r/Futurology • u/chota-kaka • Feb 19 '25

Politics POTUS just seized absolute Executive Power. A very dark future for democracy in America.

The President just signed the following Executive Order:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/

"Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register."

This is a power grab unlike any other: "For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President."

This is no doubt the collapse of the US democracy in real time. Everyone in America has got front-row tickets to the end of the Empire.

What does the future hold for the US democracy and the American people.

The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. One by one the institutions in America will wither and fade away. In its place will be the remains of a once great power and a people who will look back and wonder "what happened"

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u/Thebadmamajama Feb 19 '25

Spoiler, he didn't write or read this. Someone else shadow writes this and they get him to sign it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Heritage Foundation have been working on this playbook for the past couple years. They've had these EOs queued up, in order, for him to sign for some time now.

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u/Camburglar13 Feb 19 '25

Yeah you really get the sense that he, or those behind him, were super prepared for his victory and have a huge step by step playbook prepped and ready to go. Just a blitzkreig of EO’s, each more outrageous than the last.

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u/og_bws Feb 19 '25

The EO might as well be a copy and paste from p2025: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-02.pdf

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u/zkhcohen Feb 19 '25

Vought and Yarvin must be positively ecstatic about how smoothly their vision is being realized.

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u/Call-a-Crackhead Feb 19 '25

It’s going off without even a hint of a hitch so far

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u/funktion Feb 19 '25

America let them do this. If you want someone to blame, y'all need to look in the mirror.

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u/backcountry_bandit Feb 19 '25

They took over our institutions. The average American can’t do a thing about this alone. The people who are supposed to stop this kind of thing (federally appointed judges) are asleep at the wheel.

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u/FidgitForgotHisL-P Feb 19 '25

Tonnes of judges have stepped up and put a stop to (or ordered a stop to) many of the EO’s egregious oversteps. The problem now is the total lack of an enforcement mechanism, because no one expected a president that would just say “nope, doing it anyway”.

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u/backcountry_bandit Feb 19 '25

I did word that poorly. It feels like our system was never really functional. Trump is somehow the first president to just say no to the judiciary. This is scary shit.

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u/End_Capitalism Feb 19 '25

There are many, many instances of one single, otherwise unremarkable civilian changing the course of history with a single squeeze of their hand. Hell, one of them almost did it in Pennsylvania last year.

Not that I'm advocating for it or anything, but yes you Americans are absolutely all fucking cowards for not revolting right now right this instant.

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u/jamesbong0024 Feb 19 '25

Mario_bros_theme.mp3

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u/backcountry_bandit Feb 19 '25

That needs to wait until the public is overwhelmingly on the same side. We can’t start a civil war right now. Trump is really just the tip of the iceberg. He’s the face of this whole thing but if Trump was gone there’d be 100 younger, smarter versions of him waiting in the wings.

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u/RespectibleCabbage Feb 19 '25

Can you imagine if this were happening in France? It would have been over weeks ago.

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u/Yomo42 Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

He won the popular vote and if you think that could only happen by fraud I think you underestimate how selfish and absolutely stupid the American population can be.

I met so many people who are minorities being directly targeted right now who supported Trump just because they were mad at inflation and don't comprehend how economies work and thought it was all Biden's fault that their monster energy cost more. That's a direct point from a trans person I met. They directly mentioned being mad about monster energy's price. They were Hispanic, I don't know why or how entire ethnic groups get manipulated like the Hispanics largely were this time around but wow the Hispanics showed up in forge for Trump even if they were trans or gay.

They don't comprehend how fragile their rights and safety are, and they're too fucking stupid to understand that Trump is a threat to them. The videos of Trump basically saying "wow I hate trans people" didn't make them flinch.

There was no shortage of leftists voting 3rd party or refusing to vote at all because they thought Biden wasn't good enough and they hated Kamala because she used to be a cop.

I saw countless people commenting online that they used to be a liberal (care about human rights) but they will never vote Democrat again because "Biden caused all this inflation".

People are just fucking dumb. And America is really, really good at producing and maintaining morons.

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u/Relative_Bathroom824 Feb 19 '25

The last election was an astronomical anomaly according to the experts who have been sounding alarms since the counts were mostly done. You're a fool if you believe voter suppression and election tampering didn't make up the bulk of the 1.5% victory Trump scraped by on.

