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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, I love The Good Liars. They are great at improv and quite adept at disarming Trump supporters and getting them to say stupid things.

With that said, the hallmark of the Trump presidency to me was that the good things he did were generally for the wrong reasons, like when he redeployed the US military from Syria and snatched money that was budgeted for various military projects to build his stupid wall.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He did some great things for the space program too. Probably because it sounded cool.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

TBH, it's weird that you say that, but it makes perfect sense.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 37 points 2 years ago

You... you stop it right there! With your "facts" and your "logic" and your "knowledge", don't you know that a brain 🧠, like a bowl 🥣, is most useful when empty!?

stience defeated

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's only ever been about vibes*, and that's totally good enough for these folks who have made Trump their identity. Trump could come right out and say that he has no plans at all, but that voting for him would make the libs and minorities and LBTQ+ folks upset... and his polling wouldn't change. It's only about the vibes*.

* "Vibes" is used here to mean thinly-veiled racism, sexism and bigotry

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He has concepts of a plan

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Allegedly.

[–] rzlatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you could just write hate instead.

[+] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

Overturn RvW. He campaigned on this promise and he got it.

I'm not saying it as a gotcha but there are very much things he promised and he delivered on, many of which were done via very illegal and unconstitutional executive orders.

Other "accomplishments":

(Quick side note: I'm only counting policy based accomplishments. Things like hating on gays or hurting immigrants, while technically promises, I'm going to categorize as "legalized oppression".)

deregulation of the Internet (Fuck Ajit Pai)
"building" the "wall" and having Mexico "pay" for it, done primarily via tariffs that ended up hurting Americans more but his base didn't care (this one is a stretch but I'm counting it)
simplified parts of the tax code that gave everyone a tax cut (ignoring the part that for lower and middle class this cut was often a few dollars while for the Uber rich it was thousands)

There are more but I need to get back to my date. 😅

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He gave a wealthy donor a presidential medal of honor

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I did not expect a follow up question"

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I was told there would be no fact-checking

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol are these actual quotes from an interview?

[–] Acrimonious@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've been watching a couple debates involving Trump supporters. They all do some version of this. "I like his policies" "ok, can you name a policy of his you approve of" they can never come up with any. In almost any other scenario this would be funny. It's hopeless.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

They say that but what they like is his rhetoric, which is more disturbing in my opinion.

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just like Sarah Palin's favorite newspapers.