r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Threatens Criminal Action Against Clinton, Obama, And Biden If Impeached Again

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/946521/trump-threatens-criminal-action-against-clinton-obama-and-biden-if-impeached-again
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u/Kelsier420 5d ago

Trump is the worst President in American history. Sadly he is supported by millions of brainwashed morons the dumbest of the dumb.

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u/Dull_Job_6372 5d ago

Bar none, it’s not close trump is the worst American ever.

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u/MCul0 5d ago

Benedict Arnold might be dethroned??!?

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u/gmen6981 5d ago

Prior to becoming a traitor, Benedict Arnold was a hero having been instrumental in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, leading the American forces in the Battle of Saratoga and several other campaigns. He was considered one of the American's best and most ferocious commanders. Although treason is treason and Arnold was without a doubt a traitor for planning on turning West Point over to the British, he had a somewhat legitimate beef with the Continental Congress that led him to switch sides. Trump got nuthin'

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u/zyzzogeton 5d ago

BA was also a competent general with an education. Look at his letter explaining his treason and ask yourself if Trump could ever read anything like this, much less write it

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u/SanctimoniousSally Washington 5d ago

That's super interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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u/AbusedGoat 5d ago

Well both seem to like to capitalize random words for emphasis lol

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u/inkcannerygirl 5d ago

that's kinda an artifact of the time tho (German still capitalizes nouns to this day)

Spelling wasn't standardized yet either

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u/shrug_addict 5d ago

Jefferson did the same thing. It seems it was sort of the writing style at the time

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u/DaBrokenMeta 5d ago

Vote Benedict Arnold for Major General of Continental Army again…i feel like his first term was just fake news media smear campaign!

Plus Washington is old, and a woke liberal!

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u/GumboSamson 5d ago

I dunno man, he Capitalises random words for Emphasis just like a Certain Clown.

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u/TheBelicia California 5d ago

Shoot Arnold's actions at Saratoga were so respected they built a monument to the leg he lost but omitted his name from the inscription.

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u/Dudge 5d ago

I mean, seems fair to the leg. After all, it didn't change sides .

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 5d ago

Without the leg, he was pushed to the other side more easy.

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u/Jona6509 5d ago

I thought he'd just fall over.

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u/BandAid3030 4d ago

This is just... *chef's kiss

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u/TaterForming 5d ago

"This statue's commemorates he that had this Leg. Thank you leg for helping the individual do the things he did here".

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u/jd807 5d ago

It’s a major award!

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u/gmen6981 5d ago

Frageelay!

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets 5d ago

“I’ll die before I surrender, Tim.”

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u/MrDippy2U 5d ago

Put the leg up for a Noble Piece Prize!

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u/BlockObvious883 California 5d ago

It's often said that if he had died at Saratoga, he would have been celebrated alongside Washington to this day. Funny how history had other plans.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 5d ago

Maybe he even had the right idea though, it might’ve actually been better if the US hadn’t become independent back then, when you look at it now and compare with other English speaking former British colonies like Canada and Australia. Maybe if the US had gone the same way as them, they’d not have ended up with such a large proportion of backward thinking cruel people and could’ve broken away from British rule gradually like the others and then actually gone on to be what it promised to be, the leader of a free world, beacon of progress etc.

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u/Guy_GuyGuy 5d ago

The fork in the road away from the way of progress wasn't taken in the American Revolution. It was taken after the Civil War when Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson utterly sabotaged Reconstruction and any consequences for the Confederacy.

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u/BigPackHater Ohio 5d ago

Would the US even allow slaves in the mid-1800s if they were still under British rule? I know the empire had made it illegal by then. However, there are other way the British took advantage of other people.

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u/Guy_GuyGuy 5d ago

It depends whether the American colonists would have resisted with another war, and how hard Britain crushed it.

The important thing is we needed to crush it, and crush it hard. We crushed the South just hard enough to cause resentment, and then Johnson and later Rutherford Hayes immediately took the leash off them to do whatever they pleased, and we're still suffering the consequences of that.

