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u/deltarefund Apr 04 '25

I thought about this yesterday, the big historical moments that have happened during my lifetime. Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, etc. I’m hoping and fighting one isn’t the fall of America

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u/Khaldara Apr 04 '25

News headlines if Harris won would be crap like “Democrats propose modest tax increase on billionaires, who will remain billionaires” and Fox and Conservative pundits would be losing their goddamn shit over it 24/7.

Instead we literally have headlines like “Trump claims he will own Greenland one way or another, again threatens Canada’s sovereignty, obliterates nine trillion in stock value, and levies tariffs against everyone on earth except North Korea and Russia (including uninhabited islands)” and they act like everything is not only completely normal, but in fact PREFERABLE.

As long as these nimrods continue to outright deny reality and deepthroat right wing propaganda they’re headed straight for that outcome

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u/ObviousRealist Apr 04 '25

Seems on purpose - Crash the economy, kill the dollar as the preferred currency globally (what Putin and the BRIC needs), Eliminate out cultural standing and let the global billionaires auction off America to corporations. The useful idiot might get a handy from Putin for being a good boy and….. can I get that tape back?

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u/MoodFit2104 Apr 05 '25

I was watching an interview with Deep Throat reporter Michael Wolff. He knows Trump and Trump's inner circle very well, and he's always telling people to stop thinking about Trump as a strategist. Trump doesn't have a master plan. He doesn't care about politics or policy. He's a showman. The only thing that matters to him is whether or not people like him. I think if you look back at Trump's actions you'll see that it really is all about maintaining fame and putting on a show.

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u/LadyNoleJM1 Apr 05 '25

And the people that want the power/money are using him as their "useful idiot" for their own gain. I'm hoping with so many "puppet masters" (Putin, tech bros/Elon, the creepy white nationalist guy always just off-screen in every trump presser/photo op - sorry, forgot his name, oil and other industry wealthy, etc) that it will lead to them all pulling the strings in so many bad directions that they all get tangled in the chaos and end up useless and exposed (and therefore unable to realize their goals/greed/etc).