Um, not defending trump, but the cost of everything did go up under biden. Anyone buy groceries over the past four years? And anyone saying trump isn't mentally stable, and then acts as if biden was, isn't being honest.
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The king is stark both in his nakedness and his raving madness. We know it. But it's like climate change, you point it out and an unreasonable number of people act like you're the crazy one.
So yes, an insane, demented, and cruel man was elected president and all but declared himself king. And lest we find ourselves a Brutus, whether of the styling of Marcus Junius Brutus or of Lucius Junius Brutus, or the senate decides to declare a republic or we do as the Benghazians did to their mad king of Ghaddafi, or we antagonize the world to the point of being liberated… we're at an impasse.
The mad king demands we all suffer, that some of us die, and that we burn every resource our future holds. And if we do not he will rage at us and his court of cruelty will attack those who resist.
Then you've got Bill Maher meeting him in person and then dick-riding him on his show talking about how sane, charming, self-deprecating, and how he has a sense of humor afterall, and listens to criticism calmly.
Then Maher gets offended when a guest says 'the president played you'
I mean, jfc, Maher is in the entertainment industry how has he never met a charming backstabber before?
I just read that DOGE literally manhandled and dragged a career Social Security worker out of the offices because he wouldn't let let put alive people on the dead people list to cut off their benefits.
Sane/Insane - the work they are doing is crazy, illegal, immoral, unethical - we need more Jasmine Crockett type people loudly calling this out.
We need people with her visibility and charisma out-shouting Margie with actual truths instead of made up bullshit.
At this point the truths are more wacky than the hacky shit being made up about space lasers and weather control.
Of course Maher got on board with him. He loves anyone with whom he can agree their shared farts smell of roses. Sigh…
Because Vance is arguably worse than Trump.
Lady, wtf do you mean we have not been questioning? Have you seen what dude has been doing for the last few weeks alone??
I really hope she is just bating other profile politions to speak up, otherwise this is just plain stupid.
I'm certain she is. Jasmine Crockett is the same lady who told Trump to "stop being Putin's ho". She told Musk to "Fuck off". She's an outspoken progressive. She's trying to spur the Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans into action.
Then she is doing a wonderful job of it!
WE HAVE BEEN. But we need the people in power to push this, not just us plebs on the internet!
partisan politics means that dem words mean fuck all. there needs to be full throated commentary by the fourth estate. alas it's just a branch of the republicans now.
Please the tariff war was stage. He bragging just how much billionaire made off of it. It's only us not on in who suffered. That not dementia that trumps handlers using him to make themselves richer.
It was a blatant, childish, obvious shakedown fantasy.
We all know Trump thinks he's a Mafia Don. The sad thing is he's the most powerful person in the world.
This would be satire in a sane world.
Well, we keep seeing articles about former blind loyalty voters now regretting their Mad King eliminating their former rock solid Gubmint Jobs.
They only care when it hurts them, or their family, personally.
Too late, too bad, so sad.
Trump is not incompetent. Trump is not doing things by accident. Trump is not confused, or senile, or making mistakes.
Trump is destroying the United States KNOWINGLY, DELIBERATELY, AND ENTIRELY ON PURPOSE.
Rep. Crockett needs to quit naively giving him the benefit of the doubt, because the reality is way worse than she's even contemplating.
Hey now we know Reagan was more or less senile by his second term and he was still very much a bastard. Multiple things can be true at the same time.
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Actually, we have research on the quality of his speeches that shows his brain is not functioning the way it used to. There's no doubt that old age is getting to him. Remember the scene when he was dancing? That's not a man who is 100%.
But as you said, it sure looks like he's trying to do a lot of the horrible things that he is successfully doing. Why are you giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's only malice when it sure looks like both malice and incompetence?
Thank you for saying this. People are gradually sobering up that Trump and co. know what they are doing. For many years, people are insulting him as dumb. But would a dumb person not be elected twice into the world's most powerful position? If he is dumb, who is the one wielding the power right now? Who is the one lording over us right now? There is the ongoing notion that the concept of intelligence means being smart in broad cognitive aspects. But academics are re-evaluating what intelligence means because we can clearly see that everyone being good at specific things, but not so with the others. Can we call a successful rich banker dumb for being bad at biology and vice versa? A demagogue may not know what "transgenic" means, but he certainly knows what levers to pull to incite the base emotions of voters into supporting him/her. That takes certain skills.
