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That middle finger thing was real? Yeah, our president is a 12 year old. Can you imagine any other world leader doing this? Even north korea wouldn't do this.
I thought it was shopped because it was so damn tiny.
I thought it was shopped because it was so big.
We still talking about his finger?
North Korea would have him and his family and his family's extended family's extended family disappeared.
But he wouldn't have flipped him off in the first place. Can you picture any other world leader doing this? Maybe the drug thug from the Philippines awhile back. That's all I can think of.
I can see Basescu doing that to a heckler then laughing with the heckler
Look him up, the Romanian ex-president. Dude had the whole weird fun uncle vibe, and as is custom to say in romania: "He stole but he also did things"
I could also imagine Silvio Berlusconi doing this, and he was another deeply corrupt avuncular type.
Eh I wouldn't say Basescu was deeply corrupt. I mean, not compared to our current politicians and others from his own time.
Our last former prime minister was far, FAR worse than Basescu, along with the entire current PSD party, which are also corrupt assholes with no morals.
I think Berlusconi would have thought it was beneath him. He wasn't the same kind of petty that Trump is.
Our steals things, but is also a rapist, pedophile, murderer and racist. Trump is definitely not a "fun" uncle.
Oh yea i don't doubt that.
He was. The mask is coming off
Today I learned that "Roubou mas fez" has a cousin in Romania.
What kind of new age cope is this?
Just letting your unabashed orientalism known to the world.
On top of this, the sheer amount of outrage over this act which had no material effect is baffling. People are so obsessed with optics, decorum, and civility that a middle finger is condemned nearly as hard as withholding healthcare from millions of Americans, or, you know, fascism rocketing towards us at Mach 10.
Did you mean to reply to pelespirit? I was criticizing their comparison.
Your sarcasm was entirely lost on me. My bad. Good meme.
To the third generation.
Yeah.
The other bastard who did such a thing was Rodrigo Roa Duterte, currently in the Hague, under ICJ scrutiny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawinigan_Handshake
Wow first I'm hearing about this. Wild shit
He was ready to defend himself against an intruder using a Inuit stone carving at one point too. Although his wife was really the hero of that incident.
I miss cretien.
The middle finger thing is, like, the least worst thing he's done.
Correct but even the worst authoritarian wouldn't mock their citizens so openly. Most dictators are smart enough to know that all it takes is one bullet to kill them and this country literally has more guns than people
Yeah. The GOP kinda bit off more than they could chew.
The Black Panthers are coming back. Last time that's what got the GOP to pass gun control legislation.
I want the Rainbow Panthers to be passing legislation, someday. Such as making it law that ICE is abolished, wealth limits, making immigration a streamlined process, returning honors to minorities that were ousted by the Trump Regime's military, and more.
Oh, and making the heads of Trump and the other oligarchs into a Smithsonian Exhibit, as a warning to future despots.
To be fair north Korea wouldn't do this because they'd send him to the coal mines instead lol
Anyone has a link? I've seen the memes but no posts of the actual incident
Edit: found one, it's TMZ but the only clip I could find. Which seems pretty sus to me. https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/trump-flips-off-ford-worker/
I can only think of one other [previous] world leader who'd do this and the similarities between Trump and him are many
Maduro
I could see Putin doing it