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Things Are Looking Quite Bad for Trump (slate.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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President Donald Trump had a very bad weekend.

In the most crushing blow, his favorite European leader, the pro-Putin, anti-Zelensky exemplar of “illiberal democracy,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán—whose reelection Trump had strongly endorsed—lost his bid to stay in power by a stunning landslide margin.

Only slightly less embarrassing, the much-touted peace negotiations with Iran—the first direct talks between U.S. and Iranian leaders in almost 50 years—ended in failure, dramatizing Trump’s failure to convert a massive wave of U.S. military power (hitting more than 13,000 Iranian targets in five weeks of airstrikes) into a political victory.

Finally, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has tried more than any other Western leader to maintain good relations with the American president, said he was “fed up” with the fact that energy prices dip and soar “because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.” In an op-ed for the Guardian last week, Starmer wrote: “Britain’s national interest is best served by de-escalation, diplomacy, and the swift reopening of the strait of Hormuz.”

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

lifetime of extreme undeserved generational wealth

_commit financial fraud and sex crimes with impuny for decades _

bang/murder underage teenagers on private island whenever

marry a supermodel who absolutely despises you but can’t do anything about it

spout absolute narcissistic ego-pumping nonsense and get elected president (wat.)

openly and continuously betray the United States and nothing happens (lol)

multiple assassination attempts, literally just a tiny scratch on the ear

get dementia and fumble through new middle east war just because that’s what presidents do lol

get impeached twice and nothing happens

tHiNgS ArE LoOkInG QuItE BaD fOr TrUmP!!!111 hurdrrr!

This is quite possibly the luckiest, most privileged person who will ever live. If the White House was hit by a giant meteor tomorrow, Trump would somehow survive. Expect this walking talking piece of shit to live to 117, and get elected 5 more times.

Things are looking BAD for the RETARDS OF THE UNITED STATES who elected this hyper-douche TWICE. Are you fucking kidding? DONALD TRUMP will be just fine. The rest of us are FUCKED, as planned.

In order for this man to actually see justice, you would need to invent time travel. The mere existence of the Trump family is definitive evidence that the base state of existence is chaotic entropy and that morality is a frail human dalliance on par with the credibility of astrology.

A new HOLOCAUST is brewing. To flippantly wave false hope with such a headline is at best ignorant complicity. I think I’m going to throw up.

[–] Machindo@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Pure poetry. Thanks man.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

You and I enjoy the same kool aid. Thank you for your post, I agree with every word of it.