• Flying Squid
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    38611 months ago

    Translation: “give me enough money and I’ll promote whatever you want.”

    Most presidents at least pretended they couldn’t be bought.

      • Rentlar
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        1011 months ago

        Ah yes. Thanks for the reminder of those times, which COVID had distracted me from.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        I can’t decide whether this pic or the photo of George W. Bush literally holding hands with the king of Saudi Arabia is worse. I mean, at least Goya doesn’t have people cut up with bone saws and they definitely had nothing to do with 9/11.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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        411 months ago

        The best quo. Lots of smart people are saying it’s the best quo. The quid? Not so good. But the quo is good.

    • Capt. Wolf
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      1011 months ago

      Dude’s made a living selling his stupid face every opportunity he can to get attention, why would he let a little thing like presidential integrity get in the way? It certainly didn’t when he was actually president!

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        Except he doesn’t sell himself to the highest buidder, he’ll sell out to any and all of them at the same time.

    • @[email protected]
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      7811 months ago

      He on the other hand is haggling openly and then brags about it.

      And his moron followers are proud of him 🙄

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        Turns out “playing 4D chess” is just MAGA politikese for “broadcasting our corruption loudly and assuming enough people are also either too corrupt, ignorant, or disaffected to do anything about it.”

      • Flying Squid
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        5511 months ago

        He’s going to “drain the swamp” and replace it with an auction house.

    • @[email protected]
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      “Some fok’ll never tip their hand, but then again some fok’ll. Like Donald the Slack-jawed Yokel.”

      Trump: “It wasn’t my fault, he had a LOT
      of money.”

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      Nah. Imo, this is him telling oil company that they need to step up and fully fund his requests for money “or else”. Didn’t he recently ask the oil industry for an insane amount of money at the beginning of his campaign or something?

  • @[email protected]
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    But Musk has more recently embraced conservative politics, especially the issue of free speech. Musk bought Twitter in 2022, rebranded it to X, and has dismantled many of the checks and balances meant to limit hateful speech and misinformation on the platform.

    Why is free speech a conservative cause nowadays? It should not be.

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      Because what it actually means is the freedom for them to spew their hate speech without consequences. Freedom of their speech, not others’. They hate being “punished” for their hateful ideologies and view it as censorship. Being able to spread their hateful beliefs to large groups is extremely important in propagating it to other people. Conservative created platforms are inherently limited by the fact that their audience is not only quite small but also everyone there already believes their bullshit. They want and need to place their hate in mainstream places where others will see it and hopefully come to believe it

      There’s also the bonus effect of reducing both the amount and proportion of non-conservative voices.

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    It’s funny to see the aesthetic transformation of Tesla’s vehicles overlaid with the timeline of Musk’s weirdification. I mean he was always a shitheel fuck, but in the past he was a lot more confused about who to game and how to game them.

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        I imagine they’re referring to the difference between a car that looks like a normal sedan, vs something Christopher Nolan would have used to build the Batmobile around for The Dark Knight.

        Edit: I realize that sounds too complimentary. I assure you it wasn’t meant that way.

  • NutWrench
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    Trump says the quiet part (“I am totally bribe-able”) out loud, all the time because he’s a complete freaking idiot. There is no filter between his mouth and what’s left of his brain.

    This is the real Trump. The moron. This isn’t “off the cuff”,“exaggeration” or “locker room talk” Believe people when they show you what they really are.

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      At least he should have gone with the talk of “I was skeptical of them and like those iconic petrol cars like every American patriot, but I’ve talked to this great man, and after consideration I’ve decided to support electric cars. I bet soon they will be just as iconic as those muscle cars with their V8 engines.”.

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      because he’s a complete freaking idiot.

      The scary part is nobody’s listening. I can scream at the top of my lungs the fact that vaccines are harmless but measles outbreaks are increasing. People out there hunting immigrants while the 1% pockets their surplus value.

      People aren’t thinking, they are just reacting on emotions.

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        The problem is lots of folks have been more or less made that way through decades of action by the right. Seriously the more or less complete collapse of leftist action back in the 70s and 80s fucked us, it meant that the right was able to hog wild and build up massive institutions like talk radio and fox. Theres one thing we have going for us and thats the fact these institutions are finally going up against actual resistance, and that has only been rebuilt over the last 14 years or so.

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            I over exaggerate a bit but basically thats when the boomers came into influence, combine that with the fact the fuckery started with Nixon and well any action would seem to be non existant. Also by the 90s it seems to be irrelevant snough that I cant name any large instances besides the some minor actions done by the alt crowd.

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    putin supports trump bigly. It must be a wonderbra made of tit-anum, one can only assume. Or lots of money. It could be money 💰 yeah.

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    Someome should ask him how many times he’s been paid to change his mind

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      He wouldn’t even understand the question, it would rely on him having actual values of his own, instead of a jumbled ball of piss and hate.