I can't for the life of me figure out how to respond to private messages from new subscribers (and I don't want to open my account up to requests for private messages--I'm way too reachable already), but I want to say thank you to new subscriber Paul. He wrote a kind note saying he upgraded to a paid subscription based on this post.
I feel almost exactly the same way about Trump. I did not vote for him (or Hillary) the first time but I did the second as I thought most of his actions in office were good for the country until the Covid debacle. Though I wish he were not running again, I will vote for him again as the alternative is a continuing disaster that will bring about massive destruction to almost every aspect of our society. I admire your willingness to state your views as TDS is pervasive and loud.
These are my thoughts exactly, and I refuse to apologize for them. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. To me, people who espouse views similar to mine regarding DEI, the dangers of the transgender cult, mass immigration/open borders etc and then say they aren’t voting for Trump because they” can’t stand him” are insane. The cognitive dissonance is massive. I don’t need a president to hold my hand. He’s not my best friend. I need him to get the job done.
Josh, re Trump - you are a political pragmatist and that's what everybody needs to be in deciding their vote for any political candidate, especially for the Presidency. I shudder when I hear somebody say that he or she "likes" a politician and on that basis will vote for that person. I know several people who voted for Biden in '20 simply because they felt Trump was "mean." Really? Is that how people squander their constitutional right to vote?
I'm afraid the reality is that most Americans do not follow politics, whether national or local, so they have little understanding of key issues and, worse, each candidate's position on the issues. They vote on their emotional reaction to a carefully constructed media image of the politician who doesn't exist in reality. And both major parties are just fine with that arrangement. With Trump we know what we're getting. With Biden we also know what we're getting. Applying a bit of pragmatism and a healthy dose of reality will make the choice obvious.
Well articulated and particularly good to address the problem of single issue voters who view abortion rights as the only national problem. One might wonder if narcissism is fueling that .
Oh my God...YES! 👏 👏 👏 THANK YOU for saying this! Never did I ever think that I'd find myself (NYC Women's March 2017 and 2018 Alum) defending trump, but these sick bastards running the corpse puppet that is biden force me to again and again. I never thought I'd feel anything but white-hot rage at the mango mussolini, but here I am, forced to admit that he's just like any other politician, and not even the worst we have to offer right now.
And for the record...biden also has credible sexual assault allegations against him. (Including disgusting accounts from his own daughter.) Personally, I'm far more inclined to believe Tara Reed than E. Jean Carroll. Reed has about as much contemporaneous evidence as it's possible to have, without actual videotape evidence. Any woman who's hanging her pussy hat on that one issue is the one truly committing an act of betrayal against women.
I'd rather have a retarded narcissist bragging like a 12 year old about grabbing pussies than a demented narcissist eliminating actual vaginas from the category of "woman", while promoting an agenda that puts very real women in very real danger from violent sexual predators.
No Josh, you don't owe women anything, especially not when the demand requires you to ignore reality based on the pure emotional reactions of zealots.
I'm a woman and I agree with absolutely everything that you have said. We are facing a complete jettisoning of our precious Constitution, and the Covid response across the West demonstrated (in the words of Bret Weinstein) that there was already an international structure of sorts in place that allowed "turn-key totalitarianism" to be implemented. We woke up, literally overnight, to find ourselves in a cage of crazy. Too many of our fellow citizens became unthinking robots, cooperating fully with the Latest Pronouncements and Restrictions and refusing to hear out anyone raising questions. And all of these various players and institutions are still there and are getting WORSE. So, yeah---I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump.
Yes, Trump is a super-dee-dooper asshole; a classic example of one type of narcissist. He holds some attitudes towards women that are very common among men of his generation. Having lived his life large and in public but never as a politician, he didn't carefully curate and stifle himself as politicians do. As a result, there's a lot of historical fodder that can be used against him simply because he didn't hide himself behind a bland political oatmeal persona.
