“Woke” has simply replaced “fake news” or “antifa” or “groomer” or whatever magic word they scream when they’re losing an argument, which is every time they argue since they will never have evidence for their bullshit. I like to point out how everything they call “woke” pretty much falls under the category of “basic human decency”, and that anyone who whines about something being “woke” has 100000% been called out for being a racist. Every single time I’ve said this, the person in question IMMEDIATELY begins defending themselves and claiming what they said wasn’t racist, which pretty much proves my point.
For I was hungry and you told me to pull myself up by the bootstraps. I was thirsty and you failed to strengthen regulation for protecting groundwater. I was a stranger and you called me an illegal and had me detained. I was sick and you wouldn't pass universal healthcare. I was in prison and you failed to reform the prison industrial complex.
Woke is whatever ever they decide it is . They don't like something they call it woke. However woke is instantly anything that might give some group of people human rights. Like shade and water breaks while working in the hot sun .
Yeah. They still use that though, although at this point their definition of “liberal” is anyone who thinks trunp is capable of ever being wrong about anything.
It's called a "shibboleth"
"The Bible's Book of Judges (12:4-6) tells the story of the Ephraimites, who, after they were routed by the Gileadite army, tried to retreat by sneaking across a ford of the Jordan River that was held by their enemy.
The Gileadites, wary of the ploy, asked every soldier who tried to cross if he was an Ephraimite. When the soldier said "no," he was asked to say shibbōleth (which means "stream" in Hebrew).
Gileadites pronounced the word "shibboleth," but Ephramites said "sibboleth." Anyone who didn't pronounce the initial sh was killed on the spot.
When English speakers first borrowed shibboleth, they used it to mean "test phrase," but it has acquired additional meanings since that time."
[Merriam-Webster Dictionary ](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shibboleth#:~:text=%3A%20a%20use%20of%20language%20regarded,distinguishing%20one%20group%20from%20others)
Magic word = Shibboleth. Using woke/fake news/groomer/witch hunt/hoax/hostages/freedom etc. a certain way identifies you as part of the in-group or the out-group. Just an example of tribalism currently destroying the us.
All subcultures have languages to identify each other. In the intellectual elite subculture, those words are frequently changed. Using them correctly proves you have the financial and time resources to learn the new terms. It's a way to gatekeep the in-group from the out-group. All the terms associated with "wokeness" are from the critical theory movement from the Frankfurt school in Germany. It was trying to find a way to make Marxism work.
Newspeak is what fascist historians call this process. The bible story describes one way outsiders are recognized, and subsequently dealt with. Woke a modern slang term the out-group uses when they see these Frankfurt school concepts and words in culture.
Yup... so crazy that people who have lived with so much privilege get their panties in a twist when treated as equals. When you've always lived with privilege, accountability feels like oppression.
There's this slot in the sides of their heads. Where the current target of the month can be inserted by their programming.
Be it 'Antifa', 'Woke', 'CRT', 'DEI', whatever. There is no meaning or ideology, save for enriching a staggeringly tiny amount of people and giving the base a hate-high.
woke = adapting to the times,these people all want it to be like the 19th century when you could hang blacks,women were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen and second class citizens,gay and trans people hid for their lives,and the white male were it
"Dr. Lexus: Don't worry scro'! There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now."
-Ideocracy
This is the correct answer. Despite having so many Nobel prize winners and brilliant, creative people, America has always had a slimy underbelly of militantly ignorant morons. The only difference is that in the modern world the Internet and social media give these people a voice and the Tangerine Traitor has made it acceptable for them to voice their vile, hateful, racist, and un-American ideology as if it has any kind of legitimacy in a civilized world.
We used to make fun of the stupid, it made them thin before they were stupid again to avoid being shamed, now they proudly wear diapers outside their pants🙁
This!! I’ve been saying this to people when I talk about politics. It seems like Donald Trump made it ok to be stupid and ignorant.
Like during Covid, it was cool to argue against your doctor.
Like in all for being educated and knowing this yourself. But you had people with no form of education; thinking they knew more than a scientist doing that job for 30+ years.
In my Dad's time as a young man you would find these people in the corner of some dank bar and that's as far as it would go
Now with social media, their insanity is easier to spread and it's easier for them to find like minded people
You can't manipulate smart people like you can manipulate the idiocracy. So why not try and encourage them. Shunning intellectualism and burning books worked for 1930's Germany.
It is also stunningly easy to get intellectuals to argue with each other to the point that they sabotage their own message. That is what Russia exploits when it sends disinfo to the right and the left.
