He wasn’t joking.

    • slaneesh_is_right
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      I’ll never forget before his first terms when he said he would end the Iraq conflict, because he knows more about it than all the generals. And americans were cheering him on. No one wondering why he would in fact know more about the iraq conflict than people who are actually involved in it. Or that it could just be a lie to get elected.

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      He might have honestly believed that was true. It was always a lie from a realistic perspective but narcissism is weird like that. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he thought he was capable of negotiating peace instantaneously.

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    No he wasn’t joking. He just doesn’t understand how anything really works. He thought he could just order Ukraine to cave in and it would happen. Like he was ordering a huge order of mcdonalds in for a high brow meal.

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      also he’s downstream of russian propaganda. russia says the war in Ukraine is NATO’s war. so Trump’s plan to bring peace to Ukraine was simple: just stop fighting. what he didn’t account for was the operational reality in Ukraine that who’s fighting is Ukrainians who are defending themselves from a russian initiated genocide.

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    I don’t believe for an instant that anybody’s ever sincerely thought he was joking. Anyone saying this is not conversing in good faith, but I doubt that sort of thing surprises anyone reading comments on fediverse posts.

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    Would somebody be kind enough to make a video compilation of this and end it with the curb your enthusiasm song?

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        Shut it all down folks, we’re going home. He’s finally been defeated by someone pointing out an inconsistency in a campaign promise.

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      Trump doesn’t give a shit and neither do his supporters. He says the wrong things on purpose and republicans love him for that. I don’t know why these people bother “fact checking” when you should just assume if his mouth is open, there’s lies coming out of it.