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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart...

Trump describing himself.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Who do you think would fare better in an FSIQ test? It won't be Dolan.

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 2 points 48 minutes ago

Literally every time

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 48 minutes ago

Every accusation is an admission

[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when people didn't get elected because they weren't "presidential" enough?

😢

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Democrats fall in love with a candidate, Republicans fall in line.

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And the DNC removes the candidate democrats fell in love with.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

IDK what you mean, Bernie Sanders is the most popular overall politician in the USA and he made it to the final two in multiple presidential primary elections before losing by large margins of votes.

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They literally combined super delegates won by different candidates and then said he lost to that.

Another example, David Hogg getting removed after his win.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
  1. Idk what year you're talking about but Bernie lost by 3,708,294 votes (Bernie 13,206,428 to Clinton 16,914,722) in 2016 and by 9,400,078 votes (Bernie 9,680,424 to Biden 19,080,502) in 2020.

  2. David Hogg was removed from a committee by vote after another member issued a formal complaint that their February ballot did not follow internal gender parity rules by combining candidates in a way that disadvantaged female candidates. David Hogg left his position gracefully but decided on his own to not run for the position again.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 4 points 38 minutes ago

The popular vote numbers are convincing on the face until you realize that Sanders conceded before all the primaries were held. This means for a lot of states Biden was the only option.

It would be a better argument if Sanders was a viable candidate in every race.

Regardless he did concede and you can litigate the reasons for that if you guys want.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

Death camps incoming.

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

AOC+3? Is this supposed to be code?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago

BRB, looking up wholesome AOC fiction on AO3

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to "The Squad"

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh FFS. I’m sure there’s nothing they have in common that the orange shitbag could possibly be referring to.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

I don't know, but it sounds good

[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I think he meant AOC^3, because cubes are so much scarier than squares.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I can hear the tears on his gross, unwiped phone screen.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 hours ago

I read here that Trump is calling someone mentally unfit.

Let's see that slander case. TACO.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The really funny thing about this is that he probably would have been almost as mad if Cuomo won the primary, but it shows that he really doesn't have any faith in his party's candidate in the generals lmao.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 43 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

It's a Mayor these guys are freaking out over.

The president is freaking out over a Mayor.

That's true fear. They know we intend to use the law to put the real criminals in prison.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, NYC is a huge city and so its mayor is a major figure in the US. The most recent population I could find was 8.8 million people, vs. the total US at 340 million. NYC is, therefore, home to 2.6% of the US population. As a polity, NYC represents more people than the 9 least populous states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, N Dakota, S Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and Maine) combined. In fact, there are only 12 US states that have a bigger population than NYC alone, and one of those is New York state. From a population perspective, the mayor of NYC is equivalent to the governor of Virginia. That's why everyone is freaking out about this so much. Plus he's young and very handily beat the candidate backed by the DNC establishment, showing cracks in what they assumed was a solid neoliberal core.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

NYC has more population than like 38 individual states, what you say is true.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Not a mayor, a mayoral candidate who beat his fascist opponent for the opportunity to be represented in the election.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 4 hours ago

He looks terrible.

This is a racist pointing out someone's brown skin.

His voice is grating.

RFK JR

He's not very smart.

My dog is smarter than Donald Trump. Literally.

So anyway, the person saying this is a felon rapist traitor who has repeatedly violated the Constitution. But hey, it's a racist dog whistle and conservatives LOVE that shit.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 33 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Looks terrible, his voice is grating, he's not very smart. Who do those words make me think of? DJT and RFKjr win in a landslide.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago

Trump is a master of projection.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 22 points 5 hours ago

The tighter they squeeze, the more systems slip through their grasp.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 166 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (8 children)

He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.

As a Canadian I know almost nothing about Zohran Mamdani, but I do know that he has more class than a man ever will who, while President of the USA, writes this, or the people who see a non-white left-winger win a democratic vote and immediately call for his deportation. The world can see this. Trump and MAGA are bringing shame on your country.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 101 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We know. We’re miserable. (Us sane people, anyway).

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 48 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

+1

every day is more embarrassing than the last. i have felt shame in the past for the things our ancestors did, but there's something different about living in the midst of it. i fucking hate this place. any time i hear "well leave if you don't like it" i'm like "I FUCKING WOULD IF I COULD"

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I haven't felt any embarrassment at all. This bullshit has always been a way of life.

Straight up impending doom this time aeound. Perhaps its that I'm older, but I doubt it.

This tweet by Trump is close to calling for an assassination.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago

close to calling for an assassination

i'd say it really can't be interpreted as anything else but "who will rid me of this meddlesome ______"

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 127 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

"All the (centrist fucks) are extreme leftist Marxists!"

"OMG a (milquetoast moderate) won, the Marxists are taking over!"

"Holy shit a (moderately left leaning person) won an election! It's over for America the Communists won!"

"The crazy Marxist Democrat extreme leftists have gone too far with this (standard progressive)"

...etc etc...

now we have an "actual" socialist, but the boy cried wolf so many times they can't label him anything more extreme because they already threw those words at people like... (Checks notes)... Nancy Pelosi... Lol

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 56 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Trump and the Republicans are now calling him a communist and the GOP are asking Trump to revoke his citizenship and deport him under the Communist Control Act signed by Eisenhower in 1954. I think it's even money that Trump tries it.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago

I think it's even money that Trump tries it.

Considering he is already illegally deporting people and illegally trying to revoke birthright citizenship, you are more optimistic than I.

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 8 hours ago (11 children)

The irony of saying someone’s not that intelligent when it appears you don’t even know how to use punctuation.

I’m pretty terrible with punctuation but I’m not throwing stones from my glass house.

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 30 points 7 hours ago

Trump declares Democrats have crossed the line because the outcome of an election didn't end like he wanted it to.

Now I look back at about 8 years of Republicans crossing line after line...

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

If that finally gives him a stroke, this guy has done more good than the rest of the Dem party.

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