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Dan HH

Romania9135 Posts

3 hours ago

#106561

On October 23 2025 23:33 Jankisa wrote:

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And despite all that coming out before the elections, he only lost by a little more then 1 %.

That should tell you all you need about how much Republicans actually care about children.

I also find it fascinating how the guy who is still super insulted over people reacting to Charlie Kirk's death doesn't understand how his whole political movement reacting to all these horrific things Trump did completely invalidates anything they have to say.

A British prime-minister, or French president, or German chancellor would kill for his virtually unchanged 42-44% approval rating. All this while doing in the open everything that every conspiracy theory about politicians anyone has ever imagined (other than cannibalism I guess), with the deftness of a toddler playing hide-and-seek behind the curtains.

Like trying to make the weirdest looking goblin in the character creation screen, the gods packed this man with as many negative character traits as possible without causing a stack overflow for a laugh, and at least 80 million grown ass adults are not in on the joke. Them never getting in on the joke is why there's no ceiling for the grift.

But let's look on the bright side, I'm thankful that he is 79. If he were 50 he wouldn't be building a ballroom but a harem room for teenagers demanded as tribute.

KwarK

United States43183 Posts

3 hours ago

#106562

It’s so weird it’s beyond parody. He gets up every morning and paints himself orange. A skin colour no real human has. And we know it’s not a medical condition because he does it in a splotchy way where you can still see his original skin colour in places. But he’s so incredibly awful and ridiculous that surface level bizarre and inexplicable things like “why is he orange” don’t make the cut. We don’t have time for that with “why is he declaring war on American cities” also going on.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25926 Posts

2 hours ago

#106563

On October 24 2025 04:48 Simberto wrote:

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I gotta say. Trump is really a massive innovator in the realm of corrupt grift. He constantly invents new ways to personally profit from his position as president that no other person has come up with before.

(I will assume that Trump somehow got paid for this)

He’s an innovator in the sense he goes against the general corruption/fraud handbook and does it all fully out in the open.

It’s a complete joke

Simberto

Germany11602 Posts

2 hours ago

#106564

On October 24 2025 06:54 WombaT wrote:

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He’s an innovator in the sense he goes against the general corruption/fraud handbook and does it all fully out in the open.

It’s a complete joke

But it works. So he is basically an innovator completely disrupting the corruption space.

Billyboy

1203 Posts

1 hour ago

#106565

My hope, that is fading everyday, is that Trumps incredibly blatant corruption will eventually become so offensive that Republican's finally stop saying "but Harris would be worse" and Americans decide, "we need actual anti corruption laws and enforcement". Then arrest a bunch of shit heads from both parties.

Then the rest of the world can finally copy something good from the US.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25926 Posts

32 minutes ago

#106566

On October 24 2025 08:28 Billyboy wrote:
My hope, that is fading everyday, is that Trumps incredibly blatant corruption will eventually become so offensive that Republican's finally stop saying "but Harris would be worse" and Americans decide, "we need actual anti corruption laws and enforcement". Then arrest a bunch of shit heads from both parties.

Then the rest of the world can finally copy something good from the US.

If only. Republicans are seemingly a lost cause by and large, at least in the short term.

At this rate I don’t think we’ll see any shift until Trump dies. Whoever the next guy or gal (that’s probably unlikely) is I think will still have to contend with Trump sniping from the sidelines and have to hit various purity tests.

You have two real paths out of this mess, either people who’ve shown theyee absolutely happy with a Fascist running the show, to reject Fascism for, whatever reason. Or the formal party and political structures take the Fascism off the menu and go back to being more standard conservatives.

Of the two I would consider one much more likely than the other.