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[rockin_rod]

He's so tremendously stupid.

But what really stands out to me is the rudeness that he constantly shows to other people.
He routinely calls those in the media 'stoooooopid', 'dumb', 'terrible', 'awful' with impunity, yet if any one of those individuals said the same publicly to him, I bet they would be served with legal papers in a heartbeat.

 

[Vixxen81]

But what really stands out to me is the rudeness that he constantly shows to other people.
He routinely calls those in the media 'stoooooopid', 'dumb', 'terrible', 'awful' with impunity, yet if any one of those individuals said the same publicly to him, I bet they would be served with legal papers in a heartbeat.

I dare one of them to do it. ANY of them to do it. Knock him so far off guard that he uses slurs. On record.

 

[AmberCutie]

I dare one of them to do it. ANY of them to do it. Knock him so far off guard that he uses slurs. On record.

It won’t matter, and the reporter would just be fired.

Unfortunately I think that’s the reason we don’t hear more. It’s hard to take a stand/take the risk when you know from precedent it will only impact you and not him.

 

[Vixxen81]

It won’t matter, and the reporter would just be fired.

Unfortunately I think that’s the reason we don’t hear more. It’s hard to take a stand/take the risk when you know from precedent it will only impact you and not him.

There used to be a time when integrity mattered more than paychecks. Guess he destroyed that, too.

 

[AmberCutie]

There used to be a time when integrity mattered more than paychecks. Guess he destroyed that, too.

that's one of the biggest disappointments that's come from him being in power.

nothing matters. I'm scared of who will get a position like him next and just steamroll civil liberties completely.

 

[Vixxen81]

that's one of the biggest disappointments that's come from him being in power.

nothing matters. I'm scared of who will get a position like him next and just steamroll civil liberties completely.

The general consensus is it's a cult of personality and there is no one who can replace him. But that said, remember all of this is to keep his rotting corpse out of jail and out of The Hague. It can't last forever.

 

[zippypinhead]

The general consensus is it's a cult of personality and there is no one who can replace him. But that said, remember all of this is to keep his rotting corpse out of jail and out of The Hague. It can't last forever.

Cults always begin with a "personality", but it's the "all business" successors that really entrench the organization and have a more lasting impact.

They already learned not to lean too hard on his cult of personality from his first term, or rather, to use it most effectively as a distraction. It's why they drafted their vile Project 2025 counter-Constitution, so they could carry on doing the most harm once in power, with or without him. People are dismissive of seemingly nebbish weirdos like Johnson or Vance, but it is invariably those types of people who take the reins of power once the Personality is gone, and they stick around for decades, and do as much damage as possible.

 

[Vixxen81]

Cults always begin with a "personality", but it's the "all business" successors that really entrench the organization and have a more lasting impact.

They already learned not to lean too hard on his cult of personality from his first term, or rather, to use it most effectively as a distraction. It's why they drafted their vile Project 2025 counter-Constitution, so they could carry on doing the most harm once in power, with or without him. People are dismissive of seemingly nebbish weirdos like Johnson or Vance, but it is invariably those types of people who take the reins of power once the Personality is gone, and they stick around for decades, and do as much damage as possible.

Looking at TPUSA and how it has practically eaten itself from the inside out gives me hope the same will happen when OrangeCruelious dies.

 

[stormythunder]

The general consensus is it's a cult of personality and there is no one who can replace him. But that said, remember all of this is to keep his rotting corpse out of jail and out of The Hague. It can't last forever.

That is the general consensus but I just simply disagree with it. Everything Trump is doing has happened under other presidents. Just not all at once necessarily. But what I'm getting at is that the position allows for such abuse of power and it's only ever a matter of time before an extremist group takes advantage of the position again. I think no one wants to address that because we have no precedent for what a new version of the government could look like.

 

[Vixxen81]

Trump just summoned his cabinet to Camp David (a place he deeply dislikes) after leaving Walter Reed.