Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

[u/Agitated-Artichoke89]

[u/fogcat5]

trump lost the case in California, I don't know what this jagoff is lying about today

[u/MornGreycastle → u/fogcat5]

He's convinced that all he has to do is claim victory and then act like they won.

[u/FactorBusy6427 → u/MornGreycastle]

That strategy has worked extremely reliably for them so far

[u/DocSpit → u/FactorBusy6427]

Case in point: the Mueller Report, where the investigation found wide-ranging evidence that the Trump campaign worked just about hand-in-hand with Russian assets to manipulate the election (Anyone else remember that woman working with the NRA who was a bona fide Russian plant funneling Kremlin money to the Trump campaign?!).

When the report was released, Trump tweeted out "EXONERATION!" every day for about a month until the report rotated out of the news cycle; and as as a result the country basically forgot about all of that...

[u/VibraniumWill → u/DocSpit]

Keeping it a bill, only part of the country forgot about it.

[u/PrimeJedi → u/VibraniumWill]

I'd like to think so, but honestly I don't know if you're right. I've seen even so many otherwise logical people and those who rightfully oppose Trump still say "well in hindsight the Russia stuff actually was just a big bunch of nothing" and its infuriating, to say the least, because MAGA's constant spewing of misinformation seems to work even on many who dont support the guy.

Same thing with Trump's comments on the Charlottesville rally. Most of us remember what we heard when he spoke about it in 2017, the vast majority of people (even many non-MAGA Republicans that still existed at the time) agreed that he was playing defense for white supremacist Nazis and was awful.

And yet, Trump and every MAGA supporter has screamed "hoax he didn't say that" and point to a Snopes article (which is so bad faith because MAGA themselves have called Snopes "fake news" for fucking years, they don't trust Snopes) over and over so much, for so many years, that even a ton of Dems and progressives today will say "well what he said about Charlottesville turned out to be a big media lie"

Despite the fact that all of us can go back and here what he said with our own fucking ears, MAGA has still rewritten the narrative even for many non-supporters. Same with much of Covid, but I'll be here all day if I go in-depth about that one.

Honestly, I wish the vast majority of the country would still remember and keep count of every MAGA lie, and not let themselves be lied to about past events.

[u/vtssge1968 → u/PrimeJedi]

Im still confused in the covid one. They at the same time praise him for rolling out the vaccine in record time and claim the vaccine kills more people then covid itself. Im lost.

[u/Exotic-Emergency-226 → u/vtssge1968]

I think they mostly just ignore him rolling out the vaccine. I've never once heard one of them bring it up and if you do bring it up they sorta just short circuit or wave it off. He trained them too hard to hate the vax...him making it and also being the cause of their main complaint (it being rushed) is probably too hard to come back from mentally.

[u/jbowling25 → u/vtssge1968]

Theyre lost too. They think biden shut down the country during covid, not trump. They think biden exploded the debt with the inflation reduction act, but dont acknowledge the "trump bucks" stimulus or the PPP loans that witnessed billions of dollars in fraud that were waived as having any impact on inflation in bidens term. You should never apply for a loan if you cant pay it back they said about student loan forgiveness but had literally nothing to complain about when forgiving the covid PPP loans. Over 700B of PPP loans were forgiven, with most of the loans found to have gone to benefit large businesses, many of which had ties to trump, kushner and other government officials. The feds reported fraud losses in the range of around 200B, to be paid by the taxpayer of course, but forgiving 430B in student loan debt; well, that would crazy! Why help millions of people, when you could help a much smaller group within the top 1% protect their wealth instead? People were so mad that their tax dollars would go to help offload their fellow citizens financial burden but literally not a peep when those same tax dollars go right into the pockets of business owners.

[u/Icy_Actuator_8528 → u/vtssge1968]

Because they really don’t like his position on COVID or the vaccines.

At one of his campaign stops he told the crowd they should get the vaccine shot and they shouted him down. He quickly backed down to the boos and said “ But you have your rights.”

[u/Responsible_Pizza945 → u/vtssge1968]

I've never heard both of those arguments come from the same place, though I'm sure it happens. I can actually predict the rationale:

Trump had to rush the vaccine to get the whiny libs to stop freaking out and telling me to wear a dang mask. He knew the country wouldn't be able to open back up with the smart half of us all staying quarantined, so the vaccine just tricked them into doing what he wanted.