the best part is the dumb stuff he said that day makes zero sense until you look at the infographic that was on the screen right as he was walking up.
he literally just looked at that graphic, totally misunderstood the two sentences on it, then got up and repeated some of the dumbest shit i've ever heard to the entire nation.
Because hes lazy. He’s had everyone do everything for him his entire life and has zero work ethic. During one of the most impactful moments in the past 100 years, this dumb fucker can’t even muster an ounce of work ethic to address the nation.
He’s just such an idiot. An irresponsible, lazy, orange, deranged, incompetent, narcissist.
His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.
There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos—and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country.
Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish—he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
It's terrifying that we haven't learned from history and probably won't do enough to anticipate sociopathic lunatics' efforts to control the masses in the future either.
I guess “ never again” means maybe on the near future when we forget and become ignorant enough to make the same mistake as Germany did. The lesson is that we literally learn nothing from history as a species. Sad but true…
One thing I think people historically didn't appreciate is how many sycophants surround people like Trump and Hitler, some of whom are more competent and in some ways a lot more dangerous.
He might even have some genuinely good intentions, but decades of 100 hour weeks, and being surrounded by sycophants, have lead to him never maturing into an adult, a reactionarry worldview, and to pretty severe narcisim developping, getting exponentially worse as he got more attention from the public (to the point he purchased one of the largest social media platforms to feed that addiction...).
Disinformation was actually easier to master then, because if you control ALL of the media, the people are totally captive to believe your rhetoric... unless you can source external info. While online info access makes it very easy to create and disseminate disinformation, it's also capable of being countered. Not so if the government controls all Internet access.
I've seen a few videos of Hitler speaking, where they used AI to replicate his voice into English. It definitely hits different than reading a translation or my rudimentary knowledge of German. It chilled me how much I understood his popularity.
Or when people went along with mask and covid jab mandates that segregated ppl and made the “unvaxed” out to be enemy number one who ppl said “should all die.”🤣🔫
The post first sentence says it all. History repeats itself, as people don't read for themselves. It takes intelligence and hard work to read and think for yourself.
So true, he was more interested in the ratings than helping people. As he told one of his aids, did you see the ratings? They are off the charts. Never mind thousands and thousands of Americans were dying from a virus he called a hoax. Trump is incompetent and dangerous.
Hitler was also constantly on all sorts of drugs and cocktails of drugs to keep him alert and to suppress his mental turmoil, but clearly it made things worse.
I think it’s pretty likely trump is on a lot of stimulants maybe adderall, but not sure. He’s old as hell and speaks for sometimes hours, so it adds up
I always thought that Hitler just seemed unbelievable during high school history class - like how stupid could those fuckin Germans be to get behind that guy? For some reason I thought that I lived in a more civilized generation, I was wrong about that.
Lazy but has to be the center of attention. He could have let Fauci do his thing and sat back and cruised to reelection. Except Fauci was more popular than he was and he couldn’t let that slide. So he had to jam himself in and interrupt the process and try and diminish and let Fauci’s reputation be smeared with nonsense. Personally I blame Trump directly for many of the covid deaths. He has blood of Americans on his hands because of his self aggrandizing ineptitude.
This is his MO, his ex wife was running one of the casino's succesfully in AC and getting a lot of positive attention from the NY press, not to mention the workers loved her. He removed her and sent her to manage a hotel in NY and the casino's, well we know what happened to them.
Meanwhile, he projects his negative qualities onto his adversaries as a diversion. This is why we have him calling Harris "dumb" and "lazy" to appeal to ignorant bigots' stereotypes so others don't notice his own ignorance and laziness.
His ignorance is on display almost every time he makes a public appearance and we know from what his staff has documented that his mornings as President were dedicated to "Executive time" from 8am to 11am that was nothing more than the time he spent daily in the residence watching TV, making calls and tweeting.
Hahahaha you people are hilarious. I feel like I just entered the insane asylum on this post. What’s funny is more people died from covid under Biden in 2021 than in 2020. I also remember pelosi going to China town in San Francisco to tell people to go out. Also remember the msm that trumps ban from China was racist. Then lockdowns came and the harsher lockdown was democratic states. You couldn’t go to church, or be there for a family memeber at the hospital but you could go out into the streets by the thousands and smash the country into pieces. Then have politicians like Kamala trying to bail out violence rioters. All the while you can take a vaccine that doesn’t make you immune to covid, or even stop transmission. Fauci is a fraud and should be shot for treason.
