While true, he's also a fucking manipulative liar.
I don't for one single second believe that he honestly believes what he's saying. He just knows full well you repeat a lie to make it true so if he says it enough his cult will simply accept it as reality.
Also this is teams and teams of people, from different nations, organizations, all working on his messaging. Don’t for a second forget this is dark enlightenment, heritage foundation, maybe Russia too, he’s a puppet and someone put in his place from that same group of mixed but related goals will be either the same or worse
It's the Golden Age of corporate welfare, the farmers are going bankrupt due to his policies and the AgroCorps are getting them for pennies on the dollar.
He truly is surpassing his goals and it is greatness.
For the corps.
He's telling the truth and lying at the same time.
Look at ICE, bigger than ever, that's an amazing goal and greatness if you want to punish and control the country.
Id like to look that up but I don't think it is enough to go off of. Do you know anyone who was on the show or what show it was? Maybe even just the channel might help. Searching Trump fake numbers basically returns the result: yeah
Sorry for the delay, It was something I only saw in passing so I was not entirely right on what i said, They admitted to giving trump flattering numbers, not false numbers, which slightly increased the difficulty of trying to find it.
I will also edit my previous point to correct my mistake.
They feed him only good, happy numbers, so he thinks everything is going wonderfully. Hes basically still living in the sycophantic yes man bubble that he has his entire life.
Either that, or he's smart enough to know how ignorant and batshit crazy his supporters are. I'm not sure who I blame more. Insane billionaires like Trump have always existed, it's only NOW that there are enough stupid people out there to give him unlimited power.
You serioulsy underestimate him. If there's one thing you should have learn from pedonald by now, is that he can always go lower. Next week, I can picture him posting an AI image of the Virgin Mary blowing his cock with the title "I'ts huge", and some maga pastor would call it master trolling.
My biggest fear is that, after W I was SURE Republicans couldn't go any lower, two illegal wars, a war criminal, tanked the economy and put global standing.
They they brought out Trump.
I don't know what will be next, but I know it will be worse.
My account of 17 years was banned from reddit when I saw this and said that I am waiting with baited breath for Trumps run on this planet to be done. That I hope hell exists and that he goes to it screaming and scared.
It was banned for promoting violence. To be clear, I dont wish violence on anyone, just that he dies of natural causes and that it hurts the whole time.
You don't have to say this to be a decent person. Pacifism is not synonymous with good or moral. There are people in this world that I think you would be immoral to not wish violence upon.
Lots of us were banned for "political violence" for civil discourse. Here, you can say "I will be so glad when that man is dead and I'll celebrate for days" and no one is going to make a federal case out of it.
Putin for example. As for natural causes, cancer is natural these days. Also a fall tends to hurt only at the end unless its an incline. So I wish Putin a nice roll down an increasingly steep hill leading into a vast basin covered in foot long jagged edged glass and rocks.
Im glad. I've tried after the enshitification started a few years ago, but was roped back in. Glad to be shut of that crap circus. How's this crap circus going?
I hope he doesn't go out with violence but descends further into a senile drooling mess that shits himself hourly.
I watched my grandma suffer in that state for almost a decade and thought it was too cruel to wish on anyone. Trump and the Billionaire class have changed that.
May the IV they have to plug into his right hand every night become tainted and poisoned to lessen our burden and heal our country. In Darwin we pray, amen.
Your anger is precisely what Trump is looking for. Don't give it.
It's rage-bait attention seeking done by an insecure, immature man.
Get past it and just pivot to it being an old man in the throes of dementia.
(..which it is..)
THAT will piss him off, as his father, Fred Trump, went down HARD from the disease. It's Trump's existential terror, if what his niece, Mary Trump, has said about it is true. So far she's been 100% accurate.
"Grampa Dementia" is following in his dad's footsteps. Poor Donny can't help himself, it's the disease, after all, doing the speaking for him...
It's not about ignoring it, it is about the response that will make Trump even more petulant than he already is..
Please believe me, I'm just as disgusted, angry and nauseated by this as anyone.. but I'll NEVER give that prick or any of his dick-sucking followers the satisfaction of thinking they've gotten under my skin.
If you have learned a bit of how the asshole rolls, this is all there to just get attention, to show himself off as being a belligerent tough guy and the absolute worst thing he can be faced with is people just going "ho-hum, it's his dementia.. tsk, tsk.. poor thing, he really needs help.."
