It’s not a Jedi mind trick to suggest that if Trump can be easily manipulated, those who care should try to influence him towards good. It doesn’t matter if “being good” is Trump’s desire or not. I absolutely agree with Maggoty that Trump would love being credited as a peacemaker, and I think his ego can drive him to want to fulfill that role.
That’s why I didn’t want Trump, and why I am attempting to talk sense into people…
That’s neat, but professing how much you didn’t and still don’t want him isn’t going to do anyone any good at this point. Trump is going to be sworn in next week regardless. Articles like this one from The Guardian are significantly more helpful at influencing a better path forward than constant doomerism. I would absolutely love it if Trump can find any success in the peacemaking process.
I thought about posting “We need to see more fake good stories about Trump in the press. He’ll see them, and start doing good things, and if you don’t agree, you would rather have him do bad thing and you’re bad” to meanwhileongrad or a new post on this community, but I decided it’s not really worth the bandwidth. The two of you are out of your minds.
I’m not sure how your theoretical post serves any purpose beside setting up a strawman. This hasn’t been about inventing fake stories, but instead, about dangling a very real carrot in front of the new US president.
It’s not a Jedi mind trick to suggest that if Trump can be easily manipulated, those who care should try to influence him towards good. It doesn’t matter if “being good” is Trump’s desire or not. I absolutely agree with Maggoty that Trump would love being credited as a peacemaker, and I think his ego can drive him to want to fulfill that role.
That’s neat, but professing how much you didn’t and still don’t want him isn’t going to do anyone any good at this point. Trump is going to be sworn in next week regardless. Articles like this one from The Guardian are significantly more helpful at influencing a better path forward than constant doomerism. I would absolutely love it if Trump can find any success in the peacemaking process.
I thought about posting “We need to see more fake good stories about Trump in the press. He’ll see them, and start doing good things, and if you don’t agree, you would rather have him do bad thing and you’re bad” to meanwhileongrad or a new post on this community, but I decided it’s not really worth the bandwidth. The two of you are out of your minds.
I’m not sure how your theoretical post serves any purpose beside setting up a strawman. This hasn’t been about inventing fake stories, but instead, about dangling a very real carrot in front of the new US president.