I can’t take anything the guy says seriously. I’m amazed he’s lasted this long in the political world. Total clown
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Sure. But that wasn't my point really.
What I'm saying is that there are an awful lot of people who seem unable to process non-verbal cues. This is problematic in itself, regardless of whether they misinterpret what Trump says, or it's another person's comments.
Reflecting a little bit more on it, I actually would be happy to believe that it's a willing and selective inability to understand humor only applied to people they dislike, like Trump or Tucker. That would be a lot more reassuring.
And by the way: it's not people who "don't get" Trump or Tucker. A LOT of conservatives do the same with people on the other side they dislike. It's just that people like Biden or Kamala, or many political commentators on the left generally speaking interestingly seem to be unable to use the same type of wit and humor when they express themselves, so there is less space for such misinterpretations.
does that mean that you take serious what the other politicians say?
Good question. Take the new UK prime minister Keir Starmer. I didn’t vote for him but he’s clearly a serious man. So I think a fair amount of what he says can be respected, however I’m under no illusion that politicians are largely powerless in the bigger broken system.
I just read that the guy you propose as a model for trustworthiness labels protesters of murders indiscriminately as right wing extremists and threatens them for protesting, heavily increases mass surveillance, and so on. I doubt that this where the promises that got him elected. Maybe it‘s not the lies that you dislike about Trump but his positions.
Don't underestimate the Brits' ability to willingly vote for some who is very explicitly telling he's going to ride them harder than anything they've experience before...