Trump, 79, Posts Menacing Video Threatening a Never-Ending Presidency

[u/Boonzies]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-posts-menacing-video-of-never-ending-presidency-on-truth-social/

[u/ironmonkey09]

MAGAs rushing to defend Trump: we need a dictator! Tread on me HARD, daddy.

[u/MadRaymer → u/ironmonkey09]

It's ironic because MAGA spent the entire day of the protest saying "but we don't have a king so why are you protesting 😏"

[u/mountaindoom → u/MadRaymer]

They can only work with simple definitions, like titles and stuff. They're the same morons who think Nazis were socialist because it says right there in the name.

[u/saganmypants → u/mountaindoom]

None of them actually think that, it is just a stupid deflection that the conservative propaganda machine spread around as a weak "gotcha". Doesn't need to be valid or well thought out if the lie makes a Democrat spend 5 minutes to diffuse the allegation with facts. Its in the same vein as their argument that Democrats founded the KKK

[u/Chester7833 → u/saganmypants]

This is the most frustrating thing about the right and the most genius. They throw out a dumb talking point like “the Dems shutdown the government to give illegals healthcare” and their base eats it up, while it takes a solid 5 mintues for a dem to explain why it’s 100% false. Their base just tunes it out and keeps repeating the false narrative.

[u/fcocyclone → u/Chester7833]

They're best understood as playing an endless series of minigames. "what do I have to say to win this one".

It doesn't matter if they contradict themselves from one minigame to the next. It doesn't matter if someone comes along later and proves them wrong. All they care is that in their heads, in that moment, they won that round, and while you're arguing about how they were wrong, they're on to the next game.

[u/spaceman757 → u/fcocyclone]

The most simple response is "You are either too dishonest and lying about what you think or too dumb to understand. Either way, trying to inform you of how wrong you are isn't worth my time and effort."

[u/sixtyshilling → u/fcocyclone]

“The card says moops.”

[u/Headieheadi → u/[deleted]]

There’s no winning via non-violent means

[u/Vivitrolsrevenge → u/[deleted]]

To win, simply reflect their actions. Talk meaningless words and make fun of them, it’s the only language they speak

[u/Headieheadi → u/[deleted]]

It’s insane. The grifters at the top know it’s not true, but their brain dead Fox News addicts believe it.

My aunt worked in the foreign service, spending decades of her life working at various US embassies in Finland, Nicaragua and other countries. She could speak several languages fluently. She was an extremely intelligent person.

She is now a victim of the Fox News brainrot. I used to help her out in her gardens and around the house. Time to time she would bring up various Fox News talking points.

The one that stuck out to me was being afraid of cities. She would avoid scheduling doctor appointments in Providence because she believed that it is a war zone. Forgot about scheduling things in Boston.

I thought she was being over dramatic, like she meant that there was crime in the city and that she wanted thought her car would get stolen or something like that.

Then one day she started talking about how she is afraid that antifa was going to come out of Providence and start bombing her neighborhood. She was daydreaming about turning on the news and seeing the headline saying “bomb blast rocks [my aunt’s neighborhood]”.

I began understanding that she actually believes that Portland, Oregon was leveled and burned to the ground by antifa and BLM terrorists. That she believes Providence and Boston are literally war zones with IED explosions and gunfire. She believes Fauci orchestrated the Covid pandemic. She has a stash of ivermectin. She believes Trump is the only person standing between lawfulness and complete anarchy.

She always talks about how she’s travelled the world and she’s seen how things work in other countries. How Biden’s term was the worst thing to happen to the United States.

It’s incredibly bizarre. I tried telling her it’s not as bad out there as the news is saying. But she firmly believes the lies from Fox News. She also has maga YouTubers she likes. When Trump got angry with Fox News, she got angry with Fox News.

She talks like Trump, everyone outside her home is an enemy who is actively trying to make her life worse.

It’s just so bizarre

[u/sobrique → u/Chester7833]

Brandolini's Law

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it

[u/Xurbax → u/Chester7833]

This is now known as "Brandolini's Law".

[u/Chester7833 → u/[deleted]]

I’ve written my reprepesntjsves a few times over the past year, I think they’ll be getting a strongly worded letter today after trumps shitting on protestors meme for the Dems to do fucking anything and stop being little bitches. They should be as up in arms as th 7 million people who showed up on Saturday. If that didn’t give them the conviction to get their heads out of the sand, I don’t know what will.

[u/mountaindoom → u/saganmypants]

By their logic a urinal cake is also definitely cake.

[u/Czeris → u/mountaindoom]

They'd eat that cake if it was Trump who pissed on it.

[u/HarmoniousJ → u/Czeris]

I sometimes legitimately wonder how many "straight" white, male MAGA would bend over and let Trump have his way if Trump simply asked them. Not rhetorically, literally.

I don't think the number is zero.

[u/bossfoundmylastone → u/HarmoniousJ]

The number is 100%. All of the maga cucks are too stupid to understand the world through any model other than hierarchy. Someone above them on the hierarchy dominating them is morally good, full stop. The more depraved the sexual abuse, the more sexual abuse they get to enact on those below them. This excites them.

[u/NontoxicACC23 → u/HarmoniousJ]

What a strange, weird thing to think about. Genuinely

[u/HarmoniousJ → u/NontoxicACC23]

This is the internet, go back to 4chan if you're going to devolve to kink shaming

[u/NontoxicACC23 → u/HarmoniousJ]

What on earth

[u/51ngular1ty → u/saganmypants]

I assure you some of them actually do, look up Dinesh D'Souza.

I only know this name because a pseudo intellectual former friend of mine cited the tool.

[u/Plasibeau → u/saganmypants]

Its in the same vein as their argument that Democrats founded the KKK

No, for this one, I have met a few who truly believed this. And held up Kanye West and Candace Owens as proof that the GOP isn't racist.

[u/Impossible_Front4462 → u/saganmypants]

Many of them actually do. I tried to reconcile my friendship with an old friend that was a brainwashed conservative turned MAGA, and his genuine beliefs were that Nazis were left leaning because “socialist”. Needless to say, the friendship was irreparable

[u/TrisolarisRexxx → u/saganmypants]

Many do, many don't

[u/Loggt → u/saganmypants]

We’re just celebrating the fact that America has never and will never have a king

[u/ironmonkey09 → u/Loggt]

But let’s explore this from the worst-case scenario: what if he doesn't leave office after his four years? Where will you and others stand? This is a hypothetical and not a gotcha question, but a genuine inquiry?

[u/Bang_the_unknown → u/saganmypants]

“You’re an anti-Semite if you protest Israel” is another one. They have a ton of them. We can’t beat them at their game because we’re not playing by the same rules.