This is good precisely because it is saying obvious things - because they are things that much of the (especially US) media seems to have found unfathomably hard to say. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o... - ThreadSky

philipcball.bsky.social • 7 days ago

This is good precisely because it is saying obvious things - because they are things that much of the (especially US) media seems to have found unfathomably hard to say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opinion/trump-revenge-american-people.html

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melancholyjaques.bsky.social•7 days ago

It isn't hard for them to say, they just do not want to say it. They adore Trump & support every single thing he is doing. They worked hard to put him back in the White House & have no regrets about anything.

londoner007.bsky.social•7 days ago

📌

nightriderjn.bsky.social•7 days ago

I came to a similar conclusion as the author of this article. All billionaires should retire and enjoy their wealth and leave the rest of us alone. My conclusion: Trump is probably really miserable and wants the rest of the USA and probably the whole world to be miserable too like him.

karmageddon.bsky.social•7 days ago

He's coming after all of us with a shotgun approach to guarantee he'll destroy his enemies. As for those who worship and support him, he doesn't give a damn about them. He got their votes and doesn't need them anymore. He's out to destroy the country that judged him a felon.

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philipcball.bsky.social•7 days ago

This, for example.

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•7 days ago

This comment did remind me of those analysts employed by the media and intelligence agencies in the Cold War era to study the body language and rhetoric of Soviet leaders to decipher what was 'truly meant'.

philipcball.bsky.social•7 days ago

Indeed - although there it seems the ambiguity might have been a deliberate strategy of the leaders, as it was for Hitler. But for Trump it is surely in general nothing more complicated than a matter of incoherence, incontinence, immaturity, and ignorance.

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•6 days ago

As someone who has taught 20th Century History and whose father collected British political books of the 1930s, one thing that has struck me is how I feel better equipped to comprehend the reactions of Britons to what was happening in the 1930s and that mixture of despair and hopelessness in many

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•6 days ago

combined with some calling for action or volunteering. Some parallels to people volunteering to fight/provide aid in the Spanish Civil War can perhaps be set alongside such support for Ukraine now? I guess we should be pleased that there is no Non-Intervention Committee this time round with input

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•6 days ago

from the European democracies.

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is a fascinating question. Recently I was talking to students about the 'weave' that Trump claims he uses and how similar it was to Hitler's speeches - not that I would encourage anyone to sit through these - with the same sort of wandering around. Hitler was younger than Trump is now but we

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•6 days ago

do know, especially as the war progressed he was in ill health and dependent on prescription medication so might have had the cognitive health of an older man. Hitler was not a particularly intelligent man, but had learnt the tricks of a bully. He exploited the sustained good will of the

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•6 days ago

democracies and their inability to know how to respond to someone who was no longer fitting established rules of international relations. Of course, some have drawn parallels between the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and Trump's current wooing of Putin. Historical parallels never fit exactly but we can

playitasitlays.bsky.social•7 days ago

☝️💯

drfranb.bsky.social•7 days ago

horrifying

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