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u/Punchable_Hair 5d ago

I’m sure other people have run these numbers and might know better, but in that scenario, I wonder if the British would have been as inclined toward abolition. After all, if the US still belonged to Britain, the British oligarchy would have derived more of its wealth from slavery than in OTL and there may have been more resistance to it.

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u/BereftOfCare 5d ago

When US people/voters/leadership have a choice they have often chosen the path with worst long term consequences. It's an embedded characteristic by now.

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u/Tokon32 5d ago

Benedict Arnold. One of America's 1st Conservatives.

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u/Anna_Frican 5d ago

treason is treason

The USA didn't exist at that point, so even that is debatable. All rebels are traitors in a sense (which I'm not condemning), but he was a royal subject who eventually had enough of the backstabbing from his fellow rebels and turned loyalist. The American side just had to make a really big deal about it because he was high-profile and they needed to stop mass-defections in his wake.

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u/acEightyThrees 5d ago

Benedict's actual impact was pretty small. His plan to surrender that fort didn't work, and when he switched sides he only led a couple minor raids. Plus, the outrage of his defection united the colonies even more.

Trump is actively bringing on the collapse of American hegemony and the fall of America as the leader of the free world. In addition, the US Aid cuts that Elon did on behalf of Trump have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people already.

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u/PrimeToro 5d ago

Plus Benedict Arnold was actually a brave and courageous general for the continental army of George Washington, who risked his life and was almost killed in a couple of battles.

He only turned traitor after repeatedly being mistreated by the continental congress . Even then, after he was broke , it took a bad marriage to the wrong woman to get him to become a traitor.

Trump willingly decided to become a traitor.

Benedict Arnold was still a traitor but Trump is much worse than him.

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u/FaceDeer 5d ago

And if nothing else, Benedict Arnold was a traitor for some particular cause. To the British he was a loyalist who risked a lot for their benefit.

Trump cares about nothing except his own personal benefit, and for that matter only his personal benefit in the immediate here-and-now short term. He wants what benefits Trump right here, right now, with no other care or interest beyond that.

I'd find him to be an implausible caricature if he were a fictional character.

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u/BlockObvious883 California 5d ago

The British didn't exactly repay that loyalty. Even they saw him as "if he could do it to them, he could do it to us."

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u/NeonElch 5d ago

Actually all true.

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u/ratpH1nk 5d ago

I hope this is the level at which he is remembered because aside from dumb wars and not supporting/alienating allies he has ZERO signature items to be remembered for that isn’t scandalous

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u/MechaD13579 5d ago

People start using “being a Donald Trump” in place of “being a Benedict Arnold”.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 5d ago

Trump betrayed the entire country to Russia.

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u/zac1949 5d ago

BA was a much better man than trump.

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u/JustLeader 5d ago

Benedict Donald

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u/Spelunkie Foreign 5d ago

He already is. Arnold is a traitor to just the US, Trump is a traitor to the entire world.

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u/FredFredrickson 5d ago

If Benedict Arnold happened today, Republicans and conservative billionaires would elevate him as another pillar of their culture wars.

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u/keyboard_jock3y New York 5d ago

He's Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, and James Wilkinson all rolled into one.

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u/AmericanCitizenry 5d ago

He was never president dummy

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u/Cute_Elk_2428 5d ago

Benedict Arnold was dethroned on January 6

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u/nosamz77 5d ago

I don’t want to eat Eggs Donald…

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u/Motor_Educator_2706 5d ago

Yes he was a traitor, but he wasn't retreaded like trump.

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u/NobodySpeci 4d ago

Benedict Donald

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u/Leg0Block Wisconsin 4d ago

Well, at least Benedict Arnold stood for something.

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u/312c 5d ago

We wouldn't have had George W or Trump as president if it weren't for Roger Stone

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u/Garbage_Man_9 5d ago

Lmao it’s the voters. A few people saying awful things is meaningless - 40,000,000 Americans supporting him directly and another 40mil or whatever not caring what he does is the real problem…

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u/metalyger 5d ago

I'm not where he ranks compared to like Ted Bundy or some of the worst school shooters, but as president, Trump does have a massive body count, over his own decisions. As was Bundy, Trump is a dangerous narcissist and serial rapist.

