Why has culture degraded to the point where a guy who speaks on the level of an elementary schooler gets to become...

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I made a cat house few months back with the same kind of OSB
do they also use styrofoam for insulation?

Have you seen MS media bag of tricks?
Making stupid threads like yours amongst them, hoping the public is too goddamned stupid to see the warfare.

Its not just that he speaks like an elementary schooler. He has consistently lied, overpromised and underdelivered for nearly a decade. This is a guy of which it has been proven in the court of law that he cheated on his wife with a pornstar and paid her hush money. He actively runs jeet scams on the people he is supposed to represent, yet Americans eat his shit up. It's clear there is something deeply rotten in American culture.

Has he ever expressed an interest in anything other than himself, or his own self interests? I’ve never heard him wax lyrical about his favourite book, or film, or work of art. Even when he wasn’t president, I never heard him just shoot the shit for the hell of it. I don’t think I’ve even heard him laugh. He does a sort of rictus grin occasionally, but that’s about it. I could also never warm to a man who orders his steaks well done, and eats them with ketchup.

microsoft media?

yes yes but i was just using trump as the most egregious example. its not trump im criticizing but the shift in culture itself. its what people WANT and RELATE to.

Why has culture degraded to the point where a guy who speaks on the level of an elementary schooler gets to become the president?

The existence of rich ruling capitalist class relies on the stupidity of the people. So the system they have created - capitalism creates on purpose stupid people so the existence of the rich ruling capitalist class does not get threaten.

So their puppet the president also gave to be stupid and use elementary language to further dumb down the population.

Enjoy CAPITALISM!

Because my only other option is someone who literally cannot even tell me what a woman is.

Niggers find him relatable, whether they be white or black.

If you can't express your ideas in a simple way, you don't actually understand them. Half of your country will have a sub-100 IQ and your leader has to speak to them, as well.

You are ignoring the atmosphere and zeitgeist. The lying, the gaslighting, the hysteria. Just coming up to a podium in a 'omg save the world' event smiling and saying everything will be ok is enough. You'll be the only person who does it and you will be very popular (maybe not in that room, but overall)
This narrow example covers 'save the trees'/ the ozone/africa/ global warming/swine flu/ corona and so much more.
In a room full of politicians and car salesmen selling ambiguous ideas to abuse and lie to the public, the one using simple terms is the most honest

What is it called when bill gates buys a media company in the 90's thereafter being named msnbc?
But no, It's a Main Stream-ing.
Have you ever thought about the media before at all?

Half of your country will have a sub-100 IQ and your leader has to speak to them, as well.

I dont have a problem with this per se, but he seems to categorically ignore everyone above an iq of 90. Would be great if he actually discussed things in depth using words longer than a few syllables. There's that one ancient interview he did for Playboy where he conducted himself like a decently smart person but thats been nowhere to be seen for a decade.

I think that's what makes him appealing to people. People are NOT cultured so he is one of them. They don't read books or like art. They also like well done steak with ketchup and it's refreshing that someone like Trump doesn't try to hide it.

Because the self-proclaimed intelligentsia isn't doing anything to address any of the problems they themselves created. So the populism is on the rise, and this is a historical normal. What puts you off is the crudeness of it but it has to do with the screen addicted podcast listening tiktok watching average Joe that populism with modern characteristics has to appeal to.
Hope this helps.

Notice how you don't go beyond the eighties? One of the great political amusements is the media declaring Senator Obama one of the greatest speakers of all time then listening to his pathetic umm, uh,umm,err,umm,umm,uh speeches thereafter.

Anon look around you. The world is dumber as a whole. Zoomers are one bad sun tan away from being no different than niggers. We're hitting the great filter of society and it's that stupid people out breed the intelligent ones 5 to 1

HOLY SHITTING is real that american make home with twig and paper???

The left in every Western nation, including yours, props up non-Whites. It only goes so far before you have to bring down the Whites to equalize. Common Core, for instance, was designed with the intention of lowering proficiency of math for White students.

Because white people in America have slid down to the anti-intellectualism level of niggers over last few decades.

Answering why that happened is complex but it has to do with social media and the ascendency of the "influencer" as the most aspirational profession.

Far too many people realized that school was pointless because the best case scenario you become a surgeon just to earn $600k/year at age 30 when some dumbass 19 year old influencer made millions from doing stupid shit.

Basically far too many people realized that life is really a lottery and that just broke the culture.

