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In reply to the discussion: Sr. Rep. Congressional aide: "Owning the libs and pissing off the media. That's what we believe..." [View all]Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)23. IMO, it's to decrease the quality of life in the nation, Russia-style.
Since Trump wants to emulate dictators like Putin, he has to fashion the nation in Putin's image. Putin promotes despair in his people so that they have less motivation to push for a change in leadership. If he can repress them harshly enough, they'll just give up and let him rule- and collect billions of their tax dollars for himself and the oligarchs.
This is Trump's model. He wants to Russiafy the US. Ruining the USPS, destroying Social Security, killing the ACA-- all of it is to make the US into a version of Russia.
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Sr. Rep. Congressional aide: "Owning the libs and pissing off the media. That's what we believe..." [View all]
steve2470
Aug 2020
OP
been that way for while and GOP/trump have been very successful in doing so to the point
beachbumbob
Aug 2020
#2
Christ, I wanna smack that toothy mofo and call him 'Brandon' just to ...what is it? Own him?
CurtEastPoint
Aug 2020
#4
The core essence of that statement is the objective of dividing our nation.
KY_EnviroGuy
Aug 2020
#16
Owning the libs is another way of saying, impoverish the population so that
Eyeball_Kid
Aug 2020
#24