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u/DryPersonality 5d ago

Yet, this isn't over. He is just a bobble head. They will replace him when he expires.

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u/Shoddy_Juggernaut_11 5d ago

Aye you sure about that, he remembered 4 words in a row, only a genius can do that

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u/pixelwhip 5d ago

And also up there with the worst humans ever.

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u/FredB123 5d ago

Even Epstein said there wasn't a decent bone in his body

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u/Independent_Many_267 5d ago

Worse everyday . If we ever get a functioning federal government again , correcting all the destruction he has caused will take a decade of time

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u/ErikWolfe 4d ago

I think George Lincoln Rockwell is a contender for total damage done to the American people.

couple highlights:
Invented holocaust denial
started the American Nazi party post-ww2
Inspired a follower to write the Turner Diaries, which is it's own can of worms
Coined the phrase "White power"

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u/wastingtoomuchthyme 5d ago

This has been a war and Trump has been Russia's greatest asset since the '80's. He was the conduit to launder massive amounts of money and compromise the GOP, scotus some dems and others on orders from Russia. Using a combination of bribery, blackmail and credible threats of violence, Russia has effectively dismantled the United States without firing a shot..

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u/BigStoneFucker 5d ago

We aren't dismantled we're just getting our asses ripped off and going to be paying for it for years and years but they're about to get the ass kicked in a couple of weeks

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u/wastingtoomuchthyme 5d ago

Trump has been damaging every US institution since being placed in power.. US government agencies are all being run by corrupt loyalists and each of these loyalists have caused nearly irreparable damage to the agency.. DOJ DOD etc are all run by performative dipshits who are actively working to destroy their credibility.. why is the US attorney going to Russia? Why did Pete fire all the military leaders?

The goal is to destroy US soft power and influence and world standing .. who benefits?

Putin and his boss. Xi..

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u/DenialOfExistance 5d ago

I am with all my might hoping this is true! Kick their asses from here to kingdom come! Make them beg for mercy on their knees before sending them to jail!

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u/3rdlifekarmabud 5d ago

Beg or not

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u/wastingtoomuchthyme 5d ago

I hope you're right.

but... The reality could be the opposite

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u/unkyduck 5d ago

Hilariously, many think he’s the best ever. Seriously! What is wrong with these people?

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u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 5d ago

They just revealed how shitty America really is, all along. I was once a proud American until the voting plurality of them decided a pedophile rapist convicted felon was the best person to hold the highest office in the land. It really "woke" me up to how awful America has become. But it didn't happen overnight. Started with the recision of the Fairness Doctrine and super charged with Russian Info Ops backing rightwing MAGA influencers and negatively impacting the overall political process itself. In a way, I congratulate the Neo-Soviet Union under Tsar Putin for defeating the US without firing a single shot. Thanks to Trump he has destroyed the US economy, US military, and our system of stable alliances, the very things the USSR needed to do to win the Cold War.

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u/Bean916 5d ago

Don’t forget Citizens United

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u/EntrepreneurTop5670 5d ago

Yes, the SCOTUS (the corrupt Republican members) fucked the country with the Citizens United ruling then went on to, incredibly, rule that Trump - a corrupt, insane, traitor is above the law!

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u/WillSmiff 5d ago

Just because you just "woke" up doesn't mean America wasn't awful while you were sleeping.

I know it sounds crazy, but you think America was less awful when blacks weren't allowed in stores or in the front of the bus? That wasn't even that long ago. Let's not talk about what happened in LATAM. America has always been awful.

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u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 5d ago

Of course...that was what "woke" is all about, acknowledging America has had a terrible past (where does one start, Slavery? Japanese internment? Operation Wetback? Trail of Tears? Jim Crow and Segregation) but knowing that it can and will turn the page and become a better nation. But we are regressing.

