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[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trump is gone. His mental abilities were never better than failing, and now he is just an occasionally awake lumpy mass of cancerous id, lashing out or lavishing favors in response to basic stimulation and manipulation.

So who is governing our country?

  • Stephen Miller is handling the most - immigration, domestic extralegal and federal law enforcement, dismantling the Constitution, courts and rule of law, while splitting other domestic policy with the craven consolidated congressional caucuses (Patel is just there for the private jets);
  • RFK is handling all health policy;
  • Putin and Netanyahu are handling foreign affairs and setting policy for the DOD;
  • Mike Johnson is in charge of monitoring his son's online time;
  • Blanche is now going to be setting DOJ policy.
  • Elon Musk was handling public data, but it seems like he got what he came for, and is now sharing propaganda policies/duties with Larry Ellison.
  • Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison are handling corporate and tech policy.

Am I missing anyone?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dr Phil just got tasked to run pro-annexation propaganda for the US oil company invading Greenland.

Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will “capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters”.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess I think its more like him documenting what happens when Greenland and/or Denmark finally steps in when these guys actually do try and drill.

It will be US propoganda on why we have to invade and pull out of NATO.

I guess annexation propganda on the US population.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I can't wait to see Dr Phil get arrested on camera by the Danish army.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The article felt it really reinforces they know they aren't welcome, but are moving forward regardless.

They claim it was a misunderstanding, but now that Greenland is clarifying their position with the drilling team is still proceeding, I don't see how that is anything but being provocative.

It will be interesting to see how we fight after blowing all our missile reserves in Iran. 😒

I wonder how aware of the circumstances the actual drill crew members being sent there. Do they know they are being sent there as pawns or possibly expendable cannon fodder?

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It will be interesting to see how we fight

Yes, it will be "interesting" to watch you murder innocent people. Again. Shitstains.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

You got me. I'm the Fediverse's biggest warmonger. How was I able to fool everyone else but you all this time???

It's an interesting strategy to try and take someone out of context when my full statement is right above yours, I never would have thought of that.

And why am I responsible for every action of my government even if I didn't vote for any of these guys, but you seem to bear no responsibility for what your country's government does? If I did that, I might worry I'd come off as a huge hypocrite. But you seem to do it flawlessly! Kudos to you, and your moral high ground. You have truly bested me today.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Wow, thank you for making me realize the power I have over my country's armed forces! I feel so much better now, let's open the Strait of Hormuz and leave Greenland alone!

Oh wait, none of us really has fuck all we can do about it. It's Executive Action, and even if Congress wanted to do something about it, it would have to go through the entirety captured courts. But they don't, at least at the moment, and the American taxpayer is just a convenient scape goat for people living in other first world countries to blame for the profits of global trade.

If America hadn't taken hegemonic power after world war 2 it's difficult to say that Europe would be as rebuilt and prosperous as it is today. As probably wrong as it was to let happen, American industry post war was what allowed the Western world to rebuild, and what unfortunately cemented that position of hegemony.

Europe is finally waking up to the problem they were lead into by easy postwar relief and relying on America to police the "radical" portions of the world into congruency with capitalism.

Now, European citizens that get the benefit of nations rebuilt by capitalism, but spared it's ravages by a much deeper history of worker solidarity, union action, and left politics, enjoy shitting on the American working class because half of them were sold on cheap, easily digestible propaganda.

I can't even remember what point it was I began trying to make, just that I guess it sucks to see the prosperity the first world saw because of American hegemony thrown back in the face of those who benefited from it less than they did, and are currently dealing with a serious constitutional crisis, instead of having some solidarity for people that are essentially the same as them. The average American isn't a representation of our political landscape, a lot of people are just eeking out a living on the margins.

Amphetamine rant over, sorry.

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 6 points 1 week ago

Well there is Marco and the Kushners…but yah pretty concise list of shitgibbons.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Just threw up in my mouth a little

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who gives him jelly beans?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It will be somewhat satisfying to say “I told you so” if Drump is able to escape accountability for his corruption by being legally incompetent to stand trial.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

a quick hit on yesterday’s Oval Bordello dog-and-pony show, in which Preznit Fuckwit surrounded himself with Stephen Miller, RFK Jr., and a handful emotional support randos, so they could watch him sign another unconstitutional executive order — this one to reduce number of recommended childhood vaccines.

the utter lunacy of these three abject morons meddling in shit they don’t understand just boggles the mind. who do these dimwits think they are?

how nice for Bobby Brainworms, to finally be achieving his lifelong dream of healthcare policy based on superstitious mumbo-jumbo

why has that undead rat-bastard Nosferatu McGoebbels been given a role in setting childhood vaccination schedules? he doesn’t know dick about any of that.

creepy Stephen Miller claims that “nobody has studied” the scientifically accepted childhood vaccination schedule

what the fuck is he talking about? 

the only time Nosferatu’s mouth should be moving is when he’s eating bats.

oh, and if Donny’s going to shit himself raw in the Oval Bordello, could he at least not sleep through it?

thank god the diaper nurse was standing at the ready to clean up afterwards.

it’s all so stupid. Dear Leader has no constitutional authority to dictate vaccination schedules via executive order. none of this shit is legally binding. it’s all just more performative dumbfuckery that will surely get smacked down by the nearest judge.

what a useless waste of everyone’s time.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That seems less like something scary and more like something that should be bragged about. Like we're so good at keeping our children healthy we have this many vaccines available.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

…the combined effort of millions of scientists over centuries.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Took me a couple of seconds, noice.

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

You know who else nods off?
Heroin addicts.

Just saying.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

LOL, he's just listening, U GUYZZZZZ!!!! He is the most energetic PREZNINT EVAR and remember the Hunter Biden laptop and the Obama tan suit and Joe never left his basement for the 2020 campaign!!!111

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

“I saw this early on and I’ve seen proof of it, where they have a vaccination that looks like the size of a, a bottle of soda poured into a little child’s, uh, body. And bad things happen in many, too many cases,” Trump said.

So true, Mr. President. So true.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm sure he really has seen something that he likes to tell himself is around the size of a small bottle of soda inserted into little children's bodies, and that bad things happened in all of those cases.

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What would it take for Americans to WAKE THE FUCK UP??

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It has to happen all at once because nobody wants to be the first to just stop working and devote themselves to taking back the country. If nobody joins, they’ve basically just killed themselves.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And do what exactly?

What should we be doing that the rest of y’all are doing when your far right assholes do shit?

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Stop working, shut the country down. Ffs, he even said he would declare national emergency in November. FIne, then, do nothing and watch your country burn down

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

His new wig is making him tired.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thinking about . . . riboflavin.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hopefully it will be one of those forever naps soon.

[–] MrSelfDestruct25@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 week ago

He'll probably just say he was praying.