Honestly he's not even doing THAT particularly well. This looks like it could be achieved in about half an hour with a trip to a craft store and a truly batshit amount of gold spray paint.
And the election was not even rigged. You did this to yourselves in plain sight. It is super duper pathetic. From the boldest, most inspiring nation in the world to an insane, self-mutilating idiocracy in like a couple of decades. What the fuck!
Let's be clear, all US elections are rigged in many different ways. This is why the Texas gerrymandering is an issue as well as North Carolina in the past, and I'm glossing over a lot of cases and other methods that are used because it isn't worth my time mentioning more than those two.
How does any of this matter when Trump won the popular vote? You can't get around the fact that more than 50% of voters voted for Trump.
I totally agree that your political system is fucked, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that Trump won because he cheated the system or the election was rigged. Trump won because he convinced people to vote on him, and that's the real problem.
That does not affect the Presidential election. Nice try.
The election was stolen by the Americans that could not even bother to show up and vote. People keep telling me that it is not the fault of people that did not vote for Trump.
I think in Pennsylvania, there were boxes and boxes of ballots abandoned in the woods. In Arizona, a USPS collection box was set on fire in a democratic majority area. There are more direct ways to steal an election than hacking systems. "Here you go grandma, just sign here"
Irregularities != illegitimacy. Independent polling support that Trump had around half of the popular vote. One percent either direction may have changed the outcome but it doesn't change the legitimacy of the office, either way it was a very close race that either Harris or Trump could have legitimately won.
Therefore it is an absolute braindead take to say that Americans didn't choose this. They did. That's not incompatible with the theory that Trump cheated. But the American people doesn't get to eschew their responsibility in this. Fuck this "no-one admits they voted for Hitler" bullshit.
Voter roll purges, where and how many polling places, misinformation mailers and calls, super PACs, electoral college, etc. This election, and most every other election, was totally rigged. They suppress voting in huge ways. They hold it on a Tuesday and it's not a national holiday. Even if your job doesn't outright stop you from going, a lot of people can't afford to take that time and go vote. All of this is well documented and carefully orchestrated. Yes, people voted for Trump, but if shit wasn't rigged he would never even have been on the ballot. Yes, Americans are to blame for this outcome, but it's not just the voters. This outcome is decades in the making. They just haven't been nearly so effective in elections past.
Oh bullshit. It's one of the most used and most effective voter suppression tactics. Do you know how many people don't vote because "Texas is red, so it doesn't matter"?
It affects statewide races. Anyone telling you it doesn't is either ignorant or a complete piece of shit trying to convince you of something.
No it was rigged. That's why they cried so hard when trump lost the first time. They all cried voter fraud because they were doing it themselves, after all, how could a cheater lose unless the other side is also cheating? They just learned how to do it better this time. Dump even talked about how muskrat knew all about voting machines. No one will ever convince me otherwise.
Not to mention that in 2020, every single republican blew up and made accusations that the election was tampered with and throughout the past 2 decades of history at least, literally every single time that they mass accused people of doing something, it was because they were projecting and they, themselves were doing it. They were obsessed with accusing the other side of voting machine tampering, if it was projecting, then they themselves were likely doing it or attempting it.
A conspiracy theory that I personally think wouldn't be crazy is that the voting machine tampering was already done in 2020 by the republicans on a very small scale as a proof of concept, and they made a massive multi-month campaign on it, tired everyone, judges and population alike on the baseless claims they made so that when they full-scale began vote tampering, nobody would believe anyone that wanted to investigate possible vote machine tampering. They might have weaponized the boy who cried wolf principle.
My thoughts exactly. At least in 2016 we had the small consolation of him losing the popular vote. Now we see exactly what this country is and it's just sad.
A concerted effort by parties interested in destabilizing the boldest and most inspiring nation in the world. Sure has been something to watch and be a part of. Future feels incredibly uncertain. Good luck, rest of world!
There's a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the "architecture of fascism" the "art of awe" etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Even to this day, we have Wehraboos. If I am a historian and with plenty of time to research and make takedown videos on Nazism, which unfortunately i don't have at the moment, I want to make videos on dispelling the myth of Nazi superiority and how they are given way too much credit.
Plenty of people do not realise that the Nazis are not different to third world dictatorships. Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn't want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany's excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany's coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland and, to his own surprise, the Allies declared war. Hitler was trying to plunder the wealth of Poland to stave off another economic collapse, like how the previous annexations of Sudetenland and Austria gave them financial cash injection to go a little further.
Fact of the matter is that Hitler and the Nazis were lucky to have inherited strong institutions, namely the Prussian military culture, to have lasted longer than expected. All things considered, the Nazis were merely poor gamblers whose bluffs were eventually called out and ran out of cards. The Nazis were just winging it (I mean, he did not expect the Allies to declare war on him, and he admitted that the planned invasion of France through the Ardennes forest turns his stomach), which is not too different to other tyrants and dictators like Nero, Idi Amin and Muammar Ghadaffi who make decisions on emotions.
People of various inclinations should just stop giving too much credit to the Nazis. I suspect that the current right, with their mountains of cash support from oligarchs, possess the machinery to perpetuate the propaganda to re-normalise fascism. Nonetheless, the Nazis are inherently weak and incompetent. People say that the Thousand Year Reich may well have happened if they won, but objectively they will run out of money in ten years even if they conquered the entire world, because they are that corrupt and incompetent.
Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn’t want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany’s excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany’s coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland
This is why I'm convinced he will truly invade Canada and possibly Greenland. His economy is already fucked, and Canada has too many resources to leave alone.
Yeah. I know that the "Eagle Displayed" heraldry has been on the American coat of arms since before it became associated with the Nazis, but it's still a little sinister how they seem to be leaning into it as a motif a lot more this year.
It's the ultimate in bulletproof dogwhistles, because literally nobody can judge you for waving an American eagle around, and yet somehow it seems disproportionately popular amongst Neo Nazis...
Spirit Halloween knows exactly what it is though. It's not posing or putting on a front. It may not be Sperrys with flat front olive chinos, but it's certainly not pretending to be anything but itself.
When you read the description "dictator from the middle east" and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.
Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.
The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it "designed by a dictator from the middle east" is about as bad of an insult as "designed by a king from europe". It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don't believe in Western exceptionalism.
The reason looking at Trump's ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they "look like a middle eastern dictator designed it" is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.
But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump's gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism
Saying Trump's design sense is "Like a middle eastern dictator" is very different from saying it's "like a European king". The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people's the Global South.
Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I'm begging you people!
A white man redecorated the Whitehouse and the person I responded to went "This Looks like a brown guy redecorated!" I don't think I'm the one who needs to go back to reddit
If you are intelligent you wouldn't need to talk about it because, people would know it from your thoughts and actions.
If you are a good leader you wouldn't need to talk about it because there would be more people following you than protesting you.
If you are good at making deals you wouldn't need to talk about it because you'd have a stack of deals to prove it.
If you are good at business you wouldn't need to talk about it because you would have a lot more successful companies than bankrupt companies in your history.
Etc etc etc.
This smacks of "look how well things are going !!
If things were going badly would we be able to afford all this gold?"
Beware the man who is eager to tell you how good they are at something.
Will that may be true in itself, but why does he fixate on gold in his decor? I'd argue it is about the projection of success. His hotels for instance, he wants them to be seen to be the best in the world so he puts gold everywhere in sight because in his simplistic view, money equals success and gold is the most visual representation of money without actually being money. Just my take on the why behind him liking shiny gold things. He's just importing it to the white house now.
This is kinda funny to share, but i had a customer a while back that told me he met Trump while doing work on one of his properties.
He was actually in the process of installing/gilding gold leaf on some of the entrance's facade when he claims he actually saw Trump with Marla Maples at like 1am or something. He said Trump stopped to criticize their work and warn him not to lose so much as a flake of that gold leaf. He apparently argued with him for a little while before he finally left him alone. I don't have any reason to disbelieve this guy, but i also realize I'm a guy on the internet passing along a story i heard. It just rings so true to his personality that i have no trouble believing it.
My guess is that since he said he hasn't changed as a person since 3rd grade that his mom or someone else decorated their house with shit from Home Interiors (like Tupperware parties for home decor).
Either that or he's copying some dictator he saw on TV 60 years ago.
I know people that like Trump in the UK and the thing I’ve realised is people don’t check anything, if orange man says something they believe it.
When I’ve been shitting on Trump my friend said yeah but he’s a good business man though and I’m like no he isn’t, he started life on easy mode and has messed that up several times. Hell man can’t even profit from a casino.
Sadly though it doesn’t matter if people are willing to believe a 5 second sound bite and it takes 5 minutes and some knowledge to debunk that claim then it’s futile as they’ll just put out more sound bites.
I find it ironic that in a world with a wealth of information at our finger tips people just don’t care enough to check. I’m not a smart man, but I was gifted with the power of curiosity and a willingness to look up stuff and find the truth. People are just ignorant on the whole and only care about surface level stuff.
You will never get a working class president if change doesn’t happen locally first. Young people don’t vote in local elections and young people don’t put themselves on the ballot of local elections. It’s why actual change at the top will never happen. You can’t expect the average Joe, who isn’t very politically engaged, to vote for a socialist president if they have never experienced what a socialist politician can do for them. That experience needs to happen at the local level. The US needs more Mamdani’s across the entire country and not just in New York.
The reason why Dump is president and co-opted the GOP is because the Tea Party started winning local elections first and pushing out Republican incumbent. They created the momentum so a moron like Drumpf could win a presidential primary.
And they didn’t just do it in political elections even non political elections like school board elections etc. were captured by the Tea Party.
They don't care about genocide or anything that's outside their navelstaring country.
Yesterday the libs complained about an anti-genocide post here bcs they used X.
The blue MAGA battle against red MAGA is way more important to them.
All they want is to go back to their bubble of 'democracy' where they keep the fascism for their foreign policy.
Europe is not of the size of South America, Africa or Asia. Neither in land mass nor in amount of people. Talking about euro "culture" is as specific as talking about seppo "culture", if not more so. I'm sure you'd have no problem talking about Indian culture, and they are even bigger than europe, with more diverse cultures.
Thanks for your whataboutism.
If by 'Europeans' you mean our sell out US vasal governments and EU leaders then sure, they aren't any better.
But that's not the people.
Unlike the supporters of the fascist-lite wing of their uniparty perfectly willing to ignore this inconvenient genocide as long as they win.
