• @[email protected]
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    Doing it on Live Television is the whole point. Trump wants the world to see exactly how to avoid things like Tariffs and get preferential treatment: bribe him personally and/or “kiss the ring”.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 days ago

      Look how I still insult him in an attempt to be funny… Nobody can match Trump’s pure athleticism, nor his pedo proclivities.

    • @[email protected]
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      So Trump is trying to hurt/disadvantage other countries/companies by decreasing the buying power of us citizens… ergo hurting their bottom line. How much money does the us give to the penguins, compared to other countries like China?

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    Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if Obama did any of this?

    I don’t know if we have enough perals in existence to clutch.

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        I heard he also enjoys dijon mustard, the most socialist of all the mustards.

          • @[email protected]
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            For tourists, it’s supposed to be Cheez Whiz (“wiz wit” means Cheez Whiz and onions). Anyone with functioning taste buds orders provolone.

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              So provolone is an offered option, and someone ordering it with that option gets shade for it?

              Yet one more reason I will never understand other people. I hate having been born

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                Well, they get shade for provolone if they’re a Democratic presidential candidate and piece-of-shit Republican operatives like Karl Rove are looking around for any way to make them look unappealing to middle American. This one was extra-stupid because probably a majority of people in Philly prefer provolone on their steaks. I could never be president myself because I order steaks with marinara sauce.

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        I love how people repeat this meme as if Obama’s record is somehow sacrosanct.

        We’ll just forget his kill list, his support of torture, his brutlization of Occupy, his militarization of the police, etc. etc. etc.

        • @[email protected]
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          74 days ago

          Honestly, most indiscretions of past presidents feel silly or somewhat insignificant when compared to what Trump is doing regularly now.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            Only if you don’t view them as the incremental steps toward fascism that they are.

            Past presidents crawled so Trump could walk.

            • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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              And painting Trump as absolute evil incarnate that popped out of nowhere ensures not addressing the structural conditions that made Trump possible

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                It is remarkable that so many are using the word ‘unprecedented’, as if they just slept through all the torture and fascism of the War on Terror. Also a little sickening watching self-identified liberals helping Dubya rehab his image and revise his history.

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          They’re making fun of the fact that the Right completely lost their minds at Obama wearing a tan suit but ignore or applaud Trump pulling bullshit like this.

          What you’re talking about is actually a whole different conversation. One that should be had, yes, but not related to how the Right gives a massive pass to anything a Rich White Male does.

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      Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

      Exactly, but we need a plan that reaches the right wing folk and a reason for people to back it , here it is.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 days ago

        Tax wealth not work is a great way to pitch it to people as well. It doesn’t matter if your working 30,40,50,60+ hour weeks, whether you make 10,20,30,50,100,200 dollars an hour. That’s not what they are pitching to increase taxes on. They want to cut taxes on workers.

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          All the media is owned by wealth, and it will be spun and sold to the masses as a Bad Thing. And as we we have seen, the majority of people are idiots and lap that shit up.

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            I think a lot of it is that people don’t view things as finite, they for some reason think every dollar they make is a new dollar that came from nowhere and when they spend it, it goes no where. It’s easier to not look at the big picture of where the money flows, and just tunnel vision what is happening directly to themselves and hope someone else fixes things because they don’t have time/money to address anything.

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        we need a plan that reaches the right wing folk

        It’s called a gun, it’s got amazing reach from far distances.

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      Oh, it won’t improve then either. The mega rich will stand in a mountain of the dead before they’ll give up even a fraction of their wealth, and they’ll lash out at anything that they “fear”.

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          What LARP. Plenty of people are all about “the great class Revolution” but few are actually winning to risk the meat grinder it would actually take. It’s also why they’re banking big time on AI and robotics. Nobody to talk back or question if ordered to gun down a street full of “enemies”

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      The rich already fear for their lives; hence the kowtowing to a mushroom-dick pedo. The point is to make them fear the people more than they do that piece of child raping corn in a diarrhea attack.

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    Afterwards, and it wasn’t shown on TV, in the presidential bathroom Tim apple got on his knees and sucked trumps cock. He even tickled his balls with his tongue.

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    As another gay man, this guy is a disgrace to all gays. He bends over backwards to serve a child fucking rapist. Just to save some cash for a company with basically limitless cash.

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      Yep! I caught a bit of grief for saying the exact same thing the other day. I’m not gonna hate, he did what was best for his company and the price was ludicrously low. Best part? Trump’s too dumb to be insulted by this cringe.

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        184 days ago

        I think it’s OK to still hate. Kissing ass while smirking because you’re soooo smart is still kissing ass. And Apple was part of putting Trump into office.

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        There is everything to hate about a corpo parasite sucking fascist dick to be even bigger parasites. They are spineless cowards only in it for themselves. Until the leopard eats their face. But the next mouth breather will be there to take their place, not to worry.

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        I mean, I’m not expecting anyone to be happy about it, but it’s basically a requirement at this point.

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      Or maybe, I dunno, principled?

      I guess I’m learning that most of the people in my country are feckless assholes.

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      I know this isn’t remotely the point but I think “pedophile rapist” hits better. Your way makes it sound like he is a rapist who is also a pedophile. Which, don’t get me wrong, he is.

      But “pedophile rapist” describes the fact that he rapes children.

      Edit: I haven’t had my coffee. 🤦‍♂️

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        Your term makes it sounds like he rapes pedophiles

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        I usually call him a rapist pedophile, but I think the best description is that he’s a rapist and a pedophile. Monsters usually only have one kink but he’s both.

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        It’s implied that if you’re a pedophile you rape children, because they (legally) can’t give consent.

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          Molestation can be a bunch of creepy non legally defined ways. A person who has sex with a child, is a pedophile, or child rapist.

          (Not directed to you) but I keep seeing people wanting “child fucker” to catch on, but idk why it feels skeevy, almost feels like they are adding more ambiguity, as a child could be a child fucker, but they wouldn’t be viewed as a pedophile. Where any grown adult who has sec with a child is a pedophile, it’s well understood.

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            No adult can “have sex” with a child, because rape is not the same thing as sex. Saying “have sex” implies consent, where no consent can be given. Same goes for “fucker” IMO. “Child rapist” would work fine if “molester” is too ambiguous for you.

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    That whole press conference was ridiculous. Tim Cook, I hope you remember this: you can kiss Trump‘s ass all you like. He can turn on you in a second anyway. And probably will.

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      That’s the part that soooooo many people underestimate. There’s a huge list of formerly “loyal” people who Trump tossed aside without a second thought. It’s not political maneuvering after you put a crown on the man’s head.

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    lol he behaves like a mediaeval king in addition to smelling like one

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    Tim Apple simply exchanged a $4k trinket for billions in savings. This is probably not even the most pathetic thing a billionaire does on the daily.