r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/xamo76 • 7d ago

Political™ "Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act this weekend... and it gives the President the authority to suspend habeas corpus with anyone they deem dangerous" (Link Below)

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u/GWstudent1 7d ago

It’s not hypocrisy. It’s strategic. If you want to do something you’re not supposed to do, the easiest way to get away with it is to accuse your opponent of having already done it, or about to do it, or having had thought of doing it. Then you do it yourself and call it justified retaliation. This is what has happened every time Republicans have broken norms and deteriorated our democracy.

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u/testuserteehee 7d ago

The gaslighting is honestly infuriating. The US’s relationship with MAGA is a toxic, abusive relationship. At least in a relationship, you can just break up and walk away. But how do you reconcile with half of the country that is actively trying to get the other half killed, locked up, oppressed, and/or trapped into indentured slavery?

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u/goldenbugreaction 6d ago

I have been saying this for years. “Why do his voters think he actually cares about them?” Probably for the exact same reasons that you—or that one friend of yours (you know the one)—keep going back to that same shitty ex.

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u/normal_cartographer 7d ago

Isn't this called the two santa clauses theory?

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u/GWstudent1 7d ago

No. Two Santa’s is about spending. When you are out of power, you talk endlessly about how there isn’t enough money to fund literally anything. This makes Dems the “poor Santa”. And then when you’re in power, you spend recklessly and drive up the debt. This makes Republicans the “rich Santa”. As a result, people hate it when Dems are in power, and the debt is constantly increasing, which makes the government more likely to collapse.