• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    Fret not, says the president, he is apparently playing chess while the world is playing checkers

    He’s trying to treat the entire country like one of the casinos he bankrupted to screw over his creditors.

    I’m sure he thinks he’s playing chess. But what he’s really doing is sitting in the corner eating the pieces.

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      A vivid and possibly accurate description.

      I still think he is planted there to do as much damage as possible before he expires. Which would mean he is doing it all on purpose… Which then again would have to make him smarter than I give him credit for

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        Could be both planted and so inept that he believes he got there on his own accord and is doing a great job.

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        Yeah I agree. There has to be a bigger plan than this. In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it. It’s not Trump playing chess here, he’s just a pawn. There are people behind the scènes pulling the strings.

        If what currently is happening is really just throwing tantrums without having a plan then I feel sorry for how dumb most of america had become.

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          In 40 years our children will see documentaties about the republicans pulling the biggest power grab ever and using idiots like Trump to actieve it.

          It’s optimistic that they’ll even have documentaries to watch (and that they’d be historically accurate and truthful).

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            I think this is more from Silicon Valley, destroy the country to make way for the Butterfly Revolution and corporate city states with CEO kings at the top. If we don’t stop it we’ll be in a techno feudalist dystopia

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          Or he’s betting that if people get desperate enough they will allow an absolute dictatorship.

          • He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.

          • He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.

          • He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.

          • And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.

          Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?

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            Firing judges who resist him

            Dissolution of Congress

            Deployment of military on US soil to control citizens.

            Alteration or abandonment of the Constitution.

            You’re right we are definitely on the spectrum of dictatorship, but it can get much much worse.