I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It's almost cartoonish villainy.
so this is the one rule of fraud. make people smile or feel good while you're picking their pocket and they won't complain. that's why they don't complain about trump. why they like him.
Trump has been doing this fraud-in-plain-sight thing forever.
I've read comments that say it works because the defense is that it's so obvious it can't be deceitful. As in: if you wanted to hand $15m to a donor you'd find a secretive way to do it.
I personally believe it's just learned ineptitude. He's just deceitful at every turn and he's never encountered any consequences so why would he change?
"If I ask'em, if I need'em - you know most of the people on this stage I have given to, just so you know, a lot of money - I will tell you that our system is broken. I give to many people, before this, before [???] was a businessman, I give to everybody. When they call I give, and you know what? When I need something from them, 2 years later, 3 years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that's a broken system."
Needless boasting aside, he's calling out corruption by admitting that he and his cronies are corrupt. That's confusing. And when I watched Hypernormalisation during Trump1.0 it was already apparent that he continues acting in the way he himself criticized, so that was more confusing.
As the narrator says, nothing was fixed, constantly changing, no relation to reality - Trump defeated journalism by making revealing the truth irrelevant.
By the way, at the beginning he says "this now started happening also in the West", refering to what Vladislav Surkov did in Russia: "man who attempted to turn a superpower into a stage play." Worth researching (easily done by watching the whole of Hypernormalisation).
The video clip above ends thusly:
"But the stories politicians told their people about the world had stopped making sense. And in the face of that, you could play with reality. Constantly shifting and changing, and in the process further undermine and weaken the old forms of power."
It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they're easy for people to grasp.
"Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it" is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.
It's a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, crypto rugpulls, campaign finance violations, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don't have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes between him & corporations which are less concrete.
People can either delude themselves into thinking it's legitimate because they don't understand financial stuff/how things typically worked before being massively corrupt, or because it's initially just Trump making money (usually illegally) which is something they expect him to do and the illegality is difficult to explain or not very hard-hitting.
Well that's a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money and innocent lives, which is bad, but that isn't corruption. That's just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.
All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn't the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn't necessary, but that'd just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.
Both things matter, and obviously the war matters more as it has cost innocent lives, they are not the same type of thing though.
I think they are investigating that though, right? It's just a different sort of story, requiring more reporting investment and more specialized reporters. I've seen lots of reporting on the war over the past months (humanitarian, economic, military, etc. etc.)
Obviously though most of that reporting is institutionalist, serves western interests, etc. I just don't expect different from the corporate press
so like, remember how every time the military gets audited they fail the audit? if a company in the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) fails their audit, they get kicked out of the MIC and can't do business with the gubmint but the military itself misplaces billions of dollars every year (mostly bribes being paid and not being properly accounted for. just write them down, military dudes) and whoopsie poopsie, failed audit whatcha gonna do we got nukes.
Or just making better memes than the war crimes, fascism and child rape?
It's a nice change to mock him for something that is only a huge waste of time and money but doesn't destroy all America's credibility and world standing, hasn't even irreparably harmed a natural habitat, and hasn't killed anyone.
You can even listen to the Trump supporters on this topic because although they sound stupid they don't horrify you.
What makes you think this wouldn’t undermine the credibility of the U.S.? It’s just as undignified as a cage fight in front of the White House. But hey, I can put your mind at ease—there’s no credibility left to undermine anyway, since the U.S. has already lost it all.
To the rest of the world, however, this has more to do with the fact that U.S. citizens are unable to remove from office a president who is not only incredibly corrupt but who also uses the state apparatus to make the unspeakable crimes he and his billionaire friends commit possible in the first place.
U.S. citizens may be willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes. The rest of the world will not put up with it.
In the long run, this will lead to the downfall of the U.S. If you need an example of this, just look at what has become of Russia after the oligarchs took complete control - btw, this was made possible with the support of the U.S. (Clinton had even sent campaign experts at the time to help Yeltsin stay in power).
