24th October 2016, 9:28 PM
It isn't enough to make stuff up. Presentation is everything. The key to his strategy is saying his claims as though he's bringing up something he and his audience were already talking about earlier, something that's already a settled subject that's accepted by everyone. That, as far as I can tell, is what makes him so unique. I mean, you know how those creepy clowns are all dragging Hillary supporters into the woods these days. I mean yeah, you know that, but what if I were to tell you they were eating them once they dragged them there?
I'm still under the distinct impression that Trump is such an egomaniac that he believes just about everything he says, but now I'm starting to think I got taken in by that delivery style. He at least SEEMED totally and absolutely convinced of what he was saying, even if it was easily demonstrably false. The man made his entire living convincing people to give him money in spite of his massive string of failures. It's no wonder his go-to strategy right now is claiming the system is against him.
That last part, that's the part that's really worrying. I won't go so far as some who think a civil war is looming (the US government happens to have too much military might for ANY militia to ever take them on), but I am expecting riots and acts of violence. Here's a piece of advice: don't put a Hillary bumper sticker on your car. I mean, that goes without saying for me (you already must have suspected I'm the sort who considers campaign bumper stickers utterly incapable of changing minds, and besides I prefer to keep my personal beliefs to myself in public instead of plastering them on my means of transportation), but for safety's sake, consider, like, just NOT putting that sticker on your car. I'm pretty sure the campaign will survive without it. If you already stuck it on there (you did, didn't you?) then I'd go ahead and cover it up with, I dunno, Calvin peeing on the ISIS logo or something. Just... something innocuous. Doesn't really matter who wins, just do it before you reenact a scene from the start of a zombie movie against your will.
I'm still under the distinct impression that Trump is such an egomaniac that he believes just about everything he says, but now I'm starting to think I got taken in by that delivery style. He at least SEEMED totally and absolutely convinced of what he was saying, even if it was easily demonstrably false. The man made his entire living convincing people to give him money in spite of his massive string of failures. It's no wonder his go-to strategy right now is claiming the system is against him.
That last part, that's the part that's really worrying. I won't go so far as some who think a civil war is looming (the US government happens to have too much military might for ANY militia to ever take them on), but I am expecting riots and acts of violence. Here's a piece of advice: don't put a Hillary bumper sticker on your car. I mean, that goes without saying for me (you already must have suspected I'm the sort who considers campaign bumper stickers utterly incapable of changing minds, and besides I prefer to keep my personal beliefs to myself in public instead of plastering them on my means of transportation), but for safety's sake, consider, like, just NOT putting that sticker on your car. I'm pretty sure the campaign will survive without it. If you already stuck it on there (you did, didn't you?) then I'd go ahead and cover it up with, I dunno, Calvin peeing on the ISIS logo or something. Just... something innocuous. Doesn't really matter who wins, just do it before you reenact a scene from the start of a zombie movie against your will.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)