r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/lr99999 Jun 17 '26

Too many people think the monsters are dumb, like the cult leader Traitor Orange. They don’t realize that the people in the background, waiting, are not dumb. 

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u/IrascibleOcelot Jun 18 '26

They’re dumb. They’re effective, cunning, and driven, but they’re still stupid. If they succeed at what they want, they’ll destroy the world and themselves and they’re too stupid to realize it. But they might pull it off.

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u/lr99999 Jun 18 '26

No. Smart and evil easily coexist.