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“…unless, y’know, you’re fine with it. Then he was he was definitely serious.”

It’s called a trial balloon.

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Exactly. These “jokes” are like a kid “joking” that they want another piece of cake. If you say no, it’s “I was only kidding”, but if you say yes, they’ll eat that cake.

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If you say no, they’ll eat the cake when you aren’t looking

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And also normalizing it.

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Oh yeah, I’m sure he was “joking”. He also doesn’t know anything about project 2025, and he’s not really butt buddies with dictators like kim and pootin.

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it’s astounding how vigorously they fellate their bediapered leader muppet, who would throw them under the bus in a fraction of a second

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He doesn’t even know they exist, they’re the little ants on the ground to him. Pathetic.

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Creepy weirdos like Cotton imagine themselves the next in line for the throne of dictator.

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He was joking when he literally tried to steal the 2020 election

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Oh, that was just high school locker room pranks, you guys! Just like bragging about sexual assault and using the word “pussy” (oh, a naughty word! that was the real issue people had when he was admitting to sexual assault - phrasing) was “locker room talk”. That insurrection? That was like snapping a towel in the shower…

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“The what? The Meritage Federation? What did you say? Carriage Fumigation, what? Can’t hear you. Never heard of it, is that like a Cracker Barrel thing?”

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No those weren’t his robes, you must’ve been mistaken. He was… uh… Joking, while he was changing his sheets on the bed… Definitely that’s what it was.

Ignore the fact there was no bed in the room.

/s

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Don’t forget ‘locker room talk’. Sometimes it’s that.

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They are careful with their words. That’s what this is: carefully trying to normalize the idea of dictatorship.

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Fascists are always “just joking”, until they’re in power.

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Yep. Just like they pretend to be interested in “free speech” (for them only, though) until they are in power. Then no more such talk about free speech.

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Here we go again. Right-wong pundits claiming Trump didn’t mean what he said, all the while Trump’s out there saying he meant exactly what he said. We’ve been here before, don’t be fooled.

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