Are we living in a simulation?

[Brenda]

Every single day since Chump squatted in the White House there is an outrageous, incoherent post by him or his groupies or an outrageous, incoherent and usually illegal or immoral announcement or action taken by his groupies with high government positions and doge and all their foot soldiers in enforcement, especially ICE.

Every single day the News sane-washes what the fucker actually said. Or laughs it off as well, it’s just Trump being Trump or downplays the severity of what he says. It’s almost inconceivable to believe that so many millions of Americans are not interested or don’t really see a problem with the illegal, immoral and constitution breaking behavior going on.

I understand American society has been fractured into splinters of social media bubbles where people can be completely ignorant of what is going on because their little niche doesn’t cover the insane parts or the Nazi parts.

A quote from Heather Cox Richardson on May 24, 2025:

On Thursday the Trump administration told Harvard University that because it had not handed over information on foreign students’ protest activities, violent activity, and coursework, the university had “lost [the] privilege” of enrolling foreign students. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said this decision was based on the administration’s determination to “enforce the law and root out the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in society and campuses.”

This argument has always been a thinly veiled way to use actual antisemitism to destroy universities, a reality illustrated by Trump’s hosting last night of cryptocurrency investors whose coins are literally named things like “F*CK THE JEWS.”

It just seems too unreal that so many people are okay with what’s going on or think it’s just “politics” or are just “owning the libs” or are too stupid or too addicted to drugs to think right. I guess I’d rather believe it’s some kind of simulation than to believe so many Americans have become almost subhumans who will believe and obey without question whatever authoritarian bullshit comes their way.

[usonian]

1. He's a chatbot. Perished in PA and Elon replaced him with a robotic chatbot.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

all planned out

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002202951601

[Brenda]

2. Hah, yeah, thanks for the article. Mike is on to something.

Your DU link doesn't work tho.

[Brenda]

4. Great quote from the article:

Part of Chump's interview with TIME magazine April 22, 2025 (barely over one month ago)

You said you would end the war in Ukraine on Day One.

Well, I said that figuratively, and I said that as an exaggeration, because to make a point, and you know, it gets, of course, by the fake news [unintelligible]. Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest, but it was also said that it will be ended.

Well what’s taking so long? When do you think it will be ended?

Well, I don’t think it’s long. I mean, look, I got here three months ago. This war has been going on for three years. It’s a war that would have never happened if I was president. It’s Biden’s war. It’s not my war. I have nothing to do with it. I would have never had this war. This war would have never happened. Putin would have never done it. This war would have never happened.

[Quanta]

3. If so -

I truly wish someone would turn it off and back on again. I think it's glitched.