It's how you get under his skin... with the visciousness of paper cuts.
Imagine. A troubled young man murders his parents, for reasons that likely had nothing to do with politics, and Trump thinks "this must have been about me"
When given the opportunity to show he is the worst person, Trump always seizes it and makes the most of it. He never lets a chance slip by to remind us all who he is, how terrible he is, and what sociopathy looks like.
What a pussy. Couldn't say shit about him when he was alive and now you're talking all that shit when he cant defend himself. Donnie proving once again he and his administration are the biggest pussies in history.
Can't Trump try being a decent human for once? Lots of people say "well I didn't like his politics but my heart goes out to his family" or something along those lines
Again the Trump derangement syndrome or something like that
Some say they want to make this claim that being against the government is a disease, so they can bring back mental institutions and lock people protesting against the govement as “mental health” and try to escape the 1st amendment
Jesus, I completely missed that he had been murdered. Just heartbreaking, he seemed like a genuinely good person as well as making some of the movies that defined my childhood.
Not sure why this is a news story to be honest. Haven't we all been very aware, for at least a decade, that Trump is a crass, stupid, mean-spirited bastard?
Mean internet comments? Who cares? I mean, I know it gets clicks and that's why it's written about but god fucking damn it I wish we'd all get a grip.
I blame Democrats mostly. Their incompetence handed it to Trump. National parties need to go. All of them. But they couldn't have done it without the ignorance and apathy of most Americans. All those that stayed home. And the groups that focused on attacking the Democrats ignoring this threat. Don't get me wrong. They weren't wrong to attack and criticize Democrats. But it wasn't a good time to do that, and they definitely let themselves be manipulated. Who knows if well ever get another chance. But I doubt anyone learned.
From the outside it was very much the Democrats election to lose. The first time around Trump was a joke and losing to him was ridiculous, this time around Trump was a malicious threat and losing to him should only have been possible if you were trying to
Biden was inevitable because of how shit Trump's policies were and that the public was in real pain from the 2017 Tariff and trade war..
Once the Democrats had tipped the economy back onto it's feet and were digging the country out, the pain subsided and the sexism reared it's head again.
That the Democrats couldn't see the most basic sexism working to Trump's advantage, is breathtaking. Any serious male Democratic candidate would have beaten Trump last year, but no.. We got touchy-feely women-power at the same time the online spaces were poisoned with gender identiy wars and it torpedoed ANY chance with a female candidate.
Will say one thing, the conservatve right knows how sexists think and for sure they leveraged men's rage to the detriment of everyone.
I'm not prepared to just buy the "it was sexism" excuse, that's a convenient one for Democrats to tell themselves - "oh, there was nothing wrong with the campaign we ran, Americans are just sexist". If a man had done exactly the same campaign as Harris did it would have ended the same way. Fundamentally the Democrats went with a "you guys have to vote for us" strategy and figured they just had to win over right leaning voters instead, and they didn't really win them over and lost chunks of the left at the same time. I'm not suggesting sexism played no part at all, but I'm not putting the blame solely or even mostly there.
Yeah, you're right on the "You have to vote for us.." thing.
"Champagne Elitism" has been a thing since before Obama.
I saw it take off in the mid-90's with the pivot to public high schools pushing everyone to college and ignoring vocational education. It's the college-degree, "educated" high-handedness of the neo-liberal, illiberal left, and a terrible blind spot.
Part of wy I have been screaming for decades for the left to stop using the phrase "..voting against their self-interest.." when referring to working poor voters that chose Trump.
They didn't vote against their self-interests, they voted to fuck themselves because they were too angry to think clearly.
The reality is, most working class voters - and yes, I'm one - do not KNOW what they want long term because they're stuck in the day to day survival mode.. (you can't think or plan long term when daily troubles are what you constantly have on your plate. Ask me how I know..)
For the "educated" affluent elite politicians to say what the poor should or should not want smacks of the very kind of high-handed arrogance that loses elections for the Democrats.
You're not wrong at all on it and wrap it up in sexism and it's a win for the orange asshole.. again.
I agree. It wasn't just sexism. Hillary had been positioning for decades. And politically smeared for decades because of it. She was a genuinely out of touch and not very likeable person that made a lot of unforced errors. With decades worth of baggage good and bad. That selfishly put herself above everyone else. Not taking things seriously.
Kamala had her own baggage and well as historically being a supremely uninspiring candidate. Who was thrown to the wolves at the last minute. Flailing incompetently to career death. Even if she doesn't realize it yet.
No, I disagree. It was all about the sexism. Cameron Harris would have won that election, taking all the same positions as Kamala Harris, with the only difference being his ownership of a penis.
The thing with modern misogynists is that they are self-aware enough to know that they can't just come out and say that they are voting based on what organs the candidates possess. So they fool themselves into using other excuses.... "she's a cop", "GeNoCiDe", or my favorite "she reminds me too much of my ex".
We know. Just as we know, there's also no significant evidence of that. While misogyny was involved in the race for sure. If you can look at either Harris or Clinton and say that was the driving force behind their losses. Then you're behaving willfully blind.
Harris was one of the lowest polling Democrats in the 2020 primaries. Who had spent years and years as district attorney. Applying biased injustice to vulnerable groups. There was lots of good reason not to like her beyond her sex. Likewise Hillary Clinton, who spent years in proximity to corruption and power. Where one of the last notably and objectively good things she did. Ended her career as a young Republican in the early 1970s. There was no lack of good things to dislike about her as well.
Don't get me wrong, I think both of them would have been adequate status quo presidents. Who would have continued the slowe decay. But they had a lot of baggage of their own creation that held them back more than any uterus did.
If that was the case, there'd be way more evidence of it. like the Epstein situation. Democrats stupidly thought they could serve two masters forever. The ones that give them power by electing them. And the ones that give them wealth by paying them off to do their bidding. And to be fair, it did sort of work for decades.
Don't fall into the same trap as the magats. The world generally doesn't know that you exist and certainly isn't conspiring against you. Nine times out of ten, it's selfish people doing stupid things in the moment, that they think will benefit them in the long run. They've been selfishly excepting kickbacks paid in American tax dollar aid to Israel refunded to them for nearly a century. No Democrats reached new levels of spindlessness, nor did Chuck Schumer set any new records for brow furrowing. Anyone who's paid attention in the last 40 years could have said this would be the outcome.
I blame the dumbasses who voted for Trump, and the dumbasses who didn't vote. It was not hard to vote against Orange Hitler if you had half a brain functioning.
No one is saying to ignore them. You aren't wrong. But if anyone is ever going to get a chance to do better and actually help people. We have to understand how and why our leaders failed us. And how to work together against the ignorance and malice, that's only going to get worse.
Yup no incompetence in an old man forgetting to tell everyone that he was going to run again. After famously making a statement about him not planning on it. Causing them to cancel the primaries that already started. Absolutely zero incompetence in just carrying on for so long not acknowledging his own declining popularity and abilities. Waiting till the last possible moment to withdrawn. No incompetence In then appointing the wet fart of a Democrat. That had spent four years as his vice president accomplishing nothing. While at the same time, being one of the least popular Democratic primary candidates from 2020. I'm sure it all went according to plan.
Though it's still hilarious to hear your accusation after so many tried claiming I was some sort of neoliberal. Stating that we needed to vote otherwise Trump would get in. I see no one's learned anything, predictable.
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yesman@lemmy.world · 209 pts · 236d
If you see anybody celebrating Reiner's death, let their employer know.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 234d
Technically I am Trump's employer. Fat lot of good that does me.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 154 pts · 236d
This dude is batshit fucking crazy.
Asafum@feddit.nl · 46 pts · 236d
While true, he's also a fucking manipulative liar.
I don't for one single second believe that he honestly believes what he's saying. He just knows full well you repeat a lie to make it true so if he says it enough his cult will simply accept it as reality.
kautau@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 236d
Also this is teams and teams of people, from different nations, organizations, all working on his messaging. Don’t for a second forget this is dark enlightenment, heritage foundation, maybe Russia too, he’s a puppet and someone put in his place from that same group of mixed but related goals will be either the same or worse
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 236d
It's the Golden Age of corporate welfare, the farmers are going bankrupt due to his policies and the AgroCorps are getting them for pennies on the dollar.
He truly is surpassing his goals and it is greatness.
For the corps.
He's telling the truth and lying at the same time.
Look at ICE, bigger than ever, that's an amazing goal and greatness if you want to punish and control the country.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
You see that S&P? It’s so big!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
He sounds like Caligula declaring himself a god....
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
One of his people basically admitted on TV..yesterday? I think? That they feed trump
fakeflattering numbers to keep him happy.*edited for correction of accidental misinformation.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
Id like to look that up but I don't think it is enough to go off of. Do you know anyone who was on the show or what show it was? Maybe even just the channel might help. Searching Trump fake numbers basically returns the result: yeah
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Sorry for the delay, It was something I only saw in passing so I was not entirely right on what i said, They admitted to giving trump flattering numbers, not false numbers, which slightly increased the difficulty of trying to find it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-econ-goon-lets-slip-194128161.html
I will also edit my previous point to correct my mistake.
They feed him only good, happy numbers, so he thinks everything is going wonderfully. Hes basically still living in the sycophantic yes man bubble that he has his entire life.
OpenPassageways@programming.dev · 6 pts · 236d
Either that, or he's smart enough to know how ignorant and batshit crazy his supporters are. I'm not sure who I blame more. Insane billionaires like Trump have always existed, it's only NOW that there are enough stupid people out there to give him unlimited power.
lukaro@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 236d
I blame his piece of shit supporters, after all they're the ones who handed him the keys.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
I blame the stupid ppl. Selling the country out due to their own bigotry
finley@lemmy.zip · 101 pts · 236d
Because, of course, nothing can happen without Trump being an asshole about it.
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 236d
He literally does not care about anyone besides himself.
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 236d
He does care. In this case he's thrilled that he got killed, because in his mind he deserves the death penalty for criticising the almighty Trump.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 236d
I fear within a year or two, any celebrity that spoke out against Trump will be rounded up
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 236d
He sure seems to adore Putin.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 236d
Any item he sees in the news that doesn't involve him, he's like "but how can I make this about me, which is what everything should be about?".
A country of 330+ million reduced down to one main character.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 236d
The first I heard of Taylor Swift's engagement, was CNN asking Trump for his reaction. His reaction was "I wish them luck".
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
I’m surprised at how sane that answer is, tbh
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 236d
Wow…. Just, wow. Trump is such a piece of shit. Possibly the lowest of shit.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 236d
You serioulsy underestimate him. If there's one thing you should have learn from pedonald by now, is that he can always go lower. Next week, I can picture him posting an AI image of the Virgin Mary blowing his cock with the title "I'ts huge", and some maga pastor would call it master trolling.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
My biggest fear is that, after W I was SURE Republicans couldn't go any lower, two illegal wars, a war criminal, tanked the economy and put global standing.
They they brought out Trump.
I don't know what will be next, but I know it will be worse.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
He used to be a real piece of shit. He still is, too.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 236d
No - now he's not just a piece, but the whole stinkin' pile!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 236d
Lower than a whale turd at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
edahs@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 236d
My account of 17 years was banned from reddit when I saw this and said that I am waiting with baited breath for Trumps run on this planet to be done. That I hope hell exists and that he goes to it screaming and scared.
It was banned for promoting violence. To be clear, I dont wish violence on anyone, just that he dies of natural causes and that it hurts the whole time.
krashmo@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 236d
You don't have to say this to be a decent person. Pacifism is not synonymous with good or moral. There are people in this world that I think you would be immoral to not wish violence upon.
edahs@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 236d
I agree but I also dont want to get banned on a second social media platform in under 24 hours.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
Lots of us were banned for "political violence" for civil discourse. Here, you can say "I will be so glad when that man is dead and I'll celebrate for days" and no one is going to make a federal case out of it.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 236d
Putin for example. As for natural causes, cancer is natural these days. Also a fall tends to hurt only at the end unless its an incline. So I wish Putin a nice roll down an increasingly steep hill leading into a vast basin covered in foot long jagged edged glass and rocks.
victorz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
Mazel tov on your breaking free from Reddit! 🎈
Oh wait, maybe that expression isn't really kosher anymore.
... Ahh shit.
edahs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
Im glad. I've tried after the enshitification started a few years ago, but was roped back in. Glad to be shut of that crap circus. How's this crap circus going?
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 235d
Much better. We try to be nice to each other here, treat each other with respect. I find it's going nicely. 🙂
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
That's the exact perfect thing to say for those fascists to feel justified in banning an account. To be clear, I support it.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
I hope he doesn't go out with violence but descends further into a senile drooling mess that shits himself hourly.
