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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

My only joy in these times of the orange shit stain, is these magats getting pounded.

It might be petty and small of me, but I don't give a shit.

You vote for Trump once... I can kind of excuse it as stupid... You vote for him twice and you're just an evil fucker and I have zero sympathy left.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 1 points 12 minutes ago

A point of light in an increasingly dreary world.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think in history there has never been a quicker demonstration of "if you support fascists they will eventually come for you too". Dude has been in the office for couple months and is already rounding up his supporters lol

[–] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 1 points 16 minutes ago

A couple of months? I reflexively thought No, it must be a couple years already.
Damn, those were long months.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Gardner is seven months pregnant, but remains hopeful that her husband will be with her when she gives birth.

“My heart is broken,” Gardner told the outlet. “Our baby shower is going to be next weekend, and he’s not going to be at home to go to that with me.”

He’s missing the baby shower?? You should tell ICE, maybe they’ll release him.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

ice froze her shower.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Tell Trump even

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago

Ha, and might I add, Ha.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 81 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

My eyes almost rolled all the way out of my head reading this article. The dude is from IRAN, and this blindsided them.

To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community, and he did not deserve this. And even if he was a scumbag, we don't use secret police to deal with scumbags.

But sometimes it hurts to have the depth of some people's oblivious ignorance revealed so starkly. Some other comments have already pointed out the stupid "golly I think there might be bad people on the left AND the right!" conclusion at the end of the article. But here's another gem from in the middle:

“My husband himself, even being from Iran, supported Trump, his immigration policies, and understood he was trying to protect the American people and was praying he helped free the Iranian people,” Gardner told Newsweek.

These people look at an elderly hateful narcissist of a grifter and parasite, and hear his messages of hate and division and exclusion, and apparently the image formed in their dusty brains is Captain Fucking Planet!

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 hours ago

To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community,

That is how the other narcissistic morons always describes one of their own. During covid there were so many obituaries about these "loving family people" who had died from being unvaccinated, and when you checked their social media history it consisted of nothing but heinous hateful memes.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 35 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

I’m so extremely puzzled by it. I cannot fathom what it is that’s so alluring about Donald Trump. The guy is a total asswipe.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I am convinced I will go to my grave with this being the most frustrating piece of knowledge missing from my life. It defies logic to the point that I've had to adjust my perspective on humanity to account for it.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 hour ago

Cippola explains it

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

  1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

  3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

  4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

  5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's the "I don't give a fuck" attitude he has. His fan base thinks that leader material. They think compromise and humility are weak. They like that he doesn't care for people. They believe he cares for them and all his hate spew is towards everyone else but them.

[–] fed0sine@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago

it is like a siren song.

[–] Kickforce@lemmy.wtf 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The guy talks like he feels strongly about issues but remains absolutely vague, which allows people to subconsciously fill in the blanks, so they hear whatever they want to hear.

That thing that I'm afraid of, he is going to solve that once and for all, without fussing about saying things are complicated like the democrats would.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 hour ago

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 5 hours ago

Does your life suck? Well, it's somebody's fault. And Trump is going to make them pay.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 166 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

“Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.

Jesus fucking Christ still a fucking centrist shitting on the "left" even as the State kidnapped your fucking husband.

Despite this, Free Ribvar Karimi and free all people kidnapped by ICE. He sucks but he doesn't deserve this—because no one deserves this!

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 1 points 10 minutes ago

No, he DOES deserves this for providing aid and comfort to a person so terrible they support Trump. Leopards, faces, and wow looks like this is posted in the spot on right place.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 75 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Americans are the most brainwashed people on the planet. The right wing state can literally disappear your family and you still shit talk the left.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 61 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Reminder that Fox News was created in the wake of Watergate specifically because media coverage of the scandal went from non-existent to shifting public opinion against it in weeks. It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform to prevent that from ever happening again.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform

It worked too well.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 28 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nixon aides wanted a pro-administration network, and some of them were eventually instrumental in getting Fox News going, but it took over 20 years between Watergate and the launch of FNC.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yeah, I think they mean Whitewater, the fake scandal fishing expedition that led to the Lewinsky thing..

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I really wanna say you’re wrong and I really can’t. All I can ask is that you please not lump us all together into one homogeneous group. There are quite a few of us who are actually sane.

