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Donald Trump has taken his obsession with crafting falsehoods about Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to the next level, penning his own fan fiction on Tuesday about the vice president.

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[–] Hazzia@infosec.pub 178 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty weird thing to do.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol every time I read one of his headlines I now think 'how weird can one person get?' and he somehow finds a way to out do his record almost daily.

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[–] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 141 points 3 months ago (12 children)

In a rant rife with misspellings and baseless conspiracy, Trump wrote: "What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination."

The ex-president continued, "He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!"

I don’t think Trump knows what the constitution is

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 102 points 3 months ago (4 children)

He just can't accept that someone willingly can give up power, I think this is very close to what he felt when the 2020 election was "stolen" from him.

And it's funny how he can't let Obama go from his mind, talk about living rent free...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

What power? Didn't Biden lose? \s

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know Trump doesn't know what the constitution is.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He swore to protect it and then violated the one law defined within it that an individual can break that has a prescribed punishment. Why we haven't implemented the prescribed necktie outlined in the constitution I don't know. I guess we just don't want 100% of the people we've tried under that law to be white dudes? And also! What he did was 1000x worse than what John Brown did.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Why we haven't implemented the prescribed necktie outlined in the constitution I don't know.

I do: we have at least 34 Senators and 5 SC Justices who let him do it. It's as simple as that. If he didn't have either group of people in his pocket, he'd be in jail right now.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

Honestly that first quote reads like a bad AI impersonating trump, it's that unhinged.

The second before he posted it, an SNL audience would have been in hysterics if someone did an impersonation of him and read that verbatim, as it would have come across as a comically flanderised version of the real him.

Alas, we continue through the bottom of the barrel beneath the one we started in

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kamabla?

If that’s what he’s going with, he’s toast.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He has said it several times now. I'm still confused by it.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I’m guessing he made a typo but doesn’t want to admit it, so now he’s locked in.

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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

The ex-president continued, "He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!"

Sure sounds a lot like something he would do himself.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago

Holy... He's live blogging his meltdown. *grabs popcorn*

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Insane to me this man is in serious contention for the Presidency of the United States in 2024.

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At least he didn't sell out to grammarly based on this spelling

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[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 105 points 3 months ago (1 children)

God he wants Joe back so bad. He was jilted at the altar.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

He'll never get his rematch, he'll always be 0-1 to Joe and it's driving him insane. Let alone the fact that his new opponent is his kryptonite and killing him in his beloved "ratings". He's getting booed off stage and Democrats are filling arenas with people chanting "U.S.A".

If anyone reads the writing on the wall to him, he might finally snap.

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope she starts talking about the size crowds she pulls. He will blow his top!

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

I really wish I could just whisper in trump's ear

Biden beat you

No he cheated

Then he cheated better than you did

No I didn't cheat

Then you where too stupid to get away with it

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

he’ll always be 0-1 to Joe and it’s driving him insane

Ah, this is it, yes. Now I understand. Thanks.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 69 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In case anybody hasn't noticed, Trump has shifted away from lying in the form of "plausible deniability" or lies that have at least a kernel of reality to them so long as you dig deep enough and just don't think too hard about it, to literally just making up events about things that other people did that simply never happened.

He said Obama went online and publicly withheld his support for Harris, only for news outlets to show the moment he endorsed her, which was two days before his post.

He said Harris was a "border czar" that she literally never was.

And now, whatever this word salad is. I'm not even going to try to make any sense of it because there is absolutely no possible way that any of that makes even the slightest bit of common sense no matter how many conspiracy theories you subscribe to or how much meth you've taken. Remember that scene from Billy Madison? "I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul". Billy Madison would look like a Harvard graduate compared to this.

All he's doing now is just accusing random people of random things and hoping his base believes it.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 29 points 3 months ago (10 children)

In case anybody hasn't noticed, Trump has shifted away from lying in the form of "plausible deniability" or lies that have at least a kernel of reality to them so long as you dig deep enough and just don't think too hard about it, to literally just making up events about things that other people did that simply never happened.

I feel like this has been going on for a long time, though? He literally lied about the crowd size of his inauguration 8 years ago despite pictures of the actual crowd being widely available.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

only for news outlets to show the moment he endorsed her, which was two days before his post.

This is the difference right here. He's getting fact checked instead of journalists just coughing politely when he spews pure nonsense.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 3 months ago

Sure, and if they'd have done that from the start 10 years ago maybe things would have developed differently. But at this point everyone already knows he is a pathological liar, and neither his devoted supporters nor the independent/undecideds seem to care.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah this is classic Trump actually, the famous difference between a Bullshitter and a Liar. He's a Bullshitter because he doesn't care what the truth is, he just says whatever will help him. Biden is re-joining the race. Covid restrictions will end by Easter 2020. He won the 2020 election. Obama is a secret Muslim with a fake birth certificate. Just whatever. He gets called out on these things and just sticks with them.

A Liar has a relationship with the truth but says the opposite. A Bullshitter has no relationship with the truth.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

In case anybody hasn’t noticed, Trump has shifted away from lying in the form of “plausible deniability” or lies that have at least a kernel of reality to them so long as you dig deep enough and just don’t think too hard about it, to literally just making up events about things that other people did that simply never happened.

Fox news called. It's their bread and butter all day every day forever. I got so sick of having to do the research my father refused to do as Sean Hamface yelled "truth" at him over the tv. There is almost always a grain of truth that they abuse. You do 30 seconds of "research" and it verifies their claim. You need to actually learn about nuance to discover they are lying by omission on most things. It's incredibly tiring...

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His only chance is if Dems ran a historically unpopular candidate like Hillary or Biden.

Kamala is far from perfect, but it's not exactly a high bar to be better than trump.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I wouldn't call Biden historically unpopular. He won once, after all. He didn't back out because he was unpopular, he backed out because he was not the same candidate that won in 2020.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 42 points 3 months ago

He made the biggest choice for this country. A really big and important sacrifice. I am glad I voted for him now

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 months ago

Next from JD Vance: 50 Shades of Grandma's Couch

[–] echo@lemmings.world 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was a fever dream... he knows he's screwed against Harris and is wishing it was still Biden.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm picturing him in bed with a Pic of Joe like wolverine.

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

“What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination.”

I can't even.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why does it sound like Trump comes up with his childish nicknames by consulting Garbage Pail Kids trading cards from the 80s?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

If you told me that the last time Trump read something it was the text on a children's toy in the 1980s, I wouldn't have trouble believing it.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How Joe Biden Came Back For Me

A fan-created work by D. Trump.

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He feels he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he hates most, and he wants it back, NOW!!!

I honestly think he forgot what he was talking about halfway through the tweet, and started talking about himself in the third person (as he does) and how they "stole" the presidency from him.

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[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I refuse to believe this is real. This is even stupider than the stupidest thing that happened so far. This is beyond belief.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 24 points 3 months ago

Don't interupt your enemy in the middle of making a mistake. This can only delay his ability to deal with the reality of the situation.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

And the most pathetic part? He totally bombed on AO3 - he only got two kudos and one was from EricsRump and the other from NYCMAYORRUDOLPHGIULIANI.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I honestly think that happened in a dream of his, and he posted it because the dream made him happy.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Watching the mental decline in real time is pretty amazing. This will be in the history books for generations as what not to let happen again.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

This is the ultimate result of believing that perception is reality.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Fake news. He can't write.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Is he trying to get people to watch the democratic convention? I'm sure the democrats will be happy for more people to watch.

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