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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lol why are our attention spans so shitty.

Raped. Children. HE RAPED CHILDREN

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Those were different children. I assume. Actually, you know what, I wouldn't put it past him to rape a child, deport them, and then bomb them. He bombed a school on day one of the Iran "excursion" and maybe that was on purpose to target some Epstein witnesses.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Trump has a point. The pool was vandalized. By Trump and his cronies. And they stole $14 million in the process. And also left the pool full of blue trash which will likely cost millions to remove.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“SOMEONE HAS SHIT MY PANTS!”

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Must have been Obama, he's Trump's Moriarty.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago

The true stable genius.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Vandals? What vandals?

My understanding is he hired a company that didn't have the required expertise, they painted the pool then dumped in a chemical that stripped the paint, and now the resulting thing looks like crap because that's what happens when you dump paint stripping chemicals into a painted pool.

Besides how can anyone vandalize it? There's police and national guard and whatnot everywhere in that area.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but you live in reality. In the land of Fox News, God-Emperor Trump had the pool redone perfectly by a loyal servant, and then the evil Antifa LGBTQ saboteurs snuck in disguised as normal tourists and ruined everything!

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Your country is being run by a man who behaves like I behaved in fourth grade when I didn't want to admit I hadn't done my homework and just compounded lie upon lie upon lie hoping to outlast the teachers somehow.

For the record, I was a total shit-head in fourth grade. I was ducking and weaving, adding more lies to the narrative (even going as far as blaming my sister for stealing it, and STILL not backing down when they brought her in to call my bluff). Somehow, my idiot brain just thought that if I kept spinning out more and more convoluted webs of bullshit, it would eventually hit the magical "they believe me" mark.

Here's the thing though...I was in FOURTH GRADE and I GREW OUT OF IT! What the fuck is Trump's excuse?

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You probably had someone explain why you were being a silly 4th grader. Trump has not.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

silly 4th grader

Silly would have been the nice way to put it. I fully admit that I was a absolute ass-hole child.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trump has the whole world telling him what an absolute dumbass he is. There is no excuse.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The whole world may be yelling it, but those close to him are doing their very best to keep that from him. Standard tinpot dictator stuff.

[–] droniecarp@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fucking place is monitored 24/7 there are cameras everywhere. No one is buying this vandal story, NO ONE. Agent Orange will just have to get more bottle of ketchup to sling.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would bet my next paycheck that if you turned on Fox News, they would be pushing this shit, and most of their viewers will believe it 100%.

[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

With my mother as a source, they are, and, they are...

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

right.

So... Obama shit in Trump's pants?

I'm so very tired of this total fucking nonsense.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ridiculous.

We all know Biden shat Donald’s pants.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

No. Barack HUSSEIN Obama shit in Trump’s pants…

…it was Obama’s most alpha move to date…

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a lot to work with here.

Who to throw in jail...

  • himself?
  • the contractor?
  • microorganisms?
  • the sun?
  • where are the Epstein files?
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trump wants to throw algae pool ‘vandals’ in jail. He's ~~desperate~~ stupid.

ftft

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trump wants to throw algae pool ‘vandals’ in jail. He’s ~~desperate~~ ~~stupid~~ insane.

ftfyb

[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Trump wants to throw algae pool ‘vandals’ in jail. He’s desperate, stupid, and insane.

ftfy

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah... that's what I was waiting for...

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no, pedophile rapist for sure but not stupid, dude can literally. do anything he wants, he cucked the entire country. Stupid is enough voters to elect him, again.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I mean - his base is easily as dumb, but what do you need? He could brag about how he aced the third cognitive test again, and how Biden and Obama never even took it. How water disables magnets? How windmills cause cancer?

Or his Wharton professor who is quoted often as saying he was the stupidest student he’d ever seen by a wide margin . . The list is very very long of reasons why he’s stupid. That he’s convinced corrupt legislators and 49% of voters who voted to go along with it isn't really a counter argument.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 4 points 3 days ago

It's his whole personality.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What, is he just gonna throw couple rando's in jail?

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

It’s more likely they’ll just be arrested but the DOJ won’t even be able to secure an indictment

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Yes, that's how despotism works. This is our reality now.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The prime pool vandals are he himself, and his pool guy.

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are no vandals. He knows that. It's just the distraction from the problem that became its own problem. One in a string of distractions that became problems.

[–] bedifferent@mastodon.social 1 points 3 days ago

@EtAl @sanitation This mode is now so automatic most of us expect the lie. I wondered where our allies (O U R allies) were and last night ... they said they're staying away due to the military which makes sense.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

"Are the vandals in the room with us now, Donald?"

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Wait-Trump is going to jail?! Lol jk, but only kind of. Nobody vandalized it besides the incompetent workers he hired. Not that they're dumb, just that they didn't have the proper know-how, and I'm sure some of that $$ was funneled back to him.

[–] webp@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Throw the algae in jail.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Sling shots and AlkaSeltzer. GO FORTH! MAKE US PROUD

[–] outerspace@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

He is not desperate, this is just the beginning