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The video clip that President Trump posted in a late-night flurry of social media activity caused an unusually strong and public outcry from members of his own party.

This kind of racism was part for the course in Epstein’s circle

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[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There would be videos depicting Trump as a pig, but they'd be too much like real life.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Insult to pigs. Pigs only wallow in shit when it's too hot, they do not sweat, they cool down by rolling around in wet stuff, and if there is nothing else wet around, they use shit. They aren't inherently dirty or gross, just lacking in ways to cool themselves in hot climates.

That is part of the reason why they don't do well in the desert and people in arid climates have rules against them, because they don't do well there and are damaging to fragile soils of arid areas as they root around for grubs. They are build for like forests and savannahs (mixed forest/field,) and even the jungle, not the deserts or arid lands of the middle east around the levant and egypt or even mesopatamia.

Pigs are smart, they make great pets and are like dogs, incredibly loyal and affectionate. They are nothing like this piece of shit in the white house or his appointees. Even a parasite would be offended at the comparison to these pieces of shit.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago

Did this all last term to no consequences

Put out racist/inflammatory/severe mental error/obvious lie comments, then his team would go into damage control and claim it was a technical error / intern / junior staff, then someone would ask him about the mistake/lie and and his ego would cause him to pipe up that he did it on purpose and it was a good statement, throwing his own team under the bus as liars again, and again.

His cult member voters don't care, its the post-truth era.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the party of "why is everyone being racist against whites?!?":

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's because he's never apologized for anything ever

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

DING DING DING!! This is the right answer. Its clear to anyone with eyes at this point that he is a malignant narcissists, and in a narcissist's mind they're never wrong, so there is nothing to apologize for. Hes also a fucking moron with zero self awareness. Who the hell would expect this dipshit to apologize? LOL

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Trump has never apologised. It wasn’t him. He didn’t know about it. He just found out about it.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’

He's correct in the sense that he knew full well what he was doing.

I sense hubris in MAGA these days. As public opinion slowly turns against them they fail to see that it's nod just "mad libruls" anymore. I hope this will be their downfall rather sooner than later.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

That's why they're threatening to post ICE⚡Staffel outside polling places...

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Don't expect it. We still need to get an aggressive populist reform alternative if we are to have any chance of unseating The Party, which is in control now, and fully intent on fixing elections with seemingly little to stop them, outside the 15 states they are targeting anyway and even those they have ins to cheat, can send alternate electors, there is a lot of avenues here.

This is and has been an existential threat that needed some urgency on our part to put forth a viable alternative to win over voters. We all know they don't know all of this. We all know the same old strategies and running as status quo will not win, not reliably if at all and if we do win than like with Biden we do nothing and hand it right back.

Even if your one goal was saving the republic to have honest elections, and did not care to restore any of the glory of the country stolen by the super rich in our life times, these democrats would fail to do that. We need real popular aggressive leadership, outside the party if we have to wait to get inside, and we need it now.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago
[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

And now you made two.

[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago
[–] pfr@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope that whoever eventually assassinats this man doesn't just shoot him in the neck, like Charlie Kirk. I hope they take their time to torture him. He deserves to die slowly and painfully. 

We don't need that. A nephritic colic is one of the most unbearable pains in the world. 

One that lasts for the rest of his (hopefully short) life.

Or... we could just push him towards a Stinging tree if we manage to get him to visit Australia.