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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 60 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I read AOC +3 as like a d&d style stat modifier.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago

She's approaching peak power, send more vibes and she might upgrade to artifact

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How did america elect this guy twice? So pathetic.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

40 years of crippled public education and propaganda talk radio

It isn't pathetic, it is an engineered strategy that has been ongoing since before any of us were born and it's working because almost no one bothers to do anything but meme about it

[–] tamman2000@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I have my doubts that we did it twice. 2024 looks fishy. I'm glad it's finally starting to get talked about

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Calling that disgusting snake Chuck Schumer the Palestinian senator is pretty hilarious, given where he stands on the genocide.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 days ago

Weird too because Shumer did not endorse Mamdani. Only a "congratulations". But in Trump land anything goes

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 225 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.

As a Canadian I know almost nothing about Zohran Mamdani, but I do know that he has more class than a man ever will who, while President of the USA, writes this, or the people who see a non-white left-winger win a democratic vote and immediately call for his deportation. The world can see this. Trump and MAGA are bringing shame on your country.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 128 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We know. We’re miserable. (Us sane people, anyway).

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 65 points 5 days ago (3 children)

+1

every day is more embarrassing than the last. i have felt shame in the past for the things our ancestors did, but there's something different about living in the midst of it. i fucking hate this place. any time i hear "well leave if you don't like it" i'm like "I FUCKING WOULD IF I COULD"

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[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago

Whatever the outcome of this presidential reign of stupid. The American system needs to fundamentally change from the ground up.

Trump is about half way to making America sink lower then North Korea on the world stage.

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[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Looks terrible, grating voice, not very smart... Hmm, who does that remind me of?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

especially with zohran being specifically noted as pretty attractive, smart enough to not trip over himself when speaking, and at least to my ear he sounds like he could be a radio host.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 174 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"All the (centrist fucks) are extreme leftist Marxists!"

"OMG a (milquetoast moderate) won, the Marxists are taking over!"

"Holy shit a (moderately left leaning person) won an election! It's over for America the Communists won!"

"The crazy Marxist Democrat extreme leftists have gone too far with this (standard progressive)"

...etc etc...

now we have an "actual" socialist, but the boy cried wolf so many times they can't label him anything more extreme because they already threw those words at people like... (Checks notes)... Nancy Pelosi... Lol

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 53 points 5 days ago (3 children)

RealCommunistThreatv5(final)(finalfinal)(therealone)-1-1.3.docx

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 95 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It's a Mayor these guys are freaking out over.

The president is freaking out over a Mayor.

That's true fear. They know we intend to use the law to put the real criminals in prison.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, NYC is a huge city and so its mayor is a major figure in the US. The most recent population I could find was 8.8 million people, vs. the total US at 340 million. NYC is, therefore, home to 2.6% of the US population. As a polity, NYC represents more people than the 9 least populous states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, N Dakota, S Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and Maine) combined. In fact, there are only 12 US states that have a bigger population than NYC alone, and one of those is New York state. From a population perspective, the mayor of NYC is equivalent to the governor of Virginia. That's why everyone is freaking out about this so much. Plus he's young and very handily beat the candidate backed by the DNC establishment, showing cracks in what they assumed was a solid neoliberal core.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 72 points 4 days ago (4 children)

He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart...

Trump describing himself.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 days ago

Every accusation is an admission

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

I feel like getting trump to write an angry tweet about you is as good an endorsement as Weird Al wanting to parody your song.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 21 points 4 days ago

Trump says somebody else is not smart

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He's prepping up the fascist transition for the midterms, and it couldn't be any more obvious. If it isn't outright theft it's going to be voter suppression and voter manipulation on an entirely different scale. It's so ridiculous to think the US is a democracy anymore, at this point the whole country is a confidence game and a scam that's just mobilizing the capital of the people who they already have scammed against new targets.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They already stole the last one. They are absolutely stealing the next ones til they get caught. Ivankas voting machine patent in China was no coincidence imo

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[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 67 points 4 days ago (16 children)

Remember when people didn't get elected because they weren't "presidential" enough?

😢

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I like how they've gone full mask off and given up on the anti-semite attacks and are just calling anyone not calling for Gaza to be ethnically cleansed a Palestinian like it's an insult. Not even hiding the Islamophobia any more.

It's also double funny that he's calling fucking Schumer a Palestinian, it's like calling Biden a communist, which he also probably said. It just goes to show no matter how much the dems try to moderate to accommodate the conservatives they'll always be the enemy.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 days ago

Make the man afraid some more.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 5 days ago (11 children)

The irony of saying someone’s not that intelligent when it appears you don’t even know how to use punctuation.

I’m pretty terrible with punctuation but I’m not throwing stones from my glass house.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 71 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Trump and the Republicans are now calling him a communist and the GOP are asking Trump to revoke his citizenship and deport him under the Communist Control Act signed by Eisenhower in 1954. I think it's even money that Trump tries it.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

I think it's even money that Trump tries it.

Considering he is already illegally deporting people and illegally trying to revoke birthright citizenship, you are more optimistic than I.

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[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

I'll often judge someone's character by who hates them. Zohran seems like a good guy

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I don't think I've ever read anything so unhinged from a politician before.

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[–] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, if I lived in NY, this post on it's own would make me vote for him.

Of course, I'd have to live in the US too, which I don't, thank some deity.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

More shrieking dictator every day.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 58 points 5 days ago (16 children)

The leader of Americans everyone.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (4 children)

He may be in charge, but he's not a leader.

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[–] Neuromorph@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

has trump said anything about RKJ's voice being weird?

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I wish he was a communist. I hope I get to vote for a communist in my lifetime.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks terrible, his voice is grating, he's not very smart. Who do those words make me think of? DJT and RFKjr win in a landslide.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 10 points 4 days ago

I mean... good? Why would we want a politician that's acceptable to him?

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

It’s like there was a creative writing exercise with a prompt to pack as much bullshit as possible into 5 sentences.

It’s constantly horrifying that our president communicates like this in public. Completely unreal.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If it pisses off trump this much, then it's a good thing.

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 37 points 5 days ago

Trump declares Democrats have crossed the line because the outcome of an election didn't end like he wanted it to.

Now I look back at about 8 years of Republicans crossing line after line...

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (5 children)

AOC+3? Is this supposed to be code?

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

He looks terrible.

This is a racist pointing out someone's brown skin.

His voice is grating.

RFK JR

He's not very smart.

My dog is smarter than Donald Trump. Literally.

So anyway, the person saying this is a felon rapist traitor who has repeatedly violated the Constitution. But hey, it's a racist dog whistle and conservatives LOVE that shit.

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