The citizens of the remaining democratic nations do not want this, and that is why they particularly despise the U.S. citizens for the fact that they stand by and just watch even in the face of these inconceivable atrocities.
It shows all too clearly that even functioning democracies are not immune to the concentrated monstrosity that the U.S. represents with its inhumane capitalism.
This is what this regime has achieved, and one almost has to be grateful to it for that: It has exposed the U.S. for what this country has been for decades.
US citizens aren't doing enough, but we aren't entirely just watching, thousands of people have been imprisoned for things like lighting a trashcan on fire during a protest, or charged with terrorism for breaking some windows, numerous well known activists have been killed or went missing since 2020. For it's entire history the US government and vigilantes with their backing have been murdering political opponents and subverting and co-opting political organizations, and our media landscape and political knowledge for many people has been completely distorted by propaganda. There are many despicable and racist people in the US, but many of us are doing the best we know how, and most don't have the opportunity to stand up and pushback in a sincere way without losing our job, and therefore healthcare and home.
It certainly deserves ridicule but it's a different level of credibility from defaulting on promised funding for vital projects around the world. It's also Trump-specific.
Unlike later democracies, the US Constitution has no provision for deposing a President by the public, only impeachment by Congress. And it enshrines gerrymandering, which is how we got a Republican majority in Congress. Which is (with extra evil shenanigans) how we got hard-right maggots as 6/9 of the Supreme Court. So you are correct, we citizens who oppose him and them cannot get rid of him unless we wrest the majority in Congress. Which ain't gonna be easy, see gerrymandering above. Surprisingly, the few who have tried assassination have been disappointed he wasn't as far right as they wanted. It doesn't mean everyone is "willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes."
If you're advocating that I purchase a weapon, abandon my responsibilities here, travel 3,000 miles and attempt to assassinate him, may I point out that there's nothing to that method which requires citizenship and you are equally likely to succeed as I?
I argue that U.S. citizens should paralyze the country with a general strike until the regime steps down and major reforms are implemented. Otherwise, nothing at all will change.
But yes, I’ve heard all this so many times before. Including the excuses as to why a general strike supposedly isn’t possible.
I haven't bought a single U.S. product since early 2025, and I no longer use any U.S. services as long as possible—which required me to go to great lengths to make many changes.
That's probably more than most Americans have done to oppose their government.
No one but themselves can change it. But they don't, precisely because of that attitude.
You aren't wrong, Rude. But it's a feature of all people, not just Statesians. If there isn't something to unite them (usually a symbol, a cause, an enemy, whatever) they can't get anything done. And the entire world (specifically Russia, China, India, the EU, and the Murdochs so technically the British Commonwealth) have been working in intelligence and propaganda to drive deep, practicably insurmountable divisions in the US populace. Like what the fuck was all that tan suit bullshit other than retrenching racism? Shit like that.
i get kind of fed up with the whole "burn down the entire government" bullshit that comes out because the current government is using structures with the potential to do a lot of good to do a lot of harm. like the us army corp of engineers can and has been used as a rapid response unit for natural disasters like floods and fires. put up a usable (not great or terribly long term, but usable) bridge and road in an afternoon to evacuate a stranded community. shit like that what never gets advertised or in the press, but when pops was in the army, that's what he did. if we're going to decimate the gubmint, prune out the bad shit but leave the good, right? keep the grant programs what give money to the soup kitchens at least.
Hey, whats the hate towards used cars salesmen? They actually do keep cars circulating between owners rather than being dumped in the swamps of Florida. The admin however should be dumped in the swamps of Florida
i just want to justify my beard because like, this is how i am going, like my hair is turning white from the tip of my chin on up to the top of my head. if i had any hair on my head, like grumpa did i'm so jealous i look like him except bald i'm gonna be a silver fox in five years, it would be dark dark brown on top and silver on the beard. the last time i dyed was in high school and we all dyed our hair gold and our bodies blue and i called my doubles partner princess and he called me muffin and we wore short shorts, shorter than the running team, because we were going to win the tennis match by weirding out the other team, not being good at tennis. it worked on one opponent in four years. not winning a match, not winning a set, winning a game. we were sooooo bad but we had so much fun.
this fat shit needs to get the rudy out of his skull.
