• beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Oh no, the guy who will say anything to get elected is saying something different than he used to. How dare he, the scoundrel.

    I guess I’m more interested in who the target demo for this piece is. Like everyone who’s going to care already has an opinion about him (for good or ill) is this a last straw effort to wear down his base? They live in an entirely different reality, if felony indictments, sex scandals, and the rest haven’t been enough him suddenly supporting a popular and controversial app actually might help him with the base.

    Is it red meat for the outrage masochists among Trump’s opposition? If so, why not go for the juicer Russian psyop story that broke a few days ago about former trump staffers and alt right podcasters being paid by the kremlin to sow misinformation? That’s much more outrageous if you’re looking to get your rocks off about what Trump has done this time.

    I am looking forward to the day the only thing people write about Trump is that he’s still alive in Argentina or a look at how the Trump era changed us all.

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      2 months ago

      It demotivates potential Democratic voters by reminding them that their party did the thing everyone was clowning on Trump for trying to do.

      For all his faults, Trump is better at reading the room than the democrats. When there’s an issue he doesn’t know shit about (this is most things), he’ll just say what the people in front of him want to hear, whereas the democrats have no problem saying and doing things that are incredibly unpopular among their base.

      I am looking forward to the day the only thing people write about Trump is that he’s still alive in Argentina

      The most on brand would be him flying a plane full of gold bullion to Cuba to avoid going to prison.

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      2 months ago

      This one is easy! Somebody told him he was losing the youth demographic. “Hmmm, kids like the TikTok, right?”

      The case that the most rabid fans are too young to vote no doubt flew over his head.