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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 91 points 4 months ago

Once a traitor, always a traitor.

But also a felon, rapist, and pedophile.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's "The art of the deal", You know. They wanted 130k, but he talked them down to 95k.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

Highly underrated comment

[–] josefo@leminal.space 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You really elected a Russian asset from KGB as president, lol, you condemned us all

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

It couldn't have happened without the support of ubiquitous right-wing media running 24/7 and with only varying levels of outrageous right-wing points of view. I'm including all corporate news media in that.

That's the part the world doesn't understand yet. It's coming for you, no matter where you are.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He called for murder of people who were innocent of the accused crime. He ran a full page ad in the NYT advocating it.

Could you imagine having a wealthy asshole deciding one day you should die and spending a shit ton of money to make it happen.

This is why wealthy fucks should never be President.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

That's why we should kill wealthy fucks. On sight.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Trump making it to the presidency shows the rot in americas core. This is more about the american people than trump. It's not too late though people. When did politics change to become Mother Abigail versus Randall Flagg?

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What puzzles me is how the US sacrificed so many rights at the altar of "national security" (e.g. Patriot Act) only to let this happen in the clear...so none of it really mattered for "national security".

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Oh geez you probalby have a point eh. But here's the thing: the right wing propaganda is being cranked up to every english-speaking country to affect this same "rot". It will happen to your country. Because the answer for it does not exist in practice, and basically won't exist because money.

[–] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

+1 The Stand reference.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] mgnome@piefed.social 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Damn.

Turns out 40 years ago it was just as easy to piss in his ears. Just flatter him and push whatever agenda you might need him to repeat

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna say that I don't really care if the KGB "convinced" a private citizen to take out an ad. Seriously: if some dude stopped me on the street and offered me $1M to buy $100k of AdSense saying NATO started the war in Ukraine, I'd probably do that. Who really cares what I, or some 80s real-estate schmuck, pastes on the side of walls? Trump never made any secret of being an anything-for-money person.

I'd expect to get fired. I'd expect it to be disqualifying for public office. So, to me, the thing that's actually disturbing is how many of our political leaders & how much of the public at large is willing to go along with and even celebrate the propaganda for free. Betray their stated ideals for free.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago

I'd expect to get fired. I'd expect it to be disqualifying for public office.

Yeah, but that'd be the better world (not ideal one though, in ideal one there is no lobbying), and we're now in situation where people made careers lobbying different stuff, while being in positions, that are supposed to serve the people.

Tulsi Gabbard is my favourite example with few episodes of taking money from Assad regime at some points and that is like lowest low, lower would probably be lobbying for DPRK, and I feel like she wouldn't turn down that offer too. And that is the person choosen by Taco Don to lead national intelligence.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

In 1983 Graydon Carter (later editor of Spy and Vanity Fair) was assigned to write a profile of trump for GQ magazine. In the profile, Carter mentioned that trump's hands seemed "too small for his body". When the issue came out, trump sent out his minions to buy up as many copies of GQ in NYC as they could get their hands on, to prevent people from reading it. Apparently, this led to greater-than-normal sales of that issue which prompted publisher Si Newhouse to greenlight trump's book The Art of the Deal.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Threw russian kids into his bed, had him hooked for life.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or more psychological, trump thinks Putin is his friend.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Russia did not lose the cold war, they just played to the West's ego while they learned how to manipulate information and slowly destabilize the rest of the world.

In this essay I will..

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can lose a war, hold a grudge and then start a new war. You don't need to rewrite history to say that the west is once again at war with Russia.

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tbh i don't think there are any real "winners" from the cold war. Except maybe those who own defense, munitions, and oil companies/stocks.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

In my view, the "collapse" of the Soviet Union was actually just the elites sloughing off their actual obligations to the masses, allowing them to enjoy their wealth and power openly while the ordinary people rot away. For the most part, the government officials who had been in charge of state assets in the USSR ended up owning them personally, creating the "oligarchs" we know and love today.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Soviet Union fucking fell. They did lose, Russia is fighting a new fight now

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Already controlled by the KGB's 6th Directorate with the agent name, Krasnov.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

By default I will ignore any meme which ends with "get it?" or "let that sink in"

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

fair enough. But you do agree that russia has been developing trump and played a significant role in putting him in power.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Useful idiot.

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