Failure of our educational system. Completely.

what if the failure is actually at home, before after and around the school experience. what if it’s the responsibility of parents, not the government, to make sure the kids aren’t shitty little demons

Babe wake up the new median voter is a fucking moron. Babe? Oh, right, I sleep in a race car.

Aiden must have forgot the part about how he also cut student aid and funding for his school and fired all the people who one day would have cured his cancer.

Yeah no people like that need to be sent to reeducation camps

He thinks wrestling is real and he watches NASCAR for the crashes

Not that it in any way relates to qualifications to be President, but Trump doesn’t know ounces about baseball much less “tons”. Also, he wasn’t shot (which is also irrelevant).

There was never an alt-right pipeline. Just a far right welcome mat.

Aidan is as deep as a bird bath & as dense as the water in it.

So, so stupid and adolescent. I should have paid closer attention in 8th grade.

Trump doesn’t know fuck all about baseball!

And Trump and his evil minions are doing anything they can get away with to be certain that the next generation is even more profoundly stupid Hence the attack on Education

Trump didn't even get shot

Newsom’s gonna be at a UFC game front row seats real soon. 🤣

Might I suggest that those young men are stupid?

"aura and hype moments"

Looks like yet another indictment of the American educational system

Trump doesn't know anything about baseball, or really any subject.

Yeah, he's just a regular guy with his gold toilets, his private jet, a real estate company inherited from his dad, and the literal power to kill millions of people on a whim.

This is why the “weird” messaging was so effective

I wonder what an American's relationship to baseball is if they think Trump "knows a ton of stuff" about it. Like I'd be very surprised if Trump could name a single active player, or a single baseball rule that isn't extremely common knowledge

Well, hold on, how does he feel about the way aluminum bats are ruining college baseball? Because I'd be tempted by an "all wood bats" platform for at least 2-3 minutes.

Sure but only if someone at Mar-a-Lago tells him about it, he's not gonna get there on his own

(I'm sure he knows a lot about 1980s baseball!)

He definitely loved the greenies era.

just off of this, I don't think this guy knows anything about the other topics either. he just has a vague list of things "real men" care about and judges based off that

Yeah I just leapt on that one because the claim, if taken literally, was that Trump attends all those things (which is true) and, additionally, knows about at least one of them (false)

I'm with you. tbh I only came to the comments to also say he doesn't know shit about baseball and I'm happy to see plenty of other people got stuck on that point

You know he knows nothing about baseball in 2025 because (AFAIK) he’s never ranted about Latino players showboating when they hit a HR like any good dyspeptic old white guy would.

Yeah, show him a clip of Jose Bautista bat-flipping in 2014 and he'd stroke out.

dunno if he even has enough context to get that

ps

Jazz Chisholm, who plays in New York, is what you’d get if you grew a player in a lab designed to piss off racist old white people. Guarantee Trump has no idea who he is.

Tragic, really. Jazz could have saved us!

It's weird how so many people attribute things to Trump that are completely untrue. Best I can tell, Trump claimed he had been the best high school player in the state in a tweet from 2013, and this guy, who was 8 when it was tweeted, now thinks Trump knows all about the game. Trump was lying btw

Hey, remember, Trump was going to be a pro baseball player. But real estate had to come first.

[After listening to trump rant about Pete Rose for ten minutes] wow this guy's just like brad moneyball from the film moneyball

When has he ever shown any knowledge of baseball?

Male suffrage was a mistake.

so we need to hope for a feedback loop since we will have less material wealth pretty soon?

i can't stop laughing at the "knows tons about baseball" line tbh, that isn't remotely true

lol, not the main point but there’s no way trump actually knows much about baseball

Decline in birth rates isn’t all bad is it

Trump knows baseball is a new one

The Vibes Age.

When did the democrats say any of this?

Post materialist voting happens in a privileged society. When an economic crash happens that goes away

They also just make up positive shit for him"he knows tone about baseball"? Trump couldn't tell you who Shohei Ohtani is, other than he's someone we probably should be deporting.

Now, come on, give him some credit. I believe he probably knows it is played with a ball and that it somehow involves bases.

I mean yeah if you think it makes you a man to be cruel then yeah I hate you for it. So do men who arent shit.

At this point, would Democrats gain more by outright calling the voters dipshit idiots?

They are dipshit idiots. At least it would be the truth.

It’s working for Fucking Cuomo

Just checking in on this.

