Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, said the Republican Party is “more popular than ever,” just days after voters handed Democrats control of the House and Senate the midterm elections.

Miller said in his speech that it was “the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump,” before adding: “If it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now.”

“This man saved America,” Miller said. “He saved our military from collapse, he saved our economy from destruction, he saved our border from annihilation and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream forever.”

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    From a Bayesian perspective he has no reason to admit otherwise. More people on the hook for a grift is better than fewer people on the hook for a grift.

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      I’ve been calling him PeeWee Himmler for years, hoping others would pick it up. You’re the first person I’ve seen. Let’s spread it far.

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    I am so confused by his looks. Like, I have at least 15 years on him but he looks older than I do? He is aging like people in the 1940s &50s, does he smoke? Or it’s just the evil aging him?

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      Goebbels was in charge of Propaganda. Himmler was in charge of the Final Solution. He resembles Himmler far more, which is why I call him PeeWee Himmler.

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      This cretin has 4 kids btw… How fucked up they must be to have this piece of shit as their father

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      Trump does that for … I don’t know, probably all his life. He always spun everything however fits his narrative and unfortunately it seems to work more often than not. Telling people what they want to hear seems exceedingly successful.

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    “Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the President. He signed it this morning.”

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      I would be embarrassed to have others see me kissing ass like that. I’ve always despised it when I’ve seen it in workplaces growing up.

      I’ve owned a business for over 30 years, and I really, REALLY hate it when people kiss my ass and suck up to me like that. I slap that behavior down hard.

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    Since when does the WH Chief of Staff give speeches? I wonder who is really calling the shots here? Maybe the President’s brain is pudding after all.

    Maybe we should all start calling him “President Miller”. That might overload Trump’s fragile ego, though.

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      I mean, there’s basically no president, just a bribe-taking nonsense babbling demented old man. So his people can do what they want really.

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      That was the nice thing about Susie; you maybe saw her sitting in a corner during a briefing or something, but otherwise she was not heard.

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        Eh, I don’t know if that was a nice thing about her. I prefer my fascists out and proud. Posting online about how they’re planning on breaking the law or giving speeches where they say their exact plans. Makes it easier to prosecute them when the time comes. Not that she doesn’t also deserve it, but it’s not quite the same if she’s not publicly lying about being a lawyer or openly admitting to war crimes and the like. We must shine a light on evil and it really helps when they are the ones stepping into the spotlight.

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      https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gatekeepers-how-the-white-house-chiefs-of-staff-define-every-presidency-chris-whipple/f74045fddefd2e25

      Actually a really good book about the people who have had the job of Chief Of Staff for the different Presidents.

      One thing the book explains is that each Chief has had a slightly different role, because each President was his own man.

      So, if Donnie says his Cheif gives speeches, it’s his choice.

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        My point, though, is that this job works best if it is done under the radar. A Chief of Staff has no authority at all unless the President gives it to them to make decisions on his behalf. So the job needs to be out of public view, otherwise people will question who is actually making the decisions.

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          I mean, no one is going to point to Donnie as an example of great leadership.

          I just thought that the political geeks here [like myself] might enjoy knowing about a good book.

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              He knows it’s BS, but he runs a simple algorithm of “whatever gets us closer to being the Fourth Reich”.

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      No, he’s something much more dangerous: he’s a bloodthirsty fascist.

      He knows his words are false, but what he is doing is dictating reality to us; he’s making it clear how we are expected to behave, and that any deviation from said reality will be declared treasonous and terrorism. He’s saying we should treat the administration like gods who saved us from certain demise.

      His only delusion is that enough of the population will fall in line over this. You’ve already lost the crowd, buddy. Prepare you ass for prison.

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        He knows his words are false, but what he is doing is dictating reality to us; he’s making it clear how we are expected to behave, and that any deviation from said reality will be declared treasonous and terrorism.

        Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. Listen to The Party and toe the party line.

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      Before “The Big Lie” was specifically Trump won the 2020 election, it was a strategy pursued by authoritarians, including Putin, the Kim family, Mussolini, and Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

      The truth is whatever we say the truth is: do not trust your lying eyes. To speak otherwise is to betray Friend Computer.

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    I can only wonder what the remaining GOP voters think. Do they actually believe this shit? America is the laughing stock of the world, gas prices sky high, grocery prices sky high, no healthcare, a pedophile for president. Yeah man, America is doing great…