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u/shrug_addict 5d ago

I think most people acknowledge that, but looked at continued progress. That is the illusion that was shattered. Similar to Fukiyama's "End of History", our Hegelian vision of progress has been shattered

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u/WildBillSteele666 5d ago

watered down education system from the 60's on was the biggest cause

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u/Clockwork_Triplicate 5d ago

If you wanted to get even more mad, this is what I kept throwing at people in 2015. Check out the content section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

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u/Sensiburner 4d ago

Imagine what your country would look like if you didn’t spend all that money on wars in foreign countries.

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u/Billazilla South Carolina 5d ago

Generational indoctrination and a cult-based crusade against public education, all in the (hidden) name of greed.

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u/WynnTiwFeoh Wisconsin 5d ago

Don’t forget rampant inbreeding.

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u/runswiftrun 5d ago

And publicly hating the same groups they've been semi-quietly hating for decades.

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u/Cheese__Weiner 5d ago

He pisses off people that they don't like.

Everything else is bullshit.

Yes it's that simple.

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u/pyramidsindust America 5d ago

The deteriorating of public schools

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u/lift_heavy64 5d ago

Public schools have only deteriorated due to a very deliberate and targeted campaign by republicans and conservative think tanks over decades to erode public education in the United States.

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u/gwildor 5d ago

I blame the Obama phones - A George W Bush program.
SO many people with flip phones and no access to the internet were given free smart phones with data plans: a brand new audience of captive voters who were aching to be spoon fed lies.

Tea party + Internet access = MAGA.

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u/GyattDetected 5d ago

better question is what ISN'T wrong with them?

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 5d ago

They are Confederates and Klansmen, that's what's wrong with them.

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u/Holiday_Box1571 5d ago

Just ask why.

When they talk about the border, remind them he is on a slower pace than Obama and Biden on deportation, so if that’s their Presidential KPI, looks like Obama is the best ever.

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u/familysizepunkinpie 5d ago

He is supported by the majority of Americans because he represents them. Dumb, loud and completely insane

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u/Scared-Accountant369 5d ago

It's only a loud 30% really. but they are very loud. Compile in the 30% of nonvoters too and thats 60% of people at fault. 

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u/TheModGod 5d ago

And people say American education is bad, in what world is 30% a fucking majority?

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u/Missing_Username 5d ago

The 30% that do fuck-all are providing tacit support on top of the 30% cheering for this shit

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u/Wreckshoptimus 5d ago

He is objectively not supported by the MAJORITY of Americans

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u/Hop4937 5d ago

The 77 million weasel farts who voted for him are not the majority of Americans, or even a majority of the 210 million eligible voters

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u/503jason 5d ago

To be fair, I am dumb, loud and completely insane but I primarily vote for liberal candidates. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/elammcknight 5d ago

Yeah it is not anything remotely like a majority of Americans. More people don't vote than all others voters together. Also his popularity among his own has fallen significantly. The GOP that voted for him support him less than they just hate any Democrat because they were programmed to do that with a systematic program begun in the 1970's that went all the way to their church pulpit. Things are turning

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u/veksone 5d ago

It's a cult.

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u/Mangalorien 5d ago

What is wrong with these people?

They are gullible and spend way too much time watching the Fox Disinformation Network (branded as Fox News for legal reasons).

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u/entropy_bucket 5d ago

This is totally off piste but I wonder if sport debate culture had caused this. Continuously debating leBron v Jordan got boring so people started making a case for bugsey Malone being the greatest of all time and now we are reaping the consequence of that. People can argue anything now and can't see the obvious thing.

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u/HerRoyalRedness 5d ago

They like that he’s a petty vindictive narcissist who doesn’t face consequences for his crimes.

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u/Hippo_Alert 5d ago

I know some of them, they are complete fucking morons.  But they love this ignorant asshole who is just like them.

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u/Redeitbotdunkiltme 5d ago

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Somebody has got to keep all those cousins in the middle east from killing each other off.

So, I guess you might, (if you've read your bible enough), you might just think DJT, is the man for the job.

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u/PopGoesTehWoozle 5d ago

The opening sequence of Idiocracy explains it all

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u/Kup123 5d ago

Lead poisoning and fox news, they are basically brainwashed simpletons at this point.

