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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

This is hell

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 45 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

We really are turning into North Korea.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

russia actually

[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Can anyone, anyone at all, please tell us what we can do about any of this? Everyday multiple times a day it feels like more fire alarms are going off and everyone keeps reporting on it but no one is doing anything to actually put out the fires. I’m so exhausted.

[–] plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

just do the funny thing

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 73 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Your prez is insane.

I mean if you haven't noticed.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 43 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We have. Every day. Whether we want to or not.

It feels like that fucking asshole has been raping our minds for years.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

for ~13 years now, actually. this guy has been nonstop in our political zeitgeist

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The US version of The Apprentice started in 2004, three years after Trump bragged about having the tallest building in NYC the same day as the 9/11 attacks. The public should have rejected him then.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, we have. The US is divided into two camps: (1) we see the insanity and we hate it or (2) we see the insanity but it hurts people we don't like more than us so it is still cool and we can mock the libs and trans folks and stuff for suffering.

[–] hank_the_tank66@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Also (3) Fox News tells you what to think and only shows select clips of Trump to keep up the charade of competence

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Criminally so. Yeah, a few billion people have noticed.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She described the U.S. Institute of Peace as "a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace."

"Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named

Wow there's actually a sliver of truth in there. She's calling it a bloated, useless entity that wastes money and states that the addition of Trump's name to the organization is very apt.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

She described the U.S. Institute of Peace as “a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace.”

So, here's the thing about Trumpworld. The critiques themselves often aren't wrong.

The problem with Trumpworld is that you've got meatheads like Hegseth and Noem whining about how America's Gone Woke with mushy liberal institutions, when what they're complaining about is someone painting a rainbow flag on the side of a cruise missile.

The USIoP is practically sprouting from the hip of the IMF and World Bank, institutions notorious for their roles in global privatization of public commons, international arms dealing to US allies, and libertarian market-based propagandizing. They're outgrowths of American finance capital and heavily geared towards commoditizing foreign markets and prying them open for US banks and businesses to lay claim to the interior at deeply discounted rates.

The USIoP operates as a diplomatic core that can try and rationalize and institutionalize foreign occupation after the US has entered a region. And there's no better example of this than their role in authoring policy to pacify Iraqi resistance movements at the end of the Bush tenure.

A more objective observer might ask why we need Congress to continue to intercede in Iraqi politics five long years after we'd announced "Mission Accomplished" from the deck of a nearby aircraft carrier. But neoconservatives would sneeringly refute that Iraqis simply aren't ready to govern themselves and still need Americans to guide them towards a liberal democracy.

Obviously, Trumpworld disagrees. They think the solution to every foreign policy dispute is to murder dissidents en mass. And that's what we're seeing in Venezuela.

But USIoP hasn't done anything to keep us out of Venezuela. Or to expedite our exit from Iraq or Afghanistan. Or to prevent us from bombing Yemen or Iran. Or to avoid overthrowing the governments in Libya and Syria. Or to diffuse the conflict in Ukraine. Or to end the blockade and Israeli-induced famine in Gaza. So what role are they fulfilling?

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[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago

Quiet, piggy

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 41 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

Can he just die already? Of natural causes I mean.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Rocks is natural.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 8 points 19 hours ago

Or wherever

[–] minnism@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The world will, without a doubt, be a better place when he is no longer present. Though I hope his dementia holds on to him for a long while.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] devolution@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm just covering my bases so I don't get banned (Reddit habit)

I would genuinely celebrate his death by any cause whatsoever

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Party at my place when it happens. Date TBD

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Party everywhere when it happens dude

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And have jd vance? Id actually rather have this dementia patient.

[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

The fallacy of this is how JD Vance and all that have voted no to release the Epstein files should go to prison. So in reality we should have Vance, we would need an entire re vote

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

I'd natural causes him for you if I could get away with it. I should have natural causesed his whole inauguration.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago

US institute of Epstein& friends.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago

S.S. Institute of Racist Pedophiles just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No matter what he does, it's never going to replace that emptiness of not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and I am here for it.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I hereby nominate him for the Nobel Pizza Prize

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How's about the fucking Darwin award

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

He already reproduced, so that disqualifies him

[–] Lonelybrick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

What a desperate loser this guy is

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Donald Trump is an even stupider man that I thought if he thinks history will remember him kindly. All he can do with the small remainder of his natural lifespan is pave the way for the next narcissistic authoritarian dictator to come to power, and that person won't want Trump's name all over shit.

Whether Trump succeeds in killing American democracy, or whether American democracy somehow survives, Trump's legacy will be cast as dog shit. The next dictator would want to blame Trump for everything wrong, while a resurgence of democracy would simply be able to tell the truth.

Literally the only way Trump has any chance of looking good is if one of his children succeeds him. I don't think that is very likely, but I've been wrong before.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

8 wars? Outrageously lying to show overt loyalty.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's gonna be 9 by next week.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was already 9. Didn’t he stop the war between Antarctica and Canada or something?

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

He then directed his staff to bomb several boats of migrants and shoot some more church pastors in the face with tear gas canisters.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

The only way he could effectively run it into the ground was to attach his name on it.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

This is WELL Earned! And anyone who DOESNT think Starting a War with Venezuela or Kidnapping American Children is Peaceful then you're a TERRORIST!

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have they ever actually NAMED the supposed "eight wars" that Trump us supposed to have "ended"?

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember the two that he made up because his mind is addled:

  • "Aberbaijan" and Albania
  • Cambodia and Armenia
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