How can something implode that doesn't exist?
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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Peace Plan?
Does he even have a concept of a plan yet?
Peace plan…
That’s how dumb you sound….
Exploded where? His diaper?
Art of the deal right there folks…
Good. Keep that blood pressure up. In anger, he should wolf down four or five McDonald's cheeseburgers...
The president of the United States is going on an expletive laden tirade (again). Surely we have reached the point where you can publish the word Fuck in a headline. The broad news media coyness about "bad words" is so fucking asinine. He said the words, publish the words. The guy rapes kids, but heaven forbid those kids accidentally read a curse word, that'd scar them.
Feel like the US media would say "he allegedly had unwanted intercourse with underage parnters" or some shit like that. Something real pedo-coded.
It's all elites protecting the pact that they have. Case in point, even the owner of TheDailyBeast is:
Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman of IAC and Expedia Group, and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company with Rupert Murdoch and USA Broadcasting. Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994
Sure they're ultimately just people, but their class interests and protections will always get ahead of that. Even within those more "left" than the average rich person.
So that explains why TheDailyBeast is always so clickbaity and editorialized. I've always hated and ignored their reporting, even though it's mostly on my side of the political spectrum...
STUPID Libtard thinking 8 year old WOMEN are Underage!
-People with Kill Pedophile Stickers!
Actually a lot of 8-year olds are very mature and are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves if they want sexual relations with mature men in perfect health. A loving relationship between two concending humans does not equate sexual assault, you monster!
- probably some Trump supporter.
Not me. Writing the above made me wash my hands twice, my eyes once and puncture my eardrum so I could flush my brain with alcohol.
What a total incompetent fuck up.
Uncontrolled outbursts of profanity and rage are a textbook sign of dementia.
Also of being a massive arsehole.
Well fuck I think I’ve had dementia since this prick decided to descend that goddamn escalator
Imagine seeing that fat, Hapsburgian reality tv show failed fuck descend an escalator in a mall with his mail order Epstein bride and 70million + people go “I’ll vote for him”. US is clowncountry.
All the sources for anything in the oval are people trump pays
Especially when it's about phone calls a handful of people were in the room for, if it leaks it's intentional.
Which could mean they're testing the waters of cutting ties, or just to distance himself in the public eye but nothing changes.
This is how politics has worked for centuries.
That's not true at all ...
What the actual fuck about today do you think is normal for the entire existence of America?
The use of leaks to the press to gauge reaction to a hypothetical policy or announcement? The subject of this comment chain?
Yes...
None of those are happening normally.
If a bus slams into the bus stop at 90mph, you don't just step onto it. Even if it arrived at the right time.
No idea what that’s supposed to be an analogy of.
Are you actually claiming that Trump is the first to practice kite-flying? Because that’s a bold claim.
They're right though. "Floating a trial balloon" and "Testing the waters" wouldn't be idioms if they weren't a common behaviour.
I miss when a tan suit and Dijon mustard was scandalous.
Remember Arugula-gate? I can guarantee Pepperage Farms remembers.
Paywalled, anyone got a free link for the broke homies? 🙏
No. But I self host readeck and it seems to handle these things well. If you read a lot it’s worth the five minutes.
Time to change the diaper, I guess
Doubt