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Trump is doing this to distract media attention from the biggest fuck-up of his administration so far, and there's been a lot.
Well, destroying democracy is pretty distracting, so kudos, I guess.
The biggest fuck-up of his administration this week.
His administration is a scandal factory.
They will fuck up and make a mess, and their solution is to make a bigger mess to distract from the one they just made.
What about the bigger mess? Well I guess they'll just have to make an even bigger mess to cover that one up.
Rinse and repeat.
Thus solving the problem once and for all!
Yeah but Kamala brought Liz Cheney on stage, so...
Perhaps using Richard Cheney's daughter to rebut the guy running for Unitary Executive was a mistake.
No, no, no. It was definitely just voters being stupid. I guess democracy was a mistake and we should have simply consolidated power under a more liberal dictatorship sooner.
Yeah, because I must think it was a good idea simply because I'm not stupid enough to use it as a reason to not vote for her. Another straw man from another "leftist" completely unwilling to accept reality.
Harris lost. She performed worse than the two other democrats who ran against Trump. That's not a strawman, its a simple fact.
Perhaps you think it is a strawman to suggest she might have been responsible for her exceptionally poor performance?
So, what do you think, the biggest mess will be end of the Line? I for myself am betting on declaring war onto another Country. Or nuclear missiles. Whatever, we are fucked 🤷♂️
At this point I'm not sure that there is an end of the line.
This has been the case since he took office in 2017, we're 8 years in now and every week he outdoes himself.
He kept creating scandal after scandal for 4 years when he wasn't in office, and still got reelected.
This isn't stopping until he's room temperature. Hopefully the fact that he refuses to exercise, has an excess of presenting dementia symptoms, Eats McDonald's for every meal, and has a stimulant addiction, catches up to him sooner rather than later.
He's powered by feces, hate and bitterness, he's going to live to be 120 just to spite everyone with a conscience on this planet.
According to project 2025, the end of the line is martial law then full authoritarian dictatorship.
My first thought too. The timing is just too perfect.
My second thought? This means that Trump's team probably has executive orders just waiting in the wings, since they know how this all works. The only thing needed to supplant even awful news cycles are even worse news cycles.
My third thought? This means every time Team Trump royally messes up something, our only reward will be Team Trump doing something even worse, because it's the only move they have, ever.
Until we're all dead by their or our own hands, presumably.
Flood the zone with shit.
That we know. That likely wasn't the only signal chat group these idiots were using , and they probably still are.
of course not. if it were, there would be at least one person going "why are we using signal for this?" or at least "is this ok that we're doing this over signal?"
they're the most incompetent bunch of losers you could possibly bring together. I don't think you could manage this is you put an ad on Craigslist for incompetent losers, or have a fucking dimwit convention.
The title of the chat implies to me that it's just one of many "small groups"
Other way around. He's taking advantage of the distraction to make an order that - without hyperbole - could literally end democracy in the US.
Yes perhaps we should first require military communications required everyone involved be identified and verified, hmm?
Oh. Ok. I'll sit down then. Not like he'd actually do anything this time.
Right?
It seems like the biggest military intelligence fuck up in recent memory. Not just his administration.