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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He has a lot of really dumb obsessions.

He thinks people seeking asylum came from mental institutions. He is obsessed with putting his name on shit he did nothing to make. He is obsessed with ballrooms. He is obsessed with windmills and thinks they are bad. He is obsessed with letting criminals like Tina Peters and the J6 terrorists go unpunished. He is obsessed with thinking he is the one that ended California's fires.

It just goes on and on. He's a gigantic manbaby who understands nothing about the real world.

But he had just enough brainstems to vote for him and still support him even now, because a certain kind of person thinks that this kind of thing is "charismatic".

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

He is obsessed with windmills and thinks they are bad.

Donald Trump
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How did we not see this before?
It all makes sense now.