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President Donald Trump isn’t attending the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, because he has instead chosen to attend a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his country club in Doral, Florida.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

"im not staying for these SUCKERS AND LOSERS, all of them, i dont like them dead"-trump probably

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

lithuanian vs us presidents

Not only that Lithuanians donated 237k usd for the families of the deceased soldiers Link.

Interview by US general about the deaths and recovery operation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

While a man he admits is innocent is in an El Salvador prison

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Supposedly, I shouldn’t be the one who cares more about US soldiers than a republican president, and yet…

[–] [email protected] 17 points 17 hours ago

"Suckers and loosers"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The amount of news articles that make me laugh have been steadily increasing.

What a clownly country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

memorable qoutes towards soldiers: " suckers and losers all of the, whats in it for them.

I dont like soldiers that are dead or captured, they disappoint me.

i Like the poorly educated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I hate it here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Sad, but true

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

US politics is a fucking comedy. My colleague pulled up the picture of Trump standing with that goofy tariff board where trump is reading all the countries and how many percentages they would be tariffed. My colleague was absolutely cackling at the picture and kept saying "the supposedly richest country in the world and they announce this shit that will affect all of us on a piece of fucking cardboard????!!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

one of my bros was apparently listening to the same thing as white noise, dont you find his voice grating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Trump is also applying tariffs to an island only inhabited by penguins and seals….

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8xlj0485o.amp

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I hate the guy but damn is he funny. Everything he says is a meme. He's absolutely a prime example of what america is all about. Him sitting in a tesla and saying: it's a computers. And : I love Tessler is just too funny. And they voted for him twice. I just can't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

he knows his voters are stupider than he is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

For real. To me, Trump is the embodiment of the American stereotype. I know Americans think that the rest of the world stereotype them as being fat, but no no no. The behavior Trump exhibits is the American stereotype on crack. I am pretty anti America (sorry, not sorry) and have been since Bush, but even I could not have come up with a more cartoony and offensive American stereotype than the Trump persona.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Same, but Bush was a fucking rocket scientist in comparison. If someone told me that in the Bush area that thy'll find someone way WAY dumber to elect. TWICE.

I would've never believed that. No way.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

I said the first time he was elected that, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is an accurate caricature of America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Do you have links for that please? I want to laugh

[–] mrgoosmoos 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

On Reddit someone posted a parody of the whole affair. I believe it was originally posted on r/wallstreetbets, but it has since been deleted.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is it wrong that I am less infuriated by this than I am by the fact people still worship this idiot?

At this point, I am exhausted with being outraged by him. I cannot hate him more than I already do. Doing more evil shit may actually make me hate him less, because I simply cannot keep up to date with all the new reasons to hate him. But I cannot comprehend how millions of people can function in the world while still behaving like everything he does is objectively right. Not even the truly repulsive, monstrous shit, but the petty, insufferable bullshit like this. How do you excuse it? It do not comprehend how anyone can look at this and say, "Yeah, this guy should have nigh-unlimited power over the country and the ability to throw the world into chaos with a Tweet."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Months back somebody on here described it in a simple two-word way that has stuck with me. Dumb and mean.

Many conservatives are just dumb and mean, and that is a nasty combination.

That’s not a perfect generalization, of course. Some are nice people who are profoundly ignorant and misled. Some are smart sociopaths. But it just fits too well for me to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I think it is important to laugh at the funny demonstrative shit because if you keep getting outraged for every unimportant thing that is done like the Gulf of America thing you're not heard when outraging for actual things that matter like deporting people or silencing opposition

[–] cdnwaffleiron 1 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

he said they are suckers and losers, and whats in for them, more than one occasion.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember the "Troops for Trump" that would set up from time to time. Never understood it. He's disrespected them multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

he did offer them to putins mercanaries before, when they put out hits on them.

[–] [email protected] 253 points 1 day ago (26 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hopefully they remember that when the time comes to make choices.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

We knew this from the last time around

Evidence suggests they do not make the correct choice

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

he doesn't wear a tan suit though so it's ok

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Nero fiddling as Rome burns.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

They were just suckers and losers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 day ago (4 children)

“Suckers and losers…”

Now watch this drive

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