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It's a meme for people to complain about how it'll never happen, etc. It's coming, we just have to wait. This is notable:
The appeals court literally made it so that he still owns and controls his properties, as opposed to the Attorney General immediately taking them over, at least for the time being. It was a last-minute Hail Mary that worked in his favor. So it deflates his number one propaganda technique of victim grievance. And, if he can’t pay up now, he looks more like a desperate fool than he did before. If he had the previous bond amount available as he says, then surely he has the new amount as well, or at least the means to secure it.He gave away his bargaining chip--screeching at his base how unfairly he's treated. Now they gave him special treatment. He still won't be able to pay but has now played that card and has nowhere to turn.
The problem is that you assume they believed his screeching of unfair treatment because he was being treated unfairly. You assume that now that he's once again gotten beneficially special treatment, his cries about how unfair those in power are being to him won't land anymore. For most of his base, though, that just won't be the case. At this point it's very easy for him to just lie to his base, and they'll eat it up.
"The crooked Biden Crime Family Injustice department is still demanding I pay $175 Million, or else I don't get to have my fair rights, it's a scam, it's blackmail, and it's unfair, and I won't pay it on principal. I could pay it, I could pay the bigger one, but I won't do it because what they're doing to me is wrong."
Sure, anyone with half a brain can fact check that and tear it to pieces, but Trump's base don't WANT to fact check him, so they won't. And even when someone does, it's still easy for him to justify it to his base.
"They reduced the bond because they knew they were wrong, they knew what they were doing wasn't right, but they were trying to save face so they couldn't get rid of it entirely, so they tried to be just a little less unfair instead of doing the right thing. See even people who hate me and are out to get me know I'm right."
Again, utter bullshit that absolutely does not stand up under scrutiny, but the only people who are actually scrutinizing his statements are the people who wouldn't vote for him, or donate to him, anyway.
Sometimes I tell myself time travel is possible and it's exclusively the domain of those who care about our welfare; this is the best timeline they can give us.
Sometimes it comforts me. Sometimes it hits as having shit faith in humanity.
And I know we aren't being shephereded in some Travelers kinda way. It just entertains me when the world stops making sense.
I have no faith in humanity. Period. There are some good people but few are worth the time to interact with.
As much as I understand that sentiment and agree when we think about politics, I just have faith that this shit stain isn't all of us. He is showing us all what it is to be horrible and years from now the younger generations will see it and be different.
Sure but that understanding tends to last a single generation. We don't have generational memory, which is why we keep repeating stupid mistakes once the following generation comes into power.