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And money is fake so robbing billionaires isn't a crime.

What a fucking idiot.

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[–] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

When the orange rapist fellon traitor uses the word hoax you can usually replace it with the word fact

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago

"Inconvenient fact."

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep. In the same way this dumbass has appropriated the term "fake news" - which was and is a real term outside the Faux Cinematic Universe, but when you hear someone from that world of idiots using the term "fake news" it can be interpreted as "people reporting facts that are inconvenient for me".

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah. It started with John Podesta calling pizzagate fake news. Then Trump made it all his own.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Every fucking day with this guy

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

It’s exhausting. That’s part of their strategy.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Well, yeah. I mean. We've done this before. It was fucking taking crazy pills every goddamned day. It finally slid into a global pandemic where people passed around an invisible mystery disease that suffocated people to death horribly and we still don't know how it fucking works.

We knew it was going to be a fucking shitshow THEN, I have no idea how anyone can sit here today and be anything close to surprised or shocked. Referring here to the corporate news sewers.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well this is a new low. Americans needing to survive is a hoax now. Great.

Worst part is pick mes and neck beard red hats believe this shit.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Way. Bigly. Watch football, it's bizarrely depressing.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What happens on the sportsball?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A whole lot of Rah Rah Everything's Great

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, but I thought that the Biden administration handed poor widdle Pedonald and the plucky little Republicans, along with all gud mericans, a TOTALLY BAD NO GOOD REKT ECONOMY that our hero Pedonald is trying to "dig out" from under?

I even heard Pedonald sending this exact same mixed message about how prices have all come down, affordability is just a "hoax", but meanwhile the economy sucks balls though because something something "Biden and the Democrat (sic) Party did this to us". It might even have been in the same appearance that he did that...

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh that! Ha, no he lied.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it’s one egg, America, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I still think that guy that duct taped a banana to the wall and sold it for 6.2 million got inspiration from Lucille Bluth.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I think An Oak Tree was the inspiration.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Pentagon's new budget has 3 dozen eggs as the only line item, 900+ billion.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

I got a 12% raise this year and I'm just drowning slower you mother fucker. 90% of that raise is being eaten by an increase in Health Insurance premiums and more than the rest in inflation.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 months ago

MSN saying “the reality is more complex” when talking about trump insisting prices are coming down is insulting. Just say he’s wrong. Or lying, but at least “wrong” if you’re afraid of a lawsuit.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 23 points 3 months ago

Fat rich greedy slob acts like Fat Rich Greedy Slob.

[–] 100@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

ask these clowns how much groceries cost and they wouldnt know, havent ever stepped in a market except for photo op

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Today, for instance, [Bush] emerged from 11 years in Washington's choicest executive mansions to confront the modern supermarket.Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Bush lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.

"If some guy came in and spelled George Bush differently, could you catch it?" the President asked. "Yes," he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.

Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.

"This is for checking out?" asked Mr. Bush. "I just took a tour through the exhibits here," he told the grocers later. "Amazed by some of the technology."

Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.

Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Though other major media outlets soon refuted the report as a mischaracterization, the popular memory of Bush's reported amazement at a supermarket scanner remains one of the most enduring American political myths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah bullshit. He was amazed by a bar code scanner. In 1992.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

We question our politicians (here in Australia) often enough on this sort of thing in election years that some (not all) actually pay enough attention to cost-of-living stuff to be in the right ballpark.

[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

Remember, he explicitly said: "I don't care about you, I just want your vote." One of the few times he might have said the truth.

Well, he got their vote. Now he doesn't need them anymore.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

The imbecile needs to use the banner props around him as a secondary teleprompter to remember what he's there for.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

And why did you people decide to put him in power?