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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"if he trusts the people planning" LOL nah.

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-10-20/president-trump-thinks-hes-the-smartest-person-in-the-room

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/trump-staff-incompetent-sycophants

You are ascribing a level of logistical forethought to his team that just, isn't possible. What is consistent with his every action, is that a media obsessed opportunist looked at the "man, woman, and camera" and decided to strike a pose from Breakfast Club or whatever thing he last remembered. Biff Tannen, Home Alone, The Apprentice, yadda yadda.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    You think he won through incompetence? Interesting take.

    The machine that got him elected was not incompetent. Roger Stone, for example, is a helluva schemer and has been in the game a loooooong time.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not much for introspection, but when you put it like that ... yes actually.

    I will tell you that I grew up a bit conservative and one of the things that "The American media apparatus and conservative think tanks and their unholy amounts of billionaire funding Koch et al." did was build up the idea of politics as a sleazeball game to disenfranchise people. I still believe it a bit. Biff had by and large built up a cult following based in no small part that he was at one point an outsider and "tells it like it is", unapologetically petty, stupid, but also affable and a joker, racist and greedy.

    He (was?), genuinely bonafide stupid and watches TV all day and enough people thought that that was their best reflection. "Authentic" but also... really bleak.

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