• Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    To be perfectly fair to the Cheeto gremlin, which is a good deal more than he deserves:

    Since he has been constantly surrounded by sycophants and yes-men for a long time, it is quite possible that he actually believes the economy is doing great due to nobody having the spine to tell him any different. All day every day it’s “everything is going great, sir” and “you’re the best President the planet has ever been graced with, sir” and “size doesn’t matter and the female orgasm is a myth, sir”.

    It’s still his own fault for creating such an environment with his incompetence and his fragile ego, of course. But he might honestly believe his own bullshit in this case.

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      18 hours ago

      Apparently this is closer to the truth than people know. Trump is so simple-minded that he has his morning briefs presented to him in video form with bullet points that contain simplified explanations. Also lots of AI chaff is put in front of him, like Portland on fire and reduced to a smoldering heap, people eating dogs and cats and angry kids assaulting ICE agents and being violently taken down. Anyone not recall the pictures of Kilmar Garcia’s hands with the obviously shittily Photoshopped MS13 letters on the knuckles? Tie bad eyesight to simpleminded, drug and age related mental decline and well… here we are.