Lib copium is already jumping to 10/10: "politically I don’t see a gain." (hexbear.net)

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[-] thoro@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These people really have no understanding of reality do they? I mean, maybe I'm wrong myself, but to not even entertain the possibility of him gaining politically from this event...?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kruse is an unabashed (if not shameless) dem cheerleader but he's not a total idiot. I can't decide if he's outright lying (to rally the dem troops) or if he actually believes there's no upside for Trump. At first I was going to write that he's surely lying but then I realized people can poison their own brains by pumping out propaganda nonsense every day. And the easiest person to deceive is yourself.

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I think Trump's fist pumping will turn out to be the most powerful political images* in all of American history and there won't be a close second.

Edit: By "political images" I mean how that's defined in the media or in history books or in textbooks and not how we define it.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

The New Yorker agrees with you:

But what makes the image is Trump. In its surface details, it carries echoes of the marines at Iwo Jima. In the former President’s bloody defiance, it even evokes Rocky Balboa. On that stage, Trump seemed well aware of the image he was creating. It is an image that captures him as he would like to be seen, so perfectly, in fact, that it may outlast all the rest.