Obligatory “THIRTY-SEVEN??!?!”

  • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This is good point. Even trump is just following his code. If you know his past you know his plays. He wants to win. He wants to make money. He is as his father made him. Tulsi…half the time I think she’s just bored.

    • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      That’s part of the thing to me - it is almost as if she’s bored.

      I think she’s a pure sociopath - that it’s not that she has some sense of right and wrong and self-servingly chooses to ignore or defy the distinction, but that the concepts don’t even make sense to her - that she genuinely doesn’t even grasp what it is that people are talking about when they refer to right and wrong.

      Which makes her almost certainly the most dangerous person in the entire regime. I think she could sign an order to execute a million Americans just as easily as she could sign an order for socks from Amazon.

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        I think she operates based on an ideology, it’s just not one that is shared with others in the administration. It’s purely her own and her family/cult’s ideology. Part of it is serving Russian interests but I’d bet there are other goals of the cult and her personal goals.

        Stephen Miller strikes me as more dangerous. He operates based on an ideology rooted in pain and self-loathing that manifests as racist hatred and disdain for institutions like the law and democracy.