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Wait.
Fuck, that letter was REAL?!?!
I thought it was the Onion! Wh--
Wha--?!?
Dear Santa, Considering you decided not to give me a PS5 for Christmas, even though I was a VERY good boy, I no longer feel an obligation to clean my room or not say cusses, although being good will always be predominant, but now I have to think about what is good and proper for me. Why do other kids get a PS5 anyway, and why do they have a “right” to keep them? There are no written rules, it’s just that Santa gave them one a long time ago because their parents asked nicely. But I asked nicely too, many times, and I reminded everyone constantly how nice I was. I have done more chores than any other child since chores were invented, and now Santa should do something for me. Christmas is not secure unless I have Complete and Total Control of a PS5. Thank you! Very Good Boy DJT
He got the FIFA peace price. He didn't go to war with FIFA. The best president. The best. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
NFL better tighten up
"If you don't give me a Nobel Peace Prize I'll go to war with you."
"If you don't give me a Nobel Peace Prize I'll go to war with ~~you~~ the country I've confused for yours."
"TF is a kangaroo doing in Austria?"
If you don’t give me your candy I will punch you in the face.
Someone should make a "Peace Participation Trophy", then present it to him.
How are we to tell our kids to "grow up" when they're acting immature when one of the most powerful men on the planet are acting like this publicly?
Honestly, when folks at my job complain about Gen z work ethic, I just think....fuck man, why WOULD they. Like I'm old I get that I have to work to keep my community afloat based solely on principle and a desire to live in a moderately decent place but they don't have decades of experience to teach them that. All they see is any opportunity for growth squashed more and more every day.... Like why would they care? How could they motivate to even try? Edit: fat finger spelling
That's why I have some hope for Gen Z and Alpha. They're seeing all this and we need to tell them how things were before the billionaires truly tried to take over. Unfortunately we can't get the Boomers to do anything because they're too busy committing generational warfare.
Lol, that letter reads like something a third grader wrote.
"Dear Santa, since you decided not to give me a Nintendo for Christmas, I no longer feel like I need to clean my room and not say bad words. I have done more chores than any other person..."
This is a perfect analogy and I will be sharing it to friends and selective family...
8 wars PLUS! So many after 8 we stopped counting and now we don't even know what the number is. Thank God that peace will still be predominant, despite Donald not feeling any obligation towards it.
I just don't understand why he isn't feeling that obligation after being awarded the Fifa Peace Prize, which is the only peace prize that matters.
I’m sure he said “8 PLUS” because he doesn’t know what comes next to eight.
The proof is that the entire upper tier of the Executive Branch has completely lost its shit and is crewed by morons. Last time around there were adults in the room that reeled in his worst impulses even though he'd sneak a gainer in once in a while. This time? They're a clown car stuffed with ideologues, racists, and fools with the brake pedal ripped out.
Someone in my family that's defended trump tooth and nail since the first term on everythinghas done just told me they oppose what he's doing to Greenland, and the flood of ICE agents in Minneapolis.
I have never heard them speak a word against Trump. Not ever. And they have argued the craziest shit I've ever heard... Like, they think Renee was 'asking for what she got' levels of crazy, and that's after they watched all the videos.
...and they just told me they are now against Trump on these two huge events. This is nuts. I need to go but a lottery ticket or something.
Question is, will they still vote Republican if told it's an entire apparatus that put him in charge or not.
That is wild. I wonder why Greenland would be the tipping point?
Usually conservatives practically swoon at the notion of invading and occupying things, despite all their talk about "America first", it's usually really Israel first, Americans dead last, and when it's time to bomb/invade something, they are balls-deep on the cheer-leading.
As someone with experience with people who are in the MAGA reality bubble, this is because there is no in-canon explanation of Trump's actions (yet, the story writers patch these up pretty quick). There was no setup for this, no laying the misinformation groundwork and no existing goal that this advances.
Since Greenland wasn't part of the story, it just came out of nowhere. Lacking any in-MAGA explaination, they are examining this situation as a normal person who knows normal facts and this is completely an unforced error by any measure as anyone can see.
If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.
They would rather people talk about anything but the Epstein files and how they are very clearly covering them up and not complying with the law. They don't want reporters to have time to report on all of the people that he has pardoned who also have made $2-5 million dollar donations to various MAGA PACs, some of them committing even more crimes and getting another pardon...
They need to throw things into the air to distract people. Some of their planned events are polling negative (the Minnesota Invasion, Healthcare Subsidies) and they don't have anything else so instead we get more random tariffs and more random military threats because they are something that the Executive Branch can do unilaterally and suddenly to ensure that they grab the next news cycle.