So besides those 2 huge factions that form the bulk of your population there's not much left is there?
So we aren't as scummy as you all out of pure self-interest.
You can mislabel that as a superiority complex if that helps you sleep.
Oh please, I am eur*pean and live in eur*pe. The people here are exactly like this. Our sell out US vassal goverments get cheered on loudly for throwing more and more public money into the US MIC to arm nazis in Ukraine, for cracking down on "antisemitism" (by silencing "antisemitic" jews e.g.). Thanks for being such a nice example of what I'm talking about.
We are owned by the US true, but it's not like there is resistance against it. And we will have to answer for our crimes when our time comes.
I dont know which part of Europe you're in but there isn't really any noticeable resistance to our support of the Occupation Regime Of West PAlestine here in germ*ny. Freedom protests get like a dozen people and thats it. Granted Genocidesmany is the most whipped dog right after TERF island but I've not heard any better news from any other so-called country. Some resistance in Greece to orowpean tourists, Lefty Italian football fans doing cool chants but thats pretty much it. The Freedom protests in Seppoland were way bigger with sit-ins at unis and everything.
When you have a micro penis, you need to compensate. That's why Trump needs so much gold. Why so many Americans need huge trucks. Why billionaires need a space company. It's all to compensate something they can never have.
Have you seen the costumes of the SS? The German tanks? The epic bunker, mountain mansion and cars of Hitler? Have you seen the palaces of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Putin, Sadam Hussain, Gaddafi, Kim Yong Un? They were/are fucking evil but they did/do have style.
It looks like Trump wants the same but ordered everything from Aliexpress.
It’a all a bit tacky, the nazi’s with their roman obsession. Everything is too big, too much. They need to prove something, that feels tacky and cheap. It’s all just a layer of veneer.
Well that confirms it. People with style are awful people. Which is what I will use to defend myself when I roll into a job interview looking like I slept in a dumpster.
I also didn't notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.
The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs... They don't just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).
Well that is another reason why he is a copy cat. Even Biden sat on the golden throne but haven't seen Trump's photo there. He wants his own golden plated furniture.
They could have been reupholstered, it looks like the ones in the bottom pic have a slight shiny pattern while the top ones don't. But it does look like saturation is off even looking at the paint on the fireplace
Fuck Trump as much as the next guy but each president does get to choose how to decorate. I have to agree though, it does look like absolute shit. Definitly a bad look for the United States.
I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like...
Yeah, I think it’s a combination of over-saturated color, combined with light reflecting off of all the gold. If you shine white light into a room full of gold, it’ll take on a golden tint as it bounces around. So when it hits non-gold surfaces, it will tint those surfaces yellow.
Is it saturation or just room lighting? This could also just have been a different camera with different settings. Not like Trump hires competent people.
Look at the wall papers and chairs. The lower picture has saturation upped to the limit. But true, maybe that was the original photographer and not whoever assembled this meme.
Some people think gold shows they are rich when in reality just shows a lot of bad taste. Btw poor people can have the same fireplace using.dolar store spray lol
The Pee Pee Tape purportedly shows Trump directing two underage prostitutes to pee on the bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had slept on when they visited Moscow during his presidency. This amused him greatly. What went on beyond that with the underage prostitutes is unknown, but we already know that's his type. Now we know the kinds of activities that he finds amusing.
"I PROMISE IM NOT A TASTELESS FASCIST, GUTTING SOCIAL SERVICES AND SELLING INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER AS A MEANS OF EXTRACTING VALUE FROM THE WORK OTHERS PUT INTO BUILDING THIS NATION, AND FUNNELING IT TO THE ULTRA-WEALTHY FOR MY OWN PERSONAL BENIFIT!"
This photo doesn't do it justice. I recently saw a wide, pan shot of the Oval Office when Tim Apple was slobbering on HitlerPig's fat ass, and he he has filled every empty space with those ugly gold doodads.
They should use them as kindling when he gets burned at the stake on the White House lawn.
Oh god, what are all those things on the mantel? They look like random wine glasses that were covered in some melted gold, some... scales(?) the same way, and then some random ceramic goblets with spray paint?
I don't even want to start thinking about what the busts.
Did they even make the chairs an ugly yellow? It's so ugly on top of everything else. Probably fake gold and someone is pocketing the difference. Trump wouldn't know the difference.
all that gold is disgusting in every way possible. that gold/money and the work that was put into putting it there could have help in child cancer research, or helping the poor and less fortunate around the USA and the world. Trump is not what America stands for and him defacing the white house like he is, is prof of that.
I cant wait in fifty years all the MAGA dipshits are dead from preventable diseases and advanced medicine that they can't use from defunded research grants, so that society can collectively tear down and completely destroy this entire family's fecal legacy they have shit into our society.
I hope we gather up the entire Trump genetic line and do exactly what the Russians did to the entire family of the Czars, so that the earth can never allow Trumps or Trump-adjacent lineage to ever return.
Some is nowhere near enough. ALL of MAGA own guns, like a ratio of 10-1. Every single Republican I have met owns a gun, less than half of all the Democrat voters I know think all guns are unimportant or should be banned.
Pandora's Box is opened when it comes to guns, just like nuclear weapons: you either join the nations that own them, or become Ukraine and are too late to have agency and have to hope unreliable neighbors will help you fight powerful bullies.
