The Narcissist’s Prayer
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Conservatives: I like [insert obnoxious conservative figurehead] because they tell it like it is, they mean what they say
Also conservatives, sometimes in the same breath: Fake! [obnoxious conservative figurehead] didn’t mean that! Taken out of context! 'Tis but a jape!
Jesus fuck the reality distortion field is strong, it’s like doublethink but without being a clever social trick to survive, it’s just they’re that stupid.
I ‘member when the reality distortion field was just a Steve Jobs and Apple thing.
We were such sweet innocent summer children.
This is America.
Don’t catch you slippin’ now
“He’s probably just joking” is something I heard so much over the past few years about things the right has been spewing. THEY ARE NOT JOKING, THEY ARE NEVER JOKING! I don’t know how this is a hard thing to understand.
Also, why the fuck is it cool for a politician to joke about doing shit? Literally any joke is not cool.
Fuck, my neighbor says the same every time Trump says something awful. “Trump just talks a lot of shit, he’s just joking.”
Fuck you neighbor, you approved leadership from the guy who encouraged putting kids in cages.
Putting kids in cages to sell them.into child sex trafficking because trump and his cronies ARE THE PEDOPHILES THAT MAGA IS LOOKING FOR
I’m sorry I thought we were having an election for president, not jester.
Also, if they are lying about these things, why did they vote for a liar? A lot of people who called agenda 2025 fake or lies still voted for the party representing it.
Trump says ‘I don’t kid’ after aides argue he was joking about slowing coronavirus testing.
he was joking about that you too, of course
How can someone who is completely devoid of humor be joking?
They lie all the time.
we just don’t get to know when it’s happening. People that trust those guys go with a “this is too horrible, so they must be lying” heuristic, that has been proven not to work several times. The problem is that an heuristic is not supposed to be reliable, and it’s hard to make them see beyond the noise.
For people who apparently joke so much they sure as shit ain’t funny
Worried about making white people uncomfortable is how we got here in this first place.
Wow, next you’re going to say Orange lives don’t matter.
Jokes aside, agreed, tolerating intolerance has little difference from supporting intolerance.
I listened to many interviews with people convinced that Trump wouldn’t do the things he said he would do. They definitely won’t acknowledge the things he said he won’t do.
“He lies about so many things! How the hell was I supposed to know he actually meant it this time?”
To be fair, I’m hoping Trump won’t do a lot of the things that he said he’d do. I have some hope of that–not because his intentions are good, but on the chance he gets distracted with something less harmful that strokes his ego.
LOL. They yesterday posted an announcement from him on X where he states verbatim all the first steps of Project2025 (prosecution of political opponents, complete replacement of governmental employees, dismantling of gov agencies). It’s 1984 big brother stuff. Trump isn’t in charge.
Trump is not the one to worry about now. His entire cabinet and the cavities within every institution who wrote and sponsored and want project 2025 are the ones to worry about. They will be carrying out their edict that they’ve successfully worked on for at least a decade now if not more. They have everything they could ever want to do it. And Trump will do random crazy things because he can now and that’s who he is but he doesn’t care about 2025, he just cares about celebrity, money and power. And every crazy thing he makes headlines for will be when the power grabs really happen and when the damage is done.
And then they’ll say something one day that rubs him the wrong way and he’ll fire them.
All Trump wants is to get and maintain power. I believe he’d like to pass it on to Ivanka or Eric after that. And maybe eventually Baron.
No, he’ll be dead. His purpose is almost fulfilled, just one more thing to get people motivated to accept the new order and war.
How long before Peter Thiel is in complete control? Horrifying.
That’s what I think as well. If he remains a useful idiot he’s fine. The moment he tries to use power for only his purposes instead of whatever Russian/American theocratic reasons, he’s surrounded by people ready to 25th amendment him out of office with little push back.
I’m going to hope that people learned from Putin how to manage Trump and more folks will be vying for influence in a competitive manner. There’s at least a chance that being aclnowledged at the big boy table will leave him somewhat less receptive to folks specifically like Bannon.