I would still laugh if someone tries to dismiss Trump as "dumb" even after these comments. The principles of Sun Tsu's "Art of War" can still be conceptually applied into everyday life, and one of the key tenets is to never underestimate your opponent. Keep calling Trump dumb, but who is the one in charge right now? Sure, his government policies are irrational amd harm everyone else, but not to himself and his cronies. He just performed insider trading in last two days after all. That still takes certain skills that most of us can't do.
Trump golfs on the weekends with his buddies. I bet he just does what his golf buddies tell him to. The fact that we don't know who those people are is not good.
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One thing I'm weirdly used to is Republicans getting away with murder but how dare a Democrat wear a tan suit.
It's because he's a spiteful sociopath who enjoys the suffering of those he considers lesser beings. Basically everyone not a current dictator. He also thrives on sycophants lavishing him with attention and praise, and has successfully chased off anyone who might have questioned his megalomania. We can only hope he has a medical emergency and dies like Stalin because no one is willing to make him go to a hospital.
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If someone asked me, I'd have told them Trump was mentally and morally unfit to be president
Wasn't there a time where a married man got a blow job in the oval office and people got very upset? Seems like morals didn't mean shit to the side that pushes "family values" and their idea of "morality." The conservatives nowadays remind of the dad in Moral Orel.
“Like, the fact that they sat around, called Joe Biden ‘Sleepy Joe Biden' ...
This account is my last vestige of social media, so I don't have much to compare against, but weren't the bulk (all?) of the "[Adjective] Joe" accounts just straight up shills? I know I blocked most of them because they were single-issue, one-trick pony accounts, but I haven't seen the first one since the election. And not a peep of "[Adjective] Trump" from any of that particular peanut gallery, either.
I forgot where I was going with this, but I guess my point is that if we're lucky enough to have another election, and you see a bunch of single-issue accounts come out of the woodworks, maybe just block the fuck out of them, yeah?
You blocked them and now you're using the fact that you don't see similar posts from the people you say you've blocked to justify that your blocks were correct?
"I blocked the accounts I found annoying. Now I don't see them, so I can't see what they say now. Ergo, now they're completely in support!"
They're not sending their best, folks.
Delusional don? Terminal trump? Tornado trump?
Orange Julius.
Ngl one of the reasons I stick around this place as my final social media vestige is that there tends to be a lot of people who - and I mean this respectfully - are suspiciously similar to my own mind
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“You didn’t have to worry about the cost of food just skyrocketing or skyrocketing costs of all of your electronics,” she said.
If she's referring to prices under Biden, then I don't agree with that. Part of why so many people voted for Trump is because of how Trump hammered home the inflation argument specifically with groceries.
It's a shame those people didn't realize Trump had no plans of helping with prices, and he was just using the issue as a wedge. But we can't pretend groceries didn't go up an insane amount under Biden. Now, was it Biden's fault? No, he inherited a crap show from Trump and did his best to stop the damage. But low information voters don't know that. they just know they started paying way more under Biden.
I think you're misunderstanding the context. This is not criticizing voters who thought that candidate Trump was good. It's criticizing people who are not reacting strongly enough to Trump now.
I don’t think they misunderstood the context. The user is saying that while the broader point she is making is correct, specifically saying we didn’t have to worry about grocery prices under Biden undermines the message.
Because they're too busy wetting their pants and/or browning their noses in fear of the Almighty Mafia Don Mangolini.
R's and D's (with the exception of very few) have completely abdicated their authority to the "Saved by God to Save the Country" King.
Losers, cowards, and sycophants all.
A third party in US is so sorely needed. But can't see any third party being given a chance/shot.
We are fucked.
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I wonder why no one questions the volume of executive orders this guy issues.
I know I'm pointing out the obvious here but it's authoritarian. As in you don't need a cabinet of people representing their constituents and developing policies and laws and deciding on the best way forward, you just have this one self-obsessed idiot making it up.
I wonder why no one questions the volume of executive orders this guy issues.
I'm right there with you. Particularly in light of this tweet...
To be fair, no one accused Trump of being smart. Or even competent.
I've been wondering this since "God bless the United Shaishh!" and "COVFEFE"
hi, liberal here, we've been wondering this same thing since day one.
Curious why nobody is questioning it in the media.
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