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[–] 182 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What is this fucking headline. He is not in a position to float changes like this.

Trump plans on circumventing the law and becoming a forever president king.

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  • [–] 156 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Prove to me that he's not already a king. He suffers zero consequences and solely controls every aspect of the federal government. He is what a 6 year old thinks the president is.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh he is effectively a king (the real burger king), I just wish news articles would call him out without resorting to headlines like this.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    They never will. Media companies want to get in on the grift and get their cut. Every lawsuit that went to trial has been a blow to that shitheel of a human, but companies keep bendin nthe fucking knee and settling at best.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    It’s how he normalizes his insane plans without being directly implicit. He starts with the “I’m not saying they should cancel the elections. But if they did… I’m not saying they should do it though. But I mean, it wouldn’t be unheard of.”

    Anyone who has ever worked as a restaurant server knows the old “blame they, not yourself” trick. Forgot to bring out some table’s food, and now they’re upset that it’s taking so long? Don’t apologize for it and take the blame, because that will have them potentially tipping you less. Instead, say “Oh, did they not bring that out? Let me go take care of that real quick.” Now you’ve deflected blame off to some faceless entity, and have put yourself on the customer’s side as someone who wants to help. Your tip won’t be affected, because you’ve positioned yourself as helpful.

    Notice that when Trump floats ideas like this, it’s almost always “they”, not “we”. “They” is a faceless, nebulous entity. It can be anybody or nobody, so placing blame on “they” is a convenient way to float potentially unpopular ideas without putting any individual (or himself) in the crosshairs. If he used “we”, he would naturally be the figurehead for the idea, and any blowback would land on him.

    It’s a message to his followers on what he wants, without directly tying himself to it. And it allows the various talking heads to use it as a springboard to normalize the idea before it is ever implemented. That way when the thing actually happens, his followers have already been primed to accept it.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Insightful comment, thanks. The frustrating part for me is that the media has a tendency to parrot his talking points without directly challenging them in the same breath. That allows his narrative to take hold (especially when it is backed by other members of the government) and steer popular opinion in his favor.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He is absolutely in a position to change this. It's become abundantly clear that we're way too culturally fractured as a nation and will never unify for any single cause. The DOJ is in his back pocket and there is zero chance all 350 million of us can put our differences aside to stop him, especially since a ton of people want this.

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    [–] 113 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Omg, I think the most eerie thing about this whole thing has been how perfectly all of this was predicted.

    If it was a tv show I would say it’s lazy writing.

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  • [–] 89 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Almost like it's exactly according to a document someone published years ago.....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

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  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but the fact that they published that, it actually hit critical mass, and they got elected to do it anyway is bonkers.

    Or at least it should be

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    He's literally not capable of joking, so this is serious.

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  • [–] 54 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    If elections are canceled so is work

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And just like that, no one was talking about the pedo-files.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    they're nazis doing nazi shit they want to do, it's not a fucking distraction. it's not fucking 4d chess. this is what they want. they'd be doing this even if they weren't pedos. they've not even ever really tried that hard to hide that they're pedos. the epstein files won't bring them down even if they're all released unredacted. you're distracting yourself with what you think is the final all-powerful gotcha in our back pocket that will stop them through courts - which it won't - while they're starting their campaign for total world domination.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago*

    Thank you. I'm getting tired of the "this is all a distraction from the Epstein files" rethoric.

    "Fascism rising is just a distraction from the Epstein files!"

    No, it's not. If anything, the Epstein files are just a distraction from fascism rising.

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    [+] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 30 points 8 months ago

    “I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,”

    Complete melted brain babble

    But even if it’s successful, they don’t win. I don’t know what it is. There’s something psychological, like you vote against,”

    People vote for you on concepts of a plan or don't vote because they think their life will be the same either way then they actually see what you do they turn out and vote. This isn't that hard.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    Do it let’s pop this shit off already

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Shitler and the Turd Reich are going to commit as many crimes against the constitution and international law as they can until they are stopped

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    [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Grandpa should be put in an old folks home.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago

    "You will have to kill us to make us stop"

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  • [+] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)
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    [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    Not sure what you're talking about. I'm not a nihilist. I believe in democracy and the rule of law, among many other beliefs and principles.

    On the topic of Trump, I happen to think most Americans are not ready to do what must be done. I don't believe there is nothing that CAN be done. Do you understand the difference?

    I have hope that there are individual Americans, or institutions, that will push back. But if it's successful I doubt it will be because Trump followed the law. There's no indication he cares about the law.

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    [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm waiting for that big beautiful obituary

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    [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Wag the dog bitch

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