I watched my grandma suffer in that state for almost a decade and thought it was too cruel to wish on anyone. Trump and the Billionaire class have changed that.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
Any petty dictator mod can start the process to get you banned there. It's ridiculous.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 235d
Yup. That's Reddit. It's a cesspool.
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu · 59 pts · 236d
Live life in such a way that your death is celebrated by MAGA.
Because soon enough they will need to hide.
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 236d
May the IV they have to plug into his right hand every night become tainted and poisoned to lessen our burden and heal our country. In Darwin we pray, amen.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 236d
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼sepsis 🙏🏼
drhodl@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
I'm rooting for gangrene !
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 236d
But people were fired from their jobs for quoting Charlie Kirk’s own words after he died.
edahs@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 236d
I now just post the following when I see maggots discussing Charlie Kirk
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 236d
That piece of shit makes me so angry. I wish he'd die already so we didn't have to hear about him anymore.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 236d
Your anger is precisely what Trump is looking for. Don't give it.
It's rage-bait attention seeking done by an insecure, immature man.
Get past it and just pivot to it being an old man in the throes of dementia.
(..which it is..)
THAT will piss him off, as his father, Fred Trump, went down HARD from the disease. It's Trump's existential terror, if what his niece, Mary Trump, has said about it is true. So far she's been 100% accurate.
"Grampa Dementia" is following in his dad's footsteps. Poor Donny can't help himself, it's the disease, after all, doing the speaking for him...
That is all.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 236d
Trump was scum long before the demntia kicked in.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Ignoring this normalizes it and I absolutely fucking refuse.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 236d
It's not about ignoring it, it is about the response that will make Trump even more petulant than he already is..
Please believe me, I'm just as disgusted, angry and nauseated by this as anyone.. but I'll NEVER give that prick or any of his dick-sucking followers the satisfaction of thinking they've gotten under my skin.
If you have learned a bit of how the asshole rolls, this is all there to just get attention, to show himself off as being a belligerent tough guy and the absolute worst thing he can be faced with is people just going "ho-hum, it's his dementia.. tsk, tsk.. poor thing, he really needs help.."
It's how you get under his skin... with the visciousness of paper cuts.
Never forget, revenge is best served cold.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 236d
Imagine. A troubled young man murders his parents, for reasons that likely had nothing to do with politics, and Trump thinks "this must have been about me"
Floon@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 236d
When given the opportunity to show he is the worst person, Trump always seizes it and makes the most of it. He never lets a chance slip by to remind us all who he is, how terrible he is, and what sociopathy looks like.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 236d
what a repugnant piece of shit....
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 236d
What a pussy. Couldn't say shit about him when he was alive and now you're talking all that shit when he cant defend himself. Donnie proving once again he and his administration are the biggest pussies in history.
PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 236d
What a piece of shit.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 236d
But St. Charlie Kirk!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 236d
Patron saint of FAFO.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 236d
I thought it was wrong to say mean things about murder victims?
I couldn't read this, I stopped halfway through.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 236d
Can't Trump try being a decent human for once? Lots of people say "well I didn't like his politics but my heart goes out to his family" or something along those lines
finley@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 236d
He’s gotten by for 80 years doing the exact opposite and never perceiving a consequence. Why would he suddenly stop now?
4grams@awful.systems · 9 pts · 236d
no, because he believes he is being a decent human being. he’s a narcissist after all.
roofTophopper@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 236d
So, remember how people were getting cancelled for saying "mean" things about Ol' Charlie? Can we get more of those cancels?
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 236d
Oh look, Grampa Dementia is at it again. At least the hired help hid his car keys so the roads are safe.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 236d
Ok, Grandpa. Time for your nap and meds.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 236d
I wonder if cheeto mcpedo knows that many people might just be literally dancing in the streets when he passes?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 236d
I heard you really need to sign up now to get in the line to piss on his grave.
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 236d
Street parties globally when Trump dies!!! (Of natural causes but it still could be soon)
altphoto@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 236d
Oops? He was supposed to wait for at least a day? Just a thought.
