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President Trump ripped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” -- and suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar "probably came into the USA illegally" --  in a rage-filled Thanksgiving message about immigration.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 187 points 10 months ago (10 children)

How a man this crass managed to be President twice, I'll never know. What a fucking disgrace...

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 91 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because a plurality of Americans are equally crass, ignorant, selfish, and evil.

There are a metric f*** ton of people in the United States who just want to use the n-word.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Hes the perfect representation of the american spirit

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Voter fraud. Social media mass manipulation. Scapegoating.

Old tricks but still work.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Fox has people brainwashed.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because he's peak american.you may not like it, but he's the embodiment of what the world thinks when they hear america.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm old enough to remember the America of best education, top science and engineering in the world. The America that proudly went to the Moon. The America that developed the Internet on public money.

I guess I can feel the contrast with the idiocracy of today a bit more keenly than younger folks who have never known anything else.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America. My perspective of being a mid 20s American is that of a longing for the America that was all the things you listed. Not a kleptocratic oligarchy held up by social media misinformation and straight idiocy. Ever since the mid 70s: following all the debt caused by the Vietnam War, the disastrous consequences of Reaganomics, and deregulation of finance; income inequality has gotten to a point of insanity.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am honestly sad that I never got to experience that America

I'm so sorry. But it was like that. Sure it had its many, many flaws. But it was a place where studying hard, making it to and through college and being educated were valued more highly than being a vocal cretin, where science was respected, craziness was fringe, religion was retreating, working hard gave you a real - albeit small - chance at striking it rich, and where you could expect your children to be better off than you if you did everything right.

All that is gone. I really feel sorry for you and those of your generation who never got to experience the "good" America - at least good if you were white...

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I am just jealous of how many older folks got their college education for free or just hundreds of dollars 50+ years ago…

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, we gen-Xers got a lot of things for cheap or free, and we had a lot more opportunities for sure - and our boomer parents even more so - because we rode the tail end of the post-WW2 economic boom.

I totally get the jealousy. What I don't get is the hate: I can't count the number of young people who actually hate me because I happen to have had it better than them. Sorry... It's not like I planned it or anything, and I didn't set out to ruin anybody's life after me neither.

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

Which I always assumed was a hyperbolic stereotype based on things like the “Florida man” phenomenon.

Turns out it is a reality based description.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Because American voters are stupid. And don't care enough about their own country. But mostly stupid.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And because they cheated and were allowed to get away with it

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

American voters are stupid

Democracy is when you have two options, a wrong candidate and a right candidate. And the elections process simply an IQ test

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's the way Americans are bred. Bovine docility to their masters, is in their genes.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Republicans got desperate. They also only vote R.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

He represents half the country.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Congress is full of these fuckers. I don't see why the presidency is special

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 98 points 10 months ago

Ha ha ha, I love Walz:

Walz responded to Trump’s vicious attack by questioning the president’s own mental state.

“Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on X, referring to the results of Trump’s latest medical checkup, which he touted at the time as “perfect.”

[–] RePsyche@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Seriously Retarded”, you say, an ableist slur, and a self confession simultaneously, coming from someone exhibiting increasing signs of dementia.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 months ago

I don't understand why people with power or a platform don't just literally make fun of him more with playground insults. Like dumdum donny or stupid brain hairpiece or something. He's so thin skinned he'd spend all his time responding to insults rather than fuck up the country more.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

“Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone”

I've never met a Somali that wasn't a friendly sort having lived here my whole life. Had one bring in some of these pretty awesome dumpling things called sambusa(?) once to work just cause reasons. Very chill bunch far as I've ever seen.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup, sambusa. They're similar to samosas that you get in various forms all over South and South-East Asia. Delicious stuff.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 10 points 10 months ago

It's funny how conservatives the world over trot out the same tired conspiracy theories. The conservative parties in Australia have regularly tried out the 'African gangs' idea without much success.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Trump doesn’t even understand elementary school math

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Every time I see a post from this moron I lose even more respect for the mouth breathers that voted for him.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

No, no, you see, when you go to buy medication now, the hospital pays you! Thanks Mr. Trump!

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Just a reminder that whilst Trump is blocking migrants from "poor" countries, the architect and participants of 9/11 were all from Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Silly, they're not immigrants if they're rich!

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Projection.

Drumpf is now fearing that the talk is right and he is mentally disabled.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I doubt he can admit his flaws to himself, let alone others

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

He projects everything. That's how you know what's on his mind at a given moment.

[–] X@piefed.world 18 points 10 months ago

That inbred, diaper-wearing dementia patient has no fucking business talking about anything.

[–] jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network 17 points 10 months ago

Gotta give my support to Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar, got it.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

❌Thanksgiving
✔️Hatespewing

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why does anyone have any respect for the office of the president?

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

It's been a joke for quite sometime already.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We should kill the Internet.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

AI is on top of it

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

That’s an interesting euphemism.

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[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

When Thanksgiving became Insultgiving!

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