• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    We are in a fucking idiocracy. This is exactly the type of stuff that was in that movie.

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    Here’s a question I have about this from another country? Was this a privately funded birthday party, or did they use taxpayer funds for this?

    If it’s just what he wanted for his birthday and paid for it himself, then it seems less of a problem. However, if taxpayer dollars were used for this instead of school lunches or Medicare, that is such an egregious use of funds that you’d think there would be rioting.

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      Who the fuck pays the salary of all the people cooking, cleaning, security, emergency services, and the fucking list goes on.

      FFS

      Think.

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        That is literally what I’m asking - whether he hired a catering company and a security firm/if UFC is paying for this for the publicity, or whether it is all done by White House staff (which I presume from your tone that they are publicly funded, I don’t fucking know). It’s not to my taste, but it makes a big difference who had to foot the bill for it.

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    In Rome, and other empires, when an Emperor was this egregiously bad, they would not only forcibly depose him, but also tear down all of his statues, works, scratch out his name from documents and dedications, and consign his memory to the garbage bin of history.

    For all of their faults, they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.

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      they appeared to have far more courage than our current populations.

      This.

      We’re going to go down in history as pathetic. That’ll be our legacy through time.

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      I’m never one to condone the death of people very much, but I wish nothing more than for Trump to die on camera like when Charlie Kirk got shot. I want the world to be able to watch, rewind, and watch again. I don’t need him to die slowly in hospital, I want there to be absolutely zero chance the right could pretend 8.5 billion people didn’t watch him bleed out on a sidewalk.

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        I’m hoping for a massive stroke where he leaves a giant pile of diarrhea shit where he collapses, and then he doesn’t die but ends up drooling in a hospital bed with an IV for a year or two.

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    The picture of the white house in front of the white house somehow gives me a powerful message: everything in this place is fake, nothing is well thought out.

    Like he wanted to have his redneck show in front of the house and then someone told him “uh sir we can’t actually see the white house from there, there’s all your UFC stuff in front of it”. “Oh. Meh, put a picture”.

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    When’s he going to have the whole building painted gold? I mean, The Gold House would be much classier than The White House.

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    Some countries have universal healthcare paid by their tax dollars instead of roller rink cheeto’s circus.

    Some countries have no homeless because their tax dollars help the citizenry instead of lining the orange criminal’s pockets.

    Some countries feed their children so that no child goes hungry in the midst of plenty.

    Some countries don’t have a fucking fascist shitbag lying and stealing and grabbing anything not nailed down.

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      To be fair, even before the orange shitbag, America didn’t address those things and instead funneled money into a few different shitbag’s & criminal’s pockets.

      If anything orange shitbag is a good rep for what the U.S. be like for decades if not centuries.

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        Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America. But even if he’s just a symptom he’s like massive rectal bleeding or gangrene is a symptom of something more serious rather than a runny nose.

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          His second term is entirely the result of the democrats arrogantly ignoring the rot while trying to go back to normal. And they’re going to it again in 2028.

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            Ah yes. Everything trump is doing is the Dems fault, not Trump’s fault.

            Always trying to pass the blame.

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              I was agreeing with you. “Orange shitbag is a symptom of systemic ineptitude of America.” You are correct. That ineptitude that includes democrats and the failure to prosecute him for his crimes when Biden was in office.

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    The guys who created Idiocracy should create a documentary style “prequel” showing how Trump leads us down the path to Idiocracy.

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      No, there’s a scaffold in front of the WH to support the asinine UFC fights tonight (and the stands for those). It’s a temporary structure, theoretically (though of course, Dear Leader has floated the idea “as a joke” of just keeping it in place permanently “for other events”.)

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    My non-american mind failed to understand why a picture of seemingly the white house is infront of the white house?

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      The view from there is currently blocked by the UFC ring they’ve been building for a couple weeks now