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“Nuclear weapons are the biggest problem we have,” he continued. “And we have a man that can’t put two sentences together. We have a man that doesn’t know he’s alive. And he’s backed up by the media. The biggest problem we have is the media. The media’s fake. I came up with the term a long time ago and they won’t talk about it. If I did some of the things that he did, they’d would reinstitute the death penalty.”

He can't even decide what the biggest problem we have is within a few sentences and he claims Biden can't put two sentences together.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The media’s fake. I came up with the term a long time ago and they won’t talk about it.

It's an interesting low to claim he invented the Nazi's "Lügenpresse"

If I did some of the things that he did, they’d would reinstitute the death penalty.

And there's the casual mention (while not explicitly saying it) of killing his political opponents.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That, and the death penalty doesn't need to be reinstated because it's already something that is not only legal on the federal level and in many states, it's also used all the time.

I have no idea why he doesn't seem to know that considering how often he calls for people to be executed.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a fucking idiot that's why.

All of his remaining braincells are only able to lie, cheat, manipulate, scheme, grift, and do crimes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ive long been convinced that he has dementia from untreated syphilis of the brain.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

He remembers inventing lugenpresse from his past life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you ever wondered if Hitler killed a double, escaped and had an ugly, orange kid which came up with a lame term to shame the media - wonder no more.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a reason Trump won't debate anyone, and it has nothing to do with Biden's cognitive abilities.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because he physically cannot shut up. And he looks like an idiot when they mute him.

Which. what they should do... is automatically mute the people whose time it isn't to speak- and provide subtitles so we can see that rambling in all it's insanity, but still let the other person talk without having to fight him.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all have to agree to the terms to participate, and none of those candidates would agree to be muted. They want the ability to score points on each other, even if one orange gorilla abuses it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That was part of the terms of that “oh will you shut up” debate.

Not that trump would ever abide an agreement he thought was “unfair”… or thst required him to pay something…

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we have a man that can’t put two sentences together

The irony

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Donald can string all the sentences together

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nuclear weapons are the biggest problem we have

the biggest problem we have is the media

Its all “biggest” with this buffoon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Some of it's yeeeuuuuuge.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What always baffles me is that specifically evangelicals love this guy. With all the name-calling and general awful behavior. Trump is quite literally what they don't want their kids to be.

Yet, as the leader of the country, they think he's just the best. Really weird and hypocritical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because he gets their agenda done. He put SCOTUS judges in place that would end Roe. He has a bunch of evangelical advisors telling him to enact their policies. And since he doesn't actually give a shit, he does it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can't trust a person's policies when you can't trust their integrity. That's like a mantra in the evangelical church.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Hypothetically, if you were to compare a speech by Biden to a speech by trump in a blind test, and ask the world which speech was made by someone with poor cognitive abilities, I’m willing to bet that a vast majority would find trump’s speech to be the one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biden is 3 years older than Trump. Neither of these dipshits know what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible

I challenge you to find a more sustained stream of putrid inanity than this quote by Trump. Go on

Quit with your both sides bullshit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I definitely think biden has done more to fix things than harm things while trump has done the opposite. That doesn't mean they shouldn't have retired already. Having an opinion that they're both too old is not "both sidesing" its just reality.

Biden has surrounded himself with people who are at least functional administrators rather than plutocrats, zealots and lackeys, which is why Biden is tolerable and Trump is a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago