The meme has been liked nearly 9,000 times and shared 2,400 times as of Monday. In reaction to Mr Trumpās repost, journalist Aaron Rupar sarcastically wrote on Twitter: ārubbing my last 2 brain cells together as I try to remember who ran the government on January 6.ā
The former president shared the meme despite a House committee that investigated January 6 declaring Mr Trump the ācentral causeā of the dayās events. āNone of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,ā the House panel wrote in its final report.
ROFL imagine thinking the establishment hates Trump. Trump family is OLD OLD OLD MONEY, they are part of the establishment, kiddie-fucking Epstein clients and all.
The fact that he convinced you he was anti-establishment just shows that heās a decent con man. I canāt think of one fucking scrap of evidence thatās heās anti-establishment, and he sure did pass those tax cuts for the rich and run that money printer while in office (even in 2019, pre-pandemic), and he sure did let those Jan 6 people rot in jail.
So if youāre STILL thinking heās anti-establishment I have a bridge to sell you.
Trump may be rich, but heās also a fucking idiot, and a populist. Those are terrible for business. He desperately wants to be āthe establishmentā, but heās not.
The tax cuts (and the attempt at repealing Obamacare) were part of the trade he made with the Republican party, and Paul Ryan in particular, in exchange for their support.
Uhhuh and did he have to run the money printer to get their support too? Nah? I guess weāll ignore that one (and the Epstein jab) because the repubs canāt blame anyone else for those.
I have no idea what people think a āpopulistā is anymore. If you mean āhe tries to appeal to the working manā then most politicians do, and in fact the entire GOP platform is blaming the government for things (while running the government).
If you mean he āblames the elites while being part of itā then, duh, so do many people including Tucker Carlson have been doing for that for decades. Does that make them populists or con men?
In studies, the predicting factor for Trump voters was authoritarianism. Seems ironic somehow.
Are you under the impression that Iām a Republican, much less a Trump supporter? Iām not trying to defend Trump, I loathe him and I sincerely hope he goes to jail for the January 6th riot, because that set an extremely dangerous precedent. At the same time, facts are facts.
The money printer kicked in specifically due to COVID. Before that Trump gave some big tax breaks to corporations, as well as an offshore-tax amnesty. You can definitely be mad at him for that, but it wasnāt paid for with newly-minted money.
If Trump is shown to have abused minors with Epstein, thatās another very good reason to put him in jail. But Epstein did his best to rub shoulders with the rich & famous, and pedophilia is not an airborne disease, so the fact that some rich or famous person is associated with him in some way is not sufficient proof to me that theyāre a pedophile. If somebody in my neighborhood was convicted as a pedophile, I wouldnāt immediately assume that everybody who ever hitched a ride with him or went to see the superbowl at his place was also a pedophile.
I would agree that āpopulistā pretty much means ācon-manā. Itās somebody who basically says: Everything thatās wrong with the world, and your life specifically, is somebody elseās fault! You people are great, youāre the real salt of the earth, keep doing exactly what youāre doing! Vote for me and Iāll make things better for you and worse for everybody you donāt like! Anybody who suggests thereās more nuance to the situation is your enemy!
Tucker Carlson is 100% a populist.
The mainstream Republican party of the post-Bush years was never really populist, because they kinda loathed their own voters too much for that. Theyād pander, but their heart wasnāt in it. The big schism in the party today is basically between the new populists and the old elitistsā¦which is pretty much the state of the Democratic party as well.
We mostly agree, I just need to push back against the assertion that trump started money printing post covid.
He started loudly blaming the FED and calling for money printing in August 2019, well before COVID
He wanted a juiced economy for the election year, nothing else