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David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social |
I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
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I'mNotAHRHitter
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Trump is a perfect, living embodiment of America. He represents what it truly is rather than what the propaganda tells us. Its racism, corruption, greed, narcissism, all wrapped up in one lump of a human being. That is the fight; the America we hope it can be rather than what it always has been.
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R’as Al Jolson
@willmarsh.bsky.social
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Right! The silly TV rich guy who was previously famous for getting into catty feuds with Rosie O’Donnell and divorces. He was basically the distant Simpsons relative who played a millionaire at parties
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Sam Grady🇺🇸🇵🇸🇺🇦
@samgrady.bsky.social
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Voters have agency. Get comfortable blaming voters. A lot of Americans (mainly in flyover country) are bad. They're very bad.
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Dan Shay (he/him)
@dfs4114.bsky.social
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Yeah, the Franz von Papens of the world.
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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You go to war with the fascist you have, not the fascist you might want.
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Two Whoppers Junior
@jasonthee.bsky.social
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Mike Patton namedropped Trump and Hitler in the same lyric, all the way back in 1991
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRn...
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Hampton
@hamptonstevens.bsky.social
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Guys like that often have a buffoonish quality. Think of Mussolini or the typical, peacocking African general. Clownish. I don't think it's any more complicated than they appeal to dumb people.
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TheBrett
@thebrett.bsky.social
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Some of it predates him. There's FedSoc guys from the Bush Jr era who have been pushing for the "unitary executive" idea of the Presidency (at least when Republicans have it), where the President is essentially a King who can only be constrained by Congress withdrawing funding for concessions.
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Michael F
@michaelf617.bsky.social
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It should have been obvious that a country built on such a shitty misreading of Christianity was no match for a man composed entirely of the Seven Deadly Sins
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Delbert Grady Seasons
@delbertgseasons.bsky.social
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All he ever seemed to want was to be the most famous person in the world and he got that. Turning our government into a grim mockery just seems extra
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Kevin Donoghue
@donoghuek.bsky.social
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True. It's as if the Romans had scrapped their Republic, not to pave the way for Julius Caesar or Augustus, but for Nero, or Caligula's horse Incitatus.
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Judd Greenstein
@juddgreenstein.bsky.social
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Fair, though it does feel there’s been a shift from The Party of Reagan (evil vision of exclusionary, autocratic US cloaked in high minded rhetoric and a glossy veneer) to The Party of Trump (evil vision of exclusionary, autocratic US with no pants on and the rhetoric of a drunk Cobra Commander)
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Aric and the Spookysaurus
@hatkidsays.bsky.social
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He's the cracked mirror Reagan. He's charismatic enough that he can be an avatar and he does what he's asked by the people who point his maw at the disenfranchised. He's grievance made flesh and given life, like a golem made from gold lamé and big macs and filled with a letter to the editor.
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DJ McCann
@djmccann.bsky.social
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I believe that most of them truly believe that they are not doing it for Trump, and that he will die before the intraparty reckoning that has been looming since 2016 comes to a head. They keep losing those rolls of the dice, but are too committed to the plan to hold up or back out now.
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Vomiting Kermit
@lejokerman.bsky.social
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Most people think of him as the shrewd but chaotic (heavily edited around) business guy from The Apprentice, and forget - or never knew - that he used to appear on Playboy VHS tapes just so he could look at the “bazongas.” He used to go on Howard Stern and lie about which models he had sex with.
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Username Taken
@sloppysteaks.bsky.social
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His supporters are in it for the love of the game (racism, appallingly tacky snapbacks)
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Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
@moacir.com
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If you have a good look, take the shot.
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Karate Bearfighter
@karatebearfighter.bsky.social
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An incompetent, vain, buffoonish moron actually makes a better vessel for advancing a corrupt, antisocial agenda. Nobody wants a competent autocrat, because he might actually have his own agenda and set of policy preferences that he expects you to serve.
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Kwisatz Sazerac 🖤 🐀🐀🐀
@acekatana.bsky.social
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Personally I think his loathsomeness is part of the appeal. Just as liberals love the stirring dissent read from the bench, the right loves to get in bed with hideous little monsters who move their agenda. It’s their noble sacrifice
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Nicholas Slayton
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These are guys who were bought out for an RV. A class of rich people who own used car lots and pretend they're blue collar. It totally fits that it's all for Trump.
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David Leisure
@druu.bsky.social
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The thing they never learn is that finding a useful idiot means now you’ve got two idiots
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@yesterdayswombat.bsky.social
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Somewhat like ticks…
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
@graweman.bsky.social
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I had always hoped that to end democracy a power-hungry monster would have to accomplish 1 actual thing first, but I guess borrowing beyond your means and being racist are more in line with American values
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McIrwin
@mcirwin47.bsky.social
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Someone much smarter than me made the point that it had to be a guy from Queens. A white, mediocre son of privilege from the borough where white flight originated was the perfect villain to exploit the fraying edges of society in our era.
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Ni en pedo
@300ps.bsky.social
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A republic, if you can keep it when the orange hair weave conman rapist shows up.
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pjc
@patrickjcarr.bsky.social
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The system’s purpose is what it does (make Donald Trump dictator)
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Corey Atad
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@drpepsi.bsky.social
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Until 1933, Hitler was widely perceived as a menace, but also an embarrassing and tasteless weirdo doofus.
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Doc McDoom
@docmcdoom.bsky.social
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Those Nationals season tickets and motorcoaches won't pay for themselves.
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@fredthewonderdog.bsky.social
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No this is all about power for their billionaire owners. Putin's viceroy if just the loudest and most successful of their stable - remember the 2016 R primary.
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uosdwis r dewoh
@thulcandrian.bsky.social
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I think one of the reasons they also do this, they can back him while continuing to feel superior to him. Let the masses have his crassness and boorishness- he accomplishes what they want and they can still feel some separation from his more venal nature. I agree though- this fucking guy?
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A Thousand-Year Door? In THIS economy???
@manofsuds.bsky.social
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The one good SNL bit about Trump during the fallow Baldwin years was the "What I Did for Love" parody where various GOP schmucks confess how they capitulated to him if only for a small taste of power. Naturally it's the only sketch not available online.
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Charles O’Connor
@coconnor8.bsky.social
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Everything he flailed into turned out to me made of cardboard, and they were astonished they’d ever played by any rules at all
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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But still....fucking donald trump man. How on earth
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Tim Park
@timpark.bsky.social
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But where do they want to get? Is it really for the grift of vacations and private jets?
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🪻Axel 🌱 Lycan 🌹
@axellycan.bsky.social
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Trump is a re-reheated Reagan.
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Reuxben
@reuxben.bsky.social
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Having grown up far from NYC, my only knowledge of this whole world was the buffoonish cartoon character Conan would depict with a still photo and flapping lips saying increasingly idiotic, self-aggrandizing things. All this for that. I hope never to lose sight of that: all of this--for that.
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