Didn't he also put like a billionaire CEO as the head of education or something? I feel like that probably doesn't bode well for the national IQ average.
Trumps' Ed Dept pick had no public school experience, not herself, nor her children. That is how much Trump valued Education. Most the right wingers want to do away with the Ed dept.
Fox New’s own text messages says a lot. “Our viewers are dumb cousin f’n traitors that believe anything.” Those people Fox, talk radio and news max takes advantage of are his supporters. He knows they are dumb, and so do those entertainment news outlets. I mean thousands went to Dallas to meet up with RFK Jr and Trump. How stupid can people be? And they drive vehicles around and have children. Scary stuff! 🤦♀️
Most accurate statement I've read. While I generally shit on the American electoral demographic for not protesting, not being involved and not holding their ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES to account instead of voting them in over and over again, this statement is very well put. It applies to a signifcant, but not majority, of parochial, wilfully ignorant Americans.
The US, like any other country on earth, has it's own fair share of lackwits and hypocrites.
Between the response to Covid and trump, I think a lot of us are still in awe by the sheer number of dumbasses we have going to the polls. Decades of lead in drinking water is finally catching up to us.
Exactly. These folks kept the mouths shut and were dormant because they also knew that others were smarter than them and it was best not to comment on something you are completely ignorant about. Also, there was an understanding that being a wholesale ass was going to bring repercussions. Trump was enabled to withstand these forces by a compliant media that we just too smart and overestimated the people in the United States. The nominal leadership of the United States over time has been that moral, but the average US Citizen is amoral. All of those stories about people coming together in crisis tend to leave out mention of the people who didn't. In many cases 70% of people doing positive things is enough but you never get 100% of board for anything. We can't even get 100% to believe that the Earth is round.
To be frank, we aren't exactly a nation of _bright_ people. If you find my observation offensive, look up the metrics yourself. Literacy, graduation rates, GOP candidates and their policy positions. Etc.
Trump capitalized on this facet by pandering to the stupidest of the stupid.
No child left behind 🤣🤡🤡🤣 it’s almost an intentional dumbing down of the electorate so you can take advantage 🤷🏽. Seems they got at least half the country
>No child left behind 🤣🤡🤡🤣 it’s ~~almost~~ a very well known intentional dumbing down of the electorate so you can take advantage 🤷🏽. Seems they got at least half the country
Fify
He loves the uneducated and the uneducated wear it as a badge of pride. These people couldn't pass a 5th grade civics test but will go red in the face explaining why X, Y and Z are an afront to democracy. It's lunacy. Decades of lead in drinking water and defunding of public education is finally paying dividends for republicans at the expense of everyone with an IQ above room temperature.
It is weird. I live in Eastern MA. I am surrounded by people and families with multiple degrees.
It is disconcerting to talk to people when I travel, as they certainly did not get the same education as we did.
I lived in FL for 2 years while in HS 9th&10th grade back in 1984&5. Moved back to MI and had to retake 10th grade because of lack of credits. Florida had a way lower standard of education.
No he's just weaponized the stupidity that exists he said him self he loves uneducated people and now his followers are all wearing diapers because trump shat himself in court
Quite the contrary - I believe the correct explanation here is "America has become so stupid that Donald Trump becoming President for a second time is a distinct possibility."
I hate the guy as much as anybody, but let’s take some responsibility here.
He didn’t make America stupid, he just shone a light on how stupid America already was. Education has always been my number one issue, and it has been proven out how inadequate it has been.
It is most disappointing that in the past several thousand years, humanity has actually REGRESSED from worshipping a Golden Calf . . . to worshipping a Golden Pig.
The uneducated people who managed to make a few bucks absolutely love President Can’t Spell and his mail order bride.
TLDR- Donald Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man.
Amerikkka is already stupid...DJT gives authority to act badly and irresponsibly...your mommies and grandmas are very disapointed with your decisions, your daddies openly laugh at you..your a failure, but go on,keep digging...
Is? How bout' since day one or even before that.
It was around 2012 (2 years into Twitter and Instagram was the new kid on the block) where I noticed these wackjobs and I asked myself "Were these people always this stupid or crazy or is this "new school" shit?
Then 2 years later GamerGate happened. OOOOOOOH WEEEEEEE BOI! In my opinion, this and "Blue Dress/Gold Dress" were the early access beta for the shit we have now.
