TIME: How far Trump would go

[Honeyman]

Interesting read.

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2 ... interview/

[bmw]

Why don't the 2 authors of that piece just come out and say that the world would be better of if we just slaughtered the 75 million people who voted for Trump in 2020?

As an aside, I find it comical that one of their criticisms of Trump is that "his support for Israel is not absolute" given at times hostile attitude our current commander-in-chief has had towards that country.

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Why don't the 2 authors of that piece just come out and say that the world would be better of if we just slaughtered the 75 million people who voted for Trump in 2020?

As an aside, I find it comical that one of their criticisms of Trump is that "his support for Israel is not absolute" given at times hostile attitude our current commander-in-chief has had towards that country.

You understand they interviewed Trump right? And that the things he’s proposing like prosecution for the Biden’s doesn’t match anything this country has ever done before?

He is a radical who intends to fundamentally transform the United States of America into some kind of autocratic hole in the wall…

[Matt]

Why don't the 2 authors of that piece just come out and say that the world would be better of if we just slaughtered the 75 million people who voted for Trump in 2020?

As an aside, I find it comical that one of their criticisms of Trump is that "his support for Israel is not absolute" given at times hostile attitude our current commander-in-chief has had towards that country.

You understand they interviewed Trump right? And that the things he’s proposing like prosecution for the Biden’s doesn’t match anything this country has ever done before?

He is a radical who intends to fundamentally transform the United States of America into some kind of autocratic hole in the wall…

All they care about is "ownin' tha libs" even if it is short-lived.

[Honeyman]

FWIW, as you can tell from the time stamp, I posted the article at 6:57(PDT). bmw criticized it 15 minutes later at 7:12. The article specifically mentions its a 26 minute read.

Assuming bmw is a speed reader (possible) and he is waiting with baited breath for me to post and immediately read any of my informed contributions (highly unlikely), he did not read the article before commenting.

[bmw]

I honestly spent 7 or 8 minutes skimming through the whole thing before commenting. It is just more of the same, over-the-top, Trump and his supporters are radicals hell-bent on revolution that I've read elsewhere.

This little snippet is particularly over the top:

Every election is billed as a national turning point. This time that rings true. To supporters, the prospect of Trump 2.0, unconstrained and backed by a disciplined movement of true believers, offers revolutionary promise. To much of the rest of the nation and the world, it represents an alarming risk. A second Trump term could bring “the end of our democracy,” says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, “and the birth of a new kind of authoritarian presidential order.”

Unconstrained
True believers
Revolution
End of democracy
Authoritarian presidential order

To which I respond, "bullshit."

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I honestly spent 7 or 8 minutes skimming through the whole thing before commenting. It is just more of the same, over-the-top, Trump and his supporters are radicals hell-bent on revolution that I've read elsewhere.

This little snippet is particularly over the top:

Every election is billed as a national turning point. This time that rings true. To supporters, the prospect of Trump 2.0, unconstrained and backed by a disciplined movement of true believers, offers revolutionary promise. To much of the rest of the nation and the world, it represents an alarming risk. A second Trump term could bring “the end of our democracy,” says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, “and the birth of a new kind of authoritarian presidential order.”

Unconstrained
True believers
Revolution
End of democracy
Authoritarian presidential order

To which I respond, "bullshit."

Unconstrained... No more Jim Mattis/Rex Tillerson/Jeff Sessions "adults in the room types". He intends to nominate sycophants to cabinet positions this time. He feels he made a mistake the first time.

True believers.... the folks who believe he's god... that seems to be a vast majority of his supporters in what amounts to a cult of personality.

Revolutionary... the things he wants to do in a second term are absolutely fundamentally against the going precedent for at least the last 100 years. Sounds revolutionary to me.

End of Democracy.... they already tried to take Democracy out back and shoot it once...

Authoritarian Presidential Order... He wants to be a dictator and he idolizes authoritarians around the world and badly wants to be one too.

The paragraph you cite is spot on. But they interviewed Trump and got him to comment on some of this stuff so Bullshit this is not.

[zzand]

At least he said that he wants to be King Trump and turn this country into a Banana Republic.