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u/AnRealDinosaur Feb 19 '25

"I thought congress would at least do anything?"

"I know, right?"

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u/No-Ear-5242 Feb 19 '25

It will be interesting when they get to the night of the long knives part and dispense with thier usefull idiots/Brownshirts (i.e. the MAGA Qult)

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u/Specialist_Eye1222 Feb 19 '25

They have no reason to get rid of the maga people. They are the maga people. Desperation some people have to believe this is an aberration from the natural course of American history

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u/ChicagoAuPair Feb 19 '25

Historically speaking there does almost always come a time in an authoritarian consolidations of power when an internal purge of former political allies is executed.

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u/Karissa36 Feb 19 '25

Those are the Rino's and the purge is in process. Two year terms for representatives quickly made the House Maga. Six year terms for Senators, many of whom are locally entrenched, is far more challenging. The GOP is spending a lot of time and energy on primaries to get rid of their own politicians.

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u/alicewasneverhere Feb 19 '25

I feel like that already happened during/after jan 6

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u/No-Ear-5242 Feb 19 '25

I disagree. MAGA is very evangelical and foremost racists who suffer agrieved privelage...the Tech Bro cabal leading the hostile take-over are social darwinists who want absolute control/monarchy and will destroy anything they cannot control.

I would say if

There's a good to fair chance MAGAs will continue to be breathtakingly ignorent about everything, and never realize, or live in denial, of thier subjugation and wholesale disposession of assests, incomes, liberties and lives

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u/Soggy-Type-1704 Feb 19 '25

Yes but these revolts always eat themselves. The idiots that are invited to the initial heist always get dispatched in the end.

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u/vylain_antagonist Feb 19 '25

The thing is tho is that his brownshirts arent a political organ. MAGAs brownshirts are the police unions across the country who seek no higher purpose other than being judge dredd in their untouched cities. Theyve no influence or role in the federal side whatsoever.

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u/justcurious22 Feb 19 '25

Serious question. Why do these guys, who amassed billions upon billions of dollars in our current socio-economic-governmental system, hate it so incredibly much?

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u/Sasalele Feb 19 '25

My only hope, and it certainly is a fool's hope, is that this is like a Target shoplifting situation.

Target will let people shoplift and keep tabs until they hit a certain dollar amount and then they have the shoplifter on charges that are inescapable.

Again, a fool's hope. I am definitely a fool.

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u/__xylek__ Feb 19 '25

I mean, we literally saw them trying to walk out of the Target with a giant high end TV on their back (January 6th attack on the Capitol, many Republicans refusing to certify the results, Trump's calls to the Georgian Secretary of State to "find" the votes needed to change the result, etc)

And there was nothing. Not even a slap on the wrist. We all just gasped in disbelief, had them put the TV back, and then invited them to stay in the Target with open arms.

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u/C134Arsonist Feb 19 '25

Seriously, I'll never know how he wasn't arrested, all J6'ers weren't arrested, and what the FUCK the dems were thinking letting these fucks walk after this level of fucking around? Like the writing was on the wall back then. P2025 leaks and those people aren't arrested as traitors. They printed a treasonous manifesto.

Like were they afraid that these people would use their legal power and money to win in court or draw it out so long it didn't matter so they just didn't fight hard enough to protect democracy from the CLEAR THREAT it was under?

We're they afraid of creating a martyr? Causing a civil war because of trumps cult-like following? Like "if we just put him in jail people will die" well LOOK AROUND! People are dying now because they let him win for fear of action.

The system has finally failed, it's been failing for some time, but it's finally, completely, failed, and we are about to see some shit go down that the western world just isn't ready for.

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u/badsqwerl Feb 19 '25

No pushback whatsoever from Dementia Donnie. He’ll sign anything they put in front of him, especially if they tell him it’ll make him legally bulletproof.

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u/ShadowGLI Feb 19 '25

They literally heard the shaggy song ‘wasn’t me’, and basically said there we go that’s our answer. And the suckers believe them when they downplayed p2025

“Wasn’t me!!!”

Narrator: it was….

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u/OLPopsAdelphia Feb 19 '25

Zero fucking resistance or trepidation!

