• 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.