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Rhodes: Who looks like a more stable and predictable actor? The Chinese Communist Party, where maybe you think theyâre bullies, but the terms never change? Or the United States, where you have a president whoâs been imposing tariffs, launching wars, shaking you down for essentially tribute payments?
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-05-24T20:34:48.364Z
usonian
(26,649 posts)The means: bigotry.

Slightly modified fascist playbook, except that Trump has no philosophy, no religion. He believes in absolutely nothing except DonaldTrump.
He will lose everything when the full story of the Trump-Epstein illicit sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire is revealed.
unblock
(56,270 posts)shortly after his death when those beholden to him no longer fear him.
I strongly suspect there are a *lot* of prominent people being blackmailed or extorted or otherwise threatened into obedience in the Republican Party....
multigraincracker
(38,091 posts)Democratic voters can win the elections on those 3 words.
BidenRocks
(3,524 posts)Someone call the cops!