Trumpian true believer can't point to one example why Trump is great.

Take 51 minutes and enjoy the following, slightly profane laced debate, trying to answer the question; what one success can true believers point to that earns their undying respect for Trump.

The show's host calls himself "Destiny," and he posted a debated he had with a Trump Republican caller on Youtube. The 51-minutes goes by incredibly fast due to Destiny's rapid-fire debate style. The audio slips out of sync a bit, but the video portion is not really that important, except when he pulls up Google searches proving his point. The caller gets credit for staying civil throughout.

Even with my short attention span, I couldn't pull myself away. Make sure the sound is turned down a little when viewing this at work because it starts off with a short loud highlight:

The Face of a MAGA Trump Worshiper!!!

No really, this is how I see mindless MAGA Trump wallowers, allowed by law enforcement to rub their stupidity in other Americans faces:

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2018 resolution? Stop trying to change Trump Voters Minds, assuming they have one.

I've finally turned the page; Trump worshipers won't budge, so why try to reason with em!  

My conservative friend in Milwaukee is a living breathing Trump playback machine, sending carefully crafted slogans and message pictures via text and tweets. It's an easy way to not have to think. I sent him Trump's contradictory statements, but he just dug in deeper, saying I was wasting my time, he wasn't going to change his mind.

He's right. We can't change Trumplovian in-the-tankers. That's one major effort I'm giving up for 2018 (I won't stop documenting this historic disaster though).

The Washington Post piece below makes the case beautifully. And no, there's no real way to fight it. While the article suggests the best defense is letting Trumpsters know you care, I say don't even try.

Here are some highlights that perfectly describes a Trumpster. Warning, it's really depressing:

Everything he’s done in the White House is more of the same: An enemy (the unpatriotic minorities, the lying liberal media, anyone not part of his Manichaean vision) is being cartooned, blamed for all of society’s evils and offered in sacrifice as a scapegoat to the United States’ problems. The purported solution is still simple: Shame them, silence them, build a wall around them. The basic premise that the restoration of the country lies in the destruction of its enemies remains.

His supporters are convinced that you are to blame. Until you can convince them otherwise, they will cheer him on. The name of the game is polarization, and the rookie mistake is to forget you are the enemy. like all populists, Trump offers a much different deal — “Vote for me: I will destroy your enemies. They are the reason you are not rich/have less rights/America is not great anymore.” 

Scandal is the populist’s natural element for the same reason that demolishing buildings makes more noise than constructing them. His supporters didn’t vote for silence. They voted for a bang. When Trump’s aides are indicted, but Hillary Clinton isn’t, the probe serves as proof that the system is corrupt. Or when the Muslim travel ban is not enforced, it means the “Deep State” is plotting some sort of coup.

That’s how populism works. As long as Trump is still swinging back, scandals help him to polarize the country further. The scorn of his adversaries, in the eyes of his supporters, proves that he’s doing exactly what they voted him for to do: dismantling a rigged system that they believe destroyed their hopes.

What did you ever do to these people to deserve their hate? What can possibly be going on? How can they, for example, make sense of so many former Goldman Sachs men in the Trump Cabinet? Weren’t the bankers supposed to be the enemy? Not to mention Russia? Sheer outrage at the president’s scandals is pointless. 

When directed at Trump, your anger gives him rhetorical ammunition to point toward his besiegers (“We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me)”) or to bolster his claims to be fighting for his base (“Drain the Swamp should be changed to Drain the Sewer — it’s actually much worse than anyone ever thought, and it begins with the Fake News!”). But worse still is directing your anger at his supporters. 

I disagree with the last line, but like guitarist Joe Walsh said once, "You can't argue with a sick mind." I'm done trying.

Home Depot's Bernie Marcus' Pointless Trumpian Rant...

Trump is big on repeating hyperbolic words and terms like "believe me," "great again," "really bad," "liar," "it's going to be huge," "tremendous," "...has zero credibility," "out of control," "there's something going on," "he doesn't get it," and on and on.

Here's an example of the same words mixed up and repeated:

I have many women at high positions. Iyou know I've gotten a lot of credit for that,I mean I have so many women working for meand so many women in high positions working for meand I've gotten great credit for it.

According to the Washington Post, Trump has...:

...a habit of punctuating each argument with short, declarative sentences. And then he often repeats them.

The Trumpian Age of Pointless Ranting: I'm beginning to think the wealthy have their own Trumpian language, that assumes us little people are too dumb to understand.

Like Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus, whose Trumpian rant against Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren did nothing to explain why "she doesn't have a clue," and that "they don't know what the hell they're talking about, it's as simple as that."  

Trumps repetition probably has a calming effect on his devoted basket of deplorables who love keeping it simple...because the world should be as simple as Trump makes it all seem:

And this list:

“Let me tell you” & “Believe me” & “Trust me” Famous phrases said by all con artists meaning…”I’m lying through my teeth and my…wherever.”

“VERY” & “REALLY” Dear God, I am SICK of the words “very” and “really.”

“YUGE”

“AMAZING” This is to cover up the fact that he’s lying so much he can’t even fake these so called “results” that he’s pretending to promise that he’s never going to deliver anyway.  

“UNBELIEVABLE” 

“HATERS AND LOSERS” The obvious…people who don’t like Trump…the majority of the country…the thinking people, non-racist, non-sexist, non-xenophobic public who loathe him.

“NO ONE REALLY KNOWS” This is what Trump says when all proof has been provided proving something is true but Trump doesn’t have any intention of accepting it.  

“I don’t know, but that is what people are telling me.”