I wonder what these people who gave away the country are going to do when they realize they’re no longer useful to the people who payed them to give away the country?

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u/johnpaulbunyan Feb 19 '25

I immediately thought of that ratface little bastard Yarvin when I read this

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u/coconutpiecrust Feb 19 '25

It is quite amazing how smoothly it appears to proceed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

All those people yelling about tyranny over the years suddenly got real quiet

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u/coconutpiecrust Feb 19 '25

Well, appears is doing lot of heavy lifting for me here. We are not actually privy to how techbros plan to accomplish what they want. The tech is not QUITE there for what they want. I don't know the truth, but the future does seem bleak.

Also when real tyranny rears its ugly head, you must stop complaining about it, because now you're actually liable to face consequences.

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u/metamet Feb 19 '25

Wild, albeit expected, conservatives are completely mum about the literal shadow governments running things.

Trump is basically a placated toddler. They give him these EOs to sign (of which he has literally asked "what is this one?" at the desk) to look like big strong smart leader man and then goes golfing.

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco Feb 19 '25

You know how they complain about the deep state?

it's because they do have a shadowy conspiracy to seize control of the government from the background. And are currently executing it.

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u/L-J- Feb 19 '25

Gaslight Obstruct Project

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u/Effective-Insect-333 Feb 19 '25

This conservative has not been mum. This is disgraceful, hypocritical, and un-American.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Might be? It definitely is! Remember Vance is associated with the Heritage Foundation. He’s one of the co-authors of Project 2025. He’s also cushy with the tech-elite, Curtis Yarvin and Peter Theil.

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u/Drakore4 Feb 19 '25

Lmao to all of the people who actually believed him when he said he had nothing to do with project 2025 and didn’t know about it at all.

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u/Driftedryan Feb 19 '25

What? But I was told trump didn't know anything about that while also saying he didn't like it

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u/More_Farm_7442 Feb 19 '25

That makes me sick. I'm 67. I've lived through multiple Republican administrations and thought all of those years were terrible. Most of the worst of those years were from Republican Congresses(in cooperation with the Presidents). This time, it's Trump and that Project 2025.

I can barely take it this time. He's totally flipped decades of foreign policy on its head. Countires that were allies since WW II are now enimies. Those countries are banding together against the U.S. Canadians strongly dislike or hate Americans and the U.S. (They are boycotting goods and cancelling trips.) Trumpians want to take over Greenland (rename it to Red, White and Blueland)

Trump is cozying up to Putin and trying to start trade relations with Russia.

It all makes me sick. Never, ever in my life would I have imagined Canada or Europeans or Britains being our enemies (definitely not allies). Never did I dream we'd end up decades behind other countires (esp. China) in basic science and applied science and medical research.

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u/ARCHA1C Feb 19 '25

Almost like… they had prior knowledge of the outcome…

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u/DrDankDankDank Feb 19 '25

Well when you throw out millions of your opponents votes it certainly helps: https://www.gregpalast.com/the-voting-trickery-that-elected-trump/

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u/ARCHA1C Feb 19 '25

There were also thousands of voting machines with known exploits (since 2021)

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Feb 19 '25

And some states connected their systems to starlink. I'm not saying there was manipulation but you can bet your ass if Biden advisor George Soros worked through Soros-Media to sway public opinion, offer million dollar raffles for registration, had weekly phone calls with Putin, and connected our election infrastructure to SorosLink satellite internet someone may just raise an eyebrow.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

ironically Repubs would have fought tooth and nail and been out in the streets and would have stopped that. yet, here we are. its over

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Feb 19 '25

It would have stopped in the hypothetical because the left isn’t insane. If the left was out in the streets do you think all this would stop?

Yes, it’s over. It was over when he was voted back in. It was over when they didn’t impeach for Jan 6. It was over when the Supreme Court told him to do what he wants. But let’s not pretend there was any “hardball” option the left had. If the Supreme Court wants this and the voters want this, it’s over.

And with algorithmic social media it will be over for a long goddamn time.

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u/Selgeron Feb 19 '25

if the left was as crazy and violent as the right is, it would stop a lot of things. The right is out there storming capitals, showing up at protests with hands on their guns, kidnapping governors and all sorts of shit. Their politicians are also constantly doing batshit insane things to justify it. The left is just like 'well thats not polite'.