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio 5d ago

Lead poisoning

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u/No_Mission_8571 5d ago

It's 2026 and whole new kind of stupid to unpack from these clowns.

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u/R2-D2Vandelay I voted 5d ago

"brainwashed morons, the dumbest of the dumb"

That's what's wrong with them.

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u/ChoicePermission8523 5d ago

We should invest HEAVILY in public education and fix the college education system too.

Oh, and healthcare.

Maybe then people would have more than 2 functioning neurons to rub together.

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u/1Papa2065 5d ago

It's all rooted in good old 'MERICAN RACISM! Racepublicans, see how I did that? I just slide the "a" and the"c" ahead of the "e" and we have Racepublicans, can't stand anyone being or having a better life.

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u/SjaakRubberkaak 5d ago

They are not news people. Yeah that's an argument they use.

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u/ReverseMermaids California 5d ago

Racism

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u/sceadwian 5d ago

It's literal mass hysteria. Who knows what history will record but that's exactly what it is. Not even new really this is just the flavor of the day and the scale of our society being what it is... A lot of people are very confused and being fed only propaganda.

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u/OneOfAKind2 5d ago

They're extremely ignorant, by design. You could quiz them on any US political topic and they would fail miserably. They have been misinformed and/or lied to and they hold that as the truth.

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u/TheRaccoonReport 5d ago

Foreign influence gaslighting.

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u/Real-Extension-1357 5d ago

They just tell on themselves how fucking stupid they are. The rest of america is also fucking stupid for allowing them to become so emboldened to think they can be the way they are in society. We all needed to take the republican trash out and fucking revamp these red inbred states.

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u/honuworld 5d ago

Those people get 100% of their news from Fox. they literally are completely unaware of most of the bad shit going on. They live in a completely different reality.

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u/FakingItSucessfully 5d ago

A lot of them helped kill their own friends and family with their anti-vaxx anti-science behavior during COVID. A lot of them have kids and grandkids they can't speak to anymore because they've become so radicalized.

The people still holding on for trump are either bigoted enough to still want what he is doing to happen, or they're latched on to believing he is a genius and a patriot because that is the last good thing they still have left in their life. If they admit they were wrong about him then they ruined their entire existence just to be made a complete fool of. I fully believe that most of them will go to their graves still insisting they made the right call and that trump was amazing.

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u/Independent_Many_267 5d ago

Simple , YOU can't FIX stupid !

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u/Ok-Cryptographer7005 4d ago

Don't you think if he had "information" on Biden, Obama and Hillary he would have already spilled the beans? He can't keep his mouth shut to save his life.

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u/Goons2JAV 5d ago

A lot of his loudest supporters online are fake propaganda accounts, and he and Elon cheated to win the election. He does have a lot of brainwashed supporters but not nearly enough to win an election legitimately.

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u/zaxo666 5d ago

This is why the bot farms are so important to Trump and Musk... They give the perception much more support than actually exists.

I'm convinced Musk stole the election for him something to do with his internet satellites.

As his reward Trump gave him access to all of America's data.

Then they had a fake fight called each other some names, Musk disappears until reappealing just last week just in time to help steal another election.

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u/hivemindhauser 5d ago

Yeah I don't believe he has 30% support still. Very easy to skew poll numbers with not farms

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u/Goons2JAV 5d ago

Exactly

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u/guy-le-doosh 5d ago

He's nearing worst human, certainly one of the most vulgar.

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u/FaceDeer 5d ago

There are still plenty of others who have caused more death and misery than Trump has, though that list is getting surprisingly short these days. He's only halfway through his current term so I guess we'll see if any are left by the end.

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u/Plenty-Purchase-6204 5d ago

Deaths aside it's hard to be a worse classless incompetent trashy rapist pedo gullible moron

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u/ButtPlugForPM 5d ago

iSSUE Is

he isn't the problem

The ppl who put him there are.

We may get rid of him...but it will not stop this happening again.

Think how bad it could be if someone with trumps evil streak, but was actually competent was in as well..

