Like many Americans, Carolina Giuliani was paralyzed over the prospect that Donald Trump — the man she blames for ruining her father and damaging her family — could be close to returning to the White House.
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“It’s a hard phenomenon to understand. It definitely is,” Carolina Giuliani said. “I view Trump as a disease, and I think it’s really important to remember that with every disease, prevention is a much more effective strategy than treatment. … I thought we had cured ourselves of it the first time, but it doesn’t seem like we have.
“And I think if he becomes the president again, we may have a terminal illness in our country. And that really, really scares me.”
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The Trumpist members of my family are proud to be recalcitrant about it all. It’s at least three parts: first there’s the gulf between us, and then the knowledge of the breadth of it, and lastly the pride of standing so far away from everyone. It’s not just that they’re way past the orbit of Pluto. It’s also the fact that they’re so proud to be so far out.
People want to believe that they’re informed. Want to believe that they know things others don’t. That they are wise. And will push back when challenged. Because they don’t know the one thing every wise person knows. Just how much they don’t know. Fools are confidently wrong. The wise are cautiously correct.
45 years ago:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
― Isaac Asimov
You’re absolutely right. I’d just like to add on:
Wise people learn from the mistakes of others. They observe and take note of chains of events, and use that knowledge in order to guide their own decisions in the future.
Wise people question what they believe. If they feel cognitive dissonance, they don’t ignore it; they examine their ideas and consider the prospect that they may be wrong. They can change their minds based on new evidence.
Wise people are skeptical. When they learn about a situation, they don’t take immediate sides based on knee-jerk emotions. Rather, they examine all available information and come around to their own ideas in their own time.
Using all of the above points are what guide wise people towards “cautiously correct” decisions. They are more likely “correct” because they base their ideas on a greater pool of information, and are capable of discarding ideas even if the ideas “feel good” to believe in. They remain “cautious,” because no matter how sure they believe they are, they are well aware that there’s a chance they could still be mistaken.
The trumpets in my family, aunt and uncle, are different. they pretend to be affable and loving, act like they want to see us, but every time we get together they CAN NOT HELP themselves from talking shit about liberals or whatever the latest fox propaganda is. And they know my parents, my wife and I are left to varying degrees. So I finally said fuck it, clearly you do not respect me, so I don’t need your bullshit in my life anymore.
I believe a large part of Trump supporters are that way due to some overgrown form of Oppositional-Defiant Disorder.
I certainly think it’s a part of it. As someone who knows some people I think have ODD, they’re easier to work on than true believers. You can find common ground in fuck this system talk, but guide that towards a better future instead.
Source: years of working with hearts and minds of people I care about. I identify with ODD. I probably could have been classified ODD at some point.
recalcitrant
adjective
re·cal·ci·trant ri-ˈkal-sə-trənt
1
**: **obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
2
a
**: **difficult to manage or operate
b
**: **not responsive to treatment
c
**: **RESISTANT
this subject is recalcitrant both to observation and to experiment—G. G. Simpson
People feel wronged and betrayed by the system, and like they need that reflected in who they vote for as their representative.
He is that person for those people (hence why they love the mugshot).
The Republican side of politics knows this is the emotional driver, so they direct most of their media to that kind of grievance politics, and claiming they’ll “fix” these persecution issues in extraordinary ways.
People like Musk and Thiel fund these campaigns.
Trump thinks he can fix it all by breaking the system that he sees as persecuting him; the system of democracy and the rule of law.
So he wants all its powers. He wants to be a dictator. Then you’ll see his politics and only his, and there’ll be no more persecution, no more broken system. Just him.
That’s how the right wingers feel. They’re emotionally locked into this.
That’s why they’re still on board, for the political solution to their emotional disenfranchisement, for their own sense something’s wrong with everyone but them to he proven out with power. Being onboard with Trump proves there’s a broken system they’ve been wronged by, and someone powerful is in that boat with them.
It’s a cult, just as much as neoliberal compromise with the Capitalist forces of self-sacrifice is a cult.
My father revealed that he had been bullshitting about every moral lesson he had ever tried to tell me when he went maga.
That’s just it, once you reveal you don’t stand for some things that do carry that moral weight good luck trying to convince anyone of the kind going forward. I wouldn’t listen anymore. People have sacrificed too much and just plug their ears to the effects of it. What do they really stand for?
its not a fuckin disease.
You can catch a disease through no fault of your own.
These MAGA fucktards willfully disregard common sense, and truth, and decency, and their own christian moral values, because service to the party and the orange lord is paramount.
everything about MAGA is willful and intentional.
These are not poor innocent victims, These are rampant, fascist pieces of shit, that finally felt comfortable enough to let their swastikas fly when they thought they had their chance at seizing glory and crushing the opposition that would are make them face repercussions for their abhorrence.
People trying to desperately shift blame away from them, and turn them into victims, is bullshit, and nothing but evidence of how well all these right wing pieces of shit managed to stay under the radar and mask themselves until they thought the time was right.
She means disease in the macro sense, like America is diseased. People are no different than they were any time before, just now they are being manipulated by their emotions and biases with profit-driven 24 hour news and social media.
There are plenty of people as described but there are also plenty of rubes going along with it. Plenty of peer pressure, plenty who fall for save the children shit who otherwise mean well.
I just had some blood work done a couple days ago and the nice woman and I talked about the aftermath of Helene. We talked about how horrible it was, how similar our geography was to the worst affected areas. She was genuinely upset and said if she made more money she’d be donating to the victims. I brought up that FEMA said that Helene has fucked their budget up. She told me that it would have been fine if they hadn’t spent all that money on those immigrants.
I may think this person is stupid, but I don’t believe she is malicious.
Then you would be a fool.
Cause shes just as malicious as the rest of them, If she wasnt she wouldnt be spouting that fucking racist nonsense.
You are just fooled by a cute face and little charade personality she puts on until she let her mask slip.
Believe me there was no cute face involved but mine. And it’s more chiseled handsome than cute anyway.
She definitely changed the subject as soon as I said neutrally that most immigrants are here legally.
This is the underlying article written by Caroline Giuliani: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris
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That’s rich coming from a Giuliani. Her father and brother were ruined before Trump.
Considering she is saying he divided the family and that Giuliani was pretty quiet before Trump, I think we should take it as a “we didn’t always agree but we were family and that came first”. Which if true is a terrifying possibility that mutant oompla loompa man is capable of splitting a family that badly. Reminds me of some civil war quotes.
Cue video of Guiliani in drag with Trump motorboating him:
