As a non american, the world started laughing the second the orange man baby became your president.
it was sort of a mix of funny and nervous laughter though.
wasnt pleasent
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy 140 points 2 years ago
InternetUser2012 9 points 2 years ago
My favorite all time GW moments, "It looks like a hurricane came through there", and when he pulls on the door you need to push, the dumbfounded look on his face.
It's crazy to think how bad he was and he was great compared to tRump.
someguy3 7 points 2 years ago
I remember reading an article (must have been during the Obama years) saying that for the GOP to get its act together they had to recognize what a trainwreck Bush Junior was. Yeah...
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy 2 points 2 years ago
sort of a chuckle for gwb
uis 2 points 2 years ago
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LillyPip 73 points 2 years ago
Fascism's major hallmark is fervent hypocrisy. That's how people could live within half a mile of death camps and just casually brush the ash of burnt people from their hair, then smile like they're going on a picnic as they're led into the death camps at the end of their street, then ten minutes later, after seeing actual corpses stacked like cordwood, they're vomiting and swearing they had no idea.
We can't let the uneducated masses lead us into that kind of horror again, We need to educate them of what they're advocating for and why that's so horrifically dangerous. We need to stop hedging and beating round the bush, and lay out in detail what they're actually enabling. People die when this kind of nationalistic ignorance is allowed to proliferate. We need to stop this ignorance before it kills people.
ChillPenguin 8 points 2 years ago
It was actually antifa who said that, impersonating MAGA. /s
Colonel_Panic_ 4 points 2 years ago
Thought crime!!!
hydrospanner 1 point 2 years ago
That's double-plus ungood.
uis 0 points 2 years ago
Stealing Thought Property
smuuthbrane 36 points 2 years ago
It's like they've unlearned object permanence but only for holding opinions.
Oh, wait, that's just a double standard. My bad.
Stupidmanager 22 points 2 years ago
Ah you clearly know my conservative friend, Brian. His Facebook posts state he still wants to lock her/him up but was rather upset his lord and savior was now a convicted felon. Logic was never his strong suit, but he’s part of the friend group of mostly liberals and knows to keep his mouth mostly shut when it with us.
Juvyn00b 5 points 2 years ago
I run around with a group and when the guilty verdict was rendered, oh my - the amount that started digging in surprised me. It's a group that typically doesn't delve into it and I saw that as a big plus. Now I'm not so sure what to think other than just keep my mouth shut.
DoucheBagMcSwag 22 points 2 years ago
I like it how the oxygen sucking maggot gets fatter every year
octopus_ink 20 points 2 years ago
3 downvotes on this, but no maga comments. Odd, usually the magas are the loudest assholes in the room. 🤔
InternetUser2012 18 points 2 years ago
They been a little quiet since the 34 felony convictions and his off the rails rant.
KevonLooney 13 points 2 years ago
That's the benefit of trump seeing actual punishment for his crimes. His supporters won't vote for Biden, but they might feel dejected and stay home without voting. That's what trump supporters and Russian trolls are trying to do with Gaza.
InternetUser2012 1 point 2 years ago
Those ones are the bots and paid trolls
kent_eh 2 points 2 years ago
A lot of them probably are, but there are still a lot of deluded "true believers" who will actually vote.
Let's not get complacent and lull people into not voting against the orange turd.
madcaesar 9 points 2 years ago
Every once in a while I'll see a maga comment, and honestly the first I think is this person has some kind of mental disability. The commets are always deranged and from an alternate reality.
alcoholicorn -4 points 2 years ago
I don't think they do, but I see a lot of liberals accuse communists of being secret MAGA for not supporting genocide, escalating the trade war with China, brutalizing protesters, locking migrants in cages, etc when it's Biden doing it.
alcoholicorn -3 points 2 years ago
Thanks for providing an example.
Is it hard to believe someone might actually feel that things that were bad when Trump did them remain bad when Biden does them? Except for the genocide, that will be bad when Trump does it.
positiveWHAT 2 points 2 years ago
One of the cornerstones of evil. It's funny how they keep yapping about Animal farm and 1984 when the books keep reflecting their own behavior. 'Newspeak' and ‘Some animals are more equal than others’.
