Some say Vladimir Putin is a great leader

We owe this guy a debt of gratitude for showing us what will happen to anyone who opposes Trump, if he ever gets power again.

Not the Donald himself of course because he's simply too dumb but the people pulling his strings. Like 'the Borchjt Syndicate', the Russian 'maffia' in the US. For instance the manager of one of his bankrupt casinos, Benanav, who (with a few others just before they would testify against Trump) suddenly 'experienced gravity'. I think that was in 1989.

If that is true, and the Don is simply dumb, then how could he have become president and stayed above the law for all of these decades? It defies logic. It doesn’t help that the people who vote for him only believe lies.

He's simply the puppet; the 'powers that be' made sure the famous tv personality got people with less ability to think for themselves than him, to vote for him. Or he's the best actor in the history of mankind and has been acting for decades that he can barely read, knows nothing about international politics and doesn't even have a basic grasp of some common laws of pyshics.

I don’t disagree with anything in that statement. But if you are talking about resonance he is a genius. Someone has to capitalize off of all of those people who only believe lies. It’s not about book smarts either, it’s about based logic which you need to come to reasonable conclusions. Too bad they don’t teach or test for that in school.It’s not like the Presidency is a spelling bee. Or a popularity contest.🤣

Is he though?

Or is he the same fragile narcissistic self-aggrandizing uncouth loudmouth buffoon he presents himself to be?

Yes, he kisses ass, and in the process tries to make it seem like everyone is actually kissing his. An adaptive strategy for a moronic lout born a millionaire who had to impress daddy & friends and make it in the family business despite being a constant failure who had to be sent away to a military academy because they couldn't take his unruly idiocy anymore?

By all accounts, he's always acted like a low brow nouveau riche bucket of cringe.
I grew up exposed to this guy publicizing himself since the 1970s, smearing himself all over media for some reason no one could understand, and I've yet to see a smidgen of anything to indicate otherwise. Why do you think he never ran for office locally? No one has ever taken him seriously here. We're even embarrassed to admit that he's our village idiot.

He's basically been flinging poo at the wall all his life, and somehow it's managed to stick. Well, at least recently, anyways, it's resonating with a certain demographic which pretty much only differs from him monetarily and have the same dead end shiftless perpetually stuck on their daddy issues that he does. And that's it. His TV show, did anybody ever mistake him for some master cerebral businessman? No, it was a guilty pleasure, watching him play master of ceremonies to a bunch of unashamed has-beens vying for some whatever prize for expired dunderheads.

It's not an act, it truly is the fArt of the Deal.

I don’t disagree with anything in that statement.

There was this guy, Paul, in the building I lived at, total slimebag.
Real icky - the kind you feel like pouring Purell all over yourself every time you run into him, which unfortunately, was often as he was always around the lobby and out front the building and what not. Sticky fingers, major thief, on and off drug problems, couldn't be trusted with shit. All he did was lie - even when he was saying something that actually really was the actual truth, he couldn't help but wedge in a lie somehow. It was like lying was this compulsion for him, like he couldn't help himself, another addiction. And, like most compulsive liars, amazingly sloppy at it. Pathological lying is the one thing where practice does NOT make perfect. They're always so bad at it, I have no idea why they even bother. Yet for some reason, everybody else goes along.

"Never lend Paulie your money," they'd say.

Why would I want to lend him my money?

"Oh, just never do it, I lent him $40 months ago and he still hasn't paid me back, so don't lend him any money"

What would possess me or anybody in this galaxy to let him even look at my money? Ever?

I heard this from more than one person, IN my building, and from others in the neighborhood as well.

Nobody trusted him, nobody liked him, nobody wanted to be around him. Yet somehow, they still managed to talk to him. A lot. Hung out with him, even at their own place or his. He'd get invited to all the parties! By the people that hated him!

I even saw him helping out the mailman a couple of times, and I joked about it to said mailman as in, "Careful, he's got sticky fingers." Didn't stop. Around this time, I was getting calls from collection agencies looking for neighbors of mine, some no longer living there. A lot of college students, so they weren't around long term. Put two and two together, and I'd ask these callers if these packages and credit cards just happen to be ending up in his apartment.

He had managed to con the landlords to let him be a temporary super once, which lasted an entire 2 weeks. He'd have packages that arrived for people that weren't there at the moment to be left at his apartment to give to them later. So he kept up with that even AFTER he lost the superintendent gig. Like you need to be a Sherlock to figure this out? Anyways, I contacted the post office and said the mailman was relatively new so didn't know otherwise but this guy was trouble... Heck, it's ILLEGAL for anyone else to touch the mail.

Wow! Yep, Trump is not the only one. But just one with a rich daddy who had friends in high places.

Exactly.
Already had the connections. Plus not only did Trump used to pay them to publicize himself, turns out he used to disguise his voice and pretend to be his own press agent to book himself appearances.

The smarter you are, the dumber you sound to stupid people. George w Bush was the same. He set the stage for trump.

That's Trump. That's his niche. That's his base. That's how he operates. That's how he succeeds.

There is a Paul in every apartment complex. I don’t know why, but we need Paul’s.

Not sure I would say "need," but yes, they are part of everyday 'normal' life functioning,,,

Lol

Ha! Wanted to look up 'resonance' but quickly realised it's basically the same word in my mother tongue, Dutch: resonantie. 🙄 Yes, his words and actions resonate with gullible people. A friend of mine is an entertainer and uses rather simple mind games to get his audience's attention and to let them do things (nothing too embarrassing) they normally wouldn't. Some 30% of all people is susceptible to those simple 'hypnotics'. Coincidentally around the same percentage of people worldwide that vote for (neo-) fascists: look into my eyes and repeat...'Vote me to be free. Vote me to be free...' 'Vote you to be free!' Thank you for making me realise Trump is basically like the cheap hypnotist at the county fair. Making people believe they are sheep. 😉

😂

Couldn’t help myself. 😁

You’re welcome! There’s a little more to it as well. The conservative mind is hard wired to perceive threats, when trump says that someone is a threat, their hypothalamus start sparking. Like a reflex. That means supporting Trump is an involuntary reaction.

Have noticed among the 'wappies'* I know that they all suffer from damaged amydalae, 'the voice in your head', and therefore can't distinguish between actual and imagined fears, can't tell right from wrong. Often caused by alcohol (or other drugs-) abuse, a birth defect (often seen with people who were born out of incest) or a blow to the head. Like a neighbour of mine. A perfectly reasonable person until she got in a accident, was comatose for a few days and came out 'wappie', *Dutch umbrella-term for anti-vaxxer, conspiracy-spreader, von Däniken believer, racist, supporter of right wing populists...in short: 'wappie'. From the Dutch dance scene: 'Has lost his/her way because of being overly enthousiastic with drugs'.

I’ve gotten some bonks in my day, but not to wapieville🤪. If those republican politicians told the truth they’d be thrown out of office in a day!

Also, the media hype is ridiculous. Every news outlet pretends to be against him while seeing what they can help him get away with. Same thing with all politicians and law enforcement. When you mentioned the powers that be you weren’t joking. He is the chosen one.