But he has no desire to "fundamentally transform" the US; he wants to preserve and improve our country because it has a system that obviously WORKS. He wants to make the right deals, have the US come out on top, and then have his accomplishments lauded.
This is my first year voting in the US. I could have never imagined to vote for Trump, but yet for the same reasons you are giving I feel that voting for Trump may be the only logical choice. I know Trump is a narcissist and I know he has a disgusting way of speaking about women and treating them. Yet, I can deal with the garden variety sexist much better than either a president who is toying with authoritarianism or someone that is demented.
Would I prefer to vote for someone different? Absolutely. But it does not look like that choice will exist. Maybe independent? Who knows.
The key is: I vote on policies. And the border crisis is real. Transgender activism is hurting children for real. Feelings and emotions are not good policy makers. Neither is kindness helping us set better policies as we have seen in recent years, all it does is prevent us from making tough decisions thad actually need to be made to not harm the economy, people, and society. On all accounts people are doing worse, the economy is doing worse (inflation, housing, etc), and us as a society could not be more divided.
Trump will not be a savior or change agent, but he may slow down the downward spiral that Biden has accelerated so much
100% agree on the Republican Party. A bunch of pussies that will do, day and mostly avoid anything that might take away their cushy DC life. Most of them go around screaming “Jesus” to get the heat off them. As far as Trump. I think the buffoonery is often on purpose but he doesn’t know when to turn it off. I don’t think he is cunning enough to take on the DC “swamp.” The COVID regime drained Donald Trump. This all being said I don’t suffer from TDS and it’s related complication MAGA Phobia. He isn’t Hitler and the idea that he would be a dictator is as laughable as the people that actually believe the nonsense. Finally between Trump and Biden it’s Trump for me. He might hold the line on some of the madness and evil but not much more. He’s just not that smart.
You just articulated exactly how I feel about Trump. 60-something, college degreed in the IT field, female here. Could give a rat's behind about the Trump/women issue. I don't think he's a rapist or a misogynist. I think he's akin to a crude frat boy, and I am capable of looking out for myself when troglyodytes enter the arena. This country cannot survive another 4 years of Biden/Democrat policies. Trump has the better position on almost every issue I am deeply concerned about - and I think he learned some things after his first go at running the show. He won't make some of the same mistakes he did previously, although I am under no illusions that he won't screw the pooch on some. But the bus to hell we are on now will only accelerate unless those with the means stand up and yank the OFF line. Trump. Musk. Rowling. Standard bearers with flaws that I do not agree with 100%, but they are at least pushing back on many of the absolute bat shit crazy positions the DEI Democrat totalitarians are espousing.
Also, I view my choice not as the lesser of two evils but as the evil of two lessers, lol.
I don't see how anyone reading your posts and watching the show could think that you think Donald Trump is worse than the Democrats, Biden in particular. RFK Jr. says the same thing. Were I you, Josh, given how clearly you write, I'd have to wonder what else about me they totally misunderstand.
I don't believe this country can withstand another four years of Biden. We're already on the brink. Skin color and genitals have replaced merit in hiring. The left touts diversity while creating division. Money that would buy groceries for a whole family now buys ten or less items.
We aren't at the point of irreversible damage just yet, but we're closing in on it.
I get it. I used to vote third party and had a problem with people who voted for the lesser of two evils. Now that I have a child and I have seen the horrors of the Biden administration, I have to do what I think is the best thing for my child in the future. That is Trump.
Great post Josh, thank you for sharing. I know a lot of people are interested in your views of Trump. I also want to add that the majority of countries around the world have been co-opted into aligning with a globalist agenda, and Trump is one of the few people to strongly oppose globalism (one world government). That is big for me. I don't care how nice or mean someone is. I care that they fight to make their nation strong and independent. This is why "America First" has become a popular slogan for many. Thanks for all that you do Josh. I have a handful of family and friends who listen to your show and we have great discussions around these topics.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to respond to private messages from new subscribers (and I don't want to open my account up to requests for private messages--I'm way too reachable already), but I want to say thank you to new subscriber Paul. He wrote a kind note saying he upgraded to a paid subscription based on this post.
