looking at who he idolises I do worry there is more than a grain of truth in his threats.
He needs to be in with the 'cool kids' (dictators and depots) and will seek to prove he is the bestof them all. If putin can have a war then he will likely want a bigger, better one.....
It's to distract and sew distrust. "What if" is a scary game when you can't trust your neighbors. And that destabilization makes it easy to cause chaos with fear and hate.
Just because he wants to distract from other actions, doesn't mean that he doesn't mean it. It would be foolish to minimise on that basis. Be alert to what he says and does on all fronts.
Trump has little man syndrome. This is why he vomits lies from the mouth repeatedly. He is not a gangster and nobody really fucking likes him at all or is even scared of him. They are afraid of his cult followers not him.
I am a Canadian and I admit, he got me so enraged! And then I realized that if we're so focused on this nonsense, then no one is reporting on the really shady crap he's doing with the US government.
(Love your books! Scared myself silly as a kid with Misery and Carrie!! 💓)
The real takeaways that I have about Trump from first noticing him in the 1980s when I live to New York is that he is first and foremost a narcissist that craves attention. After that I picked up on his lack of intelligence, cruelty, and his vindictive nature.
Disagree. It’s impossible to predict what a sick psyche, fueled by the same inadequate environment, can imagine. We have a vivid example in the other hemisphere, where many also did not believe in the likelihood of war between 'fraternal' peoples.
Pretty much all the Republicans do is get people worked up over things that don’t matter in order to distract from the fact they have no plans to help the working class.
One of the reasons he’s a useful figure out at the moment is the fact that they can use him to essentially test out controversial statements and ideas to lay groundwork for later policy and legislative changes.
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He doesn’t have a solid grasp of the history or the actual legal/legislative process related to his talking points. But he doesn’t need that in order to serve his purpose.
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He’s he starts by making toss off comments that he can walk back or claim were jokes. Those then become statements. Those two initial processes of introducing controversial ideas function as a litmus test for how far lines can be pushed and how effectively they can maintain reactive engagement.
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Those statements, tweaked palatability as necessary, then become claims that frame the earlier comments in direct relation to the needs and fears of their base/supporters. No longer a joke, now these ideas are presented as facts connected to the safety, prosperity, inconvenience, of his audience.
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That intern lays the groundwork for them making grandiose promises to voters and maintaining that superficial and grandiose distraction while behind the scenes legislation is either introduced or struck down in order to facilitate more fundamental goals and changes they wish to entrench.
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I think you're right! But let me put it like this: if your spouse threaten to kill you in your sleep, they may not mean it - but boy does it ruin the relationship! So also for NATO and all former allies!
I wish I could believe that. He just knows that nobody has been able to stand up to Putin’s “genius” move invading Ukraine. They won’t be able to stand up to the US if Greenland or Canada get invaded, or they seize the canal. He wants to control the shipping routes
I think Donnie is going to be left like an ugly girl at the prom as soon as his puppet master achieves the political connections and glory he is seeking. Donnie cannot hold a candle to his Master financially, but he can offer connections the Master that he has yet to achieve. He's being toyed with.
That would assume he’s smart enough to understand the concept. There are better ways to get clicks than Trump exposing his ignorance. A smarter man would understand that.
He's saying outrageous shit so no one asks about anything that actually matters - like how he's going to go about doing all the things he said he would on day one, which is days away.
And it works. News media over here reporting more about our Chancellor Scholz‘s rebuke of his Greenland phantasies than about him desperately trying to avoid his sentencing a week before his inauguration. Mission accomplished.
I think you are wrong. He thought Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was “genius”. That monster is his role model. He also likes bigly things. Canada is huge, has oil, water, minerals. He is a greedy fuck. Remember how he just wanted to “take” the Middle East oil? I am Canadian and afraid.
Understandable. I had the impression that much of the energy and organization behind the weeks-long trucker protests a few years back came from the US. Engineering something similar next time a crisis occurs and turning it into an 'emergency' could escalate quickly.
