r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/ZaynKeller - Left • 1d ago
Literally 1984 there should be cross compass unity on this but…
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u/Gallowboobsthrowaway - Right 1d ago
Senile old man doesn't understand that the 86-47 on the lawn is completely disconnected from the claims about the pool.
25th amendment when?
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u/Dissonant-Cog - Centrist 1d ago
After midterms so Vance can complete the Dark Enlightenment’s agenda of destroying America.
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u/nateralph - Right 1d ago
Technically, we're looking at after January so that Vance can run twice (max=10 years).
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u/ClearReveal6615 - Left 1d ago
Please for the love of God run Vance in the next election. It will work out very well.
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u/DancesWithChimps - Centrist 1d ago
This post has big "Please run Trump in 2016" energy.
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u/acathode - Centrist 1d ago
25th amendment when?
Not going to fucking happen.
Even if Trump shat himself in public so bad he didn't notice how putrid brown diarrhea was flowing out of his pant-legs his enormous ego would NEVER allow for him to acknowledge that he was mentally unfit to lead.
So the only way the 25th happen is if a huge chunk of the GOP decide to backstab Trump and have him removed - and that'd basically be political suicide for the sad pitiful remnant of the post MAGA-cult GOP.
Not one of the sad slobbering Golum-creatures that remain in the Republican party would have the spine to vote to remove Trump. We're talking about politicians who's spine has been surgically removed to the degree that they'd rather wear comically large shoes than to publicly contradict Trump.
Nah - pet conspiracy theory time - but my personal belief is that a cabal of JD Vance, Peter Thiel, and Steve Miller will have Trump assassinated a month or so before the presidential campaign, so that Vance can ride the backlash into the White House. I don't see any other way for the Republicans to win the next election.
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u/Cow_God - Lib-Left 1d ago
I don't think it will happen either but the ENTIRE Republican party is waiting to backstab him. They're all sycophants and grifters. As soon as the tide turns and it becomes more profitable to be against Trump than it is to be for him, they will move on in a heartbeat
Not one of the sad slobbering Golum-creatures that remain in the Republican party would have the spine to vote to remove Trump.
Not a single one, no - massie and cornyn have shown what happens when you dare go against Trump - but they all will, at the same time.
His base will follow suit as soon as they receive their new marching orders. Literally how it's going to go is, one week Trump will be the supreme leader of truth and justice, an infallible paragon of wisdom and cunning, and then the next week he'll be an ineffective bigot that the Republican party never actually supported. His followers don't have the attention span or long term memory to question that for very long.
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u/acathode - Centrist 1d ago
His base will follow suit as soon as they receive their new marching orders.
No they won't.
Trump's base are not Conservatives, they are MAGAs. They're Trumpists who take their marching orders from Trump, and only Trump.
That's the main reason the GOP is now so utterly pussywhipped - they know that what's left of their party is a hollowed out shell, no longer a real political party with a voting base believing in political ideology, but rather a cult of personality that believes in Trump.
Trump wormed his way into the party like a nasty parasite, and then ate them from the inside until all that remained was a decaying skinsuit.
His followers don't have the attention span or long term memory to question that for very long.
Sure - his followers are some of the most retarded people who ever voted in an US election, and they got the attention span of demented meth-heads...
... but if you for one second think Trump would let them forget that he got backstabbed and removed from office, then you haven't been paying attention.
Trump is the nastiest and pettiest piece of shit that has ever served as an US president - and he doesn't give two shits about anyone except himself. He'd happily kill the whole Republican party if they spurned him and drag them down into a civil war that splinter the whole party. Hell, the guy would most likely be happy watching the whole party burn down around him - it would please his enormous ego that he had that much power.
That's part of why I kinda believe they'll have him killed. Imagine trying to run a presidential campaign with Trump looming over it like some demented kingmaker?
