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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Last election he said if he wasn't elected then we would be at war with Iran, gas prices would skyrocket, groceries would be unaffordable, and masked police would be patrolling the streets.

He literally projected exactly what he ended up doing, as is tradition.

Two political parties are supposed to work together for the benefit of everyone, the second a politician tries to divide the country they need to be jailed, or at the very least removed from politics. There is no place for this toxicity in a prosperous country.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Every accusation a confession. No exceptions.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is fucking insane. I don't think the POTUS should be threatening every single citizen of the country like that.

I also don't think a rapist, pedophile, conman, felon, grifter, old ass pudding brain should be POTUS.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Well your country voted for him, TWICE!

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Oh sure.

He won fair and square in 2024, right between trying to falsify the election in 2020, attempting to overthrow the government in 2021, and trying to falsify the election in 2026.

https://i.imgur.com/MiahTfp.gif

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[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 16 points 5 days ago

The america this pedophile putin lover wants should be burned to the ground.

[–] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (5 children)

"Trump promise to burn America if he doesn't win"

Fixed it.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure you could drop the "if he doesn't win" bit there and it would be just as accurate...

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump is the "Look what you made me do"-est of Presidents.

[–] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He also rapes children, is a murder, shits his pants, has small hands that smell like cabbage, is a Nazi sympathizer.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Don't forget the casino(s) he was able to bankrupt

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[–] zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

Trump warns....

"If Obama wins, the country will burn and be lost to communism" Obama serves two terms in a row, no burning and still waiting for "communism"

"If Biden wins, the country will burn and be lost to communism" Biden wins, still no burning (except Jan.6) or "communism"

"If Kamala wins the country will burn and be lost to communism" Trump wins and we watch him burn and loot the country in 4K HDR 360fps as fascism rolls in

Do republicuck magatards ever learn?

they're excuses, not justifications. if a phrase lets them pretend a fig leaf of sense they'll beat that dead horse worse than SNL

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

These morons are still stuck on its Adam and Eve not Adam and Steeve!

Honesty I used to think Republicans just have different priorities, but ever since W I've come to understand they aren't noble savages... They are just extremely stupid and hateful people.

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[–] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 29 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Someone asked, “Why do some British people not like Trump?” An articulate and witty writer wrote the following response: “A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace. So, the stark contrast does throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty, or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I do not say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it is a fact. He does not even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he does not just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and automatic nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance, or depth. It is all surface. Some might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we do not. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He is not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He is more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully and racist. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So, the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a few of us– of look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: You do not need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty hard to miss. After all, it is impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumps of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

Nate Whight

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So what he’s saying is that he will burn down the US if he loses..

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Exactly right.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This America isn't worth preserving, if it is a reflection of Trump and his kindred. I do not wish to live the rest of my life in a nation that has been consumed by evil.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I like to imagine Trump's behavior has opened the door to sweeping changes across the board. I feel like administrations opted for smaller, less impactful in the near term changes, and Trump, to his very limited credit, made sweeping changes rapidly. So let's see that in the other direction. He's had SCOTUS support some of his orders, so let's use them as examples for changes in the opposite direction.

Then let's close all the loopholes.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Even in the ideal liberal world where Republicans show up and take advantage of loopholes, and then Democrats take power and patch them all, fundamentally this allows a ratcheting effect if Democrats only ever fix and never utilize the power themselves. I'd like to see a truth and reconciliation period similar to South Africa where we take a hard look at ourselves as a nation and address the bigotry that leads us to become such a pariah, both to each other and globally. We can then address the shared goals of bringing back American jobs from a standpoint of honesty at what took them in the first place, and many of the other things that supposedly fueled the collapse of our moral framework. Unfortunately I don't see a world where any party leaders would engage in this behavior, because moving on is all their donors ever want to do. You don't need to dig for long to find billionaires meddling, and their favorite time to meddle is in democratic primaries, something the leadership very much wants them to keep doing.

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[–] Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Funny thing because its already getting its citizen murdered on the street by the Gestap- I mean ICE

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

Is this a warning or a threat?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

Warns or threatens?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is... is that a threat? ...

[–] BruhWaitWut@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Well, I will not be blackmailed by some ineffectual, privileged, effete, soft-penis'd debutante.

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[–] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The higher prices are directly from his tariffs and war and people should know that. Last time, however, prices were not Biden's fault and economy had recovered better than most places, but the people wrongly blamed Dems as they were instructed to and ignored all the warnings. One relief check went out during his time and two from orange, if you want to try that nonsense. They won't really care though or understand this, and mindlessly swing back and forth, other than the tribal ones that stick with maga regardless of the damage, and they're proud to pay more and all the suffering too!

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

"Warns" says the headline, but I think he means "Threatens."

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Love how he constantly threatens us and the media and everyone else are like "make sure you guys vote MAGA so he doesn't abuse us no more!" So many weak ass bootlickers.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So he's warning the dumpster fire is going to burn if he can't continue the dumpster fire he created? And people still doubt his dementia? What's his next threat, he's going to drown the gulf of Mexico?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Probably because that asshat Vought is laying plans to deny Democrats a win. And like his affiliate said, it will be bloodless if the Democrats allow it.

Voting asshat conservatives out means Vought just says "no" and then stuff may get very spicy.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

Vought is the epitome of the hated "deep state". The guy is a lifelong bureaucract pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Most Americans don't even know OMB exists.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 days ago

I believe we've been on fire for a while now.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If it must burn to be renewed then it must burn. No different than a sick redwood. I don't think it'll burn or it quite needs to, but it needs to be renewed even if it takes burning to do it

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[–] grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Peaceful protest won't stop them from staying in power. We, as a people, have had all the warning for what's coming, and yet I don't know of anyone suggesting a realistic, practical plan to combat the theft of power that's going to take place.

Any Federal politician who actually cares should be giving public statements about what responses will occur if election results are denied at various levels, should be inviting international observation, should be responding to voter expungement, should prepare responses in case of ICE intervention at polling places, etc.

And everyday people... we should be like the French: angry, motivated, and ready to take the kids gloves off. People should be prepared to be arrested, prepared to go on strike, and prepared to be disruptive.

If any offices are stolen, there should be fires and barricades.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

At this point a cleansing fire might be beneficial.

[–] SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Release the files. Pervert freak.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago

Good, it needs to burn.

[–] BlakeFox808@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Russian bots working to get Americans fighting before the election to effectively stop it.

If America burns, it's because he lit the match.

[–] rounding_error@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

They're desperate in NYS. Offering to ignore income tax before 50k and 100k and increase shale drilling and fracking. What worries me is these dumb boomers will fall for it.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

And the response from his election opponent from two years ago is, "Harris Warns America Will Burn if Democrats Lost This Election"

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You mean more than it is now? They'll build more concentration camps for brown people?

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