvester Stallone and genetically modified him to somehow have an even harder to discern speech pattern than he has in your time. He is our great leader, bow before your incoherent God!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard that towards the end his drug use broke his writing ability. Does that make you feel better?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No, but thank you for trying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He said in the 1980s he considered running as a democrat.