Trump is a NY real estate dude from at least the 70s, owned a casino, and trafficked/raped young children. This guy looks more mob than trump even does. Check his hard drives pronto.
“I have a hemorrhoid. It’s like an infected blood vessel on your ass. I’m nine years old, and I have a hemorrhoid, Stan. I have a hemorrhoid, and, Cartman has his own theme park.”
Before he was so famous, I would describeTodd Blanche as Fred Flintstone's younger, stupider brother, and EVERYBODY always knew who I was talking about.
that woman willingly slept with that dude and then posed with him.
wouldn't you rather just work at a pizza hut than lay down in a bed with that guy every night? like, imagine showing up with that dude at the country club or a restaurant with $200 pasta. that's more embarrassing than being poor--it's admitting that you're so gross that no hot or mediocre rich guy would fuck you.
Because the man owns and operates the corrupt company in question.
She is a gold digger, and that's her choice. She knows the deal she has made, we know the deal she has made, she knows that we know, what's the controversy?
Almost anyone can do the same thing, we just have different options. Even I could be a gold digger! Sadly, my gold mine would be one of those 800-pounders that needs me to make her meals and wipe her ass.
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 209 pts · 47d
I literally can't tell if this is parody or reality at this point.
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip · 98 pts · 47d
when a country votes for the "grab'em by the pussy" candidate TWICE, then reality is a parody of itself now . we've come full circle.
it doesn't make anything better if you consider the "they obviously cheated" angle, because literally no one did literally anything to stop it
OS2Warp@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 47d
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 47d
Homie looks like he’s spent time at Arkham.
cute_noker@feddit.dk · 36 pts · 47d
It is the penguin from the batman universe
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 15 pts · 47d
I was more thinking Gomez Addams, but lacking in class.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 47d
dude i'm a gomez fan. those were fighting words without "lacking in class" gomez is the epitome of class. now dance with me
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 20 pts · 47d
Oh it's real. I just wonder if they did it this way with the sole purpose of confusing people or just general corruption.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 47d
I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It's almost cartoonish villainy.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 47d
Comedians all over the world have been complaining that Trump and his posse are stealing their jobs.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
so this is the one rule of fraud. make people smile or feel good while you're picking their pocket and they won't complain. that's why they don't complain about trump. why they like him.
Bohne93@feddit.org · 9 pts · 47d
Fiction has this stupid flaw where it needs to adhere to rules, reality does not.
fizzle@quokk.au · 11 pts · 47d
Trump has been doing this fraud-in-plain-sight thing forever.
I've read comments that say it works because the defense is that it's so obvious it can't be deceitful. As in: if you wanted to hand $15m to a donor you'd find a secretive way to do it.
I personally believe it's just learned ineptitude. He's just deceitful at every turn and he's never encountered any consequences so why would he change?
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 46d
I keep coming back to his 2016 quote about "the swamp" which is featured in Hypernormalisation:
"If I ask'em, if I need'em - you know most of the people on this stage I have given to, just so you know, a lot of money - I will tell you that our system is broken. I give to many people, before this, before [???] was a businessman, I give to everybody. When they call I give, and you know what? When I need something from them, 2 years later, 3 years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that's a broken system."
Needless boasting aside, he's calling out corruption by admitting that he and his cronies are corrupt. That's confusing. And when I watched Hypernormalisation during Trump1.0 it was already apparent that he continues acting in the way he himself criticized, so that was more confusing.
As the narrator says, nothing was fixed, constantly changing, no relation to reality - Trump defeated journalism by making revealing the truth irrelevant.
