• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    Haha…what?

    I can’t believe Biden was tapped out but this guy is still talking.

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    whenever he talks nonsense like this I think it’s because someone on his staff tried to explain something as they would to a toddler and he was barely listening so he repeats 5% of the words that grabbed his attention and mad libs the rest.

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    21 hours ago

    Seems like all the competent people went to finance and justifying war think tanks, and we are left with these type of clowns for politics

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        I don’t know, but I think anyone who cares about progressive ideals should try to make it advantageous for amoral intelligent people to favor those ideals.

        There’s no such thing as doing anything for altruistic or communal prospects just for the sake of it, nothing is turning back that clock on reaping the benefits of capitalism, and we can only work with what we have now.

        I think ultimately everyone wants self-preservation, where family and community may be an extension of the self, that’s a good starting point. Things are super depressing now to say the least, which is why people who believe in progressive ideals need to hold on even harder.

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    We really need to mark if Trump memes are real or made up. I hadn’t heard that he said this, but I can totally believe it. I just don’t have time to fact check every meme to know if I should be laughing or terrified that there’s a potential or former leader who believes stuff like this.

    Granted, both options are valid with Trump.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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        Oh, he’s making a metaphor.

        OK it takes a day to open the dams and for water to travel.

        Wait, the faucet is as big as that wall? He’s talking about an actual faucet.

        I’m out.

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        I kept scrolling in Lemmy, saw a post in politics talking about it, but thanks. I can’t say I’m surprised, but I’m amazed that people are willing to vote for someone so obviously stupid. I understand there’s a certain element of anti-intellectualism, but this is gradeschool knowledge we’re talking about.

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    The stupid part is not that he said this

    The stupid part is that a good percentage of a large powerful country like the United States allows and accepts a political leader like this to speak for them.

    Turnip isn’t the idiot

    Everyone else is for listening to him and keeping him in a position of power

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      Except the majority doesn’t want this moron. Yes, though, I do agree with your sentiment generally

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        The fact that anything more than a vanishingly-small minority wants him is an absolute catastrophe and an incredibly damning indictment of American society in and of itself. Trump’s nonsensical babbling is literally beyond “schizophrenic homeless dude on the street corner with a ‘the end is nigh’ sign”-level gibberish.

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          People keep singling America out here as if right wing fascism hasn’t been on the rise everywhere.

          It’s not damning of American society it’s damning of humanity in general.

          When things get tough a large portion decides to dig their heels in the ground and act like nothings wrong at all.

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      Buckle up, here in Australia, every couple of years a political party has the bright idea of damming water in Australia’s tropical north and pumping it across 1000km of desert to Australia’s farmland regions

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        I don’t know if you remember a couple years ago when they were finding barrels of bodies, guns, and other fun things in Lake Mead (near Vegas)? That was drying up because the river that feeds it has been getting diverted for farm use (and probably Nestlé, too). It’s a huge problem in California, as well. Whole ecosystems are disappearing due to damming and diverting of rivers and streams. It’s not at all sustainable

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      Who’s the bigger fool? The fool or the one who follows him?

      • Ben Kenobi
        • Huquad
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    This dipshit is the most accurate representative conservatives could come up with. He’s been re-affirmed as their most accurate representative time and time again over the last decade.

    This moron is who conservatives are, and they are proud of it. Remember this when you talk to conservatives in your daily life. They are as profoundly unintelligent as they are evil.

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      Conservatives like him because he’s racist.

      That’s it. It doesn’t matter.to them if he doesn’t know how rain works. They don’t care if he couldn’t tell you how hurricanes travel.

      All they care about is that he hates immigrants.

      That’s it.

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        Now, now. To his rich backers, it’s not the racism so much as maintaining the status quo of them not getting taxed.

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      he’s not the most ‘accurate’. He can just get people to agree with him. He says everything with 110% confidence. The thing is, he always needs an enemy so people don’t realize he’s an idiot. Anything pointing out hes not logical is “what the liberals want you to think”. He gets people against the Immigrants, the Haitians, etc.

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    He’s a child playing pretend. Take this quote and imagine it’s from a 10 year old kid that then goes on to explain how their favorite superhero can breathe in space.

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      Like he said, he hasn’t changed much since he was 5. But it’s not entirely on him: when my daughter says something like that, I play along for a bit but afterwards I explain to her why it is impossible. When you’re constantly surrounded by sycophants, there’s no one to call your bullshit out and soon you’re convinced you’re the smartest person alive.

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        Oh absolutely! He’s a perfect example of what a person becomes when they have never had to deal with the consequences of their actions.

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    The depths of his stupidity and the continual display of his complete lack of knowledge or curiosity about how anything works or ever could work makes me so irritated with his immovable, enabling moronic “base”.