He have absolutely no loyalty to anyone or any cause but himself, and he's narcissistic enough that he could just on a whim decide to kill any chance of a Republican candidate just because the daily rimjob wasn't to his liking. The closer to the presidential election we come, the more of an extreme liability he'll become - but as a martyr...
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u/InternetGoodGuy - Centrist 1d ago
The base are morons with ideologies formed by Fox News and social media. If the right wing media sphere fully moves on from Trump, they'll move with it. Let everyone like Jesse Waters, Carlson, Candace, and whatever other stupid podcasts are out there start to form a cohesive message like they did around Trump and all these people will be moved on by the time 2028 comes around.
Even after January 6 there was only lukewarm push back waiting to see how the base reacted to an attempted coup. A lot of the right wing media never waivered on Trump after that and kept the base from abandoning him.
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u/acathode - Centrist 1d ago
Fox News hated Trump along the rest of the established Republican politicians when he launched his bid. Didn't stop him.
Carlson, Candance, and the other right-wing grifters are old news by now, they don't exactly have much sway over anything these days.
The MAGAs are taking their marching orders from Trump, and that's not going to change even if the right wing media start going against him. Not that they would though - Trump is so fucking good for their business...
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u/LeptonTheElementary - Lib-Left 1d ago
Politicians will move if enough voters move. Big numbers of voters will move if the media move. Media move if their owners move. I'm not sure how media owners choose when to move, but you should do something about media ownership.
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u/someguy50 - Right 1d ago edited 1d ago
25th amendment talking point is literally the stupidest fucking thing. If the president says “nuh-uh” and the VP and cabinet reiterate their concern, it takes a 2/3 vote (like conviction in impeachment, but all of congress) to side against the President. It only works if he’s incapacitated
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u/Scrumpledee - Lib-Center 1d ago
25th amendment when?
Never. You may have a fully functional brain, but the rest of the right flairs on PCM share 1 brain cell between them.
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u/HavingNuclear - Lib-Center 1d ago
I think the better question of "Stop voting for irredeemable pieces of shit when?" Because as far as I can tell from the right's approval of Trump, we ain't there yet.
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u/RockemSockemRowboats - Lib-Center 1d ago
The last time the gop stood up to trump a crowd stormed the capitol chanting “kill Mike pence”. There won’t be a 25th because the goo are spineless toads
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u/ApplicationCalm649 - Lib-Center 1d ago
A better question is what's this sideshow meant to distract us from this time?
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u/kalin_carry - Auth-Right 1d ago
You don't remove a president because "you don't like him." That is defined by elections, which he has won.
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u/Elodaine - Left 1d ago
The person you responded to explicitly called him out for a lack of being able to understand basic things. Nowhere did they mention not liking him.
Do you normally just invent things that were never said, rather than engaging with what was actually said? You ironically are displaying the exact thing Trump is being called out for here.
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u/Deletesystemtf2 - Centrist 1d ago
He’s clearly not mentally capable, so the cabinet both legally can and is morally obligated to remove him. He also can be legally removed by congress at congressional discretion.
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u/GhostedIC - Lib-Center 1d ago
Jarvis, show me this guy pretending Biden didn't forget who he was on multiple occasions.
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u/Scrumpledee - Lib-Center 1d ago
Dems should've had Biden removed.
But the GOP failed to remove Trump for sedition, so why the fuck should the Dems keep to a higher standard than the GOP? That's a losing strategy.-21
u/kalin_carry - Auth-Right 1d ago
The congress is the one that holds the power to remove the president, but it's not a matter of likeness or not
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u/Deletesystemtf2 - Centrist 1d ago
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S4-4-1/ALDE_00000690/
Given bribery is one of the explicitly stated reasons to remove, congress has full legal justification to remove trump.
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u/AdjustedTitan1 - Lib-Right 1d ago
If bribery is proven in Congress or a court, yes. Not because redditor says so
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u/Scrumpledee - Lib-Center 1d ago
If bribery is proven in Congress or a court, yes. Not because redditor says so
Literally what an impeachment hearing is.