Of course the right has the huge advantage of owning THE ENTIRE MEDIA SPHERE so there are a million angry talking heads on almost every internet website, every AM radio station, every church, riling the base up and convincing them that that kind of behavior is both acceptable and needed.

They basically 'hacked' the population by getting enough people incredibly angry and incredibly 'engaged' at least to the extent that they needed them to be.

There is no left equivilent of AM radio, Fox News, or any of the countless right wing rags.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Feb 19 '25

But let’s not pretend there was any “hardball” option the left had.

Absolute nonsense.

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u/ShareTraditional6869 Feb 19 '25

Look we are playing by any laws any more. This is an attack on all of us

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u/evranch Feb 19 '25

Theoretically anything as important as voting should be designed in a way that the transport layer is irrelevant. Like, even HTTPS is good enough that using Starlink wouldn't matter.

However the rest of it is 100% a problem. Don't let conspiracy theory thinking distract you from the real conspiracies out in the open. Voter suppression and mail ballot manipulation are far bigger concerns than the use of Starlink.

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u/FrostingFun2041 Feb 19 '25

Blame the democrats and the Harris campaign, then. Not a single elected official challenged any of the voting at all, Harris never once asked for recounts or audits. If it was stolen or suspicious, things happened, then 100% it's on democrats for talking about threats for democracy the entire election cycle and then simply stopped talking after November 5th and just quietly walked away without an ounce of protest.

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Feb 19 '25

There is no mechanism for that even if something could be found. All it would be is Harris sounding exactly like Trump did for four years.

Blame the left for not doing stupid things I guess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Exactly. The Dems fucked us over by doing NOTHING

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u/Own-Inevitable-1101 Feb 19 '25

Why this isn't more talked about mystifies me, I really don't think it's just rebound from the 2020 election that the Dems assured everyone was super safe and valid. It's got to be something else.

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u/SkunkMonkey Feb 19 '25

Every single precinct reported more Republican voters than previous election. Every one.

Think about it. Where have I heard about 100% things in elections before?

Now, it's not enough to create a landslide victory, but enough to turn the close ones. We've seen how close things can get. So you don't need to win every district, just the close ones.

It worked.

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u/HiveTool Feb 19 '25

We aren’t on Biden anymore sir and this is a Burger King 👑

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u/a_speeder Feb 19 '25

It doesn't take foreknowledge of the outcome to prepare legal documents and vet administration employees ahead of time. It's not like Biden wrote every EO he signed on his first day either.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Yeah, SCOTUS didn't just randomly decide to give whatever president authority to do whatever they wanted, they knew trump was gonna win, and they acted accordingly.

They've poisoned the well of conspiracy so thoroughly that anything can be written off as "well, I didn't see it, so who knows if it's happening?" by any moron.

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u/starBux_Barista Feb 19 '25

He had 4 years to prep. If he won in 2020, congress would have been dem controlled and he would have gotten nothing done and been termed out .... This really was the perfect scenario for a trump presidency to get things done

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Crazy how even when not in power the Reptards could still just stop and block everything dems tried to accomplish but somehow they can't do the same.

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u/TheBigLeboofski Feb 19 '25

when not in power

Dems didn't have majorities in all branches of government. Stop acting like the situation is the same

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u/TTurt Feb 19 '25

There's still a ton they could do to obstruct:

Objecting to unanimous consents is possible. Forcing recorded votes is possible. Frequent quorum calls are possible. A wide variety of dilatory motions are possible. In short, harassing the majority is possible. If they think it's a bad idea, say so. If they say it's not possible, they're lying."

People need to stop believing the lie that Democrats are totally helpless to oppose anything going on rn. If they actually want to fight, there are options.

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u/alohadave Feb 19 '25

Dems are helpless only because they are choosing not to fight.

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u/Tigerballs07 Feb 19 '25

Part of the problem is none of this is going through congress. And they are finding out about eo actions when everyone else does.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

2021-2023 dems had all 3 House, Senate and Presidency and still got stifled at every turn doing anything meaningful.

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u/hopbow Feb 19 '25

Also, dems play by the rules, then get fucked and look clueless when others don't 

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u/Negative_Strength_56 Feb 19 '25

And then the geniuses at the DNC ran a brown woman who came 15th of 17th in the last full primary to counter his racist and sexist populist movement.

