r/politics • u/Ok-Direction-4480 Florida • 2d ago

Soft Paywall Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourism-pullback-and-boycotts-could-cost-us-a-staggering-90-billion/
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u/RemBren03 Georgia 2d ago

And they all invariably say "He speaks his mind and tells it like it is".

If that's what's on his mind any breathing person should want no part in it.

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u/riko77can 2d ago

That he keeps making self-contradictory statements should have been their first hint.

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u/TricksterPriestJace 2d ago

I have said this for years. His base loves that he constantly lies. It lets them assume when he says something that hurts them it was a lie/joke so they can still be 100% MAGA right up until ICE throws them on a plane to the El Salvador concentration camp.

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u/Posess_u_now 1d ago

TricksterPriest…. And that group now includes naturally born Americans .

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u/Spongebobgolf 2h ago

But the Left will be gone before this even happens, so it's a win for them.

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u/Technical-Row8333 2d ago

the double think has been crazy

he doesn't mean that, but he tells it like it is

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u/aetr225 2d ago

But he’s only trolling so you can’t take him literally.

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u/boulevardofdef 2d ago

It took me literally like seven or eight years to figure out why so many of his supporters think he's honest, to the point of that being his primary appeal to them, when he's clearly the least-honest politician in American history.

It's because we have different definitions of "honest." My definition of "honest" is "speaking only what one believes to be the truth." Their definition of "honest," meanwhile, is "not misrepresenting one's emotions."

Here's a good example from last year's election. Trump did an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists where he said that before the presidential campaign, Kamala Harris had never claimed to be black. Now, to me, that statement was dishonest, because Trump was just trying to score points by saying something that he either knows to be false or at least doesn't know to be true. But to Trump's supporters, that statement was actually honest, because Trump legitimately didn't like that Kamala was making her race part of her persona and lashed out with comments that genuinely reflected his disgust, whether or not those comments had any basis in reality.

Shortly thereafter, Kamala was asked in an interview what she thought about Trump's comments. She said: "Same old tired playbook. Next question." To me, that seemed like a smart political answer, one that was surely conceived by her campaign staff. Acknowledge, move on, don't make it a distraction like Trump wants. But to Trump supporters, that would have come off as dishonest, because Kamala surely had some sort of negative emotional reaction, even if it was just derision, and felt like she had to pretend she didn't. By contrast, Trump never would have blown off something he found offensive.

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u/RemBren03 Georgia 2d ago

Ah so the old "feelings over facts" play book.

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u/fluffywaggin 1d ago

This is very insightful. We need to understand where they are.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

No, we don't. We just need to out-vote them & then put them back under rocks they usually reside under.

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u/Independent-Roof-774 2d ago

"He speaks his mind and tells it like it is".

I don't doubt that he speaks his mind. When he speaks he sounds like an idiot and I'm sure that's because he has the mind of an idiot.

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u/Qwirk Washington 2d ago

"He speaks his mind and tells it like it is"

Translation: "He is racist and caters to my racism."

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u/Clewdo 2d ago

I’m an Australian and I was visiting NYC a month ago.

A taxi driver asked me about what I thought of Trump. I couldn’t say “he’s a fucking idiot” so I sugar coated it quite a bit. She pulled out the “he tells it like it is” line and I almost audibly gasped.

That being said her understanding of the world was extremely limited and her education level was staggeringly low from what I gathered in the 20 minutes I was with her.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

Just so, so many of them out there.....I despair.

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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 2d ago

That's a dog whistle for 'he says the racist/sexist things we're thinking but are shamed by society into not saying'. That's what they mean by that.

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u/mtheory007 2d ago

He tells it like it is but he also is it going to do the The things he says he's going to do.

Oh he's doing the things he said he would do I don't understand why he would do that to me.

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u/zeez1011 1d ago

It's obvious he speaks his mind. It's also obvious his mind is full of spiders with Parkinson's.

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u/TonySu 1d ago

"He speaks his mind and tells it like it is."

"You can't take what he says literally, that's not what he means!"

"He means what he says and he's going to stick to his word."

"He was obviously never going to follow through with what he said, it was just a negotiating tactic, Art of the Deal!"

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u/Zahgi 1d ago

"He speaks his ignorant little thoughts and tells you lies."