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I'll take "THROWING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO A BONFIRE" for $1000, Alex.

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[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 36 points 17 hours ago

I know this has been said countless times, but Trump voters are the worst people on the planet.

As unlikely as it is I hope that they realize how stupid, pathetic, and worthless they are and have to deal with that for the rest of their lives. Hopefully they deal with it permanently.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 96 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Good news, but that it went up so quickly in the first place is the problem. Same with the east wing, etc.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 39 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s still a reflecting pool if you’re the blue man group.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

The goop pool

[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 70 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 36 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Eww, I wouldn't do him even if I were at gunpoint.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

even if you excited him enough to give him a heart attack?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I guess if it's for my country...

sigh, unzips

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Nah this country ain’t worth it.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Doing someone in mafia terms?

Surprisingly,

Spoilerit's a joke

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago
[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 7 points 17 hours ago

Gonna replace it with Jeffery Epstein.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 29 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

This isn't over, he won't take this lying down. We're going to wake up one day to find out that it's being torn down right now because Trump has condemned it as unusable, and he'd know since he's a real estate developer.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 6 hours ago

He might just forget or say it was never his idea.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

He already tried unsuccessfully to get it shut down for repairs

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I dunno.

In February of this year, Trump announced plans to shut down the Kennedy Center for two years; Judge Cooper’s ruling also reversed that decision. In a post on Truth Social after the ruling, Trump criticized the judge, and said “we are going to be working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them so they can make a determination as to what to do with it… Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey.”

After round 2 he may just get bored with it.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"The Kennedy Center (formally the Trump-Kennedy Center)"

[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 54 minutes ago

even the full name made no sense after he shamelessly added his name to it:

The Donald J Trump and The John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

obvious to any observer that he's just trying to clout farm by stealing credit for the work of others, as usual with this fool of a took

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 26 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Name someone who has been redacted more times than trump

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A combination of all the other pedos in the Epstein Class.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, probably still close

[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 47 minutes ago

according to those congresspersons who were granted limited-time access to the unredacted files, Dump's name alone came up over a million times. he was clearly very close to the center of the web with the child-ensnaring spider himself. impossible to know for certain whether his personal redactions outweigh all others combined without having the full files released but that the possibility exists is damning enough for me.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Ironically, the things that matter the most to Trump matter the least to our actual condition. We’re still putting innocent people in concentration camps, murdering God-knows-who with military boat strikes in the Caribbean, dismantling healthcare, disenfranchising American voters, and blowing up schools in Iran.

However, Trump’s failure to break the resistance with these measures has caused him to retreat into the only attention seeking activities that make him feel good: pissing all over DC with his trashy, botched, pet real estate projects, contrived fascist rallies, and lame parties thrown in Trump’s honor… by Trump himself. When you’re the President of the United States it’s easy to stumble into problems that no one on earth can save you from, something that has never happened to him before. Chipping away at his last narcissistic comfort zones with the symbolic rejection of scrubbing his name from our monuments will probably send him from the deep end and into orbit.

We’ve seen some truly, truly insane things from Trump, but they have been in the context of an American presidency. I don’t think Trump’s ego has an upper limit. If the midterm elections deliver the shellacking that appears to be coming, Hormuz is still shut, and they take away his toys? I cannot wait for a front row seat to the unimaginable display of unmitigated narcissistic rage from the world’s biggest ego imploding like a dying supermassive star.

By the end, the secret service is going to have to drag him in handcuffs kicking and screaming from a White House bunker while he wonders aloud why they won’t bring him the nuclear football.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

The media refuses to report on any of those things. The News keeps Americans obedient by medicating them with the latest celebrity gossip and of course, sports.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I wonder if that level of unmitigated narcissistic rage can precipitate a stroke in a person of advanced age who hasn't made maintaining his health a priority.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I've said it before, his incompetence is his only saving grace

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 45 minutes ago

I’ll upvote you just so I can get an indictment from the Feds. All the cool kids are getting on Trumps enemies list.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

I don't say this much, but god bless the lawyer that put a name change block right in the right place.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

That money wasn't thrown in a bonfire.

It was mostly embezzled.