the amount of effort being expended to avoid acknowledging what the administration really is....it's incredible bsky.app/profile/jdcm... - ThreadSky

aelkus.bsky.social • 5 days ago

the amount of effort being expended to avoid acknowledging what the administration really is....it's incredible

https://bsky.app/profile/jdcmedlock.bsky.social/post/3llwpc2ggis2t

Reposted from James Medlock

Defenders: Trump is just pretending to be crazy to get a good negotiating stance

Trump: This is not about negotiating

Defenders: Trump is just saying he's not negotiating, to get an even better negotiating stance

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on-tannhausergate.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is all Republicans my entire adult life, a constant set of mental gymnastics to preserve their self image from the fact that every single vote choice boils down to the fact that they’re fucking bigots

aelkus.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ndhapple.bsky.social/post/3llwovvgy5c2q

"the art of the deal"

doom2.zip•5 days ago

my man didn't even write that book

aelkus.bsky.social•5 days ago

at best there's a dim awareness that there is no one mentally sound in charge -- but still hoping Someone Else does something about it

dbtacos88.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ackman is talking like we are negotiating a prepack bankruptcy for a chain of car washes (or trying to steal Stuytown) here…these people do not understand geopolitics or basic economic theory.

ricyrick87.bsky.social•5 days ago

as we start to see the real depth of stupidity and damage it brought, they'll be even *less* inclined to act, the paralysis, embarrassment/shame will only add to this inaction, because to pull back is to admit you made a mistake

ricyrick87.bsky.social•5 days ago

We've already seen this in action with Maga, the way they double down regardless bc they don't want to be "owned by the libs" or risk their whole identity being broken

plognark.bsky.social•4 days ago

I fear that they’re at a point where they’re so deep that the only thing to break the cult’s grip on them is a truly devastating event.

And when I say devastating, I mean that Covid wasn’t even *close* to being bad enough, that just made them worse.

ricyrick87.bsky.social•4 days ago

COVID was so terrible, but the deaths were "abstract" for a lot of people who didn't live in dense cities, so one could dismiss them and not believe the numbers if they really wanted to, I think if the GOP starts to move away from trumpism in a serious way, they'll quietly follow or lose influence

rll534.bsky.social•5 days ago

Baby steps.

craigwalmsley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why are the leopards still eating my face?!

baryonicbeing.bsky.social•5 days ago

Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere.

publichistorian.bsky.social•5 days ago

Always is… people operating that far from the truth seem untethered to me. Like maybe they are shuffle away from madness. Their masters could make literally anything come out of their mouth.

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