piefedderatedd@piefed.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTrump will not prepare for debating Kamala Harris. He believes he’s perfectwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1290arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1281arrow-down1external-linkTrump will not prepare for debating Kamala Harris. He believes he’s perfectwww.theguardian.compiefedderatedd@piefed.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
Trump didn’t want, much less imagine, a debate with Harris. Not so subconsciously he still thinks he’s facing Joe Biden
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·4 months agoNo, he fails every time but his base pretends he wins and the news has such low expectations and a need to sell advertising for profit so they go along with it.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoIgnoring reality doesn’t change it. The win is in the pre-existing delusion in the voters, not anything trump ever accomplished
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 months ago Ignoring reality doesn’t change it It doesn’t directly change REAL reality, but it sure as hell changes the political reality. At which point the tail wags the dog and the lie becomes reality because the billionaire-owned media says so. That’s how Trump and his fascist sycophants ever got within cheating distance of high public office.
No, he fails every time but his base pretends he wins and the news has such low expectations and a need to sell advertising for profit so they go along with it.
That counts as winning
Ignoring reality doesn’t change it. The win is in the pre-existing delusion in the voters, not anything trump ever accomplished
It doesn’t directly change REAL reality, but it sure as hell changes the political reality.
At which point the tail wags the dog and the lie becomes reality because the billionaire-owned media says so.
That’s how Trump and his fascist sycophants ever got within cheating distance of high public office.
True.