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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

LOL, "leadership".

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We all knew he was going to do this and you fucks voted for him anyway.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Fascist regimes always need scapegoats.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (4 children)

On Monday, Trump posted to his social media site asking the makers of the shots, Moderna and Pfizer, to prove the shots worked. “Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Others disagree!” “I want the answer, and I want it NOW.”

Ok bud, we’re about to see what it’s like when they’re not available again, so buckle the fuck up.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They've already demonstrated the efficacy of the shots again and again. What kind of proof would Donald Trump, whose prof at college called him the dumbest student he'd ever had, whose cabinet members have described him as a "fucking moron", and who since then has suffered significant mental decline, understand?

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

100% this. He wants them to come and bend the knee, while giving him over-the-top praise and gifts.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

HE WAS THE ONE THAT PUSHED OPERATION WARP SPEED! The literal thing that created the shots! The method of them being "developed too fast" was Trump!

We were always at war with Eastasia.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

MAGA has one rule: Trump is never wrong, and is always the victim, no matter what history there is.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

While I agree, the cult has fractured a few times. It's the irritating part of Trump that he's just smart enough to back off when he knows he's losing his cult.

The vaccine thing is one of them. Early on there was a speech where he's talking about how good it was, and that he has it and that his people should have it. His crowd booed him. That moment he went full anti-vax in his rhetoric. Trump is in the lead and pouring gasoline on the fire, but he doesn't have control over his own cult if it goes a way he doesn't want it to go. Unfortunately he's just smart enough to keep them happy knowing they'll tear him apart if he steps in their way.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Oh they’ll be available in states like California, Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, etc. where those state governments are willing to stand up to Mr. Worm-Brain. Where they won’t be available will be the Deep South & other red states.

I’m willing to bet those same states will prohibit reporting on Covid deaths, so there will be no easy way to document that the vaccines work.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Most of us lived through 2020. We know what it's like.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then why did you jackasses confirm him to begin with? What a joke.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He was supposed to destroy the Department of Health and Human Services slowly.

I mean surely setting it all on fire so the corporations can fuck us is what they want, right?

Oh, that's such a shame /s