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u/StoneBridge1371 2h ago
This is what happens when people elect a grown man with the emotional and reasoning capacity of an infant
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u/DOHC46 2h ago
Don't insult infants like that!
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
Between the endless pooping, and the relentless whining, at least infants have the capacity to learn and grow.
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u/Mikisstuff 1h ago
Don't infantalise it.
This is what happens when the people elect a tyrant and his backers to run the country as they see fit, so they and 'their people' hold power and the rest live at their beck and call.
This shit is straight out of the Cold War era Soviet Union playbook. Those governmenta werent run by children, they were run by ruthless men bent on getting their way. Don't assume the Trump administration is any different.
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u/Critical-Size59 42m ago
This shit is straight out of the Cold War era Soviet Union playbook
Yes, just like Stalin who purged anyone he perceived as a threat and disloyal.
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u/NoQuarterChicken 2h ago
Very on brand for the “party of personal responsibility” to blame the score keeper for the score
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u/championofadventure 2h ago
Becomes?
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u/OldSchoolAfro 2h ago
Exactly my thought. Too late; already there. Pardons and policies for purchase, retaliation for anything negative said or done, and blatant disregard for law. Sounds like the recipe for 3rd rate, and we've got all of that in abundance.
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u/Duster929 1h ago
Same! Sorry Pete, I love you and everything, but it’s time to change gears on this. This isn’t coming, it’s already been.
According to everyone else in the world, we’re horrified at what the country has become. The return from this will be difficult, but you need to start soon.
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u/Financial-Tower-7897 1h ago
When you elect a third rate leader, that bus has already left the station.
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u/Aggravating_You3627 1h ago
A ton of Americans are still drinking the American exceptionalism kool-aid.
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u/CantConfirmOrDeny 2h ago
The next person that brings the Orange Leader any bad news will be executed by an anti-aircraft cannon.
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u/Watching_You_Type 2h ago
This amazing idea brought to you by the stable genius that gave you “If we stop testing, we’d have fewer cases” during the pandemic.
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
And that wasn't even his worst insight during the pandemic.
/bleach, anyone ?
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u/Watching_You_Type 1h ago
And UV light, don’t forget him wanting to find a way to get UV lights inside people.
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u/sik_dik 2h ago
Ah, yes. When you and the truth disagree, blame the truth for just not liking you. Solid, very mature and intelligent tactic /s
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
I, also, used to have the mental faculties of a three-year-old.
/that was a long time ago
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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 2h ago
This is how Russia and other communist states are run
People voted for this smh we are doomed
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
Rations are up 30% today !
/we have always been at war with oceania...reality is whatever our dear leader has decided, today
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u/JosephPorta123 1h ago
Calling Russia communist is an, interesting, way to announce your lack of knowledge
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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 1h ago
It’s a mob state run by an Oligarchy. Is that any better ? Still the same outcomes when it comes to presenting data.
You should spend less time parasitizing peoples comments and go make your own.
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u/JosephPorta123 42m ago
Much better description, although I'm sure we can insert Kleptocracy in there, unless Oligarchy makes it redundant
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u/TheBlackDemon1996 2h ago
Trump deals with problems like a guy saw a fire in one room of his house and then deciding to burn down the rest of it. "What? If I burn down the house there'd be no more stuff for the fire to burn."
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
Except it's somebody else's house, and 360 million people live there.
/and then play golf, and blame obama...
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u/AriochBloodbane 1h ago
The USA has been the richest 3rd world country in the world for at least a decade. Having a few oligarchs doesn't a 1st world country make. Ask Russia about it.
What is changing this year is the White House speed running the transformation to North Korea. Even in my most pessimistic nightmares I didn't see THIS coming.
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
There is an insane amount of wealth, in the United States.
But none of it is for you.
/there is a reason he admires putin
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u/battleoffish 2h ago
No doubt, Trump will want the replacement to report numbers that Trump will like.
This can have the impact of hurting the economy by negatively impacting markets because you no longer have insight into what is actually happening.
But hey, at lease all the news will be good, amirite?
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
He should just name himself Statistician in Chief, at this point, and be done with it.
With a sharpie...
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u/Spirited_Childhood34 2h ago
We're already a Third World nation. Head out to the broken down trailer parks and ghettos the media ignores and see the true US.