By the way, at the beginning he says "this now started happening also in the West", refering to what Vladislav Surkov did in Russia: "man who attempted to turn a superpower into a stage play." Worth researching (easily done by watching the whole of Hypernormalisation).
The video clip above ends thusly:
"But the stories politicians told their people about the world had stopped making sense. And in the face of that, you could play with reality. Constantly shifting and changing, and in the process further undermine and weaken the old forms of power."
teslasaur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 47d
Was about to say. Source? I've gotten so jaded at this point.
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 47d
Four Seasons Total Landscaping
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 47d
"pictured here with a young woman who agreed to accompany him after he twirled his moustache and threatened to tie her to the railroad tracks"
Pinkie_Toe@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 47d
Dude definitely has a cartoon villain vibe.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 46d
also f'uped eyebrows too.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 46d
He forgot to dye them like his hair and mustache. Whoever does the dye was smart enough not to point out that he forgot to ask.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 46d
i thought he had shaved parmesan on his eyebrows, or some wierd skin condition.
M137@lemmy.today · -3 pts · 46d
woman*
Why do so many people have such a hard time with this? Woman is singular, women is plural. That's it, how is that hard comprehend?
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d
It autocorrected and I didn't catch it lol sorry I personally offended you 🤷♂️
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 47d
It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 52 pts · 47d
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they're easy for people to grasp.
"Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it" is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.
It's a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, crypto rugpulls, campaign finance violations, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don't have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes between him & corporations which are less concrete.
People can either delude themselves into thinking it's legitimate because they don't understand financial stuff/how things typically worked before being massively corrupt, or because it's initially just Trump making money (usually illegally) which is something they expect him to do and the illegality is difficult to explain or not very hard-hitting.
plyth@feddit.org · 7 pts · 47d
Or because they don't matter. It's millions while the war is costing billions.
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 47d
Well that's a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money and innocent lives, which is bad, but that isn't corruption. That's just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.
All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn't the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn't necessary, but that'd just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.
Both things matter, and obviously the war matters more as it has cost innocent lives, they are not the same type of thing though.
plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 47d
Right. However if newspapers would start investigating the war expenses, don't you think they would find billions wasted in corruption?
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 47d
I think they are investigating that though, right? It's just a different sort of story, requiring more reporting investment and more specialized reporters. I've seen lots of reporting on the war over the past months (humanitarian, economic, military, etc. etc.)
Obviously though most of that reporting is institutionalist, serves western interests, etc. I just don't expect different from the corporate press
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d
You thinking maybe we don't trust the military-industrial complex? I Ike the way you think.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
so like, remember how every time the military gets audited they fail the audit? if a company in the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) fails their audit, they get kicked out of the MIC and can't do business with the gubmint but the military itself misplaces billions of dollars every year (mostly bribes being paid and not being properly accounted for. just write them down, military dudes) and whoopsie poopsie, failed audit whatcha gonna do we got nukes.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 46d
MSMs arnt talking about the actual things like insider trading because most of them are owned trump lvoing conservatives.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 47d
100% right… which do you think average people will latch onto?
this one:
or this one:
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 47d
Is it stirring us up?
Or just making better memes than the war crimes, fascism and child rape?
It's a nice change to mock him for something that is only a huge waste of time and money but doesn't destroy all America's credibility and world standing, hasn't even irreparably harmed a natural habitat, and hasn't killed anyone.
You can even listen to the Trump supporters on this topic because although they sound stupid they don't horrify you.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d
What makes you think this wouldn’t undermine the credibility of the U.S.? It’s just as undignified as a cage fight in front of the White House. But hey, I can put your mind at ease—there’s no credibility left to undermine anyway, since the U.S. has already lost it all.
To the rest of the world, however, this has more to do with the fact that U.S. citizens are unable to remove from office a president who is not only incredibly corrupt but who also uses the state apparatus to make the unspeakable crimes he and his billionaire friends commit possible in the first place.