What a dumb as fuck hope to to cling to. Buy a gun yesterday. Stop voting to take your own rights away, because MAGA doesn't care if you banned all guns in California - they can have thousands of rounds of ammunition delivered to their front door overnight if they wanted, and in fact are strengthening their armories and resolved to end LGBTQ culture mandated by their fascist religion and leaders.
Taken as a whole, blacks, women and LGBT have been the largest gun purchasing demographic since Trump 1.0. Some of these suburban white boys didn't get the memo. "But you will DIE fighting!" I can't believe how often that is the response. Yeah, I fucking know, better than on my knees, taking a fucking train.
I will not advocate for just anyone to get armed. Anyone who wants to? There's a learning curve, and it's steep. You have to practice, LOTS. As you said, start yesterday. Fuck me, get a Hi-Point 9mm if you're broke. They're heavy and hell to dissemble, but they fucking work, every time. I want this one next!
I'm kind of a dumbass in that I have too many guns to be proficient with all of them. But the guns I own for self defense? Just a few, but I practice with at least one on every trip to camp.
EDIT: I should add a note. Every house on this block has a gun. Little old black lady across the street? Yep. Young lib guys? Yep. There was a thing couple of weeks ago where the cops might have been hassling a young black friend of mine. They weren't, and were actually very polite given the circumstances.
But fuck me, I saw men and women, no uniforms, rolling up and hopping out of civilian cars with guns. Nah, I'm watching. Had a pistol on my belt, standing in the street watching. And guess what? The old black guys across the street from him had weapons on hand, watching.
Can you imagine if these fascists knew they could kick down any door, free of personal danger?! It would be like if a government agency ran hog-wild over the rights of citizens in Los Angeles! The mind boggles.
This will never happen because you pacifist dipshits couldn't allow the radical-flank to build up and arm up to kill off all the white-power/xenophobic religious fascists; so they are now allowed unchecked to return in almost every western country across the globe by being unrestrained and not actively hunted and killed like insect vermin that they are.
Now they're here to strip away the rights and freedoms of trans people, women's reproductive rights, online freedoms, and soon coming for LGBT people or more
All because you idiots are afraid of guns, deterrence and aggressive rhetoric to properly counter their own rhetoric.
Watch this prediction! In a couple of years the GOP will start advocating for more and more restrictive gun rights. They'll roll slowly, but they'll frame it as keeping guns away from "radicals".
Open carry is already dead in the water in Florida, a mostly red state that could pass the bill in a second flat. Ask yourself why. I'll give you three guesses, but you already know the answer.
Bullshit. Those fascists will kill anyone opposed to them. There are tons of white LGBTQ people, too, and people with disabilities that would be murdered as well. And then there is the simple White anti-fascist folk who simply fucking hate the regime and need to regroup elsewhere.
I kind of understand where you're coming from, but you are delusional if you think Canadians and Europeans don't already have extreme right groups growing within their borders. We don't need to allow Americans in to have their propaganda spread through different countries. It does via cultural hegemony.
At one point my very Québecois friend was listening to Joe Rogan podcasts and parroting his anti woke crap. When I go see my family in the countryside, I often feel like I'm talking to deep south rednecks. They say they hate Trump but they hate the person, not the politics, because it's the same anti immigration and anti woke rhetoric.
And I'm not an expert about Europe as a whole but I know a bit about Germany and AFAIK, the AfD is making gains there. Is it because of americans and/or latinos going there?
All tinpot dictators prefer this kind of "style".
That Gadaffi Drip
More like gadawful drip
Touche
No no no. Don't touche that guy! Toucheing on Epsteins island is what got trump INTO this mess!
Honestly he's not even doing THAT particularly well. This looks like it could be achieved in about half an hour with a trip to a craft store and a truly batshit amount of gold spray paint.
That's probably how they did it.
This picture makes me fucking ashamed to be an american. What a backward-ass shithole country we've become.
And the election was not even rigged. You did this to yourselves in plain sight. It is super duper pathetic. From the boldest, most inspiring nation in the world to an insane, self-mutilating idiocracy in like a couple of decades. What the fuck!
Let's be clear, all US elections are rigged in many different ways. This is why the Texas gerrymandering is an issue as well as North Carolina in the past, and I'm glossing over a lot of cases and other methods that are used because it isn't worth my time mentioning more than those two.
Another fact: one electoral vote accounts for 195,000 people in Wyoming and over 700,000 people in Texas, Florida or California.
How does any of this matter when Trump won the popular vote? You can't get around the fact that more than 50% of voters voted for Trump.
I totally agree that your political system is fucked, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that Trump won because he cheated the system or the election was rigged. Trump won because he convinced people to vote on him, and that's the real problem.
That does not affect the Presidential election. Nice try.
The election was stolen by the Americans that could not even bother to show up and vote. People keep telling me that it is not the fault of people that did not vote for Trump.
Yes it is.
I think in Pennsylvania, there were boxes and boxes of ballots abandoned in the woods. In Arizona, a USPS collection box was set on fire in a democratic majority area. There are more direct ways to steal an election than hacking systems. "Here you go grandma, just sign here"
Irregularities != illegitimacy. Independent polling support that Trump had around half of the popular vote. One percent either direction may have changed the outcome but it doesn't change the legitimacy of the office, either way it was a very close race that either Harris or Trump could have legitimately won.
Therefore it is an absolute braindead take to say that Americans didn't choose this. They did. That's not incompatible with the theory that Trump cheated. But the American people doesn't get to eschew their responsibility in this. Fuck this "no-one admits they voted for Hitler" bullshit.
Voter roll purges, where and how many polling places, misinformation mailers and calls, super PACs, electoral college, etc. This election, and most every other election, was totally rigged. They suppress voting in huge ways. They hold it on a Tuesday and it's not a national holiday. Even if your job doesn't outright stop you from going, a lot of people can't afford to take that time and go vote. All of this is well documented and carefully orchestrated. Yes, people voted for Trump, but if shit wasn't rigged he would never even have been on the ballot. Yes, Americans are to blame for this outcome, but it's not just the voters. This outcome is decades in the making. They just haven't been nearly so effective in elections past.
Oh bullshit. It's one of the most used and most effective voter suppression tactics. Do you know how many people don't vote because "Texas is red, so it doesn't matter"?
It affects statewide races. Anyone telling you it doesn't is either ignorant or a complete piece of shit trying to convince you of something.
Stop trying to find someone to blame and fight to get him out of office now.
Actually, it's your fault for not volunteering all your time to Harris or donating all your money to her campaign.
No it was rigged. That's why they cried so hard when trump lost the first time. They all cried voter fraud because they were doing it themselves, after all, how could a cheater lose unless the other side is also cheating? They just learned how to do it better this time. Dump even talked about how muskrat knew all about voting machines. No one will ever convince me otherwise.
...it may have been... there's some evidence of tampering on the devices. Believing that helps me sleep at night.
What is inspiring about stealing land to build a racist, genocidal, capitalist empire ?
Well trump literally bragged that musk used his resources to tamper with voting machines.
Putin said that he hoped Trump would win and admitted to authorizing large "operations" (read: massive astroturfing campaigns at the least) the help trump win. Clear foreign government election tampering.
Not to mention that in 2020, every single republican blew up and made accusations that the election was tampered with and throughout the past 2 decades of history at least, literally every single time that they mass accused people of doing something, it was because they were projecting and they, themselves were doing it. They were obsessed with accusing the other side of voting machine tampering, if it was projecting, then they themselves were likely doing it or attempting it.
Additionally that there is a far-fetched (read, no presented evidence) report from an ex-cia whistleblower that it was tampered with
A conspiracy theory that I personally think wouldn't be crazy is that the voting machine tampering was already done in 2020 by the republicans on a very small scale as a proof of concept, and they made a massive multi-month campaign on it, tired everyone, judges and population alike on the baseless claims they made so that when they full-scale began vote tampering, nobody would believe anyone that wanted to investigate possible vote machine tampering. They might have weaponized the boy who cried wolf principle.
My thoughts exactly. At least in 2016 we had the small consolation of him losing the popular vote. Now we see exactly what this country is and it's just sad.
Do you? Who is in power and what is the plan?
A concerted effort by parties interested in destabilizing the boldest and most inspiring nation in the world. Sure has been something to watch and be a part of. Future feels incredibly uncertain. Good luck, rest of world!
Jesus Christ, and you're saying this about the Bush era. Americans really are the most propagandised people on Earth. Pure zealots
He got 49.9% of the popular vote.
You're only ashamed now?
Started with Dubya but now it's in full effect.
They're only ashamed when their team doesn't win. Every bad thing they did was totally valid because again, it was their team.
It's called "American values" where the only thing that matters is winning and crimes against humanity don't matter.
This is what makes you ashamed to be American? You need to work on your priorities.
There's a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the "architecture of fascism" the "art of awe" etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Example: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/propaganda-and-the-jesuit-baroque/hardcover
Even to this day, we have Wehraboos. If I am a historian and with plenty of time to research and make takedown videos on Nazism, which unfortunately i don't have at the moment, I want to make videos on dispelling the myth of Nazi superiority and how they are given way too much credit.
Plenty of people do not realise that the Nazis are not different to third world dictatorships. Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn't want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany's excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany's coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland and, to his own surprise, the Allies declared war. Hitler was trying to plunder the wealth of Poland to stave off another economic collapse, like how the previous annexations of Sudetenland and Austria gave them financial cash injection to go a little further.
Fact of the matter is that Hitler and the Nazis were lucky to have inherited strong institutions, namely the Prussian military culture, to have lasted longer than expected. All things considered, the Nazis were merely poor gamblers whose bluffs were eventually called out and ran out of cards. The Nazis were just winging it (I mean, he did not expect the Allies to declare war on him, and he admitted that the planned invasion of France through the Ardennes forest turns his stomach), which is not too different to other tyrants and dictators like Nero, Idi Amin and Muammar Ghadaffi who make decisions on emotions.
People of various inclinations should just stop giving too much credit to the Nazis. I suspect that the current right, with their mountains of cash support from oligarchs, possess the machinery to perpetuate the propaganda to re-normalise fascism. Nonetheless, the Nazis are inherently weak and incompetent. People say that the Thousand Year Reich may well have happened if they won, but objectively they will run out of money in ten years even if they conquered the entire world, because they are that corrupt and incompetent.