Thank you!
I feel almost exactly the same way about Trump. I did not vote for him (or Hillary) the first time but I did the second as I thought most of his actions in office were good for the country until the Covid debacle. Though I wish he were not running again, I will vote for him again as the alternative is a continuing disaster that will bring about massive destruction to almost every aspect of our society. I admire your willingness to state your views as TDS is pervasive and loud.
Great post!
These are my thoughts exactly, and I refuse to apologize for them. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. To me, people who espouse views similar to mine regarding DEI, the dangers of the transgender cult, mass immigration/open borders etc and then say they aren’t voting for Trump because they” can’t stand him” are insane. The cognitive dissonance is massive. I don’t need a president to hold my hand. He’s not my best friend. I need him to get the job done.
Josh, re Trump - you are a political pragmatist and that's what everybody needs to be in deciding their vote for any political candidate, especially for the Presidency. I shudder when I hear somebody say that he or she "likes" a politician and on that basis will vote for that person. I know several people who voted for Biden in '20 simply because they felt Trump was "mean." Really? Is that how people squander their constitutional right to vote?
I'm afraid the reality is that most Americans do not follow politics, whether national or local, so they have little understanding of key issues and, worse, each candidate's position on the issues. They vote on their emotional reaction to a carefully constructed media image of the politician who doesn't exist in reality. And both major parties are just fine with that arrangement. With Trump we know what we're getting. With Biden we also know what we're getting. Applying a bit of pragmatism and a healthy dose of reality will make the choice obvious.
Lovely, thoughtful piece, Josh. Voters in the US really are confronted with a version of "Hobson's Choice" in November.
Well articulated and particularly good to address the problem of single issue voters who view abortion rights as the only national problem. One might wonder if narcissism is fueling that .
Oh my God...YES! 👏 👏 👏 THANK YOU for saying this! Never did I ever think that I'd find myself (NYC Women's March 2017 and 2018 Alum) defending trump, but these sick bastards running the corpse puppet that is biden force me to again and again. I never thought I'd feel anything but white-hot rage at the mango mussolini, but here I am, forced to admit that he's just like any other politician, and not even the worst we have to offer right now.
And for the record...biden also has credible sexual assault allegations against him. (Including disgusting accounts from his own daughter.) Personally, I'm far more inclined to believe Tara Reed than E. Jean Carroll. Reed has about as much contemporaneous evidence as it's possible to have, without actual videotape evidence. Any woman who's hanging her pussy hat on that one issue is the one truly committing an act of betrayal against women.
I'd rather have a retarded narcissist bragging like a 12 year old about grabbing pussies than a demented narcissist eliminating actual vaginas from the category of "woman", while promoting an agenda that puts very real women in very real danger from violent sexual predators.
No Josh, you don't owe women anything, especially not when the demand requires you to ignore reality based on the pure emotional reactions of zealots.
I'm a woman and I agree with absolutely everything that you have said. We are facing a complete jettisoning of our precious Constitution, and the Covid response across the West demonstrated (in the words of Bret Weinstein) that there was already an international structure of sorts in place that allowed "turn-key totalitarianism" to be implemented. We woke up, literally overnight, to find ourselves in a cage of crazy. Too many of our fellow citizens became unthinking robots, cooperating fully with the Latest Pronouncements and Restrictions and refusing to hear out anyone raising questions. And all of these various players and institutions are still there and are getting WORSE. So, yeah---I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump.
Yes, Trump is a super-dee-dooper asshole; a classic example of one type of narcissist. He holds some attitudes towards women that are very common among men of his generation. Having lived his life large and in public but never as a politician, he didn't carefully curate and stifle himself as politicians do. As a result, there's a lot of historical fodder that can be used against him simply because he didn't hide himself behind a bland political oatmeal persona.