Re asserting values should be real easy then

He's spent most of his life dealing with people in the real estate and construction industries. The main problem is that the politicians who present themselves as intelligent talk a lot without saying anything. Another problem is that many of the hard truths which need to be said will come across as crass, anyway.

I agree completely. Leaving actual politics aside: The last somewhat eloquent President was Obama. Bush, before him, was equally a total oaf, but prior to Bush, I don't remember any US Presidents speaking like children.
Biden was the worst though.

Hey, watcha eating Mr. President?

uuhhh doi... choclik chocklick CHIPBP ???!?

Awwww he's so sweet

It's the same in Germany, by the way, all our politicians are complete imbiciles except for a few exceptions. What surprises me is that a lot of US Senators are actually quite gifted.

L.A Noire arson desk was a documentary

I will accept this as a legit post only if you state your opinion on the previous American president and how he conducted himself as the POTUS.

Why not talk intelligent and at the same time, actually get shit done?
JD Vance seems like the kind of guy who will end up like that.

All true

"Come across as crass"

...AND that the media is playing 'gotcha' and 'worst sound bite' since forever
If they bring up some 'alepo' the correct response is to mock them immediately. Regardless of what you know or not

And also because social media gave a window into how good the ultra-rich really have it. Before, it was all behind tall hedges and closed doors, you'd see glimpses of it in Hollywood but you wouldn't really believe it because it was Hollywood. Then the ultra-rich actually put a camera into their lives and people realized there's only a few people who are really living and the rest are just NPCs.

Did you forget the US is an open borders illegal immigrant pigsty and has been since the 1800's?

he was a senile old man who should have retired 10 years before his term. again, this isnt a criticism of trump per se - he seems capable of conducting himself as an intelligent person when needed to - but rather the persona that he is successfully selling and that is incredibly popular.

Everyone is basically passively suicidal because they feel their own mediocrity like never before, that's why they keep voting for anarchy. Brexit, Trump, plummeting marriage and birth rates, all just the symptoms of a deeper ennui.

For a Republican, there's no benefit. The media will try to twist anything the Republicans say, so the only solution is to say things as plainly as possible. Also, the elites fucked over our communities for a long time, so there's little trust in those types. They sent our jobs overseas, flooded our neighborhoods with illegal aliens, made opioids as common as candy, let the criminals roam free and taxed us more for the experience.

Truth is like cooking
You can't just put a bunch of fact and feelings in a blender to create redpill

Trust in mainstreaming media isn't coming back. Alternative media isn't much better, though. Human symptom and all that.

No, the others were just consistently less honest and effective.
Pretense got overvalued and actual intelligence waned long before Trump he's just a brrath of fresh air since he doesn't/can't pretend to be better than he is.

This
To you i say:
You're essentially correct, but look deeper, it took some 'doing' to get here, notice everybody in Hollywood/gaming/TV/sport is doing unpopular political garbage? For years they are shitting on the crowd and "succeeding"... I don't believe its just 'happening' on it's own

The longer you can remember culture back the more mindbreaking it seems today.
"Just say no", "this is your brain on drugs"....
Even leftie psyops... Go watch the movie Hair. Its a fucking leftist musical and it's a masterpiece 10/10 lol
When the psyop was having a cool badass black fren kek, but no one dared show a mixed couple

Why has culture degraded to the point where a guy who speaks on the level of an elementary schooler gets to become the president?

Did you not see who he ran against?

Trump comes across as more authentic when he speaks in simple terms, as opposed to liberals that try to speak in fancy words, muddy the waters as much as possible, say nothing, and still somehow grossly lie about everything.
Now Trump is also lying about a lot of things, but compared to people like Kamaloo and Bidet, it's obvious why people would prefer his style.

You now know how liberals feel. Any reasonable and intelligent person cannot stand to listen to Trump talk because he is an unbelievable fucking dumbass and so are his supporters.

Liberal politicians speaking eloquently (very rare thing, by the way) doesn't change the fact that liberal beliefs and policies ignore reality, because they're retarded.

Rather, liberals are accustomed to presidents massaging their egos and being told how everything is going to be okay in an extremely vague "obey" type propaganda way. It helps that liberals are almost entirely illegal immigrant parasites from europe and the third world that have bought into the FDR new deal socialism completely and want to turn the US into Germany.

Typical progressive nonsense, the same kind of nonsense that lead to the civil war.

"How has culture degraded to the point where the agonistic man has to submit to ridiculous credentialist notions?" Would be more appropriate a question. It is a ridiculous idea to use culture instead of life as the standard for men, or even to conceive it in such a utilitarian way.

