From blowing up at Zelenskyy to fast-tracking Executive Orders, what can we learn from Trump’s recent behaviour?

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    In his last term, he fucked up shit for a couple of months and then went golfing until the next campaign grift started.

  • @[email protected]
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    364 months ago

    Of course not! It’ll keep getting worse and worse each month, forever, because there won’t have to be any more elections!

  • TomMasz
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    174 months ago

    This is the prelude. He’s seen he can get away with anything he wants. There’s no stopping him now.

  • @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    He will never acknowlege fault from his side so he’ll need to find more and more enemies and institutions to attack and blame in an endless cycle…

    Don’t be surprised if at some point he’ll demand previous presidents be arrested and interrogated for destroying the US economy and standing…

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    If a bull in a China shop breaks 99% of the China in an hour, then he can’t possibly break more than that during his second hour in the shop.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      The bull will come to second floor and next door, it wont stop until it rampages thru the whole street, or you put something into its head.

  • WatDabney
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    134 months ago

    At least.

    I quite sincerely believe that it’s not even a question of if the US gets to the concentration camps and mass graves stage, but merely of when.

    I wish I was exaggerating.

    • @[email protected]
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      134 months ago

      I quite sincerely believe that it’s not even a question of if the US gets to the concentration camps

      Gitmo.

  • @[email protected]
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    64 months ago

    I find it embarrassing that Americans are so uninformed about their own history, that they don’t understand what rich people think made America great in the past. They think it means their childhood, and not the so obviously named guilded age. Of course it’s going to get worse, because they want to make this the same country that allowed robber Barrons to rise. We have a lot of regulations and agencies to dismantle before we get there.

  • Nougat
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    114 months ago

    What can we learn from Trump’s recent behavior?

    Nothing that wasn’t already well fucking known.

  • @[email protected]
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    384 months ago

    It feels like this is written for someone who hasn’t actually lived through the last ten years and finds anything about this Trump administration to be surprising.

    Trump is engaged in a political blitzkrieg and he is overwhelming all of the checks and balances. He is already taking control of the FEC so we can’t be guaranteed fair elections, and the military. He has removed the people in the military whose job it is to determine whether an order is legal.

    Anyone who can’t read the writing on the wall is fucking willfully blind. His Presidency is poised to end our democracy. Full stop.

    Even if Trump is defeated politically or in the courts or on the field of battle, even if he chokes on a hamburder tomorrow, this nation is crippled until we are able to rewrite the Constitution to prevent all of this—that being said, we voted for this. No constitution in the world can prevent an entire nation from shooting themselves in the foot.

    So you can look at it one of two ways:

    1. Yes, the rest of his Presidency will be even more damaging to this nation than the first month as the ability to resist him at all is eroded and undermined.
    2. No, because he has already dealt a fatal blow to the republic. Everything after this is so much extra filling for the shit pie we have created.

    Whichever way feels most correct to say, it doesn’t really matter because the end result will be the same.

    • @[email protected]
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      114 months ago

      Yes to what you said except we actually didn’t vote for this. Sure, way too many people voted for Trump but he only came out ahead because of voter purges and voter suppression tactics that republicans have been using for years. Also the concentrated propaganda from Fox, talk radio, and social media made sure that half of voters aren’t even aware of reality.

      To be clear, this is different than the “stop the steal” lies that maga was telling in 2020. This is about systemic ways that republicans have an unfair advantage in elections.

      Here’s one article about that, there are others.

      https://orlandoadvocate.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/

      • @[email protected]
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        104 months ago

        Not to mention the substantial circumstantial evidence that Musk bought his position as co-president via hacking voting machines I have doubts the Republicans actually won anything at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          104 months ago

          Just remember, our voting machines were proven to be vulnerable to first hand attacks.

          It’s a good thing no enemies of the United States had their hands all over them during a sham “audit” of the last legitimate election we will ever have…

      • @[email protected]
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        44 months ago

        Voter suppression doesn’t absolve 90 million eligible people from not voting. Non voters suck and need called out for complicity.

  • Diplomjodler
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    24 months ago

    No. Once the entire place is a heap of rubble, he won’t be able to do any more damage. My estimate is six months to achieve that.

  • TheObviousSolution
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    94 months ago

    Presidencies are over. The guy is literally trying to normalize calling himself king as well as anything that supports the shift into a personality cult authoritarian state. It will take time and the loss of liberties will be the only thing that trickles down exponentially. This transition is also being performed by idiots who can’t comprehend that there are other timers running out for our world, largely because they can’t discern it from the bullshit they spew, and those who can but just think it’s a good way to get ahead for when shit hits the fan.

    This is it. This is it for the US. People still thinking that midterms aren’t going to be screwed over to deny a fair election are fooling themselves. Even if anything where to topple Trump, it is a systemic problem and one where all the major institutions have already been corrupted from the top. There is no getting back from this. There is no getting back from having to share a democracy with a cult and with people still being so indoctrinated by faux patriotism, power, and wealth that they won’t ever realistically consider seceding into like minded states - why, just imagine, how unpatriotic -gasp- .

    The economy? Your social security? Your freedom? I don’t know how low it will go, but since most Americans only seem to care for themselves, to them, at the very least, they should expect to be cast off into a separate “lower class” if they ever shift to the wrong political association from now on.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        This is probably what many think and it’s pretty problematic. Old as he is, he can still fuck the country bareback until he’s dead. If you’re hoping he just tires himself out and things can go back to normal, uhh… There will be others.