Republican lawmakers slam Trump's "inappropriate" posts on Rob Reiner

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/trump-rob-reiner-death-son-wife-post-republicans

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SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world · 126 pts · 283d (17 replies)

“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

People got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk's own words but this is okay?

ccunning@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 283d (8 replies)

this is okay?

I dunno…I heard Trump got slammed by republican lawmakers for it…

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 283d (3 replies)

Not just slammed, SLAMMED!

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d (2 replies)

SLAM! Da duh duh, da duh duh, let the boys be boys

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d (1 reply)

These thought stopping phrases are so frustrating because they excuse awful behavior.

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d

It's one of the many toxic byproducts of "journalism" as a for profit industry.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 283d (3 replies)

Blasted.

TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 283d (2 replies)

Glazed.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 283d (1 reply)

Fricasseed

umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 283d

A good shellacking. A wallop, even.

gustofwind@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 283d (2 replies)

lol being hypocritical is part of the plan

They know everyone will just stand around and stammer about it doing nothing

That’s how fascists operate and it’s high time we stop pretending the best we can do is call them out. They don’t care

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 283d (1 reply)

We've gotten used to stories where all is required to stop a corrupt ruler is exposing the truth. Both Zootopia movies revolve around Judy and Nick ending a conspiracy by the rich and powerful merely by exposing it, and then the rich and powerful are arrested and face consequences. In the new Superman movie, they stop Lex Luthor's evil plan by exposing to the public and destroying his reputation. A lot of fictional stories operate under the assumption that all we have to do is show the public that somebody is corrupt and they immediately lose their power.

Now we keep pointing out that the administration are being hypocrites and not following their own rules, like we think some cosmic rule arbiter will suddenly remove their power for breaking the rules. We are powerless when faced with the reality that exposing the corruption does absolutely nothing. It isn't going to get the corrupt people arrested. It isn't going to make them lose an election. It isn't even going to hurt their reputation much.

lukaro@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 282d

You show a magat a corrupt republican politician and they'd vote twice for them if they could.

WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 15 pts · 283d (2 replies)

I don't even understand his post.

I'm glad I'm out of touch with pop life.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 283d

He seems to be implying that someone got so angry with him that they stabbed him for having what idiots like him insist on calling "TDS", but what is really pointing out the reality about cheeto mcpedo...

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 283d

It's the dementia and narcissism you're having trouble with, not pop life.

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 283d

In the list of things Trump has done, I doubt that would be the straw that breaks any camel's back.

It might open a few people's eyes to the fact that he's a classless piece of shit, but I think deep down they all knew that anyway.

AlexLost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d

People didn't, political messages did and the good little sheep followed the shepherd all the way off the cliff

lukaro@lemmy.zip · 47 pts · 283d (2 replies)

Too little too late the whole republican part is worth less than shit.

devolution@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 283d

Thune and Johnson: Jeffries and Schumer, can you help us write a strongly worded letter of disapproval?

lukaro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 282d

Shit can be used as fertilizer after all. I wouldn't want a magat corpse anywhere near growing food.

blitzen@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 283d (3 replies)

You’ve enabled this monster; unless you’re going to do something to undo the damage done, shut the fuck up.

WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 7 pts · 283d (2 replies)

The most fucked up part of all of this... When you see it for what it really is... You realize people/society are incredibly dumb. You realize we aren't what we were marketed to believe we were. And that even before trump society was just as dumb but naive about it. We see now the politicians are stupid as fuck and naive too. No better then anyone else on the human American spectrum. No one is going to save us. No one can save us. Pandoras box is open and people don't know what to do with themselves because they were taught to live a life for something we now understand is truthfully just bullshit. We shouldn't want it back because we know it's not real. But like drugs sex and alcohol, the people will numb themselves and beg for that pacified simple life back, the one where they could ignore reality and pretend people better than them actually have a handle on things. But we all know that's not reality, it's not okay, and something extremely fucked up is going on starting in America and expanding on grand global scale.

It's the naiveness that allowed this all to happen. The privilege and ability to assume we were too good for shit to hit the fan. We were proud as a nation about that naivety.

Now we know it's all bullshit and people here in america are like soggy cardboard spaghetti.

If you're not American, please be better than us Americans.... Don't pride the culture of escapism and arrogance. Be humans. Be authentic. Don't get distracted or manipulated by the drama they entice you with and the sides they use to divide you. It's all bullshit.

This isn't simply a failure of the Republican party, of left or right, of democracy, it's a failure of America's human culture. It will never be fixed by political bandaids. It is deeply engrained. It's a cultural and spiritual shift people should be seeking. If people want to start living right they should only take what they need and stay out of drama that is marketed to manipulate them.

At this point it's probably more helpful to just take a seat, have a drink and a smoke and watch the empire fall and hope it doesn't take you with it. Watching all the crooked people squirm in their evil dramatic pool of egos and sin. Letting them kill themselves off.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 13 pts · 283d

I agree with your stance, but would caution others outside the US to use us as warning to themselves, because this isn't an American thing, we're just the current train wreck. This is a human thing that's repeated in various ways again and again, and we should really do better than this. I don't know if it's too late for us in the US, but pay attention to your own houses, everyone else.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 282d

You speak a lot of truth. I will remind you that we just budgeted almost a trillion dollars to the US military. This is not an empire in decline yet, we are capable of so much more damage on our way out it isn't funny.

MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 19 pts · 283d

MAGA (lie) and say they like Trump because “he’s not a politician”. 

In reality Trump is only a politician. There are no rare moments of dignity or humanity…like even the most cynical of politicians will display.

Trump lives and breaths politics: all that matters is the party.

That’s why MAGA love him…everything is team sports…everything is an MMA match…they never need to have a moment of disbelief that challenges their bigotry.

AlexLost@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 283d

Just more evidence the man is a hateful, bigoted divider of the country. Why so much vitriol lately you ask? Look to your dear leader before pointing the finger. Worried about the moral decay happening in America, look no further than dear leader. He is the cause, and you've all allowed his disease to spread to the rest of your countrymen

Glide@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 283d

Making fun of minorities, the disabled, and "locker room talk" about sexually abusing women? Totally fine.

How dare Trump openly mock a successful straight white man.

Fuck the Republican party.

Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 283d

So long as he was SLAMmed. I’m sure he’ll apologize just after the reiterates his original statement a few times.

Flamekebab@piefed.social · 8 pts · 283d

Wouldn't want to go as far as actually doing something about the orange buffoon though.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d

They will express greatly concerning concern. That'll show him.

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d

Oh, shit! They slammed him?!

slothrop@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 283d

At virtually the same time, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a conservative libertarian, posted on X that Trump's comments are "inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered." He added: "I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they're afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it."

bbbbwwwwwaaaahhaahhaahhaahhaaahahahahaha!!!
As if any of those COWARDS would say anything!

Arancello@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 283d

What, are they jealous he beat them to the punch?

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d (1 reply)

body slam?

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 283d

We can only hope.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 283d

I seem to remember "slam" in wrestling meaning a bit more than weak pondering.

HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d

Trump is human garbage, minus the human part

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Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 283d

Nothing they say matters as long as they are still protecting the orange pedophile.

Congress could fix this tomorrow but they want to be part of the problem.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 283d

He's been slammed! Now his reign is finally over!