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It is astounding to me how casual the attitude is about this, a sitting President maligning a private citizen, on the media platform he owns, calling for her te
by LastTrain 1y ago
It is astounding to me how casual the attitude is about this, a sitting President maligning a private citizen, on the media platform he owns, calling for her termination.
- sigwinch 1y agoWell, his post and Loomer’s seminal post are bait. They get what they want if we react as if they’re telling the truth. It’s their first impulse to lie. Don’t fall for the faux outrage. It took him 15 minutes or more to type all that out, and the people commenting here think much faster than him and Loomer. It’s gonna look casual.
- LastTrain 1y agoYou are only partially right. Ultimately they are looking for cues about whether they can proceed from other conservative voices, the rest of us are just noise. Everything is either a trial balloon or another rung in the ladder of debasement. But they aren't lying, they will gladly have her removed if they can get away with it.
- sigwinch 1y agoThey’re very definitely lying. Trump’s rambling post on this lobs three or four major accusations that won’t stand up under scrutiny.
- LastTrain 1y agoWhether he is lying about /her/ or not isn’t the point, that he is using his position of power to get a random citizen fired is. And it isn’t bluster, he would gladly succeed and do it again. That it doesn’t even seem to register to you as extraordinary only demonstrates my point.