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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 91 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you couldn't figure out what Trump is in 8 years, then you're either a fucking moron or just an evil asshole who is after personal benefits.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My mother still thinks he’s basically harmless. We have a no politics rule because his first term nearly made me cut her out of my life.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

That might be the right way to deal with someone who supports ending democracy.

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget hateful racists

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They're prob in the Evil bucket of trash

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 1 month ago

Sadly the world is full of morons. As the late, great George Carlin said:

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (20 children)

I don’t understand how military people support republicans. It’s their faults we lost so many children in the Middle East. As well as their fault for how little we are taking care of our soldiers who come home.

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What choice do they really have? If they believe their oath of allegiance to the Constitution.

Just saying

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Foreign AND domestic, you say?

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

These guys claim Trump is ill-informed, but how many classified documents do they have?

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure he hasn't read any of the ones he's had piled up in the bathroom.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You don't need to read them to sell them.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I've yet to see evidence trump can read at any comprehension level, so while he has many documents, only Kid Rock and a handful of foreign spies have been able to read them.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow, the RINO population has exploded. All that so called climate change is obviuosly good for plants/grass that they eat.

/s

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They are being a lot more polite than i would

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

All those Men and Women who Served and Defended our Country are WOKE! I'm Supporting the Man who Made up an Illness to NOT Serve and then Called our Veterans Losers and Suckers!

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you convince regular folk who’re just trying to get by and make sense of the world? They don’t even know what they stand to lose by voting in unsafe people like most Republicans

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It is not that he's ill informed, it is that he is willfully ignorant and utterly dishonest when the truth and facts don't benefit him. Which given how much he lies, is pretty much all the time. It must be so be some miracle he didn't try to bomb an ally (that we know of) and I can't think of one good thing he did while in office that he wasn't compelled to do so by laws, precedent and his few remaining competent staff preventing him from fucking it up.

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