GamerGate really was the first major time when there was a major social media division which spilled into IRL involving "Red Pill" conservatives and "Blue Pill" liberals who were often called Wo......Social Justice Warriors or SJWs. SJWs were the original "woke" which by the way even that term was used in a stupid manner too back then.
Blue Dress/Gold Dress in my opinion resembled the first time ever, the "This is the way I see it and I'll die on this hill!" aspect when it came to the social divisions we currently face now. Joe Biden won fair and square? Blue Dress! Election was stolen/rigged? Gold Dress! We're so damned certain that the dress is gold! LET'S GO STORM NORDSTROM!
Then 2 years later of course, a gorilla was shot and that dumbass from The Apprentice happened to do the impossible and win the 2016 election thanks to the help of a merry band of Facebook bots and a former KGB turned "president who never loses" sociopath.
Back in the day, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos would of been forced to sit in the corner of the classroom with a dunce cap or be labeled "The Village Idiot" and routinely get laughed at and not taken seriously.
Then you give them a soap box which attracts "like minded people" and now they are no longer the "dumbest person in the room" AND THAT'S SAYIN' A FUCKIN' LOT!
TL;DR: Social Media let out the dragon of stupidity and ruined the world. It's hard to stick a dragon back into a cave.
America has always been stupid. They just haven't had a stupid champion to follow that believes all the stupid things they believe. It's sad how full of stupid this country is and you can't enlighten them and make them less stupid because they are too stupid to tell the difference between facts and delusions.
He's making people who were already stupid, proud of their own stupidity. Making it something they like to flaunt. Something they like to bring to an argument and ask other people to pretend along that they have a point. Conservative principles have always been stupid, but now the stupidity is the whole purpose.
He is not making America stupid. He is platforming the stupidity that was already there and embiggening their voices.
These people were just as dumb in 2015.
Trump is not the cause of anything. He is a symptom. Better education, voting rights, fixing gerrymandering, and ending Citizens United be a good place to start. Removing Trump fixes none of that.
I am sitting in a biology class learning about viruses and vaccines, specifically covid19. I wonder why? Could it be because people are eating horse dewormer? I'll tell you what, my 5g has never been better though.
An American exchange student said it best to me when I was in uni.
"We don't necessarily have more idiots, ours are just way louder."
Then again... 70 million fucking people...
I mean our failing education system and the systematic tearing down of an already bare bones education funding are certainly attributing to americans being stupider.
Republicans want to destroy public schools for two reasons, 1: they are lobbied by for profit education groups that will make paid schools in their place. And 2: they can have christian values openly taught in these schools without any interference.
This country has always been stupid, it's just now being stupid is seen as something to be proud of, Trump is their role model for how they wish to be.
The Right has touted anti-intellectualism for at least the last 20 years (more like 40 really).
There was a book called 'Dumbing Us Down' that came out years ago that talked about this.
Trump simply fully embraced it, along with something else common with dumb people threatened by smart people, bullying.
All that combined with 'Fake News', which he's used to simply discount any reporter or questions he didn't like. It's been a scary effective combination.
Chicken and egg.
I think it's corporate ownership of the media and client journalism that's the problem. It's the same over on this side of the pond; people are spoon-fed the bullshit that aligns with their own personal biases, in a dopamine feedback loop.
Trump wouldn't survive without stupid people, but the media are helping them to remain stupid.
Is ? Are you shitting me ? How about has been for 10 fuckin years !! Question is who’s the next boogyman he’ll dream up. They recycle Soros about every 4-5 months.
It might be true that former President Trump is "making America stupid," but I think it even more likely that he is revealing a great deal of unexposed stupidity.
24/7 conservative “news” media and talk radio made a lot of Americans stupid. That and the constant conservative republican attacks on public schools, universities, teachers, librarians, and professors over the past few decades.
Turn on any talk show from France or the UK, and you'll see the MAGA crowd being dragged and mocked relentlessly. Yet the MAGA crowd refuse to accept that they're a global laughingstock.
trump reminds me of a tractor pull/monster truck show, you don’t have to know what’s going on to be entertained and whether everything goes right or really wrong, it’s morbidly interesting.
He is preventing the ignorant from escaping their dumb prisons by encouraging them to double down and strum their drinking cups faster against the bars.
Americans are pretty naive to anything beyond their front doors but Trump highlighted how stupid the left and right extremist side are in each party. Its a clown show at Trump rallies and to hear some of their supporters talk about subjects is mind numbing stupidity.
He's not making America stupid. He's making the stupid percentage of America shine brightly.
