• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    He’s been telegraphing it since 2016. In 2020 he literally tried to stop the peaceful passing of power between Presidencies and made it a very not peaceful passage for the first time in US history.

    Like, if you haven’t noticed, you haven’t been paying the fuck attention (not you OP, you’re obviously paying attention). I’m so sick of our media downplaying it like they’re just figuring this the fuck out, like he isn’t the most transparently bad liar in fucking history.

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      17 hours ago

      He’s not even a bad liar. That would mean he’s lying. He literally said in 2019 “If I win the 2020 election, I will accept those results. If the results say I lost, then you’ll know just how rigged it was, and I will refuse to accept it. We’ll change the rigged elections and show them how you can’t rig elections anymore.”

      He straight up said, long before a single vote could be cast, that he wasn’t doing any part of the election process in good faith.

      Then in the 2024 election right around the time of the debates, he said “Last time they rigged the elections. We’re going to show them how to rig it so the good guys win. It’ll be the biggest election you’ve ever seen. It’ll be such a big election with such a turnout, that you won’t need a recount. You won’t need anymore elections after this. This will be the last one we do, believe me.”

      He’s straight up saying that he’s rigging elections and will refuse to hand over power when his term limit expires.

      He’s not lying. He’s straight up telling you he’s going to be a piece of shit, and then he follows it up by being a piece of shit.

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        5 hours ago

        This …

        He will not just step off the stage, he can not.
        Regardless of his mental state, he is so ingrained in Project 2025 that they do not let him until a working solution is found, perhaps after an official declaration of kingship and he appoints a successor will he get to step down.
        Next to that if he would now just lay down his title and maga crumbles down he’s absolutely certain he’ll be drowned in lawsuits again and perhaps actually given jailtime.

        Oh, and the coup … yeah that is already ongoing just in a sneaky way…

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        16 hours ago

        I think as his dementia takes hold more and more, he’s going to become more erratic and it will be cunts like Steven Miller who step up to push for things. My suspicion is that the GOP is staying silent because there are many senior legislators and connected friends that ran with Epstein and why Trump isn’t releasing those files is because it’s “compromat” that he can leverage tons of people with. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Roy Cohn would have taught him to do.

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      10 hours ago

      our media downplaying it like they’re just figuring this the fuck out

      Like they are a little bit in/for on it too?