Why is he able to continue dismantling the country? Because a significant number of people support what he is doing in some way or another.

Why do they support him? Because his messaging, as inane as it is, resonates with a lot of people who genuinely see him as a strong, confident leader.

Why do they see him as a strong confident leader? Because he talks and acts like a schoolyard bully, and a lot of people mistake overcompensating for insecurity as confidence.

It’s not going to work on all of his supporters, but just like with the Epstein Files (WHICH HE STILL HAS NOT RELEASED), if some chunk of his supporters see the emperor is naked, it erodes the mystique. Fact-checking him is useless because Trumpism is all about feelings–at least SOMEONE is realizing this and taking advantage of it.

1 energy = 1 money

🙏 🤲 🙏 🤲 👀

Trade me some energy and you’ve got a deal lol

Yeah, Energy + Money needs to be like your first 5 years out of university, assuming you landed a good job. Most of my adult life has felt like a full money bar, but empty time and energy.

Here’s to getting old I guess, so at least I can have some time again! 🍻

Regular people have no problem being called weird (in fact, a lot of us actively celebrate our weirdness), but a fascist movement simply falls apart without the solid conviction that they’re the only sane and normal ones.

Somehow I had never made this connection until just now! It always struck me that just calling them “weird” seemed so effective, since it’s not even really an insult, but this makes complete sense.