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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/112112380688860264">Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 03:51:50 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" title="gottalaff@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/36733-48-20221130190414.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Laffy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Laffy</a></section><article><p>To clarify. Via Rupar:</p><p>Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" rel="tag">#Trump</a> like this. </p><p>Eric Columbus:</p><p>Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the *opposite* of just talking about cars.  </p><p>Me: Here's the thread:</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2837708#notice-5634055">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-03-19T03:51:50+09:00" title="Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 03:51:50 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112112380688860264" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112112380688860264">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2392253">&amp; Trump may well have been referring to a “bloodbath” in that industry. He’s sufficiently incoherent that, as is so often the case with him, it’s hard to tell one way other what exactly he’s talking about at any given moment.  I’'m willing to assume for the sake of argument that he was referring to cars. And it makes no difference to his malicious intent or to the danger he and his rhetoric poses. What matters is that he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil. It’s a classic trait and technique of authoritarian demagogues. He catastrophizes *everything* to rile up his cultish supporters, and to bind them to him, and to make them willing to do his bidding. That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition.So it doesn’t matter what he’s specifically referring to at the moment. He could be talking about i trans people in public bathrooms or the state of the auto industry or the border—it doesn’t matter. 
 He’s a dangerous psychopath, and after more than eight years of watching his sick behavior, we must not give him the benefit of the doubt. 
typos— “one way or the other”
Iy — “talking abt trans ppl”</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/112/364/606/994/464/original/b6fbaf32f754fc31.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/112/364/606/994/464/original/b6fbaf32f754fc31.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 03:51:50 JST Laffy
To clarify. Via Rupar:
Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for #Trump like this.
Eric Columbus:
Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the *opposite* of just talking about cars.
Me: Here's the thread:
In conversationabout 8 months ago from mastodon.socialpermalink
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1. & Trump may well have been referring to a “bloodbath” in that industry. He’s sufficiently incoherent that, as is so often the case with him, it’s hard to tell one way other what exactly he’s talking about at any given moment. I’'m willing to assume for the sake of argument that he was referring to cars. And it makes no difference to his malicious intent or to the danger he and his rhetoric poses. What matters is that he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil. It’s a classic trait and technique of authoritarian demagogues. He catastrophizes *everything* to rile up his cultish supporters, and to bind them to him, and to make them willing to do his bidding. That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition.So it doesn’t matter what he’s specifically referring to at the moment. He could be talking about i trans people in public bathrooms or the state of the auto industry or the border—it doesn’t matter. He’s a dangerous psychopath, and after more than eight years of watching his sick behavior, we must not give him the benefit of the doubt. typos— “one way or the other” Iy — “talking abt trans ppl”
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