The amount of news articles that make me laugh have been steadily increasing.
What a clownly country.
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US politics is a fucking comedy. My colleague pulled up the picture of Trump standing with that goofy tariff board where trump is reading all the countries and how many percentages they would be tariffed. My colleague was absolutely cackling at the picture and kept saying "the supposedly richest country in the world and they announce this shit that will affect all of us on a piece of fucking cardboard????!!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I hate the guy but damn is he funny. Everything he says is a meme. He's absolutely a prime example of what america is all about. Him sitting in a tesla and saying: it's a computers. And : I love Tessler is just too funny. And they voted for him twice. I just can't
Do you have links for that please? I want to laugh
For real. To me, Trump is the embodiment of the American stereotype. I know Americans think that the rest of the world stereotype them as being fat, but no no no no, sweethearts. The behavior Trump exhibits is the American stereotype on crack. I am pretty xenophobic toward America (sorry, not sorry) and have been since Bush, but even I could not have come up with a more cartoony and offensive American stereotype than the Trump persona.
Same, but Bush was a fucking rocket scientist in comparison. If someone told me that in the Bush area that thy'll find someone way WAY dumber to elect. TWICE.
I would've never believed that. No way.
Oh same. I stayed up all night during the 2016 election and when Trump won I was laughing hysterically because I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing.
My sweet, lovely and amazing boyfriend told me during this election that Harris would win because the Americans wouldn't put up with the abortion stuff and I just told him that I thought he was overestimating the American population. He's always thought my American hatred was too unnuanced and unfair, but I mean... I have been right so far. Which isn't really the win I was hoping for. I was actually hoping to be proven wrong at least once in my fucking lifetime, but eh.
I said the first time he was elected that, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is an accurate caricature of America.
he said they are suckers and losers, and whats in for them, more than one occasion.
Is it wrong that I am less infuriated by this than I am by the fact people still worship this idiot?
At this point, I am exhausted with being outraged by him. I cannot hate him more than I already do. Doing more evil shit may actually make me hate him less, because I simply cannot keep up to date with all the new reasons to hate him. But I cannot comprehend how millions of people can function in the world while still behaving like everything he does is objectively right. Not even the truly repulsive, monstrous shit, but the petty, insufferable bullshit like this. How do you excuse it? It do not comprehend how anyone can look at this and say, "Yeah, this guy should have nigh-unlimited power over the country and the ability to throw the world into chaos with a Tweet."
Agreed.
I think it is important to laugh at the funny demonstrative shit because if you keep getting outraged for every unimportant thing that is done like the Gulf of America thing you're not heard when outraging for actual things that matter like deporting people or silencing opposition
I remember the "Troops for Trump" that would set up from time to time. Never understood it. He's disrespected them multiple times.
he did offer them to putins mercanaries before, when they put out hits on them.
he doesn't wear a tan suit though so it's ok
Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.
Nero fiddling as Rome burns.
They were just suckers and losers anyway.
Trump hates the military.
What does it matter? He has their unwavering support. He could have killed them himself and not lost the military's support.
I'm not sure. Certainly, the weirdos who make the military their whole personality back him, but I haven't seen any evidence that he's outstandingly popular with the rank and file and his plans to completely gut the officer corps can't have made him popular there.
That's not really true. He has the unwavering support of really old veterans who got the same fox news pill as the other boomers. The serving military voted blue in 2020. The Military Times elected not to do a poll in 2024...
There are very vocal service members who support him but the military as a whole does not and is not a fan of Hegseth fucking around in the DoD either. For example one published plan has us divesting our only mobile firepower platforms (strykers), just as the war in Ukraine is making everyone else want them. And F-47 did not go unnoticed either. The Air Force went from a study wondering if we needed NGAD to selecting a vendor without a flyoff and naming it. That thing is going to get ditched January 21st 2029. Then Hegseth is fucking around with physical fitness tests which is actually promotions, schools, and unit qualifications. This is making the most deadly parts of military dislike him. For example we've had women working with Delta for 20 years. First of all Delta isn't giving them up, 20 years ago women were officially banned from combat and that didn't stop them. Second it just conditions them to be anti-administration. So when they get ordered to go get an American "insurgent" who held a sign outside a Tesla dealership one too many times, they may just refuse.
Soldiers refusing to follow orders because they do not like the government? Sorry but that sounds delusional. Sure they might be slightly less harsh, but that is it.
Nearly 60% of active duty voted for him for his second term. This is not much change from the percentages for 2016 and 2020.
They may be regretting their choice but I see no indication they wouldn't make the same choice.
military members are notoriously conservative, additionally they source thier fodder from rural and red areas, and usually are mostly white. 2ndary targets are disadvantaged POCs areas, especially the ones that cant pay for colleges.
Hopefully they remember that when the time comes to make choices.
We knew this from the last time around
Evidence suggests they do not make the correct choice
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Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.
Hey, that's not fair. He's also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.
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Hard to embezzle money from the taxpayers for events that aren't at your place.
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