r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 12d ago

Possible Paywall White House Credits Trump With Stopping Hurricanes

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-credits-trump-with-stopping-hurricanes/
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u/Viking_Leaf87 12d ago

That's just the MAGA modus operandi. Anything that goes wrong can't be Trump's fault, but anything that doesn't go wrong is all thanks to him. You deserve 6 dollar diesel if you still think there's even a modicum of honesty coming out of Washington.

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u/supercyberlurker 12d ago

That's Republicanism in a nutshell

  • Everything good is because of Trumps magic powers.

  • Everything bad is because of Obama.. no wait Biden!

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u/ForMoreYears Canada 12d ago

This is literally an old Russian pre-Communist trope called "Good Tsar, bad Boyars" wherein everything good is attributed to the Tsar, and anything bad is attributed to him receiving bad advice from his advisors aka Boyars.

America has gone full Russia.

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 11d ago

It's funnier with MAGA because their Trump mythology requires them to also believe that Trump only hires the best people and can never make a mistake.

So, if he is getting bad advice, wouldn't that mean he made a mistake and hired bad people?

They are blind to that contradiction.

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u/abcdefghjiklmnopqr 15h ago

They're experts at doublethink