For years, Donald Trump has leaned on all-caps social media posts to grab attention online.

His Truth Social feed often reads like a never-ending shouting match. However, that changed after Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) began mocking the president’s style in dozens of posts interspersed among his regular missives.

This has been going on for the better part of a week, and seems to have gotten to Trump’s ego, as his latest Truth Social posts aren’t in his classic all-caps style.

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    Mocking Fascists; Making them look foolish and ridiculing them, works. It’s even more effective than just holding their feet to flame like Kamala.

    This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running. Someone like him or Jordan Klepper is the worst case scenario.

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          Yeah. They shouldn’t worry about that as long as they bring receipts.

          Good leadership includes pointing out when those around you are acting like jackasses.

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      This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running.

      Is he? I thought it was just other people saying he should

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        He explicitly implied he was considering running on Charlemagne’s show. Wouldn’t mean much for most people but Jon has always aggressively shut down any such suggestion and here he brought it up.

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            Go watch the clip. In the context of Jon Stewart it’s weird. He hasn’t given the idea serious thought since the rally to restore sanity in ancient times.

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              Even Jon Stewart cannot defy the rules of logic.

              Either he explicitly said “I am running for president” or he implied it by saying something other than “I am running for president.”

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            He clearly implied. Leaving no room for confusion or doubt that he implied what he implied.

            The implication was explicit. He’s considering running. No one thinks he was implying he would run for a spot on Sesame Street, or as Chief of Staff, or any other position.

            You don’t think that works well enough, especially in the context of Jon’s relationship with the subject in the past?

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              If you must interpret the meaning of his words based on additional context, then he was implying.

              If there is no need for interpretation, then he was being explicit.

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              Leaving no room for confusion or doubt that he implied what he implied.

              You keep using these words… I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

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              especially in the context of Jon’s relationship with the subject in the past?

              His relationship to the subject in the past has been an utter lack of interest in running for any kind of office, and has never even attempted it on a local level or expressed a desire to.

              How about we all get the dick of celebrityhood in general out of our collective mouths and just let the man tell us what he has planned if he has something planned.

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        He’s not, he wisecracks about it here and there to farm a little engagement, but I don’t think anyone expects him to suddenly become the wiley dealmaker and negotiator between members of the parties he despises. A lot of people on the left have the same exact celebrity infatuation as MAGA do, it just takes a slightly different form. Liberal audiences are engaged and laugh at thoughtful irony and scathing shower-arguments delivered to captive audiences. The right laughs at MAN FALL DOWN GO BOOM.

        Even if he were suddenly to pull off his mask and show that he has electability (political capital), he would be running on a liberal platform not much different than establishment dems have been doing for years because they have the same base: liberals. I mean, honestly a lame-duck Stewart administration would be preferable over literally everything we are looking at on the horizon, but I do think we can do a lot better than more celebrity worship.

        Stewart’s rhetoric is cathartic to libs and leftists frustrated with the right, but he’s never been a champion of socialism or a radical, it’s just jokes. He admits this, it’s his power and strength and putting him in the seat of power would actually take that strength away.

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      This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running.

      He’s not, he’s never expressed any strong desire to outside of jokes and fantasy scenarios, this hype is the same bullshit celebrity worship and WWE theater that got Trump elected.

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          I would honestly take a lame-duck Stewart administration where nothing gets passed and nothing happens politically over what the GOP has planned for the next decade. But that’s also why he’s unlikely to be backed by a major party or progress far into primaries and haha we might not even have another “fair” election.

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      Trump has passively destroyed late night TV simply by being the only thing they joke about now. I honestly don’t think writers even remember what they did before Trump.