• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Chaos. And it’s intentional. It makes the US vulnerable.

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      I disagree. While many of his sicko fans may be pushing towards this goal, Trump, himself, is far too incompetent, stupid, and demented to understand the point of what ever he is, he does. He reacts at a pure emotion, and this play will obviously end him And all of us in a much worse position. He’ll still convince him, Self he’s winning, though, and every sycophant around him will vociferously agree.

      The only way to stop any of this is if Trump, and his entire cabinet, are dead. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out how that should happen.

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        Oh stop that. He knows exactly what he’s doing. It’s a reverse pump and dump to make insiders more money, while also destabilizing the global economy to help Russia.

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          I never said that he didn’t know what he was doing, although I will say that now. He clearly stated a motive for what he’s doing and what he’s doing is never ever going to achieve that. So the only explanation is that he is both mentally deranged in several different ways, but also highly influenced by his sicko followers.

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        I wonder if all this is just a distraction for something else… no idea what though.

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          After 2016, you should no longer wonder. It abs-o-fucking-loutley is a distraction for something (everything) else. And if you wanna know what it’s a distraction for, pay closer attention.

          Currently, there are several terrifying crises that Trump has created: an immigration crisis, an import/export crisis, an economic crisis surrounding taxation, and an impending climate crisis. Everything he does is to distract from one thing or another, because he’s trying to ram through Project 2025, which is basically trying to re-legislate everything that the entire world is progressed away from over the last 150 years. Why, because the insane capitalist who want these regressive policies are the ones who also kisses ass to the point that he will do whatever they want.

          How do you fight against any of this? Fight against all of them. But don’t expect that the judiciary or the legislative branch will accomplish that goal.

          Trump has to be eliminated from any position of power. Forever. That’s the only way to begin any hope of reformation. And even if not reformation, just stopping it from becoming worse. Same goes for any ally of his, no matter how temporary, and including anyone who ever voted for him, or thinks that he is capable of anything other than a catastrophically destructive and fascistic authoritarian control of this country that will nearly immediately lead to its destruction

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        It doesn’t much matter whether he has a plan to destroy the USA or whether he is a dumbass being manipulated by others with a plan to destroy the USA, or whether the manipulation is mainly based in blackmail or narcissistic pride. The overall result is the same.

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          The fourth possibility you failed to consider, or at least did not include in that list, is that he has such a demented, egotistical, dumb fuck, that he is doing what he’s doing for those reasons.

          But you’re correct: the result is mostly, if not completely, the same.

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      It’s not intentional…

      His first term had people managing him and stopping him from doing this shit.

      This term is all people egging him on

      He thought countries would rush to negotiate, instead they called his bluff. So now he’s vaugely saying “everyone” has been negotiating so he’s pausing everyone but China.

      He wants every country to think they’re the only one not negotiating, when really no one is.

      trump isn’t that hard to predict. 80s sleazy business practices are way more likely than some convoluted scheme to crash everything.

      Putin wants him to, and trump is gonna do it. But at no point will trump be crashing the US economy intentionally, he’s genuinely doing his best right now.

      And that’s way fucking scarier

      Quick edit:

      Even this 90 day pause, it’s almost certainly just because they saw the bounce from that fake tweet, and knew it would at least cause another bump if they really did it

      They’re fucking idiots with no clue what they’re doing.