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US politics is a fucking comedy. My colleague pulled up the picture of Trump standing with that goofy tariff board where trump is reading all the countries and how many percentages they would be tariffed. My colleague was absolutely cackling at the picture and kept saying "the supposedly richest country in the world and they announce this shit that will affect all of us on a piece of fucking cardboard????!!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
one of my bros was apparently listening to the same thing as white noise, dont you find his voice grating.
Trump is also applying tariffs to an island only inhabited by penguins and seals….
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8xlj0485o.amp
I hate the guy but damn is he funny. Everything he says is a meme. He's absolutely a prime example of what america is all about. Him sitting in a tesla and saying: it's a computers. And : I love Tessler is just too funny. And they voted for him twice. I just can't
he knows his voters are stupider than he is.
For real. To me, Trump is the embodiment of the American stereotype. I know Americans think that the rest of the world stereotype them as being fat, but no no no no, sweethearts. The behavior Trump exhibits is the American stereotype on crack. I am pretty xenophobic toward America (sorry, not sorry) and have been since Bush, but even I could not have come up with a more cartoony and offensive American stereotype than the Trump persona.
Same, but Bush was a fucking rocket scientist in comparison. If someone told me that in the Bush area that thy'll find someone way WAY dumber to elect. TWICE.
I would've never believed that. No way.
Oh same. I stayed up all night during the 2016 election and when Trump won I was laughing hysterically because I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing.
My sweet, lovely and amazing boyfriend told me during this election that Harris would win because the Americans wouldn't put up with the abortion stuff and I just told him that I thought he was overestimating the American population. He's always thought my American hatred was too unnuanced and unfair, but I mean... I have been right so far. Which isn't really the win I was hoping for. I was actually hoping to be proven wrong at least once in my fucking lifetime, but eh.
The good parts of this country are weighed down by the catastrophically shit parts.
I said the first time he was elected that, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is an accurate caricature of America.
Do you have links for that please? I want to laugh
https://youtu.be/1eA3XCvrK90?t=0m15s
On Reddit someone posted a parody of the whole affair. I believe it was originally posted on r/wallstreetbets, but it has since been deleted.