Treason motherfuckas … Once more!

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    165
    ·
    edit-2
    12 days ago

    “I can destroy the trade. I can destroy the country,” Trump said.

    “I’m allowed to impose a foreign destroying embargo, I can embargo, I can do anything I want, but I can’t charge $1.” In a bizarre explanation, Trump said he “was very modest in my ask of other countries”.

    “I didn’t want to do anything that would affect the decision of the court,” he said.

    “I wanted to be a good boy.”

    “I didn’t want to hurt you, but you’ve left me no choice.” He thinks about everything like a violent, abusive rapist. Probably because he’s a violent, abusive rapist.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    11 days ago

    If our country can be destroyed by any President, that means that there is no longer sufficient separation of powers, and that our federal government is completely worthless.

    He is so ignorant of his job and real duties that he doesn’t even realize this. He believes it, and he believes that he is righteous. That’s because he’s a narcissist who’s never had to go shopping for groceries, who’s never had to make his own dinner, who’s never had to clean his own house, who’s never had to even work for a living.

    He is completely detached from reality, and him being President shows how rotten our government has become. He could NEVER be elected in anything resembling a functioning Republic.

    • glorkon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      11 days ago

      Well, to be quite honest, it also shows how rotten our so-called Western civilization has become. This man not only got elected, but millions upon millions of people thought it would be a great idea to reelect him - after Jan 6th and everything.

      And that’s not even an exclusively American problem. Look at Europe. Even with better education and safer social security, way too many people vote for far-right populists.

      Before Corona, I still had hopes for us as a species. Despite all the religious nonsense, the racism, the bigotry, the hate, the wars, everything. I thought sensible people were a safe majority. I thought it takes extraordinary circumstances, the proverbial perfect storm, to plunge a society into chaos.

      Well, I know better now. I’m 49 and with any luck, I’ll have 30 more years on this planet, maybe I get lucky and there will be no wars on my doorstep. I’m utterly, utterly disappointed in mankind, I would almost go as far as to say I root for its demise. I have no kids, I don’t feel like I have a horse in this race anymore anyway.

      And Trump is the epitome of everything wrong with us.

      • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        9 days ago

        We agree 100%, Trump is the President we deserve. Mooks have been worshiping him for 50 years, he’s talked about running or office for almost as long, and he’s EXACTLY what he’s always been. And then, to get reelected? Oof

    • mackwinston@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      11 days ago

      There never was a sufficient separation of powers. This and the much-vaunted checks and balances, it turns out, only exist if the person in the White House consents to them existing, and consents to being under the rule of law.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    12 days ago

    “a Political Movement that is far smaller than people would think — But obnoxious, ignorant, and loud!”

    🤔

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    12 days ago

    State of Union speech is tomorrow night. Trump’s batshit insanity is going to be legendary.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      12 days ago

      I’ll wait for the executive summary.

      If I am forced to watch him for an entire speech I’ll punch a hole through my TV screen.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        12 days ago

        I’m normally adverse to sound bites because 95% of the time more context helps their point, but I just can’t stand hearing this MF talk for more than a minute.

        Even during the State of the Union under Obama I stopped watching them. Way too much hold for applause.

        • billwashere@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          12 days ago

          I’m glad I’m not the only one. I don’t have enough blood pressure meds in the house to combat his stupidity

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      12 days ago

      “So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks. So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.”

    • A_A@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      12 days ago

      Would he have a stroke (with hard seizures) on live TV , i would pray eternally to the divine cholesterol.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      12 days ago

      As damaging as he is he is mostly concerned with enriching himself.

      It’s the ghouls around him that have the actual follow through that do the most damage. Peter Navarro, Steven Miller etc are the ones who keep things moving while Trump naps in the corner shitting himself.

      If Trump actually remembered he made this threat he could definitely be more active destroying American hegemony and quality of life.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    12 days ago

    Yeah, we already know, because you’ve been doing it. “Do what I want or I’ll kill everybody!” He’s a child, just like the rest of MAGA.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    12 days ago

    15 years ago such a statement would have been unthinkable. Look where we are now and how fast we’ve gotten there. The repubicans went apeshit over a tan suit, but this? They sit on their hands.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    12 days ago

    Most prolific traitor in the history of the United States of America.

    Being prevented from receiving a traitor’s punishment by the ultra wealthy and inbreds across America.

      • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        12 days ago

        Listen, Americans need to fix their shit. It’s affecting the rest of the world in a bad way. If Americans can’t stand up to these assholes running their country then, yes, the rest of the world would prefer America fails quickly and stops being a drag on the rest of the world. Most people in the world would much rather Americans fix their shit, but it doesn’t look like it’s headed that way.

          • amorpheus@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            12 days ago

            What a convoluted way to tell someone that you can’t counter their argument.

            Let me give you a different starting point: why would it be better if the collapse/downfall of the USA happened more slowly?

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              12 days ago

              What a convoluted way to tell someone that you can’t counter their argument.

              Trolls think they have won when they say shit like this. Nope. You don’t own any of my time and I am free to say when I think something is a waste of time.

        • Auli@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          12 days ago

          Well maybe the world shouldn’t have relied on America for technology protection and all the other shit they do. It was short sited sited and stupid to let your companies be purchased by a foreign country.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          12 days ago

          The onus is on you to show why that would preferable. It’s super easy to just say things would be better if.

          I’m curious how a collapse of the largest economy and sudden diaspora of the largest military on earth would be a non-drag on anyone else. Even if a wizard waved a wand and made the US disappear, there would definitely still be global pain.

          I wonder how unconcerned the rest of the world would be with an untethered Trumpistan south, freshly empowered by their de jure abandonment of all laws and any diplomacy, armed with nukes and infrastructure operated by hand picked loyalists.