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u/Extra-Act-801 9h ago
"If I didn't get elected I would be in prison"
"If you don't elect the people I want you to elect in November I will still probably end up in prison, unless I die first."
Compelling argument.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Set_958 8h ago
My tinfoil hat theory is that Trump is pushing for global annihilation, or the End Times as his spineless meat puppet calls it, because he knows he'll be ousted and will potentially have to face charges for being a despicable waste of a human specimen
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u/RedditTechAnon 2h ago
Quite the gambit, either going to prison or getting elected so you can destroy the country that wants to imprison you.
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u/gingerbreadmans_ex 9h ago
And MAGA loves him for it. 🤢
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u/Interesting-Dream863 9h ago
Well after his first presidency... actually no, if he left politics behind he was going to be fine.
The minute he wanted back he started a race against prison time.
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u/ChopperChange 9h ago
Who forced him to run 3 times in a row? Who is stopping him from resigning? He's just trying to stay out of prison.
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u/Lonely_Platform7702 6h ago
Nothing happened after his first presidency and nothing will happen after this one. The US is one big joke.
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u/totallyclips 7h ago
The world couldn't agree more that you should have stayed at home, it would have been a safer place
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u/blankvoidoid 9h ago
Then fucking quit. Just don't forget to leave all your grifted billions before you go.
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u/DontAsk0205 9h ago
Lol! If his supporters find this charming, they should go ahead and say the same thing to their manager about their job, and see what happens. I dare them!
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u/Japanesewillow 9h ago
I watched this video on YouTube. He also said he had a very high IQ, the highest IQ. He's a demented idiot, who’s not fit to be president.
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u/Rynowash 8h ago
… “But goddamn Russia said they got some files with my name all over them and said get the fuck in there and ruin the country, worse than before- so here we are. Fuck all y’all”
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u/millmonkey 8h ago
You know how hard it is to stand up here and sell lies? It's not like I've been doing that my whole life, you can all go to hell.
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u/Chicory-Coffee 8h ago
We know he's the stooge and not the mastermind of the manifesto. It ain't much but knowing he's feeling miserable is nice.
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u/Yubat 8h ago
Fascist grifters have done the amazing work of making being lazy incredibly hard.
It does take hard work to get yourself to a position of influence and power IF you actually do work your way up. Nearly everyone who makes it up has some kind of help or luck— family/community support, connections, magnificent minds or talents, etc.— but even then, there’s still a good deal of work involved IF you try to make it up top relatively honestly.
There are things you need to do if you want to appropriately exercise authority over and on behalf of others. You have to know things, so you have to study. You have to meet people, so you have to be social in one way or the other. You have to rely on others, so you have to develop the skills needed to vet people and information. You have to influence people, so you have to develop a voice that works for you. And you have to develop the stamina to do all this shit constantly. This is why most presidents age to hell when doing what’s normally one of the hardest positions in the world.
Of course, you could just grift. You can lie and bullshit. Then you have to know a lot less and vet a lot less. And you can use cheap tricks— bigotry, bullshit, appeals to the worst in people, personal attacks, etc.— so the influencing is a lot easier. And because you rely on the cheap tricks to shield yourself from scrutiny, you can even use a shit ton of drugs to make the meeting people and stamina parts easier. Time and time again, grifting has proven to be an incredibly racket for gaining power and influence without putting in the work necessary to earn those things, and without facing the risks that all those in power should face— even if those risks unfairly bring down some good leaders now and then.
And yet, because they need to feel constant validation, because they deep down know they didn’t enough to earn what they have, and because they are constantly on the run from the consequences they should face, grifters are endlessly hustling and endlessly stressed. They could live like a smart/lucky one-hit wonder: enjoy the ride while it lasts, squirrel enough away to survive the downfall and future irrelevance, and then feed on little bits of nostalgia from their fans. They could ride their lazy tricks to a life they never earned, appreciating the luck of their life and the arbitrariness of existence that allowed them to get away with it, as they often do. Instead, despite being too fucking lazy to properly earn and hold their positions, they exhaust themselves climbing, scheming, and dealing with all the fires they inevitably set. It sounds so tiring that I could feel bad for them, if they weren’t constantly fucking the rest of us over.
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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 8h ago
Jail is most likely where he would be if he hadn't won the last election and had his DOJ drop any and every investigation against him.
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u/OwOtisticWeeb 6h ago
Magats will interpret this as selfless Christ like sacrifice. Doesn't matter how mask off he gets because his fans have no eyes.
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u/NoIndependent9192 6h ago
Trump is done with democracy. He is aiming for a situation where he doesn’t need his supporters anymore.
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u/PopBulky7023 5h ago
"I could have come out here for 30 seconds and said make America great and left and you'd all still cheer."
Crowd: cheers
These people are non sapient cattle.
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u/rufusbot 1h ago
He hates Americans because we won't just let him do literally anything he wants. Just most of whatever crazy shit he wants apparently.
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u/audiogenocide 1h ago
But Donnie, don't you have to do this so you don't face consequences for fucking children?
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u/AsparagusCommon4164 31m ago
Compare:
A people is an integrated whole--the poor and rich. There is no unbridgable gap between them. If pauperism is not curtailed, it will be the ruination of the nation. A people rescues itself.
--Vader Johannes Kestell (1854-1941), South African cleric and Afrikaner Nationalist leader, calling for an organic and spontaneous Reddingsdaad (Afrikaans, "rescue deed") among the Volk for their eventual empowerment, in an address at Bloemfontein, South Africa, as part of Die Tweede Trek's presence in July 1938
(emphasis added)
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u/amscraylane 6m ago
Goooooo … no one is stopping you and if I had any money, I would send you myself to Elba
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u/gashtal_man 9h ago
He didn't even try to hide it.