idk kinda funny quote

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    'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?

    they are literally controlling him with a TV. God knows what he is watching too, some fake version of Fox News to make things look even worse

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      Don’t forget this classic: "In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.

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    It’s so breathtakingly stupid. Motherfucker didn’t bother to talk to the governer or anybody before telling everybody he was about to break the law and send troops. It’s because of what he was watching on TV? It wasn’t even some lanyard briefing him about privileged information??? At least Biden’s mouth slowed him down when he had no idea what the fuck he was talking about.

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      This is what happened with Chicago. It feels like he forgot and just pushed it through without talking to his subordinates. He’s used to being the boss of a company. I had an elderly boss before who would do stuff like that. He would come in, say we’re doing something, something that he tried before but didn’t work. The VP and other management had no idea. Once they found out it took a couple of days to talk him down and bring him back to reality.

      These people spend like 30-40 years having their thoughts immediately acted upon by others. They’re not used to slowing down and being critical. Once they get old they really lose it and don’t/can’t consider that they don’t have the magic touch anymore.

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    holy shit, he’s just like those yankee boomers who insist the supposed 15 minute city a couple hundred km down the highway is under martial law and people aren’t allowed to leave their district lmao

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      He’s literally a fox News watcher just like the rest of them. Just gas him up and then put Miller/Hegseth/Thiel or whoever in his ear and he does whatever.

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    Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?

    Yankees say this, then find a different more obscure television thats somehow even more divorced from what’s happening

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    The virgin adjusting your views after critically questioning previous information vs the chad inciting a civil war after slipping into fox-news induced delusion.

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    what if it turns out trump isnt even a bad guy and his team just shows him absurd AI generated slop all day thats meant to look like fox news so all of his political positions are just reactions to that

    maybe he really thought he watched a video of venezuelan immigrants eating people’s pets because they showed him an AI one

    he thought we had medbeds and all americans were gonna get a universal healthcare card to go into the medbed and “restore our health to 100” as the video said. honestly may have just cracked the code. maybe he really was an fbi informant on epstein

    (im joking ofc hes a piece of shit)

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    Doubt it’s tv he’s getting these ideas from. It’s X, which he rejoined right? The fascists just post complete misinformation on there about how cities are under siege and how horrible everything is and he just believes it.

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    If you go take a look at the live camera feeds or recent drive-around footage of Portland, everything looks normal, there’s literally nothing going on right now that would warrant even a fraction of that response. Protesting is basically non-existent right now, much less “war-ravaged” rioting.

    “Since June 2025, more than two dozen people have been arrested in connection with protests”. That’s literally nothing, an average of around 1 person every 3 days. There’s plenty of small short protests where way more than that get arrested.

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    That quote from him is amazing. It’s got fierce competition with “time of whatever” and talking about going to hell and that thing about Elizabeth Warren’s husband, but it’s up there.