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If there was ever a way to ask that international border agents fuck with you....
A âlimited number of specially designedâ passports will be released, according to Tommy Piggott, a spokesman for the State Department. They will be available for any American citizen who applies for one at the Washington Passport Agency when the rollout happens and will continue for as long as inventory lasts, the department said.
Pictures of the proposed design, which Mr. Piggott said will feature âcustomized artwork and enhanced imagery,â show a serious-looking Mr. Trump above his signature in gold ink.
There will be no additional cost for the Trump-themed passports, the State Department said. It is unclear how many will be produced.
I could, if I wanted to waste my time, argue every point listed above, but there is absolutely no reason to since you all steadfastly believe all of the above to be 100% true.
Research has identified Trump's rhetoric as heavily using vitriol, demeaning language, false equivalency, exclusion,<17> and fearmongering<18><19><20><21> about immigrants, crime, and minorities as essential to his support.<22><23> In a 2016 interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Trump said that, "Real power is â I don't even want to use the word â fear."<24> Trump uses rhetoric that political scientists have deemed to be both dehumanizing and connected to physical violence by his followers.<25> Sociologist Arlie Hochschild states that emotional themes in Trump's rhetoric are fundamental, writing that his "speechesâevoking dominance, bravado, clarity, national pride, and personal upliftâinspire an emotional transformation", deeply resonating with their "emotional self-interest".<26><27> One study suggests that the use of spectacular racist rhetoric aided in the significant environmental deregulation that occurred during the first year of the Trump administration. According to the authors, this served political objectives of dehumanizing its targets, eroding democratic norms, and consolidating power by emotionally connecting with and inflaming resentments among the base of followers, but most importantly served to distract media attention from deregulatory policymaking by igniting intense media coverage of the distractions, precisely due to their radically transgressive nature.<28>The New York Times described his vilification of his political opponents and journalists as unlike any modern American president, with him frequently referring to them as "evil".<29> For instance, in 2025, Trump called Democrats "the party of hate, evil, and Satan";<30> in 2024 he called Democrats "demonic",<31> and referred to them at rallies as "so evil", "dangerous", "the enemy within", and that "They're Marxists and communists and fascists, and they're sick".<32>According to civil rights lawyer Burt Neuborne and political theorist William E. Connolly, Trump's rhetoric employs tropes similar to those used by fascists in Germany<33> to persuade citizens (at first a minority) to give up democracy, by using a barrage of falsehoods, half-truths, personal invective, threats, xenophobia, national-security scares, religious bigotry, white racism, exploitation of economic insecurity, and a never-ending search for scapegoats.<34> Connolly presents a similar list in his book Aspirational Fascism (2017), adding comparisons of the integration of theatrics and crowd participation with rhetoric, involving grandiose bodily gestures, grimaces, hysterical charges, dramatic repetitions of alternate reality falsehoods, and totalistic assertions incorporated into signature phrases that audiences are strongly encouraged to join in chanting.<35> Despite the similarities, Connolly stresses that Trump is no Nazi but "is rather, an aspirational fascist who pursues crowd adulation, hyperaggressive nationalism, white triumphalism, and militarism, pursues a law-and-order regime giving unaccountable power to the police, and is a practitioner of a rhetorical style that regularly creates fake news and smears opponents to mobilize support for the Big Lies he advances".<33>It has been suggested that Trump's Big Lies consist of bullshit rather than of lying as strictly defined.<36><37> According to Harry Frankfurt's 2005 book On Bullshit, the liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it, while the bullshitter does not care whether what they say is true or false.<38> By ignoring the facts, bullshit has the power to guide group beliefs in a politically desirable direction and thereby to shape group identities.<36>Media ethicistKelly McBride has commented that it is a difficult task for journalists to convey this rhetoric in a succinct way, which results in criticisms of "sanewashing"; that is, that journalists are "selectively quoting his speeches to make them sound more coherent than they actually are" and "packaging Trump's ideas into news stories as if they are sensible suggestions".<39>
K's just digging for examples of 'dangerous & violent librul' rhetoric to justify the Epstein Bunker Ballroom and back up Sweet Lip's accusation that Democrats promote violence against the President. While Conveniently forgetting: •Trump pardoning the Jan 6 rioters who assaulted, injured and led to the deaths of Capitol Police. •The thuggish ICE tactics killing two American Citizens. •Deporting KIDS into jail-like detention centers. •Blowing up boats from other countries. •Starting a War of choice at Netanyahu's insistence, without Congressional Authorization. •Hegseth in Rambo-Patriot mode, claiming a Holy War. The hypocritical double standard rings hollow...
And there won’t be a real answer to this reality check except to mock you/us while the destruction of the USA continues. It shows that the concerns of patriots are ignored in favor of gotcha memes, hollow macho posturing, and cute sayings.
I could, if I wanted to waste my time, argue every point listed above, but there is absolutely no reason to since you all steadfastly believe all of the above to be 100% true.
They way these things are put forth kills any possible discussion before it can even begin.
You all OTOH think that I should argue your crazy with you. Why ? Am I supposed to think that I can change anyone's mind ?
And if I don't try then I'm ... what ? Clueless, uniformed, delusional, hypocritical, a coward, a sycophant ? Oh and let us not forget the racist, fascist, homophobic, xenophobic and all the other things that you apply to me.
I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.
What I don't get is why you all keep repeating the same old stuff. It's like you all need to keep reassuring yourselves that your thinking is still sound or something.
You all keep looking backwards. I'm looking forward.
Trump is not going to be around much longer and then what are you all going to do ? You all have no solutions, no plans for the future or what will come next. All's you have is Trump is what is wrong with everything ignoring everything else that is so wrong. And that is what the people who are doing your thinking for you are hoping you will do. Ignore everything else that is wrong that they are doing while you look at their shiny object, Trump, to distract you from what they are doing to us all and this country.
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Isabeau wrote:
K's just digging for examples of 'dangerous & violent librul' rhetoric to justify the Epstein Bunker Ballroom and back up Sweet Lip's accusation that Democrats promote violence against the President.
While Conveniently forgetting:
â¢Trump pardoning the Jan 6 rioters who assaulted, injured and led to the deaths of Capitol Police.
â¢The thuggish ICE tactics killing two American Citizens.
â¢Deporting KIDS into jail-like detention centers.
â¢Blowing up boats from other countries.
â¢Starting a War of choice at Netanyahu's insistence, without Congressional Authorization.
â¢Hegseth in Rambo-Patriot mode, claiming a Holy War.
The hypocritical double standard rings hollow...
And there wonât be a real answer to this reality check except to mock you/us while the destruction of the USA continues. It shows that the concerns of patriots are ignored in favor of gotcha memes, hollow macho posturing, and cute sayings.
