Long term we hope for ignoring him, but short term ignoring him gives the wrong impression to low information voters that he’s just fine, a regular politician. Then it’s just a toss up who they choose. No, he’s a dumpster fire and that needs to be screamed from the rooftops.
Yeah, there are tons of things to make better and improve on, but things could be a lot freaking worse. (For more people, anyway, for too many people it’s already terrible currently, e.g. Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, Haiti … )
Did you hear the portion of the speech immediately preceding the shark talk - he was glitching super hard and froze up on discussing military stuff. He only got into the shark battery talk because he couldn’t muster anything else.
I agree with you, but then I just thought of the political eras that gave us Nazis, Stalin and the gulags, Mao and the Cultural Revolution and thought hmm politics could be crazy before, also.
The BBC article doesn’t read as hyperbolic about the incident at all really to me. Seems pretty balanced for what occurred, which would be alarming and unsettling to anyone.
The demographic of Lemmy skews toward people who aren’t into celebrity worship, probably.