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"While most normal people try to avoid chaos and uncertainty, a narcissistic chaos agent like Trump thrives on it. When everyone else is thrown off their game, then Trump can be exactly where he wants to be: at the center of the storm, grabbing all the attention."
~ Jay Kuo
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/11
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/holding-our-collective-breath
"For the sake of our own mental health, it’s better to predict and understand the likely outcome of any background investigation of a killer: If he’s white and conservative, it will be forgotten among the thousands of examples we have of such shooters; if he’s Muslim/minority/trans, we won’t hear the end of it for a long time, if ever."
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/12
"Trump is desperate, as he grows more unpopular, his government fails and his powers ebb, to find ways to make him feel STRONG and POWERFUL and MANLY. It is almost impossible to imagine something more authoritarian, more illiberal, more mad - & more dangerous - than the use of the military on our streets to fight a fictional enemy in an imaginary war."
~ Simon Rosenberg
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/13
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-keep-the-military-off-our
"He's either too confused to recognize AI-generated videos of himself, or he just doesn't care. Neither option is reassuring. ...
We’ve reached a point where the President of the United States is posting AI-generated videos promoting conspiracy theories about miracle cures —"
~ Parker Molloy
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/14
https://www.readtpa.com/p/trump-shared-some-ai-slop-about-miracle
"either because he can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fake anymore, or because he simply doesn’t care. And this happened while he’s actively working to gut actual healthcare protections that millions of Americans rely on."
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/15
“'I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, "Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different." They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place … it looks like terrible.'"
~ David Kurtz
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/16
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/new-purges-continue-to-hollow-out
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