The idea that Trump’s nominee for AG barely making it a week before getting spiked by his own party is some sort of 1776-dimensional chess on Trump’s part is extremely funny
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My theory on "4D Chess" is that most of Trump's supporters are not as dumb as he is, but they are all as racist, hence the attraction, so when they hear he did something typically stupid they assume it must be a galaxy brained ploy.
Or, maybe just maybe (probably not) have the balls to say no and do what’s right for 🇺🇸. This is an important moment for Thune & co. to assert themselves and think of the country’s and their own political futures. But probably not…
It's really a lot like the film Being There, with all of these elites assuming Chance Gardiner is some kind of genius. Like Trump, he was also completely educated by television lol.
True, Trump can barely stand or express coherent sentences. There’s not a master plan, this isn’t even going to help him either. I feel like a weekend at Bernie’s will play out eventually.
Looking forward to the explanations of how him choking to death on a cheeseburger were exactly what the Trump administration needed to enact his master plan from beyond the grave.
Multiple things can be right. Yes, Trump was impulsive for nominating Gaetz, but it achieved his goal—Senate GOP didn’t know what to do despite Gaetz being blatantly awful. Trump now knows his next AG pick can be just as radical & beholden to him & likely sail through because they’re not Gaetz.
Every time somebody starts talking about somebody else playing multi-dimensional chess, you know both the speaker and the person they're talking about are absolute jerks. Every time!
Ugh... Dana Loesch. I left Twitter for a few reasons and she was one of them. To someone with a brain inverted into anti-space, Trump's actions would seem like 4-D chess. What an idiot.
The best part is these right wing dipshits would never have even considered it was "4D chess" without smarter people on the left talking abot it first.
Once again, 45 can barely string together a coherent sentence. Whoever is controlling him may have been setting it up as a distraction or a joke, but it certainly wasn't him.
I don't think it was 4D chess but I definitely subscribe to the idea that it can always get worse where Trump is involved, which, I'm sure can kinda *feel* like 4D chess to his fans.
Does Gaetz flaming out make confirmation for the rest of the sex pest clown car easier? Maybe. Hegseth seems to maybe have a path despite being equally as unqualified.
Trump isn't playing any type of chess. He just goes with stupid and usually it's very stupid. They will never learn Trump does what he wants and usually fucks it up in the process.
Unfortunately, Trump has a circle of assholes pushing him in their narrow direction of theocracy after his fuck ups.
It’s weird, all Trump has to be is his vacuous clueless ignorant chaotic self and everyone else will try and pretzel his actions and statements into some sort of genius logic. The myth is powerful!
Not advanced strategy, just a technique known as “flooding the zone;” Putting so many outrageously awful nominees out there, the slightly-less outrageous ones cruise thru. (RFK, McMahon, Oz)
The GOP is trying to wear down Democrats by nominating a parade of unqualified rapists, one after another, after another. Democrats will keep fighting for a qualified nominee, even if it takes four years for Trump to run through every corrupt rapist in the GOP.
It's possibly to most angering thing to me: they're just all so insanely stupid that even the meanest, most cartoonishly savage insult you could make about their intelligence would be charitable compared to how dumb they actually are.
I’m not so sure, Trump lays out in The Art of the Deal that you start a negotiation outlandishly then walk back to a position of leverage. The other picks he put forth seem less objectionable than Gaetz by comparison. Seems darkly shrewd actually.
I think Bernies point is that that isn'tdistinct from "be unhinged 100% of the time 24/7 THEN claim everything as absolute victory 100% of the time 24/7" which is patently unfalsifiable bsing. Logic and reason neednt be relitigated because Trump (barely) won might be another point
"Had to be. The only other alternative is that at least one (1) of my preexisting beliefs about Donald Trump was mistaken and that's obviously not it."
Trump is not that bright. He doesn’t play 4D chess. His influencers might be playing it and making him think it’s his idea. Trump is easily played. He is the worst.
It's 0-D power politics. He knows he takes very little loss for nominating a freak like Gaetz, so it's a test for how far he can push the boundaries. Trump's only "talent" is a shameless willingness to push the edges of depravity when there is no cost to him in doing so.
He nominates 15 ridiculous candidates, knowing that at least half of them will go through simply because nobody will have the energy and focus to oppose all of them.
Because the media makes squirrels look focused and patient.
One of his sycophants resigned from Congress, he had non-stop press coverage about his AG nominee being a sex pest, and saw his nominee withdraw before he was even sworn in? Incredible strategimizing!
Always go with Occam’s razor with Trump. Dumbass who’s easily flattered and loves ass kissers picked the world’s biggest ass kisser. It’s not more complicated than that.
“Welcome to MAGA-land, here’s your auto-lobotomizing red hat and an infinitely refillable prescription for copium. Please let us know if you’ve had a previous or current sports copium habit and we’ll get you a script for the injectable extra-strength variety.”
This wasn’t 4D chess—they wanted Gaetz. They even threatened to uncork new GOP Sugar Daddy Elon Musk to finance a primary against those who wouldn’t fall in line.
He was burned by his first AG Jeff Sessions' loyalty to White House lawyers and legal parameters and wanted someone whose undying loyalty would be to him instead. Gaetz screams that more than anyone.
Has trump found all the nominees he needs in his rusty dumpster or are there still some mixed in the icky goo that leaks out of the bottom on a hot summer day?
If you don’t actually have any core beliefs and are willing to accept anything then this can totally make sense. Perpetuate the lies and chaos - a wise woman once said ‘if you can make it trend you can make it true’ (slightly paraphrasing @noupside.bsky.social)
So the test is... Are people jumping up and down about how terrible a choice Bondi is? No.
Because the only media commentary I've seen talked about how much more qualified she is than Gaetz.
If that's a Trump strategy, it may be working.
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MAGAts: "This went exactly as Trump intended."
I will be surprised if any others fall
Amazing how they just forgot about it for four years and now they pick it back up like nothing happened.
Or are they just hoping to catch a ride on the gravy train?
was like
"We're good. You don't need to pay a fine",
was mind boggling stratgegetic
I'm just so grateful.
Did Trump plan that? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.
Obviously, it's all play-acting, but so many people like to participate!
Unfortunately, Trump has a circle of assholes pushing him in their narrow direction of theocracy after his fuck ups.
Because the media makes squirrels look focused and patient.
“Holy shit. Trump is just running circles around them all.”
The only real question is what distraction comes next to cover for what?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53121804-let-them-eat-tweets
Trumpalos: "Masterful gambit, sir!"
https://bsky.app/profile/johnpontoon.bsky.social/post/3lbi7rrljx22o
Because the only media commentary I've seen talked about how much more qualified she is than Gaetz.
If that's a Trump strategy, it may be working.