From blowing up at Zelenskyy to fast-tracking Executive Orders, what can we learn from Trump’s recent behaviour?

  • Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    If a bull in a China shop breaks 99% of the China in an hour, then he can’t possibly break more than that during his second hour in the shop.

    • Dimmer@leminal.space
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      15 hours ago

      The bull will come to second floor and next door, it wont stop until it rampages thru the whole street, or you put something into its head.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    This is the prelude. He’s seen he can get away with anything he wants. There’s no stopping him now.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    No. Once the entire place is a heap of rubble, he won’t be able to do any more damage. My estimate is six months to achieve that.

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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    15 hours ago

    Presidencies are over. The guy is literally trying to normalize calling himself king as well as anything that supports the shift into a personality cult authoritarian state. It will take time and the loss of liberties will be the only thing that trickles down exponentially. This transition is also being performed by idiots who can’t comprehend that there are other timers running out for our world, largely because they can’t discern it from the bullshit they spew, and those who can but just think it’s a good way to get ahead for when shit hits the fan.

    This is it. This is it for the US. People still thinking that midterms aren’t going to be screwed over to deny a fair election are fooling themselves. Even if anything where to topple Trump, it is a systemic problem and one where all the major institutions have already been corrupted from the top. There is no getting back from this. There is no getting back from having to share a democracy with a cult and with people still being so indoctrinated by faux patriotism, power, and wealth that they won’t ever realistically consider seceding into like minded states - why, just imagine, how unpatriotic -gasp- .

    The economy? Your social security? Your freedom? I don’t know how low it will go, but since most Americans only seem to care for themselves, to them, at the very least, they should expect to be cast off into a separate “lower class” if they ever shift to the wrong political association from now on.

      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        This is probably what many think and it’s pretty problematic. Old as he is, he can still fuck the country bareback until he’s dead. If you’re hoping he just tires himself out and things can go back to normal, uhh… There will be others.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    It’s like watching a little bratty rich kid set fire to the drapes inside the living room … and then having a bunch of adults in the room defending the kid and stopping anyone from doing anything about the fire in the living room, even denying that there is a fire in the living room.

    All the while arguing with everyone else in the house about the fire that is spreading around the living room and will soon take over the house. Everyone fighting and shouting as the fire slowly goes from the drapes, to the couch, the TV, the bookshelf and smoke is now starting to go into the hallway and flames are starting to make their way to the next room.

    The neighbours are standing on the sidewalk pointing and shouting “Hey! … there’s a fire in your house!” … and everyone inside the burning house shouting back “No there isn’t! … (cough, cough, cough) … go away! leave us alone!”

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah, those people on the other side of the road should mind their own business.
        /s

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          10 hours ago

          It’s almost one step further to be honest; by tying politics to religion they have both tapped people’s blind faith and essentially equated not being a conservative to being a sinner.

          I’ve heard things like “I am voting for [candidate] because they are a good Christian” all my life growing up in the southernish US.

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    16 hours ago

    Of course not! It’ll keep getting worse and worse each month, forever, because there won’t have to be any more elections!

  • Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    16 hours ago

    I find it embarrassing that Americans are so uninformed about their own history, that they don’t understand what rich people think made America great in the past. They think it means their childhood, and not the so obviously named guilded age. Of course it’s going to get worse, because they want to make this the same country that allowed robber Barrons to rise. We have a lot of regulations and agencies to dismantle before we get there.

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    16 hours ago

    He will never acknowlege fault from his side so he’ll need to find more and more enemies and institutions to attack and blame in an endless cycle…

    Don’t be surprised if at some point he’ll demand previous presidents be arrested and interrogated for destroying the US economy and standing…