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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 95 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh look, once again Trump is on whosever side last spoke with him.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Sorrento-Gillis from The Expanse:

He doesn't care about treason. That's just him parroting you because you talked to him last. If he spoke to a janitor he'd be passionately declaiming about a fucking mop!

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is that where trump's toilet rant came from?

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Except that I doubt Trump would ever actually talk to a janitor.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 1 points 23 hours ago
[–] Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf 5 points 16 hours ago

Tim's just using the same technique that Putin was told to use when dealing with Trump. Malignant narcissists absolutely love flattery .

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Demented rapists gonna dement.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This isn't a U-Turn in the slightest. It's an article manufacturing consent for fascism ~~by an oligarch-owned propaganda machine~~.

[–] lolo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 23 hours ago

I know I will die unsatisfied, because the only thing that would bring me peace is seeing this fuck flayed alive in front of me.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 18 hours ago

So where them Epstein files at

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

This sort of narcissistic behavior is textbook gaslighting.

No different than the Mamdani meeting.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Is he prosecuting the murderers?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

One of my favorite commentators is historian Heather Cox Richardson and she postulates that given Trump’s advanced age and inability to contain his outbursts, the administration may be propping him up with stimulants.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

I thought everyone just knew that. They probably have the best docs and tech available to make it happen and he's on borrowed time.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

The guy who was clearly on amphetamines when running for president a decade ago being propped up with stimulants? /s

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

His brain is tapioca. He probably believed whatever Fox was spewing about Walz until he talked to him and discovered that, no, actually Walz is working on this and not just eating bon-bons or something.

[–] enkille@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

His brain is tapioca.

i'd like to have this spontaneously visually verified in the middle of a public appearance

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I wouldn't. I want him to survive long enough to get thoroughly humiliated in court, and I definitely don't want him to become a martyr. I want him to die in disgrace doing something banal, embarrassing, and publicly stupid. Something so embarrassing that people erupt into spontaneous and uncontrollable laughter just hearing his name. I don't just want him dead, I want his whole movement to be completely discredited. If he's assassinated, then forevermore his followers will remember him with fondness and his enemies will remember him with fear. But if he wipes his nose on the Epstein Files, trips on a hamburger, falls face-first into a diet coke, and drowns, he'll never again be any more than a punchline.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

I mean, it's a testable hypothesis. Clicks pen

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

So basically, walz bit his tongue and was nice to him.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have ‘touched’ and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!”

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago

I don't know it sure seems like executions on the street are way up

Sounds like him with Ukraine.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Is Donny a African gray parrot?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

...what on earth did African Grays do to deserve an insult like that??

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

No he’s orange.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

It's not a swing? It's the same shit he's always saying. Lying lying lying