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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 153 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I live in that particularly odious senator's state, and saw this on the bike trail yesterday.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That frame and rims don't look like they don't suck

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks Senator Joni Hearse.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Every time I read this "let them eat cake", it reminds me of what Luigi did...

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I hate her so much.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago (10 children)

actuary tables suggest trump doesn't make it to 2029.

honestly I'm far more afraid of the shady-ass VP who is the bagman for Peter Theil

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

actuary tables suggest trump doesn’t make it to 2029.

Actuary tables say Dick Cheney should have died ten years ago.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Do those account for the blood of children that he drinks?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But, now hear me out, about a barely-obese 52yo with a seeerious ketamine addiction?

The line of blood donor clinics I predict he opens in order to funnel the youngest blood into his own veins and ideally stave off ageing, even that's gonna do nothing about the impending kidney failure.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump can get away with what he does because of his cult, historically cults typically fall apart after the founder dies even when there's a planned line of succession

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

That's what I'm hoping

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tell that to Trump's self contained severed living head in a glass container in 2070

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

More realistically... AI Trump.

They could feed all of his bullshit into a model, and have an AI Trump spewing nonsense forever. Bet it'd even take AI golf trips.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I think that's called reddit

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The hallucinations would be a feature.

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[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“The future is now, old man”

-a 53 yr old

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

3000 children emerge from the shadows

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I just learned that I am older than Laura loomer. Her plastic surgery made me think she was 50.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

Holy shit she's in her early thirties! Why do all these MAGA women get such awful fillers?

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Katherine leavitt is only 27

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

wtf she looks 40? Like she’s pretty but she looks way older than me.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Musk thinking all that Trumpism will go to him helps in making things make sense.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was that a threat, or Elon just being practical. It's funny either way.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Clearly, since Trump is the healthiest president ever to hold office, he will outlive Musk. That is just a given. Therefore, this statement by Musk can only be take as a threat against the life of the president, by an immigrant no less. Send in ICE, SWAT, Seal Team 6, and Space Force to grab him and deport him to Mars.

/s mostly, but I really would like to see Musk shot off in the general direction of Mars.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's more surprising that these fuckers just happily throw all the dirty laundries on the street.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Theyre dumb narcissists with no shame. And they love attention.

[–] NaibofTabr 12 points 1 month ago

So there's this radio editorial from 1973 called "America: The Good Neighbor", written by George Sinclair. I think a lot of what Sinclair described has been lost, unfortunately, but this line always pops into my head:

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.

I feel like this part is still true. For better or worse, as a nation even when we feel shame due to the behavior of our politicians we don't try to hide it, pretend like it doesn't exist. Our politics is theater and we all know it. It's on display for everyone to see.

You can read the whole thing here: https://thinkingagain.com/html/american_tribute.php

It is an artifact of history, and just... keep in mind that it needs to be read and understood in the context of the time it was written. The Apollo program had just ended the year before, and US troops had just withdrawn from Vietnam. The Watergate scandal was current news and is specifically what Sinclair was referring to in the quoted line above. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered only 5 years prior, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a recent memory. It had been only a decade since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

And there was video and live discussion of all of it just on display for everyone to see on the still quite new platform of broadcast television.

Things haven't changed much.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

I hope it's a draw.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The plot thickens I haven’t been this excited since the first assassination. 🍿

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

"assassination"

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I would say “where’s the lie” but he’s universally hated and he just injected like $20 million into the Wisconsin election and they lost because he’s toxic

[–] Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

He also lost because, in his mind, money = influence. He didn’t realize that even conservative Wisconsin voters do not react well to people throwing money at them to win.

We border Illinois and constantly deal with FIBs coming to our state, utilizing our parks, lakes, and woodlands, while acting like they are better because they have money. This is particularly common in the north woods where a lot of the conservative voters are.

Illinisians also think money makes them important. The difference is that we tolerate them because they are our neighbors, and we have a long history of hating on each other but also relying on each other - similar to siblings who disagree with how the other lives their life. Musk is a complete outsider and people were not happy about it.

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[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I’m not convinced that is the case.

[–] Emil_Zatopek1982@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I am fine with this as long as it doesn't take too long for Musk to follow.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

You should read the mental gymnastics being performed either by republicans or by AI bots for republicans.

A giant circle jerk of Elon isn’t our enemy he just doesn’t understand politics and Trump does. On repeat.

And, Congress sucks, and because they suck so badly and won’t pass hardly anything, this big beautiful bill is the best bill to fix the debt we can get right now. On repeat.

Those two bylines are everywhere. It’s probably going to stick too.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I know Death doesn't care about fame, but if you could roll in and take this mf....man. you would be a hero. Throw the hood on, grab the scythe and have some political fun!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Can they please get on with it already?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Fighting for the crown and the Skeksis Emperor isn’t even dead yet.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago
[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Catching up with Don and Musk - Season 2: The breakup.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

When did Laura Loomer have Donnie’s dick out of her mouth long enough to chat with a third person?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Ok, now I'm starting to question the purpose of this show.

Because, technically, that remains to be seen.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who's on worse drugs?

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