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[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Soooooo

The right-wing reporters realize he means them too, right?

Eventually, you slip up and lose favor with the GröpenFührer then, out the window you go.

They realize that. Right?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Of course they don't. He hates the people they hate. And when he hates them, they'll hate themselves, too.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

They'll never lose favor, only the other will.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Something something… leopards.. faces…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Forget about the nominally right wing media, look at how the NY Times have covered every threat to democracy, ever. From Hitler to the business plot to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is the mistake people always make with an autocrat. They the think they’ll be allowed to keep or amass the power the have, but only one person is allowed power in an autocratic regime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This dude is only becoming more of a nightmare the closer we get to election day

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

just wait until you see what he's like after election day!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True. Doesn't matter if he wins or loses. He'll claim he won no matter the results and he'll be equally crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

and he’ll be equally crazy.

Equally? That seems optimistic. He'll go even farther off the deep end. Even if he wins, he'll contest it, because he clearly should have won by a larger margin.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Unfortunately that profile in courage Jeff Bezos is more concerned about Trump potentially messing with his government contracts than threatening to have Washington Post reporters killed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Trump's backers, and especially Peter Thiel, whom JD Vance is an avatar for (Thiel put forward Vance as VP to Trump, and had sponsored Vance's entire political career, which is only two years old), all read Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin is Silicon Valley's chosen "philosopher" - he advocates for the end of democracy and a return to monarchy, with billionaires as royalty and monarchs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

You don't get to where he is by caring about other people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Stop giving Bezos the benefit of the doubt. There is no evidence that he's doing shit in Trump's favor for any reason other than that he likes fascism and wants to support it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually always believed that Bezos was a Democrat, given his ownership of the Post, which has always had a clear anti-Trump message. I think it’s more plausible that he was scared of retaliation or that the GOP has something on him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's a fair argument. It's very circumstantial and not enough to convince me, though, especially if the Post was liberal before he bought it and it simply remained so through his inaction (which I believe to be the case -- correct me if I'm wrong!). The rebuttal to "he must be liberal: he owns a liberal newspaper" is "yeah, but the first time he intervened in it, it was to force it to be more conservative."

[–] Isoprenoid 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"There is no evidence that Bezos favors Trump. Apart from the fact that Bezos favors what Trump supports."

My brother in Christ, do you read what you write?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Do you? Because the first half of your misquote was exactly the opposite of what I actually said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

you misread their comment

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Go to jail you orange turd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Believe people when they show you what they really are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It really sucks that everybody voting for trump is not your friend, even if you think they are. It's just too many people for that to happen to.