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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How did america elect this guy twice? So pathetic.

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

40 years of crippled public education and propaganda talk radio

It isn't pathetic, it is an engineered strategy that has been ongoing since before any of us were born and it's working because almost no one bothers to do anything but meme about it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have my doubts that we did it twice. 2024 looks fishy. I'm glad it's finally starting to get talked about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you really think it will matter even if they find obvious election fraud?

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

I think it might get a lot of people who don't like what's happening but accept it to cross over into not accepting it.

I'm not super hopeful that it would matter legislatively or judicially, but I might be the kick in the pants the population needs to go on a general strike, or take other actions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Sincerely hope you are right, we've gotten so many kicks in the pants so far

I mean, No Kings day was good but we need to do this EVERY DAY

[–] Back_it_up 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read AOC +3 as like a d&d style stat modifier.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

She's approaching peak power, send more vibes and she might upgrade to artifact

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Calling that disgusting snake Chuck Schumer the Palestinian senator is pretty hilarious, given where he stands on the genocide.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Weird too because Shumer did not endorse Mamdani. Only a "congratulations". But in Trump land anything goes

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

I feel like getting trump to write an angry tweet about you is as good an endorsement as Weird Al wanting to parody your song.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks terrible, grating voice, not very smart... Hmm, who does that remind me of?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Republicans always whine about themselves.

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

I wish he was a communist. I hope I get to vote for a communist in my lifetime.

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

Trump says somebody else is not smart

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's prepping up the fascist transition for the midterms, and it couldn't be any more obvious. If it isn't outright theft it's going to be voter suppression and voter manipulation on an entirely different scale. It's so ridiculous to think the US is a democracy anymore, at this point the whole country is a confidence game and a scam that's just mobilizing the capital of the people who they already have scammed against new targets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They already stole the last one. They are absolutely stealing the next ones til they get caught. Ivankas voting machine patent in China was no coincidence imo

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Make the man afraid some more.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I'll often judge someone's character by who hates them. Zohran seems like a good guy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think I've ever read anything so unhinged from a politician before.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine calling someone out for his looks in a professional setting. In most places that would get you fired or sued.

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

has trump said anything about RKJ's voice being weird?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, if I lived in NY, this post on it's own would make me vote for him.

Of course, I'd have to live in the US too, which I don't, thank some deity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That same deity is responsible for me living there. So.. thanks will not be given here

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

I mean... good? Why would we want a politician that's acceptable to him?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

More shrieking dictator every day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it pisses off trump this much, then it's a good thing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It’s like there was a creative writing exercise with a prompt to pack as much bullshit as possible into 5 sentences.

It’s constantly horrifying that our president communicates like this in public. Completely unreal.

[–] floofloof 222 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.

As a Canadian I know almost nothing about Zohran Mamdani, but I do know that he has more class than a man ever will who, while President of the USA, writes this, or the people who see a non-white left-winger win a democratic vote and immediately call for his deportation. The world can see this. Trump and MAGA are bringing shame on your country.

[–] [email protected] 127 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We know. We’re miserable. (Us sane people, anyway).

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (3 children)

+1

every day is more embarrassing than the last. i have felt shame in the past for the things our ancestors did, but there's something different about living in the midst of it. i fucking hate this place. any time i hear "well leave if you don't like it" i'm like "I FUCKING WOULD IF I COULD"

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 2 days ago (5 children)

"All the (centrist fucks) are extreme leftist Marxists!"

"OMG a (milquetoast moderate) won, the Marxists are taking over!"

"Holy shit a (moderately left leaning person) won an election! It's over for America the Communists won!"

"The crazy Marxist Democrat extreme leftists have gone too far with this (standard progressive)"

...etc etc...

now we have an "actual" socialist, but the boy cried wolf so many times they can't label him anything more extreme because they already threw those words at people like... (Checks notes)... Nancy Pelosi... Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I want an actual communist to win some election, just to see how much they freak out

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (4 children)

He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart...

Trump describing himself.

[–] tempest 31 points 2 days ago

Every accusation is an admission

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I like how they've gone full mask off and given up on the anti-semite attacks and are just calling anyone not calling for Gaza to be ethnically cleansed a Palestinian like it's an insult. Not even hiding the Islamophobia any more.

It's also double funny that he's calling fucking Schumer a Palestinian, it's like calling Biden a communist, which he also probably said. It just goes to show no matter how much the dems try to moderate to accommodate the conservatives they'll always be the enemy.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's a Mayor these guys are freaking out over.

The president is freaking out over a Mayor.

That's true fear. They know we intend to use the law to put the real criminals in prison.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, NYC is a huge city and so its mayor is a major figure in the US. The most recent population I could find was 8.8 million people, vs. the total US at 340 million. NYC is, therefore, home to 2.6% of the US population. As a polity, NYC represents more people than the 9 least populous states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, N Dakota, S Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and Maine) combined. In fact, there are only 12 US states that have a bigger population than NYC alone, and one of those is New York state. From a population perspective, the mayor of NYC is equivalent to the governor of Virginia. That's why everyone is freaking out about this so much. Plus he's young and very handily beat the candidate backed by the DNC establishment, showing cracks in what they assumed was a solid neoliberal core.

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

Ha ha ha. This guys such a snowflake.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Remember when people didn't get elected because they weren't "presidential" enough?

😢

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 days ago (11 children)

The irony of saying someone’s not that intelligent when it appears you don’t even know how to use punctuation.

I’m pretty terrible with punctuation but I’m not throwing stones from my glass house.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Trump and the Republicans are now calling him a communist and the GOP are asking Trump to revoke his citizenship and deport him under the Communist Control Act signed by Eisenhower in 1954. I think it's even money that Trump tries it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The black hole calling the snowman black

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (17 children)

The leader of Americans everyone.

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