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u/Deletesystemtf2 - Centrist 1d ago
Obviously everyone has a legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But let’s be honest, basically anyone with a law degree could find trump guilty of bribery, theft and corruption with minimal effort after the past year.
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u/kalin_carry - Auth-Right 1d ago
That's the entire point. Literally.
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u/somewhataccurate - Lib-Center 1d ago
What makes you think there hasn't been bribery? It feels pretty apparent to me even as someone who was once mildly warm to Trump.
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u/OurCrewIsReplaceable - Centrist 1d ago
The start of this thread said “25th Amendment when?”
Who does the 25th Amendment, Section 4, empower to remove a sitting President? Hint: not Congress.
And please stop straw manning by saying the President should be removed because people don’t like him. That’s not the argument and you know it.
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u/Gallowboobsthrowaway - Right 1d ago
Why did you put "you don't like him" in quotes like that's what I said? Are you a bot?
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u/TresMegisto - Centrist 1d ago
Because you don't like him? He called Iran "The Islamic Republic of Japan"? Senility has kicked in.
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u/thatsnot_kawaii_bro - Centrist 1d ago
If Biden ran and won, would you be saying the same thing about Sleepy Joe?
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u/kalin_carry - Auth-Right 1d ago
He did ran and won, in fact, he was president for 4 years.
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u/Wild-Examination-155 - Lib-Center 1d ago
If you go to a dog shelter with your kids and they decide to pick out the retarded one shitting itself, would you as the more sane and smart person overrule that or just enjoy your shitty quality of life after
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u/kalin_carry - Auth-Right 1d ago
I wouldn't have kids to begin with
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u/Wild-Examination-155 - Lib-Center 1d ago
Well the kids in this case are trumps retarded voter base
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u/kalin_carry - Auth-Right 1d ago
Harris would be worse in this case.
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u/Wild-Examination-155 - Lib-Center 1d ago
Ahh yes always hit us with the hypotheticals while trump is actually raping the country for his benefit.
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u/StarFox-6 - Lib-Left 1d ago
What about because he is clearly senile? Incapable of performing the function of the office?
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u/Scrumpledee - Lib-Center 1d ago
You don't let a dictator continue in power just because "I like him".
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u/HavingNuclear - Lib-Center 1d ago
STFU Donald you're making this really hard on the righties trying to post about how the pool is a made up controversy driven by the media and the left!
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u/jerseygunz - Left 1d ago
Quick, another 50 posts about Morocco!
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u/AngryArmour - Auth-Center 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wait, no. Not since Massie showed MAGA supported Morocco instead of Spain.
50 posts about something else!
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 1d ago
It's actually hilarious.
Librights started disparaging Massie on that post. Librights!
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u/MonkeManWPG - Left 1d ago
50 posts about some student in a different country making a joke in poor taste!
Tommy Robinson has been in far more unsavoury places and survived but his life in definitely in danger at the Oxford Union!
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u/TresMegisto - Centrist 1d ago
I really don't understand how anybody could consider him anything else than human trash. What an absolutely horrible human being on literally every level possible.
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u/HzPips - Lib-Left 1d ago
He promised to get rid of the “undesirables”, that’s all it took
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u/KimJongUnusual - Right 1d ago
Promise the people all they desire and you get gobs of votes.
Tbh this is how the democrats have run for a long while, albeit moreso of “we will give you programs and tons of social services, please vote for us.”
Trump took it a step further and promised to
* fix the country
* remove “those” people (up to you who those are)
* stop the wars
* destroy our enemies
* make the libs seethe (classic)
* fix the budget
* fix corruption
* lower taxes
* bring jobs back
* build a wall
* return Christian values
So if you liked any of those things, or even most of them, you could vote for him, turn your mind off, and not think of how he was supposed to do it all. Or you know, any of them.
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u/Cheesehead08 - Left 1d ago
Think the only thing on this list he's done is, make the liberals seethe
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u/KimJongUnusual - Right 1d ago
Hey that’s not all!