Thanks, pleasantly surprised rn

Oh no, I meant the dude posting an AI-generated image of Andrew Cuomo being a king. Real solid prediction

Why does AI make your hero(?) Andrew Cuomo look hot instead of how he actually looks?

He lost so this isn't working at making me angry. Unless you've been living under a rock and you don't know?

Axios and Politico are both garbage.

Aidan. What a dipshit

"Knows tons of stuff about baseball" is easily the most triggering part of this read lol

"democrats' message is something no democrat has ever said but i associate the women i resent online with democrats"

This tracks.

This reads to me like a guy who’s watching manosphere content where they serve up video clips of random women to ridicule, and there’s no shortage of people who will explicitly make the link for him between Dems and rage farming clips

bitter irony here in that few of those women are even likely to identify as Democrats because that is so deeply uncool to young people

You just know this person is willfully choosing to ignore the countless people who have explained that toxic masculinity refers to very specific toxic behaviors (which 99% of us would agree are toxic), which are unique to or most common in men, and not all behaviors associated with men.

"Mom told me to stop using meth" bsky.app/profile/jack...

100% Vibes based worldview

🎯

It’s what lying podcasters and Fox News are telling them.

As a Calvinist Democrat I can’t really shake the “thinks men are inherently evil” charge.

these guys have always existed but for some reason now the media treats them like they *should* be liberals and that it’s crazy they aren’t

If this guy were around 20 years earlier the only difference is he’d be talking about having a beer with W

He only hears what democrats say from Foxnews pundits telling him what democrats say.

like, i was in my early 20s on 9/11 and most of the guys at my “liberal” college were all in on going to war and being tough guys

This is why the whole push to make colleges sound like indoctrination camps is so idiotic. Anyone who actually went to a state school knows they’re boring and unremarkable like most of America.

Well when you’re groomed by FEDSOC and so is everyone you know it probably seems weird to think that other colleges aren’t the same way

I think the reason some conservative students might feel particularly uncomfortable when they go to college is they’ve never had to experience being face to face with a person who might have different opinions.

More like face to face with people their family makes slurs about

Oh absolutely. The indoctrination starts at home for a lot of them and it’s probably very jarring to see that most, if not all of what they’ve been taught about other people is a lie. I fully believe that everything the right accuses the left of doing they are enthusiastically doing themselves.

“My mom makes me clean my room in the basement”

All the biggest baseball fans I know are women 🤔

Sports fans in general

Could be wrong but it’s interesting that the GOP don’t have this probllem. Meaning, ‘dems’ are constantly associated with anything “left” (even the stuff they denounce), but no one’s a “republican” until they’re actually an elected member of government.

That's because axios etc doesn't like to write those stories - Republicans are corrupt & insane murder party is simultaneously too boring & too fantastical and also too against their interests Dems in disarray? That sells

Agreed, pretty much every story about Republican hypocrisy is just “Dog bites man,” A.R. Moxon’s ‘that’s the point of fascism’ covers this. Interesting how “Dems in disarray” stories tacitly admit that they *have* a moral compass, but also that *on its own* is what makes them incompetent.

Even then, it’s impossible to hold them accountable for what the leader of their party says.

these guys learned that outsourcing was applicable to everything, especially accountability.

Ppl won’t even think hard enough to know who they’re mad at. Reactionaries getting lazy.

"Trump doesn't mean any of the shit he says, but Democrats definitely mean all the shit they never say."

also, when the fuck was trump ever shot by anyone? Quit trying to make him look good by making shit up.

Interesting choice of voice here. www.kansan.com/news/we-re-n...

(and I’m a criminal).

Also, Aidan has always been a reactionary.

Wait, this bro is a felon drug dealer?

Shocking, I know

I think we have failed at raising young men to be decent human beings.

Eh. He might be in for a rude awakening.

Is Trump known for his deep knowledge of baseball? That feels a bit leftfield.

I see what you did there

Idk if this is the *main* problem but relevant dem messaging doesn’t break through. Where is the party’s united, loud anti-war with Iran messaging? I don’t hear it and I’m very online! Voters substitute actual messaging for opposition talking points and random posts they don’t like. Thats bad!

Please tell me all the things Trump knows about baseball. I would love to hear it.

If his qualifications for what it takes to be "just an American" are correct, I want out.

My son is not stupid, he’s smart but even he got tired of being blamed for every societal ill at university. Being a guy shouldn’t be a sin,and youthful exuberance isn’t nazi-ism. Still, we shouldn’t write off young guys to be absorbed into the right wing side. It takes a while to mature sometimes.

