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    10 days ago

    The picture of the white house in front of the white house somehow gives me a powerful message: everything in this place is fake, nothing is well thought out.

    Like he wanted to have his redneck show in front of the house and then someone told him “uh sir we can’t actually see the white house from there, there’s all your UFC stuff in front of it”. “Oh. Meh, put a picture”.

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      No, there’s a scaffold in front of the WH to support the asinine UFC fights tonight (and the stands for those). It’s a temporary structure, theoretically (though of course, Dear Leader has floated the idea “as a joke” of just keeping it in place permanently “for other events”.)

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    My non-american mind failed to understand why a picture of seemingly the white house is infront of the white house?

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      The view from there is currently blocked by the UFC ring they’ve been building for a couple weeks now

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    10 days ago

    Damn it nitro circus. I used to think you guys were cool when I was a kid

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    The guys who created Idiocracy should create a documentary style “prequel” showing how Trump leads us down the path to Idiocracy.

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    9 days ago

    Some countries have universal healthcare paid by their tax dollars instead of roller rink cheeto’s circus.

    Some countries have no homeless because their tax dollars help the citizenry instead of lining the orange criminal’s pockets.

    Some countries feed their children so that no child goes hungry in the midst of plenty.

    Some countries don’t have a fucking fascist shitbag lying and stealing and grabbing anything not nailed down.

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      To be fair, even before the orange shitbag, America didn’t address those things and instead funneled money into a few different shitbag’s & criminal’s pockets.

      If anything orange shitbag is a good rep for what the U.S. be like for decades if not centuries.

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        Of course there were criminals in office prior to him, but never to this extent - the entire operation from stem to stern is packed full of thugs, mobsters, and outright criminals. Adding to the problem is him working for putin and in lockstep with every other right wing fascist dictator on the planet.

        Almost as if planned…

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        Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America. But even if he’s just a symptom he’s like massive rectal bleeding or gangrene is a symptom of something more serious rather than a runny nose.

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          His second term is entirely the result of the democrats arrogantly ignoring the rot while trying to go back to normal. And they’re going to it again in 2028.

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            Ah yes. Everything trump is doing is the Dems fault, not Trump’s fault.

            Always trying to pass the blame.

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              I was agreeing with you. “Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America.” You are correct. That ineptitude that includes democrats and the failure to prosecute him for his crimes when Biden was in office.

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    9 days ago

    We are in a fucking idiocracy. This is exactly the type of stuff that was in that movie.

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    When’s he going to have the whole building painted gold? I mean, The Gold House would be much classier than The White House.

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    In Rome, and other empires, when an Emperor was this egregiously bad, they would not only forcibly depose him, but also tear down all of his statues, works, scratch out his name from documents and dedications, and consign his memory to the garbage bin of history.

    For all of their faults, they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.

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      they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.

      This.

      We’re going to go down in history as pathetic. That’ll be our legacy through time.

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      I’m never one to condone the death of people very much, but I wish nothing more than for Trump to die on camera like when Charlie Kirk got shot. I want the world to be able to watch, rewind, and watch again. I don’t need him to die slowly in hospital, I want there to be absolutely zero chance the right could pretend 8.5 billion people didn’t watch him bleed out on a sidewalk.

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        I actually am hoping more for a Khaddafi or Mussolini type of death. I want a huge mob with “rude implements” in their hands to bludgeon him to death on the steps of the Senate. I would consider that to be most appropriate. Equally appropriate would then be mobs hunting down his administration, enablers, donors, influencers, and some followers. Make it brutal, crude, painful, and bloody. Make the memory of it last two thousand years. Make it so crushingly final that the rest of his idiotic followers will weep for their fallen God in the throes of oppression which follows for all those generations.

        And I haven’t even yet begun to express my utter revulsion and loathing for him and his followers.

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        I’m hoping for a massive stroke where he leaves a giant pile of diarrhea shit where he collapses, and then he doesn’t die but ends up drooling in a hospital bed with an IV for a year or two.

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    Retarded is a word we cannot use anymore according to reddit and lemmy admins. I don’t understand why because I always used it to mean this sort of thing and not to refer to anyone’s particular mental or genetic issues. But you can call this stupid. It just doesn’t feel the same.

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        Maybe it is time to transition the meaning to a new word! Good idea. It hits like fresh santorum. I already call old people presidential… “People of a certain presidential age”

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          SouthPark made some lead way with changing the “F aye Gee” word to mean inconsiderate insecure people who drive loud motorcycles around. I think it stuck a bit for a while.

          I still hear people making that joke sometimes.

          It’s the only time you can call someone a fg. And that’s fine. We really did need a word for them and why not repurpose an outdated one. ?

          Maybe SouthPark could help with “retard”.

          https://youtu.be/H7C0vd-L5lg

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            South Park’s brand of enlightened centrism has played a not insignificant role in encouraging people not to vote. Even that goddamn giant douche and turd sandwich episode uncritically promotes a false equivalency where an admittedly not very useful container of water is the same as actual shit on a sandwich going in your mouth.

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                It was bullshit then too and their perspective hasn’t shifted much. They still claim to be libertarians for fuck’s sake.

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                  I think they were criticizing the government and how we consistently have two shitty options.

                  Doesn’t stan decide at the end of the episode it’s still best to choose the lesser shit option ? But there is some critique about how the people aren’t really represented anymore by politicians. Maybe they never were.

                  I do believe the creators have changed their position on a number of topics over the years. Like global warming.

                  They often criticize the left but they criticize the right even more.

                  I mean cartman is the character that represents the right conservative the most and the show makes it a point that cartman embodies all the worst traits of humans.

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        But that’s accurate and doesn’t attack marginalized groups!!! Doesn’t have the same punchiness for this person and that’s what’s actually important here. \s