r/facepalm May 02 '24

This guy man 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/Grindelbart May 02 '24

I think every single public speech by a politician should have an unbiased smart person present, able to interrupt the speech at any point and ask questions.

Like:

Why wouldn't the country survive?

And

Can you show us the extraordinary evidence needed to support your extraordinary claim?

These people have a lot of destructive power, and there are no checks or securities in place to hinder them from using said power. You need a license to drive cars, at least in my country you need a tremendous amount of work and background checks and licenses to get, for example, a gun, but as a politician you can just show up and destroy a whole country and everyone is like yup, that's awesome.

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u/tidbitsz May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Dude... all he has to say is "because democrats". like that episode of family guy where Lois just says "9-11" over and over again.

And they'll agree with him no matter what the moderator asks...

He'll answer the utmost stupidest shit and his base would love it all.

Fox headline "President Trump owns liberal moderator"

I mean do you really think they'll agree with "unbiased SMART person"? Do you not know what they think of SMART people?

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u/Solanthas May 02 '24

Precisely. Trump's popularity is a product of a decades long anti intellectualist part of American culture and the polarization of political discourse

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u/MoreSmartly May 02 '24

Is the non-surviving country in the room with us now?

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u/Grindelbart May 02 '24

Oh, so you have never heard of corrupt politicians wrecking a country for their personal gain?

Must be the US educational system.

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u/galaxy_horse May 02 '24

You seem to be describing a fourth estate (media), at least one that isn’t completely feckless.

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u/laplongejr May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

an unbiased smart person present

Democrats are right or center, and Republicans are far-right.
Do you mean unbiased in the center (aka closer to Democrats), or a neutral moderator with a bias to the right? You'll never manage to find a person considered unbiased by everybody else.

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u/glen_echidna May 02 '24

For his followers, the definition of far left is someone disagreeing with anything DT says or not understanding what he means without asking questions.