I shall riddle it for you. What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Tooth Fairy have in common?
They're figments of your imagination.
Now you can riddle this for me. Your response must be in riddle form. Four years ago you were scared, now you are still scared. Did you use that energy and paranoia by any chance to help your brother out during this time or was that another made up fantasy in the land of time4fun?
Semper superne nitens.
When someone makes a prediction, people sometimes change their behavior in response to the prediction in a way that causes the prediction to come true. That is a self-fulfilling prophecy. In his recent comments about the Supreme Court deciding the election, Trump appears to predict that he will lose the election and that mail-in ballots will be to blame. I believe Trump's prediction that he will lose the election will actually suppress turnout among his supporters, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If Trump is correct, then it looks like we are headed toward President Pelosi. That's who would automatically become the President in January if the election has not been decided by then. That's irony.
I think there are two issues here:
1) The mere fact that he is sitting around openly talking about ignoring the vote and plotting to find ways to do it is a massive red light. Like 1,000 sirens screaming in the night.
2) The fact that so many Americans are still willing to vote for him despite him saying things like this and actively working to undermine our elections is, itself, a sign of the erosion of our democracy.
This is uncharted territory for our country. At best this is a shameful stain in our country's history. At worst- it's the moment that ushers in the end of our status as even a member of the free world.
Trump may leave in the end- though he will fight tooth and nail and is wholly indifferent to how that hurts our people and the country- but the people who are hungering for an authoritarian right now aren't.
My brother doesn't need to worry about passports and citizenship anymore. But thanks for bringing that back up.
And yeah, I don't know what I was afraid of. It's not like 200,000 Americans have died in a pandemic that this man told everyone was fake. We're not sitting around afraid to try the upcoming vaccines because it's been politicized so heavily that we don't know if they're going to be approved because they're safe and work or because he forced it for his own political gain.
It's not like he's been abusing the office of the Presidency to, say, blackmail allies into announcing fake investigations into private US citizens who happen to be political opponents. He hasn't been leveraging the DoJ to get his friends off the hook so they wouldn't turn on him in the numerous investigations going on into his campaign and his behavior in office. It's not like he's threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy US Military forces against US citizens who are political dissidents. I mean he certainly hasn't deployed US military assets at protests to intimidate people, nor has he authorized the explicit use of force against peaceful protesters he doesn't agree with.
He's not spending months trying to undermine our faith in our own election, refusing to agree to the peaceful transition of power, blatantly talking about "getting rid of the ballots" so he can win, or cozying up to dictators while he's doing all of this. And it's not like our elections have been under attack by foreign opponents whose propaganda blitzes are echoed by the President who, at the same time, tries to convince the country that there's nothing to worry about.
I mean he hasn't threatened to arrest mayors who didn't agree with him or encourage people to vote twice.
Except he's done literally all of that.
Everything we warned you about with him was true. And parts of it have been worse than any of us expected. And you are going to spend the rest of your sad little life having to say that when a sitting US President was threatening to ignore the election results and stay in power, you were sitting around laughing at people who said that was a bad thing.
And that's sad.
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Is this your made up gay, illegal, diabetic, brown skinned half brother we're talking about? Sorry.. it's difficult to keep all your bullshit straight.
And yeah, I don't know what I was afraid of. It's not like 200,000 Americans have died in a pandemic that this man told everyone was fake. We're not sitting around afraid to try the upcoming vaccines because it's been politicized so heavily that we don't know if they're going to be approved because they're safe and work or because he forced it for his own political gain.
IT'S THE TRUMP FLU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE MADE IT! HE WEAPONIZED IT! HE DID IT TO KILL AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus fucking Christ you are a whacko.
It's not like he's been abusing the office of the Presidency to, say, blackmail allies into announcing fake investigations into private US citizens who happen to be political opponents. He hasn't been leveraging the DoJ to get his friends off the hook so they wouldn't turn on him in the numerous investigations going on into his campaign and his behavior in office. It's not like he's threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy US Military forces against US citizens who are political dissidents. I mean he certainly hasn't deployed US military assets at protests to intimidate people, nor has he authorized the explicit use of force against peaceful protesters he doesn't agree with.
He's not spending months trying to undermine our faith in our own election, refusing to agree to the peaceful transition of power, blatantly talking about "getting rid of the ballots" so he can win, or cozying up to dictators while he's doing all of this. And it's not like our elections have been under attack by foreign opponents whose propaganda blitzes are echoed by the President who, at the same time, tries to convince the country that there's nothing to worry about.
I mean he hasn't threatened to arrest mayors who didn't agree with him or encourage people to vote twice.
Except he's done literally all of that.
Everything we warned you about with him was true. And parts of it have been worse than any of us expected. And you are going to spend the rest of your sad little life having to say that when a sitting US President was threatening to ignore the election results and stay in power, you were sitting around laughing at people who said that was a bad thing.
And that's sad.
You would be hard pressed to find someone stupid enough to believe this amount of bullshit.. that person would have to have the intellectual capacity of a gnat..