Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, said the Republican Party is “more popular than ever,” just days after voters handed Democrats control of the House and Senate the midterm elections.
Miller said in his speech that it was “the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump,” before adding: “If it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now.”
“This man saved America,” Miller said. “He saved our military from collapse, he saved our economy from destruction, he saved our border from annihilation and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream forever.”
From a Bayesian perspective he has no reason to admit otherwise. More people on the hook for a grift is better than fewer people on the hook for a grift.
So he’s evil AND delusional?
They typically go hand in hand
What more would you expect from Pee Wee Himmler?
I’ve been calling him PeeWee Himmler for years, hoping others would pick it up. You’re the first person I’ve seen. Let’s spread it far.
I am so confused by his looks. Like, I have at least 15 years on him but he looks older than I do? He is aging like people in the 1940s &50s, does he smoke? Or it’s just the evil aging him?
It’s the evil.
You can stave off a lot of the evil-look, with money and effort. Once you get to the intimate evil though, like real close, wet work stuff that you want to personally do, it takes its toll.
There are very few people who can withstand what that does to a person’s exterior, and that kind of power will make you far more successful than ole Steve Miller.
He’s going to keep saying obvious and attention grabbing lies like this.
Because quietly he’s going to do horrible shit he doesn’t want anyone to notice.
This has been the strategy all along according to Steve Bannon
Longer…
The memo – called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News” – is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing [Roger] Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
The memo explains why television was the way to go:
Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/memo-from-1970-a-plan-for-putting-the-gop-on-tv-news/
Ailes started Fox News because Nixon had to resign after Watergate. They figured if they could create their own news and talk about whatever they wanted, their voters would think what they were told to think.
Then in the 90s the oligarchs bought the only other options, and one of the first things the Clintons and Biden did was take a chainsaw to telecommunication regulations…
Don’t fucking give credit to Bannon like he has a masterful insight. This was obvious and in plain sight, the literal memo saying they were gonna do it entered into Nixon’s presidential library, and even more updates from HW’s
It’s the main reason Trump will likely never have one and is paranoid about flushing memos down toilets.
The big reason it’s going so poorly is the plan was for someone like Jeb to be in office. trump just inserted himself into an existing plan like a removedoo egg.
All super fucking obvious
My philosophy has always been “don’t listen to that guy“, but I suppose we really should’ve been listening to that guy, because he’s been broadcasting the Trump strategy for over 10 years
What a fucking pile of shit that guy is
I despise the guy but he will flat out state their plan and nobody seems to pay attention. He detailed their plan for claiming 2020 was stolen before the election. It’s no wonder he chose prison over testifying
Every time they say something outrageous, you get a tiny hit of dopamine from the outrage. After a while, you subconsciously crave it. This is why people like gossip magazines and stuff. The more you crave it, the lower the threshold of how believable it has to be for you to accept it. This is how you get sucked into the misinformation machine and this is how maga got conned into it in the first place, fox news did this expertly. This is the main reason you shouldn’t pay attention to the outrageous distractions.
It’s not dopamine…
An amygdala going off feels great, it’s why people like getting scared and being dangerous.
The more it goes off, the larger it grows, the more it goes off. It is a feedback loop.
But that’s still not what’s going on here.
fox news did this expertly.
I already have a different reply explaining how fox news connects, but again you’re off.
The reincarnated Joseph Goebbels spewing more shit out of his mouth.
Goebbels was in charge of Propaganda. Himmler was in charge of the Final Solution. He resembles Himmler far more, which is why I call him PeeWee Himmler.
+1…My angle…The racist neo-Nazi loser resembles fucking Goebbels. Short, skinny and the same shitty attitude.
This cretin has 4 kids btw… How fucked up they must be to have this piece of shit as their father
A lizard for a father and a potato for a mother, I’ll bet those kids are gorgeous.
Padres feos, hijos bonitos.
His wife is vicious and insane as well: the kids got a double helping.
I wish I were joking, but I am not.
Rumor was that when he entered the White House, he had been so repellent his entire life that he was still a virgin. She was some White House functionary from some rich donor family that used the N-word at the dinner table routinely, and they fell in love.
She’s just as dirty as Temu Goebbels, and she does it all staying out of the limelight. Another horrible human being.
“Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the President. He signed it this morning.”
Love me Dungeon Soup
Glad there are some enjoyers on Lemmy. Favorite series Ive found on YouTube in yearsss
When you’re using public news as the channel to convince daddy you’re a good boy.
Wooooow. Had to clear the cobwebs and dust to read this old magic. Neato!
My back hurts
And the knees
Colonoscopy time
So we’re full-on in the Kim Jung Un-style masturbatory lies without even resembling reality stage? Fun.
