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On a human level, he kinda has to, right?

  • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Pure copium. On a human level it will just reinforce his worldview, give him more confidence in his rhetorical strategies, and increase the sycophantic validation he receives from everyone, blinding him to and isolating him from critique further than he already is.

    • tocopherol [any]
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      1 month ago

      All true, really I'm worried more about how inspired his most genocidal followers will be. They already are saying it was divine intervention, and it proves in their mind how violent their opposition is so they need to fight harder.

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    On a human level, he kinda has to, right?

    lmao he's just going to become an actual competent fascist and literally kill us all you dummy

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Getting shot at doesn't cure brain worms. Where will this competence that's been entirely absent for his whole life suddenly appear from?

      • JayTwo [any]
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        1 month ago

        He's had time to find more competent advisors that are loyal to him. Will he? And just as important will he even listen to them? Not sure. But the MAGA movement has definitely changed a lot since his first stint in office.

        • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          And he hasn't changed one fucking iota except to get worse at posting

  • JayTwo [any]
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    1 month ago

    The cope meter!
    It's off the charts!
    We haven't seen readings this high since a century ago when the NY Times said that prison mellowed out Hitler!

    Show

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    That might be the most naive thought I've seen since the shooting.

    He's gonna think he's literally appointed by God to cleanse America of the undesirables.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Yes lol 300% pure copium biaoqing-copium. His politics are secondary to his core values of enriching himself and getting people to like him. None of that will change because he got shot.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    1 month ago

    It's 100% copium. Trump does not have a good bone in his body, and being shot isn't going to change that.

  • D61 [any]
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    1 month ago

    If this riles up his base and energizes the people he sees at his rallies, he is going to lean into this hard.

    Every future rally is going to have Secret Service, local cops, and a fuckton of fascist militant types volunteering to watch every roof, vehicle, closet, port-a-potty, and man hole cover from now on.

    If he notices that his crowds are more subdued or smaller, he might play the oWo smol bean card and tone down the rhetoric.... maybe.

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    1000% copium. If anything this will incline him to believe in his own invincibility and divine right to be god emperor.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    I don't think he'll improve. Idk how to predict his personally but this might shake him and leave him scared. But it also might galvanize him and convince him of his own importance. Now he's shed blood for the cause so he can reinforce his ego on this.

  • rayne [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    If anything it will prompt his narcissistic bubble to burst into full on megalomania. And his base will eat it up as he campaigns on being the messiah.

    And this is already the narrative they're pushing. Wind twisted a flag at the rally when he was shot and people are saying it was an angel saving Trump.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      That’s just normal American religious psychosis though. He could have shat his pants in the debate and the hogs would claim the shart formed an angel in there

      • rayne [she/her]
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        1 month ago

        Sure, but now Trump might actually believe it himself. Which is what I mean by the narcissistic bubble bursting into full-on Messiah complex / megalomania.

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          I’m not saying this shit isn’t bad. I just can’t formulate a tangible way his behaviour would be any different

          shrug-outta-hecks

          • rayne [she/her]
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            1 month ago

            Fair. I guess I'm expecting things to escalate quickly now as he's emboldened by all of this. And for his base to try to start their jihad before January.

            Which may end up for the best.

            • nohaybanda [he/him]
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              1 month ago

              I hear you fam.

              So let me try and inject a bit of bloomer into things.

              I feel like the shock of this failed assassination attempt has kinds broken our brains like it did everyone else. The electoral situation has been drastically changed but electoralism ain’t shit.

              Trump is the same fucking dumbass as he was last week. If his head (somehow) got bigger, then that means it will be that much more difficult for the competent fascists in his cabinet to steer him towards anything productive. And it will be that much easier for absolute loonies and stone cold grifters to gain his trust.

              Shit’s bad, for sure. But running things on pure Id is just never going to be very effective or efficient. I expect the efforts of evil to redouble but the output to drop. Or at least be susceptible to principled and organised resistance. We just gotta build that, starting yesterday

              • rayne [she/her]
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                1 month ago

                I appreciate that. I have been seriously struggling since this happened. I haven't started transitioning yet and the boy mode/gender dysphoria/wanting to hide has been rough the last couple of days.

                Some stuff with one of my aunts hasn't been helping either.

                My plan is to get more involved with local organizing, insulate myself as much as I can from national politics. It was my plan ever since the debate. But has felt even more pressing since Saturday.

                • nohaybanda [he/him]
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                  1 month ago

                  heart-sickle literally braver than all the troops and wanna be tough guy hogs

  • bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    in a week he'll be talking about how the woke communists tried to kill him and we need to return the favor to them

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    To become a better person, you need to have the ability to self-reflect. I do not expect Trump has that.