This is why I'm convinced he will truly invade Canada and possibly Greenland. His economy is already fucked, and Canada has too many resources to leave alone.
Yeah. I know that the "Eagle Displayed" heraldry has been on the American coat of arms since before it became associated with the Nazis, but it's still a little sinister how they seem to be leaning into it as a motif a lot more this year.
It's the ultimate in bulletproof dogwhistles, because literally nobody can judge you for waving an American eagle around, and yet somehow it seems disproportionately popular amongst Neo Nazis...
Catholic Church has entered the chat.
Tacky as hell. This administration has all the class and style of a Spirit Halloween store.
Spirit Halloween knows exactly what it is though. It's not posing or putting on a front. It may not be Sperrys with flat front olive chinos, but it's certainly not pretending to be anything but itself.
I could hear John Oliver while reading that.
How ya gonna do Spirit Halloween dirty like that
Hey, my Italian grandma liked this kinda shit! She... she also managed a Spirit Halloween store...
Americans have no taste
Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east
Hey, relax guy
Well you're half right.
Wouldn't even be surprised if someone from MBS's team is involved
Mohammed Ben Sulayem? President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) who is trying to be a corrupt dictator of Formula 1 racing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ben_Sulayem
(obligatory /s)
Maybe their new friend, Al Qaida Jolani the headchopper's influence?
Well they invariably are the US best friends.
Bad thing happens in the West
Liberals: "What are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!"
Tankies just can't stop simping for dictators with pathetic disingenous strawmen.
Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = "simping for dictators"
I'm increasingly convinced that liberals don't even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you're on.
When you read the description "dictator from the middle east" and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.
What exactly do you think their point was?
Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.
The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it "designed by a dictator from the middle east" is about as bad of an insult as "designed by a king from europe". It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don't believe in Western exceptionalism.
The reason looking at Trump's ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they "look like a middle eastern dictator designed it" is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.
But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump's gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism
Saying Trump's design sense is "Like a middle eastern dictator" is very different from saying it's "like a European king". The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people's the Global South.
Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I'm begging you people!
Go back to your reddit
A white man redecorated the Whitehouse and the person I responded to went "This Looks like a brown guy redecorated!" I don't think I'm the one who needs to go back to reddit
Yeah? Is that what they said?
Yes.
I think you're the racist one here.
Wanna explain that one, Sherlock?
Tacky...
Tacky Taco.
He's tacky and I hate him.
If you are intelligent you wouldn't need to talk about it because, people would know it from your thoughts and actions.
If you are a good leader you wouldn't need to talk about it because there would be more people following you than protesting you.
If you are good at making deals you wouldn't need to talk about it because you'd have a stack of deals to prove it.
If you are good at business you wouldn't need to talk about it because you would have a lot more successful companies than bankrupt companies in your history.
Etc etc etc.
This smacks of "look how well things are going !! If things were going badly would we be able to afford all this gold?"
Beware the man who is eager to tell you how good they are at something.
Donald Trump just has awful taste. He want to surround himself with shiny "gold" things and always has.
Will that may be true in itself, but why does he fixate on gold in his decor? I'd argue it is about the projection of success. His hotels for instance, he wants them to be seen to be the best in the world so he puts gold everywhere in sight because in his simplistic view, money equals success and gold is the most visual representation of money without actually being money. Just my take on the why behind him liking shiny gold things. He's just importing it to the white house now.
This is kinda funny to share, but i had a customer a while back that told me he met Trump while doing work on one of his properties.
He was actually in the process of installing/gilding gold leaf on some of the entrance's facade when he claims he actually saw Trump with Marla Maples at like 1am or something. He said Trump stopped to criticize their work and warn him not to lose so much as a flake of that gold leaf. He apparently argued with him for a little while before he finally left him alone. I don't have any reason to disbelieve this guy, but i also realize I'm a guy on the internet passing along a story i heard. It just rings so true to his personality that i have no trouble believing it.
My guess is that since he said he hasn't changed as a person since 3rd grade that his mom or someone else decorated their house with shit from Home Interiors (like Tupperware parties for home decor).
Either that or he's copying some dictator he saw on TV 60 years ago.
I know people that like Trump in the UK and the thing I’ve realised is people don’t check anything, if orange man says something they believe it.
When I’ve been shitting on Trump my friend said yeah but he’s a good business man though and I’m like no he isn’t, he started life on easy mode and has messed that up several times. Hell man can’t even profit from a casino.
Sadly though it doesn’t matter if people are willing to believe a 5 second sound bite and it takes 5 minutes and some knowledge to debunk that claim then it’s futile as they’ll just put out more sound bites.
I find it ironic that in a world with a wealth of information at our finger tips people just don’t care enough to check. I’m not a smart man, but I was gifted with the power of curiosity and a willingness to look up stuff and find the truth. People are just ignorant on the whole and only care about surface level stuff.
He got the apprentice because all the real businessmen were busy. No joke.
I was sure this was photoshopped and there was no way that was real...
It's real. This is just unbelievable.
Well, if you cure someone they can get sick again, this will be ugly for years!!
NYT did a whole article about it, here have a free one. 86 47! Epstein files!
Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.
If the chairs are the same, someone spun the saturation dial way up
They have no pattern to the fabric in the before, but they do in the after. They have been reupholstered.
