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On December 19 2025 00:16 KwarK wrote:Show nested quote +On December 18 2025 23:59 LightSpectra wrote:
Yes, and he tried to cheat and overturn the 2020 election as well, and it didn't work. Now he's even more decrepit and his underlings are even more stupid. They literally can't even get a valid indictment against their political enemies because they have no idea what they're doing.
I'm not saying there's no legitimate threat and not to take it seriously, I'm saying half the power that authoritarians have come from people overestimating them. Trump is a living Potemkin village and should be treated as such. His own supporters are calling him TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) behind his back. I disagree entirely. Most of the power they get comes from people underestimating them. If the threat posed by Trump had been properly understood he’d be in prison where he belongs.
He perfectly walks the line between bumbling idiot and fascist threat.
So he can be a nazi, but it's just a prank bro!... or is it?
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It reminds me of an article I now can’t find in which a journalist recalls an instance of Boris Johnson making a speech to some organization, forgetting his notes, and completely fumbling the punchline of a joke in such a disarming and clownish way that everyone in the audience laughed with Boris. The journalist happened to catch Boris at a different event a month later and Boris again fumbled the exact same joke in the exact same way. It’s a performance. A social hack to bypass mental safeguards. The equivalent of putting on a high vis jacket and walking past security.
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Or, here me out on this. Trump is a spoiled nepo baby who was frittering away his family fortune with terrible business move after terrible business move. And then reality TV showed up and pretended he was a great business man and the very stupid public bought it in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
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On December 19 2025 08:03 KT_Elwood wrote:Show nested quote +On December 19 2025 00:16 KwarK wrote:On December 18 2025 23:59 LightSpectra wrote:
Yes, and he tried to cheat and overturn the 2020 election as well, and it didn't work. Now he's even more decrepit and his underlings are even more stupid. They literally can't even get a valid indictment against their political enemies because they have no idea what they're doing.
I'm not saying there's no legitimate threat and not to take it seriously, I'm saying half the power that authoritarians have come from people overestimating them. Trump is a living Potemkin village and should be treated as such. His own supporters are calling him TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) behind his back. I disagree entirely. Most of the power they get comes from people underestimating them. If the threat posed by Trump had been properly understood he’d be in prison where he belongs. He perfectly walks the line between bumbling idiot and fascist threat. So he can be a nazi, but it's just a prank bro!... or is it?
Nazi is the wrong word. Ruthless jingoist warmonger seems to be a better fit, although it's pretty close.
There hasn't been evidence that he wants to exterminate jews, but if there were, it died in prison.
I think most of what he does or believes he does for is for economical reasons though. The ends justify the means or something like that.
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