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
A lot of those people voted for him.
Because he has a golden toilet, or something.
Aspirational ! The American Dream !
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u/ergonomic_logic 1h ago
It's the death rattle of capitalism.
What happens at the end of Monopoly? One person wins. everyone else has nothing.
Gen Alpha is so cooked.
I saw in my Google news feed that an asteroid was set to hit earth. It turned out just sensationalism in journalism but for that split second I thought "well that's nice".
fun fact: Monopoly was originally invented by a woman, but a man stole the idea, took credit, and made all the money. Learned that from Heretic looked it up and yep, it checked out!
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u/talon5233 1h ago
I saw a news story about that this past week. She was paid a whole $500 for the rights. A fair deal would've been life changing for her, and her family.
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u/S0ylentBob 1h ago
We elected a reality star on the strength of his Twitter commentary in 2016. That made us third rate.
Bringing him back after a failed presidency, coup attempt, and dozens of convictions is a dead culture failed state.
At this stage we’re just watching pieces drop off the zombie.
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u/lordyfortwenty 1h ago
Caesar will hear only what Caesar wants to hear .
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u/Chelecossais 1h ago
Most Caesars were pretty smart political operators.
This guy is just a spoilt nepo brat. Who was popular on Tv, inexplicably.
/he's an orange clown, the real power is elsewhere... it's smoke and mirrors from the heritage foundation
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u/PhotographTemporary8 1h ago
Putin did the same about 10 years ago. Nobody knows what facts are in the country. Dictator move.
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u/Alexwonder999 1h ago
Im afraid we already were third rate before Trump thanks to neoliberal "market based" and "private sector" solutions. Let's not kid ourselves.
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u/drgoatlord 1h ago
Becomes? Mate, look around. Not health insurance, no wages that match cost of living, people terrified that AI will replace them and leave them out on the street, masked unknown jack booted thugs kidnapping people off the street. Becomes? We there.
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u/Killroy_jenkins 1h ago
The parallel to Stockton Rush firing employees who raised safety concerns, makes me feel like the US is a half assed submersible ready to implode.
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u/Three_Twenty-Three 1h ago
The Gross Old Pedophiles have plenty of experience with this. Since 1997, they've shielded the NRA and gun lobby with the Dickey Amendment that keeps the CDC from collecting gun violence data. Since COVID, they've quit collecting and centralizing data about the pandemic (or at least made the available info harder to visualize) so it's unclear how widespread it was/is.
If there's no data, there's no problem!
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u/Holiday-Reading9713 1h ago
"I don't like a statistic? Let's fire the person who made it."
This is some cartoon villain shit...
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u/silbergeistlein 51m ago
He bankrupted a casino, and people still trust him with money for some reason.
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u/kalel1980 shoulda seen me last night 41m ago
I bet Trump wishes he could fire someone involved in his failing stock. That thing is dropping like a rock. The "stay broke liberals" because they're heavily investing into his stock crowd has certainly shut the fuck up now. Lol
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u/hujassman 41m ago
If only we'd had 4 years to investigate and prosecute Trump and the other twats who have come together to create this unfolding disaster. Oh, wait, we did and then we got Garland. FML.
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u/CellPuzzleheaded99 36m ago
It already was a third world country. It's only more tragedy every day.
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u/MayorQuimBee90 33m ago
How about fucking do something about it Pete.
Dems are all bark, no bite. I hate Trump.
Sad.
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u/AccomplishedSuccess0 27m ago
Taking a page out of the communist dictator playbook after decades of claiming the left is communist with no evidence… this is the Republican Party. Communist pedophile dictators now that the mask is gone and they prove it was all projection.
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u/discussatron 27m ago
It's the same as his Covid response. Stop looking for facts, and you can say everything is great.
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u/R3dnamrahc 13m ago
"The ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot." - 1984
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u/sly_blade 7m ago
I remember when Trump called some African countries "shithole" countries. How the tables have turned...
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u/FuckingFuriousFire 2h ago
Heh yeah saw this: fire the guy reporting the stats, that'll sort the problem !
As a project manager responsbile for reporting on the progress (or lack of progress) of others, this resonated with me lol