On a human level, he kinda has to, right?
Pure copium. On a human level it will just reinforce his worldview, give him more confidence in his rhetorical strategies, and increase the sycophantic validation he receives from everyone, blinding him to and isolating him from critique further than he already is.
All true, really I’m worried more about how inspired his most genocidal followers will be. They already are saying it was divine intervention, and it proves in their mind how violent their opposition is so they need to fight harder.
On a human level, he kinda has to, right?
lmao he’s just going to become an actual competent fascist and literally kill us all you dummy
Stage 3: bargaining
Getting shot at doesn’t cure brain worms. Where will this competence that’s been entirely absent for his whole life suddenly appear from?
He’s had time to find more competent advisors that are loyal to him. Will he? And just as important will he even listen to them? Not sure. But the MAGA movement has definitely changed a lot since his first stint in office.
And he hasn’t changed one fucking iota except to get worse at posting
He’s going to triple down on his fascism.
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The cope meter!
It’s off the charts!
We haven’t seen readings this high since a century ago when the NY Times said that prison mellowed out Hitler!
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Yeah, the ear is hardly the face. A more accurate but still editorialized version would be saying shot in the head.
That might be the most naive thought I’ve seen since the shooting.
He’s gonna think he’s literally appointed by God to cleanse America of the undesirables.
Yes lol 300% pure copium
. His politics are secondary to his core values of enriching himself and getting people to like him. None of that will change because he got shot.It’s 100% copium. Trump does not have a good bone in his body, and being shot isn’t going to change that.
1000% copium. If anything this will incline him to believe in his own invincibility and divine right to be god emperor.
If this riles up his base and energizes the people he sees at his rallies, he is going to lean into this hard.
Every future rally is going to have Secret Service, local cops, and a fuckton of fascist militant types volunteering to watch every roof, vehicle, closet, port-a-potty, and man hole cover from now on.
If he notices that his crowds are more subdued or smaller, he might play the oWo smol bean card and tone down the rhetoric… maybe.
I don’t think he’ll improve. Idk how to predict his personally but this might shake him and leave him scared. But it also might galvanize him and convince him of his own importance. Now he’s shed blood for the cause so he can reinforce his ego on this.
@D61@hexbear.net comment above pretty much nails it
If anything it will prompt his narcissistic bubble to burst into full on megalomania. And his base will eat it up as he campaigns on being the messiah.
And this is already the narrative they’re pushing. Wind twisted a flag at the rally when he was shot and people are saying it was an angel saving Trump.
That’s just normal American religious psychosis though. He could have shat his pants in the debate and the hogs would claim the shart formed an angel in there
Sure, but now Trump might actually believe it himself. Which is what I mean by the narcissistic bubble bursting into full-on Messiah complex / megalomania.
I’m not saying this shit isn’t bad. I just can’t formulate a tangible way his behaviour would be any different
Fair. I guess I’m expecting things to escalate quickly now as he’s emboldened by all of this. And for his base to try to start their jihad before January.
Which may end up for the best.
I hear you fam.
So let me try and inject a bit of
into things.I feel like the shock of this failed assassination attempt has kinds broken our brains like it did everyone else. The electoral situation has been drastically changed but electoralism ain’t shit.
Trump is the same fucking dumbass as he was last week. If his head (somehow) got bigger, then that means it will be that much more difficult for the competent fascists in his cabinet to steer him towards anything productive. And it will be that much easier for absolute loonies and stone cold grifters to gain his trust.
Shit’s bad, for sure. But running things on pure Id is just never going to be very effective or efficient. I expect the efforts of evil to redouble but the output to drop. Or at least be susceptible to principled and organised resistance. We just gotta build that, starting yesterday
I appreciate that. I have been seriously struggling since this happened. I haven’t started transitioning yet and the boy mode/gender dysphoria/wanting to hide has been rough the last couple of days.
Some stuff with one of my aunts hasn’t been helping either.
My plan is to get more involved with local organizing, insulate myself as much as I can from national politics. It was my plan ever since the debate. But has felt even more pressing since Saturday.
literally braver than all the troops and wanna be tough guy hogs
Yes. Ghost of future past is only for Mr Scrooge in Christmas Carol.
To become a better person, you need to have the ability to self-reflect. I do not expect Trump has that.
in a week he’ll be talking about how the woke communists tried to kill him and we need to return the favor to them