Maybe the patriotic military will go all in for mutiny against the Trump/Musk threat to the USA. If not, and Trump isn’t bluffing, you’re all screwed. Sorry!
I think he means everything he says.
I think he believes he can do it.
He lies so much that we get fooled into not believing the truths he occasionally tells.
It's a sad truth man. But rage bait is a thing. Also he does want to do these things. He's that dumb, his administration though know and won't put the effort to really try. Our only saving grace
I think he spouts that insane garbage so the stuff he actually does will seem more normal though it would have been considered total nuts from another administration.
Trump is the world champion 3 card Monte player. He says outrageous stuff to hide to totally terrible stuff hes really doing in the shadows. It's all a confuse/slight of hand thing with him. Say crazy shit, do something else.
Nope. That has not been the case so far. Every joke that was dismissed is now policy and he has consolidate power. No jokes. He is hell bent on destroying economies that do not go along with him.
Stephen, he also can’t invade Greenland or Canada without the permission from Congress. And he only has a one seat majority in the House.
His wacky proposals are heading to a lot of “no’s”.
Trump doesn't think like the average person. The only thing that is important to him are self-aggrandizement. He pictures statues to himself, and the world bowing to his every whim. He's incapable of love or empathy. Incapable of self-reflection. And he has found a mirror with Musk.
He’d be deluded enough to believe the garbage that comes out of his own face-hole. And look at MAGA - those red-capped r*tards would guzzle down that garbage like it was Kool Aid.
It’s their procedure. Trump will stay the next four years in a campaign mode, always doing things for clicks and distraction. Then, his alienated supporters will continue to live in their bubbles of ignorance, focusing their rage towards phantom enemies and minority people. Evil men, like Bolsonaro.
Deflecting. What they, those pulling the strings, want may not look so bad if we are desensitized by the horrors of separation of families, concentration camps, mass deportation. No women in combat, segregation & religious indoctrination in schools. What’s so bad about seeing the 10 Commandments? 🤬
The Greenland/Canada/Panama nonsense is obvious distraction--distractotainment. The changes they're planning to implement are arcane and poorly understood, so they're leading with crazy distractions. Ignore the distractions. Focus on the signal.
Exactly, he spouts whatever nonsense comes to his mind, pushing the boundaries of outrage for his own amusement. I think he genuinely believes that by doing this, he can demonstrate to the world that he is the most powerful figure on the planet, as he is taken seriously no matter what he blurts out.
He looks to see what he can get away with, Stephen. Please don't make the mistake of reducing everything to "just for clicks." America is now under fascist management and is testing the limits like other imperialists in this world. Next, media will be restricted, you'll see. Fight the beginnings!
Can you write a horror novel about Trump? Because all this talk of wanting to buy Greenland and annex Canada makes me worry that he has set his sights on world domination.
You’re thinking about it wrong, brother. He may not mean it but if it gets attention/traction he will focus more on it because he is an insatiable attention whore.
I think where the smokescreen of his lies meets the miasma of his actual beliefs (if such a thing exists) there is a zone where it all mingles beyond his own ability to distinguish.
It's kind of what I've been saying. Like in War Games when they still have to stay at DefCon2 after the guy runs in panicked yelling "IT'S A SIMULATION! IT'S A SIMULATION!!!"
I have been thinking about War Games all week. I swear this man is in a bet with other billionaires about what he can do. Bet I can own Greenland. Derrrrrp.
Supposedly that's how we got Scientology. Hubbard may have been planning it all along, and is quoted as saying if you want to get rich start a religion. But that doesn't preclude the other story where he did it as a bet with other sci-fi writers (which he was at the time),
I have a feeling that a lot of the fuckery in this world came about because a narcissist was challenged. He’s not even sworn in yet and I’m so over it.
