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Steven Insertname's avatar

Orange Julius got tired of people telling him to be "intellectual" and "on message", so he brought in someone who would tell him how great he is, tell him he's winning in a landslide, and how he should keep doing what he's doing.

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Steven Insertname's avatar

After all, it worked in 2016, and he THINKS it worked in 2020.

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Susan D's avatar

He knows it didn't work in 2020.

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TomD's avatar

But bravado is a pre-requisite to screaming about a rigged election later... .

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Steven Insertname's avatar

I have a whole theory about that, and I honestly think he thinks he won.

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Susan D's avatar

He doesn't only lie to the public, he lies to himself as well.

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Steven Insertname's avatar

When he first took office, I saw a report that he got angry when people told him the *real* poll numbers and economic reports, etc, so they started telling him stuff that wouldn't make him mad (ie, lies). For four years, he thought he was super popular and everyone loved him and everything he did. Keep in mind that he has full-blown malignant narcissistic personality disorder (among other things, obvs), and actually believes he can, like, fix health care because he's Donald Trump (he decided he didn't want to, bkz it was too hard). His ability (and need) to piss people off and gin up controversy is really his only ability.

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Susan D's avatar

One thing that Trump didn't seem to get in the last election was that there were Republicans who voted R down ballot, but didn't vote for him. When he saw the other Republican candidates won in areas and he didn't, he assumed Dems were changing votes at the top. He should have asked himself, though, if we changed his votes, why wouldn't we change the down-ballot votes too?

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Steven Insertname's avatar

He doesn't have the mental bandwidth for things that happen to people that aren't him.

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Dave Yell's avatar

"Let Trump be Trump"

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David Court's avatar

Please!!! He is her best salespitch to non-MAGA types.

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Katie Ptak's avatar

like anyway.

But bruh. I don't get a beloved mall drink involved in this shit.

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Steven Insertname's avatar

It's too fitting. He wants to neuter the Senate (Congress) and install an imperial dictatorship that will last a thousand years.

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Susan D's avatar

The Senate has already been neutered. It's called the filibuster.

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Dave Yell's avatar

A fourth reich?

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Steven Insertname's avatar

Maybe 3.5. The first one 80 years ago crashed pretty hard, and they still haven't figured out that their code is garbage.

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Steven Insertname's avatar

Also, he's orange. ЁЯША

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