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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 100 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I followed the link to ShitSocial so you didn't have to:

I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and is a puppet for the CROOKED A.G. Anyway, the Judge, Arthur Engoron, put a GAG ORDER on me, even when I testify, totally taking away my constitutional right to defend myself. We are appealing, but how would you like to be a witness and not be allowed free snd honest speech. THE TRIAL IS RIGGED. I DID NOTHING WRONG!!!

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 120 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I can't believe the US voted this complete idiot in as president. Just wow.

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 57 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Every time I flew back into the country and saw his stupid picture in the airport it made me cringe and say “oh fuck, that’s right, somehow Biff Tannen, from Back To The Future 2, is our President”

[–] dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have the president's face in airports?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I assume they meant on TVs or something; I was a bit confused, too.

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

Nope, not on TV. In JFK there was a picture of his stupid orange face and his shit eating grin up on the wall.

[–] Benj1B@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

We truly live in the stupidest timeline.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And they're on track to do it again.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

70 million brain dead Fox manure fed Americans will vote the pustulating bloated shit bag back into office.

[–] nocturne213@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, he lost the popular vote twice. It was only because of the electoral college he won. The people of the USA did not, as a majority, vote for him. The people who are supposed to represent our votes voted for him.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, that's true and a big reason I don't paint a Americans with the same brush (in addition to this being generally intellectually lazy).

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I live in New York City. Donnie was desperate to get famous since the 1980s. Back in the day, Wife #1, Ivana, was the star of the show and Donnie was the guy who carried her bags. He did everything to get his name in the local news every day, and was considered a joke by just about everyone. He lost his home town by 90% of the vote.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Growing up, I knew of him as a desperate for attention blowhard as well. You didn't need to be from NYC to know that but it says a lot when you guys did that (no votes) because you know him best.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's an old political term in the USA. 'Favorite son candidate.' It means that anyone, of any Party, can usually count on winning their home district. As an example, Republicans in Georgia voted for Jimmy Carter. Also, New Yorkers are a contentious lot who seldom agree 90% on anything.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I love NYC. For the first 48 hours. :)

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's the embodiment of the American stereotype if you ask me. It makes complete sense.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The American stereotype? Definitely an American stereotype (monopoly guy shithead), but there’s also broke ass honky, California dude, and cowboy goat fuckers.

It’s a big place.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a big place and yet the loud, fat American with more money than braincells is indeed the stereotype lol.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

A long time ago I had a job cooking at a hotel in Switzerland (am Canadian). As a more junior person I'd get stuck working buffet stations and lots of Americans assumed the staff didn't understand English. Anyway, my favorite thing was how the Americans would freak out because menu prices were not in US dollars. Lol. Harmless but indicative of a certain worldview.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

And they are lining up to do it again. It's absolutely baffling to me but at least it's gotten a lot easier to identify idiots from a distance.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

This reads like a Chinese Amazon listing where they just fire off dozens of loosely related words and key phrases to increase traffic.

[–] oocdc2@kbin.social 40 points 11 months ago

Thank you for your sacrifice.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 23 points 11 months ago
  • Fake - I'm pretty sure it's quite real.
  • No Victims - "Your honor, I didn't successfully rob the bank, so there were no victims!"
  • No Jury - Bro, you opted not to have a jury trial.
  • Gag order...taking away my right to defend myself - Your defense of the facts requires that you attack the judge and his staff?
  • I did nothing wrong! - That's for a court to decide. Also, you broke your golden rule: never do yourself what you can order someone else to do. Mob Boss 101.

Thank you for your sacrifice, btw.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

This was already stated by the first word of the title of this post.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

He is such a moron...

[–] eighthourlunch@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

God, I can't even force myself to read his word shit salads anymore. I guess that means I'm sane.