Is it a pattern or is it JPEG artifacts due to the saturation being increased
Look at the shadowed areas. There's a pattern there.
Me too, I cannot believe it. How garish
If you ever get another Dem president, which is doubtful, it's going to take a minute to hose out the whore flair from the White House.
We need a working class president not some corrupt neoliberal democrat with no teeth
You will never get a working class president if change doesn’t happen locally first. Young people don’t vote in local elections and young people don’t put themselves on the ballot of local elections. It’s why actual change at the top will never happen. You can’t expect the average Joe, who isn’t very politically engaged, to vote for a socialist president if they have never experienced what a socialist politician can do for them. That experience needs to happen at the local level. The US needs more Mamdani’s across the entire country and not just in New York.
The reason why Dump is president and co-opted the GOP is because the Tea Party started winning local elections first and pushing out Republican incumbent. They created the momentum so a moron like Drumpf could win a presidential primary.
And they didn’t just do it in political elections even non political elections like school board elections etc. were captured by the Tea Party.
The left needs to copy the Tea Party playbook.
I agree with all your points but I would like to point out that the tea party was billionaire backed not grass roots
buddy you need more than 2 fucking parties to begin with
There are over 100 registered parties in the US. For all the good they do.
Electing a working class president won't fix this. The system needs to be abolished.
We need to learn to build our own, parallel system of people's bottom-up power.
The corporate dems fight those harder than any republican.
Good luck with that.
It'll take 4 years to get the stink out of the WH.
Just in time for donald Jr to start from where daddy left it.
Class vs cheep ass
"Daddy always said, you can't by class, but you can watch people try"
I guess you meant to say 'buy'
This seems to be a Daddy issue, clearly quoted verbatim 😏
Facts.
Typo and you meant cheap?
Oops!
No, that's fake news. He didn't make a typo, that's just alternative spelling.
I mean fuck trump but you dont have to hand it to the pair genocidaire
Pretty sure the commenter was talking about the interior design
I read it as comparing bidens way of decorating vs trumps way, calling Biden classy. Most of the comments seem to dunk on Trump.
I doubt Biden had anything to do with the decorations, the fireplace and decoration were probably like that before he took office.
It does look like something was stolen from the fireplace in the biden picture, which is explained by trump's loss
That's a fair reading
They don't care about genocide or anything that's outside their navelstaring country.
Yesterday the libs complained about an anti-genocide post here bcs they used X.
The blue MAGA battle against red MAGA is way more important to them.
All they want is to go back to their bubble of 'democracy' where they keep the fascism for their foreign policy.
Lets make sure to note that the europeans aren't any better. Plenty fedditors here with a superiority complex.
Europe isn't a country. You're going to have to be more specific.
navelstaring subcontinent then.
That's not being more specific.
There's 47 countries in Europe. Each with its own foreign policy.
Saying "the europeans aren't any better" makes no sense.
That's like saying "the South Americans aren't any better", "the Africans aren't any better" or "the Asians aren't any better".
Who are you talking about?
Wow, you really destroyed their point with semantics 🙄
Europe is not of the size of South America, Africa or Asia. Neither in land mass nor in amount of people. Talking about euro "culture" is as specific as talking about seppo "culture", if not more so. I'm sure you'd have no problem talking about Indian culture, and they are even bigger than europe, with more diverse cultures.
Thanks for your whataboutism.
If by 'Europeans' you mean our sell out US vasal governments and EU leaders then sure, they aren't any better.
But that's not the people.
Unlike the supporters of the fascist-lite wing of their uniparty perfectly willing to ignore this inconvenient genocide as long as they win.
So besides those 2 huge factions that form the bulk of your population there's not much left is there?
So we aren't as scummy as you all out of pure self-interest.
You can mislabel that as a superiority complex if that helps you sleep.
Oh please, I am eur*pean and live in eur*pe. The people here are exactly like this. Our sell out US vassal goverments get cheered on loudly for throwing more and more public money into the US MIC to arm nazis in Ukraine, for cracking down on "antisemitism" (by silencing "antisemitic" jews e.g.). Thanks for being such a nice example of what I'm talking about.
We are owned by the US true, but it's not like there is resistance against it. And we will have to answer for our crimes when our time comes.
I dont know which part of Europe you're in but there isn't really any noticeable resistance to our support of the Occupation Regime Of West PAlestine here in germ*ny. Freedom protests get like a dozen people and thats it. Granted Genocidesmany is the most whipped dog right after TERF island but I've not heard any better news from any other so-called country. Some resistance in Greece to orowpean tourists, Lefty Italian football fans doing cool chants but thats pretty much it. The Freedom protests in Seppoland were way bigger with sit-ins at unis and everything.
This really is the American liberal in a nut shell: "at least our monstrous war criminal had class!"
Did... You not see the same picture we did?
Of course I did, I just don't care. The problem with Trump isn't that he's garish, and Biden wasn't not a monster just because he was not garish
They why say anything? Don't support child rapists.
I said something because I'm sick of liberals acting like being crass is worse than being child raping war criminal
Lol
Ah yes, the look of every dictator's palace. Loads of gold. Only thing is, most dictators have a form of taste, Trump clearly does not.
Name one dictator that has taste…
Kim Jung Un.
I mean .....have you seen his latest haircut?
🤤
Plus his rockets are pointy.
