• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    67·
    28 days ago

    Trump also disavowed:

    Being racist
    Wanting to overturn roe v wade Losing the election
    Being weird
    Knowing half the people that worked for him
    Etc.

    See a pattern?

    If you still don’t or never did, you’re a fucking idiot.

  • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
    41·
    28 days ago

    • EXERCISE IS GOOD
    • MEDICINE CAN HELP
    • SMOKING IS BAD
    • EAT RIGHT FOR BETTER HEALTH
    • CANCER CAN CAUSE DEATH

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      223·
      28 days ago

      I wish that was true, but unfortunately gaslighting and other forms of propaganda is much more effective than most people think.

      You don’t have to be an idiot to be fooled by effective messaging and messaging doesn’t have to make sense to be effective.

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
            6·
            27 days ago

            Don’t know if you had seen elsewhere, but I cut him out of my life after hearing both that no black person can raise a child, and all Puerto Ricans are lazy and milk the syste. … he has 2 sons me, no kids, and my brother, who married a Puerto Rican Lawyer and had 2 kids. His parents one born in Sicily, the other born in Brooklyn and went back to Sicily at 2 years old before he came back later. Aka natural born citizenship is what his citizenship is based off of. He has every right to be deported as the people bitch about on fox. He doesn’t realize why his father was involved politics in NY as a kid nor why his dad was a “security” member for the Mafia on his off time. Italians weren’t white back then. He was born in 61’. Got all the kick and hard work of his priors

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      26·
      28 days ago

      His voters wouldn’t even bother to read about project 2025 on the project 2025 website.

      If they did, I’m sure they would have some objections. But then the Trump Translator part of their brain is engaged. “Surely he didn’t mean it like that, what he really means is [something to decrease cognitive dissonance]”

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        21·
        28 days ago

        Most of them are so dumb they think prices at the grocery store are literally set by the president, like Biden was sitting down signing off on the price of eggs going up rather than ever understanding a semblance of the corporatocracy we live in. And if prices change at the pump, or grocery store, etc, they’ll thank god emperor Trump for signing new prices into place, continuing the cycle of idiocracy.

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          13·
          28 days ago

          When people complain about gas prices in a political discussion I have found that taking it to the absurd can shut them up. I’ll say something like “Well everybody knows Biden has that big gas price lever on his desk in the oval office. He just keeps cranking on it, why won’t he stop?”

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    27·
    28 days ago

    I’ve started reading it. ~880 pages. The first section delineates the boring things with sneaking incredibly non-republic based idea into every third sentence or so. Things that push the value of the executive while diminishing the value of anything else in the republic.

    I’m on the second article. It is going to be the biggest grind of my life. I’m going to read it through once. And the second time I’m going to take notes.

    So far its largest tool is how it uses

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    … type arguments to hide monarchical and absolutist ideals smothering the republic. These types of arguments are common in online forums.

    It is insidious. And it should be read but is going to be like the Xian bible … never read but frequently quoted. They will just leave out the bad bits from their quotes until later when they will say, “It is all laid out in the document.”

  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
    272·
    28 days ago

    I’m at this weird place where I sort of want Trump to do horrible things? It seems like it’s the only way the public might snap out of it. I mean I would have thought his first term worked have been enough but here we are.

    Ideally we could all count on the Dems to learn from this and be better next time… I just don’t see that happening right now.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    23·
    28 days ago

    No shit, you don’t develop a 900 page plan, hire some of the very people who wrote it, author an introduction for a book by one of the authors, and then go “Naaah…”

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    22·
    28 days ago

    Next they’ll be denying that Peter Thiel has sponsored JD Vance’s entire political career (which is only two years old), and that it’s a ploy to institute a Techo-Monarchy that their favourite bloggee Curtis Yarvin writes about, and that several other billionaires are in on it (such as Marc Andresseen)… And that it involves having less of a democracy than currently.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    19·
    28 days ago

    And you losers aided him in lying the entire campaign. You and your loser cable news station buddies.

    • classic@fedia.io
      13·
      28 days ago

      Exactly. Words could never convey the absolute unexpectedness of this. Why, even with a so venerable, uncompromised, unflinchingly truth bound institution as the NYT calling attention to this (and in such a timely manner for citizens to digest and make use of the information) I can scarce believe that this development is indeed occurring