{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The latest meme is\u00a0\u201cJoe Biden wants to be a Jedi, but he\u2019s too short to pull his lightsaber.\u201d \u00a0\u201cWait, does he really?\u201d is...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/621155884057460736/", "html": "

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The latest meme is\u00a0\u201cJoe Biden wants to be a Jedi, but he\u2019s too short to pull his lightsaber.\u201d \u00a0\u201cWait, does he really?\u201d is suddenly an acceptable topic of conversation

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damn, Trump always manages to attack his weak point

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I think this is one of those cases where he\u2019s not\u00a0\u201cweak\u201d per se, but one of the things about him that I like is that he\u2019s someone whose self-presentation allows you to make judgments about him on the basis of only two things: what he says and how he acts. \u00a0There\u2019s a certain clarity to his speaking and a certain looseness of his behavior that makes you say\u00a0\u201cyeah, I see how he acts and he talks, I\u2019m okay with that\u201d rather than\u00a0\u201cwait, this guy talks and acts like a true supervillain, what the hell is he thinking\u201d

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It\u2019s a technique he uses to create an aura of mystery, to lend the reader the impression that he is someone who\u00a0\u201cmight be worse than you think\u201d rather than someone you are already comfortable with, someone whose true nature is opaque and mysterious, someone who is hiding in plain sight

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Here\u2019s another thought: maybe\u00a0\u201che\u2019s too short to pull his lightsaber\u201d isn\u2019t really Trump\u2019s weak point at all but rather the best point he has? \u00a0If so, it makes perfect sense that his weakest point would be his height

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I\u2019ll never understand American politics

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A variation on this: I think the central theme of Trump\u2019s appeal is\u00a0\u201cI am an obnoxious, bombastic, showy, in-your-face, big-talking, self-promotional, showman. \u00a0And I will make you happy because I am smart and successful.\u201d \u00a0He\u2019s extremely successful in business and show business, and he doesn\u2019t come off as a con man or an egotist \u2013 just someone who knows how to get people to do things for him. \u00a0His worldview is very cartoonish and cartoonish attitudes about things are very common in American popular culture.

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His persona is very cartoonish and he\u2019s pretty good at it, which is part of the appeal. \u00a0But I\u2019m not sure\u00a0\u201cbombastic, showman\u201d is the\u00a0type of persona you want to put forward in a presidential candidate. \u00a0After all, there are people with cartoonish personas (Ozymandias or Hermes Cept) who\u00a0\u201chave their flaws\u201d and can make some pretty bad decisions \u2013 someone like, say, Donald Trump, who is notoriously bad at reading people and is very\u00a0\u201cgrabby\u201d with his hands. \u00a0As with many cartoonish personas, I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anything \u201cbrilliant\u201d about the Donald \u2013 but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a bad guy. \u00a0He\u2019s just like a cartoon.

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what the hell, this is the best take on Donald Trump I\u2019ve ever read and it was written by a bot

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