Putin managed (still manages) Trump with kompromat. So unless they can get more of that…
Like the citizens of Weimar (near concentration camp Buchenwald) said in april 1945: wir haben es nicht gewusst
They sure seem to like the Arbeit macht frei signs too, rolling back child labor laws for more “freedom”
Well they’ve been clear that they want to fight cultural marxism and the fight against child labor was his biggest accomplishment
How delusional. They’re gonna try to pass all of it.
There is no “try” for authoritarians. Most of it probably won’t even need to “pass” anything, and if it does, it’ll be rubber stamps
Didn’t the Heritage Foundation write Trump’s playbook last term with like 60 some odd percent being put into effect?
Yes.
Anyone who thinks it’s going to be different is an idiot.
The Heritage Foundation also wrote something like 80% of the policies that were passed under Reagan. I wish journalists would talk about that more. Think tanks for the 1% shouldn’t be writing our laws
My parents contantly regurgitates propaganda from wechat about how democrats in NYC are letting homess people and migrants ruin everything.
We dont even live in NYC.
I told her to vote Harris and she did (she didn’t even know how to fill out a ballot I had to tell her how to) but then later she said “maybe we shouldn’t vote for democrats” because of the homeless shelters built near Chinese populations in NYC (which is a fair grivence, but I dont see how republicans are gonna solve it better). Abosolutely no independent thought and no critical thinking just parroting whatever the last person said.
She doesn’t understand that the “homeless” or “migrants” are just dogwhistles referring to people like us who maga republicans deem inferior.
I have southeast Asian war refugee family members. They have this idea that Reagan was a great guy because they got refugee status to come to the US back then. They vote straight Republican to this day. They don’t know the first thing about any candidate or policy or even the basic layout of the US government. Only concern is taxes and anything that seems to equal “more money in my pocket” and “stay away from the black people.” Whenever they see refugee crisis in the news, they tear up because they’re triggered by their own horrible suffering. They feel so bad for the refugees…😑
Yeah that scans
He was joking. There are many sarcastic jokes on X right now saying 2025 was the diabolical plan all along. Agenda 47 is still the trump plan.
Is Matt Walsh in charge of something? Did he get elected?
Florida man.
That show on HBO is fucking wild
Trump was already facing multiple criminal and civil suits in 2016. They had 8+ years to hold him accountable for even a single thing, and didn’t.
I could go for kicking Merrick Garland in the dick. Might make me feel just a little better.
In hindsight, I’m glad that milquetoast excuse for an AG never got appointed to SCOTUS
The only guy that trump never insults. And Biden never fired.
He cheated before the 2016 election by committing dozens of felonies, and we were unable to sentence him before the 2024 election. Sad.
Yeah this is an important point. If the system lets guys like Trump get away with obvious crimes for 8 years, and that’s when it’s working as intended, then the system needs to be dismantled. Maybe the only way to drain the swamp is to let it turn into a sinkhole that drags everything down with it. Not that we have much choice in the matter at this point.
Don’t destroy swamps. They’re massive sinks of carbon and havens for biodiversity. Leave the swamp alone.
Read the room drag, ffs.
They’re a button-pusher.
The thing is that even though Trump is incredibly stupid and incompetent, the people influencing him aren’t. It will never completely fail, regardless of how bad it gets for the average person. They’ll ensure that it meets their needs until we’re right back to living in a medieval feudal system. Hell, we’re almost there already, except there’s still some pretty comfortable people in the middle. But that class is rapidly shrinking, and the feudal lords are tightening their grip.
Then perhaps the most responsible thing we could do would be to help it fail.
I’m not an accelerationist but you gotta play the cards in your hand.
“No one in their right mind is backing 2025…”
Then why did YOU?!
“It’s just a joke”
Ahh yes the joke that they posted a several hundred page memo about and had been celebrating up until the point they realized it had gotten spread and they were getting criticized for it.
Lighten up bro! It’s just words on paper. Nobody understands it.
I’d like to start a new response of “I don’t care if you’re joking, you’re still an asshole”.
Proverbs 26:18-20
Nice one!
18 Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
19 is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
20 Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
“You really want to take that chance?”
“Your fear mongering is making me uncomfortable”
Is the punchline “we’re all fucked”?
Trump will be just fine, and they’re all trump in their minds.
