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Sounds like a bully met a real killer...

Trump is just Malibu's Most Wanted

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Nobody in Malibu wants Trump.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Besides being Krasnov, what else does Vlad have on his Orange US Sock Puppet?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Him with epstien minors

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Definitely some tapes of him fucking a way too young girl in Russia

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Fucking something or getting fucked by something.

Trump has been a money launderer for Putin for the past 3 decades. Trump's entire reason to own international resorts is to use them for laundering money. It's easy. Build a huge resort, say it's full even when it is not, and it just so happens to be that half the guests paid in cash. Well, the cash guest, Putin and his oligarchy bros, said "Keep this up or we will ruin you". So the choice is to make money or lose it all/get killed. Pretty easy choice right?

Whether or not he's a pedo who did illegal shit on camera is another story

Fast forward to today.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

How can the American elite suppress workers with ease but they are helpless now that their president is controlled by Russia?

Nobody with power is acting on this, or any of the policies that destroy the economy.

What is the compromat that Trump has on the thousand American billionaires?

One billionaire financing the organization of a general strike would be enough.

Why does that not happen?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

He's also got everyone in power. You think they only got Trump in his pocket. We would need a complete purge of congress on both sides

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's the plan? The idea of those stupid freedom cities can't blind them all.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Money and power for the rich, and skint and subservient poor.

Be interesting to see how long it lasts.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not a plan. The power of the USA are their natural resources and the drive of its population. If people stop believing, progress will stop like in the USSR and China will take over.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If it was incompetence don’t you think someone would stop Trump?

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Yes, I would think so. But then there must be a plan, a convincing plan that is more advanced than enslaving everybody, all the while nobody is leaking it.

I am not happy with any explanation so far.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (13 children)

A heavily militarized Rambo circle-jerking police force more than happy to unleash the dogs of war is a pretty good deterrent.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

pretty much every cop is a right wing fashy thug, too.

Have to be.

anyone else would be too educated, too moral, and to much a threat against the institutional corruption.

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[–] just_signed_up@lemmy.cafe 5 points 5 days ago

Tbf I'd be shit scared too.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have learned over the years, when this woman speaks - you should pay attention!

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

She's a neocon, a student of scumbag Reaganite or Cheneyoid cold warriors like Richard Pipes. One of the only good things to be said for her is her recognition that Trump is an idiot. But she's not really all that different in that regard than John Bolton, though less inclined to say outrageous things to get headlines.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago

We've all seen it too. "C'mon Vladimir, stop it! 😭"

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Who thinks they've actually spent the money to Maintain thier nukes. Try it I say. All these scumbags can go hide in thei bunkers and their wealth will Mean jack squat. They'll need to fend off the hordes of people who will rip them limb from limb before the end of the day.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There's a very high chance that most of them no longer work. Although if even just 5% of the ones deployed are working, that's still over 80. Which is more than enough to start WW3.

And it's almost unthinkable that they haven't kept strict maintenance on at least a few.

[–] centof@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Try it I say

Instance checks out \jk

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

What a weird article. It bounces from hyperbole to real discussion to Fiona Hill's childhood.

But as for ww3, lol no. Russia is spent. They can make a mess of Ukraine and Central Asia but they are spent.

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