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      apparently it was secret because his followers said “It’s just a joke bro” after each time.

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      They don’t even make a secret of it. r/The_Donald called him “God emperor” all the time. And they weren’t joking even if they claimed they were.

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        I will never believe the whole thing (Trump) didn’t start out as a joke like Boaty McBoatface, which was so preposterous, so bonkers that it went viral and a bunch of out of touch idiots didn’t get the humor and took out all as a serious movement and then made it one. I think it’s mass delusion.

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          It was a coordinated sci ops. The_donald popped up practically overnight and pushed its way to the top of Reddit as a “joke” subreddit and it gradually got worse from there.

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            coordinated sci ops

            Coordinated science operations are well above anything that the_dipshit could put together

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      Probably just clickbait phrasing. There’s an alarming number of people who don’t know what Project 2025 entails or that he has been paraphrasing Hitler, but putting those things on a headline likely doesn’t get people to engage as much as, “Hey, wanna know a secret about Trump?”

      And towards the ends of educating the public about the real threat Trump poses, I’ll allow a little clickbait to get them to pay attention.

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    Say Trump gets his wish and becomes authoritarian leader of the US, the god-king his voters want.

    When he dies in less than 10 years, who’s going to take his place? What’s the end goal for the Republicans after Trump? Do they even have one? (Probably not).

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      Lol if you think Republicans don’t have a plan, you’re not paying attention. Those people are crafty motherfuckers.

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        I mean yes but recently there are also true believers. People like MGT (I think that was her name?) aren’t any craftier than a rock.

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    Just like with School Shootings this is EXACTLY what the Founders intended!

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      They were also into owning people and women having no rights so who gives a fuck what they thought?

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        Yeah I dunno where this idea of whitewashing the Founding Fathers as unequivocal good guys came from. They fucking sucked, most of them were morally bankrupt businessmen who would love Trump. These are the kinda idiots who saddled us with the Electoral College because “the general public couldn’t be trusted to choose their own leaders”, let’s stop pretending like they founded America as a stroke of genius with perfect systems.

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          They fucking sucked, most of them were morally bankrupt businessmen who would love Trump.

          It’s pretty much impossible to support the idea that the Founding Fathers were “morally bankrupt”. There is no unmoving foundation of morality that remains unchanged throughout human history, and judging historical figures from over 200 years ago by today’s moral standards simply makes no sense.

          Were they immoral by today’s standards? Yes, absolutely. Where they immoral by 19th century standards? I’d say they were about average, but I’m not from that time so I couldn’t say for sure.

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            You know there were people around back then who were against slavery, right? Lol

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              Yes, even some of the founding fathers. For example, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and other Framers of the Constitution were abolitionists.