Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Pretty Little Donald, the words don't say what you say they say, and we can look that up in the record and show that you are lying.
Here's what I said in reply to you saying Orange Boy was a threat:
"He's not, and he never really was. The system held together, and his attempts to thwart it have been performative, and largely laughed at by sane, sober people."
In the first sentence, I state Trump was never a threat. In the second, I admit that he sought to threaten, and would indeed have threatened, but was hopelessly unable to do so. I'll cite the Black Knight from Monty Python after having lost all of his limbs as an apt analogy for Trump as "a threat." (That analogy has been used here in other contexts, but I can't think of a better one for an incompetent like Trump.) I also noted that his efforts have been largely performative. In the past, that's been both intentional and unintentional. Often, his attempts to thwart norms and laws are so off the wall, so doomed to fail, they wind up being entirely performative, as it's impossible for them to come to fruition. Other times, such as with his demand that Pence reject the electoral votes, they are clearly, entirely performative and designed solely to whip up his base.
Finally, I noted that sane and sober people laughed at Trump as a threat to distinguish them from people who seriously thought he could ever have turned us into a dictatorship. Those in the media engaged the argument he was a serious threat because it created fear, which sells airtime and gets clicks. Neither their perception nor their wits were scrambled. They were cynics, nihilists, opportunists, people moving product. Those who truly believed this tinpot Mussolini had a chance of flipping the election, of subverting a system that's withstood 100X worse than his silly, preposterous efforts, have deluded perceptions of reality. They're ingesting too much media perhaps, or congenitally too emotional to think straight about politics. I don't know the cause of their flawed perception, but I do know it is, clinically, quite unclear. Bordering on, partially, or fully delusional.
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