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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 248 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 49 points 3 days ago

I'm about to write a children's book up in this bitch

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

(*) Donakd J. Trump.

Or, if you go by his Press Secretary...

President Chump.

She keeps saying Trump as Chump, in official press conferences.

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[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

A president who must say „I am the president“ is no true president . -Tywin Lannister

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DONALD ORANGE TURD I DEMAND YOU STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT AND LET US CLEAN UP THE MESS YOU MADE. SINCERELY MR KEKZKRIEGER FIRST OF HIS NAME, DEFENDER OF COOKIES SLAYER OF MILK

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[–] piskertariot@lemmy.world 157 points 3 days ago (8 children)

You don't have to sign your tweets.

Signed everyone. 2007.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think he signed this one just to prove that he can spell his own name right.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 2 days ago (5 children)

He really thinks he can just say shit online and have it happen because he demands it. If it worked that way, the world would have already been a smoldering ruin 10 minutes after the first Usenet board went up.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

"I didn't say it. I declared it."

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

International diplomacy via social media in public. What a world.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 117 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I guess truth social is now an "official channel" for international diplomacy. What a brave new world we live in

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

European leaders are still stuck on X, says enough about them too.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

DOES HE THINK THE INTERNET IS A TELEGRAPH STOP IT IS NOT A TELEGRAPH IT IS A SERIES OF TUBES EXCLAMATION STOP

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 66 points 2 days ago (5 children)

"I HAVE SPOKEN!"

"Hey, guys, I have spoken, hear me? Guys? Hey, guys?"

"GODDAMIT, I SAID I'VE SPOKEN, HEAR ME? DO WHAT I SAY! I DEMAND YOU DO WHAT I SAY! HERE'S MY NAME!"

The Art of the Deal, indeed.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cartman has internal consistency and the ability to finish a thought.

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[–] dumbass@quokk.au 93 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This dumb fuck really though he could bomb Iran and it would bring peace to the middle east, you just gave Israel the ball and they're gonna run with it.

He needs to go chill in a bunker.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He was told it would. He was dumb enough to go OK. He didn't imagine this scenario.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Woah is truth social not an effective way to conduct international relations or something? damn. I guess he'd better try Facebook

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whoa, I thought Signal was the go to app for war plans?

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That's the most baffling part. I never had a high opinion of the general populations intelligence. But you got to be a goddamn moron to be impressed by the current president. It's not hyperbole to say I've lost all faith and humanity.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

But you got to be a goddamn moron to be impressed by the current president.

The joke of American politics is that you'll have two candidates run by smearing each other into the dirt. One of them will squeak out a win and get a few months of being The Most Charismatic Person On Earth because of a marginal victory largely on EC winner-take-all. But the TV/Radio will say this person is INCREDIBLY POPULAR and people will be brow-beaten into believing it.

Then that person will actually attempt to govern, fumble the ball for a while, and watch the media turn on them. Popularity will plummet and the opposition will come out of the woodwork insisting "Our Guy Would Have Been Better". Except its a media cycle driven by incompetency and corruption at the elected level. It's inevitably a false choice, because everyone on the ballot was one flavor of corporate shill or another from the get-go.

By the end, all you have left is an argument over who would have been worse. Everyone calls everyone else a moron for thinking the wrong things. Nobody seems capable of identifying quality leadership, because quality leaders don't have an in with corporate media to inflate their celebrity profiles.

It's cargo cults all the way down.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I see he's tried all caps, next it'll be bold underlined and blinking text. It doesnt even matter what words you use with Maga, just the tone of voice and the volume.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So bombing Palestinian children is okay but he draws the line at Iran?

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iran is supported by Russia.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did he add a "hereby" to his demand?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm going to count to 3, and I want everyone to do a ceasefire! 1. 2. 2 and a half. 2 and three quarters. I mean it!

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 2 days ago

Everyone watch, he's about to TACO!

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So this is what a grown man throwing a tantrum looks like.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol his toddler tantrums have been a laughingstock for years

https://youtu.be/s6rKa6Nc-qo

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago

Baby’s first diplomatic relations.

And boy is it a magnificent debacle.

Trump is at least consistent - fuck things up, then pause the fuckup to pat himself on his back and demand praise for not fucking things up even more. Then once the news cycle progresses, continue fucking things up even worse. He’s such a master of this fail technique!

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

please tell me this is not real...

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 91 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Oh it's true, it's damn true.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago (6 children)

God it's worse than I thought. It reads like he's lost his mind.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

Same as it ever was.

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[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

What a shitshow. 🍿

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The first two are like he's trying to manifest it

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He spelled his name correctly this time.

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

IT ISN'T A CEASEFIRE UNLESS ALL PARTIES SIGN IT.

GORK, SHITPOSTER IN THE UNITED STATES

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

lol this is like when someone signs their text message as if it’s a letter

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