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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 275 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you vote for this man, you are a garbage person.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 123 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There's also a 1:1 probability that you're a sociopath, mentally unstable, brainwashed, legitimately stupid, or willfully ignorant.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

Why not all 5?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

No. You're underestimating the legitimate ignorance of the electorate. Give this comment a read.

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/7228449

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[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Or just a plain hateful sadist.

[–] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Not to mention a wannabe Russian asset

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 150 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I just want to never have to hear about this cunt again. Is that why people like him?

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, there’s a solution. Feel free to help us all out. I’ll donate to your go fund me defense fund.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 28 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I hear you, but I'm just not sure how spitting into his McDonald's hamberders keeps him from becoming President.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Real people will die if he becomes POTUS again and yet America minces words about what kind of ideology he represents. He better hope the mob doesn't ever get their hands on him.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Mussolini knows

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I don't know if by "mob" you mean organized crime or dipshit Jan 6 traitors, but either way, he's leading it.

[–] mibo80@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

ugh the leftist in me is salivating at the thought.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 88 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The man organized an insurrection and it was televised. He won’t be held accountable for this either.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You must be referring to the peaceful tour in which people were bludgeoned, trespassed, and shot in an attempt to stop the certification of a democratic election. Please don't exaggerate!! (:

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[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's just sparkling conservatism

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[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 80 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Anyone wondering why the rest of the world has begun taking the US less and less seriously and has begun distancing themselves from any decisions we make, you can thank this incompetent orange retard for the ludicrous amount of damage he did to the US's soft power.

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

Not just did, is still doing too.

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This literally sounds like a mob guy coming into a store and "suggesting" that you need to pay "protection money" or else something bad may happen...

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

That's explicitly what it is.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 64 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes I like to imagine that trump is actually an elaborate honey pot, and any day now all of his supporters are going to be rounded up for being treasonous idiots too dangerous to leave unattended. But no, people really are that awful.

The guy's fool and a security threat. He should be in a cell, not on television.

[–] ZeroTemp@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm not entirely convinced that Trump isn't set up and supported by the Bush family so W didn't go down in history as the worst modern president ever.

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[–] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He and his co-conspirators are what gitmo was built for and where they belong. Traitor's and terrorists the lot of them.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 63 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The only time in the history of NATO that article 5 was invoked was on September 12, 2001.

NATO countries sent soldiers to Afghanistan in support of the US. A two decades long war. I'm personally from a NATO country and have two family members that have PTSD because my country honored the agreement and supported the US after it was attacked.

The US has never engaged in a war to support any NATO members. NATO members have engaged in a war to support the US.

Recruitment numbers are down in my country in large part because of how the war in Afghanistan turned out. That was in large part due to the US going on a little side adventure into Iraq. Because of this, even though my country is purchasing equipment from the US defense Industrial complex (which if we're being real, is what the goal is) we don't have enough military personnel to operate that equipment.

So with all that, shitheads in the US complain about my countries "not pulling their weight". We've been sending our people to fight in a US war for two fucking decades because that's what allies do, but then shitheads in the US don't care about that, they only care about how much money is coming from NATO to the US defense industrial complex? It's craven.

And Russia propaganda and election interference is happening in every NATO country. For the same reason that there are many in the US don't think the US should support Ukraine, there's many people in other NATO countries that think the same because of the same Russian propaganda effort. Instead of being hyper-focused on the revenues of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, maybe think a little more about who the real enemy.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

While this is very obvious just putin expressing his control over the us republican party:

  • The Vietnam War was very much the US trying to speedrun Mama Britain's history of atrocities. But it also has direct links to supporting France's own atrocities and colonialism in the region.
  • The Falklands War very much was one of the prototypes for the modern conflict in Ukraine. The UK and Argentina went to not-war for Reasons. And nations on both sides didn't want to get involved because "escalation" but sent weapons and other support in the process
  • While overly reductive and diminishing the agency of the region, basically all the "peacekeeping operations" by the blue hats in Africa boil down to the long lasting impact of colonialism by western european powers. And most (all?) of nato contribute to that. We just tend to not care because they actively limit the scope of operations and nobody really cares if some black people get raped and murdered by the soldiers that are "protecting" them.

