It’s a breath of fresh air to actually be able to mock Trump with some teeth on it that isn’t brunchy le Drumpf bullshit or acting like Chicken Little in that the sky is coming down in Trump because he was rude to a journalist on twitter. We actually stand to lose a lot more in another 4 years of either Biden or Trump unlike the breakfast crowd of bougie lemmy liberals that think he’s a Marvel Comics villain.

  • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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    472 years ago

    I just got diagnosed by my therapist with Trump Derangement Syndrome. She said the only cure was to post through it.

  • Zuberi 👀
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    42 years ago

    USA needs a solid independent. We WOULD win against this clusterfuck in the lib/con parties atm.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      The bourgeois already have two parties, and there will only be a third one if they feel they need it. The parties that exist now are essentially lifestyle brands. Politics as a thing in which average people can engage in and effect change, is dead in the United States at the institutional level. The concept of engaging at the institutional level through a third party is essentially dead on arrival.

      Electoral politics is largely just spectacle to keep adherents to the 2 lifestyle brand system occupied, and massive money making endeavors, where bourgeois entites pass money back and forth to each other.

      The third parties that pop up from time to time are either right wing (libertarians, reform), grifts (forward, people’s party), or unitentional at best sheepdog deadends (greens).

      This is all before you get the point of realizing that “independent” in the American political context is really just “massively confused and politically illiterate, but often confidently so.” Which isn’t even their fault because thats by design. That is how the ruling class wants people to be.

      So 3rd parties are a dead end. The dream of an independent uniting the country against the “establishment duoploy”, or anything about “common sense consensus” is something grifters will continue to milk for as long as it’s profitable.

      Organizing outside of electoral politics is the only truely revolutionary choice; the only choice that commits to the long game that people wanting a better world in the imperial core are in for. Because there is no short cut. I wish there was! But those things are dead ends

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      The thing we really need is a candidate in the middle. There’s so much political space to explore between our right wing party and our far right party.

  • ikiru
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    652 years ago

    It’s so cringe when libs call him Drumpf.

  • poopoobanana [he/him]
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    Me: “What did you think about Trump’s mugshot?”

    My neighbor: “We got him!”

    Me: “My daughter laughed and said it was funny that “they put him in timeout” because he was only there for like 20 minutes.”

    My neighbor: “Wait, he’s out already?”

    trump-who-must-go

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      Mainstream politics is hilarious.

      Our big wet boy gets a slap on the wrist and one side is acting like it’s Christmas morning. Then the other side is trying to MAKE A MARTYR OUT OF HIM.

    • NewLeaf [he/him]
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      32 years ago

      I love how everything was “Trump ARRESTED!” Like he got cuffed and stuffed, processed and thrown in a cell.

      I know that “Ayckstually” that being arrested doesn’t mean the rest will happen, but it does to anyone else.

      If in their wildest fantasies they think what happened was more than an inconvenience, that makes me sure when he gets pardoned by Biden next election or whatever, the libs will go along with it. What’s that? Can’t pardon state crimes in Georgia? When has the law EVER stopped someone like trump from getting away with everything?

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    The level of stupid the average Lib needs in order to kickflip into loving O’Bummer and Brandon but hating Trump is off the charts. Trump also somehow embodies all the things liberals hate and fear, all at once (even if those feelings are contradictory) which is bizarre as fuck once you apply a 3rd grade level of logic to any of it. Like, for example, somehow Trump is the stupidest man on earth (covfefe, blow up hurricanes with nukes, etc.) yet he’s also a super smart deep state facist spy for Russia going back 20, 30, 40 years. Then in order to square that gap they make up shit like he’s so indoctrinated they hypnotized him into carrying out the Kremlin’s will.

    Libs, for fucksake, get a hold of yourselves.

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      332 years ago

      They need to see him as a villain, for his ascendancy to power to be a fluke or the result of cheating. The alternative is too much for them. The ultimate truth:

      Trump is the quintessential 21st century American president. A catty gameshow host, a silver-spoon socialite, an unrelenting narcissist. The guy who does petty cons and outright thefts to every lawyer, contractor, and business partner he’s ever had. If that isn’t true americana, nothing is. Sure, he belongs in a cell, but so does every other president…

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Sometimes I think this community and instance might have some interesting views I can maybe learn from and about and sometimes, it’s just… I don’t know, like some kind of bougie fucking club for the self described intelligentsia

    • FortifiedAttack [any]
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      “The left is just a pampered bougie club full of people with no life experience” is one of the oldest right-wing takes in the book.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      we literally want to destroy the bourgeoise.

      like, the debate here is between putting them against the wall immediately like the romanovs versus giving them a chance to surrender their ill-gotten wealth and be rehabilitated like Puyi.

      • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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        As an enlightened centrist, I want to see individual punishments for the bourgeoisie.

        For example, Jeff Bezos will have to work as an Amazon warehouse worker, with all of the horrible monitoring bullshit he’s inflicted onto his workers. People will be able to tune into a live feed of him standing in the corner pissing into a bottle so he doesn’t have to go to the bathroom. When he’s no longer able to keep doing that job, he’ll become one of the only homeless people in the world, and will be kept locked in a park with maximally hostile architecture.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      272 years ago

      Curious why you think it’s bougie? I understand that we can come across as smug or arrogant but I’m not sure how we ever come across as bougie or decadent or anything like that.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        I was a little drunk and I think bougie was probably not the right word choice. The sentiment was more meant to be something along the lines of exclusive or supercilious. Upon reflection I may just not be in on the joke.

    • Mokey [none/use name]
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      I grew up poor, my friends were having sex and doing harder drugs as young as 11 and Ive lost a friend to H. There isnt anything about me thats bougie

    • Zuberi 👀
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      It is us, we are the bourgeoisie now. Finally all of my shitposting has finally paid off :)!

  • magicker catto
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    202 years ago

    He who makes a Chapo of himself gets rid of the shame of being a Dem.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    372 years ago

    I lost interest so fast in the congressional investigations into Trump and Russia, I’m sorta shocked that people left that event thinking that Russia had deep tentacles into Western institutions.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      212 years ago

      “Russian Interference” vs “We’re actually a worse country than you thought we were and have been for a long, long time”.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      222 years ago

      Russiagate was always more a matter of faith than evidence. It was taken as pure gospel among libs that the shoestring budget Facebook psyop out of Russia switched enough voters to Trump to flip the election, despite a complete lack of evidence (most analysis indicated it was preaching to the choir).

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    292 years ago

    the sky is coming down in Trump because he was rude to a journalist on twitter.

    I-was-saying

    “Journalists” deserve far more than that anyway lol.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      232 years ago

      For me there is this contradiction that libs say: “Trump bad, he was ableist and a trash human!” and then turn around and use slurs at our instance, then get those comments removed and then say we are worse than 4chan for defending our comrades against ableism and transphobia. I just don’t buy it that most libs are actually allies and aren’t actually conflating the form (Trump not being civil) with the content (him being ableist).

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    I’ve taken the RFKJ pill. Is he, too, deranged? Probably, but he’s also the only candidate on the ballot in the Democratic New Hampshire primary. Go get em, Kennedy!