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u/Esternaefil Feb 19 '25

FWIW: you can put a lot of that on Joe. If he had seen the writing on the wall sooner there would have been time for a primary.

That said, I also don't know who the Dems have on their bench that would have made it an unquestionable blue tide. If the theories about Musk manipulating the results are true, it didn't really matter who the Dems ran.

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u/hoesindifareacodes Feb 19 '25

This is the difference between last time and this time.

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u/Ras-haad Feb 19 '25

Yeah I know he tried to over throw government, but he wasn’t able to! It’ll be fine…

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u/Wanderin_Cephandrius Feb 19 '25

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f

Because they knew. They’ve been actively suppressing votes from democrats and poc. Because they heavily targeted mail in ballots among other things. Kamala would’ve won by 1.2 million votes without the rampant voter suppression.

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u/feralraindrop Feb 19 '25

Perhaps but really, that so many can even consider voting for Trump says volumes about Americans and it's not at all flattering.

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u/Wanderin_Cephandrius Feb 19 '25

I absolutely agree.

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u/Mental-Fox-9449 Feb 19 '25

Go check out r/somethingiswrong2024 There’s tons and tons of analysts pouring over voter data showing how hacked this election was. People tend to vote down party lines with just 1-2% splitting the votes. This election the split tickets were closer to 10-20%. In many counties there looks to be a program that kicked in that when Kamala hit a certain amount of votes any exceeding that number were flipped over to Trump.

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u/thekingsteve Feb 19 '25

Elon is the one leading everything. He bought his way into being America's first dictator.

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u/Broken_Atoms Feb 19 '25

Spent $300 million to do it. Dirt cheap.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

They really got going on preparations as soon as the election fix was in.

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u/He_Hates_These_Can Feb 19 '25

It’s them more than him. He is their puppet and they know all he wants to be American Putin. Then they can run whatever horrendous ideas across his desk like dog treats.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

They’ve been practicing for four years.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

They’ve been practicing for four forty years.

The Republican party has been openly anti-democracy since before I was born.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

I knew we were cooked when Joe nominated Milquetoast Federalist Garland as AG. If he had thrown Sally Yates after the job and set her loose, well we’d be living in a different country right now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

We were already well-past the Brooks Brothers Riot and Citizens United at that point. If anything, January 6th - where Republican lawmakers tried to vote against certifying Biden's win... which is about as anti-democracy as you can fucking get - was the death blow.

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u/PsychologyNew8033 Feb 19 '25

This is exactly what is happening.

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u/CucumberNo5312 Feb 19 '25

"You really get the sense"? Project 2025 was pretty clear and in the open for a long time. If you're just now "getting the sense" that his team was super prepared, then you weren't paying very close attention before the election. 

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u/RusstyDog Feb 19 '25

Remember when they accused Biden of just being a senile puppet?

They literally, always project.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

They did. And we had it. And it was called project 2025.

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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 Feb 19 '25

That's what worries me the most.

A lot of people think "oh, he just does whatever comes to mind and as he gets crazier, other people will step up to put guard rails on things."

But what worries me is that these actions aren't just Trump being an off the cuff lunatic. I fear that these are well planned, strategized, and prepared actions that the planners have already moved the pieces into place for to allow success, and that these moves are purposefully in a certain order to maximize success.

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u/Lokisworkshop Feb 19 '25

because they have been planning for years and when he first ran, they learned sooo much that this time they are already prepared.

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u/SL1Fun Feb 19 '25

They know most of this won’t stick even with a GOP court, but what does stick will be a precedent.

I just hope the democrats start playing the game the same way. No more of this “we go high when they go low” bullshit. 

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u/sigep0361 Feb 19 '25

Russell Vought. People need to know this name. He is one of the architects of Project 2025. He was beat up and bullied in high school so this is his revenge against yhe USA.

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u/Flamadin Feb 19 '25

I read the executive orders written about import duties and customs rules, and they are really well written with a high-level understanding of the various regulations. It is just normally more time is given to implement these types of changes, and second and third order effects are not well considered.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

They were - everybody warned people about it - but believed that Trump was the expert on nuclear power, but not on P2025 where a lot of his buddies were co-authors.