He definitely had nothing to do with the events leading the comments.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 236d
Again the Trump derangement syndrome or something like that
Some say they want to make this claim that being against the government is a disease, so they can bring back mental institutions and lock people protesting against the govement as “mental health” and try to escape the 1st amendment
This is really scary.
Tenthrow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
Keeping is classy.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 7 pts · 236d
An artist is stabbed to death and Trump is being a sorry excuse of a human being about it. It must be any one of the seven days of the week.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
Trump is human garbage, but without the human part
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling that trump (or someone with access to his account) used an AI to generate that message?
I think the way he refers to himself in the third person just screams AI to me.
blattrules@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 236d
He’s been doing that for years; he’s just an asshole narcissist that needs to make everything about himself.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
He has an auto pen do it for him.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 236d
Jesus, I completely missed that he had been murdered. Just heartbreaking, he seemed like a genuinely good person as well as making some of the movies that defined my childhood.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
By his own kid even
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
How odd.
renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 236d
We all know he didn’t write any of that. The sentence structure is far too complicated.
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
Not sure why this is a news story to be honest. Haven't we all been very aware, for at least a decade, that Trump is a crass, stupid, mean-spirited bastard?
Mean internet comments? Who cares? I mean, I know it gets clicks and that's why it's written about but god fucking damn it I wish we'd all get a grip.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
I really hate these defeatist comments.
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
You're free to hate them. I don't feel defeated. I'm not expressing defeat, in my opinion. I simply don't think this is important or newsworthy.
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
It would not be if he wasn't the president of the USA.
pubquiz@lemmy.world · -57 pts · 236d
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 32 pts · 236d
What are you, 12?
foggy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 236d
Aaaaand blocked.
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 236d
This is, ironically, the exact same energy Trump responded with lmao - do better next time!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 236d
You really should understand a system before criticizing it...
Hegar@fedia.io · 3 pts · 236d
Someone doesn't understand how our oligarchy's electoral system works.
the_q@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 236d
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 236d
Some Americans elected him, smart guy
discocactus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 236d
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Eldritch@piefed.world · -17 pts · 236d
I blame Democrats mostly. Their incompetence handed it to Trump. National parties need to go. All of them. But they couldn't have done it without the ignorance and apathy of most Americans. All those that stayed home. And the groups that focused on attacking the Democrats ignoring this threat. Don't get me wrong. They weren't wrong to attack and criticize Democrats. But it wasn't a good time to do that, and they definitely let themselves be manipulated. Who knows if well ever get another chance. But I doubt anyone learned.
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 236d
From the outside it was very much the Democrats election to lose. The first time around Trump was a joke and losing to him was ridiculous, this time around Trump was a malicious threat and losing to him should only have been possible if you were trying to
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 236d
Trump won because he ran against 2 women.
Biden was inevitable because of how shit Trump's policies were and that the public was in real pain from the 2017 Tariff and trade war..
Once the Democrats had tipped the economy back onto it's feet and were digging the country out, the pain subsided and the sexism reared it's head again.
That the Democrats couldn't see the most basic sexism working to Trump's advantage, is breathtaking. Any serious male Democratic candidate would have beaten Trump last year, but no.. We got touchy-feely women-power at the same time the online spaces were poisoned with gender identiy wars and it torpedoed ANY chance with a female candidate.
Will say one thing, the conservatve right knows how sexists think and for sure they leveraged men's rage to the detriment of everyone.
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 236d
I'm not prepared to just buy the "it was sexism" excuse, that's a convenient one for Democrats to tell themselves - "oh, there was nothing wrong with the campaign we ran, Americans are just sexist". If a man had done exactly the same campaign as Harris did it would have ended the same way. Fundamentally the Democrats went with a "you guys have to vote for us" strategy and figured they just had to win over right leaning voters instead, and they didn't really win them over and lost chunks of the left at the same time. I'm not suggesting sexism played no part at all, but I'm not putting the blame solely or even mostly there.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 236d
Yeah, you're right on the "You have to vote for us.." thing.
"Champagne Elitism" has been a thing since before Obama.
I saw it take off in the mid-90's with the pivot to public high schools pushing everyone to college and ignoring vocational education. It's the college-degree, "educated" high-handedness of the neo-liberal, illiberal left, and a terrible blind spot.
Part of wy I have been screaming for decades for the left to stop using the phrase "..voting against their self-interest.." when referring to working poor voters that chose Trump.
