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[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

"No, I love it – the numbers were great," Trump said. "You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now, something you didn't know. You know, we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil, nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran, until right now we took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights because they don't have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it. We took out, that's why oil is $85 a barrel."

This is an all-time Trump quote. A masterclass in narcissistic dementia rambling. Someone put it on a pillow.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Simply beautiful. A natural-born orator.

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

I got a headache 2 sentances in...

The amount of brain rot you have to have to listen to this orange rapist and still support him is unfathomable

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 7 points 1 day ago

You even did a MAGA caliber job. Perfection.

[–] o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He also raped and killed kids and their mothers on purpose. He loves fucking kids, as stated in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM).

It's a strategy only great minds like his can grasp.

Don't forget they probably also ate children like i was veal to them. I don't doubt that man has eaten a person, a personality like that would do it for the fun of it.

[–] mgrecca2026@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump worships nothing/nobody but himself

[–] mgrecca2026@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

He is like the biggest narcissist you will ever meet in person. He will always tell you nobody knows technology and any other subject better than he does

Yes. Yes he is this stupid. Once you get over the incredulity that nobody could be like this, just skip to the end and know that a self serving, idiot narcissist can do this and worse.

Surely this gaffe will-

I can't, even as a joke. I am so tired, so very very tired

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm 5 months behind on my podcasts so I'm now listening to all the coverage and analysis of the Maduro kidnapping. Everybody was saying that with how cheap oil is, it doesn't make sense to try to take Venezuelan oil which is heavy and requires a lot of refinement. In that context shutting down the Strait of Hormuz makes perfect sense.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also listen to a lot of politics and it amazes me to this day the consensus is not he's a fucking idiot but in the context of he is Putin's puppet and the goal is to destroy America and the Western Alliance he's doing what he's meant to do.

The problem is very smart people like Dr. Janice Stein are quick to say there's sure as shit smoke but we don't factually know what the deal is with Trump and Putin but we all know something is there

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

One can be a fucking idiot and Putler's lapdog.

Saying "we don't know for a fact he's working for the Russians" is just willful ignorance.

The aforementioned claims by Shvets, which were also a significant basis for Craig Unger's best-selling book, American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, were also backed by Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence service, and Sergei Zhyrnov, an ex-KGB officer living in France.[26] Mussayev also asserted that Trump is compromised:

I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the US President, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of President of the main world power

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

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Same story with fracking.

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Of course he loves it. It reduces the effective value of his debts.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Before the election: Biden inflation! Biden inflation! LOOK AT THESE EGG PRICES!! Vote Trump to fix the inflation! Inflation bad!

Now: Inflation good. I love inflation. I did it on purpose.

MAGA: baaa baaa!

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Inflation is one of those big words, kinda like 'economist' or 'groceries.' When you're a MAGA, how can you be expected to know these things?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 79 points 1 day ago (4 children)
  • That didn't happen.
  • And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
  • And if it was, that's not a big deal.
  • And if it is, that's not my fault.
  • And if it was, I didn't mean it.
  • And if I did, you deserved it. <-

We got here on this subject a lot quicker than I expected honestly.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I hate that that pasta misses the FIRST thing narcissists do: blame YOU

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now just imagine if Biden did or said this. Or Obama, or Hilary. The right would have a full on meltdown and a J6 everyday.

[–] bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Where is the left's meltdown and J6 then? Why you guys so docile?

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2 points 21 hours ago

First, there's many types of leftists, a concept that conservatives seem to be unable to grasp. Second, because you really don't want to see the appropriate response unless absolutely necessary. That is to say, death mitigation.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Too many view it as "too radical" cause it'll interrupt brunch.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

MLK

This description fits most liberal Americans.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I swear to God if I sift through your comments and find something about the lack of gun control in the U.S.

[–] bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago

Nice, thanks for the background check, Peter Thiel

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Decades of conditioning

we gotta take the "high road"

I love it for all the poors that voted for him as well as all the dumb dumbs who didn't vote at all.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dedollarization of the global economy was a component of project 2025

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Every bully ever when faced with failure..."Oh yeah!? I wanted to do that!".

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would that not qualify as treason? Did he just admit to intentionally levying a war that is purposely against the American people? Adhering to the enemy, giving them aid?

Asking for a friend.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

The Treason Ship sailed on January 6, 2021. We don't have to grasp for Treason, it's already well-established.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I've been thinking this basically the whole time with the second administration. It's the most conspiracy oriented I've ever been, but I genuinely think there is a non zero chance that the entire goal of this administration has been to crash the dollar and world economy to force the globe into a position where digital currencies take over nation state derived currency as the foundation of global markets. I'd say I'm 5-10% confident this is the case, which is very high.

That their goal is to destabilize not just the world, but the very concept of nation-states to be replaced with a corporate/privately owned concept of a nation state or state level actor.

I know there are specific conspiratorial threads on this concept but I e intentionally avoided looking into those. I think there is ample evidence at the surface only to have this kind of suspicion.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I buy it, except for the reason being to force digital currencies. He's doing it because daddy Putin wants to destabilize the west. Trump is just a useful idiot.

I would believe that your theory is also true too though, being pushed by people like Musk or Thiel.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Occam's Razor continues to be that the orange pedophile simply did not want those pesky Epstein files out

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (12 children)

If we were to apply Occam's Razor fully it would be.

A doddering old imbecile that has had a clear mental decline and has a history of terrible decisions is continuing to be in mental decline and make terrible decisions.

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[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

You explained Yarvin's plan to a T. Thiel and Vance will make it happen once The Clot breaks free.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Crashing the world economy, especially the first world and the west, and most especially USD also benefits Putin, which is a non-negligible, non-coincidental factor in anything the orange chancre does.

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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

So he admitted to market manipulation, surley this time there will be consequence...

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Get ready for all the magamushferbrainz to start saying how inflation is good for us and they looooove high gas prices.

He's under 30% approval? Just who are the remaining 20-some percent of people that think he's doing good on the economy?

Look, I get why the centimillionaires, billionaires, and centibillionaires would support Republican policies. They stand to make buckets more.

But if you are not in that stratosphere, why would you think he's doing you any favors?

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's not under 30 percent, it's 35 at the lowest. The evangelicals are solid behind him, as they expect him to help bring about the rapture, where the world gets drowned in lakes of blood and fire. Not joking. Here is the polling.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-drops-35-republican-support-softens-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-05-19/

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[–] 100@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

feels like 30% of population everywhere votes for money stealing fascists just because they promise to fuck over someone else

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