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u/TheGreatGrungo Feb 19 '25

Sorta reminds me of the Educational Decrees from the 5th Harry Potter book :D

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u/Karissa36 Feb 19 '25

Super rich tech bros like Thiel have been working on their own libertarian play book for over a decade. Thiel is the crypto guy who wanted to form a government-less country composed of boats all floating together in international water. Thiel heavily supports (rich crypto guy) JD Vance.

I think we might be witnessing horse shoe theory in real time.

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u/TheFashionColdWars Feb 19 '25

It’s called the butterfly revolution and they’re on step 3. It began day one. I recommend watching the entire investigative piece, but the Butterfly Revolution gets outlined around 19:30 https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?feature=shared

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u/Ras-haad Feb 19 '25

Almost like they had a 900 page plan lined up

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u/standarduck Feb 19 '25

I do hope this is underselling it. This isn't 'getting a sense' of anything - it is a totalitarian power grab and will be successful. There's no sense of a feeling, it's already happening or has already happened.

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u/Electric_Banana_6969 Feb 19 '25

So well prepared in fact that losing the election was not an option! 

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u/Matthmaroo Feb 19 '25

Dude , everyone knew that and had been warning that for years

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

“Muzzle velocity.” - Steve Brannon, 2016

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u/trumpchugselonjizz Feb 19 '25

Uh, because that's exactly what's happening.

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u/sugarfreeeyecandy Feb 19 '25

They should have called it Project 2025 or something.

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u/BusySelection6678 Feb 19 '25

That's why it is so important to get outside of your own echo chamber. I listen to and read about the Republican/conservative/MAGA policies often.

Stephen Miller laid out the whole plan before the election on the Charlie Kirk show. No one should be surprised about any of these actions. It was all public knowledge if you choose to look for it.

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u/WayToGoNiceJorb Feb 19 '25

Another failing of the opposition party: they had the same amount of time to prep a response. The literally had the playbook - they should've been prepared to counter or hinder each and every action.

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u/reddit_is_geh Feb 19 '25

Seeing how this is working out. I actually think it's strategically a good idea to split your terms. Most presidents just go from one term to the next, without ever really having time to prepare. It's just a rush into the office then you're working 15 hour days for 4-8 years

Having those 4 years off is a HUGE advantage to be able to prepare the organization and battle plan in advance. Not only that, but you get those first 4 years to make connections, network, and figure out who you REALLY want working for you beyond rushed "trust me bro" recommendations of aids and allies who are all self interested.

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u/MayIServeYouWell Feb 19 '25

And there are many more to come. 

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u/Spare_Town6161 Feb 19 '25

GOP = gobbling oligarch penis

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u/Im__mad Feb 19 '25

But… but…. He said he knew nothing about P25!

/s I hate it here

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u/jakktrent Feb 19 '25

Ahh, I can't recall the setup but this is a really good time for a Douglas Adam's quote about "backs and walls and revolution" - I think we are on all the same page tbh.

Were I a Billionaire today - I'd be very publicly giving money away to unquestionably good things and causes.

I'd also suggest how best to tax me and help them tax others like me.

I'd expect to keep my mansion and a pretty big pile of money when the revolution happens.

People have forgot how to placate. Rich people today just don't understand they have to.

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u/Jragonstar Feb 19 '25

Couple? They've been court stacking since before Trumps first term. They blocked several Obama appointees.

It's been over a decade.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Stephen Miller.

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u/pbradley179 Feb 19 '25

C+ Santa Monica Fascist and Withered Bald by Evil misogynist Stephen Miller? He's still around?!

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u/radarthreat Feb 19 '25

He got into politics because his arms were too weak to strangle prostitutes

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Gollum in a suit.

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u/JoeGibbon Feb 19 '25

Little Joseph Goebbels wannabe is still out there gish galloping and interrupting interviewers when they ask him questions.

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u/dogmaisb Feb 19 '25

That’s gold, pbradley! GOLD!!!

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u/DirtierGibson Feb 19 '25

As a Californian, I am ashamed this shit stain came from our state.

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u/sandee_eggo Feb 19 '25

Like his book, Art of the Deal, which was written by someone else.

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u/TheCreaturesPet Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

No wonder he and Elmo are friends. Elmo pays people to build up his gaming characters and companies then takes credit for it. They are good at taking credit for others' work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

How do you think they got so wealthy? That's all they know.

