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[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 319 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 113 points 3 days ago (8 children)

One day, we WILL wake up to his obituary.

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 34 points 3 days ago

It's the reason I refresh my feed so often.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just can’t anymore. Sorry guys, I’ve been too sick and can no longer cope.

I pop in once a week so I can say, aloud: ‘Jesus fuck this bastard.’

So here’s my weekly ablution. Dog help us all.

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago

Take a minute away from this shit for your own mental health. We'll still be here yelling about this fucking dickhead when you return.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But what was Ukraine wearing?

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's right Ukraine was just asking for it. There they were within their own borders minding their own business giving russia no choice but to attack.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He just had a meeting with Russia, he just listens to th last guy who spoke to him. Zero long term memory

[–] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

He's also been shown to be ridiculously susceptible to flattery and pomp, two things Moscow can provide in spades, with little cost to themselves. He also seemingly genuinely believes, that there is nothing more to politics but raw self-interest and primitive power displays, when there's a reason your edgy teenage friend didn't stumble upon some higher wisdom when claiming that about the world.

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[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 136 points 3 days ago (3 children)

After all, we've always been at war with Eastasia...

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Ministry of Truth can't be wrong.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago

They've already started their Newspeak.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

It's honestly uncanny. Not the similarities, but that one of the most commonly assigned books in the public school system is so blatantly disregarded.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 111 points 3 days ago (14 children)

How crazy that Americans aren’t embarrassed by this deadly lie.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 125 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Nope, I'm incredibly embarrassed and scared

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Please consider becoming organized in your local communities, they will be essential in the coming months, and it is the most powerful act we can do to resist.

https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If only my local community didn't think Trump was being perfect and hurting all the right people right now

May they all suffer and die as this shit gets worse, I will only laugh

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

I’m ashamed to be American.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago

Don't presuppose my embarrassment. I have been embarrassed for as long as I can remember.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

nearly half, or more than half, depending on the politics of the non voters, are embarrassed by this line

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I will weep tears of joy when Trump dies and make it my life's goal to piss on his grave. I have never hated anyone or anything so passionately.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 97 points 3 days ago

Trump showing a perfect display of rapist mentality.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely hate this asshole with every fiber of my being and I will celebrate the day that he kicks the bucket.

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[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

He's a bully who thinks it's morally wrong for targets to not just lie there and take the beating, waiting for death.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Fuck Russia!

[–] 100@fedia.io 68 points 3 days ago (1 children)

meanwhile he is threatening allies with invasions

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[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Putin’s puppet since Helsinki Summit.

[–] Tuuktuuk@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not only from back then. The summit was organized largely because Trump admires Putin so much.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I bet Trump will invite Putin for a state visit before the peace has been brokered. Trump will spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars to impress Putin with a ridiculous ceremony. And Trump will gift hundred nuclear warheads to Putin.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

I don't know about the nuclear warheads, but I absolutely believe everything else.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trump, who said last week that he and President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone about ending the war, has made several comments bolstering the Russian president. He said during an interview with Fox News last month that Ukraine should not have fought when it was invaded by Russia.

"When you are famous enough, they just let you do it."

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

Spoken like a true rapist.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

He is the king idiot criminal leading a pack of losers.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Where he’s coming from, based on what I’ve seen, is the assertion that Ukraine was in civil war before the 2022 invasion (basically true), and that the eastern separatists (who were indeed fighting Ukraine’s government) were being killed.

It’s also true that there was corruption, and some democratic backsliding, prior to the invasion (not that the US or Russia have any leg to stand on there).

The kool-aid part is that the separatists were fighting to “free” western Ukraine from the tyrannical govt, and that Russia finally invaded to save and “relieve” these noble citizens who want to be part of Russia. That everyone would vote this way if some elections weren’t suspended. This conveniently leaves out the first Russian invasion, propaganda efforts and so much more.

This is why Ukraine “started it.” They just kept attacking these rebels and forced Russia to intervene… I guess. On Putin’s side, it ties into the idea of an oppressed population yearning to be one with Russia again.


…What I am getting at is, with the MASSIVE intelligence apparatus at his disposal, Trump is guzzling this kool aid. He’s not a two faced dictator, he believes the propaganda and has swallowed the hook.

I think that is even scarier than a real “dictator.” Even if you buy into the whole “America First” philosophy (which has some merits at least), it means Trump can make monumentally bad decisions that don’t follow this mandate or even benefit him, as his view is totally warped.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't Russia use this tactic to annex part of Georgia's territory back in 2008?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

IIRC yes.

It would have worked again if the second invasion hadn’t trended so much, encouraging other countries to intervene, and if Ukraine itself hadn’t put up such a staunch, united resistance.

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[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Stop invading yourself, stop invading yourself.

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

Russia literally started it when they invaded the first time. Trump would lose his mind if we lost even the tip of Florida to mexico... Seems inane to me, don't make shit up that's obviously a lie. Tell it like it is he thinks "Ukraine would be better under a united Russian federation." That's it. That's what Putin wants. For a tiny man Putin sure has swung a big metal dick around. Genuinely wonder what would happen now that he's old, if one of the younger, stronger, physically better, nation leaders wooped his ass in a meeting, like, tazed him, took any poison you know the bastard is carrying. Let him recover. Then woop the ever loving piss out of the ol vinegar bucket. Make him cry uncle and don't stop until he does. Sure he's a little man with a little sensitive ego, who would start a war for such an encroachment, but what would happen if you just kept woopin until he pleaded, and swore no wars would take place? I bet he would keep to his word if you brought him to tears, he's never been wooped like that really, no scars to show like John McCain had from actually being hurt, and Putin's had spy training so at least some level of training against torture, so crying would likely be about the point you shatter his rotator cuff in an arm bar while belittling him for being so weak... But if not you just start grabbing parts of his body and bending it the wrong direction until the job is done, he claims "he's old and fell down the stairs" like Mitch McConnel keeps doing, and the public moves on. I'm just sayins all, he's an old constipated bitch, your belly shouldnt distend like that if you aren't fat, and you definitely don't have abs if your belly distends like that... So poop. Half his weight in pure, backed up, shit. I bet most teenagers could probably take him in a fair fight. Maybe if the poverty rate in Russia wasn't so high he could have gotten Ukraine to rejoin on their own for the merits it included, but looks to me like Russia wanted the mineral rights that trump tried to trade for.

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Trump is nothing more than a treasonous piece of shit.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I woke up this morning I saw the headline and I thought "here we go again". I watched the video and my impression is that he said that sentence in his classic dementia rambling, right after it he said "he should have ended it".

Basically he was blaming Zelensky for not having negotiated right away and Biden for not having pushed for it.

Not sure if this makes it any better, but at least I got the impression he mispoke saying that particular thing.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, I'm done giving him the benefit of the doubt. The President of the United States should be able to clearly articulate a thought.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Moron's gonna moron

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