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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 11 hours ago (1 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.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 hours ago

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.

Plenty of times. The point of making the absurd claim is because the correction to the error contributes nothing but a deflection from the initial claim.

Trump tweets are pure, unadulterated gish gallup.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

Chuck Schumer is Palestinian? Since When? 🤔

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 47 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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

Trump describing himself.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 19 points 12 hours ago

Every accusation is an admission

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 8 points 12 hours ago

Literally every time

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[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 45 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

😢

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Weird things can happen when you've spent four decades making people poorer and more desperate.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Democrats fall in love with a candidate, Republicans fall in line.

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

And the DNC removes the candidate democrats fell in love with.

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[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 hours ago

The future is now, old man.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 9 points 11 hours ago

Jesus Christ. Put this poor sad dog out of its misery already. Pasture, barn, in the house where it can't do any damage, whatever. Just take it away from all responsibility.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 62 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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 23 points 15 hours ago (1 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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

NYC has more population than like 38 individual states, what you say is true.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago

Not a mayor, a mayoral candidate who beat his fascist opponent for the opportunity to be represented in the election.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago

The one to rally watch is orange rumps puppet master. Thiel and his band of project 2025 cronies are the ones operating the strings.

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

AOC+3? Is this supposed to be code?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 14 hours ago

BRB, looking up wholesome AOC fiction on AO3

[–] doughless@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to "The Squad"

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Oh FFS. I’m sure there’s nothing they have in common that the orange shitbag could possibly be referring to.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 193 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (8 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 112 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 52 points 20 hours 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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[–] Asafum 147 points 20 hours ago (1 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 43 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 15 points 15 hours ago

I read here that Trump is calling someone mentally unfit.

Let's see that slander case. TACO.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 26 points 16 hours 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.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 39 points 18 hours 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.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours ago

Trump is a master of projection.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago

Death camps incoming.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 20 hours 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 62 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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 24 points 19 hours 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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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 23 points 18 hours ago

The tighter they squeeze, the more systems slip through their grasp.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 55 points 20 hours ago (16 children)

The leader of Americans everyone.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

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

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 34 points 19 hours 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...

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The really funny thing about this is that he probably would have been almost as mad if Cuomo won the primary, but it shows that he really doesn't have any faith in his party's candidate in the generals lmao.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I can hear the tears on his gross, unwiped phone screen.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours ago

these are the rantings of a shit kid on Xbox

get fucked maga, you're all pathetic morons

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