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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Trump does this MAGA assuming it's affecting only Democrats.

MAGA: Good. They deserve it.

Trump lies about disaster relief aid being given too slowly from the Biden administration to assumed MAGA states.

MAGA:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

None of this is surprising. It feels like we hear shit like this every single day, and yet half the country still feels like they want this clown back in office.

Propaganda is a helluva drug. Nancy Reagan would blush.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 hours ago

Because he’s a giant piece of shit that be in prison eating slop.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

People will say "what about Gaza?" when it comes to Kamala. It blows my fucking mind that they think Trump or some fake third party vote will do anything.

Trump cares about Trump and how much you will suck him off.

This election is between two selections. Trump and Harris..Full Stop!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

It's the same playbook every time:

https://theconversation.com/i-investigated-millions-of-tweets-from-the-kremlins-troll-factory-and-discovered-classic-propaganda-techniques-reimagined-for-the-social-media-age-237712

It's a propaganda technique using repetition to foster familiarity, to simulate that there is a large-ish part of the population that thinks that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

He also will let Israel go 10x harder on Gaza. Made up issue by Russian troll farms

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Most of those people are either secret Trump supporters, have foreign interests, or are so brainwashed that arguing with them is pointless. They only use Gaza as a tool, if they actually cared they'd vote for the only candidate who can be swayed on the issue

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Let's take this through to worse case for both sides.

Harris doesn't intervene in a foreign conflict.

Trump becomes Emperor of USA (would that even be their name), women are slaves, anyone not white and male is threatened with violence, democracy dies, USA become an authoritarian, racist, violent oligarchy, the world burns through climate change and conflict.... and Trump doesn't intervene in the same conflict.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Trump will definitely intervene and bomb the shit out of Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. This is the guy who took the most insane extreme option and killed that Iranian general.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

...and Trump doesn't intervene in the same conflict.

Or intervenes more... to help the genocide proceed faster.

BTW, he'd also hand Ukraine to Russia so that's another genocide right there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

And Taiwan to China. What will happen with Phillipines?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Telling racist lies that Haitian people are eating pet cats is a Blood Libel prelude to domestic pogroms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

“This is Trump country — and they need your help,” DeSantis pitched Trump.

“They love me in the Panhandle,” the former president said. “I must have won 90 percent of the vote out there. Huge crowds. What do they need?” Shortly after the conversation took place, Trump signed an executive order commanding the federal government to cover “100 percent of the total eligible costs” related to the hurricane response.

Shortly before he took it upon himself to politicize the response to Helene, the former president threatened to withhold aid for natural disasters from Democratic strongholds.

“We won’t give him money to put out all his fires,” Trump said of California Governor Gavin Newson, a Democrat, in September. “And, if we don’t give him the money to put out his fires. He’s got problems. He’s a lousy governor.”

Seriously wtf

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Then California should use their own money to put out the fires rather than giving it to the federal government. We give more than we get.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

Logic is sound

[–] [email protected] 95 points 8 hours ago

Every accusation is admission

[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

“The firefighters. They all came to me with tears streaming down their eyes. I remember Steve Buscemi was one of them. He was there,” recounted Fat Donald, “They said, ‘sir, we wanted to save them but they said they hate you. They were so mean.’ It was the biggest fire we’ve ever seen. So tremendous, nothing like it in history ever. We didn’t start these fires. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. Marciano, Liberace, Eisenhower, goodbye.“

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Worst person alive on the planet? That’s what I’m hearing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Definitely a contender, but only because so many enablers have given him an incredible amount of power. Otherwise, he'd be a pretty standard asshole businessman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I dunno mate.. Even Bezo's moved to more environmental packaging of his crap.

Whereas Trump would blame the trees for causing global warming, and offer to package his chinese junk for extra money with a trading card made out of the suit he wore when he was engaging in the insurrection

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

What an ass. Wow.