Why are people taking Trump's disinfectant comments seriously?

Havana Moon said:
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Every time you think Donald Trump has lost his talent for making people’s heads explode, he somehow excels himself. His latest? Telling Americans that injecting disinfectant and shining UV light could cure Covid-19 patients. You’ll have seen the clip already, everybody has, but it is worth watching again:

Trump suggests injecting #coronavirus patients with #disinfectant or “very powerful light,” alarming experts.
This was a Trumpian masterpiece. I particularly enjoyed the way he turned to the experts for validation, while his mouth trotted out the peculiar ideas. And I find it hilarious, even though I know we are all supposed to be horrified that the US Commander-in-Chief, the leader of the free world, can sound quite so bonkers and incoherent. People might now die, the pundits gravely inform us, from stabbing disinfectant into their veins because they believe every word that comes out of the President’s mouth. What the pundits really mean: Trump fans are gullible, poor and idiotic.

Editorial teams across America will now be scouring the local news networks for stories of dumb MAGA-heads killing themselves by following Trump’s medical ‘advice’ — even though it wasn’t really advice — more a discursive spiel. Maybe they’ll get lucky. There are crazy people out there.

But this brings us back to that old journalistic chestnut about taking ‘seriously, not literally’. In 2016, Salena Zito pointed out that Trump’s supporters took him seriously, not literally — while his enemies and the media did the opposite. It was a brilliant insight at the time, but perhaps missed the truth by an inch. Trump voters don’t necessarily even take Trump all that seriously — he’s just a brilliant and highly amusing weapon for irritating the elites they despise. The crazier he is, the crazier they go. It works every time.

So while CNN anchors will have spasms of apoplexy at the thought that the poorly educated might start injecting themselves with disinfectant, most Trump fans will just laugh. They know that Trump’s medical insights are not meant to be taken seriously or literally.

They also know that it may just take something mad-sounding to answer this awful virus. Trump does have an uncanny habit of being right, albeit often in a very roundabout way. We shall see. They do say that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

https://app.spectator.co.uk/2020/04...-disinfectant-comments-seriously/content.html
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You poor suckers who have to defend this ignorant, classless boor are so twisted, I wonder how any of you can eat or shit.

He is not clever...as former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson mentioned, he is a fucking moron...and so are many of his supporters.

He was serious when he spoke of introducing UV and disinfectants into the body...BECAUSE he is a fucking moron. And he then tried to get out of it by lying...pretending it was sarcasm...which was a lie (he almost always lies) and further evidence that he is a fucking moron, because it was so obviously a lie that only the imbeciles who support him no matter what would accept. (He doesn't need to lie to them...they are idiots who will support him even if he shits on their living room floors.)

This truly is fun. Watching the supporters do what they have to do to make their support seem reasonable.

You are terrific at this grovelling, HM. Keep it up. :laugh:
 
Earl said:
Indeed.

Morning TOP, from partially open sunny Georgia.
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I think y'all will be just fine...:)
Making a peach cobbler later today...I hear ain't nothing sweeter than Georgia peaches....already got me one of those little bulldogs;)
 
PostmodernProphet said:
they aren't......they were just bored with their old memes......
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Indeed....I've never seen such enthusiasm and excitement, though-they're just giddy trying to outdo each other....lol ...You can definitely tell who's not been out of the house in a very very long time....
 
TOP said:
I think y'all will be just fine...:)
Making a peach cobbler later today...I hear ain't nothing sweeter than Georgia peaches....already got me one of those little bulldogs;)
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We froze some peaches last year and my esposa made a big pie two days ago. Between my children and grandchildren, it's gone.

I planted two Elberta peach trees years ago and the second year we had peaches. Then my esposa pruned them and killed them. Silence for a while at my house.
 
Earl said:
We froze some peaches last year and my esposa made a big pie two days ago. Between my children and grandchildren, it's gone.

I planted two Elberta peach trees years ago and the second year we had peaches. Then my esposa pruned them and killed them. Silence for a while at my house.
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Yes, our family can put away some cobbler...I make it often...
Time for you to plant again and hide the pruning shears...
 
TOP said:
Yes, our family can put away some cobbler...I make it often...
Time for you to plant again and hide the pruning shears...
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Indeed.

This year's peaches coming in shortly. We put up peach marmalade for years but it is labor intensive.
 
Earl said:
Indeed.

This year's peaches coming in shortly. We put up peach marmalade for years but it is labor intensive.
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But worth it....Just let the peaches get pretty ripe..put an "x" on the bottom of the peach before you put it in boiling water...ice bath....voila;)
 
RB 60 said:
Correction. Liberals are mocking him, conservatives are laughing at liberals.
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No, Trumpcucks are pretending to laugh at anyone mocking Trump, because they can't actually defend what Trump said.
This and #whataboutism are the only defenses Trumpcucks have. Instead of admitting the man they worship is mentally challenged, they just pretend that any criticism of Trump is TDS.
 
StoneByStone said:
No, Trumpcucks are pretending to laugh at anyone mocking Trump, because they can't actually defend what Trump said.
This and #whataboutism are the only defenses Trumpcucks have. Instead of admitting the man they worship is mentally challenged, they just pretend that any criticism of Trump is TDS.
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I don't know how people don't believe in Evolution, especially after Richard Lenski's experiments proved Evolution.
 
Why are people taking Trump's disinfectant comments seriously?

Some are not.

The Trump supporter/morons are not.

Granted, anyone with a functioning brain realizes he was serious...but that does not give you the right to state your question in a way that makes it seem like even you brain deranged people do also.

In short...intelligent people do think he was serious...but the mentally handicapped people who continue to support him are pretending they think he was just joking...or "being sarcastic."

:laugh:
 
StoneByStone said:
#whataboutism
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The irony is Trump actually had an actual idea what he was talking about but he messed up by using the lay-term ‘disinfectant’ for introducing an anti-viral directly into the lungs of severely sick patients.

The media was clueless, as usual. If people are *dumb enough* to think he meant Lysol or whatever—well, it doesn’t reflect well on their intelligence.
 
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