U.S. citizens may be willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes. The rest of the world will not put up with it.
In the long run, this will lead to the downfall of the U.S. If you need an example of this, just look at what has become of Russia after the oligarchs took complete control - btw, this was made possible with the support of the U.S. (Clinton had even sent campaign experts at the time to help Yeltsin stay in power).
The citizens of the remaining democratic nations do not want this, and that is why they particularly despise the U.S. citizens for the fact that they stand by and just watch even in the face of these inconceivable atrocities.
It shows all too clearly that even functioning democracies are not immune to the concentrated monstrosity that the U.S. represents with its inhumane capitalism.
This is what this regime has achieved, and one almost has to be grateful to it for that: It has exposed the U.S. for what this country has been for decades.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 47d
US citizens aren't doing enough, but we aren't entirely just watching, thousands of people have been imprisoned for things like lighting a trashcan on fire during a protest, or charged with terrorism for breaking some windows, numerous well known activists have been killed or went missing since 2020. For it's entire history the US government and vigilantes with their backing have been murdering political opponents and subverting and co-opting political organizations, and our media landscape and political knowledge for many people has been completely distorted by propaganda. There are many despicable and racist people in the US, but many of us are doing the best we know how, and most don't have the opportunity to stand up and pushback in a sincere way without losing our job, and therefore healthcare and home.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 47d
It certainly deserves ridicule but it's a different level of credibility from defaulting on promised funding for vital projects around the world. It's also Trump-specific.
Unlike later democracies, the US Constitution has no provision for deposing a President by the public, only impeachment by Congress. And it enshrines gerrymandering, which is how we got a Republican majority in Congress. Which is (with extra evil shenanigans) how we got hard-right maggots as 6/9 of the Supreme Court. So you are correct, we citizens who oppose him and them cannot get rid of him unless we wrest the majority in Congress. Which ain't gonna be easy, see gerrymandering above. Surprisingly, the few who have tried assassination have been disappointed he wasn't as far right as they wanted. It doesn't mean everyone is "willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes." If you're advocating that I purchase a weapon, abandon my responsibilities here, travel 3,000 miles and attempt to assassinate him, may I point out that there's nothing to that method which requires citizenship and you are equally likely to succeed as I?
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
I argue that U.S. citizens should paralyze the country with a general strike until the regime steps down and major reforms are implemented. Otherwise, nothing at all will change.
But yes, I’ve heard all this so many times before. Including the excuses as to why a general strike supposedly isn’t possible.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d
really? put up or shut up. get over here and fix it then
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d
I haven't bought a single U.S. product since early 2025, and I no longer use any U.S. services as long as possible—which required me to go to great lengths to make many changes.
That's probably more than most Americans have done to oppose their government.
No one but themselves can change it. But they don't, precisely because of that attitude.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 46d
you're importing all your food?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
You aren't wrong, Rude. But it's a feature of all people, not just Statesians. If there isn't something to unite them (usually a symbol, a cause, an enemy, whatever) they can't get anything done. And the entire world (specifically Russia, China, India, the EU, and the Murdochs so technically the British Commonwealth) have been working in intelligence and propaganda to drive deep, practicably insurmountable divisions in the US populace. Like what the fuck was all that tan suit bullshit other than retrenching racism? Shit like that.
i get kind of fed up with the whole "burn down the entire government" bullshit that comes out because the current government is using structures with the potential to do a lot of good to do a lot of harm. like the us army corp of engineers can and has been used as a rapid response unit for natural disasters like floods and fires. put up a usable (not great or terribly long term, but usable) bridge and road in an afternoon to evacuate a stranded community. shit like that what never gets advertised or in the press, but when pops was in the army, that's what he did. if we're going to decimate the gubmint, prune out the bad shit but leave the good, right? keep the grant programs what give money to the soup kitchens at least.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 46d
Because they need to see it have a physical result. They're that fucking stupid.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 42 pts · 46d
These people even look like real life villains.