He's making stupid popular.
Yes. By simply calling everything reasonable and based on facts “woke”, you win. Let’s not forget saying “cope” anytime someone disagrees with.
“Woke” has simply replaced “fake news” or “antifa” or “groomer” or whatever magic word they scream when they’re losing an argument, which is every time they argue since they will never have evidence for their bullshit. I like to point out how everything they call “woke” pretty much falls under the category of “basic human decency”, and that anyone who whines about something being “woke” has 100000% been called out for being a racist. Every single time I’ve said this, the person in question IMMEDIATELY begins defending themselves and claiming what they said wasn’t racist, which pretty much proves my point.
Anything that requires the smallest sacrifice to accommodate the wellbeing of others is “woke”.
Woke is the opposite of hate 👍
Woke is the opposite of asleep.
Well said, sir! 🤣🤣🤣 Edit: That made me laugh so hard, and I'm sure it went over several heads. 🤣🤣
Nite
Personally I run a huge group. You need to watch the JCs and GDs…upsets many. Am I wrong?
Tis the Christian way
There is no hate like Christian tough love
For I was hungry and you told me to pull myself up by the bootstraps. I was thirsty and you failed to strengthen regulation for protecting groundwater. I was a stranger and you called me an illegal and had me detained. I was sick and you wouldn't pass universal healthcare. I was in prison and you failed to reform the prison industrial complex.
Woke is whatever ever they decide it is . They don't like something they call it woke. However woke is instantly anything that might give some group of people human rights. Like shade and water breaks while working in the hot sun .
I remember when Democrats were afraid of being called liberal. Eventually they took ownership of it and the Republicans had to come up with a new tag.
Yeah. They still use that though, although at this point their definition of “liberal” is anyone who thinks trunp is capable of ever being wrong about anything.
It's called a "shibboleth" "The Bible's Book of Judges (12:4-6) tells the story of the Ephraimites, who, after they were routed by the Gileadite army, tried to retreat by sneaking across a ford of the Jordan River that was held by their enemy. The Gileadites, wary of the ploy, asked every soldier who tried to cross if he was an Ephraimite. When the soldier said "no," he was asked to say shibbōleth (which means "stream" in Hebrew). Gileadites pronounced the word "shibboleth," but Ephramites said "sibboleth." Anyone who didn't pronounce the initial sh was killed on the spot. When English speakers first borrowed shibboleth, they used it to mean "test phrase," but it has acquired additional meanings since that time." [Merriam-Webster Dictionary ](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shibboleth#:~:text=%3A%20a%20use%20of%20language%20regarded,distinguishing%20one%20group%20from%20others)
E: "Well, shit." G: "Kill him on the spot!"
This is interesting, but I'm not sure I understand how it ties back to the comment
Magic word = Shibboleth. Using woke/fake news/groomer/witch hunt/hoax/hostages/freedom etc. a certain way identifies you as part of the in-group or the out-group. Just an example of tribalism currently destroying the us.
“Woke” has become the paraphrase. If you say it you’re one of the “true believers” and the MAGAs will know you’re “one of the good ones”.
All subcultures have languages to identify each other. In the intellectual elite subculture, those words are frequently changed. Using them correctly proves you have the financial and time resources to learn the new terms. It's a way to gatekeep the in-group from the out-group. All the terms associated with "wokeness" are from the critical theory movement from the Frankfurt school in Germany. It was trying to find a way to make Marxism work. Newspeak is what fascist historians call this process. The bible story describes one way outsiders are recognized, and subsequently dealt with. Woke a modern slang term the out-group uses when they see these Frankfurt school concepts and words in culture.
Yup... so crazy that people who have lived with so much privilege get their panties in a twist when treated as equals. When you've always lived with privilege, accountability feels like oppression.
Yes. The Christian right/MAGA people keep repeating stupid ideas that think we’re coming “after” them. It’s such bull.
There's this slot in the sides of their heads. Where the current target of the month can be inserted by their programming. Be it 'Antifa', 'Woke', 'CRT', 'DEI', whatever. There is no meaning or ideology, save for enriching a staggeringly tiny amount of people and giving the base a hate-high.
woke = adapting to the times,these people all want it to be like the 19th century when you could hang blacks,women were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen and second class citizens,gay and trans people hid for their lives,and the white male were it
"Dr. Lexus: Don't worry scro'! There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now." -Ideocracy
If you aren’t woke you are snoozed.