You know that thing where if you look, these fellas are either almost always goons for their side or just the worst? Yeah. Once you look it fully fucking tracks.

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Ohhh by “an American” he means a Criminal just like him 😂

Wowza

Oop!

I mean I'd argue its more post-literacy than postmaterialist, but holy moly it's stupid stupid stupid

Not getting these voters back by just “focusing more on Medicaid cuts”

women won't be safe if they're alone with this guy

This is the least of the problems here but I would bet a lot of money that Trump knows essentially nothing about baseball and could not name a current player.

bsky.app/profile/mega...

Isn't his only real hobby the theatre?

There is an alternate universe where Trump is a Broadway producer

I’d say golf and TV.

I think it might actually be the biggest problem! It’s not that Trump’s knowledge of baseball specifically matters at all but “I will hallucinate Trump having traits I personally respect” is such a big problem

I strongly suspect that if you called their attention directly to it most of these people would understand and admit that he doesn't actually know anything about baseball, specifically. His affect is incongruous with his actual personality in a way that's difficult to fully internalize.

American Conservatism has been a "Cult" in search of a "Messiah" (One which they will dispose of later without a thought.) since Reagan. I don't find anything new in Trump's ascension. There's is no consistency besides wanting to be in power and enforce their POV at the time.

W. was also "chosen by God" and the "masculine" political force America needed... And twenty years later the American Conservative in aggregate view him as less than the dried dog shit at the bottom of their shoes.

Aidan didn't get shoved into enough lockers in high school. I'd be happy to pick up the slack.

I'd bet money that Trump doesn't know shit about baseball. This dude is just wish casting.

apparently said postmaterialist voter got arrested: bsky.app/profile/jack...

Definitely the democrats fault that no one wants to sleep with this weirdo.

Adds some subtext to him denouncing Dems for thinking “the things that make men who they are are inherently evil”

Opiates, paraphernalia, possession of a weapon/use of a firearm by an addict lol

Two weeks after the 24 election!

For protesting, right? [Padme 4-panel meme]

“May I interest you in a Cabinet-level appointment, Marco is getting tired juggling all those balls.”

encouraging that he was able to (partly) turn his life around in just 6 months 🥹

Personally protesting the illegality of using/distributing heroin, it would seem.

Fight the Power my man. Maybe he’s just pro-Sackler.

But Sackler "seems like he's a billionaire that's just an American, like, he makes billions selling drugs gets hit with lawsuits gets off with almost no repercussions like 'you can't hold me responsible.' That's just so freaking awesome."

Once again, MAGA exists solely as a vehicle for people to have an excuse for their shitty and often, criminal behavior.

Was his arrest before or after his interview?

Apparently before? The reporters at Axios must be proud of their outreach. Definitely deserves a Duranty nomination.

Firearms and controlled substances? If only he'd been enamored by Hunter instead of Trump

This is like when they interview some supposed random voter who turns out to be like a state GOP chair. Criminal voter likes criminal president is perhaps not a huge surprise.

*ahem* active member of the KU College Republicans

Oh my God

There is a young person out there working three jobs and can’t afford to go to college despite having good grades. Put that young person in this inbred piece of shit’s spot.

Of course

www.axios.com/2025/06/21/m...

Somehow I doubt that this new generation of slime mold can be cultivated into anything resembling a “conservative”

As a gen z you’d be suprised

Worthless bigoted hedonist is not the same thing as "conservative"

Yes, yes it is.

It is what they always have been.

Why not, the only difference between then and now is that we are more aware of how shitty they always have been.

I’m saying they’ll end up as fascists of one stripe or another. Both in its polemical and its technical meaning, the GOP is now fully post-conservative

Or, the people calling conservatives fascists were *always right* no matter how much people told us we were overreacting.

Ok. Sorry that happened to you.

I’m pretty sure these guys will turn into boring bitcoin brokers in their 30’s

Or will just turn into dealers bsky.app/profile/jack...

It is simply unsustainable for everything to be so on the nose all the time

Those two things aren't so far removed from each other 😉

Of fucking course Axios interviews a drug dealer for their Trump puff piece without disclosing it.

They're such a fucking rag.

the patrick bateman piece.

They’re already boring.

Love the Alex Clark quote. Promoting the ridiculous concept that seed oils are poison, and at the same time saying HE is done with the idea that a "countertop" is not empowering. Well, dude, if you think a countertop is so empowering, how about YOU go to the kitchen and make ME a sandwich?

Did they seriously interview the local dealer for this? Journalism?

Ugh.