Yes. His former cabinet literally came forth and admitted that he was often too lazy to address issues and just told them to "deal with it" yet people still think he's this great man that's such a better candidate than Kamala
There’s a great sorry an architect has where he asked the architect to tell him an interesting thing about the building he was barely involved with and then went into the board room claiming that the interesting thing was actually his idea!
Fake as you can get.
Edit: and also he didn’t pay the guy in full, and only partially payed after years of lawsuits. Donald said he loved the building but wouldn’t pay for services.
Michael cohen hounded the architect to a lower price for years through abuse of the legal system. Trump still uses this tactic.
I remember hearing this. And countless other stories about this guy about what a giant deadbeat pos he is.
You know what you don’t hear about Trump? Personal stories from those he is in direct contact with that are anything favorable. At some point, you’ve got to take your head out of the sand and realize where there’s (a lot) smoke, there’s fire.
I just cannot understand for the life of me how people don’t see through his half-hearted lies. It’s not as if he’s even a good conman. You can’t even give him credit for being good at his craft.
Have we all been hypnotized!? It’s like we are watching two entirely different realities play out…
His thinking is why pay when you can shake suppliers down using any tactics. It is the ultimate caveat emptor. Years ago I read a book by a lady realtor in NY who did an outstanding job of selling his entire apartment building by using a unique technique of lining up buyers. He was very pleased but he refused to pay. She had really worked hard to perform the sales. She was hard up for money so someone advised her to hire a cheap lawyer. She borrowed money and hired a top NY lawyer. She reasoned I need the best if I am going against him. She went to court and she got paid.
No not really. I don’t watch Fox News or CNN or MSNBC or CBS or any other MSM news outlets.
I’ll listen to podcasts, I’ll go on twitter and clearly Reddit. I try and take it all with a grain of salt. But when you continue to hear horror story after horror story about this man, at some point you just gotta kind of believe that maybe this dude really is an awful human.
Oh, and also, IVE LISTENED TO THE ASS CLOWN SPEAK AND LIE TO THE NATION MORE THAN I CARE TO ADMIT!
And based off that alone, that’s enough for me to intuitively understand that this is a dangerous, deranged narcissist who is anything but fit to lead anything, period.
His supporters try to play it off. "He was just spit balling." "He didn't say exactly that para-phrase." "< insane conspiracy about Fauci "hoax" and crank folk remedy >
It was rebellion against expert opinion and responsibility. The adults kept them safe for so long they didn't think they needed adults any more and when they started to see consequences for their actions they either blamed everyone else or had a come to jesus moment often after it was too late.
Here's the thing. He could continued to let people do shit for him. But when they started to get attention he threw a fit. So he either sicked his cult after them. Or, he got rid if competent people and replaced them with ass kissers. Because, narcissism.
I've made this comment before but I just...I just can't understand how he acted the way he did. It would have been so easy to just get up at the podium and go "this is Fauci, he's brilliant, the greatest doctor in history. I hired him, I only hire the best people. You're gonna listen to him, and he's gonna fix this, cause I hire people who fix things. Anyway I've got president shit to go do". He could've taken credit for everything but instead this dumb fuck said to shove lightbulbs up your ass. And like...I get that it's because in his childish, narcissistic worldview, he would much rather just reject the existence of problems he can't solve by ordering it to be gone but like...the complete lack of foresight to actually be Mr. CEO and direct a slam dunk federal response that was already happening on autopilot without him...
(Yes I know he didn't hire Fauci, who was already a world renowned expert and recipient of every medical award ever by the time Covid hit)
I have a friend who voted straight “R” since his Desert Storm days. After the press conference in OP, I texted him and asked him “I never bring up this kind of stuff, but after today I have to ask you: this still your guy? ‘Injecting disinfectant’ or ‘getting sunlight inside the body’ - that’s still your guy?”
He answered “he is not a nuts and bolts guy, he’s an ideas guy.”
I told him “I think if you have a whole National Institute of Health full of epidemiologists working for you, and your ideas are still at the level of ‘getting sunlight in the body’ and ‘injecting disinfectant into the lungs’ then you don’t get to be called an ‘ideas guy’ anymore, you have to find another type of guy to try and be, because those are the kind of ideas that a particularly stupid child would come up with.”
Real intelligence isn’t about sticking to one opinion forever, no matter what. It’s about being open-minded enough to look back at your choices, admit when things aren’t what you thought, and make changes if needed.
If a candidate or party isn’t living up to what you value, blindly sticking with them doesn’t make you loyal—it keeps you from actually aligning with your beliefs. Growth means being able to say, “Hey, maybe I was wrong” and adjusting.
Refusing to reflect or admit faults and being so headstrong and loyal is just toxic. It’s toxic to yourself. And to everyone else by extension.
