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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,002 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:44 PM Oct 2025

Trump's claims about violence are falling apart in court

President Donald Trump has spent a decade painting large swaths of the United States as a hellscape, dating back to his dark 2017 inaugural address and his demagogic 2016 campaign.

But increasingly, he’s upped the ante on trying to leverage that supposed hellscape. He’s used it to float a crackdown on his political opponents and to justify deploying the military on US soil. The message is increasingly that things are so bad that you must give Trump more power to deal with it.

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But Trump’s moves to act on the picture he has painted has at least provided a valuable reality check.

Repeatedly now, judges have said Trump’s proclaimed hellscape isn’t reality.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-claims-violence-falling-apart-130052519.html

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Trump's claims about violence are falling apart in court (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 OP
The next step in the fascism playbook is to hire crisis actors to stage some phony violence Blue Owl Oct 2025 #1

Blue Owl

(58,183 posts)
1. The next step in the fascism playbook is to hire crisis actors to stage some phony violence
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:54 PM
Oct 2025

I'd be willing to bet these depraved motherfuckers will do it....

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