I’m not one to talk but is there any way he knows anything about baseball

This Aidan guy is so fucking stupid

I don't believe it has been empirically proven that Donald Trump knows Jack about baseball, other than perhaps that it is played with a ball and involves bases

Trump knows nothing about baseball

“ politics as vibes” are weirdly just “politics” now

There’s nothing ‘postmaterialist’ about a gleefully ignorant person voting for person/party who’s whole schtick is ‘you’re perfect the way you are, it’s the rest of the world that’s wrong and needs to change for you.’

Guys like this really show you why most of human history has included men in power unable to find something more productive to do with the rest of the men than send them off to die in a war. Gotta cull.

He’s so awesome that he’s gonna make sure you’re a poor incel forever!!

Of all of this, “Donald Trump knows tons about baseball” might be the most absurd

when has he given any sense of that? he owned a football team, hosted boxing at his casino, is on 1st name basis with dana white & robert kraft, & did we nor all see him in term 1 having a catch attack the white house?

#hegetsus

I need a reporter to ask Trump to explain the infield fly rule ASAP

Part of me can’t help, but wonder how much of this is just Trump bring a unique phenomenon in our politics. We probably won’t get a good read on the actual political situation until he croaks.

#SoyRight

Yikes 😬

I can’t imagine what kind of sicko would be a College Republican at KU. I have a degree in accounting from the KU School of Business and didn’t know of a single one even among a bunch of frat boy business students.

Plenty of Republicans, don’t get me wrong, but a College Republican is different from a college student who is a Republican.

I want so much better for men

They’ve been fed sludge their whole lives, told that their entire gender is the “problem” by second-hand accounts of women’s opinion of them, delivered to them by an ecosystem of the men who are actually the problem. They’ve been shamed into hiding loneliness, depression, anxiety.

They aren’t blameless. But I do feel like the approach is to disclose the real issue: men of power and privilege abusing to defend the patriarchy.

They need to look at Steve Bannon, a bloated, lonely, bitter alcoholic whose ex-wife and daughters don't speak to him, to see where that road goes.

Yep. Media-illiterate boys and young guys are mainlining online propaganda designed to make them feel humiliated, inadequate, hated, and alienated from women in their lives. But none of it is real.

It’s depressing

"He's mean and gets away with it" is more likely what that moron kid is thinking as he scrambles for reasons he likes trump.

I do feel like this might be a case of "posturing enthusiasm for the camera," if nothing else because cheeky cynicism is pretty typical for modern young reactionarism

We are doomed. Also, we let way too many stupid people into college.

They are SO conned. Trump the fraud turning them into sad little suckers.

10 year old with the right to vote

From my limited understanding from speaking to a young white male, “all politicians are evil, so I pick the one being upfront about it.” Even IF this were true, knowingly choosing the guy who blatantly says “I will definitely F your future,” is mind boggling.

is wanting to beat the shit out of aiden's dad an inappropriate response to reading this?

Young Aidan is a classic example of someone "educated beyond the limits of his intelligence."

"...knows tons of stuff about baseball"?!?

"A President You Could Have a Beer With" and its consequences have been a disaster for the United States.

I know this doesn't matter, but Trump doesn't know shit about baseball.

The good news is Trump will sharply reduce our standard of living and pocketbook voting will be back!

he knows tons of stuff about baseball youtube.com/shorts/N3yrr...

So he’s a moron. Got it.

Holy shit! He was NEVER FUCKING SHOT!!

I wouldn't say its particularly postmaterialist when a self-professed Christian Nationalist and member of the KU College Republicans is quoted as liking Trump's vibe.

Nobody tell him about the place we get most of our immigrants from already. There’s not exactly a shortage of Latin American evangelicals these days.

Good freaking God, Axios is garbage!

"I believe that the founders believed that this was a kind of country they literally said it wasn't 'in any sense'."

Axios will launder this shit endlessly

These spunktrumpets' opinions are as predictable as they are ignorant.

Fucking hell. Between this and the neo-confederate Florida Law student award winner it’s a banner day for learning about the best and brightest young Republican men.

Dunno man, I lift weights, I eat red meat, I played football and baseball through highschool, my dad and I used to watch Formula 1 together, and all that is plenty masculine without being a shitbag

Just throwing this out there, but, maybe, he's just throwing his money away going to university, because, you know, academic rigour and stuff...

It’s all about candidate performances that make these guys feel validated on the most basic material facets of American life (‘He likes Nascar’!). (where did this voter get The idea of the Trump knows anything about baseball because……????) 🤔