This is the "Flood the Zone" tactic that Steve Bannon said that they were using during the first admin.
Congratulate your relative for their independent thought and ability to change their mind.
dude is so pissed about not getting a peace prize hes going to war with the planet... as if to demonstrate why he would never, ever be deserving of such a prize.
its hard to really wrap your brain around how stupid a human you would have to be to write that letter... and who is worse the clearly mentally deficient president, or the circle of sycophants enabling this bullshit?
I mean, it fits entirely however for anyone paying attention.
He hated New York high society because New York high society snubbed him and wouldn't let him in their club, because he's a classless ass.
He hated the US neoliberal democratic order because they snubbed him and wouldn't let him in their club, because he doesn't actually know what the fuck is he doing and doesn't care about democracy.
He vows to destroy any group or idea that would reject him. He views it as a personal affront and never feels like maybe he should be a better person.
No, his solution is to destroy everything in his path, which is why he is also tearing apart NATO because he was snubbed by other democratic world leaders. He is such a giant fucking pussy baby bitch who can't handle rejection at all.
He doesn't even care about ruling over the ashes, he just wants to see it all fall and neither understands nor cares to understand how any of it might impact him in the long run because he'll be dead before consequences come knocking.
The fact that a third of the country are exactly the same really exposes how deep the USA's problems with mental health go.
everyone is shocked I tell you SHOCKED! now what the fuck is going to be done about it? Is he just going to be allowed to steamroll and conquer neighboring countries forever while the news keeps saying "surely this is the last straw"? Why don't other countries cut off the Untied States financially until it behaves?
Because they can't. It well hurt they're GDP and citizens. No more phones no more laptops. The world is to reliant on the US and it's companies.
No more phones no more laptops.
The only thing it would truly affect is Apple; Samsung could offer de-googled phones in the blink of an eye.
Hell, we don't even make the cellphones or laptops here. China has its own stuff. If a single one of the hardware manufacturers dedicated a couple of months to an open source driver project, we could have Linux phones by EOY.
A lot of the technology inside a phone is still dependent on US patents and/or manufactured parts. It may seem like one country makes this or that, but that's not actually how it works. If you look online you'll see the lowest number is around 40 countries for an iPhone.
US patents and/or manufactured parts
US what now? We're not making any parts. We are, at best, assembling some things; Tealistically, we're just fucking boxing shit these days. And patents? Once you're in an actual trade war, who in the hell cares about a country's IP claims?
You can get a black market iphone in China, not once piece has to pass through the US, the tricky part is getting the apple store and apps if they decide to blacklist your serial number.
China has entered the convo
Really? This is what does it.
Not all his other deranged bullshit – this?
Fine, I’ll take it, but you’d better be fucking serious, US, or your own credibility is gone.
Do something about it! Now!
Not many people are in a hurry to get shot in the face.
Many protests are going on, but nothing that will affect them.
I worry that general strike won't work because with so much WFH, anyone that can't scab without being seen will
Trump has only killed one infant, and thrown it in a lake. He's only human, Norway, sheesh.
One that we know of
His legacy will be that of the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to America. No joke- This “man” will die being remembered as a cowardly little moron that threw temper tantrums when he didn’t get what he never deserved in the first place.
20 years ago, many of us thought George W. Bush's legacy would be that he was the most embarrassing president to ever happen to America...
Never forget that Trump is the most embarrassing president that we've ever had yet...
Remember that your 2nd amendment exists to make the people able to overthrow their government and not only to shoot gay people
“I don’t see how you can be a serious person and not find this extremely worrisome,” wrote Sen. Brian SchatSchatz (D-HI) in a social media post on X Monday. “He is not stable at all and his reality is warped. He was always a bit like this of course but now he’s [79].”
As the oldest sitting U.S. president in history, Trump has increasingly shown signs of aging, both physically and mentally, multiple outlets have reported. And, with his recent letter – the authenticity of which was questioned by critics due to its “jaw-dropping” content and “unhinged crazy talk” – speculation as to the president’s mental well-being only grew louder.
This is fucked up journalism inside the fucked up story that is super fucked up. Look at this - in the first quote they replace whatever word he used with [79]. Why? Presumably the original word was "old" and they wanted to reinforce the 79 as that has become shorthand for dementia, since the press has decided they can't say anything due to their billionaire owners telling them they can't say anything about it.
But what if it was "super fucked up"? That'd have been a way better quote.
And the constant referring to Xitter is awful, and the "shows signs of [decline] multiple outlets have reported" as if they're not allowed to say it, as if it's not as obvious as the nose on one's face. They won't take the burden of saying it, they'll refer you to other corporate propaganda rags that have meekly implied it for them.
SAD!