Republicans don’t ask for handouts, they ask for your confidence, faith, and trust to manage and grow an investment opportunity.
… It is literally just throw in some other Republican coded words that sound more ‘small business entrepenuer’, and this is sufficient to trick the lead brained, ivermectin enema’d, mouth breathing cult members that make up their core voter base.
I am serious about this, go find a tiktok compilation of Republican small business owners who’ve been fucked over by the tariffs, who either open their video with, or include the phrase ‘I’m not asking for a handout, I’m asking for a handup’ or some other such laughably sophomoric wordplay, when complaining they got what they asked for and now they don’t want it.
The smarter ones know they are being disingenuous, but a shocking number of them really are so stupid that they think using a different phrase to describe the same thing, well that makes it a different thing.
They are so used to having thought terminating cliches and reframing certain discussion subjects with more rhetorically agreeable wordings… from their churches, their media, their political heroes… I really stuggle to describe it as anything other than a kind of learned mental disability.
Republicans don’t ask for handouts, they ask for your confidence, faith, and trust to manage and grow an investment opportunity.
… It is literally just throw in some other Republican coded words that sound more ‘small business entrepenuer’, and this is sufficient to trick the lead brained, ivermectin enema’d, mouth breathing cult members that make up their core voter base.
I am serious about this, go find a tiktok compilation of Republican small business owners who’ve been fucked over by the tariffs, who either open their video with, or include the phrase ‘I’m not asking for a handout, I’m asking for a handup’ or some other such laughably sophomoric wordplay, when complaining they got what they asked for and now they don’t want it.
The smarter ones know they are being disingenuous, but a shocking number of them really are so stupid that they think using a different phrase to describe the same thing, well that makes it a different thing.
They are so used to having thought terminating cliches and reframing certain discussion subjects with more rhetorically agreeable wordings… from their churches, their media, their political heroes… I really stuggle to describe it as anything other than a kind of learned mental disability.