Think president stephen miller type.

he is just a symptom of poor education and propganda that has destroyed america.

The next fascist wannabe is just going to go Right i need to purge soon as i get power and no one will stop me.

The courts need a complete overhaul as does they need to remove polticians appointments.

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u/TalorianDreams 5d ago

To be fair, he is "a" problem. He's a symptom of a larger problem, sure, but he's very much a problem all on his own.

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u/TheSecretofBog 5d ago

SCOTUS (and lesser justices) and Senate term limits and the eradication of the electoral college would go a long way in helping.
That would require radical change in US policy, which hasn’t happened in decades.
As more boomers pass away, it’s up to Gen Z and whatever the next gen is called to organize as well as run for office.
Younger Gen X is the oldest leadership I want.

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u/LadyChatterteeth California 5d ago

The vast majority of older Gen X are only in their 50s. That’s far from having one foot in the grave.

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u/ButtPlugForPM 5d ago edited 5d ago

yep the EC doesn't make sense democratically.

so what 20m ppl can vote for one guy but "TECHNICALLY" 2 state reps can overrule that and just decide nah we want this guy and that's it

US needs to enact the system australia has alterantive Or preferential voting

So even if the person u did wan't doesn't win..the votes they do get can be sent to the next person on ur ballot all the way down till ur vote is expunged..so ur vote is never wasted..

Holy shit as an american once i moved there their voting and political system is just vastly supperior to anythin the US has.. it's more fair, MUCH more stringent checks on power.

Id say the US also needs AGE caps on service.

And also mandatory term limits is a must i agree

I think massive regulatory powers on media too.

News..Must print factually, and can not operator or publish opinion pieces.. if u want to do that open a magazine or a blog..

70 percent of the problem would be solved if u didn't have some wackjob spouting to nan from 6pm-10pm how anyone who isn't white is the devil.

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u/xxxxx420xxxxx 5d ago

Good, I'm glad he's not the problem, he had me going there for a while

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u/CtrlEscAltF4 5d ago

What's frustrating is I feel like I should be compensated for all the corruption these people have caused. Problem is I don't think there's an easy and realistic way for proper compensation to happen. Even if they're sued into oblivion it likely won't be enough.

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u/Independent_Vast9279 5d ago

Evil people are generally incompetent. Doesn’t stop them from hurting people while they flail around. 

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u/poeticentropy 5d ago

need to neuter the executive branch heavily to fix the blantant loopholes the Trump administration has abused because they do not care about shame or precedent

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u/LittleYellowPill 5d ago

But hated by a hundred million Americans.

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u/Imfallingtherightway 5d ago

That’s like saying the Titanic was the worst luxury cruise experience.

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u/ucankickrocks 5d ago

To be fair there was a good 15 years of brainwashing that occurred before Trump was elected in 2016. Foxnews and AM radio had plenty of time to set the stage.

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u/scrubjays 5d ago

I suspect they would not know what a good presidency looks like if they saw one.

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u/AsheStriker 5d ago

He may be just the worst American in American history. Truly a petty malignant narcissist holding the world hostage for his own advantage.

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u/Dexx009 5d ago

Worst American in history

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u/davidkali 5d ago

Sorry now, why do you keep spelling dumb with a b? You doing a fancy talk or what?

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u/TuringGoneWild 5d ago

You forgot to mention tens of millions of Russian bots among his supporters.

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u/MSGdreamer 3d ago

The following is very insightful. I saw it recently and can’t share it enough.

It’s a quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant leader of the German resistance who died speaking about the nature of stupidity and how it’s more dangerous than evil:

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.”

“Against stupidity we are defenseless.”

“Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.”

“For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”

“If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid. We discover this to our surprise in particular situations. The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect but that, under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them. We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability. And so it would seem that stupidity is perhaps less a psychological than a sociological problem. It is a particular form of the impact of historical circumstances on human beings, a psychological concomitant of certain external conditions. Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. It would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.”

“Yet at this very point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity. Here we must come to terms with the fact that in most cases a genuine internal liberation becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person. This state of affairs explains why in such circumstances our attempts to know what “the people” really think are in vain and why, under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and acting responsibly. The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.”