Even so… I’m desperate to get enough money to leave this place. Working on eliminating as much debt as possible, and then I’m going to try to sell off most of my stuff this year. Hoping I can afford to be gone by 2026.
Judging by the plans that Sadolf Twitler is throwing around, I definitely don’t want to be in Canada. I have been looking at Portugal, but I’d have to figure out how to get together at least 100k to be able to actually make the move feasibly. Even if I sell off everything I own, idk if it will work.
In my book mass extinction number five, Donald Trump is put on a cross upside down and skinned alive for everyone to see the damage he's done and who he is and what he cost. How are you doing, Stevie?
His supporters love it. They feel the left has been s******* on them for so long if they're willing to support a public figure who trolls them. Wrong or right identity politics is toxic to us all
Even if that is the case, It still is a giant diplomatic faux pas and embarrassment for the US. Also, regardless to what Trump means or doesn't, do the gray éminences who pull the strings also not mean it?
And to hide the attempts to screw over the middle class (tariffs that get charged back to consumers and layoffs of Americans with H1-B visas to replace them). It is the distraction at the front of the bank while someone goes into the vault to put the money in the sacks.
I'm less worried about him than those around him who are twice as vindictive and actually have a few braincells kicking around. Trump is the distraction, they are the danger
I'm afraid that he does mean that shit. He is reprising point by point the Hitler playbook. He has not missed a tactic at all. While it's true that he is trying to distract us, it's not so simple as outrageousness to get clicks.
Nah
He is throwing shit on the wall and see what sticks. If someone says what they are trust them. He will pursue whatever will be acceptable to his base. And they all do what he wants.
I wish I could believe this, but I've learned not to ignore even the most bizarre of Trump's claims. Even if he can't do it, he's already riled up his base, and they're prepared to carry out his wishes.
I mean what some call BS are still real things. I don’t doubt he flips all over to distract, but that doesn’t mean things like deeply offending allies doesn’t matter.
I’ve seen posts saying he’s distracting from at least 3 different things.
… can get clicks? or chicks? He’s such a major Chad that I’m sure he’s always on the prowl for some hot new Barbie… just needs to be careful that Kim Jong-un doesn’t find out and feel spurned.
Agreed, but I think it goes deeper than wanting clicks. Ever since he won, everything out of his face is to crack and break centuries long alliances, including NATO. He does nothing but divide Western powers. Only one person benefits from this. Putin.
Putin and Jinping have agreed on spheres of influence to divide up the world. Trump wants South America to Greenland to be his sphere. Hopefully the republicans grow a spine and cast him down.
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He needs to be in with the 'cool kids' (dictators and depots) and will seek to prove he is the bestof them all. If putin can have a war then he will likely want a bigger, better one.....
Like a toddler.
Trump is dreaming of it since 2017. That guy is insane and as US president he's a threat for our democray!
(Love your books! Scared myself silly as a kid with Misery and Carrie!! 💓)
I agree that he wants attention. He always does. He also wants distraction right now for a lot of reasons.
However, if you look at the existing pattern, this can’t be entirely disregarded.
He’s a useful figure head right now for the architects of project 2025 and their ilk.
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I think he believes he can do it.
He lies so much that we get fooled into not believing the truths he occasionally tells.
His wacky proposals are heading to a lot of “no’s”.
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You want a War this is the FUCK AROUND & FIND OUT phase.
the man is LITERALLY a nazi.
In my book mass extinction number five, Donald Trump is put on a cross upside down and skinned alive for everyone to see the damage he's done and who he is and what he cost. How are you doing, Stevie?
He is pathologically vile and corrupt.
He sets fire to a candy store then robs a bank three blocks away. Same tactics as last go ‘round.
So nobody is buying.
He is throwing shit on the wall and see what sticks. If someone says what they are trust them. He will pursue whatever will be acceptable to his base. And they all do what he wants.
I’ve seen posts saying he’s distracting from at least 3 different things.
Just flinging distractions out willynilly