• ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Trump – too dumb to know that water doesn’t flow uphill.

    The fact that people still think he doesn’t know what he’s doing (or his advisers, anyway) is concerning. None of this is accidental, it is all about manipulation of the food supply and economy, and deliberately worsening living conditions for most people to make us even easier to exploit and oppress.

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      3 days ago

      I guess he could be trying to provoke mass unrest so he can declare a national emergency and start shooting people.

      But I’m pretty sure he could declare a national emergency and start shooting people whenever he wants, no need to actually create mass unrest. Just declare that there’s mass unrest, who cares if it’s real?

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        Nah he’s probably just fucking with California because he hates them for not voting for him, and also not liking their governor.

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          23 hours ago

          Yeah this is what I think too - I don’t think Trump is playing 5d chess, he’s just a petulant bully and getting revenge on a blue state.

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      3 days ago

      I’m really not sure… The way he rants about things, I feel like he’s dumb as a rock. On the other hand, the people who have gotten in close to him? It’s not hard to figure out that for someone with Trump’s ego, all it takes are a few careful suggestions, something to make him think people will admire him, and he’ll be happy to do the rest.

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        3 days ago

        The idea that someone just stumbles their way in to a presidency is wild. It’s also ableist to blame his bigotry and oppressive actions on how intelligent you think he is, that has nothing to do with it.

        So I’ll reiterate - the fact that anyone can still think that what’s happening is accidental or not thought out is frankly more than concerning, it’s scary.

        These people are following a playbook, they’ve got their own playbook for fucks sake, and they will do as much damage as they fucking can deliberately and with forethought. Pretending otherwise because it’s easier to punch down and dismiss him as “dumb” than to confront the reality of things and punch up at a much bigger and scarier target is counterproductive.

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          2 days ago

          Oh I’m not doubting that all of this isn’t orchestrated. The plan is transparent and obvious to all but his lapdog supporters. My only question is who is pulling the strings? Is it Trump himself, or the people behind him?

          There was some discussion last year before the election on the Project2025 group on reddit. Perhaps a conspiracy theory, but the idea was that Trump would come out with all these really terrible policies to really push people to their breaking point. And at that time Vance would come along and say oh yeah that’s bad, I’m relieving Trump as being unfit for office, and sure, we’ll just have to look into these policies. It gives -them- a scapegoat, then they go back to business as usual but more behind-the-scenes. By that point they will have taken over most, if not all of the government. The theory at the time was this would all take about 6 months. The way things are going, I don’t think it will take that long before “plan B” goes into effect. We’ll see what actually happens, but at this point it’s not outside the realm of possibility.

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        3 days ago

        He’s no rocket surgeon but he’s also not as dumb is he pretends to be. All politicians are actors, and Trump is a master of kayfabe.

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      So you think he’s slapping Gavin Newsom around with this. And deliberately screwing over California crop GDP and the little guy via increased grocery prices. Trump isn’t good for farmers. When will farmers realize that?

      I initially saw it as political theater to go with his false statements about fire preparedness.