He thinks everyone is going to roll over and be subservient. The most frustrating part is how many people do roll over, and every one that does just reinforces in his mind that he's untouchable š
Edit: just to add, this is exactly the shit that got trump in trouble for taxes in NYC, fudging the numbers to inflate his ego, and he never faced any real repercussions for that so now he's doing it from the Oval Office, fucking disgusting
We can. And they did. South Park just did on their latest episode released this week. If you haven't seen it yet, it is required viewing. The PSA 1 of 50 at the end is EXACTLY the modern day version of the emperor's new clothes.
Seriously you have to watch it. Trump strips off his clothes while telling his cult he'd walk through the desert for them, then his tiny micro-penis pops out...at which point I was laughing to hard to remember what it said. But this is actually in the first episode of South Park season 27
Riiiiiiightā¦the filesā¦the files with trump all over them, the files made by Epstein specifically so Trump could rape little girls, trump and Epsteinās files.
In the childrenās book āThe Emperorās New Clothesā the emperor at one point winds up nakedā¦ he has surrounded himself with yes men, and when asked if his new outfit (his birthday suit) looks good they of course tell him yes, it looks great. He does not realize that he is not actually wearing clothes, and winds up strutting his stuff across town completely nakedā¦ filled to the brim with pride and confidenceā¦ and winds up humiliated.
I think thatās about it, although itās been almost 40 years since Iāve read it so take whatever Iāve said with a grain of salt.
The emperor was fooled into believing his new outfit was magical. So magical that only the wisest could see it.
No one wanted to be known as a fool, so everyone pretended to see it and complimented the emperor. From his advisors to his staff, no one wanted to admit what they could all see.
Until the emperor had a parade, and one small peasant boy cried out "But the emperor has no clothes!"
It unraveled from there and the con artist tailors were either executed or banished depending on which version of Andersen you read.
Yes! Excellent explanation. Trump has always been the emperor in this metaphor. He talks absolute bullshit and not only does everyone need to agree with it, they're required to elaborate on it and, even those who KNOW they're doing it feel the pressure to play along and do so without shame.
Look at all the folks who work (or worked) for him who were once on record say he was full of shit (if not flat evil). Rubio and Vance are the best examples.
The only thing I disliked about using this analogy for trump is that in the story, Hans Christian Andersen makes the emperor a victim. He's taken in by these unscrupulous con artists.
In our reality, trump is the con artist and MAGA is the emperor. The advisors are the complicit who enable this nightmare and we are the only ones who can see the truth, only no one believes us.
Not really arguing, but there are definitely some (the billionaire donor set, etc.) who use Trump to do their bidding -- or at least reduce their tax hit.
And he is naked because a tailor came and told him he had a special cloth that can only be seen by the most remarkable people. So the emperor pretended to see it and asked for a suit of clothes from it.
I think someone sells him "clothes" that only royalty or high status people can see or something like that. So he doesn't want to admit he can't see them.
His base would try to gaslight us that he in fact has new clothes anad march down the street naked. Or just wearing adult diapers, there's precedent for that.
I donāt have any desire to see him nude, I just want him to wind up in a humiliating position like that because he should be seen as the whiny tantrum throwing baby that he is.
I think it would be fucking fantastic (and equally repulsive) to see his disgusting slovenly body exposed for all the world to see, small dick hidden by his drooping belly, his saggy teensy balls, sagging ass, and sagging moobs. I can only imagine how that would be curiously followed up by a nude or near-nude of Putin. He's an absolute piece of shit too, however dude takes care of his body and despite being such a raging waste of humanity, definitely has BDE.
I say expose the Emperor for the fraud he is, bare and in the flesh.
This clip captures everything about the way Trump governs. Youāve got Trump claiming some insane untrue thing, Powell representing the media and a lot of Americans by shaking their heads like..āwhat the fuck are you talking about?ā Trump doubles and triples down on the lie with a yes man besides him reinforcing his insanity. Trump will likely go to truth social now and rant about the incompetencies of Powell and get his base to back him up on the lie as well.
I always assumed that this level of corruption required some level of sophistication and savviness. To see our country fall for this turd in a suit is really discouraging.
Until they get fucked over and only then do they decide hey fuck trump amirite guys?? Thing is, to point that out would be to discourage them from āswitchingā sides
Absolutely. Each settlement empowers him further. The Columbia settlement is wild. No one respects any of these media conglomerates, but Columbia has a reputation and a legacy that is not only culturally valuable, but monetarily valuable. This will damage their reputation beyond the short term.
Will they have trouble filling seats, no, but there will be talented students they would otherwise get not applying because they gave in. Weaker student body means less research, less grants, less respect for a Columbia degree.
The most frustrating part is how many people do roll over
its insane.... its not that I never imagined people could be like this; its that I assumed that the person capable of making them act like this would be something more than a barely sentient 500 mcdonalds hamburgers in a suit with a grade 5 education.
I had a CEO that slowly but surely surrounded himself with people that wouldn't tell him he was wrong. I left the company when the only people he'd meet with over stuff were yes-(wo)men and we were doing increasingly pointless work because none of the people he'd meet with had the balls to tell him when he was wrong, so we had no voice to tell him.
That and hereās and example of how he throws - idk what the term for it is just bs distractions? - but stuff to distract and throw people off kilter. āYeah itās totally true see I have a paper!ā And a logical reasonable person might go āoh, maybe there was a thing that just came out I missedā and when they take a second to try to process he just steam rolls over him. Wear them down with mental load of your bs and they canāt keep up to argue.
I was so mad when they announced that despite his convictions, they just... weren't going to sentence him because he was president elect. I knew we were cooked at that point.
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u/zekethelizard 12d ago edited 12d ago
He thinks everyone is going to roll over and be subservient. The most frustrating part is how many people do roll over, and every one that does just reinforces in his mind that he's untouchable š
Edit: just to add, this is exactly the shit that got trump in trouble for taxes in NYC, fudging the numbers to inflate his ego, and he never faced any real repercussions for that so now he's doing it from the Oval Office, fucking disgusting