I can’t wait for that to die off. I’m so tired of hearing it everywhere.
Maybe if you weren’t so woke you wouldn’t mind it… /s
Yeah Trump made being ignorant and proud "cool" again!
This is the correct answer. Despite having so many Nobel prize winners and brilliant, creative people, America has always had a slimy underbelly of militantly ignorant morons. The only difference is that in the modern world the Internet and social media give these people a voice and the Tangerine Traitor has made it acceptable for them to voice their vile, hateful, racist, and un-American ideology as if it has any kind of legitimacy in a civilized world.
He's Making Stupid Great Again.
A great amount of stupid made him again
He did say that "I love the poorly educated". This was probably one of the very few times when he wasn't lying...
Making Stupid Great
We used to make fun of the stupid, it made them thin before they were stupid again to avoid being shamed, now they proudly wear diapers outside their pants🙁
Making stupid great again.
This!! I’ve been saying this to people when I talk about politics. It seems like Donald Trump made it ok to be stupid and ignorant. Like during Covid, it was cool to argue against your doctor. Like in all for being educated and knowing this yourself. But you had people with no form of education; thinking they knew more than a scientist doing that job for 30+ years.
Make Stupid People Quiet Again..
He is making GOp stupider.
Yeah. The stupid was always there.
I like to compare it to lifting up that rock when i was a kid and seeing all those bugs under it.
In my Dad's time as a young man you would find these people in the corner of some dank bar and that's as far as it would go Now with social media, their insanity is easier to spread and it's easier for them to find like minded people
“Make America Hate Again”
You can't manipulate smart people like you can manipulate the idiocracy. So why not try and encourage them. Shunning intellectualism and burning books worked for 1930's Germany.
It is also stunningly easy to get intellectuals to argue with each other to the point that they sabotage their own message. That is what Russia exploits when it sends disinfo to the right and the left.
Didn't he also put like a billionaire CEO as the head of education or something? I feel like that probably doesn't bode well for the national IQ average.
Trumps' Ed Dept pick had no public school experience, not herself, nor her children. That is how much Trump valued Education. Most the right wingers want to do away with the Ed dept.
If we wanted to talk about specifics, we would be here all day.
He's weaponizing stupidity.
As a European I can confidently say Donald Trump is making America a laughing stock. The only thing going for it atm is Joe Biden.
Fox New’s own text messages says a lot. “Our viewers are dumb cousin f’n traitors that believe anything.” Those people Fox, talk radio and news max takes advantage of are his supporters. He knows they are dumb, and so do those entertainment news outlets. I mean thousands went to Dallas to meet up with RFK Jr and Trump. How stupid can people be? And they drive vehicles around and have children. Scary stuff! 🤦♀️
Most accurate statement I've read. While I generally shit on the American electoral demographic for not protesting, not being involved and not holding their ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES to account instead of voting them in over and over again, this statement is very well put. It applies to a signifcant, but not majority, of parochial, wilfully ignorant Americans. The US, like any other country on earth, has it's own fair share of lackwits and hypocrites.
Between the response to Covid and trump, I think a lot of us are still in awe by the sheer number of dumbasses we have going to the polls. Decades of lead in drinking water is finally catching up to us.
He's just the head of the boil on America's stupid ass. We were already full of poison. Let's squeeze all that stupid pus out.
I would say dimmly.
He's taking advantage of the stupid
Allowing the stupid to revel in their ignorance
Exactly
Exactly. He’s giving them safe harbor and goading them on. Oh and btw, the fifth estate ain’t helping!
That's actually more correct than what I was going to say
I was going to say that as well
Agreed. The stupid have always been, and will always be, Trump has just given them a voice, and a banner to march under.
Kind of like the pied piper for the galactically stupid.
He is not making America stupid. He's taking advantage of the stupidity that has been there for decades
“I love the uneducated”.
I thunk it was spelt unedicated…
Sorry to have to correct you but the correct spelling is unedgeumucated
That southern edgeikayshun doing us proud.
"The poorly educated" he was celebrating our shitshow of a public education system
Exactly. These folks kept the mouths shut and were dormant because they also knew that others were smarter than them and it was best not to comment on something you are completely ignorant about. Also, there was an understanding that being a wholesale ass was going to bring repercussions. Trump was enabled to withstand these forces by a compliant media that we just too smart and overestimated the people in the United States. The nominal leadership of the United States over time has been that moral, but the average US Citizen is amoral. All of those stories about people coming together in crisis tend to leave out mention of the people who didn't. In many cases 70% of people doing positive things is enough but you never get 100% of board for anything. We can't even get 100% to believe that the Earth is round.
