Trump poised to double down on immigration crackdown and refuse concessions to new Democratic majority in Congress

Donald Trump set the stage for his administration to lurch further to the right this weekend, claiming the US had taken a “giant step back” by widely rejecting his party.

The US president’s hardline aide, Stephen Miller, will begin as White House chief of staff on Monday. He will also meet with Dana White, CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, after offering him the job of press secretary.

“America took a giant step back in History with the results of the last Election,” Trump claimed in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday morning, citing the sharp sell-off in global markets, fueled a rout of US tech stocks. “But have no fear, we will be back, BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

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    The fact that oil prices dropped and the stock market crashed at the same time is only further evidence that the stock market doing well is not a good thing for rhe average consumer.

    It’s like when economists say that a little bit of unemployment is “a good thing” because it “lowers costs for industry.” Or when they say that a little bit of inflation is “good” because it “reduces demand” which “keeps costs down.” I shit you not, these are things they actually say.

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    He’s going to declare America the White Nation and start purposefully murdering non-white children, similarly to Israel and the Nazis?

    Because Nazi-like supremacist ethno-Fascism activelly engaged in violent murder of those from “vermin races” is the only ideology to the Right of were he is at the moment.

    (I mean, he’s kind of doing it already abroad, both directly in Iran and indirectly by supporting Israel, but he’s still not yet at the level of Nazis and Zionists and doing it at home and next door).

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    Night is darkest right before the dawn. (Not actually true) Or A wounded animal can be more dangerous.

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    We’re well into narcissistic injury phase now. He’ll try to take revenge on the American people for rejecting him. That’s what Miller is for.

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      A Nazi or Zionist Holocaust in America proper rather than “just” supporting the Israeli regime while they purposefully kill kids of “vermin” races in Gaza, or by directly blowing up “only” a few children schools in Iran.

      Even in the present day all it takes is to look at the actions of Israel to see that there is in fact an ideology to the Right of Trump: ultra-racist ultra-murderous supremacism acting to exterminate “vermin” ethnicities.

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    60 minutes interview readouts seem to suggest more moderate path. I can understand not hoping too hard for him sticking to that path.

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    MAGA is backed into a corner, and desperate. They know that if there’s an election in 2028, they’re all going to prison, so they have two years to crush the population, and cancel elections. They were pretty excited about it, until they saw the result of the election. Now they know exactly how angry the American people are, and exactly how enormous their opposition truly is, and it’s WAY bigger than they ever expected.

    So he put PeeWee Himmler in charge, and he’s going to try to crack down, but we aren’t going to accept their nonsense any longer. If he and Todd Flintstone think they are going to use violence against American citizens and arrests of Democratic legislators and journalists to somehow stop elections, they’ve got another thing coming. The Dems have enough states that they can reach 270 electoral college votes themselves, so they can still elect a president without the red states.

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      Tbh, I remain unconvinced they are feeling at all cowed by the results of the election just now. I remember precisely what happened during Jan 6, because I watched it on like a dozen different streams and news channels live, and I also watched the depositions and hearings about it live, and I watched the fascists slowly redact their honest, alarmed, fearful immediate reactions into servile gaslighting.

      David Frum’s aphorism continues to be true and very on the nose:

      If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.

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      MAGA is backed into a corner, and desperate.

      Trump is suffering from narcissistic collapse, and I brought enough popcorn for everyone:

      🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

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      He’s gotta be in the Guiness for bankrupting an entire fucking nation.

      Hell, with the shit he’s pulled with Iran and the Strait, he’s pretty much bankrupted the entire fucking world (aside from China) at this point.

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        Uh no, it’s inconvenient for people but it’s a small increase in costs not that big a deal. Things haven’t even approached actually bad financially. Bankrupt is still far away. It can get much worse several times before you get there. That’s still enough for a second plague and a large multi regional hot war and a recession then when the next climate crisis arrives you’re looking at closer to bankruptcy level.

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    That’s what it was. He just wasn’t extreme enough. That’s why the country collectively lurched in the opposite direction. It makes perfect sense.

    He knew things were about to go south because he initiated protective measures against his gaudy oval office deco and some other things.

    Now he’s just going to alienate half of the support that he still has by proving he really is nutter butters. This is just presidential trolling at this point and ought to end well.

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      The logic of a narcissist knows no bounds.

      because he initiated protective measures against his gaudy oval office deco

      The funny thing is, he did that by executive order, which means it’s easy enough for the next president to simply overturn it on their first day in office

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      I think that’s his purpose. Be stupid and let the headlines focus on him while they fuck everything up in the shadows. Dangle a juicy carrot to distract from the stick.

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        I think you can stop at “let the headlines focus on him”. That is literally all that he cares about.

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      I think JD’s handlers finally saw the writing on the wall…

      They got trump to appoint Miller, knowing this would be the immediate response, and they’re not gonna hold either back.

      Then a little after the new Congress has started, a core group of Republicans will side with Dems to impeach and convict trump, giving JD the presidency and allowing those chosen Republicans who knew to side with Dems as a “new Republican party”.

      That’s the whole reason JD is there in the first place

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    There are two wolves inside me. One worried what terrible thing he will do next and how many lives will be affected. The other hopeful that whatever it will be can create enough pretext among the incoming congress/senate and remaining republicans willing to distance from him to finally remove Trump from power.

    Both wolves are gay.

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      I don’t give a shit about Trump. I do care about fascists. Fascism will easily outlast Trump, and in fact, be harder to get rid of without him as all the people go back to political sleep and listen to mainstream media tell them that Both Sides Are The Same So It Doesn’t Matter and Republicans continue to gain more power and continue to destory our democracy.

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    Keep it up, diaperboy, you’re totally winning.

    Also, let’s hear more insane rambling about your ballroom. That’s what the people are clamoring for.