“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.
“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.
72 Comments
Blibly@lemmy.world · 196 pts · 99d
At this point the problem isn't him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He's a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 90 pts · 99d
I've been saying for a while until we get rid of Peter Thiel and the other Epstein class members things won't get better. Trump is a symptom not the problem. It'll be cathartic setting him gone but it won't fix things.
Domino@quokk.au · 20 pts · 99d
You won’t get rid of those people under the current system. You will need a revolution before the capitalist owner class is touchable.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 99d
It doesn't have to be that way, it's totally their choice.
Domino@quokk.au · 10 pts · 99d
They’re obviously not going to choose to peacefully give up power.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 99d
Like I said, their choice.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 99d
When this is over, we have to purge MAGA from our government and our society, and reconfigure our country so that the wealthy understand that they keep their fortunes at the pleasure of the Citizens, and that fortune is required to serve the Citizens. The moment their priority shifts to increasing profit at the expense of the Citizens, their entire fortune is confiscated, their corporations nationalized, and they are imprisoned.
We do not work for them, they work for us.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 99d
He is a problem. But he's the face of a bigger problem. But he's still a problem.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 99d
The whole system needs an overhaul. There's no way to trust the system anymore
ripcord@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 99d
I mean when he still has 44% approval ratings, half of America or more is to blame.
It's just insane.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 99d
NYT has his aggregate approval/disapproval is 38%/59%. CNN has him at 35%/63%.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 99d
I've seen polls as low as 32%. He's going to drop below 30% soon.
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d
That's hardly the point, though. It's fucking absurd and an absolute indictment of our entire society that it's even in double digits!
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
So maybe 5% difference from 6 years ago.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 99d
Exactly. Find the person in the chain that wants to live. Flip them. Then seriously, about 5-15k people need to be executed for treason. Were beyond the 'lEtS m00vE fOWrd' phase.
Let's have justice. Let us practice justice. Let us execute justice, or there will never be peace
iocase@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 99d
I think calling him sundowning is attributing his malice instead to old age.
He's a line-upping old pedo. He has "insider trading syndrome" which on the surface appears like dementia...
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
It's both. It's always been both. Since even 2016 he's been a mentally deteriorating sociopath.
Soup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
The people in power are also all the voters who see this behaviour, who see the obvious lies(even for them in their echo chambers it’s hard to miss some of this), and who continue to support not only him, but conservatism in general. It has never worked, yet they keep saying “ok, so once again it is conservatism that has produced this loser but he’s not a real conservative so I’m gunna keep supporting the POS factory.”
We can argue about the racism, the sexism, the classism, and all that for a real long time but ultimately a few evil people won’t last against a population that actually cares and a few caring people won’t last against a population that allows themselves to be duped by obvious racism, sexism, etc.
The GOP, for all their evil and election fraud, still would not win a single election if the people of the US said “no.”
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 98d
Exactly, he's a symptom of the disease. There's always gonna be some crazy old man yelling racist sexist things, that's never gonna change, dementia will keep producing that. The choice is whether we make that person POTUS or not
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 99d
Malignant narcissists don't give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he's a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he's happy as a clam.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 99d
Are clams really happy tho?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 99d
They are always smiling...
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
They are - but only if you look down on them.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 99d
"He's just trolling the media, he actually deeply cares about me."
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 99d
The only thing he has EVER cared about is getting his own rocks off. Be it raping children or robbing people blind, if you have EVER thought he gives even a fraction of a shit about you, you're the idiot.
To extend this thinking, he doesn't give a shit about his country either, clearly. It's just about what's in it for him. He is the worst president we have ever had by an order of magnitude. Eventually others will figure this out.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 99d
MAGA doesn't care. Trump phrases things to sound like "you're not a REAL American unless you believe what I tell you."
So now, "not letting Iran have a nuclear weapon" is it. If you aren't "smart" enough to know that's more important than anything else, you're a loser and a traitor.
They will never turn on Trump. Never. Gas could be $7.00 a gallon. They will just regurgitate whatever they are told, and the blame will be put on whoever they're trying to discriminate against.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 99d
Lmao gas is already $7 in some places
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
Then the strategy is identify and eliminate. Gas leaks kill thousands every year. Even a small amount of drain cleaner comprised of hydraulic acid can be placed discretely but have catastrophic impacts
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 99d
comprised of what?