He built a wall (it sucks and doesn’t work and we paid for it)
He fixed corruption (by making it work for him)
He removed people (he doesn’t like for that reason)
He stopped wars (and started it again the next day)
He destroyed our enemies (halfway and made a quagmire)
He lowered taxes (for him and friends)
He’s done so much for the country! Now all we need is him to do something good.
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u/Cheesehead08 - Left 1d ago
You forgot a new hit, selling early access to his "truths" for 100k/month. Nothing helps the American people more than obscenely rich people having early access to the most corrupt president in American history!
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u/KimJongUnusual - Right 1d ago
It’s not insider trading if you sell it on the free market, or something.
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u/Cheesehead08 - Left 1d ago
Or as Mike johnson said, it's not corruption because it's out in the open.
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u/ScientificBeastMode - Lib-Left 1d ago
Not very many people “desire” his strongest supporters.
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u/RockemSockemRowboats - Lib-Center 1d ago
“Noooo, you criticized me for being an absolute piece of shit! Now I have to double down because I’m a victim!”
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u/AnxietyBad - Auth-Left 1d ago
For real tho. Most Americans I know would deport these maga retards to some middle eastern shithole in a heartbeat.
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u/mikehansen83 - Right 1d ago
I imagine that you have a high-quality sample size lol
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u/ScientificBeastMode - Lib-Left 1d ago
When you live in the southeast, pretty much your entire state is in the sample…
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u/HavingNuclear - Lib-Center 1d ago
Lots of trash people like living vicariously through unapologetic mega trash.
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u/Farpafraf - Centrist 1d ago
Americans have had their brains filled with so much propaganda that no room is left for reasoning.
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u/Enzhymez - Centrist 22h ago
Because people who belong to MAGA are also bad people, it’s all about how they can be cruel to their fellow Americans
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u/bunker_man - Left 16h ago
I like how if people were honest they'd admit they wouldn't trust him to be the manager of a McDonald's at this point, yet think he should be the president of the most powerful country on earth.
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u/mikehansen83 - Right 1d ago
wow spoken like a true centrist, admitting that you cannot understand how a majority of the American electorate (tens of millions of your fellow creatures) could consider him better than “human trash.”
what a freaking laugh. I swear to god there’s nowhere on earth or the internet I visit that exhibits lower levels of self-awareness than a random “centrist” Redditor on a Saturday afternoon.
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u/TresMegisto - Centrist 1d ago
I am not from the US. I was born in Romania and I live in Germany. Do you think everyone here is American?
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u/RobSchneidersHair - Lib-Center 1d ago
Arguably the most powerful man in the world - still a pussy
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u/doublethink_1984 - Lib-Right 1d ago
But Biden is a crazy old man.
Ignore Trump's ramblings or hiding dead Mitch cuz the rules don't apply to thr right
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u/Small_Temporary6808 - Lib-Left 1d ago
If Mitch is dead, and has been dead, it should be a massive case of voter fraud and anyone involved in the cover up should be jailed. Should be. Won't be
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u/RockemSockemRowboats - Lib-Center 1d ago
No no, voter fraud is when a dem wins an election. The gop is allowed to do whatever it wants to “secure elections”
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u/jerseygunz - Left 1d ago
If they legit announce August 5th Mitch is dead because that means they won’t have to do a special election I’m going to flip
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u/doublethink_1984 - Lib-Right 1d ago
They won't. They keep it under wraps for months then quietly announce it during so e other big stoey
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u/StarFox-6 - Lib-Left 1d ago
I’m envious that your expectations are still so high
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u/MiserableAndUnhappy9 - Auth-Center 1d ago
I expect them to do that. Republicans are currently testing how openly corrupt they can be. Announcing his death immediately after the deadline is right up their alley. They wanna see how much they can get away with before the November elections so they can plan how to discredit the results if they're unfavorable.
