• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They don’t get to say shit, as they were directly involved with electing this shitstain.

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      4 months ago

      Yes, we know. But if the established, non-broligarch folks realize that they won’t be in the winning end after it’s all done, they might do something about it. Not until all the brown people are exported and the government is drowned in the bathtub, though. Those were the WSJ’s priorities all along. if they get upset, it will only be because Elon jumped the line in front of them for the cash.

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        4 months ago

        I agree, but the guy literally said this was what he was going to do, and they were all for it then.

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          We can parade around and yell “we told you so” or we can welcome anyone who wants to add to the resistance. It’s up to us. That said, I don’t know if WSJ will ever be of any meaningful value to the resistance.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I think this is the correct angle.

      People (e.g. mainstream press) are responding to these events as if Trump were actually trying to accomplish something useful for the US - as if he were well-intentioned but incompetent.

      But (1) Trump is a compulsive liar, so his talk about “Make America Great” should be treated with suspicion, and (2) Trump is owned by foreign interests (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia) who will benefit from the US having weakened international relationships.

      From this point of view, it makes sense that Trump is alienating our allies.

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        You also have to consider that any time Trump refers to America, or the American people, he’s actually referring to himself. Substitute the word “trump”, and the statements make much more sense.

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          Yes, I think that Trump considers the USA to be “his country” - not in the patriotic sense, but in the “my property” sense.