- Dołączono
- 20 Wrz 2016
God, that is hilarious.I will never understand how the Lincoln Project can be so fucking awful at making political ads. They always come off like some sort of parody.
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One thing that really jumps out at me in this ad is that, even after eight years of Trump, this family is obviously doing well. The family depicted lives in a nice house, which is in good repair, and the boy has his own room, and enough stuff for it to be cluttered. He gets to enjoy playing sports, like a normal kid. Mom's kind of frumpy, but decently dressed and able to get her hair done. Both mother and son appear well-fed and in good health, even if Mom does suffer from TDS.
This is not a family that has suffered, or fallen into reduced circumstances under the Trump regime. Their life looks perfectly good and wholesome, and even aspirational to a lot of Americans.
SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, HERE?!
We're supposed to believe that things are terrible under Trump. They don't look too terrible for this family. Is Dad away in a gulag, being re-educated for leftist wrongthink? Given the family's material circumstances, it doesn't seem likely. Maybe all the black people have been shipped to Africa, or all the troons rounded up and gassed? There's nothing in this ad to suggest it.
In the ad, Trump just got re-elected--elected, in a race where Mom had to stay up late until the results were tallied and the victory was called, because his victory was not a foregone conclusion. That means Trump had an opponent, who lost, because the voters wanted four more years of Trump. And that he was able to run for a third term means there was an amendment to the Constitution to allow that, which can only be done through a political process that requires cooperation and consent from members of both parties.
So this family's doing well, and so is the process of electing the President of the United States. Trump was re-elected (at the age of 78, btw) for a third term--he did not declare himself God Emperor for Life through Executive Order.
So again, what's the problem here? Is it really so simple as Orange Man Bad? The creators of this ad sure as shit haven't presented anything here to convince me otherwise.