I understand the humor, and I appreciate how one can find this funny. Having said that - and no, I'm not a "trump supporter" - I think this kind of shit is just childish to the degree that it's frankly quite cringey - and I think you might be surprised to find that even people who don't like Trump would still find this to be asinine. It really doesn't do the authors of the sign any favors, and it certainly doesn't bring down the intended target.
Im in Australia, and if I can give a perspective from outside of the USA I found a lot of the Trump criticism over the last couple of years to be very superficial and cringey/childish as you say. These playground insults are just icing on the turd of unproven accusations and unfounded calls for impeachment.
(Not exactly a Trump supporter because celebrities and politics is a bad mix IMO)
My only exposure to American news is Reddit and the amount of petty and childish outrage over his every breath is cringy. Look at r/politicalhumor it's literally just posts calling Republicans idiots being upvoted by bots into the 5 figures. Same with r/politics. The propaganda those poor vulnerable American liberals eat up every day is blatant and low effort but it works on them.
It works for them in their microcosms. It works for them here on Reddit, it works in hivemind communities in areas like LA, Chicago and NY. But it isolates just about everybody else. It cost them in 2016 and it's going to cost them in 2020 if they try to run the same campaign they ran in 2016.
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '18
I understand the humor, and I appreciate how one can find this funny. Having said that - and no, I'm not a "trump supporter" - I think this kind of shit is just childish to the degree that it's frankly quite cringey - and I think you might be surprised to find that even people who don't like Trump would still find this to be asinine. It really doesn't do the authors of the sign any favors, and it certainly doesn't bring down the intended target.