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  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.caPower balance
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    8 days ago

    This would be like taking Musk’s money by making him sell his stocks. Once the market is flooded with paper, it becomes less and less valuable, very quickly. Musk doesn’t actually have hundreds of billions anymore than the UE has trillions in US treasuries.

    I know that’s ridiculously oversimplified, but someone has to buy those bonds, and the later you are to the selling table, the less you get.




  • It ALL changes when Trump dies, overnight. No cult survives the death of the leader. Vance steps in, he’s immediately to blame for everything Trump did. Many of these fanatics are looking for an offramp from the madness, but they can’t turn on Trump. (They don’t know this, but they need a way to say they weren’t wrong.)

    Or, look at it from another angle, you think MAGA gives two shits about Hegseth, Miller, Bondi, Vought, Kennedy, Noem, et. al.? LOL, man-on-the-street doesn’t have a clue who those people are, but they’ll turn into targets without Trump’s cover.

    OR, think on this. Would Germany have continued down the Nazi path if Hitler had died early in the game? Hell, even if he died late in the game, think the people would have rallied behind Goebbels or Dönitz?




  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldSigh
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    MAGA is (mostly) neither hearing nor repeating this shit. Some have gone quiet in the face of the overwhelming bullshit, the rest post typical lib bashing memes on FB and X. The only people repeating Trump’s actual talking points are right-wing influencers and politicians. Notice how those posts are in lock-step? They’re getting orders/clues from somewhere.

    I’ll never apologize for them, nor ever forget who they are\were, but you’re giving the man-on-the-street way too much credit as to knowing what all Trump is speaking about.

    For example, my flag-flying MAGA neighbor likely doesn’t know about any of this month’s events, except in vague terms, stuff he saw on FB, from the aforementioned influencers.

    Maybe I’m nitpicking? Anyway, there’s a wide gulf between “official” MAGA and the asshole on the corner.