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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 124 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Or a general stroke. In Trump's brain. Whichever we get first.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least, he doesn't have the majority of the cult behind him.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s not the cult that matters it’s the wealthy people running the show. All you’d do is replace chaos with evil.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

The cult absolutely matters. The reason half of Congressional Republicans go along with this shit is they're afraid of their violent supporters turning on them. And they know dementia Donny has a tendency to direct their ire at whoever disagrees with him.

Once that cult splinters, that threat diminishes. The die hard racists hate Vance because of his wife and children, everyone else hates him because he's a spineless charisma vacuum. There's only so much corporate media can do to manufacture clips that make someone look not ridiculous to even the intended audience.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think we can know that really. I think Vance is fake as hell. He used to say a bunch of things publicly that he no longer claims to believe.

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[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe not directly, but the schadenfreude will be the most delicious thing to happen since the end of 2016.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

Yes, this.

But it's easy to steer a population that lives paycheck to paycheck, without unions.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

You need to end some people.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And was immediately drug from his office and publicly executed...

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Best Americans can do is let the nazis win.

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He's been threatening one since the beginning.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah didn't he straight up say that if he wins the election, you don't have to vote ever again? What did people think that means other than these wannabe-nazis usurping your country?

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'll never forgive Biden for not dealing with this when he had the chance.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If he wants to be president forever than he will have to be immune to death.

I saw this video on the Internet where they had peoples heads on jars over a thousand years after they lived, and they were fully functional and able to talk and everything.

Even President Nixon's head. And he got elected to another term because he had no body and that was a loophole to the 22nd amendment.

So I guess the first thing we need to do is cut off Trump's head and put it in a jar. It worked in that video.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago

By “video on the internet”, you meant a classic episode of Futurama

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Watch out for headless Agnu. He's a feisty one

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The wiki has no entry for Donald Trump's head. Looks like it wasn't preserved.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Autocrats & dick taters usually tell us what they want. We should listen.

I already knew it in 2017, when both Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz said "He won't go willingly", but whoever didn't get the memo after Jan 6, 2021 should get their brains examined.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are setting up to manipulate the elections. Buying up media, taking over the campaign distribution systems, and possibly the voting systems, but I'm not really worried as much that he is going to try to stay after his 4 years. His brain is gone. If 1 conversation with say Zelensky or Putin makes him flip flop on what he is doing, he isn't making any decisions for himself anymore. Whoever the heritage foundation or whomever has made sure they have his ear will get whomever they want in office next.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump is just the useful idiot puppet of a decades-old intelligent, honed, and nefarious organization; he’s nothing more than a diversion. People need to fixate less on him and more on the people pulling his strings.

If the elections are rigged (they will be), some other fascist will come in and pick up where Trump left off. It’s already over.

The root needs to be extracted for the weed to stop growing.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

He needs to be hung upside down in DuPont Circle.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn't matter that you just made a first down if there's only 6 seconds left on the clock.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless you use that 6 seconds to work with the ref to rewrite the rules of the game such that passing the ball to a second quarterback resets the time, along with a bunch of other rule changes.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even oligarchs and dictators can't rewrite the rule of death.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problems the US faces don’t die with him.

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[–] halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

For real, he's speeding on the highway that leads to death by Mcsnu-snu

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm convinced some chud staffer made this entire thing just to slip in this frame as a Warhammer reference.

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[–] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 14 points 1 month ago

That video’s about how long it’ll take him to release the Epstein files.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like I am taking crazy pills but he has posted a video similar if not the exact same before or mutiple times before. Like he has been saying since before the 2020 election he was "entitled" to a third term.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He literally has “Trump 2028” hats in his White House.

He commended Elon for “knowing those voting machines better than anyone” right after the vote was counted.

There is nothing left for them to do in order to secure a 2028 “win”, is there? It’s not like the bootlickers in the military will do anything to stop him; they’ve bombed Venezuelans and genocided Palestinians and suppressed peaceful domestic protest at the whims of this administration… and we’re not even a year in yet.

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

At this rate 4 years is gonna seem like an eternity so he's right in a way.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

"Im going to live forever!!!!"

Your clogged arteries have entered the chat...

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shittler tore down the east wing of the White House today and Americans……. Crickets

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey there, Northern neighbor. Sure would be a shame if our problems escalated into your problems, too.

Edit: but also, what do you expect us to do? We're holding the biggest protests in history right now. What more should we be doing? Having a civil war?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Oh for sure they are our problem already (what with all the 51 and arbitrary border talk). Obv we are pissed in a generational way.

I would have thought willy nilly tearing down of your historic building would have been met with more …..resistance. I mean he’s replacing it with a throne room so he can make a grand entrance and be applauded.

No civil war but less appeasement. Less automatic obeysance.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Could you imagine if sleepy joe posted it.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I appreciate that the headline leads off with reassurances by reminding you that he's 79

[–] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I do not. Every single time, I get my hopes up, then Lucy pulls the football.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Are the voting machines going to receive another "Minor Update?"

[–] ghostface@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not just Biden, but all of the opposition parties who saw this, from state, federal and local levels. Pure disappointment

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He really likes to make enemies huh?

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Big King George III energy

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