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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just to get a feeling of how fucking dumb I think you are if you actually stand behind this dumbass.

After several recent gaffes — including getting Sioux City, Iowa, mixed up with Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a speech last week as he drummed up support ahead of the Iowa primary — Mr Trump took fewer missteps in his Florida address.

But he did again repeat that Victor Orban's Hungary bordered on Russia, which it does not. The countries are about 1,000 kilometres apart at their closest point.

In a previous speech, he said Mr Orban was the leader of Turkey.

You think that’s a great choice to lead anything? It’s not even funny to make fun of you, because you are literally mentally handicapped.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I see what you're saying, but were any of his followers taught geography? I doubt anyone knows this stuff and their media won't tell them.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The countries are about 1,000 kilometres apart at their closest point.

I assume Trump has zero grasp of metric distances, so he might think 1000km is close.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Black sharpie has entered the chat

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

“ I don’t get it. They say I lost but I won the most states. All the states, 53 in all. The greatest victory ever and they stole it from me, from you. The greatest victory by the greatest president!”

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's very sad that I can't tell if this quote is real or not

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Yeaaah... I mean after "Defending our airports from the British in 1776" and "I was there in New York on 7/11"

Wouldn't put it past him

ChatGPT hallucinates less than Trump.

Neurosyphilis is wild

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[–] RubberStuntBaby@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Somehow there are people who don't feel like Trump is insulting their intelligence with the whoppers he tells.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Conservatives are not intelligent enough to have their intelligence insulted.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Their lawyer in the Minnesota Supreme Court case was extremely smart and did a great job, it's worrisome.

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"He's saying exactly what I want to hear! Of course it's true!"

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Whenever Trump utters a new completely bogus lie, I don’t think about him at all. Instead I think about his voters and wonder if there is any falsehood he could utter that would cause them to change their minds about him. It’s still hard for me to accept the idea that so many people think this is acceptable behavior in the final analysis. I know many Trump voters say that they don’t like Trump or approve of his lies, but they still claim he’s better than any Democrat due to his policies and strident action to support them. It really is a strong man appeal, and none of them seem to be able to see how letting this become the new precedent for their party will damage not just the Republican platform in the long run but the entire American political system.

I can see a future in which Gen Z or their children elect a similarly unhinged president who tries to ban organized religion or selectively deny federal funding to red states or some other nonsense. When the shoe is on the other foot, oh the cries of injustice these same Trumpers will make.

We are all so fucked. Glad my life is already 50% over. Future generations have my condolences.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Instead I think about his voters and wonder if there is any falsehood he could utter that would cause them to change their minds about him.

Exactly: the point of this kind of blatantly outrageous lie isn't actually to try to convince anybody of anything; it's to act as a fascist purity test. The goal is to force everyone either to sink deeper into the cult of personality by knowingly accepting and thus sharing in the lie, which introduces even more cognitive dissonance and makes it that much harder for them to break free in the future, or to out themselves as an enemy so that they can be purged.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

...president who tries to ban organized religion or selectively deny federal funding to red states...

Now this is a platform I can support!

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wonder if there is any falsehood he could utter that would cause them to change their minds about him

“Hillary Clinton is actually a good person.”

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[–] Reptorian@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like…it’s been fuckin YEARS you pathetic sad sack. No one gives a fuck anymore. Even his own supporters aren’t as gung ho because…it’s been fuckin years. It’s hard to get people excited to vote for you when you won’t shut the fuck up about the election four goddamn years ago.

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, I still bitch about the 2000 election, and I’m not even Al Gore

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Truth doesn’t matter. Truth is their enemy.

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Considering he knew exactly how many votes he needed to win Georgia, couldn't this be used against him in court?

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA from a state that Republicans never win

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder at which point of his ridiculous lies Republican voters will (secretly?) clue in.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no need to waste brain cycles wondering.

they won't.

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[–] RubberStuntBaby@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rejecting reality in favor of their leader's claims, no matter how ridiculous, is how fascist prove their loyalty.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to point out that even Ronald Fucking Reagan didn't win all 50 against Mondale. He lost Minnesota.

"Reagan won a landslide re-election victory, carrying 525 electoral votes, 49 states, and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. Mondale won 13 electoral votes from the District of Columbia, which has always voted overwhelming for the Democratic candidate, and his home state of Minnesota by a 0.18% margin."

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine a Republican winning Minnesota.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He won every state as long as you don't count all of the states he lost.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Obviously those aren't real Americans.

[–] clutchmatic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Interesting how politicians can say absolutely whatever they want even if that undermines the integrity of the country they want to rule over

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

could someone [in the court process] request a mental evaluation to determine if he is even competent to be found guilty? hes clearly off his rocker, and a potential danger to himself and others!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They already did that and he passed it with flying colors! "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."

[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Fucking delusional.

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