Why the fuck is it normal now for a president to just flat out lie loudly about everyone he disagrees with? Republicans not denouncing him constantly ensures their place in history as complacent Nazis
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You misspelled complicit
I mean it's both really but I did mean complicit.
Once upon a time (e.g. Nixon), they pretended so that they could remain morally superior. Now, they stopped trying to maintain the lie.
Yep. I kinda miss them pretending honestly. Even if it's pretending, it sort of holds flood gates closed in a sense. I think we can definitely expect more openly corrupt politicians across the spectrum moving forward.
Where have you been since 2016?
Observing this daily. One can remark on fucked up things which aren't brand new
Yeah, but you said "normal now," as if this hasn't been a thing for the last decade and more.
It becomes more normal every day. Thanks for the reminder that anything I say will be wrong on some level, semantically or otherwise, though!
Remember when they impeached Clinton for lying 🤣
Yes and they clutched their pearls so hard they turned to diamonds
oh it's been normal for nixon, reagan, bushes, all the republicans to just lie. trump's just so fucking dumb that he's doing it every other minute and his lies are only plausible to the demented and developmentally challenged.
Why the fuck is it normal now for a president to just flat out lie loudly about everyone he disagrees with?
And why is it normal that there is no effective push-back against those lies?
I'm gonna start re-writing and re-reading headlines with Trump in them so they don't seem as normal to me:
"Federal Judge Halts Plan on Potomac Golf Course, Current President of The United States, Donald Trump, Has a Fit and Lashes Out in Demented Retaliation"
I hate the way this headline was written. It should have been “Crazed lunatic Trump…. “. The judge was quite normal.
Always add "while shitting his pants"
He 100% just wants it closed because he hates public courses...
Yeah, he wants to privatize it, give contracts and future control to himself and buddies, and he wants to name it after himself, I guarantee it. If I’m not mistaken this wasn’t just a public course, it was a low cost public course - he can’t stand the idea of regular and poor people benfiting from government services or being on golf courses.
And with a lot of public parkland around it. The plans show the removal of Ohio Drive, a very poplar biking/jogging/walking route. Can’t have non-rich people anywhere near his precious…balls.
Not since he met Melania, anyway
He wants to remodel it because his brain is Swiss cheese and all he wants is to force his "tasteful redecorating" on the world. I honestly think if you gave him a phone with decorating games on it, he'd be subdued.
And now he’s calling the existing course “Trash Island.”
WELL WHO FUCKING DUMPED ALL THE EAST WING DEMOLITION DEBRIS ON IT, YOU STINKING SHIT STAIN?!!!
Trump, without using Reyes’ name, called her “a crazed lunatic whose courthouse tapes will reveal, may be insane?”
Ok, so Trump's brain may be pudding, but one thing I can guarantee is that the thing about "tapes" didn't come out of nowhere. He's simply not creative enough to make shit up like that. Someone must have told him they feel there is something actionable in the court transcripts. In a few weeks we're going to see Republicans complaining about something in the transcript that they can use as a bullshit technical point to blow the whole ruling up.
Remember when he went on and on about Fani Willis's "boyfriend", and we all thought he was nuts, then they used it to scuttle that investigation?
A key part of Trumpism is taking advantage of the fact that he is allowed to lie and cheat with impunity, while even an appearance of anything untoward by people working against him is routinely used to Trump's advantage.
Every accusation is an admission. The pee tapes are real!
I am of the opinion that the pee tapes are not real. But, the Russian disinformation machine is doing its best to spread the rumor that they are.
What better way to feed into one man's paranoid delusions than to manufacture a scenario that he knows is fake? That just makes him double down on being defiant, and not trusting anyone.
Maybe there's video of him raping children
It wouldn't matter. Trump cannot be blackmailed. He would claim it was a deepfake and his followers would believe it without question. He is apparently also above the law in the US. He is aware of both of these things. He cannot be blackmailed.
Unfortunately all video evidence at this point is pretty much inadmissible due to AI.
Does tape sold for recording even exist anymore? Last I saw was a microcassette for phone messages about 35 years ago.
Well yeah, as Trump's mind dissolves he will start forgetting anything that happened in the past 40 years or so. But he remembers porn on Betamax, at least.
We can't afford gas, grocery prices are out the roof and this is priorities.
But I was told he would fight for the people
She needs to send the US Marshals Service out there to halt any work. Arrest the bulldozer operators if need be.
100%. If you won't punish the fascists giving the illegal orders, at least punish the foot soldiers carrying out the illegal orders to deter the illegal execution of these illegal orders.
One day this idiot will be dead and have no more idiotic opinions and no more that ever matter in the slightest
Yeah but it might not be for 30 years because life is unfair like that
Nah, he's at the "no unexpected visits" stage of dementia. Soon enough it will become impossible to hide how far he's slipped.
Closer to 15, based on his family history.
Probably be a vegetable for 10 of those years, too. Good thing AI will be there to do his speeches.
Not good enough, the nepobaby-in-choef needs to croak right now.
As the administration has decided to ignore all court orders they don't like, what's the point if a legal system in the US, anyway?
Can someone Kirk diaper Donnie already
JFC, donnie dickweed here apparently doesn't have anything better to do, I guess. No other problems, I guess.
No, he has to focus on what really matters to the American people - monuments to himself, golden ballrooms, golf course work, and of course "men in women's sports". He behaving almost like a stereotypical Faux News watcher who is in a memory ward, except for they voted him into the WH.
Everything is crazy expensive, he's losing the war in Iran that he started, and it's widening in the Middle East while he's helping Russia attack Ukraine.
How long has it been since one of his mouthpieces insisted that the Trump admin follows all court orders? They like to say that a lot.
Blob the Builder is a blob but he ain't a builder.
Takes one to know one (crazed lunatic)