![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A must read. Thanks. https://t.co/9vX8E7A53u
— Marina Sirtis (@Marina_Sirtis) June 30, 2017
Posting the article itself directly, in addition to the retweet of a retweet of it. https://t.co/EsQ3vgx4ak
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
As someone who currently lives in and is surrounded by rural, Christian white America, this is pretty accurate, albeit depressing as fuck.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
But on the Internet, there is also an extremely bizarre convergence between those above and the "citizen of Kekistan" types. It's ludicrous.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
That said, the reasons for this is not as bizarre as one might think. The conditions are somewhat vaguely similar. https://t.co/bBAZGXJB5d
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
The only real difference being that the Kekistanis *know* Trump is a joke, and yet support him anyway, *because* he is a joke. For teh lulz.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
Rural, Christian white America, on the other hand, not only doesn't think Trump is a joke, they think he's literally God's gift to politics.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
The end result is the same, though, in both cases. Constant trashing of anyone who dares criticize anything Trump (or the GOP) says or does.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
I don't know what a Venn diagram of "citizens of Kekistan" and "rural, Christian white America" would look like, in general, but... 1/2
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
...as far as the circle of "Trump supporters" goes, both are smaller circles almost entirely contained within that larger circle. 2/2
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
And that's absurdly fascinating to me. Two otherwise wholly disparate groups coming together for the purpose of being Trump's lickspittles.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
The third circle that falls within the larger circle of "Trump supporters" is the group that was mentioned in the original article above...
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
I.e. "...Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, any of the blonde Stepford Wives on Fox, every evangelical preacher on television..."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
I.e. the circle that actually doesn't give the slightest shit about the other two circles (or Trump himself) except insofar as exploitation.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
Can "rural, Christian white America" and "citizens of Kekistan" be exploited to enlarge their bank accounts? Yep so they'll pay lip service.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
It's why Faux Noise is the only channel "rural, Christian white America" will give the time of day, amid all the other supposed "fake news."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
Similarly it's why the likes of Breitbart jumped on the coattails of GamerGate early on. Exploitation, pure and simple, period, end of line.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
FOX News gives just as few *actual* *fucks* about "rural, Christian white America" as Brietbart does about GamerGate/"citizens of Kekistan."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
And they care about Trump only as far as his ability to generate headlines and outrage among supporters, which fills their bank accounts.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
The fourth circle within the Venn diagram of "Trump supporters" is the old guard GOP Congressassholes, like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
Their only use for Trump is as a rubber stamp for and diversion away from their attempts to pass horrifically terrible bills like the #AHCA.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
If and when Trump ever ceases to adequately serve them in that regard, they're going to drop his wrinkled orange ass like a hot potato.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
In summary, "rural, Christian white America," "Kekistanis," far-right "news" media, and GOP Congressfuckers are the bulk of Trump's support.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
Beyond that, I can't think of any other group that supports #SCROTUS #PresidentBawbag @realDonaldTrump in any real, meaningful way.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
And of those groups, "rural, Christian white America" is the only one that supports him genuinely, rather than ironically and/or cynically.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
NB4 "not all rural white Christians."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 30, 2017
Hell, at this rate, maybe I should just bring the Trump tweets tag back. ¬_¬
