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Quixote1818

(28,947 posts)
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:32 AM Aug 2020

Trump is so outrageous, crazy, bizarre and all about the TV, sometimes I wonder if after he loses

he suddenly admits it was all just an outrageous show and says, "I just wanted to be as fucking crazy and anti-American as I could to see what fucking idiots would still follow and admire me. Anyone who still does is a fucking racist imbecile and should get out of the US."

I know, wishful thinking and not a chance in hell but would that not be one hell of a way to end the "show"? LOL He would go down in history as a folk hero who made fools of 40% of the country and exposed them as ready to be Nazi types.

Kind of like this. Go to the 41 minute mark:

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RockRaven

(14,974 posts)
1. I can't place it of the top of my head, but isn't there a pop culture meme-ish thing about
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:37 AM
Aug 2020

"I didn't do it" or something?

He'll claim he was really just exposing all the corrupt people by giving them the opportunity to expose themselves, or similar.

sprinkleeninow

(20,253 posts)
2. I have considered outlandish plots such as this one that you so well laid out.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:44 AM
Aug 2020

Who knows anymore. The more bizarre and outrageous certainly seems plausible.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
3. I thought about this theory for a long time
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 03:31 AM
Aug 2020

it was explored in American Horror Story The Cult. It goes like this, for people to truly care about their rights, they need to be physically threatened. E.g., you want real long term change, you elect someone like trump that will eventually physically threaten every american one way or another. Only, we all grossly underestimated the stupidity of 40%. So at this point, even if it’s plausible, the cult took roots on its own. At the same time, oddly enough, we are seeing some real change in racial justice.

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
4. Trump lives in his head...he is the center of his own universe
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 03:31 AM
Aug 2020

always the hero and always the victim but a heroic victim..to trump reality tv and reality are one and the same...reality tv is a misnomer..there's nothing real about it...each episode is staged for maximum viewership...that's Trump's life ..staged, scripted (when he can stay on it)...lot's of after-show cleanup..his life is one big lie and he creates a village of lies to support the one big lie except in his infested head his lies are truths and truths are lies..and the cast and crew(compliant senate, reptilian Jared vapid Ivanka, nazi sycophants) are his echo chamber, his fan club....can't wait to cancel the sonofabitch

GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts)
10. But, as someone said yesterday: Kamala Harris is campaigning inside his head.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 09:45 AM
Aug 2020

And it's making him even crazier.

agingdem

(7,850 posts)
11. Trump and his handlers
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 10:05 AM
Aug 2020

can't control Kamala Harris.....it's like a lawyer cross examining a witness...Rule #1: never ask a question if you don't already know the answer..not only does Trump not know the answers he doesn't know the questions... Trump is a walking talking real-time reality tv shit show...everything is staged and scripted.. but brilliant articulate prosecutorial Kamala Harris can't be staged or scripted..so Trump's go-to playground bully, threats, insults, name calling disappears into the ether....and because Trump is a misogynistic raging sociopath Harris is tipping him over the edge...

teach1st

(5,935 posts)
6. Since the 2016 campaign...
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 05:11 AM
Aug 2020

..I keep expecting Trump to stop cold during a particularly vicious speech or press conference, then stare into the camera and remove his Trump costume, out of which a smirking Andy Kaufman will emerge.





Hasn't happened yet, but I keep clinging to that hope.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
7. shortcut to 40m49s in
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 05:30 AM
Aug 2020
?t=2460

shortcut to time area in



--trick snip--
any youtube (i think) you can right click and select copy video url at current time

and get a direct link to the middle or where ever

on the boring side
the link from youtube

then

the ? means 'parameters and options and stuff coming'

t=2460

time in seconds
2460/60=41 minutes

--/trick snip--


on a pure www.youtube.com/blabla
you can add ?t=timeinseconds
www.youtube.com/blabla?t=65
for 1 minute 5s into it


great link to a movie that should be required viewing in school, and was here

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
8. Sorry, Trump is reality
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 07:00 AM
Aug 2020

This isn't a TV show.

This is real.

Your premise ignores so many facts.

Here's one: Over 160,000 Americans are dead because Trump didn't do his job.

That's reality.

Quixote1818

(28,947 posts)
12. Absolutely. And if he was pulling a TV stunt he would be in big trouble for the deaths of all those
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 12:31 PM
Aug 2020

people. Unfortunately he is just a fucking incompetent nutjob.

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