well, he ain't coming up with this stuff on his own, he's too stupid to know all this shit.
someone is reading it to him and telling him wut to do.
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Have you seen any of the videos of him signing executive orders? He literally doesn't have a goddamn clue. He's just rubber stamping everything they put in front of his face.
Exactly. I've been saying it since 2016. Trump is just the face of the global corporate plutocracy seizing the means of democracy. Numerous corporations and oligarchs worked together to create the pseudo-libertarian conservative propaganda machine decades ago, and they are now leading this fascist revolution.
Fascism is a fusion of the corporation and the state, and multinationals look at Chinas state capitalist monopolies with envy. That's why every single one led them are bending the knee instantly. This is what they've been working towards for years. A democratic "will of the people" is the greatest threat to their wealth and power, and nation states are only thing with enough power to hold them accountable.
I think about this all the time when it comes to Trump's social media posts (which seem to be the majority of his communication).
Trump ain't writing those. Those are carefully crafted to sound like stupid and ignorant Trump, but they're obviously not him as his social media posts are clearer and more nefarious.
Like I think Trump is an evil bastard and terrible in countless ways, but I genuinely don't think he knows what is going on and is himself just a Stooge of something bigger. I really don't think he's behind almost any of his social media posts these days.
Stop acting so surprised. Or did you forget?
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a "lol"
And with your comment... You remember that freeze frame where Ralph's heart breaks when Lisa rejects his cha cha cha choose you card? Same for my spirit here
I mean, he wasn't wrong here, but I don't think fucking Matt Walsh knew more than any random person. He just wants to stir up shit to get attention.
I’m just shocked that people are shocked that they’re following the playbook they said they’d follow that for some reason nobody believed they’d actually follow.
Like, they published the plan, in detail, in entirety. They said the were gonna do it. Then all the “adults in the room” said “nah that’s crazy they wouldn’t do that”. Then they did it, and the “adults” were shocked.
Television and movies have conditioned people to believe that things have a way of just working out. I'm not kidding, I'm serious. This is a huge problem. People believe that nothing truly terrible can happen to them, and that when danger presents some force, god, America, luck, whatever, is going to swoop in and save them.
I truly believe the American people believe this. Imo step 1 in saving America is convincing Americans that nobody is coming to save us, WE have to do the work and save ourselves. Until they put to rest the childish idea of an outside savior, they're trapped.
I remember having a conversation with someone I know pretty well, and they asked "Project 2025? Isn't that just conspiracy theory?"
Me, after a beat to make sure I heard correctly...."Um, no. They published a rather large PDF. You can download it and read it. It's a thing."
Turns out, they listen to Rogan, so not sure what kind of gateway red-pill bullshit he was slinging on his podcast about Project 2025...
No shit! Who could have seen this coming??? God Americans are morons. I hate living here.
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Can we normalize summaries on articles from websites that have 2+ full screen pop-ups asking you to subscribe to their paper, newsletter, or accept their privacy invasive cookies or whatever stupid shit I just had to navigate through to read that
The article is basically saying "trump lied about not knowing about project 2025, Here's a few things that line up with it." and it points out shit we already knew like immigration and "dei".
https://archive.today/ is your friend. Someone already beat me to archiving that news story. https://archive.is/KOYsQ
On desktop, right-click plus Inspect is another friend to get past some of these overlays which block the visible content. Pick a location on a page overlay which might seem like the top left of the overlay.
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If you really mess up the page, just reload the webpage.
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I also feel summaries could be useful, but since some original posts on Lemmy just consist of a link with sometimes only a very brief summary, you now have some additional ways to get past some of the junk.
I think it is worth noting Bloomberg says "By accepting, you agree to our updated Terms of Service, including... sharing information about your use of Bloomberg com with third parties." The archive website can help with reducing this tracking. If a website decides to block archiving in the future, you can probably already assume the tracking on that website could end up being quite intrusive.
I mean I use ublock origin on desktop and mobile so I could add manual blocks for all these things but... Ugh. i just want the information yk? I'll give the archive sites a try though
Hopefully we stop relying on these corporate journalist cause "journalism" is bought and sold at this point. Where are the independent journalist? I think we need to start looking towards a platform to fund people who seek the truth, cause every established modern outlet seems to be selling the same shit.
im in Full favor of an idea like that tbh
Liar lies, more at 11.
Trump lying? Really? Who'd have thought such a thing could happen, after only 30,000 previous lies while in office?
And the millions before office
"Once Dismissed".
/shockedface
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Same with Hitler and "Mein Kampf"...
You mean the orange peel lied to us?
I'm shocked. SHOCKED I tell you!
They really are shocked though.
The media continuously took his lies at face value and faithfully republished them while everyone with a bit of fucking sense saw them for what they were.
"Yeah, but the Democrats....."
-Virtually every bit of corporate media political analysis.
A Bloomberg Government analysis found that dozens of executive actions rolled out by the new administration this week mirror recommendations in the sweeping plan. In all, more than 30 out of Trump’s 47 initial executive actions as of Thursday afternoon match or partially align with ideas promoted in Project 2025, the analysis found.
Surprise!
OMG, he lied?
Trump’s Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 Plan He Once ~~Dismissed~~ pretended he didn't know anything about due to his knowing how horrifying and unpopular it is
FTFY
No! But he distanced himself from that very unpopular, pre-built project that gives all his friends everything they want and outlines exactly how to do it really quickly and it was exactly everything he wanted. Why would he decide to implement that? I'm shocked. Flabbergasted. Gobsmacked.
/s
Hard to believe.
He never!