What an absolute piece of Shit. I can’t wait for somebody to cave in that pumpkin.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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It makes me so tired thinking of all the family that argued beyond reason that there was 'no proof' he was a Russian asset. I just learned to be quiet.
They, those around me found out that every time they brought up the orange tumor I would point out he was a russian agent. Let them learn to be quiet.
If there are any generals in the US that are still loyal to the people and their oaths they took to defend our country from enemy's both foreign and domestic, now is the time.
now is the time.
They're not going to do anything until the public starts it. The Military isn't going to swoop in and save The civvies from the inconvenience. Civillians are going to have to start it, then, they back us, if they will. That's the time.
The military has to be called in to gun us down and refuse.
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Absolutely fucking disgusting. This idiot has basically destroyed western geopolitics in a matter of weeks.
This idiot or the 77 million idiots that voted for him for second term?
Yeah the 77 idiots that voted for this are just as responsible. I'm going to go further and blame anyone who posted or memed pro trump shit. I'm never letting my dad forget how much of an idiot he is for supporting this shit.
Agreed on all points, and I’m absolutely not surprised.
It's almost as if we should require IQ testing for candidates. And you know, maybe don't let felon rapists run for office.
Agree in concept.
However making Felons/Rapist unable is an easy way for Trump to stop competition. All he needs is a conviction for his opponents in the courts he owns.
"They're eating the dogs" wasn't enough of an IQ test?
We need a cleaner media environment. The current one is fucked.
It’s almost as if we should require IQ testing for candidates.
Look, I get your sentiment, but we've been over this sort of thing. If we let that happen, this is the sort of shit that the fascists would implement (and put themselves in charge of scoring, which would certainly result in their allies passing and everyone else failing):
The most amazing(ly vile) one is using the tendency of our minds to skip over “the the” as if it’s an IQ test.
Well that and the whole idea of using this stupid collection of badly worded instructions to “determine” a human’s worthiness.
“Determine” with the assistance of that family guy “OKAY / NOT OKAY” card.
That is an outrageous test, there are like 5 questions that could be construed in multiple ways. Hopefully you don't lose points for explaining your reasoning..
Hopefully you don’t lose points for explaining your reasoning…
Oh you sweet, summer child. Read the instructions:
"Do what you are told to do in each statement, nothing more, nothing less."
If you try to explain, you already failed.
Also, by the way, this is the grading rubric:
(This is not hyperbole. This is how it actually worked in Louisiana in 1964.)
you have 10 minutes and the people grading you don't want you to pass.
What kind of place takes pride in its absurdly high illiteracy rates, and seemingly does everything possible to maintain them?
(I'm guessing a racist one)
White people either weren't given this test, or were given a passing grade regardless of what they did.
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You got ten minutes to do all of it, not sure you're explaining anything.
Even attempting to explain violates the instructions and is thus an insta-fail. Clearly, you do not understand what "nothing more, nothing less" means and are therefore illiterate and ineligible to vote, according to this test.
IQ testing for voters.
Or maybe just give a shit about primary education and raise the iq of the voting populous above that of the common slug.
Hey let's maybe not try to fix ignorance with eugenics
It is almost like Trump is Putin's puppet.
How long until he will tweet about how the Ukrainian nation and its language is just a Leninist fabrication?
This deranged man will start WW3.
I'm increasingly convinced that that's his ultimate goal. Or maybe Putin's ultimate goal and Trump is just being used as a puppet.
Well yeah, an emergency like a war gives him power to do all kinds of authoritarian things.
putin's ultimate goal is to rebuild old USSR borders and control the whole Europe and Asia, he is not hiding it.
trump doesn't seem to have a problem with that and whatever he is getting from putin in return he thinks it is worth it.
Meanwhile musk, Vance and others are trying convert US into technofeudalism[1] and eventually get rid of trump one they succeed (trump likely was convinced by them that it is for his own benefit).
[1] this is what Bannon is upset about
Yes, it's mostly Putins goal, he knows the US will be too busy internally/incompetent to mean anything on a world stage so Russia takes the lead.
Musk is a firm believer of being part of the destruction of the world and desires to be on the forefront of reshaping it... For him it's all good 'till the restructuring begins.
So the path to world war has been firmly set in motion:
Trump fully destroys the US' international influence by dismantling the NATO and UN memberships, closing bases on foreign soil and discarding its external intelligence machine.
Ukraine will not want to be conquered and can make its own nukes, will be a huge pain for Russia.
Russia will attempt to take back eastern Europe, first through (political)chaos then by force, like it has done times and times again in the past.
Iran will see the US kneeling before Russia and openly attacks Israel with all it has, the US will try to call on the Arab states to intervene, but it would be in the name of Israel which... yeah is a bit awkward...
India and Japan will declare neutrality, Japan closes itself off from the world as in the olden days, and India has a few worms to pick with Pakistan....
Afrika is a tribal bloodbath on it's own and no party in this.
China will feel legitimized in taking Taiwan and perhaps all of Korea, which destroys the Wests supply of silicon. Causing a tipping point into all out war over the whole globe...
Nah we got TSMC in Arizona now, they thought of that
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Chump wants his name on something. Anything.
A geographical "monument" to him. Something that says forever "Chump was here and did that".
Started with buildings, moved to a border wall, then Rushmore, and now he's looking on a global scale... Panama, Greenland, Gulf, etc.
And he's willing to give/do anything to get it. Likely including WW3. That'd be something to point to.
Also why he's aligning with Putain's goal to recreate USSR, and Xi's goal of absorbing Taiwan. Makes the Little Toddler Idiot feel like he has influence on a global scale that will be viewed with awe by all who gaze upon it in perpetuity.
Much more likely those viewers will point to any such changes with absolute derision and laughter.
I know I will.
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A late night call from the Oval Office: Good morning mister Vlad. It's Donald. Yes, Ukraine is on sale, but what about eggs? I told them I'd fix the price on eggs... Say what now?.. I can't pass the phone to Elon, he isn't there. Hello. Hello? Hello? HELLO? I hate it when he does that.
far too coherent
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Uhhh.... he loves Putin. Duhh, he's going to peacock for his idol. What a moron.
I believe he is beholden to him by way of blackmail. Remember the Steele Dossier.
Steele was first to warn that Russia was mounting a covert operation to elect Donald Trump. Fusion GPS – his partners in Washington DC – have called this the dossier's 'foundational initial assertion' and it was correct. Much later, the Mueller inquiry would state that 'the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome.' Steele wrote about what was happening as early as June 2016...The US intelligence agencies...did not publish their findings until December 2016, too late to prevent the effort to influence the election.
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The U.S. is rapidly turning into Russia, so it makes sense that we should start sounding like them.
Trump is a Russian asset and a traitor. How much more evidence do you need?
Russian puppet is going to do puppet things. mild shock
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