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    ”I think you would have nuclear holocaust, if I didn’t deal with North Korea,” he explained, and then added: “And I think you might have a nuclear war now, if you want to know the truth.”

    It is still worth remembering that Obama tried to work with North Korea, but the Republicans shamed him because they said he should only meet with them if they agreed to get rid of their nukes.

    Trump did nothing to protect the world from North Korea, but gave Kim Jong-Un a nice photo op to help legitimize his power.

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      Do you know how to tell when politicians are being hypocritical? When they open thier mouth. You could do literally nothing but point out hypocrisys of poloticians all day for your entire adult life and never run out. It is the equivalent of saying “bruh”.

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            Personally, I think both sides have their issues, but the issues the right has are waaaay worse than the issues the left has.

            So just saying “both sides have issues” makes it a binary argument when the degrees of how negative their issues are really matters.

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            Two possibilities:

            1. Apathy - people stop voting for parties that can be a counterweight to the far right.

            2. Abbreviated analysis/Feelings over facts - people are more likely to fall for politicians presenting themselves as underdogs who are going to revolutionise the political landscape, which is a strategy fascists like to use. “Drain the swamp” is a perfect example for that, and if I remember correctly, there were a lot of potential Sanders supporters who voted for Trump. I know both are more or less opposites, but both provided a canvas for people’s feelings that “politicians are all the same” and that fundamental change needs to happen. The latter is true, but with proper analysis shouldn’t lead to voting for the far right.

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      Why do you think Idalia ravaged Florida? It’s because Trump wasn’t president with his magic sharpie… Obviously.

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    He might actually believe that himself.

    And I’d like to see him in jail as much as the next one, but is this really news? “Colossal narcissist brags about his achievements”.

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    It’s like watching Cartman come up with crazier and crazier stories as he takes credit for the fish sticks joke

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    And friends of mine have said, you are the most honest person in the world.

    LMFAO. Does the world have recorded audio or recorded video of any other human being in the history of humanity making more provably false statements than trump? No. If there was a Guinness world record for lying, trump would be the record holder.

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    Fun fact: that’s not a defense for any of his crimes.

    Trump is going to die in federal custody if he doesn’t off himself first.

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      We can only hope, but I have zero trust in the justice system to sentence him to any jail time.

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        I said custody, not jail time. An ex-president knows too much to be left in General Population.

        As long as we don’t fuck up & elect a Republican, Trump isn’t walking away from 91 felonies. He will die alone under house arrest at a military base.

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      I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t gotten the Epstein treatment. Given what he knows, who he works for, amd his absolute inability to control his mouth, the people pulling strings must be concerned about the next thing he might say. I guess they think he might win reelection? I still think the moment he is more dangerous than useful, he has a controlled cardiac event.

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          Cuz 15-20% of the population believes him more than their own families…just maybe.

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        This is not the timeline we want to see. It’d basically validate all the bullshit deep state claims.

        I don’t want to be a country where politicians fall out of windows.

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          I don’t disagree with you.

          But Trump has a long history of obtaining money from international sources. Our reality is not the same as the reality for the rich and powerful, and their reality has different rules. I don’t believe there is a “deep state,” but I do believe that Trump owes people money and favors, and I believe those people would kill him to keep secrets he could spill. Really the only question is whether they can get to him, given that he has round the clock secret service protections. Before they got to Epstein, I would have believed that a maximum security isolation cell under suicide watch would have been safe.