• Ech@lemmy.ca
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    When is it going to stop being “He’s so incompetent, it’s like he’s doing it on purpose!” and start being “Oh, he’s doing this on purpose…”? This has been obvious for so long now.

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      I’d say it’s part incompetence, part intentional sabotage. He truly is a fucking moron, but he also hates the US.

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        He’s easily manipulated by corrupt people, including those who don’t have the best interests of the U.S. at heart.

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          Like seeing Tim Cook gift him that golden statue so apple gets no tariffs…like everyone can see and stroke his ego.

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            Which is funny because its like he’s an 8 year old boy. Ohh gold. Doesn’t yet realize Platinum is worth more, etc.

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      There hasn’t been a doubt about his intentions for a long time. He is, however, likely taking many actions because someone told him to, he heard a sound bite on Faux News, or he perceived some slight from social media.

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      No, please don’t give him that much credit. If you saw him run a casino, you’d swear he was doing it on purpose, but he isn’t. He really just is that dumb.

      I’m not saying he’s not also in Putin’s pocket, but don’t try to convince me that he has the brains necessary to make sabotage look like incompetence. He’s nowhere near that clever.

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        I’m not saying he’s “brilliantly” obfuscating his intent. For one, it’s blatantly obvious. Second, it doesn’t take intelligence to do what he’s doing. Third, my original point is that everyone from media to government officials are clearly in denial about what’s obviously happening, and are constantly downplaying the seriousness of his actions by attributing them solely to incompetence. There’s no chance of countering somebody if you can’t accept the reality of what they’re doing.

        At this point, I assume only future historians will have the wherewithal to actually point out the intent behind it all.

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    Wow, who knew a Russian asset might try and “sabotage US dominance”?

    That’s just Unthinkable.

    These fucking writers need to stop acting like they have an IQ of 76.

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        Not to mention an Israeli asset.

        And The Heritage Foundation clearly have him on their puppet strings as well.

         

        If he was only being controlled by a single malicious entity, he might be breaking a few less things.

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    No ‘seems’ about it. His entire purpose is to put all public on firesale to private interests. Its the same as when he was trying badly to sell New York real estate in the 80s to the Japanese specifically, even though there was a real fear about how much they were purchasing giving them too much control over our land and businesses.

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    I wonder why? Hey let’s ask his boss, Putin. “Why is the obese imbecile being such a cunt…?”

    Ok, this just in from Putin:
    “Paedophile pisstapes”
    Wow, that could mean Putin was watching Grey’s Anatomy. Or it could mean that Putin has videos of russian asset tRUMP pissing over the kids that he had just raped.

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    Wrong again …

    The powers that be and corporate owners seem intent on allowing Donald Trump to Sabotage US Dominance.

    … dump truck Don is not that powerful or influential and you got to stop pretending he actually has anything to do with power.

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      Yeah. It’s an internal struggle between American oligarchs for who’d control the division of the pie now that it’s almost stopped growing. The rest are side effects and distractions, albeit consequential.

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    But no one in the us seems willing to do anything about it, aside from making the occasional mildly caustic statements online and in govt.

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    The public got so tired of being no. one they voted the absolute worst possible candidate in history to the highest office in the land for shits and giggles. I mean, how bad could it get? Fafo.

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      Those people never believed that and they have been trolling for over a year while they gleefully watch the world burn. They come into a thread like this and giggle like the edgy teenagers and lonely 20-somethings they are because they’ve gotten a rise out of you.

      They will never feel guilt or shame. The best thing everyone can do is ignore them, forget they exist, and move on.