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22 days agoThe media will keep acting like dementia claims are new and just a “maybe” until he’s fucking 90 and unable to speak actual words and babbles like a newborn and they’ll still be like “Is it dementia? Trump aides say no, everyone with a brain says yes. Tonight we’ll have a roundtable with nine Trump aides and one person with a brain to discuss…”
Unfortunately, we would love to be civilized with these people, but their way of operation requires being dragged down to their level to solve. Their only goal is overwhelming power, so our goal should just enough overwhelming power to stop them.
The modern world desperately needs government designed to deal with people operating in bad faith and being able to more easily prosecute people for bad faith politicking. We shouldn’t have to sink to their level, systems should be in place to prevent this kind of horseshit getting traction to begin with, “free speech” be damned. It shouldn’t be free speech to be lying, duplicitous, have an ulterior motive, gaslighting, or speaking publicly about perceived enemies with dangerous hyperbole.
I just don’t want to be playing the stupid mind games with these people because it never stops. I don’t want to be having to get down and dirty because they can’t be negotiated with. If they can’t be negotiated with, they shouldn’t have a seat at the democratic table to begin with, because they obviously don’t like the concept of democracy. Which of course they will accuse us of hating democracy from taking their abusive use of it away, but fuck them, they’re using it abusively and controllingly, not because they want to make a better world.