DragonTypeWyvern 10 points 2 years ago
Hillary and Biden
balderdash9 2 points 2 years ago
I thought Hilary and Hunter Biden
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FrostyTheDoo 37 points 2 years ago
Unfortunately that's not the correct solution. When we start taking away citizens' rights to participate in their public democratic government, we no longer have a public democratic government. Down the line, you would lose your right to vote as well, for a reason that you think is bullshit. And it would be bullshit, just like it's bullshit to suggest removing voting rights from Trump supporters.
ThatWeirdGuy1001 14 points 2 years ago
By increasing funding to public education systems, debunking any misinformation that's put out, holding news sources like fox accountable for lying to millions of people on a daily basis, stop using kid gloves whenever republican congressmen break the law, follow the money trail and expose the oligarchs running our country from the shadows through bribes and lobbying, never be a single issue voter, and always participate in local elections.
The sad reality of our world is stupid, greedy, evil pieces of shit will put in all the effort they can to get what they want. Good people tend to be apathetic and then get fucked hard when the bad people get their way. Good people need to pull the rocks out of their asses and get a fuckin move on.
FrostyTheDoo 6 points 2 years ago
That's the trillion dollar question man, and I honestly don't know the answer.
My approach is to try be a rational voice that people in my circle feel comfortable talking to about anything, and telling them honestly and assertively when they're not making sense or when they're spouting harmful rhetoric (sort of what I did in my first reply to you here). It is exhausting and demoralizing, but I have found that when given the opportunity, people do trust their friends and family more than the random angry Russian people in their phone.
We have to engage with these people and try to help them, because they are going to vote and raise children in our country either way.
AngryCommieKender 5 points 2 years ago
Jury duty seemed to work for juror #2. Whomever they were, they were following Trump on Truth social, and they still voted to convict. Mandatory jury duty for all!
InternetUser2012 5 points 2 years ago
Make laws to make the news neutral and factual would be a great start. Remove the russian and china troll/bot farms from the online platforms. Remove religion from politics. The real difference maker would be to focus more on real education.
FrostyTheDoo 1 point 2 years ago
I'm not tolerating intolerance. I'm saying stripping voting rights from people is not the right answer. I'm really not sure how you got that twisted...it seems that you agree that removing voting rights and ending democracy would be a bad thing. Yet you're advocating for it anyway? Can you explain that position a bit more clearly?
In my opinion you should spend your political capital and energy on influencing others to vote for candidates you support, rather than spending it advocating for the end of democratic voting in America.
jaybone 1 point 2 years ago
I’m not agreeing or disagreeing. I’m making an observation.
The right has the right to vote. They want to vote to elect Trump. Trump wants to be a dictator and end democratic elections, removing everyone’s right to vote.
I will agree that education is key. Having an informed and educated society is the only way to have a working democracy. But the right also wants to eliminate education, so that’s a problem.
ironhydroxide 9 points 2 years ago
Nah, go the other way. Make voting a requirement. You vote, or you don't participate in society.
ironhydroxide 3 points 2 years ago
Yes. we. should.
The only reason to restrict voting is to keep "undesirables" from having a say in government.
In a fair government everyone should be represented. The only way to even approach that is to make it a requirement that everyone votes.
positiveWHAT 2 points 2 years ago
Maybe include an update to proportional election systems so that you can have more than two parties/better representation?
InternetUser2012 6 points 2 years ago
The right thinks anyone democrat shouldn't have the right to vote. The lunatic I worked with thought that, and was going on about you shouldn't be able to vote unless you understand what you're voting for.... How ironic.
Emmie 1 point 2 years ago
Lemme rephrase: if you have enough charisma you can pull off anything and no one will notice
The essence of politics isn’t to not be a hypocrite but to look good being one.
It turns out true times and times again when after elections the ‘more moral side’ does the same thing as what they said is evil but makes it look like a good thing.
It isn’t unreasonable to assume such skill also comes handy in day to day life. Look good, be sexy, get rewards. Spoils. Loot. Benefits.
To swim in the sea of shit you need to have some buoy.
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GOP in 2016 = We need Trump because the rest of the world is laughing at America.
GOP today = Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?
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