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Fiendish Thingy

(20,968 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:01 AM Oct 3

Is Trump a Demi-God King whose power cannot be resisted?

Following the recent spate of defeatist doomer posts, it is time once again for a periodic wellness check of the DU reality based community.

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31 votes, 4 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Trump is our monarch, and we are subject to his whims and impulses. He can and will cancel elections. Resistance is futile.
1 (3%)
AAARGLE BARRGLE! Merrick Garland AAIEEE!
1 (3%)
Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless.
29 (94%)
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Is Trump a Demi-God King whose power cannot be resisted? (Original Post) Fiendish Thingy Oct 3 OP
He's a blackmailer just like his J pal Clouds Passing Oct 3 #1
Trashing the community. Tsk tsk. EYESORE 9001 Oct 3 #2
Not at all Fiendish Thingy Oct 3 #10
None of the answers: He is a tool for people who Bettie Oct 3 #3
Billionaires who are tired of sharing Fiendish Thingy Oct 3 #9
Yes. BannonsLiver Oct 3 #12
He is Godzilla Johonny Oct 3 #4
Trump the Traitor is a total nobody. Kid Berwyn Oct 3 #5
"Reality based community" BannonsLiver Oct 3 #6
Nasty Prairie Gates Oct 3 #7
He's as omnipotent as the Keystone Cops EdmondDantes_ Oct 3 #8
He's a racist piece of shit, elevated by the white power elite, who gained the majority of white voters, LuvLoogie Oct 3 #11
Resistance isn't futile edhopper Oct 3 #13
On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood. What was will be, what is will be no more. betsuni Oct 3 #14
"...the states and the people are not powerless." Wednesdays Oct 3 #15
K&R electric_blue68 Oct 3 #16

Fiendish Thingy

(20,968 posts)
10. Not at all
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:58 AM
Oct 3

I do these polls periodically to assess the state of the reality based community at DU.

So far, reality is winning over defeatism, despite defeatism’s high visibility at DU.

The state of the reality based community at DU is strong.

Bettie

(18,947 posts)
3. None of the answers: He is a tool for people who
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:27 AM
Oct 3

are really in charge right now, billionaires who are tired of sharing.

Robber-barons, oligarchs, pirates, whatever you want to call them, they are the enemy along with the many rubes they have convinced to fight against their own best interest.

At this point, they hold all the power because they own the media, the government, and have a lot of minions who are too stupid to see that they are being screwed. Perhaps they will figure it out, but I live among the MAGAts...they are awfully dim.

Fiendish Thingy

(20,968 posts)
9. Billionaires who are tired of sharing
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:54 AM
Oct 3

That’s a good description.

They may have power, but they don’t have control .

If we elected courageous progressives, then the billionaires won’t even have power, and they will be forced to share.

BannonsLiver

(19,732 posts)
12. Yes.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:14 AM
Oct 3

It’s almost as if there’s middle ground between everything is fucked and we’re all doomed, and the OPs stated position that everything is fine and there’s nothing to worry about.

Johonny

(24,854 posts)
4. He is Godzilla
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:31 AM
Oct 3

He rises from the sea and destroys our cities, but we can't help rooting for our own destruction.

EdmondDantes_

(987 posts)
8. He's as omnipotent as the Keystone Cops
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:53 AM
Oct 3

But we should be grateful he's incompetent. Someone who has such malicious ideas but is still competent would be scary.

LuvLoogie

(8,324 posts)
11. He's a racist piece of shit, elevated by the white power elite, who gained the majority of white voters,
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:11 AM
Oct 3

in order to implement a white supremacist destruction of multiracial democracy and justice.

Democratic members of congress voted to honor a racist podcaster or looked the other way. A handful actually voted No.

Go Fish.

betsuni

(28,431 posts)
14. On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood. What was will be, what is will be no more.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:18 PM
Oct 3

Now is the season of evil.

Trump is like Vigo the Carpathian except worse. His amnesia rays have made the country even stupider than usual.

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