He actually does look like a cleaned up version of Charlie Manson in the photo.

Or buying ads on his wife’s radio station as apparently was how you’d get in front of President Johnson.

It’s para social. The person consuming it feels as though they are part of a relationship. EFIT: like TV but more interactive.

“And you ain’t in it!”

There are many influences. One is pure resentment of elites as know-it-alls which propagandists amplify. A bit of Dunning–Kruger effect at the same time as people without specialized training can’t even comprehend what they don’t know. Another is how difficult it is to think probabilistically so that people can’t easily appreciate risk. And as more and more people proclaim conspiracy theories as truth there is peer pressure to confirm.

And to shift blame

Vance has less charisma and would not have the staying power Trump has demonstrated.

Do you think he has a raging clue

Not sure if this is true but it’s an attractive explanation

Enjoy your home OP. May you live out many happy years under its shelter.

Well, I didn’t know that. I meant no disrespect. I was working off what seemed to me to be a humorous superficial resemblance. Apologies.

For sure

And my Mastodon!

How many liberal tears in a banana? For scale purposes of course.

Uncle Milton and his cat 5 anaconda …

Didn’t the corrupt supreme court just take away Chevron Deference? This needed rule will be disqualified by the captured courts.

That’s the way to get other good dogs killed.

He is really unable to accurately represent any perspective other than his own, the poster boy for malignant narcissism.