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‘Trump is a little guy, Musk is a big guy’: historian predicts trouble for president-elect
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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Uh.....nooooo, no, no, no.
The only people who think he's hot shit are his dumbass cult members.
That's not the only way to interpret that phrase. A lot of people panic at the thought of another Trump presidency because they think of all of the stuff he may accomplish/destroy while regularly forgetting how stupid and incompetent he really is. Practically 90% of everything he says is a lie, but both his fans and his opponents treat every word he says with literal intent. -Any real threat he's posed has and always will stem from the people he surrounds himself with.
-at least, that's always been my perspective.
The issue is that while 99% is bullshit... Enough of it is literally his intention so you can't ignore any of it.
Look at how many people completely ignored all of his talk about tariffs before the election, and he's already in the process of getting those in place as soon as possible on/after Jan 20th. Or about using the military to enforce deportations even against citizens, and effectively building concentration camps for that. We already have reports that his team is trying to look at implementing that as well.
For every 9 bullshit things that come out of his mouth that can be ignored, one is a legitimate issue and it either gets swept under a rug with the other 9 by the media downplaying it or just ignoring it.
That's probably the most accurate description of him, but he is still terrifyingly unpredictable, and if he's surrounding himself with Project 2025 people, there's still a ton of damage that can be done.
His power comes from the fact that he is so unpredictable (and petty) coupled with the inexplicable fact he was given the most powerful role in our government makes me at least estimate him as a huge threat.