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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only STRONG MEN would Give In so easily to Insults! That's why I want TRUMP in Charge of our National Security and Economy!

[–] Today@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Waiting for the day someone asks him to define strongman.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He would ramble for ten minutes about the border and immigration.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

But certainly he would start by pointing out how some nebulous group of people are always calling him strong, and a man— a manly man even. He wouldn’t say that about himself. It’s the people who say it.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

"You're the puppet."

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

So it was "exposed" that the stupid man with a fragile ego is easy to manipulate ... I think that most people, who are not in the alternative fact news bubble, knew this for years already. People have been widely comparing him to a toddler since his first year as president, and those people include his own aides/appointees. It was so common that someone even wrote a book about it: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo51128380.html.

So imo "exposed" is the wrong word, something like "demonstrated yet again" would have been better.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

It's kind of like he thought about spending the next four years with JD Vance, and then decided fuck it. I'll just go to jail.

[–] SirDerpy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Trump exposed how corrupt government is with his inability to follow the corporate narrative. Radicals have known this for a long time. But, very few care about justice. Most are sated with perceptions of order and absence of tension.