They didn't vote against their self-interests, they voted to fuck themselves because they were too angry to think clearly.
The reality is, most working class voters - and yes, I'm one - do not KNOW what they want long term because they're stuck in the day to day survival mode.. (you can't think or plan long term when daily troubles are what you constantly have on your plate. Ask me how I know..)
For the "educated" affluent elite politicians to say what the poor should or should not want smacks of the very kind of high-handed arrogance that loses elections for the Democrats.
You're not wrong at all on it and wrap it up in sexism and it's a win for the orange asshole.. again.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 3 pts · 236d
I agree. It wasn't just sexism. Hillary had been positioning for decades. And politically smeared for decades because of it. She was a genuinely out of touch and not very likeable person that made a lot of unforced errors. With decades worth of baggage good and bad. That selfishly put herself above everyone else. Not taking things seriously.
Kamala had her own baggage and well as historically being a supremely uninspiring candidate. Who was thrown to the wolves at the last minute. Flailing incompetently to career death. Even if she doesn't realize it yet.
dhork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
No, I disagree. It was all about the sexism. Cameron Harris would have won that election, taking all the same positions as Kamala Harris, with the only difference being his ownership of a penis.
The thing with modern misogynists is that they are self-aware enough to know that they can't just come out and say that they are voting based on what organs the candidates possess. So they fool themselves into using other excuses.... "she's a cop", "GeNoCiDe", or my favorite "she reminds me too much of my ex".
Eldritch@piefed.world · 3 pts · 236d
We know. Just as we know, there's also no significant evidence of that. While misogyny was involved in the race for sure. If you can look at either Harris or Clinton and say that was the driving force behind their losses. Then you're behaving willfully blind.
Harris was one of the lowest polling Democrats in the 2020 primaries. Who had spent years and years as district attorney. Applying biased injustice to vulnerable groups. There was lots of good reason not to like her beyond her sex. Likewise Hillary Clinton, who spent years in proximity to corruption and power. Where one of the last notably and objectively good things she did. Ended her career as a young Republican in the early 1970s. There was no lack of good things to dislike about her as well.
Don't get me wrong, I think both of them would have been adequate status quo presidents. Who would have continued the slowe decay. But they had a lot of baggage of their own creation that held them back more than any uterus did.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 1 pts · 236d
If that was the case, there'd be way more evidence of it. like the Epstein situation. Democrats stupidly thought they could serve two masters forever. The ones that give them power by electing them. And the ones that give them wealth by paying them off to do their bidding. And to be fair, it did sort of work for decades.
Don't fall into the same trap as the magats. The world generally doesn't know that you exist and certainly isn't conspiring against you. Nine times out of ten, it's selfish people doing stupid things in the moment, that they think will benefit them in the long run. They've been selfishly excepting kickbacks paid in American tax dollar aid to Israel refunded to them for nearly a century. No Democrats reached new levels of spindlessness, nor did Chuck Schumer set any new records for brow furrowing. Anyone who's paid attention in the last 40 years could have said this would be the outcome.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
I blame the dumbasses who voted for Trump, and the dumbasses who didn't vote. It was not hard to vote against Orange Hitler if you had half a brain functioning.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 3 pts · 236d
No one is saying to ignore them. You aren't wrong. But if anyone is ever going to get a chance to do better and actually help people. We have to understand how and why our leaders failed us. And how to work together against the ignorance and malice, that's only going to get worse.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 0 pts · 230d
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 236d
Of fucking course you do. There was no incompetence, there was bullshit propaganda from the likes of you.
Dumb fucking "progressives" gloating about bringing Trump back to power.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 3 pts · 236d
Yup no incompetence in an old man forgetting to tell everyone that he was going to run again. After famously making a statement about him not planning on it. Causing them to cancel the primaries that already started. Absolutely zero incompetence in just carrying on for so long not acknowledging his own declining popularity and abilities. Waiting till the last possible moment to withdrawn. No incompetence In then appointing the wet fart of a Democrat. That had spent four years as his vice president accomplishing nothing. While at the same time, being one of the least popular Democratic primary candidates from 2020. I'm sure it all went according to plan.
Though it's still hilarious to hear your accusation after so many tried claiming I was some sort of neoliberal. Stating that we needed to vote otherwise Trump would get in. I see no one's learned anything, predictable.