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Straw Man

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16. I think he's going full Gotterdammerung ...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jul 24, 2020, 04:19 AM

Jul 2020

... or "Götterdämmerung." (Title text editor apparently doesn't like umlauts.)

He knows he's toast, and he wants to go out with loads of extra drama and violence to feed his malignant and embittered narcissism. He needs a comforting alternative narrative to stave off any hint of recognition of his abject failure at a job for which he was pathetically unsuited. He wants to at least give the appearance that he went down swinging, even though it's against a colossal straw man.

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Trump Could Send 75,000 Federal Agents Into Cities [View all] applegrove Jul 2020 OP

We've got 75,000 agents sitting around with nothing better to do? TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #1

I thought that. applegrove Jul 2020 #2

+1 uponit7771 Jul 2020 #17

And Remember... ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #18

Cities just may have 75,000 jail cells. C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #3

75k agents? BGBD Jul 2020 #4

At some point this is going to start making some of the die hards feel queasy EarlG Jul 2020 #5

He's going for the big lie. People who don't despise him and may have voted applegrove Jul 2020 #6

Agreed EarlG Jul 2020 #11

I think it may disgust the ones who have a memory of those applegrove Jul 2020 #12

The Atlantic had an article LeftInTX Jul 2020 #13

There's a solid core that will be queasy with delight, like a sugar rush JHB Jul 2020 #19

He's admitting we're not living in America any more. lpbk2713 Jul 2020 #7

There aren't even 50,000 agents between CBP and US Marshalls Fiendish Thingy Jul 2020 #8

unless he is contracting them from Eric Prince for 6 months Captain Zero Jul 2020 #20

He may augment them with pdxflyboy Jul 2020 #9

Does their native language happen to be Mme. Defarge Jul 2020 #10

Per usual he's failing at this too! If he wanted to take over the country b4 the election he Thekaspervote Jul 2020 #14

I knew Trump would invade a country to win the election but I didn't think it would be the USA. TeamPooka Jul 2020 #15

I think he's going full Gotterdammerung ... Straw Man Jul 2020 #16