What a compiling argument to be in a furnace.

>Truth is like cooking.

Get in the furnace already

It's a real conundrum because people can't wake up to reality. People try to find equivalences where there are none. No US president has been quite this dumb. Nixon is a downright saintly genius in comparison. Even Hoover was kind of okay in comparison. Hoover's biggest problem was being faced with unprecedented calamity. Trump is doing unprompted and unforced errors.

Nigger, Trump in himself is a vast improvement in the brain department over the last US president. Address your selective memory

Even the demented old man was better than Trump. You are the one being selective here, for obvious reasons.

You merely embraced the oven, I was BORN in it, MOLDED by it....

Better in what way? In being locked away from the public and in being shadow governed, barely keeping up with the teleprompter? Are you actually going to die on this hill?

the content does not matter that much. just because he's retarded and narcissistic, he can't help but generate the cycle:

violates norms

tv reports on norm violation

tv does not report on other competition that did not violate norms

repeat

yeah its that easy to get more airtime and guarantee you are by far the most familiar candidate if you have prior recognizability.
that's how bibi became president too btw. lots of airtime to make him seem like a trustworthy figure. but that was before all norms of decency got eroded. if kahane was alive nowadays he would have been voted president easily, he'd be a tiktok machine. he was just early

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Trump has to talk in the dumbest repeating way possible because the media will hack up what he says and make him say that he loves sucking the sweat out of putin's underwear

Biden was a fucking senile fuck that said nonsense. His thoughts were still coherent enough that you could follow it through his constant gaffes.
Trump is still leagues below him. It's really staggering you even try to pull the comparisons. There's no equivalence except in the minds of actual fucking shills that you probably interact with all the time. Actually listen to Trump speak. He's a moron. The US is running off a cliff. Even if I viewed US-Russia relations as important, his string of disasters would be enough of a fumble to outdo that.

That would be a good line if what he said made sense. It's not simplified, it's stupid nonsense.

Giving the internet to rural Americans and Indians was a mistake

So you discovered democracy OP. Nice job. Retard.

You btfo'd his argument immediately and now he has to gaslight that you are the delusional one it's just how doods like him operate!! Otherwise he has to gradually acknowledge the foundational for all his thought is propaganda fed to him by lib media!!!

I've never heard him say anything nonsensical unless he revealed things he had been talking about in private

Like the wildfires, he was told that california doesn't do any brush clearance to save money so the politicians can embezzle it. He took that as "they don't rake up the leaves in the woods". He had the general idea but it was in his own understanding. This is what happens when you have a president that doesn't have somebody write a script for every public appearance

If you can't explain something simply then you don't understand what you're saying.

So you're listening to media's take on Trump and going full partisan on it. At least don't parrot talking points and pretend they are your own if you're making a case. I'm saying listen to Trump speak. Don't give any media a chance to spin it, listen to the guy himself.

you act like people sounding smart will some how excuse them from acting like white people are racist, I litterally called a black person that acts like a white person an orea and this guy was trying to tell me it's offensive while being a half black jew

Yes most americans listen to his speeches in full instead of waiting for the media to chop it up and edit them. The media has basically lost all viewership

not orea a oreo

Then, you're stupid too. I'm sorry, there comes a point when you have to smell the coffee.

Can you give an example of something that triggered you? I will admit he must be pretty hard to understand for an ESL. Even native speakers below 100 IQ start drooling when he talks

Trump is even honest about using slogans and phrases and taking advice as to how to create those political waves where him and his audience are on the same page. It helps if everyone is on board with the 'bumper sticker' slogan. Welcome to politics

You're misreading the situation HARD. I have a solution. Let's both agree to remember what we're thinking now and re-evaluate it in 3 years.

Yuo haven't actually said anything about the content of what he said. Yuo jsut said "he sounds dumb". I think what you're talking about is his unscripted way of talking, when he's not giving essentially a campaign speech so that the media has a harder time spinning what he says, he's talking off the cuff about real policy decisions behind the scenes. He even gives you insight into decisions he hasn't made yet.

For a non native speaker who is used to "obey, consume" political press conferences I can see how difficult it would be to follow.

Make America Great Again
America first
Lock her up
"... Because you'd be in jail"
ONLY Rosie O'Donnell
"Reciprocal Tariffs"
"...is that supposed to be a bad thing?"
...and so much more.
Sometimes he gets lucky, sometimes baiting a retard works and everyone calls it 5D chess because they just want you to win.

