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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 136 points 2 months ago
[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

I like the Woody Guthrie line from his song Lindbergh about the American fascist collaborators in the 40s:

And I'm gonna tell you workers,
'fore you cash in your checks
They say "America First," but they mean "America Next!"
In Washington, Washington...

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Same Guthrie that wrote a couple song lyrics about Trump's father's properties and the racial divide that was there.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

From his 1955 song, Old Man Trump:

I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project

Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 110 points 2 months ago

Complete hypothetical, stay with me, but if Trump was a Russian asset what would he be doing differently? 🤔

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 months ago

The only thing I can think of is to be less obvious about it.
A properly trained russian agent wouldn't be so blatantly corrupt, surely.

Then again he's a damned imbecile so he's doing the best he can with the 5 brain cells he's got.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

You get what you pay for. I have a feeling Trump is doing it for free.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When youre a “star” they let you do it

Simply a Traitor; Asset of Russia

[-] drhodl@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Being an imbecile does explain a LOT about Donny 2 Dolls.

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[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 86 points 2 months ago

I don’t know how many times I need to spell it out Americans:

Line item #2

You need to deal with your worthless president hellbent on destroying the planet.

[-] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The only time they have guts is when they're aiming advanced weapons at poorly armed brown people on the other side of the world.

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

Not true. They also aim them at your own brown citizens on the other side of the street.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago

Offer the country you’re spending billions against in a proxy war resources that will likely find their way, directly or indirectly, used against the US’s financial expenditures in the war.

No wonder this idiot bankrupted a casino.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 42 points 2 months ago

Four casinos.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

Don't forget: bankruptcy only affects the business, hence golden parachutes. Being a casino owner wasn't enough, bastard had to screw over the workers too

[-] InstructionsNotClear@midwest.social 45 points 2 months ago

Trump is willing to surrender our our natural resources to Russia cause he is weak. He always has been weak and everyone knows it. Also he rapes children.

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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago
[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

I have been saying for years he is going to donate Alaska to Russia...and now this.

I should not be, but I am entirely astonished right now, lol.

[-] Dragomus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Not donate, that would mean it's for a cause... Putin has said for a long time now he considers Alaska Russian property and wants it back. So Trump will just give it to him as if it was loaned from Russia.

This is also why Trump wants Canada and Greenland, he needs to find a way to balance things so it looks like a win for him... "We gave Alaska back to Russia, but won Greenland and Canada for the greatest usa, best deal ever!"

I would not be surprised in the slightest if he invades Greenland by next year.

At the very least he needs to find distractions to keep the American people drowning in chaos while the country slips even further in misery.

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[-] bampop@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

So he was Putin's bitch all along! Who could have guessed it?

Anyway...

Release the Trump/Epstein files

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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Shocker! No, not in the least.

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 28 points 2 months ago

Trump is a bully, and what do bullies do when they enter the big kid playground ? they submit to the bigger bully.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How much “fury” has it sparked? Are the republicans furious enough to impeach him? I’ll wait. checks watch

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[-] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago

Big enough of a disaster to distract from the Epstein files?

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[-] devolution@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

So that's what he meant about a "big betrayal" to take the story away from Epstein.

[-] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

What did you expect? Trump is a goddamn Kremlin Gremlin.

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

We can’t supply weapons to the country getting attacked anymore, but we’ll give up our natural resources to the country that started the war? Trump is a bitch.

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

How is it that I'm not even born in the US and somehow I'm more American than the average American in my country.

Traitors, to the gallows.

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

The republican traitor filth must be humbled.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Trump is handling the peace negotiations in the most spectacularly embarrassing way. Giving the aggressors in a conflict concessions in exchange for a pinky swear that they won't do it again? Wow, what a concept. Historically bulletproof strategy that has never failed or backfired in any way.

I saw someone write once that Trump is so obsessed with making deals, and being known as a great dealmaker, to the point where the terms of the deal are often irrelevant to him. If the terms are favorable, he honors the deal. If he discovers later that the terms were not favorable to him, he reneges.

This kind of behavior works when you are a billionaire developing real estate because the people he screws over rarely have the funds to fight him in court, and have their workers' livelihoods to think about. Even if they do take him on, or they get a law team to work pro bono, he drags out the court proceedings and delays paying court judgements, or he opts to settle for much less than what was promised initially.

This doesn't work in geopolitics, but he doesn't know how to operate any other way. He wants to make a deal, and if he has to give away America's most valuable natural resources to close that deal, he'll do it. Doesn't matter if Putin has no intention of giving up the fight in Ukraine, Trump just wants to feel like he's some great peacemaker.

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[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago
[-] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

So you’re going to allow Russia in the US to go to Canada?

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago
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[-] Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Woke up today to a headline that we are getting a stimulus check. Turns out it's just for Alaska. I keep saying if he does something good we have to acknowledge it but it just keeps not happening

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The TSA is letting us keep our shoes on now (or at least they announced that they would).

That's the only good thing I can think of.

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[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure whether or not I'll be surprised to hear Trump gave Alaska to Russia

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Trump giving RUSSIA OUR expensive Resources is PROOF he's NOT working for Russia!

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Trump would give him his wife and daughters if Putin wanted.

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago
[-] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

"do you think he likes me" guess who said this about who

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago

But the war ended on day one of his presidency, right? At least, that’s what he kept promising, and we all know he keeps his word.

[-] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

And there people were joking about Trump giving Putin Alaska.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Headline is a bit misleading:

There has been no confirmation that such a proposal is on the table, and Newsweek has contacted the White House and the office of Alaska's governor for comment. The Telegraph cited a White House statement that it did not comment "on deliberative conversations that may or may not be happening."

I loathe Trump and won't be surprised if he does in fact offer this, but he hasn't actually proposed it to Putin yet.

[-] ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure every alaskan ever would be against this

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

I hope the 54.54% that voted Trump realizes very overtly that they voted for this, and I hope the 41.41% that voted Harris never lets them forget.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump needs to give his own shit to his boyfriend Putin. Get off your knees you pedo traitor! When is this demented old man going to keel over?!?!

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I'm so glad we elected an alpha male. /s, obviously.

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