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    I’ve seen “Trump is a fucking moron” countless times, but this is my first time seeing it from his former Secretary of State. Damn.

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      He’s the source of the quote.

      Sure, it’s a commonly-spoken truism, but Tillerson famously (and officially) said it in 2015 (?).

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          Trump was on TV a lot. I’m confident I’ve probably said/heard it personally before 2015.

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            I’m sure people have been saying this since another person first encountered him. Again, Rex Tillerson was just the person who most loudly and most publicly said it. And he’s the person people can officially quote as an official spokesman from his own administration who said it in an official context.

            That’s what makes it notable

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                Source of the official quote. As in an actual public official who said it during an official speech. Not just some yahoo off the street who happened to mention it in passing.

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    “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.”

    -lindsie gram

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    Harris should bring Mattis in to the administration in some capacity. He’s smart, universally respected, and the guy bleeds red, white, and blue.

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      He got fucking dragged by Trumpworld after he resigned over Trump’s stance on Afghanistan (or was it the Kurds?), it was probably one of the most severe about-faces I’ve ever seen from conservatives about one man. Went from a Marine’s Marine, a warrior-scholar, to a complete disgrace to the Corps as far as they’re concerned.

      Really cemented my view of Trump as a cult of personality when I saw that narrative, and the base eating it up, in real time.

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        It was because we abandoned the Kurds. Mattis felt very strongly on the matter. He also went to bat for transgender service members.

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      It doesn’t matter much in terms of election PR, as he’s already “burned” in Trumpworld. He’s not going to change many minds.

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    Maddog Mattis was never a Trump loyalist. As a matter of fact ended up resigning because of his bullshit.

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      They never said it.

      But we have audio…

      It’s fake news…

      But we have video…

      It’s fake news…

      I am JD Vance, and I’m telling you Trump is Hitler!

      That’s just Satan talking…

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      As a european watching those ‘maga’ cult followers is disturbing. In the 1930s ‘some guy’ in Germany also rallied huge crowds cheering for him, no matter what he said or did. That same guy survived a assasination attempt.

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    Wow, that makes it seem like politicians will say whatever the person paying them wants them to!

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    This is what happens when a party elects someone who has never been in politics. Not a mayor, a governor, a senator nor congressman. Just a conman celebrity so called billionaire.

    Really by the people for the people huh.

    They all realised that actually, he’s absolutely not qualified for anything to do with government in the slightest.

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    “Divide and conquer” came from the Romans. ancient Greece.

    The maxim divide et impera has been attributed to Philip II of Macedon. It was utilised by the Roman ruler Julius Caesar and the French emperor Napoleon… (Wikipedia)

    ~Thanks Rolando for the correction.~

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      Exactly. I just looked it up to be extra sure, the wording itself is at least as old as Machiavelli and the strategy as old as antiquity. (Let’s be honest, probably even prehistory).

      The Nazis were delusional, but even in their wildest dreams they didn’t plan to conquer the United States.

      Americans are so historically illiterate, it hurts.

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        They may not have planned to invade… but I think they did plan to defeat… which is all the quote really is implying IMO.

        I don’t think anybody claimed that the Nazis coined the phrase though.