• OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If he were smart, he could entirely grift off this and make a fuck ton of money. He could become a conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones with a big media empire behind him, and reveal little details here and there while making people spend money to a subscription and also feed his base with the usual outrage porn about liberals, degenerates or whatever it is that the evangelicals are currently mad about.

    But it's Trump, and he's more concerned with his ego than anything else, so he'll pass on this opportunity entirely and cause he's too stupid to do anything like that.

      • OhWell [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        True, but this is also Donald Trump we're talking about. His ego knows no boundaries. Within the next few years, he's going to be reinvented as the former president celebrity and he'll be bragging about stuff.

      • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean it is, just not in the psychotic way the Q people think it is

      • Emme [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        QAnon is wild. I have an uncle who was on the edge of sovcit territory when I was growing up. He taught me how to use a gun and drive before I was 10 lmao. I'm not gonna lie -- I thought he was so cool when I was young. But when I got older it became more and more apparent that he had a lot of mental health issues (and was super racist). Funny enough, trying to push back against some of his conspiracy theories when I was old enough to understand what they meant was what led me towards leftism. But QAnon? It has completely taken him over. I told him that I thought the movement was misguided and not based in reality. He told me that he hated me for my complicity. So. I'm not giving up on talking to him about it (because there is literally no one else who will) but goddamn does it suck.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      If he were smart, he could entirely grift off this and make a fuck ton of money.

      He is and he will.

  • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I just want the dude to pardon Snowden before this shit is over. If he really hated the deep state he'd do all sorts of shit like that.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Trump's racing around to various cabinet secretaries and threatening to fire them if they don't help him do a coup. He already canned Mark Esper and he's currently breathing down Haspel's neck.

      I don't know if he's going to have the presence of mind to pardon anyone. That job will be left to the incoming Biden administration.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I want the dude to pardon every single person convicted/accused of a federal crime. Go 100% Joker.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If he really hated the deep state he wouldn't be president.

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    "Here's the deal folks, we did 9/11! Well not we. Bush did 9/11. I didn't have anything to do with it. I was against it. If I was in office there'd be no 9/11, I'll tell you that. I thought it was pretty bad, what they did to our beautiful country, what Bush and the Democrats like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi did. I wouldn't do that, I own New York real estate. My property value went down! WAY DOWN! I'd never do a 9/11."

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Thought it was already pretty common knowledge that the Bush admin supposedly just outright ignored evidence of an imminent attack. Whether that's genuine or just standard cover your ass is a different story (I still believe it was genuine knowledge that was ignored so that consent for massive wars could be manufactured).

      That said, Trump outright spewing this would be hilarious.

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        It's definitely common knowledge in leftist spaces. I'd be surprised if the average american believes the US was complicit.

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    If those fuckers couldn't see that this guy would sell all his privileged information as soon as he hit the parking lot then I don't know what to say. Either the big bad deepstate is far dumber and docile than expected or the President doesn't know anything of real consequence.

    • Galli [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Trump probably lacked the innate level of curiosity to take advantage of his access beyond what he was directly briefed on.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's most likely the latter, he was too busy raging on twitter, golfing and watching FOX news and is a deeply incurious man.

    • SSJBlueStalin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The way to tell if is if we really pump the brakes on being mean to chinese companies or something like that.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Going on TV and just reading CIA ops off a clipboard until the back of my skull explodes outward

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Would be funny if he accidentally reveals the existence of extraterrestrials by going into one of his bitchy rants about one of them.

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        4 years ago

        When Zeta Reticuli sends its aliens, they're not sending their bests. They're not sending you, they're not sending you. They're sending Greys that have lots of problems; they're bringing anal probes, they're bringing cattle mutilation and crop circles. And some, I assume, are good people.

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]M
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      4 years ago

      That is 100% going to happen.

      Once he's gone, whenever that is, he will be on TV at another rally and make up some bullshit, that's like, a little crazy but sorta believable, and then he'll stop himself and say he isn't allowed to say more or he'll be assassinated.

      In fact, I would be surprised if he hasn't already done this.

  • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    YESYESYESYESYESFUCKYESGODYES! YES! Please give me one good thing out of this whole ordeal fuck come on!

    • SSJBlueStalin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      What if he says he's seen proof the Clinton's killed him.

      Even in the unlikely event it isn't true no one could prove him wrong. It's be great

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The libs on politics are pearl clutching about trump selling secrets to Putin (lmao) and I just wanna know why the aliens killed JFK and why JFK jr. killed Epstein

    • NPa [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Epstein was actually an alien, and JFK Jr. got revenge.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I love how former Presidents are basically immune to prosecution because they could bring down the entire global order with their blackmail files.

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    We already got the UFOs but they turned out to just be birds that the airforce was too stupid to recognize.