And there are a lot more "not support" situations like that. In large part because WW1 taught humanity about the dangers of... actually being in military agreements. WW2 and The Cold War very much demonstrated the need to have those unified fronts but there is still the fear of one flashpoint plunging the entire world into war. Hence "Oh yeah. We are buddies. Uhm... could you NOT declare war because we will totally tell you to go fuck yourself rather than help"

Which is also why actually declaring war is so rare these days. Its not a war. Its a peacekeeping operation or a conflict or whatever. So we'll pressure you to help us commit atrocities but you'll also kind of just be in the area shooting some brown people and not be at war or anything.

And, just to be clear: I think the NATO support of Ukraine is excellent. I actively wish we had done more rather than use it as a way to bleed russia dry by a thousand cuts. But putting "boots on the ground" is how you get an Iraq/Afghanistan where all nations involved are actively wishy-washy on what their actual goals are and are trying to avoid committing out of fear of triggering "a real war"

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[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 61 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's still the best US president candidate Russia has

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Quick reminder: NATO's collective defense clause, also known as Article 5, has only been triggered once. It was invoked in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reminder that Trump was happy about those attacks that day because they made his property value go up

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He said that on the day.

A few hours after the towers collapsed, he decided to call into a radio station and brag. No one asked him, he just did it. And he said:

“Well, it was an amazing phone call,” Mr Trump told WWOR. “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/9-11-trump-tallest-building-manhattan-b2164420.html

And, like most things Trump says, it wasn't even true. It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

So, on 9/11, while first responders were digging through the rubble and pulling out corpses, Trump called up the biggest radio station in New York to lie about how tall his building was.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Completely normal behaviour. For a narcissist sociopath.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it doesn't seem like you should vote for this guy.

[–] Neil@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Over 75 million people in this country are about to do that.

Don't like it? Get out and vote.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Russia attacking NATO would give a significant chunk of the globe the green light to obliterate Putin.

This is likely the route to ending the war on Ukraine with the lowest loss of human life.

So... Go on Putin, try it.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That would actually be 4d chess. Encourage Russia to invade and let Poland crush it

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[–] ClarkFlankblast@sh.itjust.works 50 points 7 months ago

Stable genius.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 44 points 7 months ago

Feeding his base. Republicans only platform is to trigger libs. They’re like monkeys throwing shit at their fellow citizens.

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Had he just said that NATO countries are failing their duty as a member as they're not paying the agreed amount of money for the alliance he would actually sound sane. Most Europeans agree to that. The governments have been slacking for years, and now there is a war. Again.

Instead he talks like a lunatic. Fuck that guy.

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[–] donuts@kbin.social 30 points 7 months ago

I might 'encourage' someone to kick Trump square in the toad-from-mario-shaped microdicklette.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure Russia that can't even conquer Ukraine is more than capable of going to war against rest of NATO /s

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 months ago

This is really laughable. Trump is bitching about not paying bills? Trump? They guy who's lawyers need to sue him to force him to pay his bills? The guy who robbed money from his charities for himself? That dude?

He means that Europe got complacent with Russia, which it did, but he's not some genius for seeing that. It was a known issue and let's say that Europe has learned it's lesson. He just was typically dumpass trump and threatened his allies over small issues, instead of using diplomacy.

Now saying that he'll encourage Putin to attack Europe (good luck with that one, btw) is again stabbing his allies. He doesn't understand that America is worth shit without those allies, because of course he doesn't because he's trump. Be proud of being dumb.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago

And conservatives all over the world still want to install Trump as POTUS, let alone the American ones.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah yeah we already know he's a traitor.

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[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I might 'encourage' his staff to drown him in his gold toilet.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

My only hope with a second Trump term is that when he inevitably drags the US out of NATO, the other member states invest more heavily into their military budgets, rally to support each other and make it a true defensive pact.

NATO would definitely feel the hit of losing US support, but I don't think this will tip the scales in Ukraine. If the other states chip in, I think they'll hold out.

It's more hilarious that the Republican Party have managed to dupe their own stereotypically patriotic supporters into allowing them to sell out to Russia. Aren't they forgetting the decades of anti-Commie propaganda being fed to them?

[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Russia isn't communist anymore. They are a white ethno state with strong laws against the gays.

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[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm over the insane sewage that spews from his mouth and not clicking on any trump articles (ragebait) ... fuck the news they are salivating at the money if he is president again.

So if anyone is feeling generous I'm a little OLL could you explain what these like dumbass ok hands are??? Is he about to do the batman hand mask?

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Ew. Look at those horrific tiny claws.

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