Dude looks like fucking Paul Bearer
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 46d
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
I saw that pic and my first reaction was "is that Paul Bearer??"
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 47d
We are a country ran by and profited off of by used car salesmen.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
In 1968, Ralph Williams from Bayshore Chrysler-Plymouth, created a rather honest used car commercial. Look it up on YouTube.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh3Di3LY6Ns
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
😂...yep, that's the one.
RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 46d
Holy shit...what's the background on that commercial?
Breezy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 46d
Give some links for the dreaded lazy people, pretty please.
OleFoFa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
Hey, whats the hate towards used cars salesmen? They actually do keep cars circulating between owners rather than being dumped in the swamps of Florida. The admin however should be dumped in the swamps of Florida
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 46d
Decent point. I would just point out that new car dealers are completely shitty. But now I feel like used car dealers are the scapegoat.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 47d
That's a mail order bride if I ever saw one.
nullspace@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 47d
The guy looks like a 1950's comic book depiction of a greasy corporate crook.
naught@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 47d
She is literally a Real Housewife of Orange County 😅
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 47d
Just Googled the guy. Yup, he does in fact look like a Gotham city villain.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 46d
Wait, is that really the guy? My fucking god he couldn't be more cartoonishly villainous even if he tried...
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 45d
mursejoy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 45d
He looks like he is a mob boss goon batman fights. That obviously died hair and hair piece isn’t doing him any favors. Yikes.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 46d
He looks like his role models are Hitler and Penguin
Reviever@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 46d
i legit thought it's a fucked up penguin cosplay
InputZero@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
It took me until this comment to realize that this is in fact a real person and not as I assumed, a cosplay.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 47d
Hey old men, when your freaking eyebrows are "salt and pepper" lay off the shoe polish hair job, it looks fucking ridiculous.
And what in the fuck is that part?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 47d
i just want to justify my beard because like, this is how i am going, like my hair is turning white from the tip of my chin on up to the top of my head. if i had any hair on my head, like grumpa did i'm so jealous i look like him except bald i'm gonna be a silver fox in five years, it would be dark dark brown on top and silver on the beard. the last time i dyed was in high school and we all dyed our hair gold and our bodies blue and i called my doubles partner princess and he called me muffin and we wore short shorts, shorter than the running team, because we were going to win the tennis match by weirding out the other team, not being good at tennis. it worked on one opponent in four years. not winning a match, not winning a set, winning a game. we were sooooo bad but we had so much fun.
this fat shit needs to get the rudy out of his skull.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
Is it a dye job? I thought might be a terrible toupee. I assumed the chin strap is hidden under his jowels
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 47d
I'm still not sure either, it's late in the evening and I can't process this combover/toupée whatever.
But that this guy has the confidence to be with women at all is mind-boggling to me.
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 46d
That looks to me like classic comb over. Grown really long on the one side so it can go over the top of the head. That's why the part looks so weird
jfrnz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
Which one?
Aeao@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 46d
I’m pretty sure if I looked up the word “sleezball” in the dictionary it would be this exact picture. Just spot on “gross untrustworthy business guy”
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 46d
Does he run car engines backwards before selling them at inflated prices?
jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 45d
He does remind me of what I imagine matildas dad to be while reading the book
halfapage@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 47d
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 15 pts · 47d
He may look sleazy as fuck, but he makes the greenest water. He's the best in the business.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 47d
Dude looks like a ghost you'd see in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 46d
The ghost in an episode of Scooby Doo after they take the mask off him.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 46d
Wtf is this Michael Keaton's batman?
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 47d
Sleezist used rug salesman ever
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 47d
This is Nathan Lane with a fake cigar and mustache you can’t fool me
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d
Mos def, Nathan Lane. There is no other explanation.
db2@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 47d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 46d
Tip for next time: use white or yellow font on top of dark colors so it's readable.
