Trump is so fucking dumb that when he heard that semiconductors use "transistors," he thought they said "transgenders."
That's how fucking stupid our President is.
A sycophant is more than just a "yes-man."
It refers to someone who acts excessively servile toward someone important in order to gain an advantage. They aren't just being nice, they are using excessive flattery, often insincerely, to get what they want, whether that's a promotion, social status or favor.
Some characteristics: The motive is self-interest. They aren't praising you because they like you; they're doing it because you have something they want. The behavior is over the top fawning, or constant agreement (including when you're wrong).
Common Synonyms: toady, flunky, bootlicker.
Some parallels for movie buffs:
Grima Wormtongue (the Stephen Miller of Lord of the Rings) is an advisor to King Theoden. He uses whispers and false flattery to control the King’s decisions, all while secretly serving Saruman. He is a classic example of a sycophant who uses his position to poison a leader's standing for his own benefit.
Dolores Umbridge (the Kristi Noem of Harry Potter) is an example of a bureaucratic sycophant. She is terrifyingly sweet while she is around those she considers her superiors and she sucks up to authority to gain the power she needs to bully those "beneath" her.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
In no reality is a lawless state you. It is not accountable to you. It is coercive by nature and indiscriminate in its application.
The moment Tim Pool stops being useful—if he becomes a critic instead of a sycophant, decides an abuse has gone too far, or is simply in the wrong place at the wrong time—that same boot ends up on his neck.
It’s a power fantasy for weak men.
They cosplay as rulers while applauding their own subjugation.
Another appalling and disgraceful effort by DHS to mislead the public and erode rights secured by the Constitution.
The Fourth Amendment requires a judicial warrant to enter a home. The purpose is to ensure that a separate branch of government serves as a check.
An administrative warrant comes from the executive branch, the same branch seeking entry. It’s like getting permission from yourself. This is wholly insufficient under the Fourth Amendment.
What DHS is doing is about as un-American and anti-American as it gets. Americans fought a revolution over this, and everyone should speak out against it.
this is straight up nazi shit we are allowing these fucking nazis to beat up random people in the streets for no reason other than spectacle and domination and it’s all paid for with our tax dollars, we will never have healthcare, housing & good wages for all.
@JDVance No one believes your lies, your the most disingenuous charlatan in all of politics. Keep tweeting bc that’s all the president will let you do, you total nothing burger.