Trump does that for … I don’t know, probably all his life. He always spun everything however fits his narrative and unfortunately it seems to work more often than not. Telling people what they want to hear seems exceedingly successful.
lol ok Goebbels
I’ve genuinely never seen so much sychophantic behavior in my life than the people surrounding this demented president.
I would be embarrassed to have others see me kissing ass like that. I’ve always despised it when I’ve seen it in workplaces growing up.
I’ve owned a business for over 30 years, and I really, REALLY hate it when people kiss my ass and suck up to me like that. I slap that behavior down hard.
Since when does the WH Chief of Staff give speeches? I wonder who is really calling the shots here? Maybe the President’s brain is pudding after all.
Maybe we should all start calling him “President Miller”. That might overload Trump’s fragile ego, though.
I mean, there’s basically no president, just a bribe-taking nonsense babbling demented old man. So his people can do what they want really.
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That was the nice thing about Susie; you maybe saw her sitting in a corner during a briefing or something, but otherwise she was not heard.
Eh, I don’t know if that was a nice thing about her. I prefer my fascists out and proud. Posting online about how they’re planning on breaking the law or giving speeches where they say their exact plans. Makes it easier to prosecute them when the time comes. Not that she doesn’t also deserve it, but it’s not quite the same if she’s not publicly lying about being a lawyer or openly admitting to war crimes and the like. We must shine a light on evil and it really helps when they are the ones stepping into the spotlight.
prefer my fascists out and proud.
Hanging in a gas station forecourt, ideally.
Miller has been calling the shots for a while now
Actually a really good book about the people who have had the job of Chief Of Staff for the different Presidents.
One thing the book explains is that each Chief has had a slightly different role, because each President was his own man.
So, if Donnie says his Cheif gives speeches, it’s his choice.
My point, though, is that this job works best if it is done under the radar. A Chief of Staff has no authority at all unless the President gives it to them to make decisions on his behalf. So the job needs to be out of public view, otherwise people will question who is actually making the decisions.
I mean, no one is going to point to Donnie as an example of great leadership.
I just thought that the political geeks here [like myself] might enjoy knowing about a good book.
I mean, no one is going to point to Donnie as an example of great leadership.
Except Miller. 💀
He knows it’s BS, but he runs a simple algorithm of “whatever gets us closer to being the Fourth Reich”.
Their experience the last decade or so has been that they can talk anything into existence. Because we let them.
Is he delusional?
No, he’s something much more dangerous: he’s a bloodthirsty fascist.
He knows his words are false, but what he is doing is dictating reality to us; he’s making it clear how we are expected to behave, and that any deviation from said reality will be declared treasonous and terrorism. He’s saying we should treat the administration like gods who saved us from certain demise.
His only delusion is that enough of the population will fall in line over this. You’ve already lost the crowd, buddy. Prepare you ass for prison.
He knows his words are false, but what he is doing is dictating reality to us; he’s making it clear how we are expected to behave, and that any deviation from said reality will be declared treasonous and terrorism.
Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. Listen to The Party and toe the party line.
No. He just gets paid to say and do hateful things.
I’m fairly certain Stephen Miller truly believes these hateful things, he doesn’t just say this because he’s getting paid. The videos of him from high school are chilling. That said, I think this move is going to backfire on Trump, but there will be turmoil for the American people first.
I wanna get paid to say foolish things!
“Twilight is the height of literature”
“Trump is the world’s greatest athlete”
“Pi is equal to both 3 and 4”
“The equator is the powerhouse of the fermament”
“All pizza should have pineapples”
Be a vlogger, you’d be in the top 5%.
You went out of line with that last one.
Out
Of
Line my friend.
And they should be whole! Uncut pineapple on pizza
I prefer a whole jackfruit, but it needs a really big pizza.
Pineapple Wellington, but with pizza dough instead of puff pastry? Or did you mean the rings (still cut, just not quite as much)?
The entire thing (shell can be taken off)
FreshParsnip 2028?
I just turned 35
Happy birthday!
Before “The Big Lie” was specifically Trump won the 2020 election, it was a strategy pursued by authoritarians, including Putin, the Kim family, Mussolini, and Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
The truth is whatever we say the truth is: do not trust your lying eyes. To speak otherwise is to betray Friend Computer.
They are going to pretend the midterms didn’t happen because of the ego death they would sustain if they so much as acknowledged their own unpopularity. Get ready for the “you can’t break up with me, I’m breaking up with you” phase where they get increasingly desperate and criminal. They are deliberately putting the people who might face jail in positions of power so that they will willingly commit more crimes out of self preservation. They are deeply angry that the American public “betrayed” them and will try to punish us for hurting their feelings.
They are deeply angry that the American public “betrayed” them
Accurate and succinct.
Yes, he is a Republican. It goes with the job.
Obviously yes