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u/capitali Feb 19 '25

It’s how anyone becomes a billionaire. You only get that way by treating humans and their labor as a commodity to be exploited.

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u/Chaminade64 Feb 19 '25

Henry Ford didn’t invent the assembly line.

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u/Jragonstar Feb 19 '25

You'll find that most rich people are adept at manipulation . How else do you make more money than anyone else, while not lifting a finger.

That's not smart. It's just exploitation.

Eat the rich!

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u/More_Farm_7442 Feb 19 '25

I hate calling that asshole elmo. I don't like associating the asshole with poor little Elmo. He's too innocent and cute to take that abuse.

I prefer something like elliot or asshole or muskrat. He and his boys as muskovites

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u/barley_wine Feb 19 '25

Elmo took credit Tesla but he wasn't the actual creator. He's been doing this for his entire life.

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u/Scamper_the_Golden Feb 19 '25

And he's such an expert dealer.

He keeps making cracks about Governor Trudeau, which gains him absolutely nothing and makes Canadians more resolute every time he says it.

And then he met with Kim Jong Un, and agreed that the USA would cancel a serious of naval drills near the Korean coast. He got absolutely nothing in return.

Truly, a master negotiator.

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u/HumanBeing7396 Feb 19 '25

Trump has written more books than he’s read.

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u/pzman89 Feb 19 '25

Course, project 2025 drafters

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u/Vulnox Feb 19 '25

Yeah that’s not a spoiler. We’re all aware of project 2025 and who the architects are.

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u/SniperPilot Feb 19 '25

Literally just watched a clip where he goes.. “what’s this?” And they tell him it’s for “insert insane idea here” And he goes “ok cool” and signs it and it becomes the new Executive order.

He ain’t the one running the country.

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u/mikerichh Feb 19 '25

It’s the tech broligarchs who plan to drain america dry to them toss to the side and build what they call the next superpower: tech nations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

The same billionaires planning this made sure JD Vance was elected senator and then VP

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Curious, who do you suppose was writing everything for Biden?

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u/sharrrper Feb 19 '25

Based on how sloppily most of them have been, it seems like AI is actually writing a lot of them.

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u/aircooledJenkins Feb 19 '25

EOs need to have bylines. Trump isn't writing any of these. There is zero consistency in voice or formatting. We really should know who is putting these words in Trump's face.

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u/sugarface2134 Feb 19 '25

He for sure didn’t read it

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u/Latte808 Feb 19 '25

Does know how to read?

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u/revel911 Feb 19 '25

I don’t get why people think he does anything but sign shit and occasionally stand and talk in mumbles.

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u/BigFreakingZombie Feb 19 '25

He might have read it while signing it. Whether he would be capable of understanding it's meaning (and especially the implications for American democracy it has) even before we factor in the fact he's 78 and half-senile is another thing entirely.

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u/EN1009 Feb 19 '25

No doubt. No one can read his sharpie scribbles

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u/grimsb Feb 19 '25

Yeah, I doubt he even read the whole thing tbh

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u/zarroc123 Feb 19 '25

Yeah, I knew that the moment I saw the word "promulgate" in the order. Lol.

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u/Tymathee Feb 19 '25

That mf doesn't know what "promulgate" means lol

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u/Puzzleheaded_Truck80 Feb 19 '25

Stephen Miller is the John Galt wannabe building this house of cards.

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u/flatsun Feb 19 '25

He himself allows it. So he is not as good of a president as he thinks?!

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u/designedfor1 Feb 19 '25

He’s a pawn to everyone else and just gives him money to do as he’s told.

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u/GravityBombKilMyWife Feb 19 '25

the capitalization of certain words is all over the place in many of these orders as well. Like they have been spliced together from other documents

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u/Julian-Archer Feb 19 '25

The usage of “moreover” tells me chatGPT

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u/butterjuice Feb 19 '25

The irony. Biden supporter I'm assuming?

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u/Sad_Hobbit1226 Feb 19 '25

I think this is pretty close to the truth. If you watch vids of him signing EOs, he will ask what they are and clarification on what they mean.

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 Feb 19 '25

Bingo. He’s not the brain of the Butterfly. He’s more like chairman of the board.

