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submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

My disappointment isn't with Trump. Loser has been a very public loser all his life.

My disappointment is with all the dipshits in this country that believed this garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

He’s a scorpion and his supporters are frogs.

The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests and therefore should never be trusted. This fable seems to have emerged in Russia in the early 20th century.

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character."

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

You can be disappointed in both.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Excellent work by Zapiro. Probably South Africa's best political cartoonist.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

It’s almost like we were telling you just how disastrous he was going to be. But noooooo you fucking brainlets didn’t think a women could do a good job. Have the day you voted for republicans, enjoy watching the nation collapse

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I think some humans are so ignorant that they don't know we are collapsing.

Edit: missed a word think

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And they won't know it until they personally suffer (worse than just inflation) tangibly. Probably will somehow be Democrats fault even then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ye, 'em dems ruining our economy forcing trump to use tariffs.

/s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Gos what's fucked up is that they almost certainly will use a version of that

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

I've already heard the rationalization: It was the ineptitude of previous administrations that allowed trade with China to get so out of hand, forcing HitlerPig to make the hard decisions that will hurt now, but America will be better off for it in a few years, when full manufacturing has returned to America. Of course, that will mean a crippling Economic Depression until that happens.

People believing that think that the new manufacturing landscape is going to return wonderful, high paying jobs to workers who could barely achieve a high school diploma. They couldn't be more wrong.

If Sociopathic Oligarchs and Corporations have the chance to rebuild the manufacturing sector, why would they emulate the model that got manufacturing sent to China in the first place? The new factories will be mostly automated, and jobs that rely on humans will be more like Asian sweatshops - non-union, no mnimum wage, no benefits, no health/ safety/ environmental regulations, forced overtime with no overtime pay, teen labor, etc.

In the meantime, they are allowing workers' imaginations to run wild with fantasies of easy $50 an hour manufacturing jobs, without correcting them about their real intentions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Which is frustrating because the Democrats were actually using the right mean to walk back on some of the globalism issues by pushing the government to buy local.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

By latest polls, that would be about half of Republicans, about 10% of Dems, about 20% of independents.

So uh... yeah thats roughly 60 million people.

AmURHiCah!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

What's the point of saying " I told you so" here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

enjoy watching the nation collapse

These dipshits have no clue what's going on around them at any given time. That's how they became Trump supporters. They aren't going to notice the nation collapsing around them. Many of them live in Republican controlled deep red areas that are already akin to 3rd world countries. Not much is going to change for a lot of them. And we know they are Olympic gymnasts when it comes to avoiding accountability, so any signs of collapse that do present themselves to them, they'll just contort themselves even further out of reality.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 hours ago

President fixed genocide unlike Genocide Joe

I mean that’s my assumption, haven’t read a single piece of news since inauguration day though

Thank you to everyone* who kept Genocide Joe out of office and saved Palestine - infant-saving heroes

* (some percentage of you were Russian language models, wish we knew the scale of that problem, oh well we can assume it’ll be a majority someday)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

It's chaotic evil, but on the whole I prefer the backpedaling to any of his forward progress. Considering where the road leads.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago

It's almost as if the well known lying liar that lies about everything lied to get his way.

Nah, it's the ~~children~~ media that are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure his supporters have pivoted quickly to saying all these reversals are actually good. Because people in cults do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"We have to suffer before things get better." - MAGAts

Do we though? Do we actually need to suffer before things get better? Is that a scientific fact? A law of nature? Or are they in a cult?

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

They probably would conveniently adopt a Christian metaphor in this case

But yes, cult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

It's backpedaling the likes of which has never been seen before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thought back pedalling just applied the brakes on some bikes?

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

Some bikes, I think children's bikes or a certain type do. Usually the pedals will just spin backwards and make a neat sound, it won't actually pedal in reverse. Bikes usually have brake levers on the handle bars that control brake pads on the front and back tires; right lever for back tire, left for front, in my experience.

The only bikes I can think of that will actually go backwards from pedaling backwards are toddler bikes like a tricycle or toy bikes. That might be why the image has him sitting backwards, because generally it'd either stop the bike or just spin the pedals doing nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

You’ve got to let him finish cooking you don’t know that plan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Love you, this is the stupidest thing you’ve ever said

Also is that flesh I smell in the oven? …mmmm! Now I see what you mean, not going to criticize before I have a taste

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

So far there's a pile of turds on the counter next to a pan for the oven. I have no clue what he's making but I'm sure what flavor it's going to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

So far there's a pile of turds on the counter

Get out of @[email protected]’s house

Let he with great bowel control cast the first kidney stone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Nah they put the empty pan in the oven like sending empty mail trucks out for ‘efficiency’. They’re playing house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I read this in John Stewart's voice when he's mocking tRump lmao