• tolstoy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L.Mencken, 1920

    Yay! Finally did it!!

  • nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    He insulted Supreme Court judges? Holy shit, doesn’t the US have a Contempt of Court law or something? I haven’t seen something this deranged in my entire life that wasn’t in a history textbook.

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      He’s been mocking them almost daily. The White House posted this a couple days ago. The meeting with the El Salvador dictator was also mocking the Supreme Court.

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        12 hours ago

        Well, I’ve blocked US political stuff, so I didn’t see this. Unbelievably petty. In India, while the country is definitely fascist, it would still be very difficult to mock the court so provocatively – even criticising SC decisions is rare, because the courts are still relatively powerful. Though I think in the US the executive appoints judges. Then it’s not surprising at all.

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          If you read about Indian constitution, this is extremely well designed. So even a fascist government is limited in what it can do.

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    Rants about Biden seem to dominate every comment, or “weave” about answering any question. “If we don’t deport all hispanics to death camps, then Biden wins.”

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    this is literally the kind of writing you would find scribbled over the walls of a serial killer’s basement. the fact that a third of your country looks at that and thinks “yeah that’s my guy” is really indicative of your mental health crisis.

    that and having 2 mass shootings a day.

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    “I’d just like to say…keep the hate alive. Remember…we can all burn this down together.” Fake but realistic quote from Eric Trump’s wife’s father-in-law.

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    Wife beaters? Listen, I’ll welcome most anyone with open arms, but I draw the line at police officers.

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    This is the thing that most astonishes me about this timeline.

    Even setting aside all the other issues - politics, ideology, constitutionality, the rule of law, integrity, whatever - Trump is so obviously a raving lunatic that I sincerely have no idea how anyone can possibly fail to see it. There’s nothing at all aubtle or obscure about it - he’s bludgeoningly obviously unhinged.

    Do people actually not see that? How? Or do they see it and ignore it? Again, how?

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      “The best defense against an unhinged world is a good party with an unhinged leader.”

      • Republicans, probably.
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        Broadly, yeah. I suspect that more or less what it boils down to is that the US, even before Trump, was and is so warped by greed and corruption and built around so many lies that it’s effectively insane, and that’s reflected in its political leadership.

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      It certainly takes a lot of brainworm damage to read this and go “yeah, that’s our guy!”. But then I’ve stopped being surprised by the US years ago. The level of lunacy over there is unparalleled.

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      They’re not really paying attention to him, they’re paying attention to Fox News or newsmax or whatever propaganda channel they prefer.

      And, at the end of the day they’re not voting for a person, they’re voting for the big three: abortion, guns, and racism immigration. That and “sticking it to the libs”.

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      Because most Americans read at about a sixth grade level… And that’s about the level, or lower, that he speaks on.

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      They bought the bamboozle. They’re in too deep and they can admit they were wrong. So they just double down.

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        Such a depressingly common character flaw. I wish people would just be able to admit they were wrong about things…

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      Remember being in your early 20s and having a friend who drank a little too much or would start fights with everyone but somehow still got invited to everything?

      Because he’s a really cool guy when you can have a one on one chat with them. He’s just misunderstood.

      I think Trump is that friend for a portion of America.

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    So if there’s this ‘real’ shadow president that was using the autopen and running things from behind the scenes, why did this shadow president let Trump win in the first place if they’re so nefarious and powerful? And where are they now?

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      The problem is this is how they build that cult of personality. “See! Trump is so great even the shadow council behind Biden couldn’t keep him from winning.” Fascism 101: Your enemy is simultaneously infinitely powerful and horrendously weak, sometimes in the same sentence.