Please read my mentally ill histrionic fan fiction

You're demanding those examples to make a point. That's an idiotic point, based on your misreading of the situation.
There's a point where you're questioning something I have plenty of examples for, and the mountain of examples just makes it obvious you're not beholden to reality. The entire 1 hour speech he had on 2.4.2025 is hilariously idiotic.

But, I have the solution. Are you afraid of being hold accountable to reality? If not, you should have no issue just remembering what you're saying and revisiting it later. I'll do the same.

honestly I think key states elections got hacked.

Tariffs are good.

You mean where he talks about how FDR was a failed president and kept us in a depression with his socialist money printing

Were the plastic motherfuckers with perfect hair and only said shit that the "polls" approved actually good for you? They weren't for us.

That's the problem with the speeches. He has numerous IDIOTIC speeches. So I just ask you to listen to the guy. Don't pay attention to how he says it, listen to what he says. That's when you realize why so many people are so intent on paying attention to what he does instead of what he says.

Yeah I think it's interesting that he knows about 1890's economic policies and how he calls Wilson's income tax retarded, and FDR a faield president

He's one step away from pointing out how JFK and LBJ ruined the country

There's a big difference between senility and low baseline intelligence.

bro just look at his tariff announcement. a bogus fomula applied to a chatgpt-ass generated list of countries, including uninhabited islands. what he said? just look at the presentation, where he reads the chart, and the chart. it's ALL arbitrary bullshit and the tariffs are NOT reciprocal, in fact they calculated the tariffs in a way that it does not matter at all what the other country is tariffing US goods, the trade barriers are BS, it's all fake all of it.
vietnam does not buy anything from the US (they are poor), they export a lot of clothes and low quality cheap shit to you. they do not have tariffs on the US and are also a key natural ally against china. yet using this ridiculous trade deficit formula to calculate tariffs, you tariff them 49% and nuke their economy, forcing them into the hands of china. congrats, you are retarded and you made your situation a lot worse with zero benefit because of your deficient reasoning ability. your credibility as a country is shot btw, everyone seeks to decouple from an unreliable, erratic state actor like the US

He doesn't really give that many speeches. He's just talking. He has conversations with his audience and muses over his bullet points. Only the big stuff like SOTU are actual speeches...and even then, he breaks off a bit.
I don't believe you when you say the policies don't matter. You're full complete shit. Everything he says is just anti-globalist related. You wouldn't be mad if you weren't so attached to that failed worldview in the first place.

He literally says he includes "currency manipulation and trade barriers" in the figures, which is why his tariffs are only "half" of what the chart says.

I'll take 'grab them by the pussy' over 'those jobs are never coming back'

eat shit chang

Tariffs work
The jobs are coming back
Americans are going to work at them and get paid good wages

Education is really poor in america. They can't even do math anymore apparently.

Also after trump announced a 46% tariff on vietnam, vietnam proposed a 0% free trade deal with the US.

How does vietnam have "no tariffs on the US" like you said if the vietnamese want to "remove all tariffs on the US"?

He speaks to them like they are retards and they all love him for it.

You're implying this is not what politicians have been doing in general, meaning you're one of the retards and the worst kind of retard, the midwit who thinks he's not a retard.

Because his opponent was literally a black whore who sucked the cock of the most powerful politician in California to become District Attorney, Attorney General and a member of the US Senate and thus capable of running for president, losing before our nomination elections system even began but putting her on the short list to be the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States. Once "elected" that party, whose highest moral value is the worshipping of niggers,fags, roasties committed to endless infanticide and trannies could not conceivably avoid allowing her to succeed Joe Biden, who was a mentally incapable of even faking being a functioning human being anymore. That's how.

I made a cat house few months back with the same kind of OSB

You probably don't like your cat: that shit's poisonous.

do they also use styrofoam for insulation?

You DEFINITELY don't like your cat.

Everyone who becomes president speaks on the level of a grade schooler anon. Its because the people coaching them point out that's how you get the most people to hear you. Even if you assume the entire population is smart there is no guarantee you have their attention when they hear a sound bite. You might only get a percentage of their attention.

