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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 213 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you want to spend 75 minutes learning entirely too much about this fucker, I highly recommend this video:

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I watched this a few weeks ago. Despite being incredibly terrible subject matter, it's borderline required viewing. This fucking Wormtongue is reprehensible.

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[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Rapist logic. I did what I did because I was strong enough to take what I want.

Absolutely disgusting.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

That's the thing that binds together the youngest techbro and the oldest oil baron.

Antisocial "might makes right and I'm going to win" mentalities.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 days ago

It's always been like this. This is how America acted for decades, but just denying it.
Tbh it's great they are just calling it openly, no need to convince people that they want to enslave latin America.

They likely really screwed though - cuz if u announce this moral foundation they won't get any support from locals, they basically killed it themselves.

Same logic for any violent unhinged asshole.

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 155 points 4 days ago

What they did in Venezuela was so reprehensible that this is really the only possible defense. You can't murder a bunch of innocent people to capture a drug trafficker and think that you get the moral high ground. If they can arrest Maduro and bring him to the US, then Venezuela should be able to arrest Trump for murder and bring him to Venezuela.

There is no moral high ground. There is no good outcome. This is just what happens when evil people gain control of the world's most powerful military.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago

This thread’s title is not sensational. Dudes a childish maniac with influence over the use of nuclear weapons.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller is behind most of the bad stuff in this administration, and behind ALL of the immigration stuff. Trump has already floated him as the guy to be in charge of running Venezuela. He will turn it into a slave colony, and force them to pump their oil for us. And worse.

The Dems need to make him as much of the face of MAGA as Trump, and I mean that literally. He is one of the most repellent people on the planet, and just looking at his picture gives you an accurate first impression. Most of America has never even heard of this guy, yet he is Trump's most trusted and influential advisor.

The Dems need to make every voter aware of PeeWee Himmler, and make him a major issue in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Trump has some mysterious charisma that's lost on me, but PeeWee Himmler has an anti-charisma like I've never seen before. To just see him is to dislike him, but as you get to know him, you realize that he's actually pure evil, like Wormtongue whispering poison in the demented Trump's ear.

Make him a central figure in MAGA, second only to Trump, and run against him hard. Just like Trump, he has a notoriously thin skin, so besides making him known, it will have the effect of humiliating him.

If we can't get these traitors out of office, we can at least make sure that they don't get to luxuriate in their evil power, make them guard their safety, and fight hard for everything they want that they thought would be easy to take. We have to harass them mercilessly, every minute of every day, and Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller needs to be taking a LOT of that harassment.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The fact that he’s allowed to be a public spokesperson for the administration speaks wonders. Wormtongue is supposed to be whispering in the shadows like he was in the first term. He’s now the public face of the mask off authoritarian message that keeps ramping up.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 days ago

I was just saying tonight - the fact that we're seeing more and more of racist Nosferatu means things are getting much worse. They are have dropped all pretense of giving a shit. They're not even giving us lies anymore. It's now just "fuck you that's why".

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

His role is to throw shit around. It has two purposes.

It works as a distraction from what the actual administration is doing, but they're also watching if any of the shit sticks.

Vance is doing the same.

A lie needs to be told 3 times for anyone to believe it, so they're "priming the pump" for Trump to deliver the final lie and make his followers believe that it's the right thing to do.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, by that same logic, any other country can, if it has the resources, kill him because reasons, right? If international rules are over...

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 16 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I mean effectively that's basically what they are calling for... Hell I think that's half what they are hoping for... either another country makes an attempt to attack and we get to test out our detection and defenses before launching a sharp counter and claiming whatever country attacks as our own. Or everyone's too afraid to, and then we leverage our position as the unstable psychopath bully that everyone just gives whatever it asks for in the hopes that they can avoid being the next bullying target.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

People may have shrugged off Trump as a grifter, but Miller struck me as a pathetic excuse for a politician the very first time I saw him

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

Miller is a Nazi ballsack

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

He's a true believer in white nationalism. And he's not strictly wrong, either. In a world of Might Makes Right, the uncontested heavyweight champion can and does have a "right" to send in the goons, because there's no countervailing force.

Miller's got the reins of this monster and he's outspokenly using it in a way the advisors for Obama and Bush and Clinton admins were more sheepish about. But you're foolish to believe the Bin Laden raid into Pakistan was any less internationally criminal than the attack into Caracas. It was just more politically palatable. In the same way, the US support for the overthrow of Assad and the installation of form Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Ahmed al-Shara and our proxy war against Yemen has absolutely been "just about the oil" passing through the Suez Canal.

Miller's committed the unspeakable crime of saying the quiet part out loud. And his voice is annoying to listen to. But he's not breaking from our international policy in a material sense. He's just coming at it like he's six whiskeys deep at the Klan Rally rather than four martinis in at the Yale Business Club.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

But you’re foolish to believe the Bin Laden raid into Pakistan was any less internationally criminal than the attack into Caracas.

There's a big difference between kidnapping the president of a country and kidnapping somebody who is internationally wanted and who the country in question denies harbouring.

Sure, both are violations of international law, but one is easy more serious than the other.

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 days ago

So basically mask off right now.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This dude gave an unhinged rant in high school. None of this should be surprising. He and his wife need to be yeeted into the sun.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And MAGA worshippers are watching with glee.

As a non-Merican I hope the Union falls apart before Trump can crown himself King of America.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As an American, I hope for the same. The New England Federation will probably be pretty chill. Probably high taxes even for the poors though

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[–] The_Lurker@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago

Wannabe Henry Kissenger without the charisma, intellect, ability to disguise evil as perfectly logical foreign policy.

[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

How has most of America not heard about this virulent pus bag? He’s on the news constantly, foaming at the mouth, shouting shit that would have gotten him dragged to the gallows by an angry mob any time before 1920 (and even then only because he absolutely would have funded the Pinkertons).

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the majority of america is either so disillusioned with the system or so inherently selfish that they simply don't care at all unless something "political" directly effects them

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

The problem this time is that unlike Germany, the US has almost unlimited technology, military force, and the backing of Russia. Fascism usually burns itself out for lack of resources. This time it could take a hundred years.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I can't wait to see this guy get the death penalty from the hague.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If I could pick one person in the entire world to just not exist he would easily be in my top 3.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago

Temu Goebbels is such a whiny bitch.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Geneva convention would like a word.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So we can remove this administration and take their assets by force according to his own rules

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 23 points 4 days ago (12 children)

This is getting dark but at this point US is clearly on a path to start using their powerful military to invade and occupy other countries. They are becoming the Nazi Germany of the XXI century but since they have nuclear weapons no one will be able to stop them. This will basically mean new cold war between US and China (and maybe EU if they manage to unite and develop a common position). So yeah, a lot of suffering ahead of us with a chance of nuclear war.

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[–] webp@mander.xyz 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Amazing words from a country whos citizens have absolutely no reason to pay it taxes.

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago

It's always the most feckless pieces of shit who fetishize power for its own sake.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Caillou looking mother fucker

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[–] Longylonglong@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

Everyone of these fuckers saying that should be required to stand in the frontline

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 20 points 4 days ago

Hey, babe. Wake up. No, seriously, wake up. Its time to hit the streets.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A lobotomy would do him a world of good

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago

“Man made of shit doesn’t understand how to use honey to attract flies”

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ghouly Goebbels should shut the fuck up.

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Entitlement is such a drug. There is no known cure.

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[–] HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social 17 points 4 days ago
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