• pticrix@lemmy.ca
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        17 days ago

        But, should the kid have died, he would take the time to generate about ten images of him saving the kid, while saying the died because of Biden/Democrats/whatever is on his dark, decrepit mind.

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      18 days ago

      Yes, but the president was kind enough to invite this young man over to the white house to tell him to his face, in front of his father.

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        16 days ago

        Well, if Trump could swim and he thought there was a chance to rape the kid, there’s a remote chance he might try.

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    17 days ago

    To give some modicum of credit: I think this was his attempt at talking the lifeguard up. Like: “Wow, you’re such a hero!”

    But the problem is that the exclamation (regardless of truth) is supposed to be like: “Wow, I don’t know if I would’ve been brave enough to do that! You’re a real hero.” Not that you just “might not have” as though saving a human life would be too inconvenient.

    Then the 16-year-old kid gets to feel really brave because even the president thinks they are. (Also doesn’t help that this current POTUS is an abject, selfish coward.)

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      18 days ago

      Literally the only time he’s honest is when he’s talking about doing something terrible

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    17 days ago

    “That’s very scary.”, said the orange child rapist, “You must’ve shit yourself… I know I just did…again.”

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      It was a 16 year old who saved a 10 year old if I read correctly. And Trump was telling the 10 year old he “probably wouldn’t” save him.

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      18 days ago

      His experience is women are replaceable. He might prefer girls, but he wouldn’t treat one with any more kindness or respect.

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      He already showed us this once in 2020. He had the world’s softest ball thrown at him to spike his image, and he still fumbled it because his own personal belief system wouldn’t let him just tell people “look, stay at home, work from home, wear masks in public until we figure this shit out” without a profit motive SOMEWHERE.

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      17 days ago

      To borrow a joke from The Amazing World of Gumball:

      “If you were drowning at the bottom of the ocean and you saw this coming to your rescue, you would swim downwards!”

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    I hope I can do something heroic one day, so I can be invited to the White House, and I can hold a press conference to tell the entire world: “'Fuck NO! I’m not interested in letting that corrupt, treasonous, pedophile, rapist loser bask in the glow of my glory. I don’t want to be anywhere near him, where I have to breathe his stench.”

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    17 days ago

    “I don’t know if I would have done it. Unless nobody was around, then I’d give you a yacht ride to my friends island.”

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    18 days ago

    Of course he wouldn’t. It’d involve him giving a shit about someone other than himself, for a start. Then he’d have to shift his ponderous arse out of his own way to actually get off it and move.

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    18 days ago

    Also, rethorically perfectly fine. His language does tend to follow common phrases but only is tangentially similar anyway.

    Could have said something along the lines: don’t know if I could have done it. Probably couldn’t. Probably wouldn’t. I don’t know.

    His inner monologue is spoken out loud and his social filter barely exists. This isn’t news.

    He can make anything sound respect less, that being said.

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      Logical. But remember, Trump believes he’s the best at anything and everything.

      “I know all about xyz. Nobody knows more about xyz than me”.

      In his mind, he could do it if there was something in it for him, but he wouldn’t, because there isn’t.

      Quite possibly, this is one of the only times in his life he’s actually told the truth about anything.

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      Are you by any chance German, or Dutch, or Danish, or a few others I’m sure? I’m Dutch and we would also literally translate it to respectless (respectloos in Dutch, just like tactless = tactloos), but in English you’d say “disrespectful.” ;)