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[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Branded insane by... anyone who hadn't already? No? Same shit different day, then.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 14 points 1 month ago

ProfessorScience SLAMS media coverage!

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah.

Someone called him insane.

Was it a judge? Was it a ruling? No?

WE ALL KNOW HE'S INSANE, WHEN IS HE GOING TO FACE ACTUAL CONSEQUENCES?

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 4 weeks ago

When the ill-served grow tired of despair

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we had the internet in ~1936, Hitler would've been posting similar shit about Germany needing to expand over all of Europe for "safety/security" of the nation...

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And people would write it off as just joking

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Granted, he does look like Charlie Chaplin

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Oh look how familiar

[–] modestmeme@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

He -his handlers- are trolling. And we’re distracted by it.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Hmmm...

I wonder what literally every one of those countries would do at the same time if Trump attacked any of them.

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So are those 17 extra stars beyond Canada the other 17 countries he hasn't announced invasions on yet?

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything north of Nicaragua, it's literally an uncountable number of stars bro, plus Greenland alone is worth like 4 stars. Also Canada, another 2 stars there at least.

Ok less sarcastically, what's up with the vertical stripes for DR and Haiti?

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's clearly AI slop, like most of what comes out of the white house these days.

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

It has been a time, not that long ago, when becoming american was wished by many. At that time, being resident of a territory absorbed by the USA would have been regarded as a chance by a large part of those living it, and jealoused by many near by territories.

The negative reactions to Trump's dreams of expension are the clear mark of the failure of his politics.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That dumbass mother fucker was "insane" from the day he had his first thought, anyone one who didn't realize it until now is willfully ignorant.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or complicit.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He just wants some room to live guys, jeez. Calm down.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Tiny Dee is the real deal when it comes to derangement.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I declared him an unfit lunatic over ten years ago. For some reason, nobody asked me. I also wanted them to melt down all the pennies and build a wall of zinc.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Branded insane, but GOP still back him and will refuse to remove him.

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

The boy is clueless.