• Flying Squid
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      They don’t even make a secret of it. r/The_Donald called him “God emperor” all the time. And they weren’t joking even if they claimed they were.

      • @MagicShel@programming.dev
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        I will never believe the whole thing (Trump) didn’t start out as a joke like Boaty McBoatface, which was so preposterous, so bonkers that it went viral and a bunch of out of touch idiots didn’t get the humor and took out all as a serious movement and then made it one. I think it’s mass delusion.

        • @PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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          It was a coordinated sci ops. The_donald popped up practically overnight and pushed its way to the top of Reddit as a “joke” subreddit and it gradually got worse from there.

          • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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            I might have believed before he began loudly proclaiming what a giant moron and narcissist he is for the last decade.

    • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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      They’re afraid and ignorant. They feel like society is circling the drain, and they think an authoritarian is the solution.

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        Ironically, society is circling the drain because US capitalism is an authoritarianly structured system.

        • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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          That ignores people’s very real anxiety over wage stagnation, inflation on food and housing, and a health care system that is functionally broken. Normally we would just start a war somewhere and direct that energy towards brown people halfway around the world. With no war, it’s being directed at ‘others’ domestically.

            • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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              The culture wars are an outward expression of the anxiety and fear they live with because their economic destiny has been derailed and the value of their labor has been stolen from them. They’re lashing out because they’re unhappy and they’re unhappy because they’ve been screwed. They’re just too indoctrinated to see that we have all been screwed together.

    • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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      Probably just clickbait phrasing. There’s an alarming number of people who don’t know what Project 2025 entails or that he has been paraphrasing Hitler, but putting those things on a headline likely doesn’t get people to engage as much as, “Hey, wanna know a secret about Trump?”

      And towards the ends of educating the public about the real threat Trump poses, I’ll allow a little clickbait to get them to pay attention.

    • Rentlar
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      apparently it was secret because his followers said “It’s just a joke bro” after each time.

  • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    Say Trump gets his wish and becomes authoritarian leader of the US, the god-king his voters want.

    When he dies in less than 10 years, who’s going to take his place? What’s the end goal for the Republicans after Trump? Do they even have one? (Probably not).

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      When he dies in less than 10 years,

      Have you sen him lately? I bet he doesn’t last 4 years at the rate he’s shoveling the amphetamines into his face hole.

      Someone got 1000 tabs of ProVigil from the White House pharmacy under Trump’s watch & I bet it was President Meth-head himself.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        I mean yes but recently there are also true believers. People like MGT (I think that was her name?) aren’t any craftier than a rock.

  • @paddirn@lemmy.world
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    Apparently Trump must’ve been a fan of Hamilton and liked that “You’ll Be Back” song so much that he wanted to Make America Monarchal Again.

  • @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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    He just hopes the courts rule in his favor and Biden is to much of a pussy to have him wacked. Which Biden should be planning now just in case if he’s smart.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    This month, Donald Trump’s lawyers have argued in a federal appeals court that he, as a former American president, is “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution, possibly even if he were to order the assassination of his political enemies.

    The 1973 OLC memo that the Trumpworld elite hopes to expand upon lacks the force of law but as a matter of policy, administrations since the Nixon era have deferred to it as the settled guidance for how to handle potential presidential crimes while in office.

    The two memos formed the basis of the Justice Department position that also helped keep then-President Trump free from potential criminal charges during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

    Trump plans to appoint a reliably loyal and pliable attorney general and stack the DOJ with a pre-vetted roster of MAGAfied lawyers who would be more responsive to the White House, and effectively erase the federal cases against him.

    Foremost among them is that the D.C. appeals court is already poised to answer the question that an OLC memo would seek to settle when it rules on whether the special counsel election subversion case can move forward to trial.

    “EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD,” Trump wrote in an all-caps social media post earlier this month.


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    • Billiam
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      We’re already at the “wait for them to lose their mind” stage!

  • BaldProphet
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    Eh, King George wasn’t immune. We have this supervirus called Revolutionary War.

  • Jaysyn
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    “Trump’s Secret Plan to Expand Biden’s Presidential Immunity To ‘King George’ Levels”

    • @Nudding@lemmy.world
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      They were also into owning people and women having no rights so who gives a fuck what they thought?

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        Yeah I dunno where this idea of whitewashing the Founding Fathers as unequivocal good guys came from. They fucking sucked, most of them were morally bankrupt businessmen who would love Trump. These are the kinda idiots who saddled us with the Electoral College because “the general public couldn’t be trusted to choose their own leaders”, let’s stop pretending like they founded America as a stroke of genius with perfect systems.

        • BaldProphet
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          They fucking sucked, most of them were morally bankrupt businessmen who would love Trump.

          It’s pretty much impossible to support the idea that the Founding Fathers were “morally bankrupt”. There is no unmoving foundation of morality that remains unchanged throughout human history, and judging historical figures from over 200 years ago by today’s moral standards simply makes no sense.

          Were they immoral by today’s standards? Yes, absolutely. Where they immoral by 19th century standards? I’d say they were about average, but I’m not from that time so I couldn’t say for sure.

            • BaldProphet
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              Yes, even some of the founding fathers. For example, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and other Framers of the Constitution were abolitionists.