“But these thoughts about stupidity also offer consolation in that they utterly forbid us to consider the majority of people to be stupid in every circumstance. It really will depend on whether those in power expect more from peoples’ stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom.”

• ⁠Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer was an amazing man, willingly going to prision based on his beliefs. Before he was allegedly sent to & hung in a concentration camp, he was sent to the cellar prison of the Reich SS Headquarters in Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 in Berlin (now the site of the Topography of Terror memorial) & strung up like an animal on a butcher’s hook, in a room designed to torture & murder political opponents like animals in a slaughterhouse. His end is unknown, because his body was never found. Fascism is just the brutal disregard for everything. 

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u/Bard2dbone 5d ago

That's not accurate! Be fair! He's the worst TWO presidents in American history. Which is extra wild, because the now-third place is Buchanan, who caused the Civil War.

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u/AsparagusUpstairs367 5d ago

They need to actually remove him from office. No impeachment or anything. Lock all these actual traitors up while investigations happen

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u/LoadSubstantial6542 5d ago

Whoa cut thay number in half because they are Russian bots

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u/wentImmediate 5d ago

Trump is the worst President in American history.

The 'No Kings' are so spot-on. If you look at what the President says and does, they align with how a king would behave.

The fact that Trump is the president at American's 250th anniversary, after rebelling against a king is very fitting.

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u/joggle1 Colorado 5d ago

He's easily the worst. He's like a lousy comic book villain. If someone described a president like him to me back in the 90s, I'd think you had a terrible imagination and couldn't come up with realistic villains for your story.

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u/carterartist 5d ago

The sad thing is it is only like 30% of the nation (the same who also believe angels are real and ufos have come to Earth)... And he has NEVER had had 50% of this nation on his sade, even though he lied and said he had a mandate.

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u/Educational_Suit_680 5d ago

That depends on your perspective. If, like Peter Theil you “no longer believe that democracy and freedom are compatible” then he’s doing a great job and it’s all going to plan.

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u/SignificantScreen100 5d ago

Orbán had the support of millions, but the opposition was flooding the streets.

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u/KTX77 5d ago

I'll take it a step further... Trump is the worst American in American history.

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u/SaulTNNutz 5d ago

Unfortunately, in 20 years you'll have a bunch of people talking about what a straight-talking badass he was because he was an outsider who didn't give a fuck and a bunch of democrats saying "I didn't agree with him but he really did love America and did his best to make it a better place.

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u/AmuseDeath 5d ago

60% were white men, 53% were white women, 80% identified as Christian, 70% of America's voting population is white. That's your demographic.

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u/SenseisSifu 5d ago

Deplorables

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u/NextGen-Panic 5d ago

Unfortunately, according to 18 U.S. Code §2381, being a stupid motherfucker doesn't exempt you from High Treason.

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u/fistedwithlove 5d ago

By virtue of the power he wields I might argue he's one of the worst people in American history.

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u/ChHeBoo United Kingdom 5d ago

I’d argue he’s a contender for one of the worst human beings in history.

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u/fallenreaper 5d ago

tens upon tens of millions.

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u/Suds344 5d ago

Those people are called Americans.

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u/schfiftyfiveshades 5d ago

possibly worst president in all of human history

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u/AlwaysGoWithDinosaur 5d ago

But isn’t pretty much everything Presidents do legal now?

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u/TruthOf42 5d ago

The worst? I mean, it really depends on how you look at it. Andrew Jackson basically committed acts of genocide, as well as numerous other presidents against Native Americans, and numerous others suppressed blacks and minorities far worse than trump.

So, the worst in the last 50 years? Probably.

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u/SookHe 5d ago

MAGA, the lowest SATs and highest STDs

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u/eMan117 5d ago

And as long as they keep cutting education and putting WWE execs in charge of education, the trend will only worsen.

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u/RealHooman2187 5d ago

In terms of competence he absolutely is the worst, in terms of monstrous acts while in office, there maybe one or two who still have him beat (just barely). But yeah, if you average it all out he’s easily the worst or second worst. The only person who might be worse is Andrew Jackson because of the whole Trail of Tears thing.

