Political Memes

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Has a more selfish man ever existed?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

Joffrey comes to mind

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[–] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 hours ago

Real humans only.

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[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 hours ago

Pepperidge Farms remembers pretty Goddamn well what he said.

https://youtu.be/PcKlPhFIE7w?t=103

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Youtube video timestamped to the quote:

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[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

"It was an amazing phone call. It was the second tallest, but now it's the tallest."

How anyone voted for this piece of shit to be president, TWICE, will forever be a mystery to me.

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

They voted three times. He just lost once.

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

Because they're

Racist
Exceptionally dumb
Sociopathically rich

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 47 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Woah this guy should be president and we ahould let him do whatever he wants. -americans for some reason

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[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Most people don't pay attention. They saw him say some funny stuff at a rally and then their mind was made up for the rest of their life.

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[–] MadBits@europe.pub 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It would have been so good if it only were to happen in US, but it seems people worldwide are absolute shite and they keep electing this kind.

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[–] III@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Almost like these kinds of politicians without morals or shame are all being organized and supported by others that somehow benefit from them... strange.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

When liberals keep selling far-right positions back to the masses, why would the masses bother voting for the people who only just started saying those things were issues, when they could listen to the people who've been saying it the whole time?

The reason why fascism is capitalism in decline. Capital captured politicians can't reverse course on policies that increase suffering for the benefit of profit, so they have no answers to the growing problems of profit-seeking without end. Fascists don't have answers either, but they don't have to worry about things like reality or political possibility when selling their version of the future. They just agitate, villianize outgroups, and win when liberals/centrists try to repeat their politics in an effort to chase the Overton window.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 131 points 1 day ago (18 children)

But later on people who had been alive then had no idea he was like this and voted for him in three different elections.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 90 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yea but he promised to hurt the queers so all is forgiven.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 61 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That's not fair, he promised to hurt a lot more than just the queers.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yea he promised to get the brown and poors too.

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[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Queers, browns and poor's covers just about all of it for them doesn't it? Add liberals and it's totally complete.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

Don't forget the talk about sterilizing autistics and making them work on farms.

That one wasnt Trump, but someone in his or RFKs spheres.

EDIT: Ah yes, RFKs "wellness farms".

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (9 children)

They knew. They didn't care.

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[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 point 4 hours ago

You give them too much credit. You think they pay attention?

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

In 2024 they definitely knew. Zero excuse by then

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[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's frustrating but a laaaarge proportion of people who voted for him didn't pay attention to politics so didn't know, or care to look it up, and just bought the propaganda that "conservatives good for economy".

So when they were struggling under a non Republican, they voted that way.

It's dumb and frustrating, and I know there are plenty of people who do know and don't care, or support their horrible views... But a decent chunk didn't

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

It is easy to forget the indirect causes of him becoming president (twice), such as a failing opposition and the two-party system, corruption (as in large companies can buy policies), biased media, ever increasing polarisation, an economic system that puts the interest of the haves against the interests of the have-nots. I think most people here understand the situation in the US is not that of one evil mastermind who bedazzled everyone, but sometimes I do get the feeling people choose to take the easy way and consider his voting based stupid, self-centered or naive without consideration for the external circumstances. Not saying the voters aren't to blame, but there is a lot more at play than a little bit of propaganda by the Republican Party.

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[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm kinda surprised at how few upvotes this comment has gotten, though I probably shouldn't be. I've hated Trump since before he was kissing the Clinton's asses. Too few people are willing to examine the idea of how shitty the Democrat corporatist whores had/have to be for us to end up with such a shit-stain as president.

Obama fucking ran on Med-4-All, then sold us (those who voted for him) down the river on day one. Every time I see the clip of him pretending to sip that glass of water in Flint while saying "this isn't a stunt" makes me want to punch him in his lying mouth. It puts me in mind of Malcolm X's fox and wolf analogy.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

Oh but he's just joking 🙄

It's just locker room talk!

He just tells it like it is!

You guys just can't take a joke!

Seriously fucking annoying sharing the same air as these morons.

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[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago

If I knew what a piece of shit he was growing up in California, they did too. For them, he's a feature, not a bug, because inside they're just like him.

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[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Was he technically correct?

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[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world [S] 90 points 1 day ago (10 children)

No. Not even close.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 28 points 1 day ago

To drive this home, Trump tower is the 32nd highest building in New York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_New_York_City

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He didn't say NY, he said tallest building in downtown manhatten.

That sounds more likely to be factually correct, but of course he's still a psychopathic narcissist who's clinincally incapable of understanding that other people feel pain.

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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

That’s some “Joe hasn’t hit a home run since it was raining and Tuesday” stat guy shit, which tracks well enough given how it describes things, just make noise in front of a camera

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago

Also, “own” is unlikely to be a fact either.

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[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

isn't Trump tower in Midtown? If you include Midtown as part of Downtown that covers pretty much every very tall skyscraper in the city

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 point 12 hours ago*

Yes, it was the tallest by number of floors. Only beaten by one other building in absolute height by 20 feet

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach made a preview of what Trump will say happened to him the coming years (spoiler: he's not done making things up): https://youtu.be/T1amNlMeqbA?t=232.

The first 2,5 minute are in Dutch, as he lists all the things Trump previously said about his whereabouts on 9/11.

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (2 children)

Worth noting that it has actual English subtitles, not machine generated, and confirms OP's post.

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[–] maxthemummer@lemmus.org 12 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

I was there and when I saw Trump being carried out by those two burly firemen, my heart swelled that this great man had been saved, and I said to him, with tears in my eyes, "Sir..." (even THEN he commanded respect) "Sir, thank God you're alright." Then I touched the hem of his garment, he nodded, said "Bless you", and I'll never forget it.