President Trump ripped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” -- and suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar "probably came into the USA illegally" -- in a rage-filled Thanksgiving message about immigration.
President Trump ripped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” -- and suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar "probably came into the USA illegally" -- in a rage-filled Thanksgiving message about immigration.
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 187 pts · 281d
How a man this crass managed to be President twice, I'll never know. What a fucking disgrace...
Carmakazi@piefed.social · 91 pts · 281d
Because a plurality of Americans are equally crass, ignorant, selfish, and evil.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
There are a metric f*** ton of people in the United States who just want to use the n-word.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 281d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 13 pts · 281d
That's not patriotism. They're nationalists. That they don't know the difference makes it even worse.
Edit: here's some more info: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationalism-vs-Patriotism-Whats-the-Difference
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 4 pts · 280d
If you refer to what they understand, you can't use any word. If they don't like something, it's socialism. If they hate it, it's communism. It's woke, it's liberal, it's whatever the hell word they can remember from being indoctrinated You can't lower yourself to their level and still be understandable by normal human beings.
Soggy@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 281d
Patriotism is nationalism.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 7 pts · 281d
Did you check? Because it isn't.
drhodl@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
With respect, but I really don't think we've been HERE before. New laws will be needed, if we survive this.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 281d
Hes the perfect representation of the american spirit
daannii@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 281d
Voter fraud. Social media mass manipulation. Scapegoating.
Old tricks but still work.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 281d
Fox has people brainwashed.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 281d
Because he's peak american.you may not like it, but he's the embodiment of what the world thinks when they hear america.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 17 pts · 281d
I'm old enough to remember the America of best education, top science and engineering in the world. The America that proudly went to the Moon. The America that developed the Internet on public money.
I guess I can feel the contrast with the idiocracy of today a bit more keenly than younger folks who have never known anything else.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America. My perspective of being a mid 20s American is that of a longing for the America that was all the things you listed. Not a kleptocratic oligarchy held up by social media misinformation and straight idiocy. Ever since the mid 70s: following all the debt caused by the Vietnam War, the disastrous consequences of Reaganomics, and deregulation of finance; income inequality has gotten to a point of insanity.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 6 pts · 280d
I'm so sorry. But it was like that. Sure it had its many, many flaws. But it was a place where studying hard, making it to and through college and being educated were valued more highly than being a vocal cretin, where science was respected, craziness was fringe, religion was retreating, working hard gave you a real - albeit small - chance at striking it rich, and where you could expect your children to be better off than you if you did everything right.
All that is gone. I really feel sorry for you and those of your generation who never got to experience the "good" America - at least good if you were white...
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
I am just jealous of how many older folks got their college education for free or just hundreds of dollars 50+ years ago…
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 4 pts · 280d
Yes, we gen-Xers got a lot of things for cheap or free, and we had a lot more opportunities for sure - and our boomer parents even more so - because we rode the tail end of the post-WW2 economic boom.
I totally get the jealousy. What I don't get is the hate: I can't count the number of young people who actually hate me because I happen to have had it better than them. Sorry... It's not like I planned it or anything, and I didn't set out to ruin anybody's life after me neither.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
I'll have you know tuition was about $1500 to $1800 per year when I was university. I maxed out my loans and I had to pay $105/month for 10 years to pay back that $10k.ny interest rate was something like 9%.
4grams@awful.systems · 5 pts · 280d
Which I always assumed was a hyperbolic stereotype based on things like the “Florida man” phenomenon.
Turns out it is a reality based description.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 281d
Because American voters are stupid. And don't care enough about their own country. But mostly stupid.
phx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
And because they cheated and were allowed to get away with it
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Yes, because a few people are paid off, and the balance of the people are too stupid.
drhodl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
It's the way Americans are bred. Bovine docility to their masters, is in their genes.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Democracy is when you have two options, a wrong candidate and a right candidate. And the elections process simply an IQ test
evenglow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 281d
Republicans got desperate. They also only vote R.
Steve@startrek.website · 5 pts · 281d
He represents half the country.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Congress is full of these fuckers. I don't see why the presidency is special
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 1 pts · 280d
Remember that they were all elected - congresscritters and POTUS alike. That should tell you something about the quality of the electorate.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
Coke or Pepsi. Choose your plutocrat
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 98 pts · 281d
Ha ha ha, I love Walz:
RePsyche@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 281d
“Seriously Retarded”, you say, an ableist slur, and a self confession simultaneously, coming from someone exhibiting increasing signs of dementia.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 281d
I don't understand why people with power or a platform don't just literally make fun of him more with playground insults. Like dumdum donny or stupid brain hairpiece or something. He's so thin skinned he'd spend all his time responding to insults rather than fuck up the country more.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 50 pts · 281d
I've never met a Somali that wasn't a friendly sort having lived here my whole life. Had one bring in some of these pretty awesome dumpling things called sambusa(?) once to work just cause reasons. Very chill bunch far as I've ever seen.
logi@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 281d
Yup, sambusa. They're similar to samosas that you get in various forms all over South and South-East Asia. Delicious stuff.
vividspecter@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 281d
It's funny how conservatives the world over trot out the same tired conspiracy theories. The conservative parties in Australia have regularly tried out the 'African gangs' idea without much success.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 281d
Trump doesn’t even understand elementary school math
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 280d
Every time I see a post from this moron I lose even more respect for the mouth breathers that voted for him.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
No, no, you see, when you go to buy medication now, the hospital pays you! Thanks Mr. Trump!
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 33 pts · 281d
Just a reminder that whilst Trump is blocking migrants from "poor" countries, the architect and participants of 9/11 were all from Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
Silly, they're not immigrants if they're rich!
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 281d
Projection.
Drumpf is now fearing that the talk is right and he is mentally disabled.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 281d
I doubt he can admit his flaws to himself, let alone others
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 280d
He projects everything. That's how you know what's on his mind at a given moment.
X@piefed.world · 18 pts · 281d
That inbred, diaper-wearing dementia patient has no fucking business talking about anything.
jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network · 17 pts · 281d
Gotta give my support to Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar, got it.
raman_klogius@ani.social · 13 pts · 281d
❌Thanksgiving
✔️Hatespewing
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 281d
Why does anyone have any respect for the office of the president?
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 281d
It's been a joke for quite sometime already.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 280d
We should kill the Internet.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 280d
AI is on top of it
4grams@awful.systems · 6 pts · 280d
That’s an interesting euphemism.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Corvidae@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 281d
When Thanksgiving became Insultgiving!
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 280d
Its almost 11pm...have you said thank you? Its thanks giving!.... Let me try..."seriously retarded!"