• turtlesareneat@piefed.ca
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      7 hours ago

      We saw what he’ll do during the Obama ape post. Blame a few staffers, not by name. Then say he’s not sorry and move on. I doubt the upset Christians will remember this or care in a week, two weeks.

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        Yup. They believe what they want to hear. A few repeats of the “fake news! doctored images! liberal media persecution!” mantra from their lord and savior, and their outage will be redirected onto ‘the left’, and any internal conflicts they have will fade into numbness and blind adulation.

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        4 hours ago

        oh, I forgot about that-- it was a long time ago. edit: sorry, the past few months have felt like a decade!

        still:

        • that was twitter (not even X yet), not his own platform
        • he was much more adroit then. he’s much more old grandpa crazy now
          • he won’t say he’s sorry, he’ll double-down, if he acknowledges it at all
            • if he goes the double-down route, which is possible because I don’t think this Pope-fight bullshit is going away (yay!), who knows what downhill direction the diarrhea will run
        • this Pope-fight isn’t just affecting Trump, now his “Christian” base is getting involved, and not on Trump’s side

        so, this is gonna be fun to watch

        edit: 15:37 ET (UTC -05:00)

        ok, so, it has been fun to watch! His response…

        Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person

        so, he admits to posting it because he claims he thought he “looked like a doctor healing people” which either makes him seem to be the biggest liar ever or the most completely bonkers person ever, and, really, it’s not an either/or situation anymore but a matter of “which is more the case” at this point.

        more to come…