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 2 pts · 99d
Well you can't use pneumatic acid, I can tell you that.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 98d
Maybe not Trump however the rest of the Epstein class? That’s possible.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 98d
Trump only cares about Trump. The only possible exception to that is his complete and abject servility to Putin.
Clutter@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 98d
Point I always make to people who do not believe this: it does not matter if he officially works for him or not..
Result is the exact same. He's just not getting paid for it by Putin. Soooo.. bad deal.... :-)
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 98d
This was obvious since at least the 1980s.
For anyone even paying the slightest bit of attention.
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 99d
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 99d
The behavior of a genuine psychopath.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
BE BEST!
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 98d
hooyah navy
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 98d
We already knew that. At least dementia donnie can't hold back the truth any longer.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 15 pts · 99d
Whoa. You’re saying the narcissistic conman predator doesn’t give care about anyone but himself??? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING???
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 98d
And yet the morons keep worshipping him.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 4 pts · 98d
yup. It's amazing. He truly truly doesn't give a shit about anything but enriching his pockets, yet people ACTUALLY believed he was gonna lower grocery and petrol prices. Like, how fucking dense do you have to be to vote for him not once, but TWICE. His first regime wasn't bad enough, apparently. Now we're stuck with this current shit show.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
But he makes them feel good about being assholes, which is why they like him.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 1 pts · 98d
sadly, you are correct. Just like kanye going full nazi mode. He gives them permission to be absolute fucking cunts to everyone.
trumpetmouth@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 99d
and now you know why I'm "racist" against m/billionaires.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 14 pts · 99d
No, because MAGA sees Iranians as brown, so it's fine to bomb them.
zwerg@feddit.org · 1 pts · 98d
In the original meaning of the word Iranians are... Aryan!
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 2 pts · 98d
Not the goosestepping kind
dizzle18@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 99d
The response from MAGA: "LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU!! TOO BUSY OWNING THE LIBS LA LA LA LA LA!!!"
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 99d
We noticed a long while ago.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 99d
Lmao, I'll be sure to use this line when I'm near maga cunts.
Bieren@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 98d
And his base still believes he cares and will fight each other to change his diaper.
inari@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 99d
Rare honesty
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 99d
Always duplicitous. On one side he says he’ll lower gas prices, on the other he just DGAF about people.
Dragomus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 99d
The mask/pretense is slipping off...
Until someone else shoves it back in position when the midterms get closer....
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 99d
They've realized the mask won't stay, that's why they're pushing so much gerrymandering
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 99d
Sure; he’s got his, fuck everyone else.
aaa@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 99d
Say the fucking line, conservatives: god uses imperfect tools and his ways are higher than ours, hallelujah amen 😖
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 99d
The pocketbooks of all his dumb progeny always seem to factor into his decision making so he lies again, he does care!
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
It shows
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 98d
Hope his burns
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 99d
This is the correct thing to say, no matter what he might actually think. The less that he appears to be concerned about the cost of the war, the stronger his negotiating position against Iran is.
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe · 11 pts · 99d
Oh, so it is just shrewd negotiation ploy? I was beginning to think that he doesn’t give a shit.
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 99d
What fucking negotiating position?! If you think throwing tantrums on Twitter is a negotiating position, then you're a fucking moron.
fizzle@quokk.au · 7 pts · 99d
oh man. Do you really think Iran is strategising their negotiations around things Trump says to the media?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · -11 pts · 99d
I presume they are evaluating all his actions in order to estimate how much domestic disapproval he's willing to tolerate. They're won't be convinced that he will tolerate a lot simply by him saying so (since that's what he would always say if he was rational) but if he were saying that he was very worried about prices going up, that could be significant to them (which is why he shouldn't do it).
fizzle@quokk.au · 5 pts · 99d
Thats not how Trump works though. He just says whatever dumb thing has been on his mind in the last 15 minutes.
Yesterday he was saying fuel prices have come down.
Every other day hes been declaring the Strait open.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 99d
I'm not claiming that he always thinks before speaking, or that he's thinking before speaking this time. I'm just saying that he happens to have said what a person who did think before speaking would have said.
fizzle@quokk.au · 4 pts · 98d
You seem kinda insufferable.
RodolfoGraziani@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 99d
grumpydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 99d
Because everyone has the ability to just expatriate to another country whenever they like. Jobs and family and community and travel are all just instantaneously sorted.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 7 pts · 99d
You can’t be this dense, surely. People don’t have thousands to just uproot themselves and move to another country.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 98d
Even if one did relocate to another nation, this war is affecting prices everywhere.