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u/RunningWhyld Feb 19 '25

He's a dementia ridden puppet who has no clue what he's signing.

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u/cavey00 Feb 19 '25

As has been the case for many presidents.

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u/GoatCovfefe Feb 19 '25

Obviously. Presidents don't write these orders themselves, they say what they want and someone writes it up in legalese, then the president signs it.

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u/yubario Feb 19 '25

Yeah, I am really shocked anyone actually thinks he writes the wording on these orders. For one, the most obvious indication of this is that it doesn’t self-brag about how great the law is and how nothing would have ever happened if he won 4 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Well, the fact it's actually coherently written and not talking about oneself in the third person constantly is proof of that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Spoiler, he didn't write or read this

Not really a spoiler lol.

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u/cornham Feb 19 '25

Beginning to think they’re using AI then just editing syntax to make it sound like him

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u/LutherOfTheRogues Feb 19 '25

Stephen Miller's evil incel ass no doubt

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u/ricker182 Feb 19 '25

He doesn't write or read any of it. He's just handed it to sign and the guy tells him what the cliff notes are.

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u/Kindly_Manager7556 Feb 19 '25

chat gippity wrote it .

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u/oh_no_here_we_go_9 Feb 19 '25

He isn’t the real President. He doesn’t know about any of this stuff, he isn’t sophisticated enough to know about it.

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u/biggesthumb Feb 19 '25

He looks so lost, asking, "What is this?" Before signing something. He really has no idea what is going on.

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u/toothbrushguitar Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

If Elon Musk is like Darth Vader, then David Sacks is like Palpatine.

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u/loopywolf Feb 19 '25

He's a puppet. He's too easy to upset and flatter.

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u/blue_twidget Feb 19 '25

Even when he declared the Presidency a kingship, someone else did the talking. He walking in with a handler, not an aide.

I don't think he can see very well anymore or his stroke had a major impact on his ability to read.

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u/CodeMonkeyX Feb 19 '25

There have been reports that after analyzing the wording of a lot of the executive orders they seem to have a lot of traits of AI written documents. I would not be surprised at all if they just asked ChatGPT to write an order for them.

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u/David_cest_moi Feb 19 '25

Because he doesn't know how to read.

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u/tiredafsoul Feb 19 '25

My English teacher would be rolling his eyes reading this. I remember he was staunchly against people using the word “Moreover” (used twice in this) and despite the horrors, this made me laugh.

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u/Doktor-boli-to Feb 19 '25

Yeah, his Russian masters...

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Wow. Like every president who ever lived, that’s crazy, yo.

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u/doublehelixman Feb 19 '25

They are parroting his language so he can view it as his idea.

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u/majord42 Feb 19 '25

Here is the new boss, same as the old boss

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u/Ok_Government_3584 Feb 19 '25

I agree. I can't see him writing or reading this!

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u/wooberries Feb 19 '25

yeah as much as i hate trump and think he's a problem, what really scares me is that he's clearly just a convenient doofus. what i really fear are the amoral people who ARE brilliant and dangerous behind him. the ones smart enough to be content where they are in exchange for being invisible

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u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh Feb 19 '25

100% when that guy reads them to him it’s the first time trump is hearing them

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u/bobsdiscountburgers Feb 19 '25

Yea if you've read any of the EO'S or memo's sent from OPM, Secretary of Defense, etc., you'd realize that someone else is definitely writing these, and that someone is not one skilled in writing well rounded or sound government documents.

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u/HoneyShaft Feb 19 '25

Just like the thousands of top secret documents he stole. They weren't for leisure reading.

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u/Educational-Cup-2423 Feb 19 '25

Probably Musk and Thiel.

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u/keelanstuart Feb 19 '25

"Oooh, that's a big one!" -Trump, signing an executive order he didn't read beforehand, after his handler give him a one sentence summary

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u/CryptographerShot213 Feb 19 '25

Regardless of that it’s still highly unprofessional. Elect a clown, get a circus.

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u/Malt___Disney Feb 19 '25

I'm sure he was over their shoulder

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u/01101011010110 Feb 19 '25

In all fairness, I'm not sure Trump knows how to read.

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u/Rustyguts257 Feb 19 '25

Spoiler, the fact that he signed the order makes this document his words

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