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> Whatever that means It means Trump is sucking the oxygen out of the room. Again. I wish we would quit reacting to every stupid thing he says.
by rootusrootus 8mo ago
> Whatever that means
It means Trump is sucking the oxygen out of the room. Again. I wish we would quit reacting to every stupid thing he says.
- b00ty4breakfast 8mo agoWhen a guy with a gun says he plans on shooting you, you take him deadly serious.
- rootusrootus 8mo agoYes, but this is not taking him seriously, it is panicking over every idle provocation he utters. Taking him seriously would be the right way to approach it, and we are not.
- array_key_first 8mo agoThe whole reason we're in this mess is because not enough people took him seriously. As a rule, Trump supporters treat him like a buffoon, a liar, and instigator. The only people who seem to believe Trump are his opponents.
- rootusrootus 8mo agoHe is literally flooding the zone, and it is working because we fall for the bait every time. This is how he manages to skate on the more odious actions, because until someone actually gets killed the public is desensitized to all the shrill "he's ending democracy" claims that sound faintly similar to, and about as credible as his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
- array_key_first 8mo agoThe authoritarism has been slow but very real, democracy has been in danger and goes to a more precarious place with each passing day. It's very credible, and of course people don't want to listen because it sucks. Who wants to hear bad news? It's very basic human behavior.