• sudo@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    I was called out (on Reddit) for pointing out how insanely dangerous this comment was in 2018.

    Trump also praised China’s President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn’t mind making such a maneuver himself. “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”

    (https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html)

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      19 hours ago

      this is some annoying meta-irony thing that a politician should not be doing, because it is very difficult to discern a position from it. you have to take him both literally and sarcastically at the same time, which is about as useful as ignoring him. nobody has a clue what’s going on when he talks

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        14 hours ago

        It’s senile ramblings and when he rambles on his deathbed who to kill next even then the sycophants around him will follow it as a message from the 6d gods playing chess against the enemy.