Bij het electoraat is 'meeuwigheid' troef. Net als meeuwen slikken de kiezers vrijwel alles wat er hun wordt toegeworpen. Vooral als het om loze beloften gaat.

Thickotropy (not to be confused with thixotropy) is the turning to, or putting one's faith in, thickos/thickheads*. The phenomenon seems predominant in rightwing political circles. * particularly stupid people, (sometimes deliberately so).

“There’s maybe a little problem with his memory – it was actually a female president, not of a country but of the European Union.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

Nato chief says Trump remarks may put US and EU lives at risk

Jens Stoltenberg says Nato ‘ready and able to defend all allies’, after Trump invited Russia to attack member countries

theguardian.com

The choice is stark: a slightly forgetful octogenarian versus an unhinged would-be dictatorial almost-octogenarian.

Trump, de volstrekt onbetrouwbare 'bondgenoot' en Putin Versteher nos.nl/l/2508395

De overeenkomst van carnaval en de eerste (in)formatiepoging is dat de kluchtigheid a.s. woensdag echt wel over is. Alaaf!

Catholics, but also rational people. They believed in life after death, of course, but quite possibly life on earth in general, just not their own. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

'Unhinged' is an understatement, of course. 
 Trump says he would 'encourage' Russia to attack Nato allies who do not pay their bills Trump says he would 'encourage' Russia to attack Nato allies who do not pay their bills www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Trump says he would 'encourage' Russia to attack Nato allies who do not pay their bills

The US presidential hopeful says he would not protect any country failing to pay its bills.

bbc.co.uk