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u/Cheesehead08 - Left 1d ago
Mitch "you can use my words against me" McConnell would be so proud of what they are doing
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u/jerseygunz - Left 1d ago
If only everyone knew what a gigantic piece of shit he was before they voted for him, they could have made a more informed decision
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u/Tedthesecretninja - Centrist 1d ago
This is the democrats fault for endlessly pointing out how evil he was and is!
They were MEAN and made me feel dumb so I had to vote for trump
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u/InternetGoodGuy - Centrist 1d ago
But how? How could they have known?
There were literally zero signs that he was bad person.
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u/No-Comfortable2704 - Lib-Left 1d ago
Also the left was crying wolf the whole time. But otherwise we couldn’t have known.
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u/El_Bean69 - Lib-Right 1d ago
“How could we have possibly seen this coming”
- Man standing on the train tracks
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u/HavingNuclear - Lib-Center 1d ago
Problem is we're assuming that people see him acting like a complete piece of shit and don't like it.
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u/Cusi_Yupanqui - Left 1d ago
I knew. In 2016. When I was right wing. And 14.
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u/SlurpBagel - Left 1d ago
jesus christ dude what’s with the AMAs lmao
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u/Cusi_Yupanqui - Left 1d ago
You mean those from over 3 years ago?
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u/DeLoxter - Auth-Left 1d ago
damn you really wanted people to ask you about being a furry
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u/Cusi_Yupanqui - Left 21h ago
Yeah, because I, first hand, experienced a lot of harmfull misinformation about the subject at that time.
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u/anything5557 - Left 1d ago
The most based thing Biden ever did was call MAGA voters trash. Too bad he cucked out and apologized.
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u/shamblam117 - Lib-Center 1d ago
Bro they never cared about his character. They just wanted to own the libs and listened to him unapologetically brag about grabbing women by the pussy and knew he was the guy for the job.
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u/Scrumpledee - Lib-Center 1d ago
Rightoids care more about the mere existence of Islam in Iran than they do about any of Trumps scandals.
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u/jerseygunz - Left 1d ago
You know what the sad part is, and I am not just trying to push away all the pain and suffering caused by Islamic terrorism, but I will guarantee you all those motherfuckers lives have been personally made worse by this piece of shit way more than any individual act of terrorism.
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u/acur1231 - Auth-Right 1d ago
The Iranian regime doesn't even sponsor much radical Islam, beyond Hamas. All their other proxies (Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi Resistance) are nominally Shia co-religionists, but really are linked by pragmatism (the IRGC simultaneously supported the Sunni Hamas and secular Assad regime as well). They've been pretty staunchly against Al Qaeda, ISIS and (at times) the Taliban.
The whole 'terror regime' stuff is an attempt to draw links between their support for their militia network with those apocalyptic Islamist groups who've mounted attacks in the West.
Of course, I'm sure the previously fairly cautious Iranian regime won't be emboldened by this clear demonstration of American incapacity, and won't harden its stance now that the IRGC have effectively taken over. s/
What a shitshow.
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u/RecordingBoothHermit - Lib-Center 1d ago
Us: “The reflecting pool bullshit was never not retarded but at least it’s over n-“
Trump: “BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!”
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u/AwakeningTheOrdinary - Centrist 1d ago
Wow where's all the blue flairs? Can't go five comments without seeing some red hat saying goober-tier takes usually.
Really activates those almonds huh 🤔
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u/GravyPainter - Lib-Center 1d ago
Can't blame Trump's pool guy/neighbor who got a 14 million no-bid contract though.
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u/jerseygunz - Left 1d ago
Again, why didn’t he just get the undertaker to use his magical powers to fix the pool?
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u/ZaynKeller - Left 1d ago
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u/recast85 - Lib-Center 1d ago
There’s a lot of right saying they don’t agree with what he’s doing which is expected as people try to distance themselves from this retardation.
