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    A crisis which his paramilitary troops had manufactured themselves in the streets. Yeah, it is pretty obvious to everyone what Trump is trying to do here. He attempted it in his previous presidency as well, but only hafl-assedly and late in his term. Everyone knew what he was trying to do back then as well.

    This time he is definitely more determined and sure of himself, not least because he got the full support of his backers.

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      I don’t think tramp knows much about anything at all, he just plays his role, but the blueprint they are “plagiarizing” from history books must be Stephen Miller’s or Bannon’s or some Heritage Foundation subgroup. But he may be vaguely aware of the power he could have if he ignores all rules (what a genius) and everyone is too afraid to stop him.

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        He’s broken the rules all his life without suffering any consequence. Even if he doesn’t realise on an intellectual level, he knows you can get away with anything if you’re at a certain level of wealth just from experience.

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          Ok, he is stupid, but he has figured some things out and perfected ways to move in the world through trial and error with money and time.

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    It WILL happen again. And the average brain dead commuter will shrug, oh well both sides, and back to “a Very Special America’s Got Talent.”

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        It is starting to become a risk to go out to do anything without taking ID these days. A Kafkian nightmare…might as well staple it to your ear, like cattle :/

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          Okay, hear me out…

          Mandatory ear-tags (under a government that somehow isn’t a fascist nightmare) would actually be super-helpful because my auditory processing is for shit and spoken names simply fall right out of my head. Also for kink reasons. XD

          Nah, but seriously. It feels like it’s only a matter of days 'til we hear about a Puerto Rican who got extraordinarily renditioned to El Salvador.