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u/Disastrous-Road184 5d ago

Not brainwashed. They don’t like him either but he is their only means to their ends. He has the lowest approval rating in history, that doesn’t happen unless your own supporters don’t like you.

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u/randomisation 5d ago

He is, however, the best President Russia has ever had!

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u/Usual_Opportunity626 5d ago

He's not just the worst president. He's arguably one of the worst humans that has been alive. He gorges himself on the suffering of others. He rapes and likely kills children. He has incestuous fantasies of his own children. If I was religious I would full on believe him to be an antichrist.

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u/warrior891 5d ago

And we still outnumber those millions of brainwashed morons.

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u/Electrical-Review180 5d ago

That's why I'm not convinced the US won't elect somebody even worse than him.

Only hope is that it can't be Thiel but that's not a big one

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u/endlesskane 5d ago

Less than you think, gotta remember they got their grubby hands into the votes

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u/higglesworth 5d ago

The worst American in American history

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u/mpr1283 5d ago

I mean…Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and oversaw the forced removal of Native nations from the Southeast. The best-known result was the Trail of Tears, in which thousands of Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole people died from disease, exposure, and starvation…I don’t like Trump at all but say he’s worse than Andy is a stretch.

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u/mpr1283 5d ago

Hell, FDR signed an order in 1942 that locked up 120,000 Japanese Americans, Wilson openly segregated parts of the federal workforce and Johnson opposed or undermined reconstruction-era protections for freed Black Americans.

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u/ixiduffixi 5d ago

Seriously, when are the ones in power going to get exhausted covering for him? Even if your agenda is getting done, this fuckwit is nothing but the toddler-king smearing shit on the drapes.

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u/ZiggoCiP 5d ago

Tens of millions. He only lost due to the apathy of millions of non-Trump supporters. We gotta fight like hell to start to fix this damn mess. And the worst part is, a lot of them are learning to tuck their politics back into hiding. Many didn't change, they just realized that it was no longer popular/lucrative to cram it in people's faces.

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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 5d ago

Him being a complete idiot is a feature. It's the only way they could get a POTUS to openly do all the hateful, fear mongering, greedy AF things he does.

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u/foreverandadayalone Canada 5d ago

And kept in place by the rest who are too comfortable to act.

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u/CastlesofDoom 5d ago

This guy ain’t no Jim Jones. They’re not brainwashed, they’re just dumb and racist. 🤣

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u/Pvrb80 5d ago

He just hate the same people and things they hate.

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u/natterca 5d ago

He’s the worst president SO FAR. With the total erosion of the GOP you’re gonna get more because there simply isn’t any checks and balances now.

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u/SinisterCroissant 5d ago

But how many of those morons are bots?

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u/jjfrenchfry Canada 5d ago

Great. Now they're going to vote even harder for a republican because of your mean words forcing their hand

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u/Independent_Many_267 5d ago

Don't forget he's also controlled by the billionaires

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u/Patient_Wrongdoer_11 4d ago

Worst part is he doesn't care. He would consider that an honor.

Narcissists dont care if the attention they get is negative or positive- as long as they are front and center.

He has definitely achieved his goal of being remembered for...well....forever

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u/Ok-Leg3134 4d ago

somebody needs to redumb them the good dumb way. The complexity seems to hang low on this effort!

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u/ToubDeBoub 4d ago

It's not only the stupid who support him. There are smart and successful people who support him because they really like what he's doing, they like an authoritarian Christo fascist administration.

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u/SirrNicolas Virginia 4d ago

They wanted us to reconsider representation as Americans. Unfortunately I have now. I no longer believe a representative democracy of all the people is a good idea. These morons will destroy us all.

We must stop being afraid of poll tests and implement an IQ based fitness test for voting rights. Nothing below double digits. No more horse tranq regulars getting to vote for our international environmental policy leaders.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 4d ago

He's one of the worst Americans, period.

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u/ivmo71 3d ago

Worst president the WORLD has ever seen.

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