I literally can't tell if this is parody or reality at this point.
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when a country votes for the "grab'em by the pussy" candidate TWICE, then reality is a parody of itself now . we've come full circle.
it doesn't make anything better if you consider the "they obviously cheated" angle, because literally no one did literally anything to stop it
Homie looks like he’s spent time at Arkham.
It is the penguin from the batman universe
I was more thinking Gomez Addams, but lacking in class.
dude i'm a gomez fan. those were fighting words without "lacking in class" gomez is the epitome of class. now dance with me
Oh it's real. I just wonder if they did it this way with the sole purpose of confusing people or just general corruption.
I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It's almost cartoonish villainy.
Comedians all over the world have been complaining that Trump and his posse are stealing their jobs.
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Fiction has this stupid flaw where it needs to adhere to rules, reality does not.
Trump has been doing this fraud-in-plain-sight thing forever.
I've read comments that say it works because the defense is that it's so obvious it can't be deceitful. As in: if you wanted to hand $15m to a donor you'd find a secretive way to do it.
I personally believe it's just learned ineptitude. He's just deceitful at every turn and he's never encountered any consequences so why would he change?
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"pictured here with a young woman who agreed to accompany him after he twirled his moustache and threatened to tie her to the railroad tracks"
Dude definitely has a cartoon villain vibe.
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It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they're easy for people to grasp.
"Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it" is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.
It's a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, crypto rugpulls, campaign finance violations, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don't have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes between him & corporations which are less concrete.
People can either delude themselves into thinking it's legitimate because they don't understand financial stuff/how things typically worked before being massively corrupt, or because it's initially just Trump making money (usually illegally) which is something they expect him to do and the illegality is difficult to explain or not very hard-hitting.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
Or because they don't matter. It's millions while the war is costing billions.
Well that's a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money and innocent lives, which is bad, but that isn't corruption. That's just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.
All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn't the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn't necessary, but that'd just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.
Both things matter, and obviously the war matters more as it has cost innocent lives, they are not the same type of thing though.
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100% right… which do you think average people will latch onto?
this one:
or this one:
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That's a mail order bride if I ever saw one.
The guy looks like a 1950's comic book depiction of a greasy corporate crook.
She is literally a Real Housewife of Orange County 😅
Wait, is that really the guy? My fucking god he couldn't be more cartoonishly villainous even if he tried...
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Hey old men, when your freaking eyebrows are "salt and pepper" lay off the shoe polish hair job, it looks fucking ridiculous.
And what in the fuck is that part?
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Just Googled the guy. Yup, he does in fact look like a Gotham city villain.
Does he run car engines backwards before selling them at inflated prices?
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I’m pretty sure if I looked up the word “sleezball” in the dictionary it would be this exact picture. Just spot on “gross untrustworthy business guy”
[double take on picture]
Oh this guy was a regular on the island. No doubt.
He may look sleazy as fuck, but he makes the greenest water. He's the best in the business.
Sleezist used rug salesman ever
Dude looks like a ghost you'd see in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters.
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Why do they always look the same?
Wtf is this Michael Keaton's batman?
Trump is a NY real estate dude from at least the 70s, owned a casino, and trafficked/raped young children. This guy looks more mob than trump even does. Check his hard drives pronto.
Is that even a real face? wtf
Is this MyPillow’s cousin?
Well, can't accuse him of false advertising.
first thought: whats wrong with his eyebrows
then i realised, he forgot to dye them like his top hair andm mustache
From one criminal MAGA fucknut to another.
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