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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

The “Oracle of America” has spoken.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Oh, damn. He's going against Trump's statements here, so Trump is certainly asking someone to google how he can fire the VP.

Could lead for some funny interactions soon

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Day one.

-Trump

PS fuck you fascists

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 19 hours ago

He obviously meant day one of his 2028 presidency

[–] zero@feddit.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tell us something we don’t know.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

the couch(es) jd vance fucked could have been velour. and now think of futurama!

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 days ago (3 children)

VP guyliner says that the US administration is now facing the question of how to help Russia and Ukraine "find some middle ground here"

It's that "middle ground" where Russia gets half of Ukraine's territory and the US gets all of their mineral rights?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Typical Trump move, mugging a rape victim.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

It’s that “middle ground” where Russia gets half of Ukraine’s territory and the US gets all of their mineral rights?

Molotov and Ribbentrop nod in approval.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

That quote could've ended seven words earlier and been just as accurate.

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm tempted to comment his statement with "yes, captain Obvious".

It could have only ended if they had: a) not obstructed Biden, b) fully backed the measures Biden took, c) continued with measures of their own of equal weight, and d) threatened to double down with more measures really soon.

Instead, they set up their "art of the deal" clown and pony show (where an angry clown fails to jump over a beaten down pony).

So far, Putin has taken it as confirmation and encouragement. If they grow up super fast (yea, sure they will...) this might still be possible to change.

But realistically, I think they won't grow up - this is more likely just a brief flash of partial sanity. At this stage, other people will have to do the job while the US provides a steady supply of tragic humor.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

This is not about growing up. They're Putin's stooges and when he says jump, they ask how high. Growing up won't change that.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I still don't get why the media is covering this guy and his questionable statements. I'm starting to think the media is somewhat complicit in shaping the new world order dystopia.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

He's the US VP.

I'd love if this was a joke.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago
[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

They hacked about until they stumbled upon the major vulnerabilities of open societies, rule of law, democracy, 24-hour newscycles and social media.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago

Yet we're going to just take half of their resources anyway? Sounds fair.

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Vance is a lying sack of festering donkey cocks.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Trump is simply proof of how stupid people are.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yeah,

Because Putin still has Trump bent over because he has incriminating shit on him, and he also lets Trump think he has a seat at the grown-up's table

Trump wants to be Putin. Putin will always have Trump in his pocket so long as Trump worships him, which he will always do.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, he doesn't need to blackmail HitlerPig, he just needs to pay him. HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for a million bucks. Imagine what he would do if Putin offered him a billion dollars? Putin could easily do that, and it would be the best billion dollars Russia ever spent.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

He can even just promise to pay him.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it's really weird that people think Trump is being blackmailed rather than he's just an autocrat who supports other dictators.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Why not both?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Trump wants to hurt people

He hates anyone who isn't white, and he's enthusiastic about "cleaning up the streets"

His racism is well documented and goes back a long way

Oh, and he wants to fuck his daughter

At least, the one whose name he has managed to remember...

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

He also has contempt for anyone who isn't rich.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone thinks that the kompromat Putin has is something like Trump getting fisted or a golden shower party.

I like to think it's Trump weeping about how his daddy never loved him, or something else that no one but a psychopath would be ashamed of.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah

Putin has a hold on him because Trump wants to be "manly" like him

Nothing more

He is a bully, and the only thing that inspires a bully is a bigger bully

It's lost on him that Putin holds him in the same contempt that he himself holds those who he has bullied into submission

Because he's fucking stupid.

He is probably the most stupid person in politics at a global scale, but he is useful to those who actually tug on the strings of power, and he appeals to enough stupid yanks (and there's no shortage of stupidity in 'Murica...) with his hate and bluster to be effective

I hope that he gets a taste of the harm he has done throughout his life

All of it.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's an old cartoon that sums up Trump in my mind. Man is being lead to the gallows. Dozens of cops are holding back the crowd that wants to tear him apart. "Oh, all right. I'll apologize."

No matter what happens to him, he'll never admit that he did anything wrong.

He can't

Because he's a malignant narcissist

In his mind, he has never done a single thing wrong

Anything that has gone awry is the fault of someone else

He's a toddler in the body of a sad, fat old rapist

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because Putin still has Trump bent over because he has incriminating shit on him, and he also lets Trump think he has a seat at the grown-up’s table

Stop. Giving. Trump. So. Much. Credit.

I'm not saying Putin doesn't have kompromat on Trump. Hell, he probably does! But it doesn't fucking matter because Trump is so inherently irredeemably evil all on his own that he'd be doing exactly the same shit anyway!

By suggesting that Trump was coerced you are whitewashing Trump's evil. Stop it!

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 days ago

Oh, he was demonstrably horrible long ago

The "Central Park Five" should have disqualified him, but Americans are stupid and hateful as a society, so there is probably no depth to which they will not sink

This should have ended it

But 'Murica has no lower depth. There is nothing too disgraceful, too awful, too hateful

There is no bottom. There is no low to which you will not sink, and then go deeper

[–] Akasazh 10 points 2 days ago

James Donald Bowman is a disgrace of a human being

And I will deadname him in every thread there is.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

What a visionary

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Vance also states, "It hasn't been 24 hours yet. I mean, the President is a busy guy. He only works on this a minute here, a minute there." /s

Edit: forgot the /s

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Yet spends hours a day vomiting his verbal diarrhea on his bullshit social netwrok day after day...

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

This war could have been ended a few years ago had Europe/US the balls, but unfortunately.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sometimes the only way to fuck a couch is to give half the couch away to somebody else to fuck, sometimes it is a long road to getting to fuck your couch.

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