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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 30 points 1 day ago

Actual fucking toddler

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Projecting his own insecurities on plaques under photos of past presidents.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'm waiting for him to start gold-plating and framing his own tweets.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Bullshit bullshit everyday, lalalala

This is year one btw and it's not over yet

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

Trump is clearly suffering from BDS and ODS.

[–] leya@mander.xyz 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Only a few centimeters and we could've been spared all of this 🥲

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's 0.0001 football fields.

[–] leya@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you convert that to AR-15s? I only understand distances measured in 'Second Amendment'.

[–] ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'd say about 0.03 AR15's, assuming typical mid-length barrel.

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[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was a setup, he didn't even have a scar, no bullet was even close to him.

[–] leya@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Not gonna deny that this could be totally possible. Trump seems exactly like the guy capable of doing something this disgusting...

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m so fucking tired of being governed by god damned jr. high schoolers.

[–] kopasu22@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

America collectively peaked in high school

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

The eating of trumps ass by his maga moron is out of control. They named renamed the Kennedy center. Who memoralizes themselves while living? Dictators. Only Dictators do this shit. My family is lost to his nonsense. There isnt a single free thinking person in my family anymore. Dad mom, brother all lost to his bs. Wake up America, im begging you, before he takes all your rights away

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

He truly is the embodiment of America

Petty, childish, juvenile, mean, pathetic.

The equivalent of drawing a mustache on someone whom you dislike on their yearbook photo and expecting everyone to laugh at your work, too.

[–] Skrufimonki@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 1 day ago

This is what professionalism is these days. The good thing is that they are open about their views and it's easier to identity what type of person they are.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

obama and biden are NOT even the worst presidents, and they're NOT even divisive either. oh the projection...

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Epstein deadline is tomorrow, right?

Gotta throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

Misdirect, misdirect, misdirect

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i think mike johnson dismissed the house to prevent that currently.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh damn I missed that. Just saw it in the news! What a gross man.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only on paper. In reality, the authors of the bill wrote that Trump and Bondi get to decide what to release and can withhold as much of the documents as they want under the guise of "national security." It was just more kayfabe.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The trove has been leaking like a sieve over the last few months. I'm not sure what else people are expecting to see at this point.

There's this bizarre insistence that one more big scandal will be the final straw. And we've been playing this game since Hillary released "Grab'em by the pussy".

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I re-listened to We didn't start the fire (the bad fall out boys version). Still don't like it, but it has the line 'trump gets impeached twice'. Would be funny if the song became popular again

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

And we have all of this because Obama made fun of Trump at some big presser, makes you think, right?

Before that, Trump was a Democrat, mocking Republicans, playing golf with Bill, and endorsing Hillary for senate.

Just imagine who the bankers have selected as our future candidates! Remember when the Bush presidency was the worst ever?

[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's bollocks though, Trump was washing money for Russian billionaires through most of the 90s. Putin put him where he is.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Him and every other CIA asset at the time.

Putin put him where he is.

If anything, Trump put Putin where he is. But, more realistically, it was the Clinton CIA / State Department that elevated Putin, with Trump simply operating as a bag man.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He did get roasted, and it didn't help, but don't kid yourself that it was the catalyst, he flipped a couple years before that happened. I read that same story, and it was just an fluff piece for the media.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/donald-trump-was-once-a-registered-democrat-and-party-donor-why-did-he-jump-ship/wj85mj5yq

He's changed affiliations 5 times now

Before he ran, his investments were petering out. He owed a substantial amount of money to multiple places. (notably a couple of billion to Deutsche Bank) His contributions to whatever party he was sucking up to were in the couple of thousand-dollar range.

He registered Republican near the end of Reagan's run. He flipped to Independent in the middle of Clinton's presidency. He switched to the Democrats when Bush took office. He flipped to republican the year Obama got in, even though the ~~roast~~ switch* was two years before the roast in question.

The Republicans knew that once Obama got in, they could weaponize race and he turned out to be the face they were looking for to empower the right extremists and moderates.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

trump has been a known racist against blacks, like FATHER LIKE SON, he got it from fred trump. and he also dint like black people in his reality show too.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And we have all of this because Obama made fun of Trump at some big presser, makes you think, right?

Well, we had it because Hillary positioned Trump as a cat's paw within the Republican Primary, hoping he'd be able to soften up Jeb and Cruz in the primary, while she finished them off at the general election.

Before that, Trump was a Democrat, mocking Republicans, playing golf with Bill, and endorsing Hillary for senate.

Can't forget how many Democrats showed up in the Epstein emails, texts, and flight logs. Dude was giving Larry Summers "how to cheat on your wife" advice.

Just imagine who the bankers have selected as our future candidates!

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 67 points 2 days ago

This is childish and petty.

I am so fucking embarrassed to live in the USA.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

When the orange turd dies or otherwise is out of office, we should just remove his plaque entirely and pretend like he never even existed.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Damnatio Memoriae as the Romans called, the removal of a person not just from life but also memory. Though I say we keep his actions and consequences recorded, just remove his personhood and likeness. Every picture and video of him should just be mess of static and fucked but understandable audio. Things not related to his presidency should be destroyed in their entirety.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

That sounds pretty difficult to do in the modern world.

In contrast, I like the idea that before he croaks he could know that his name will be cursed and his grave pissed upon for generations.

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 236 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Democrats if they ever get the white house again: "Well, we better keep the plaques. We don't want to upset them."

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 204 points 2 days ago (10 children)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”

Lmao

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 109 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That she can say that with a straight face is truly impressive.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what a petty, little bitch

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What kind of fucking fanfiction is this whole thing. Satire truly is dead.

Also

California Governor Gavin Newsom, no stranger to mocking Trump online, slammed the stunt.

Stop "slamming" and similar terms because they fucking mean nothing

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nothing seems to mean anything anymore.

Like it's batshit crazy and the right and left and people eat it up and it makes them feel like they are a part of something because they haven't cultivated their own worth as a human being beyond their consumerism and materialism. Their values are based on their owners ideologies that they are born into and not universal human understanding.

All I can do is watch all of it and want to kill myself when I realize everything truly is and has been bullshit and so many lives are wasted in participating is the bullshit culture they manipulate people with.

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You people still "America"?

Shit... I'm just floating existing as a human with no flag.

If America wants to kill me I'll walk into the bullets and escape this fraudulent excuse of human life.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We have people with the mentality of spoiled school children leading the country.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Social media and media aggregation has promoted trolls into places where they're stuck sucking their own dicks to shock people, while also being incompetent leaders and managers.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is plenty of worthless shit to remove for the next president.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, because the next President will be better?

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This has the potential to be very very funny.

I think it should be taken as a precedent, and every successive administration should start writing bitchy little propaganda plaques. Instead of a photo of Trump, we could have like an old moldy orange. Or we could have photos of sad war orphans for other presidents, some scathing political commentary, it could be great. Not at all disrespectful to hang on the wall, this seems fine. Let’s goooo!

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