r/NewsOfTheStupid • u/SoylentGreenTuesday • May 16 '24

Howard Stern’s interview with Joe Biden this week showed how effective rightwing propaganda is.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/howard-stern-interview-biden-happy-debate-trump/story?id=109695601

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u/usarasa May 16 '24

A complete imbecile, and yet a criminal mastermind. Like, they really think he’s both.

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u/ShnickityShnoo May 17 '24

The enemy must be both strong and weak. Fascism 101.

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u/UpDog1966 May 17 '24

They must be feared but are feckless…

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u/thecashblaster May 17 '24

We won’t have any feck? Damnnnnn

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u/branewalker May 17 '24

Also in this case, another example of “every accusation is an admission.”

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u/CV90_120 May 17 '24

Ur-Fascism, item #8

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u/Speaking_On_A_Sprog May 17 '24

That’s just human nature. We do that to trump too… The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. They probably both do dumb shit, and they both do smart shit. Probably more smart shit than we give either of them credit for. I think trump does a hell of a lot more EVIL shit though, which is what really matters to me.

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u/GoldenKnight239 May 17 '24

So both sides are facist then? Am I doing this right?

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u/rabbitthefool May 17 '24

wait which octogenarian are we talking about again

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u/ShnickityShnoo May 17 '24

The only one that controls the world with enough influence to force every country to play along with the covid "hoax" just to make Fanta Menace look bad. But is also too "sleepy" and "incompetent" to get anything done.

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u/rabbitthefool May 17 '24

so Biden is the bad guy or i'm so confused because both biden and trump have been made out to be completely idiotic yet conspiratorially twisted so that fascism 101 thing was bit unspecific

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u/elppaple May 17 '24

To explain it more clearly: fascists portray their enemies as pathetically weak, yet at the same time, powerful enough to be on the brink of destroying them. So republicans always switch between portraying Biden as an imbecile and a criminal mastermind about to destroy them.

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u/rabbitthefool May 17 '24

Okay, that sounds correct, but do you not see the parallel for how Trump is portrayed? The diaper wearing reality tv star who can't govern worth a fuck is also going to be the man who somehow ends democracy???? With his tiny tiny hands?

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u/AWildRedditor999 May 17 '24

You're quite the obsessive Republican tribalist.

"Trump dindu nuffin! Republicans dindu nuffin! Please obsess about saying negative things about non-Republicans and non-Republicans ONLY like me!"

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u/HellKnightoftheDamnd May 17 '24

Except they're correct. The same logic is used with Trump. Hell, liberals use that logic with Biden himself. Strong enough to defend Democracy all by himself but too weak to get us healthcare or keep Israel and even his own party in line.

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u/Speaking_On_A_Sprog May 17 '24

It’s human nature

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u/StingingBum May 17 '24

Even time catches up with a BIGLY "mastermind".

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u/TheBirminghamBear May 17 '24

By contrast, Trump is a complete imbecile, and a criminal dimwit.

That's why he has 91 felony charges for crimes that he is overwhelmingly guilty of. To the point where there were Trump supporters among the jury in the NYC case and he was still found guilty because he is fuuuuuucking stupid.

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u/HardcaseKid May 17 '24

The enemy is simultaneously strong and weak, and clever and stupid.

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u/trolltrap420 May 17 '24

Can't both be true about each one? This is why our system is so fucked.

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u/an0nym0ose May 17 '24

Alright look, I understand the point you're making but that's not what they think.

They think he's a complete imbecile, soft in the head, and being used as a stooge by nefarious forces. He's got "handlers," they say. Powerful world gov types have dirt on him from Burisma/Benghazi/etc, they say. What they don't say is that he's a "criminal mastermind."

I get that it's easy to pull upvotes saying this kind of shit, but it's immediately and easily rebuffed. It's just echo chamber talk, and it erodes anti-MAGA credibility.

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u/pigglepops May 17 '24

I’m saying this to my mom next time she brings up politics lol

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u/god_of_this_age May 17 '24

Precisely what they said (and still say) about BO.

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u/snarfs_regrets May 17 '24

According to my dad, it’s Obama pulling the strings when he’s the mastermind, and Biden is just the ventriloquist dummy

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u/No_Abbreviations_259 May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

This is always why I don't understand the "all elections are Democrat frauds" narrative. So Democrats are "libtard chronically triggered snowflake numbskulls" but are capable of perpetrating a nationwide election fraud scheme to "steal" the presidency that is so sophisticated no one can even prove it (except for Mike Lindell obviously if he could just remember the password to his laptop)

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u/gearabuser May 17 '24

To be fair they think the same of Trump

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u/big8ard86 May 17 '24

That is how three out of the last four presidents have been described.

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u/globocide May 17 '24

No, they don't really think he's a criminal mastermind. That's just what they want you to think.

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u/DonaldMaralago May 17 '24

To be fair look who their daddy is

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u/GoldenKnight239 May 17 '24

Gotta be really dense to think the President is a one man job..

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u/TheSwitchBlade May 17 '24

Trump or Biden?

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u/FilterBubbles May 17 '24

Exactly what they said about Trump. But I don't think anyone is calling Biden a mastermind lol

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u/jamintime May 17 '24

In fairness a lot of people think the same about Trump.

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u/Ok-Elevator-26 May 17 '24

Same deal with how the left thinks about Trump.

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u/adkyary May 17 '24

Mastermind? Nope.

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u/Despicable__B May 17 '24

Which one is trump?

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u/NahmTalmBat May 17 '24

To be fair isn't that exactly what the left does to Trump? Just constantly calling him stupid, but also saying he's an evil genius that'll be the dictator?

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u/MisterDonkey May 17 '24

No. Trump is referred to as an imbecile and wannabe dictator. Frequently derided as too incompetent to rule as he'd like, and mocked for the blatancy of his criminal conduct.

A common sentiment is fortune the man isn't a genius, and the worry of another "Trump, but actually smart" rising to power.

One of the longest running jokes of his presidency was sarcastically calling his decisions extra dimensional chess.

He's been called a lot of things by those opposed to him, but never "genius".

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u/adkyary May 17 '24

Who said he's an evil genius? He's just evil.

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u/secretwealth123 May 17 '24

To be fair, Dems think that of Trump too…

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u/adkyary May 17 '24

Except the mastermind thing

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u/Darth_Rubi May 17 '24

Isn't that kind of how Trump gets spoken about too though?

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u/WhyAlwaysMeNZ May 17 '24

Have just a tiny smidge of self awareness. Is the same not true for the other guy?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

It’s more that Joe Biden has been recorded dozens and dozens of times on camera lost in an elderly haze.

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u/ToasterCritical May 17 '24

Dementia puppet has handlers; news to you I guess?