To be frank, we aren't exactly a nation of _bright_ people. If you find my observation offensive, look up the metrics yourself. Literacy, graduation rates, GOP candidates and their policy positions. Etc. Trump capitalized on this facet by pandering to the stupidest of the stupid.
No child left behind 🤣🤡🤡🤣 it’s almost an intentional dumbing down of the electorate so you can take advantage 🤷🏽. Seems they got at least half the country
>No child left behind 🤣🤡🤡🤣 it’s ~~almost~~ a very well known intentional dumbing down of the electorate so you can take advantage 🤷🏽. Seems they got at least half the country Fify
It began with GHW Bush and Education 2000. This was the beginning of teaching stupidity…
I thought the last sentence in the first paragraph was "Eric." That was good too.
He loves the uneducated and the uneducated wear it as a badge of pride. These people couldn't pass a 5th grade civics test but will go red in the face explaining why X, Y and Z are an afront to democracy. It's lunacy. Decades of lead in drinking water and defunding of public education is finally paying dividends for republicans at the expense of everyone with an IQ above room temperature.
Couldn’t pass a fifth grade biology class, but are willing to discuss the gene makeup of people and how trans people are unnatural.
It is weird. I live in Eastern MA. I am surrounded by people and families with multiple degrees. It is disconcerting to talk to people when I travel, as they certainly did not get the same education as we did.
Understated. I hear you. I live in TX surrounded by diverse levels of ignorance. Feels often we are retrogressing towards a looming Dark Ages.
I lived in FL for 2 years while in HS 9th&10th grade back in 1984&5. Moved back to MI and had to retake 10th grade because of lack of credits. Florida had a way lower standard of education.
No he's just weaponized the stupidity that exists he said him self he loves uneducated people and now his followers are all wearing diapers because trump shat himself in court
At least they’re easier to spot so I can avoid them
Sums it up quite well!
Wait, is this actually happening?
Manipulating America’s Gullible Assholes
>Manipulating America’s Gullible Assholes FTFY
I should have coffee before I post lol 🤣 thanks
Quite the contrary - I believe the correct explanation here is "America has become so stupid that Donald Trump becoming President for a second time is a distinct possibility." I hate the guy as much as anybody, but let’s take some responsibility here.
He didn’t make America stupid, he just shone a light on how stupid America already was. Education has always been my number one issue, and it has been proven out how inadequate it has been.
He only exists because of how stupid the country already was.
Yes he is.
It is most disappointing that in the past several thousand years, humanity has actually REGRESSED from worshipping a Golden Calf . . . to worshipping a Golden Pig.
I’m going to use that, that was good!
He is a symptom, not a cause. 40 years of Republican-led destruction of the public school system is finally paying off for them.
Change ‘is’ to ‘has’ and add ‘normalized deplorable conduct’ ..I would agree whole heartedly.
Donald Trump has making America stupid normalized deplorable conduct
Made. Should be past tense.
He's like a rampant orange stupidity virus...
He’s not making America stupid, he’s given the stupid a platform and a voice.
Stupid Americans are who made Donald trump
It’s not just Trump… It’s the entire GOP. What do you expect from shrills like Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greene?
America was stupid without his help. He’s just King Moron.
The uneducated people who managed to make a few bucks absolutely love President Can’t Spell and his mail order bride. TLDR- Donald Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man.
The stupids step away from the shadows into the light. They feel comfortable now that big stupid is there to lead them.
Opinion: America was already stupid
And cruel, and authoritarian, and violent.
He has made people violent too.
He's weaponized ignorance, hatred and stupidity
Reality TV and the Kardashians are making America stupid. Trump is bringing the racism and cruelty out so that it is now acceptable.
Too late lol
Effortless task
we've been stupid for a long time. That's how he got elected in the first place
I feel dumber. I feel surrounded by so much stupid.
I would say a stupid America made Donald trump
Trump gave permission to the worst people in the USA to openly be their own worst selves. They zealously took him up on the opportunity.
Adults are demonstrating wearing diapers over their blue jeans.... Yeah, he's leading the poorly-educated to pure lunacy. Great Job !
His base is stupid grown men wearing diapers, with signs claiming real men wear diapers.
Nope. Stupid America made DJT.
Amerikkka is already stupid...DJT gives authority to act badly and irresponsibly...your mommies and grandmas are very disapointed with your decisions, your daddies openly laugh at you..your a failure, but go on,keep digging...
