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Originally Posted by boost
Ok, so we all are on board with some form of the two movies thing, and I really do try to get a peak at the other movie whenever I can, but Trump's declarations of his own genius on Twitter.. I mean, how does this look on your screen? He's just trolling the snowflakes? Don't there need to be more than two screens then? Would you not acknowledge that a significant portion of those viewing pro Trump screens are unaware of how daft this string of tweets is, and simply take them at face value?
Even if we assume he's just trolling, lol@the idea that this can in anyway be seen as positive way for our president to be acting-- trolling half the country and misleading a significant portion of the rest.
So, again, maybe I'm just failing to see the other screen. So if someone would, please fill me in on how this is not alarming behaviour coming from our president.
I'll give two perspectives. The first is Scott Adams discussing the reasons he thinks Trump made those tweets. I think the first 8 minutes gives enough information, but you can probably watch less than that. His periscopes tend to get to the point then meander, so you can literally just watch then stop watching when you no longer want to watch.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YqJDLENMgoJV
The second is to your question about what people on "this side" see on the TV screen. To start that, it might be important to introduce the idea of the humility fetish (another term sparked by Adams). The humility fetish is along the lines of the belief that being humble is better than being braggadocious. The humility fetish is something most of us have and it is very traditional for our public figures (especially at the level of president). Trump entirely disregards the humility fetish. His fans are people who, along with him, deny the humility fetish at this point in time and at this level. To those who don't (most everybody else), Trump looks almost incomprehensible because he is doing things he's "not supposed to do". As for why some of us have discarded the humility fetish in this case, I won't go into details, but it seems to stem from a lot of us being sold a bill of goods over and over by tricksters and crooks who don the humility fetish. We're told to sit down and take it. We have for a long time. Not anymore. We want a champion. Now we have our champion. The greatest champs are people like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. They have a total lack of humility fetish in their public personas. They don't take bullshit, they brag themselves up and tell losers to fuck off. Trump supporters feel like they have been trampled on for such a long time that they now embrace the political equivalent of Mike Tyson. In the minds of Trump fans, he has the real success and real policy actions to back up being a Tyson, so when he talks himself up he looks like he's the champ clowning on his opponent. To Trump's detractors, Trump has no life success and has no policy success, so when he talks himself up looks like a clown.
That's the background for what we see on our TV screen. The other things we see are varied and probably can be said to break into separate screens themselves. Some see him getting people to pay attention to what he wants them to. He did this today when he inserted ",like," into his tweet. Detractors blow a lid at that and inadvertently cause the tweet with the info he wants out to get attention. Another view is that he gets detractors to chase the cheese in the maze (so this is the element of trolling). This is typically thought to be for purpose other than just getting kicks. Even Trump's biggest fans of the trolling think he does it to further his agenda behind the scenes while the media and the ctrl-left go bonkers about a misspelling or some other thing that doesn't matter. Then there's the view that Trump saying how big of a genius he is has the effect of persuading some people to actually believe it. You ain't gonna convince somebody you're smart by saying you're stupid, but you might convince some people you're smart by saying you're smart.
Does this help?
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