But he has no desire to "fundamentally transform" the US; he wants to preserve and improve our country because it has a system that obviously WORKS. He wants to make the right deals, have the US come out on top, and then have his accomplishments lauded.
This is my first year voting in the US. I could have never imagined to vote for Trump, but yet for the same reasons you are giving I feel that voting for Trump may be the only logical choice. I know Trump is a narcissist and I know he has a disgusting way of speaking about women and treating them. Yet, I can deal with the garden variety sexist much better than either a president who is toying with authoritarianism or someone that is demented.
Would I prefer to vote for someone different? Absolutely. But it does not look like that choice will exist. Maybe independent? Who knows.
The key is: I vote on policies. And the border crisis is real. Transgender activism is hurting children for real. Feelings and emotions are not good policy makers. Neither is kindness helping us set better policies as we have seen in recent years, all it does is prevent us from making tough decisions thad actually need to be made to not harm the economy, people, and society. On all accounts people are doing worse, the economy is doing worse (inflation, housing, etc), and us as a society could not be more divided.
Trump will not be a savior or change agent, but he may slow down the downward spiral that Biden has accelerated so much
100% agree on the Republican Party. A bunch of pussies that will do, day and mostly avoid anything that might take away their cushy DC life. Most of them go around screaming “Jesus” to get the heat off them. As far as Trump. I think the buffoonery is often on purpose but he doesn’t know when to turn it off. I don’t think he is cunning enough to take on the DC “swamp.” The COVID regime drained Donald Trump. This all being said I don’t suffer from TDS and it’s related complication MAGA Phobia. He isn’t Hitler and the idea that he would be a dictator is as laughable as the people that actually believe the nonsense. Finally between Trump and Biden it’s Trump for me. He might hold the line on some of the madness and evil but not much more. He’s just not that smart.
You just articulated exactly how I feel about Trump. 60-something, college degreed in the IT field, female here. Could give a rat's behind about the Trump/women issue. I don't think he's a rapist or a misogynist. I think he's akin to a crude frat boy, and I am capable of looking out for myself when troglyodytes enter the arena. This country cannot survive another 4 years of Biden/Democrat policies. Trump has the better position on almost every issue I am deeply concerned about - and I think he learned some things after his first go at running the show. He won't make some of the same mistakes he did previously, although I am under no illusions that he won't screw the pooch on some. But the bus to hell we are on now will only accelerate unless those with the means stand up and yank the OFF line. Trump. Musk. Rowling. Standard bearers with flaws that I do not agree with 100%, but they are at least pushing back on many of the absolute bat shit crazy positions the DEI Democrat totalitarians are espousing.
Also, I view my choice not as the lesser of two evils but as the evil of two lessers, lol.
I don't see how anyone reading your posts and watching the show could think that you think Donald Trump is worse than the Democrats, Biden in particular. RFK Jr. says the same thing. Were I you, Josh, given how clearly you write, I'd have to wonder what else about me they totally misunderstand.
I don't believe this country can withstand another four years of Biden. We're already on the brink. Skin color and genitals have replaced merit in hiring. The left touts diversity while creating division. Money that would buy groceries for a whole family now buys ten or less items.
We aren't at the point of irreversible damage just yet, but we're closing in on it.
I get it. I used to vote third party and had a problem with people who voted for the lesser of two evils. Now that I have a child and I have seen the horrors of the Biden administration, I have to do what I think is the best thing for my child in the future. That is Trump.
Great post Josh, thank you for sharing. I know a lot of people are interested in your views of Trump. I also want to add that the majority of countries around the world have been co-opted into aligning with a globalist agenda, and Trump is one of the few people to strongly oppose globalism (one world government). That is big for me. I don't care how nice or mean someone is. I care that they fight to make their nation strong and independent. This is why "America First" has become a popular slogan for many. Thanks for all that you do Josh. I have a handful of family and friends who listen to your show and we have great discussions around these topics.