my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".
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Absolutely, furiously certain that the floating letters pasted in around the knuckles were physically there
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It's not that he's failing and chaos is the resulting bug. He's succeeding in creating chaos that distracts from the real evil shi* that his people are doing.
But in this case, I think his brain is just cooked. You're seeing rapid mental decline and no interest in doing work.
Just plant seeds of doubt in Trump's ailing mind and let his paranoia do what it does best.
You might be on to something.
Sow seeds of paranoia so when they're fired nothing gets done.
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We kept talking about "Respecting The Office", I suppose this is how far in reality that went. The fascism obviously only compounds things
He's DEFINITELY starting to lose it.
But denying all reality but his own is fascism too.
more clearly: "the bottom row of pictures are actually tattoos he has, but the top row with letters and numbers were added to the pic"
They just release collector coins over that shit.
Everybody could see it was an extra sharpie line, even the one who drew it but it was by that act made reality and you could not find any republican to say different...
Yet, drunk on power, demented, & surrounded by neutered yes-men, this whole fiasco might not turn out the way he expects
He is out of it, but as you noted, this means the "movement" types will just cite his interpretation of reality and act and speak in accordance.
And further along the road to catastrophe we go...
Happy to say I think Trump is not looking strong o convincing
He lacks conviction
His demand for acquiescence looks desperate to me
Which is all to the good
When he's this stupid _and_ evil, we don't have to choose it it's one or the other in each case.
There's nothing in that clip that looks any different than anything else that monster ever says.
He's saying to him "Hey play along with my statement and you'll be rewarded, otherwise you'll be punished". Like, as outright as you can say it without saying it
His enablers won't let him fall until he's become useless.
Unfortunately, those of us who did try to speak up were shouted down.
It's very much a question of whether you believe in individual liberty or not.
The more obvious the lie, the more meaningful accepting it.
I think he also genuinely believes the MS13 are tattoos and not labels. He declares the reality, but also his brain is melting, which is a fantastic combination