• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    138
    ·
    4 days ago

    Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.

    It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.

    • spirinolas@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      87
      ·
      edit-2
      4 days ago

      Trump isn’t stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he’s shooting Uncle Sam’s foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He’s a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again, while pretending he’s not doing it on purpose so he can keep doing it.

      When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he’s doing a good job. Until people realize this he’ll keep sabotaging the US.

      • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        27
        ·
        edit-2
        4 days ago

        He can be both: working for Putin and a complete moron.

        You don’t threaten to sue the school you attended if your grades are released unless you know they are nothing to be proud of. Also, that professor or teacher that said Trump was the dumbest student he had to teach in all his years.

        • thermal_shock@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          4 days ago

          It’s not even about stupidity, he literally can’t admit he made a mistake and work to fix it. Triple down if you have to, never show “weakness”. What a fucking putz.

      • Fluke@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        4 days ago

        See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia’s economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.

        It would appear that he’s just a brat who’s never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It’s all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he’s right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.

      • Lit@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        4 days ago

        Good point. He bankrupted several of his casinos as practice, and now he is bankrupting the US.

      • Comtief@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        4 days ago

        I don’t think he works for Putin (or well, who knows), but I think he admires fascism and fascists put ideology above economy, so that tracks.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      4 days ago

      Putin continues to finance trump and has bailed him out of bankruptcy in the past. None of this is foot shooting, its all trashing the US from top to bottom as Putin planned. Every day Putin wins and people scratch their heads wondering why trump would do such stupid things.

    • seven_phone@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      4 days ago

      It is all building to him putting the gun to his head with the promise it will make him stronger than ever. He will retaliate to these retaliations because it is all he understands. All his life he has just ignored or run head first at problems planning to solve them in the moment with his superior mind and it has never worked, and he never learns. More than that he never sees it as failed, and that is what so much of the US voted for and the world saw it.

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 days ago

      We need to change this rhetoric. Trump isn’t going to be hurt by this. It’s more apt that he’s taking a machine gun to all of our feet. He hasn’t been held accountable for anything he’s made us suffer through.

    • Atlas_@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      You’re thinking like he still needs to be elected again and popularity matters.

      One way or the other, Trump is going to rule America until he dies or is in prison.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    48
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Bet the US is suddenly going to buy these minerals out of Russia. Bet one of Trump’s children or in-laws indirectly owns a exporting company in Russia.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      4 days ago

      “But look at this picture of Hunter Biden’s magnum dong. I mean, just look at it. Its so…magnum.” - Margarine BattleToad Greene.

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    4 days ago

    All this instability has me direly worried about what will happen if China invades Taiwan. Like, if we think it’s bad now, an invasion of Taiwan would grind our systems to a halt.

  • Steven McTowelie@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    4 days ago

    Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump’s actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for… someone

    • Paragone@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 days ago

      Trump & Putin are committed to DESTROYING the hated EU between a pincer of Putin + butchered-Eastern-Europe & Trump + butchered Canada & Greenland.

      THEN they get to be the only “kings” ruling the remains of the West, until they die.

      They’re narcissist-nihilists, as all “mass shooters” are: they’re just committing their “mass shooting” through legislations, & hitting entire populations with what they’re firing, legislatively.

      Pay attention to the fact that the woke EU is competing against both of them for world-significance AND doing-so with anti-Putin/Trump values.

      Canada & Greenland stand in the way, that is all, except for the wealth that Trump would gain, through claiming it as his new-possession of the US.

      Destroying the EU, though, that’d be “priceless” to them…

      No more competitor!!

  • Disaffected Scorpio@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    38
    ·
    4 days ago

    Also, China is going to give the finger to US companies and Trump and make even more counterfeit stuff.

    Companies complaining about Chinese IP ain’t seen nothing, yet.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    This will only encourage him to go after Greenland even harder. He thinks they are the solution to having “rare earth.”

    Without China as a supplier, and thinking Greenland is the solution, it will justify an armed attack on Greenland in his empty cranium.

    The base we maintain in Greenland has about 150 people. My prediction is that he will start sending troops to the base to build up a force, and start intimidating Greenland/Denmark.

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    4 days ago

    It’s not a big deal. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare.

    It’s the refining of rare earth minerals which is energy intensive and causes a great deal of pollution.

    It was nice that China was destroying their own environment and spending the capital to build power plants. Now we will have to invest the capital to do it ourselves.