• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    If you brought today’s Trump back in time to 2016 everyone would have been put off by how more openly insane he has become. But people don’t seem to notice now because of how gradual it was. They became increasingly used to more and more insanity from his part and also removed everyone who could oppose him.

    Remember when he had to deny having anything to do with Project 2025 because it was going to cost him the election? And now he’s just doing it in the open.

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      “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

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        “Can you explain what the nuclear triad is?”

        Also, he says his uncle had to explain to him how “nuclear was powerful” in the early '80s, when Trump was in his mid 30s.

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      He seemed just as insane to me honestly. Also hes not denying project 2025 anymore because he fully controls the government now.

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      A lot of Trumpers just double down when they are met with any level of cognitive dissonance because they’re in so deep