• @PotatoLibre@feddit.it
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    11916 days ago

    This scenario is quite the best outcome. Two narcissists fighting each other, hopong for a homicide/suicide ❤️

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      4616 days ago

      It’s already happening…

      Musk was the bank that got MAGA elected in places they’d pissed off voters too much to keep winning.

      If musk and trump split, the Republicans in the house and Senate need both musks money and Trump’s cult. They can’t win with either alone.

      They’re already past the point of no return, their egos are too big to make up.

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        3816 days ago

        their egos are too big to make up

        That’s where you’re wrong. They both constantly rewrite the past in their own memories. Shit one takes massive doses of disassociatves and the other can’t be bothered to digest a single thought. They can make up and act like nothing ever happened and they’re both the greatest. To hold a grudge you need to be able to hold a coherent opinion on anything and not exist in a perpetual stream of consciousness.

        • @PotatoLibre@feddit.it
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          1016 days ago

          Reasonable thinking, expecially when we talk about the two actual main persons in the country and all the people and responsibilities around them.

          Narcissists surround themselves of yes people, let’s see if those guys has cleared the area properly.

        • Diplomjodler
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          716 days ago

          While both are wildly irrational and one is downright mentally incompetent, if they have one thing in common it’s holding on to grudges.

          • ✺roguetrick✺
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            Oh I’m not saying that they don’t engage in extreme attacks on who they consider their enemies. But Trump rapidly flips on who his enemy and who his friend is based on the situation. He’s had that relationship with most of the GOP. Without the staff I honestly don’t think he’d be able to keep it together. Sometimes he shifts based straight up on who he’s in the room with and how they’re treating him at that exact moment. What I’m trying to say is there’s no actual calculation or payback in his mind. It’s entirely binary and subject to rapid shifts. Classic black and white thinking/cluster b splitting.

      • @msprout@lemmy.world
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        716 days ago

        I don’t understand. This was quite possibly the most predictable thing that could have happened. Trump has a 40 year history of stiffing creditors and vendors. There has never been anything transactional about him, he just does this same thing over and over. Like there’s a reason that people have been saying, “a Trump never pays his debts” since like 2015.

        • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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          116 days ago

          He couldn’t swing that with the backing of twitter/Facebook

          Like, obviously him trying it is a big concern, but he wouldn’t be able to pull it off. I’d be surprised if he could even hold onto DC after suspendng elections.

          We’d almost certainly see elected Dems immediately relocate to somewhere like Cali, and when push comes to shove, the military would be a 50/50 split at best. Like, trump can put sycophants in top military leadership positions, but that’s not enough.

          That’s the entire point of a chain of command. 10 different chances for someone to grow a spine and tell them to fuck off. All the way down to the guy holding the gun.

          He’s be more likely to try and use red state national guards, he’s still have to filter, and ship them across the country so they’re not acting against their own neighbors

          The logistics would be a nightmare even for a competent leader. This admin can not handle something so complicated. It would be a failure, but likely a bloody one.

      • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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        516 days ago

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    • @msprout@lemmy.world
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      1216 days ago

      I kept seeing people saying that this is all performative and that they’re both in on it, but idk, I was raised by narcissists and this is basically the exact same fight playing out on the global stage that played out weekly in my childhood living room.

      • snooggums
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        216 days ago

        Neither one of them is able to pretend at this level. It is a real fight.

      • @Zagam@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        216 days ago

        Even if it was pretend to start with they’re both so sensitive and need to be right, it’ll turn into a real fight soon enough. But I agree, neither is clever enough to pretend this. For that you need professional wrestling level acting skills.

    • @Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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      116 days ago

      Oh I bet he’ll pay in some way to have trump challenged for being mentally unfit, I think that’s part of the constitution