[–] Enoril@jlai.lu 11 points 4 hours ago

We know that.

But that didn't stop ALL the german being called nazi after WWII and all being appalled by their (in)action and the pain their nation did to others.

I had a German colleague apologizing to me for his ancestors actions (who killed some family members at my grandparents generation). None of us were born when that happened but he wanted to say it as he was ashamed by his grandparents (in)actions. I was sad for him because he didn't do anything wrong but he was taking the weight of his nation history personally.

Do you want to do that or - more probably - do you want your children to do that later? They will ask for forgiveness to the descendants of the people impacted today saying: "I'm sorry that my parents didn't do anything to stop that"

Because your ICE gestapo-like state organization is doing appalling actions TODAY in plain sight. And you - as Americans - will be remembered as people who lets this happen.

Yep. That already happened. So we know.

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Don't worry, we don't have to. ICE wilk lump you all together.

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 34 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Bitch, Obama didn't kidnap your husband. AOC didn't kidnap your husband. Bernie didn't kidnap your husband. Mamdani didn't kidnap your husband. Trump did.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Bitch, Obama didn't kidnap your husband.

That's some revisionist nonsense.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not

Barack Obama was famously labeled “deporter in chief” by critics in the immigrant-rights community,

Back in the day would people have posted a link in here if an Obama supporting immgrants husband had been deported ?

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The Democrats are playing their part in this Third World farce, just as the Republicans are.

Please let it be noted for the record that I did not say that the Democrats were left leaning.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Please let it be noted for the record that I did not say that the Democrats were left leaning.

Yeah me too. Fuck the Dems.

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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 7 hours ago
[–] CatherineLily@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

“My heart is broken,” Gardner told the outlet. “Our baby shower is going to be next weekend, and he’s not going to be at home to go to that with me.”

Oh, don't you worry about that, ICE will show up and detain that baby.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 8 hours ago

ICE will show up and detain that baby.

I heard they got the protip from the Commander in Chief himself. You just grab 'em by the pussy and that baby ain't goin' nowhere!

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

No doubt. Has she been reading up on trump's attacks on Birthright Citizenship?

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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 44 points 9 hours ago

At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 hours ago

This was mind-boggling and painful to read. Literally every paragraph was just wrong in at least six different ways.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 19 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

“We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out—and we are. We don’t wait until a military operation to execute; we proactively deliver on President Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

These people are so evil. Hopefully someday they all get their just desserts from a Nuremberg-style trial.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

10000% pure copium. The fascists will NEVER see any semblance of justice unless YOU, PERSONALLY dedicate your life to making it happen. And even then, it isn't likely unless millions of other Americans accept their individual responsibility as a citizen to do the same.

THAT is the level of effort required to bring a society back after it has allowed its democratic institutions to fail.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago

There are actual war criminal presidents roaming freely in the US and you think these people will get anything close to the Nuremberg trial? Delusional much?

Evil is country like yours avoiding any accountability which has made people like Putin and Netanyahu point at you and avoid any consequence. So spare me the bullshit rhetoric they'll face anything but a slap in the wrist.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

She doesn't seem like the best catch.

“He brought happiness back to me, and taught me what it is like to be loved correctly,” Gardner wrote on the site. “He encouraged me, and still encourages me each and every day. He sees the best in me, and never has given up, despite how difficult I can be sometimes.”

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 19 points 9 hours ago

If you can't handle me at my worst, I'll call ICE on you.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

There are very few people who are a "catch" in the traditional sense. You have to be hot, with no faults, flaws, or baggage. High bar.

We are all depressed, stressed, anxious, self-absorbed people, in our own ways and to our own degrees. Admitting and understanding your shortcomings is hard. Having someone in your life that you can say those things about is a godsend. In the real world, the only requirement for being a catch is that you work your ass off so that your partner can say the same.

Also, this woman is having a baby shower. She's probably 7-8 months pregnant. Having been through that a few times, she's probably a hormonal, emotional wreck under the best of circumstances, but her husband is in a concentration camp, and thanks to the Supreme Court, he can be deported to Sudan with no repurcussions.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 hours ago

Sounds like the type of woman whose whole existence and personality is "So-and-so's wife". Aka typical Republican woman.

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