Oh my god you dumb retarded mutt I will never reclaim the time lost replying, trying to reason with an absolute moron. That's what's bullshit, there are no trade barriers there is no currency manipulation it's BULLSHIT you're buying it and you don't even realize. It's just (imports - exports)/imports for all countries.

that's what they said to the orange retard to hand him a free win to sell to retards like you. it does not matter what tariffs the vietnam has on the US. first of all they don't import shit from you. second, the formula for calculating tariffs does not take into account the tariffs imposed to the US by the other party

retards retards retards retards retards retards
terminal MAGA brain, and these people believe others are NPCs jesus christ

The media coverage of what he says is always, reliably far more idiotic than anything he says.
The example that sticks with me is when I watched a press conference about a report made by experts about the possible ways to deal with covid. Trump tried to use simple language to describe complex things and midwit retards and the midwit retard media are still repeating the lie that he suggested drinking bleach. The media apparently didn't even glance at the actual content of the report.

Who gives a fuck about Vietnam itself. It's to deter Intel from making shit there. Nobody gives a fuck about clothes.
If other countries were smart, they'd do the same. For example, Marshall amps in the UK. They practically have nothing left in England. They build most of it in Vietnam. But it's pretty much too late for them now. They just got bought out by a Chinese firm just a few months ago. This is globalism. Destroy iconic shit and all the workers in your own culture just for a quick buck.

it does not matter what tariffs the vietnam has on the US

So they DO have tariffs on the US, and by trump tariffing them they want to remove them? That's a win is it not?

they don't import shit from the US

so then why should the US import shit from them?

You can't even pretend to think. Absolutely mindless nigger.

I agree with this. The media environment is horrendous. It's running baffling attacks on Trump and even more baffling defense of his words. That's why I say skip the media blathering, take it straight from the horse's mouth.

There are serious reports behind most of the soundbytes. Tariffing Fentanyl is obviously impossible but turns out there's a report about Fentanyl precursors being diverted through Canada after they were tariffed in Mexico. Any slightly competent media faggot could look into these things and clarify the meaning to midwit retards like they did for Biden but instead they all play this pretend game that the most simplified language is all there is to any of it. The president can't recite complex reports, he has to quickly talk about the gist while reaching as many as possible, including the least educated.
Cambodia doesn't have 100% tariffs but the only way to counter the market conditions as a whole and discourage manufacturing for the US market to move there is 100% tariffs.

Why has culture degraded to the point where a guy who speaks on the level of an elementary schooler gets to become the president?

I watch interviews from 80s, 70s, 60s and 50s all the time and just about everyone seems so much more worldly and civilized than him.

You and I both know the answer to this. The reality of the matter is that Americans have gotten a lot stupider in the last few decades and the politicians who speak on their level will get the vote.

Another valid theory is that Americans were always this stupid, but the internet has enabled the idiots to get past the gatekeeping and become a force to be reckoned with in public discourse. People who recognized the potential this market (Trump) will continue to win.

You want someone who talks with the diction of a university professor and cites theory, philosophy, culture, and history as reasoning for his well-detailed and innovative policies? You'll need people with such an iron grip on power that things like elections are not even a factor, like Lee Kuan Yew or MBZ.

Instead of despairing that we are not ruled by philosopher kings, rejoice that you can see things for what they are and improve yourself.

I actually understand the model being used. It calculates reduced imports thanks to tariffs. The model is used in an inverse manner with coefficients left completely unjustified. Those coefficients aren't constants between different goods and countries, either. Defending it is borderline delusional.
I respect your opinion less for being so adamant about defending it. What separates confidence from insecure delusion is accepting reality.

Because you are black dumb nigger that's why.
You love this system aren't you ? Hmmm ? Love niggers, love arabs, love jews, it's new heaven for you i know troon i know.... but not for rest of us. So go back and enjoy a sniffing glue in your troon shack and let others be alone.

Love niggers, love arabs, love jews, it's new heaven for you i know troon i know.... but not for rest of us. So go back and enjoy a sniffing glue in your troon shack and let others be alone.

i speak like this and sound like this

True and embarrassed.

Amerimutts are reaching terminal brainrot. At least in Idiocracy they got dumb on a genetic level first, but in le current year minds are just rotted, and the main vector of rot was the team spirit of my team = always good, other team = always bad. Nothing shocks them, the team spirit has taken over their minds so profoundly that their supreme leader could say he loves Iran and Chyna now and they'd say they love Iran and Chyna too now. They believe in nothing except their team. Their leader's only needed skill is to cheerlead them, to whip them into a frenzy, to stir up their fervor. He doesn't need to be competent in any way, to ever say anything true nor make any good move.

lel, based

Black criminals are like he’s one of us!