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Asawin Suebsaeng

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nobody likes sounding hysterical in public, but everyone who urged calm about a then-impending first Trump term because they were predicting it wouldn’t be That bad, on every possible metric of actions, policy, conduct, and death tolls, they were thunderously, catastrophically wrong…

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C.V. Danes's avatar C.V. Danes @cvdanes.bsky.social
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I think they want to keep believing that anything coming out of the Trump camp is hyperbole, because to realize that's not hyperbole is the have to come to terms with just how dangerous the Trump camp is. Problem is that it is not, in fact, hyperbole and the Trump camp is, in fact, very dangerous.

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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they’re even farther off the mark this time underestimating the disastrous effects of project 2025

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Arkenor's avatar Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social
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They usually move on, without missing a beat, to declaring that the next impending threat is also nothing to worry about.

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Nancy Ann's avatar Nancy Ann @nancyannn.bsky.social
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As one of those people, being proven right isn’t comforting at all. 😢

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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…There is one guy I truly deeply respect who predicted to me a second Trump term wouldn’t be as bad as liberals were predicting and all I could say was: if we rewound the clock to 2017 and I just wrote on a sheet of paper to you what happened (no hyperbole or commentary, just what occurred) in his…

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Tamara Keel's avatar Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social
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I'll take my L for that. I would have wagered a paycheck that he'd have gotten bored with the whole thing in a week and spent the next four years golfing and holding the occasional state dinner, letting some behind-the-curtain coalition of grownups actually run things. I was wrong af.

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Denny Carter's avatar Denny Carter @cdcarter13.bsky.social
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gaslighting with no end

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Pppatticake's avatar Pppatticake @pppatticake.bsky.social
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Oh forfs BIDENS FASCISM IS THE CURRENT TERRIBLE PROBLEM

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