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President Trump thinks that a decision Joe Biden made two years ago is the reason for the U.S. munitions shortage—not his costly and unpopular war on Iran.

“They talk about munitions—and we’re fine with munitions, we’re fine. But the reason it would be lower—and we’re building them like crazy—but the reason it’s low is [Joe Biden] gave three hundred billion dollars worth to Ukraine,” Trump said on the Real America’s Voice network Tuesday morning.

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[–] noahm@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, had the Biden Justice Dept actually done their fucking job, Trump would be in prison right now and our munitions stockpiles would be where they should be. So sure, Biden should shoulder some of the blame.

Yeah, but not all of the blame though

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The main thing to go after Biden for is not throwing this MF in Gitmo.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

throw him in gitmo, then give gitmo back to cuba and let them have him.

please.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 176 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit, he looks 3 minutes away from death in that picture. I admit I haven't seen the most recent pictures of him, but I don't recall him looking this haggard.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's an old photoshop though.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In tomorrow's news, Trump discovers that someone has shat his pants, blames Biden.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Bullshit. LIES. Fake news.
We all know that Obama is the one who shits the fat orange paedos pants, and not Joe "Let's take the slowest possible way to prosecute the orange Fatboy" Biden.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 113 points 2 days ago

Why did Joe Biden shit my pants?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 104 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

This seems to be a Trump problem, but it's really not. Trump is the undisputed standard bearer for all Republicans - each and every one of them fully supports his insanity and allows it to continue. They know they've put a literal child rapist in charge and have done nothing but protect him and everyone else in the Epstein files.

Trump's image should replace the elephant as the mascot of the GOP.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Conservatives value in-group solidarity more than almost anything else. That's like their defining characteristic.

Incidentally, that's almost always characteristic of a bad person. The antithesis of "love your neighbor", for example.

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's literally the definition of facism. It's what a fasces is, a group of sticks.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's also why they're winning, we have no solidarity on our side

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Your comment reminded me of a book a read a long time ago about the psychology of politics. There was a whole chapter about how Republicans find I easier to all agree with each other.

[–] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Better yet put his face on the elephant, hits on many levels

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would you want him to look skinnier, more in shape, more attractive? ;-)

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Truly elephants are the perfect elephant shape and it's not their fault those slimeballs stole their image. The GOP should just use one of the pictures Epstein took of Trump on hands and knees sucking Putin's dick while Bubba rails him from behind.

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[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How dare Barack Obama do this.

[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Have you heard of him?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Thanks Obama

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They should arrest clinton for this outrage.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only after Carter gets indicted.

Yeah.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The real enabler here is JFK. Someone should do something about him...

Death to Roosevelt! How dare he use all those munitions!

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

He’s talking to his idiots. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks because he got more votes.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Making sure I have enough missiles seems to be the kind of thing I would take care of before launching a war against military superpower but what do I know

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's always had a low missile count and an undersized launcher.

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So just to recap, no one will negotiate with him and he's run out of sticks, so having increased the price of everything everywhere in the world that's just how things are now.

Well done Americans.

[–] atlasraven@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

Best thing you can do is toss our diplomats out and stop trading with us. Don't even talk about our wannabe dictator.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeehaw! You smelling that freedom yet?

.... is what I'd say if I were one of our resident morons.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ah luv the smell of freedumb in the mernin.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are you sure it's not Obama's fault?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"How did Obama the Kenyan Usurper use up all our missiles like that?"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He was hiding them all in his tan suit.

Might be FDR

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wish we could fire our stockpile of worthless fucking morons instead...

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

There’s plenty to go around

Remember his party spent all their time making sure nothing was ever sent... So every member of their party knows he's lying.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Damn that Snowball!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

nono, for the sake of discussion, sure, man, Biden gave away munitions.

Okay. So.

Why the fuck didn't you replenish them in all the time you've been in office? Hmm?

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Costly and unpopular" doesn't begin to describe the mess he made over there.

Pulled out of Afghanistan, found the second stage reverse castle boss of 'graveyard of empires'

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Of course he does. Ya ever seen him take accountability for anything at all?

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago

Dozy Donnie says what, now?

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