President Trump ripped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” -- and suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar "probably came into the USA illegally" --  in a rage-filled Thanksgiving message about immigration.

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [S] 180 points 10 months ago (31 children)

How a man this crass managed to be President twice, I'll never know. What a fucking disgrace...

  • source
  • hideshow 31 child comments
  • [+] 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    which is the segment of our population who are armed, scared, dumber than toenails, insanely patriotic and can be made to vote for anything without hesitation or research.

    That's not patriotism. They're nationalists. That they don't know the difference makes it even worse.

    Edit: here's some more info: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationalism-vs-Patriotism-Whats-the-Difference

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [+] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    If you refer to what they understand, you can't use any word. If they don't like something, it's socialism. If they hate it, it's communism. It's woke, it's liberal, it's whatever the hell word they can remember from being indoctrinated You can't lower yourself to their level and still be understandable by normal human beings.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Because he's peak american.you may not like it, but he's the embodiment of what the world thinks when they hear america.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] [S] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I'm old enough to remember the America of best education, top science and engineering in the world. The America that proudly went to the Moon. The America that developed the Internet on public money.

    I guess I can feel the contrast with the idiocracy of today a bit more keenly than younger folks who have never known anything else.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America. My perspective of being a mid 20s American is that of a longing for the America that was all the things you listed. Not a kleptocratic oligarchy held up by social media misinformation and straight idiocy. Ever since the mid 70s: following all the debt caused by the Vietnam War, the disastrous consequences of Reaganomics, and deregulation of finance; income inequality has gotten to a point of insanity.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America

    I'm so sorry. But it was like that. Sure it had its many, many flaws. But it was a place where studying hard, making it to and through college and being educated were valued more highly than being a vocal cretin, where science was respected, craziness was fringe, religion was retreating, working hard gave you a real - albeit small - chance at striking it rich, and where you could expect your children to be better off than you if you did everything right.

    All that is gone. I really feel sorry for you and those of your generation who never got to experience the "good" America - at least good if you were white...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I am just jealous of how many older folks got their college education for free or just hundreds of dollars 50+ years ago…

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Yes, we gen-Xers got a lot of things for cheap or free, and we had a lot more opportunities for sure - and our boomer parents even more so - because we rode the tail end of the post-WW2 economic boom.

    I totally get the jealousy. What I don't get is the hate: I can't count the number of young people who actually hate me because I happen to have had it better than them. Sorry... It's not like I planned it or anything, and I didn't set out to ruin anybody's life after me neither.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Because American voters are stupid. And don't care enough about their own country. But mostly stupid.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 95 points 10 months ago

    Ha ha ha, I love Walz:

    Walz responded to Trump’s vicious attack by questioning the president’s own mental state.

    “Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on X, referring to the results of Trump’s latest medical checkup, which he touted at the time as “perfect.”

  • source
  • [–] 76 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    “Seriously Retarded”, you say, an ableist slur, and a self confession simultaneously, coming from someone exhibiting increasing signs of dementia.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    I don't understand why people with power or a platform don't just literally make fun of him more with playground insults. Like dumdum donny or stupid brain hairpiece or something. He's so thin skinned he'd spend all his time responding to insults rather than fuck up the country more.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    “Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone”

    I've never met a Somali that wasn't a friendly sort having lived here my whole life. Had one bring in some of these pretty awesome dumpling things called sambusa(?) once to work just cause reasons. Very chill bunch far as I've ever seen.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Trump doesn’t even understand elementary school math

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Projection.

    Drumpf is now fearing that the talk is right and he is mentally disabled.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Just a reminder that whilst Trump is blocking migrants from "poor" countries, the architect and participants of 9/11 were all from Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    Gotta give my support to Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar, got it.

  • source
  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    That inbred, diaper-wearing dementia patient has no fucking business talking about anything.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago*

    ❌Thanksgiving
    ✔️Hatespewing

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Why does anyone have any respect for the office of the president?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    We should kill the Internet.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    When Thanksgiving became Insultgiving!

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›