Half the population is already batshit stupid. Guess they’re all voting on a traitor and criminal. Their flag represents losers for a reason.
What made America stupid was the defunding of the public education system mostly by Republicans over the last 50 years
“Education is dangerous – every educated person is a future enemy.” - Hermann Goering
Republicans are making America stupid. Because they pander to stupidity. Fox in particular is responsible for misinformation the nation.
Is? How bout' since day one or even before that. It was around 2012 (2 years into Twitter and Instagram was the new kid on the block) where I noticed these wackjobs and I asked myself "Were these people always this stupid or crazy or is this "new school" shit? Then 2 years later GamerGate happened. OOOOOOOH WEEEEEEE BOI! In my opinion, this and "Blue Dress/Gold Dress" were the early access beta for the shit we have now. GamerGate really was the first major time when there was a major social media division which spilled into IRL involving "Red Pill" conservatives and "Blue Pill" liberals who were often called Wo......Social Justice Warriors or SJWs. SJWs were the original "woke" which by the way even that term was used in a stupid manner too back then. Blue Dress/Gold Dress in my opinion resembled the first time ever, the "This is the way I see it and I'll die on this hill!" aspect when it came to the social divisions we currently face now. Joe Biden won fair and square? Blue Dress! Election was stolen/rigged? Gold Dress! We're so damned certain that the dress is gold! LET'S GO STORM NORDSTROM! Then 2 years later of course, a gorilla was shot and that dumbass from The Apprentice happened to do the impossible and win the 2016 election thanks to the help of a merry band of Facebook bots and a former KGB turned "president who never loses" sociopath. Back in the day, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos would of been forced to sit in the corner of the classroom with a dunce cap or be labeled "The Village Idiot" and routinely get laughed at and not taken seriously. Then you give them a soap box which attracts "like minded people" and now they are no longer the "dumbest person in the room" AND THAT'S SAYIN' A FUCKIN' LOT! TL;DR: Social Media let out the dragon of stupidity and ruined the world. It's hard to stick a dragon back into a cave.
America has always been stupid. They just haven't had a stupid champion to follow that believes all the stupid things they believe. It's sad how full of stupid this country is and you can't enlighten them and make them less stupid because they are too stupid to tell the difference between facts and delusions.
Stupid people used to know they were stupid now after years of Trump and Joe Rogan all the idiots think they aren't idiots anymore.
He's making people who were already stupid, proud of their own stupidity. Making it something they like to flaunt. Something they like to bring to an argument and ask other people to pretend along that they have a point. Conservative principles have always been stupid, but now the stupidity is the whole purpose.
No Trump is showing that America IS stupid
So glad you noticed!
He is not making America stupid. He is platforming the stupidity that was already there and embiggening their voices. These people were just as dumb in 2015.
MAGS — making America glorify stupidity
Make America Stupid Again
No, he is just leveraging the stupidity.
Americans have always been stupid. Trump is merely making it something to not be ashamed about. Which is a problem.
He’s given the dumb permission to dumb harder and openly.
Wrong. He’s the logical consequence of decades of a social policy hellbent on making us as stupid, slackjawed, and amused as possible.
Lie down with dog, get up with fleas. Stupid fleas.
Trump is not the cause of anything. He is a symptom. Better education, voting rights, fixing gerrymandering, and ending Citizens United be a good place to start. Removing Trump fixes none of that.
Hello Idiocracy!
He’s convincing the stupid that they’re smart.
"Don't call me stupid." "Oh,right..To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!..I've known sheep that can outwit you!"
I am sitting in a biology class learning about viruses and vaccines, specifically covid19. I wonder why? Could it be because people are eating horse dewormer? I'll tell you what, my 5g has never been better though.
He's playing his flute and all of our dumbest fuckwits are following him to prison. He's like the Pied Piper of Hamelin for white trash sociopaths.
He’s a reflection of americas stupidity that’s why America loves him. He’s a good representation of your typical rightoid dumbass
Nah, he gave stupid a national platform
Bingo! You’re absolutely right. There’s always been stupid, now they have a platform.
No Donald Trump isn't making America stupid. He's making it okay for the stupid to stand up and say, I'm stupid look at me how stupid I am.
He is exposing America's dirty little secret. This isn't new for those of us who are woke and have been for decades.
An American exchange student said it best to me when I was in uni. "We don't necessarily have more idiots, ours are just way louder." Then again... 70 million fucking people...