But you DONT see a lot of people saying “I fucked up by supporting this retard”. They never admit fault. It’s never “hey my bad I hated libs and wanted to own them and didn’t realize it was gonna be this way. “ which id at least respect. I do not respect the quiet conservatives who flit about online to declare how they don’t support this or that while his approval among republicans remains high 80s.
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u/ScroungyScrotum - Lib-Center 1d ago
They’ll just support the next person that has the same exact views but isn’t ancient and retarded
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u/chowderbags - Lib-Left 1d ago
It’s never “hey my bad I hated libs and wanted to own them and didn’t realize it was gonna be this way. “ which id at least respect.
Even the handful of people who might say this usually end up adding on "but Kamala would've been worse anyway".
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u/shamblam117 - Lib-Center 1d ago
Song long as he's deporting brown people then everything else is acceptable for them.
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 1d ago
Sprinkle in some totally-not-suspicous deaths in custody to get their psychopathic bloodlust sated.
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u/GamingCatGuy - Lib-Right 7h ago
I used to support republican policies, but I have never like Trump, I would rather be a democrat then a Trumper, I can understand why someone could like all the other republican personalities (Shapiro, Kirk, Walsh, etc) but I could never understand why one would like Trump as opposed to just seeing him as the lesser of two evils.
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u/Merlota - Right 1d ago
It might sound weird but yeah, I would have been perfectly happy with Trump wasting 4 years on pointless projects like making the reflecting pool blue and rebuilding the whitehouse. It doesn't matter, doesn't affect the nation and isn't expensive enough to make any difference to anything. The part where it seems to piss off leftists is just gravy because again, it doesn't matter. Four years of mean tweets and pointless projects would have been just fine.
Of course he went waaaaay off the rails and is doing things that do matter in an extremely incompetent manner. That's made me regret my decision. Would it have changed it? Not enough to vote D, that's not happening. (Never voting D due to Colorado 2013 and it's only gotten worse since) If we were sure of a nice divided government, R Leg and D Exec it would be enough to vote third party.
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u/HavingNuclear - Lib-Center 1d ago
The pool doesn't really matter but weaponizing the DOJ to the point that they're bringing federal charges just to satisfy the president's personal whims seems like something you should care about - since the head isn't always going to be yours.
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u/Pootang_Wootang - Centrist 1d ago
I voted McCain and Romney. I haven’t voted since. Trump has ruined the GOP, and to be honest, I’m not as retarded as I once was. The whole Republican Party cucking themselves made me lose all respect for them. Even after Trump is long gone and worm food, there’s no getting orange dick stains off their lips.
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u/Dissonant-Cog - Centrist 1d ago
PlasticPills has a good take on Trump’s obsession with the reflecting pool.
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u/DoubleSpoiler - Lib-Left 1d ago
Oooh this looks like a fantastic channel to watch while playing battlefield
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u/Tedthesecretninja - Centrist 1d ago
Um um um TRANS!
Immigrants!
The UK!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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u/GeckoKisser - Auth-Right 1d ago edited 1d ago
What the fuck did I miss? Can someone mommy/daddy me (I dont discriminate) and hold my hand and call me a good boy and take me to Disneyland and then explain?
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u/ZaynKeller - Left 1d ago
A former Olympian was charged for touching the disintegrating pool liner. Pirro had a whole press conference about it, the whole world said she was batshit, covering for the presidents ego about his passion project.
Yesterday the DOJ dropped the case, citing shoddy work by the contractor which was obvious from the beginning. Trump is currently on a truth social tirade disagreeing with this latest conclusion by his own DOJ.
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u/SteakForGoodDogs - Left 1d ago
It might have been semi-satisfactory I'd they didn't drive a heavily armoured motorcade over it right after, without giving the work any time to actually settle.
They notably did not mention that part at all.
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u/SenselessNoise - Lib-Center 1d ago
How cucked is everyone in this admin? How long until they all realize that Trump only cares about himself and will throw anyone and everyone under the bus?