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79 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 10 Feb \ on: Trump Committed To Buying & Owning Gaza Politics_And_Law
I read a great thread explaining that Trump mostly employs the door-in-the-face technique over and over while also merrily appearing dimwitted. I can't imagine this time is any different.
That's a pretty sophisticated way to avoid calling him a piece of shit.
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My stance on this is that I'm going to judge him by his actions and results, and not on his words.
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Here's why I'm worried. I usually can tell when Trump is being intentionally outrageous. He drops the bomb and then starts walking it back. Here, he doubles down and takes it further. What's more frightening is that it sounds like he really believes he's being benevolent towards the Palestinians. He seems surprised that most people don't see it that way.
I don't buy all this 4 D chess crap about him. He's really ignorant about many things. I don't think he was a history major.
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We'll see, we'll see. I don't buy the 4D crap either, but I do buy the "door-in-the-face" hypothesis.
That being said, Trump's real estate background surely influences dreams of a seaside Gaza resort, plus the people he's surrounded himself with, make this an issue that he's uniquely positioned to not see clearly on. If he gets this wrong, campus protests and global terrorism are going to intensify everywhere, and it's going to get in the way of his much more popular domestic agendas.
Trump would do well to remember that he actually outperformed among Arab Americans who (correctly) saw Biden as a warmonger (by being a puppet of the deep state.)
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