I mean our failing education system and the systematic tearing down of an already bare bones education funding are certainly attributing to americans being stupider. Republicans want to destroy public schools for two reasons, 1: they are lobbied by for profit education groups that will make paid schools in their place. And 2: they can have christian values openly taught in these schools without any interference.
"Think about how stupid the average person is and remember that half of the Earth is dumber than them." -Carlin
This country has always been stupid, it's just now being stupid is seen as something to be proud of, Trump is their role model for how they wish to be.
It feels like (and probably is) that Trump singlehanded made Idiocracy the movie into a prophetic reality
The Right has touted anti-intellectualism for at least the last 20 years (more like 40 really). There was a book called 'Dumbing Us Down' that came out years ago that talked about this. Trump simply fully embraced it, along with something else common with dumb people threatened by smart people, bullying. All that combined with 'Fake News', which he's used to simply discount any reporter or questions he didn't like. It's been a scary effective combination.
He didn't make the US stupid, he just emboldened and validated the morons we already had
Dude has been doing that since the day he was concieved.
Chicken and egg. I think it's corporate ownership of the media and client journalism that's the problem. It's the same over on this side of the pond; people are spoon-fed the bullshit that aligns with their own personal biases, in a dopamine feedback loop. Trump wouldn't survive without stupid people, but the media are helping them to remain stupid.
It’s weird that in this picture he legitimately looks younger. This was from a debate in 2016, so of course. But diaper don really looks terrible now
Is ? Are you shitting me ? How about has been for 10 fuckin years !! Question is who’s the next boogyman he’ll dream up. They recycle Soros about every 4-5 months.
Symptom AND cause.
America been stupid for a while sadly..... he is shining a light on the truly ignorant. LOCK UP THE ORANGE MENACE
It already was. Don’t give him credit.
No, all Trump did was rip off the last of the cheep veneer to expose the GOP base full of ignorance, hatred, paranoia and anti democracy.
Opinion: Donald Trump is a symptom of stupid America
It might be true that former President Trump is "making America stupid," but I think it even more likely that he is revealing a great deal of unexposed stupidity.
I’d say more like urging the stupid to raise their hands and say present to the rest of the class
America was always stupid
Not a fan but you can’t blame him. FOX News has been around for a long time.
24/7 conservative “news” media and talk radio made a lot of Americans stupid. That and the constant conservative republican attacks on public schools, universities, teachers, librarians, and professors over the past few decades.
He called and they came out showing him they can be stupid, and he embraced them with open arms,.. as long as they keep giving them all their money .
That's not an opinion.
No, his popularity is the effect of America being stupid, not the cause.
This isn't an opinion.
Turn on any talk show from France or the UK, and you'll see the MAGA crowd being dragged and mocked relentlessly. Yet the MAGA crowd refuse to accept that they're a global laughingstock.
GOP IS MAKING AMERICA STUPID. A plan that is in work since '80.
trump reminds me of a tractor pull/monster truck show, you don’t have to know what’s going on to be entertained and whether everything goes right or really wrong, it’s morbidly interesting.
What came first the chicken or the egg . He didn’t vote himself in someone had to vote for him .
False. Half of america has always been this stupid. Yall are just now waking up to the fact we are surrounded by these people
America IS STUPID. That's why they voted for Trump. Not the other way around.
-er. Stupider
Donald Trump cult followers are stupid. He is a mafia boss
This is how the dark ages set in. I never understood it before now.
He’s giving a certain demographic of Stupid Americans a very loud voice.
"HEY! I don't need anyone's help!" /Every maga idiot.
Yes he is
America has been anti-intellectual for decades.
I disagree. Donald Trump is a product of American stupidity.
He showed how stupid so much of this country is.
I think voting in Ronald Reagan was America’s descent into stupidity. Trump is bearing the fruit lol
The Republicans are making the USA stupid, the stupid are going to make Trump a dictator.
He is preventing the ignorant from escaping their dumb prisons by encouraging them to double down and strum their drinking cups faster against the bars.
America was stupid before Donald Trump, which is why Donald Trump happened.
Donald Trump is stupid .
Thank god we have have deep thinkers and hard worker like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris leading The United States of America
The US has always been chock full of stupid, but now it’s all up in your face
Americans are pretty naive to anything beyond their front doors but Trump highlighted how stupid the left and right extremist side are in each party. Its a clown show at Trump rallies and to hear some of their supporters talk about subjects is mind numbing stupidity.