That, or put an outline on it
victorz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 47d
[double take on picture]
Oh this guy was a regular on the island. No doubt.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 46d
Why do they always look the same?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 46d
Trump is a NY real estate dude from at least the 70s, owned a casino, and trafficked/raped young children. This guy looks more mob than trump even does. Check his hard drives pronto.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 46d
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 46d
Pretty sure Roy had more integrity.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 47d
When did Paul Bearer get into politics
aaa999@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 47d
it's like paul bearer and mr mcmahon had a kid, paul would not have a cigar or make that evil business guy face
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 46d
Thank God I wasn't the only one who saw it.
Damage@feddit.it · 7 pts · 47d
Is that even a real face? wtf
ceenote@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 47d
Well, can't accuse him of false advertising.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 47d
The writers of this simulation lack originality.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 47d
NIRATIAS (nothing is real and this is a simulation)
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 47d
first thought: whats wrong with his eyebrows
then i realised, he forgot to dye them like his top hair andm mustache
TheDankMemegician36@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 47d
Homie looks like an IRL penguin from batman
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d
I genuinely thought this was going to be a post about a costume (or cosplay) from the picture.
PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 46d
Is this MyPillow’s cousin?
Ladokaka@piefed.social · 5 pts · 47d
COVFEFE!
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 47d
Gomez Addams?
db2@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 47d
Deeply insulting to Gomez.
skooma_king@piefed.social · 6 pts · 47d
Looks like Gomez Addams’ cousin who sells used throw rugs.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d
those are fighting words, jordan. Gomez is cool.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 47d
So this is what they mean by the American dream?
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 47d
Yep. Rich people are living the American dream while servers and bartenders get paid 2$ an hour.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 47d
“I have a hemorrhoid. It’s like an infected blood vessel on your ass. I’m nine years old, and I have a hemorrhoid, Stan. I have a hemorrhoid, and, Cartman has his own theme park.”
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 47d
Fantastic ep. Cartman got what he deserved, unlike the magats (at least thus far)
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 46d
From one criminal MAGA fucknut to another.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 47d
Was he too scared to go for a hitler stache or what?
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 46d
He looks like Hercule Poirot's dumber, evil brother.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 45d
Before he was so famous, I would describeTodd Blanche as Fred Flintstone's younger, stupider brother, and EVERYBODY always knew who I was talking about.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
This is the type of man who will fuck a llama and call it in the morning.
northernlights@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 46d
Love how their water is literally green. They should probably change the name.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 47d
Well, the water is green, so they did find a green water solution.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 45d
This fuckin' guy ...
LeSparrow@piefed.social · 2 pts · 44d
Danny Devito's character in Matilda?
m3t00@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
it's the rug made dumpster like him. nah, read he did swimming pools on some other bankrupt hotel or something
m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
His hair looks like Ron Popeil spray-on hair
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
He's gross looking. The Epstein class looking exactly how they should look. Ugly inside and out.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
local dealer used to run ads saying, 'bring the wife and we'll dicker'. old crusty car salesman
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 46d
Cara Mia!
whereitsat@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 46d
why is the focus always on the men?
that woman willingly slept with that dude and then posed with him.
wouldn't you rather just work at a pizza hut than lay down in a bed with that guy every night? like, imagine showing up with that dude at the country club or a restaurant with $200 pasta. that's more embarrassing than being poor--it's admitting that you're so gross that no hot or mediocre rich guy would fuck you.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 46d
I think of the woman as a gold digger or a whore, which isn't that bad compared to those bastards
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
Because the man owns and operates the corrupt company in question.
She is a gold digger, and that's her choice. She knows the deal she has made, we know the deal she has made, she knows that we know, what's the controversy?
Almost anyone can do the same thing, we just have different options. Even I could be a gold digger! Sadly, my gold mine would be one of those 800-pounders that needs me to make her meals and wipe her ass.
It ain't easy being sleazy
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 46d
Because they seem to bribe the president more often. Why even give a fuck about this woman.