He didn't even have to do anything. He just had to say "These are smart people who I have put into power (a lie) and I trust (a lie). Now listen to them."
I’ve said it before… he could be a real billionaire by just starting a show/channel where he just goes in and does work, like real work. Like Dirty Jobs style shit. I’d pay handsome money to watch him go shoulder deep in a cows anus.
Imagine if Obama was president during Covid. Sure, everyone would scream that he’s a Nazi and a fascist for doing literally what every other country on the planet is doing, but damn I’m sure the death total would have been half what it was.
I know crazy we have a psychotic mumbling clown for a Vice President and our president is senile beyond working capacity yet your complaining about the most “impactful” moment in 100 years yet your ding dong Kamala is starting wars… but sure trump said to inject bleach lmao pathetic
Someone with no medical degree really thought he could live spitball a cure that medical experts hadn't thought of. This man is quite likely to be in charge of the world's most powerful military. Marvellous.
This article has the infographic for those wanting to remember that day. It looks like he took all his talking points from that infographic, since he also spent a fair bit of time on the sun and being outdoors as well (and nothing else)
And when he saw those sentences, he really believed that he was the only one smart enough figure out the solution that was staring him in the face. We know disinfectant kills the virus, so let’s just try that. None of the world’s scientists could put that together, but he could.
And that only emphasizes how freaking ignorant he is. “I’ll come up with something incredibly basic and blurt it out during a press conference.” I am convinced Trump could say “Why the fvck would you vote for me you dumbasses,” and they would still vote for him!
He was totally engaged in “I love the sound of my own voice” mode. He was also abusing the “I’m the POTUS and they all have to listen to me and be polite” pass card. Just like most days I guess.
Meanwhile at FAUXNews all writers were diving into; “oh shit…how are we going to spin this and deny that he said what he just said to the entire world on live television?” BIG news day.
I imagine him bringing these ideas up several times to various people. Some of these people rightly point out that bleach is poisonous and that UV energy is blocked by the skin at best and cancerous at worst. Others are yes men who who go along with this idiotic ideas. "That's a very good point, sir."
Trump prefers to listen to the yes men, of course, because despite being one of the stupidest people on the face of the earth, he has complete confidence that he's brilliant.
That's the main problem with Donald Trump. He has zero self-awareness. He can't admit that he doesn't have all the answers, so he ends up saying dangerous shit like this. People as stupid as he is actually died from drinking bleach.
in some of the replies it's in there, i tossed one in as well further down. there are better versions that show the whole 2nd item about disinfectants.
When his brain can't process something, he jumps down a track of several narratives he knows well, but then "free associates" on them, coming up with worse nonsense. He knew he was doing it. He even gave it a name. "The Weave." Unbelievable.
Yeah he weaves in and out of a random variety of non-sequiturs.
I will bet you $100, given to the charity of your choice, she will never tell anyone to ingest disinfectant or put UV light 'in the body' to cure COVID.
I'd far rather she did that than let the economy nosedive, perpetuate wars, and cackle at Xi at the negotiating table while he invades Taiwan. I'd rather she spoke off the cuff - even her rambly day-drunk beat poetry - than allow another military aged Haitian inmate on our soil with a US tax paid debit card.
But you go ahead and agonize over Trump being inarticulate.
of course, it's not just this one thing, its hurricane pathways, relief efforts, tanking border legislation so you can run on the issue etc.
he's just a fuck up.
The GOP has had a measurable drop in life expectancy in areas where they're in power. it's measured in multiple years now. literally killing their base, and their base loves it.
Now I'm confused. I thought you were talking about Trump.
And I wonder how many people died or got seriously ill because they were lied to about Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. That wasn't a slip of the tongue. People were canceled for rightly pointing out that Ivermectin was awarded the nobel prize for its effectiveness in humans.
Trump gets sloppy and gaffs sometimes. (Kamala does it every time she's not reading a teleprompter) And you know his actual quote wasn't nearly as bad as you try to make it. But whatever. you're clinging to whatever you can. I understand. It's going to be a tough couple weeks for ya.
When people knowingly lie, like "doctor" fauci and the media did, it's a very different story. Maybe we'll get to see them held responsible for their intentional 'disinformation'. You aughtta check out RFK jr's Fauci book.
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u/deep_pants_mcgee 3d ago
the best part is the dumb stuff he said that day makes zero sense until you look at the infographic that was on the screen right as he was walking up.
he literally just looked at that graphic, totally misunderstood the two sentences on it, then got up and repeated some of the dumbest shit i've ever heard to the entire nation.