Trump rules like a strong man, and the single most important thing for a strong man is that he cannot allow anyone with the ability to challenge him to rise in the ranks. If there was anyone capable of succeeding Trump, Trump would have to destroy them before they destroy him - ThreadSky

bitterkarella.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Trump rules like a strong man, and the single most important thing for a strong man is that he cannot allow anyone with the ability to challenge him to rise in the ranks. If there was anyone capable of succeeding Trump, Trump would have to destroy them before they destroy him

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bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

You should imagine trump's entire inner circle as a being a gaggle of villain's toadies from a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon show. the psychology is exactly the same.

boneydanza.bsky.social•11 days ago

COBRA from GI Joe is exactly how I picture their meetings.

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

The toady has no redeeming qualities. He is an incompetent, bumbling coward. He knows that he is dirt, which is why he is willing to degrade himself for the amusement of the master - because he knows slavish loyalty is the ONLY way he can gain even a modicum of power

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

the master allows the toady some power to lord over the master's lesser goons, and the toady will always abuse this power. the toady is sniveling to his superiors, abusive to his underlings. you've seen this in every saturday morning cartoon!

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

the toady knows he is only allowed to do this because of the master's favor. so it's in his incentive to serve the master. he also knows he's too worthless to command any respect by himself, so he will never rise up against the master. that's the dynamic!

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

every single person in trump's orbit is a viscerally repulsive moron and they all KNOW that. they know that they could only rise to their current positions of power through trump's largess. they know they can't do it without him, and he knows they know it

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

the master values the toady for his worthlessness, because his worthlessness is what ensures his loyalty

strangelibrary.com•12 days ago

At this particular moment the guy in charge can't even control his toadies from fighting and is backflipping so many times in every meeting it's surprising he isn't just Leslie Nielsen's stuntman from the 2000s.

strangelibrary.com•12 days ago

Like, not even Trump can keep this shit on the rails right now, he's having to referee Rubio and Musk trying to stop each other from fighting over Rubio doing his job and his commerce and VA secretaries are yelling constantly at Musk while at the same time trying to suck up to him

bonnicula.bsky.social•11 days ago

all the loathsome toadies who eat shit this hard could not hope to fill his gross, evil shoes

thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social•12 days ago

The read that JD Vance of all people is somehow more frightening than Trump is ridiculous and betrays how much faith people put in a Harvard degree and a tech job. The man has lived his entire life sucking up to people and doesn’t know how to function any other way.

kebrightbill.bsky.social•12 days ago

We've all gone to school with a JD Vance type, they're the ones who get an A in class by aggressively sucking up to the teacher and parroting what they heard in class, but they've never had an original thought in their lives.

andrusi.bsky.social•11 days ago

Okay but this raises the possibility that Hegseth will get into an accident involving some kind of Science Gizmo that temporarily makes him super-smart, at which point he suddenly takes over

frambley1.bsky.social•12 days ago

npilon.bsky.social•12 days ago

“I’ve locked Trump in the bathroom without his phone! Now I, Starscream, am the leader!”

alert74.bsky.social•12 days ago

We're living in it.

davidhsiegel.bsky.social•12 days ago

Hey, Toadie is at least moderately likable and does pretty well when he gets his moment in the sun, out from under Iggie's orders.

davidhsiegel.bsky.social•12 days ago

(but seriously - good thread)

eyelessgame.bsky.social•12 days ago

yep. He explicitly didn't want anybody around who thought they were smarter than him.

nataliereed84.bsky.social•12 days ago

Can't believe you left out my man Snively

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

oh he's a classic!

ryanwenslow.bsky.social•12 days ago

I was trying not to add the dude actually named Yes-Man earlier, but now I cannot resist

“Yesss, bossss”

battlearmordad.bsky.social•12 days ago

I'm convinced that Trump's cabinet is nothing more than a collection of knock off Captain Planet villains which would make him an elderly, morbidly obese Captain Pollution

nataliereed84.bsky.social•12 days ago

Trump himself, of course, is Hoggish Greedly.

axellycan.bsky.social•12 days ago

i wonder if trump's gremlins also use opposite-world compliments and honorifics, like "your nastiness".

craigschaeferbooks.com•12 days ago

I know comparisons to Nazi Germany are old hat but it's the same thing: a bunch of fucking boot-licking dorks who only stand above their peers because of how vicious they are. All we need is for half of them to develop weird fixations on the occult and the parallel is complete.

bitterkarella.bsky.social•12 days ago

It 100% is the same! We had to make up the myth of Hitler the coldly-calculating mad genius because it was just too embarrassing that millions of people died because of a complete goober!

deepfriar.bsky.social•12 days ago

It's weird how people seem to forget how unlikeable Vance is by.......everybody.

Trump is the golden child; he's facing mounting grumbles and frustrations even now.

*Vance* will not make it. He won't.

machminotaur.bsky.social•12 days ago

oh yeah the republican party is cooked once trump croaks and the only reason they haven't totally eaten shit is the democrat party is 99% republicans anyways but like

vance is the most juiceless VP we've had in forever and we just had harris and pence

thechiller.bsky.social•12 days ago

Right! And in the last 2 weeks Vance has demonstrated that he may be many things, but "too smart" ain't it.

megamaster1021.bsky.social•12 days ago

Trump even acknowledge that he doesn't see Vance being president in 2028.

loosf.bsky.social•12 days ago

Something something death of Stalin something something

ossuary.bsky.social•12 days ago

As cult experts have already said, the thing about a cult is they don't eagerly accept a new figurehead

andros-haldane.bsky.social•12 days ago

cf Nikki Haley

benbartlett.bsky.social•12 days ago

Anyone saying a Vance presidency would be more dangerous has no understanding of how irreplaceable Trump is in his cult of personality and also hasn't recovered with the fact that Vance is the most uncharismatic and bullyable man alive with the exception of Elon

foxscionofthewoods.bsky.social•12 days ago

I have no fear in a President Vance because he would be wasting his time trying to pathetically call out someone named “Green Goblin’s Uncut Penis” on Twitter while everyone is beating each other in the office to try to climb the ladder.

machminotaur.bsky.social•12 days ago

lmao yeah because he literally just did that when the helldude dunked on him

foxscionofthewoods.bsky.social•12 days ago

Jeff Computers will know the wrath of the executive branch!

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