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What everyone glosses over and completely never see.
Is that this idiot represents the entire country.
If you have an idiot for a leader.
Logic says, your country is full of idiots.
Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid
Little did I know that the extreme low of W was actually a relatively high point.
It was less obvious because the world was less connected and not everyone had a high quality video camera in their pocket.
The media could also be relied upon to edit in a favourable manner. That's still the case today, but he can't get away from the fact that every time he shows up, people film him, because he's always going to say something stupid. The idea that he might manage to have a normal day and not say something insanely dumb, is just inconceivable.
did you live through the Bush presidency, or are you making assumptions based on the times? Because the media tore Bush to absolute shreds and painted him as a gigantic idiot.
Pretty sure the hegemonic narrative had W as savior of the planet after 911.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictionalized_portrayals_of_George_W._Bush
tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor....
he's dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).
The pale skinned subsection.
Exactly right....
You know those old cartoons that were totally not politically correct showing a bad stereotype of a Mexican, with a sombrero and a poncho, sleeping off a tequila bender under the shade of a cactus?
Well, the orange pedophile is EXACTLY the American version of that: confidently ignorant, morbidly obese, with undeserved resources, zero education, zero manners, zero culture.
We all know those stereotypes are supposed to be rude jokes barely based on any reality... I mean, there are cacti in Mexico and I am sure more than one Mexican has had a Tequila bender, but there is never the expectation you'll go to Mexico and actually see that.
And now, Muricans proved theirs not only exists, it is what they look up to apparently.
That is like France choosing this guy as their next President
The country was founded by literal enslavers. It's always been dumb AF.
I agree. The middle of the bell curve is woefully inadequate. Those dingalings.
I suppose if we've got Einstein and Hawking we must have people like Trump to balance it out.
Einstein was born in Germany and spent much of his life (including the portion where he did a lot of his most significant work) in Switzerland. He only moved to the United States towards the end of his life.
Hawking was born in the UK and lived his entire life there.