• Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Trump will do what he did last time. Claim to have a Healthcare plan. Point to an enormous pile of blank paper saying it’s his Healthcare plan or something. And continue to have absolutely no plan and make no progress. Followers will irrationally feel like things are improving even though nothing has changed. Or actually gotten worse if they manage to get control of the house and senate and kill the affordable care act. Expect gains Biden made in his administration, like for the first time allowing Medicare to bargain with drug companies for better prices, to also be on the chopping block.

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      11 months ago

      For a candidate that was the first real meme candidate, it’s pretty amazing there aren’t popular memes about his lying and deflection and haplessness.

      It seems the gish gallop works in the dank.

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        My dude, where was your internet during those 4 years? We absolutely had tons of memes about it. There was just so much material that the quantity drowned out the quality.

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          Totally. I’ll never forget about perpetual infrastructure week.

          Also was kind of funny that in the end a large infrastructure bill was one of the first things Biden/congress actually did after taking office.

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          Oh, I get there was memes, but none have survived the passage of time in the same way. Thanks obama has survived.

          It’s the sheer volume of trumps inadequacies. None stick in the same way as he’s as disposable as his memes. With high quantity, I’d expect some to rise to the challenge. None really did. None capture the moment or zeitgeist around him.

          Perhaps referring to him and his administration as a dumpster fire did, but that was more language catching on than a meme.

          The drowning out is partially my point. A gosh gallop is giving so much misinformation that to properly rebut is not possible,