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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

it’s a fake tweet

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 146 points 3 days ago

"Did I say that? I can't believe I said that."

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] MortUS@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This kind of misinformation (OP) should either be tagged or not allowed at all. Like, most of us understand it's a joke but still, maybe we should have better standards than other sites.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

yall i got to it as soon as i had time to edit the post and i thanked and upvoted the fact check as soon as i got the notification

literally chill. it’s now tagged. this is a meme community.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

I wanna start a contest for a little parody label watermark we can apply to the corner of memes like this

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It'd be fun to see him explain it as someone else, hacked account for example which would say either he or Elmo can't keep a password safe.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 days ago

he didn’t say that it’s a meme

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I know, he just also recently said that when he was asked if Zelensky is a dictator

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

/gen? would love a source if so i must have missed that

[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As much as I admire this, it must be remembered that the Orange Clown does not play by any rules, including those he imposes on others.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Especially those he would impose on others.

The hypocrisy is purposeful; it's a power move.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Please tag your post as a joke, not real, or similar. If you leave it in its current state ^[2]^, you are knowingly peddling disinformation ^[1]^.

Update (2025-03-06T01:45Z): OP has modified the post's body stating that it's a fake tweet ^[3]^. Imo, the title should preface that it's fake ^[1]^.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Trump post saying US president should be impeached if Dow drops 1,000 points in 2 days isn't real". Author: "Jordan Liles". Publisher: "Snopes". Published: 2023-03-05. Accessed: 2025-03-06T01:37Z. URI: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-post-dow-impeachment/.
    • ¶4.

      […] Trump did not post a 2012 tweet saying the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 1,000 points in two days should result in a U.S. president's immediate impeachment. […]

  2. Type: Post (Through: App (Name: "Thunder".)). Title: "I mean we’ve done it twice let’s get it started already". Author: "@spujb@lemmy.cafe". Publisher: ["Political Memes" ("!politicalmemes@lemmy.world"). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy.]. Published: 2025-03-05. Accessed: 2025-03-06T01:42Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33860262/17095410.

  3. Type: Post (Through: Website (Name: "sh.itjust.works")). Title: "I mean we’ve done it twice let’s get it started already". Author: "@spujb@lemmy.cafe". Publisher: ["Political Memes" ("!politicalmemes@lemmy.world"). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy.]. Published: 2025-03-05T23:50:32Z. Accessed: 2025-03-06T01:54Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33860262/17095410.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago

mods say im fine also i don’t appreciate how you deleted then reposted to spam my notifs.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

[…] i don’t appreciate how you deleted then reposted to spam my notifs.

What? I haven't deleted, nor reposted anything in this context. Are you sure you aren't just getting a ping because I @mentioned you in the comment's references ^[1]^?

References

  1. Type: Comment (Through: Website. Name: "sh.itjust.works".). Author: "Kalcifer" ("@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works"). Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "I mean we’ve done it twice let’s get it started already". Author: "@spujb@lemmy.cafe". Publisher: ["Political Memes" (!politicalmemes@lemmy.world). sh.itjust.works. Lemmy]. Published: 2025-03-05T23:50:32Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33860262/17095410.]. Published: 2025-03-06T01:56:28Z. Accessed: 2025-03-06T02:26Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33860262/17095410.
      • Highlighted in yellow are the mentions to @spujb@lemmy.cafe's contained within the comment's "References" spoiler.
[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

Just a harmless observation here, but I can't help but notice that liberals spend way too much time de-bunking, but not nearly enough time bunking.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 13 points 3 days ago
[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

Good question! I mean, I'm not suggesting that the left should create compelling, motivating, entertaining (but not necessarily "literally" true) content targeting low-information voters in an effort to swamp out fascist garbage. Nor would I imply that the time has come to use every underhanded, dirty, ratfucking trick in the book to make those voters distrust Republicans. Heaven forbid!

But I will say outright that in my estimation the left's fastidious, timid, mousy attempts to debunk the tidal wave of fascist bullshit is not working out very well.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

too much sarcasm i was being genuine. if you want to give me a real answer feel free but i literally cannot parse what you mean here :(

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

We need more viral leftist shitposting, and less concern about getting every single fact exatly right.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

oh okay thank you!

yeah actually a lot of my account is focused doing exactly that :) this is reposted, but my original content i try to keep very rhetorically effective—and i also fact check it (unlike this trainwreck lol)

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i did, as soon as i had time. downvote to say thanks :)

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think OP is editing this comment ^[1]^ in bad faith:

  • Current version ^[1.1]^:

  • Original version ^[1.2]^:

References

  1. Type: Comment. Author: "@spujb@lemmy.cafe". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "I mean we’ve done it twice let’s get it started already". Author: "@spujb@lemmy.cafe". Publisher: ["Political Memes" ("!politicalmemes@lemmy.world"). "Lemmy".]. Published: 2025-03-05T23:50:32Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33860262/17095410.]. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33860262/17095972.
    1. (Through: Website. Name: "sh.itjust.works".). Published: 2025-03-06T00:02:54Z. Accessed: 2025-03-06T02:04Z.
    2. (Through: App. Name: "Thunder".). Published: 2025-03-05. Accessed: 2025-03-06T00:01:03Z.
[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

OP acknowledged the tweet as being false and made the appropriate edits to acknowledge it.

There’s no need to continue reporting it.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 days ago
[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

thanks for fact check, appreciated :)

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

:)

Me likes a quick pre-post web search so I can make note of something like that in the post body

Give ourselves some ammo on the moral battle of mis/disinfo 😎

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

you got it thanks for being nice everyone else is such jerks about it :)

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

The goal is to make short term bank and leave everyone else in the country, including the country worse off.

Theyre essentially pumping and dumping america

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

One last big heist for old times' sake

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

You son of a bitch, I'm in

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Same reason why they're trying to sell off all the public land and government buildings in order to create a "sovereign wealth fund" full of dubious "investments" like crypto controlled by their cronies. It's about to be literally the biggest scam ever perpetrated in America.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

Remember Obama and Ebola? Trump said that if one American died from Ebola then Obama should resign. A million dead and he ran again.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Now we have measles killing kids. At least kids were mostly safe from COVID. And we already have a vaccine for measles so there is no reason for the deaths.

Good old Pandemic Don

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago

Why are we posting straight-up lies?

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago

because i didn’t know also it’s a joke and impacts no one.

post is now tagged.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Someone ping me when impeachments mean something.
Trump has been impeached already.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago
[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

it’s not real heads up

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

Yes I know this has been fact checked, but I don't want to complain about that.

I want to complain how often we hear "down" or "up" by points or dollars over a very short period of time.

It should always be talked about in %. Because people who invest the money don't give a rats ass about the $ or point increase or decrease. They want to know how much they lost or gained.

Unless you are a broker or market maker, then you care, because it becomes about the volume of trades rather than the actual gain/loss.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

this is true and no one but you is saying it

[-] mrmule@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Tell me this guy and probably his controllers aren't shorting on the DOW 🤷‍♂️

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There was a time when I loved all the hypocritical call outs for Trump. Now it is just depressing knowing none of it matters. He’s gonna say bullshit and his supporters are going to know it is bullshit and still love it.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 days ago

don’t worry the whole thing is made up :) fully fictional content

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly, who can tell anymore?

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