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      I mean… he already said it about Ukraine, it is entirely possible he’d say this about Poland.

      The problem is any mental thing people can make up is something he could easily have said.

      If this was true, I’d just say yup. Sounds like something he’d say.

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      incidentally (or not) this underlines a deliberate function of trump’s negotiation strategy-- to promote uncertainty which protects his position from precise scrutiny. this comes up in hypernormalisation a british docu as a deliberate part of putin’s strategy- to keep your opponents always guessing… its a form of obfuscation that we see in every day life when it comes to news media, social media, and so on- its a very common trick today and i think its as important as ever to get a handle on the material realities of the world under the cover of all this smoke.

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      I also ate it. Was just about to scroll by when I say the community. 100% plausible thing for him to say.

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    We need to start calling it Maga America, in the same way we say Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy.

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        That’s sounds too much like a fun little vacation where someone takes all your money. This is more like a nightmare of destruction that will take all your money

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    I genuinely didn’t think it was satire when I saw the headline. Trump coming out and saying something like that is literally just par for course.

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    This feels like it could have actually been something he said. I feel like if you showed this article to his followers, without showing the site, they would nod their heads and agree that it’s sage wisdom.

    How fucked up is this timeline?

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      That would require him knowing about history a bit, and that might be a stretch.
      I am pretty sure in his mind WWII was that time when America, Hitler, and Putin won against hords of gay black people.

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    The funniest part of this is that he still blames the Central Park 5 for making a deal when the police coerced them into confessing. So even when someone does make a deal and suffers for something that wasn’t their fault, he still blames them.

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    World War 1 and the global rise of fascism started World War 2. A mentally ill man at the helm in Germany didn’t help. Granted, I don’t think our mentally ill (Cluster B personality disorder) man has ever cracked a history text. He probably doesn’t even know of the existence of the Treaty of Versailles.

    That said, my armchair amateur read is this is all about the chips. Billionaire backing: for the chips. Elon space: for the chips. Canada and Greenland threats: for the chips, playing the odds re what’s under the ice. Ukraine slam: for the chips, and, sure, Daddy Putin.

    Chips chips chips. The game moving forward is chips.

    Now I’m craving Salt & Vinegar.

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      for the chips

      No, I think he’s actually drinking his own kool-aid.

      This is what worries me. Historically, most dictators have information space problems but are at least self-aware.

      …Trump is not. He makes irrational, self destructive moves like he actually believes this stuff.

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    How about this for a deal? Countries keep their shit out of other countries where they’re not welcome?