Unlike Bezos, whose rockets just look like the big penis he never had.....
When you have a micro penis, you need to compensate. That's why Trump needs so much gold. Why so many Americans need huge trucks. Why billionaires need a space company. It's all to compensate something they can never have.
Tastes like chicken.
To be fair, they said “a form of” taste. Which I think is a significant distinction.
Cuz like, the Nazis definitely had a very strong aesthetic. Not exactly “tasteful”. But I can see calling it “a form of taste”.
Good point.
Have you seen the costumes of the SS? The German tanks? The epic bunker, mountain mansion and cars of Hitler? Have you seen the palaces of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Putin, Sadam Hussain, Gaddafi, Kim Yong Un? They were/are fucking evil but they did/do have style.
It looks like Trump wants the same but ordered everything from Aliexpress.
It’a all a bit tacky, the nazi’s with their roman obsession. Everything is too big, too much. They need to prove something, that feels tacky and cheap. It’s all just a layer of veneer.
Well that confirms it. People with style are awful people. Which is what I will use to defend myself when I roll into a job interview looking like I slept in a dumpster.
.......which I did.
Well, people without style can also be awful people. Trump is living proof of that.
As is Stephen Miller. And Steve Bannon. Probably other Stevens as Well
It's to hide all the piss stains.
The man has absolutely no taste. His only thought is “must appear rich”.
He's the walking example of "a poor mans idea of rich"
Insecurity screams; confidence whispers.
Maybe if he puts enough gold in the room the cameras will self correct so much he's not orange anymore
........thats actually not a terrible theory as to why he does this.
It's actually so hilarious it must be true and you should tell everyone
he has more gold than ODINS throne room.
He's the real life Goldmember, isn't he?
Can you imagine his member being gilded? Golden mushroom!
🤮
That would imply he had a dick in the first place
New money energy.
I also didn't notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.
Gold is tacky
The classiest amount is none
Peh, copy cat
The difference is that this is in a historic imperial palace (Yildiz palace) with (refurbished) historic imperial chairs... They don't just look like they were build for the padishah, they were build for the padishah (Abdul Hamid II).
Well that is another reason why he is a copy cat. Even Biden sat on the golden throne but haven't seen Trump's photo there. He wants his own golden plated furniture.
Tacky
Holy shit, I thought the first image was just desaturated at first. Really giving gilded age 2.0 vibes.
I think it is slightly, or just different cameras. Those chairs are the same on both photos.
Could it be all the gold fucking with the white balance?
They could have been reupholstered, it looks like the ones in the bottom pic have a slight shiny pattern while the top ones don't. But it does look like saturation is off even looking at the paint on the fireplace
Those eagles remind me of something, but I'm not thinking Russian...
Cheap and gaudy. Looks like absolute shit.
We're gonna have to bulldoze the whole fucking building when that shitstain finally leaves office. It's going to smell so nasty. 🤢
Fuck Trump as much as the next guy but each president does get to choose how to decorate. I have to agree though, it does look like absolute shit. Definitly a bad look for the United States.
Almost as if he is into being showered with gold 🤔
I hate to beat this very dead horse, but tacky is the thing that least jumps out at me here. I mean. This literally looks like Nazi decor. The eagles, the frowning busts, the ornateness, like...
the piss yellow chairs are really the chefs kiss.
Even crazier, they are the same chairs. If you look at the woodwork, they are identical.
They have been reupholstered to that, with a fine pattern that appears to make image compression struggle with the edges of people.
I am not sure they are reupholstered, everything is over saturated in the second image, the floor, the wall and even the marble.
I think they fuck with the white balance to try and make Trump look more normal.
This was especially noticeable the other month when he met the Saudis in their white robes, and it made him look like a fucking Oompa Loompa.
Yeah, I think it’s a combination of over-saturated color, combined with light reflecting off of all the gold. If you shine white light into a room full of gold, it’ll take on a golden tint as it bounces around. So when it hits non-gold surfaces, it will tint those surfaces yellow.
It looks more saturated to me.
Basically same chair and upholstery but the saturation was boosted +5
Even the bits not against the chair seem blocky.
It's like they're so far detached from reality that they've disabled anti-aliasing.
I can almost spot the remaining human rights in the lower image's fireplace.
Jesus, that is so gaudy.
You could have decided not to turn up the saturation to make it look worse, as it looks already terrible...
Is it saturation or just room lighting? This could also just have been a different camera with different settings. Not like Trump hires competent people.
Look at the wall papers and chairs. The lower picture has saturation upped to the limit. But true, maybe that was the original photographer and not whoever assembled this meme.
I'm pretty sure the resolution of the lower picture is slightly higher.
It's hard to tell because the entire thing has been compressed and reuploaded but define details seem to be better in the bottom image.
A photographer would know to make sure all that gaudiness gleams brightly to please HitlerPig.
I dunno, I think he looks terrible at any saturation.
Some people think gold shows they are rich when in reality just shows a lot of bad taste. Btw poor people can have the same fireplace using.dolar store spray lol
Gross
Yeah, and the decorations are too.
Now he just needs some gold chains and giant rims on his limo.
Fuck that is ugly
And the decor is awful too.
What more proof do you need that a pee tape exists? That’s the aesthetic of someone with an insatiable golden shower fetish.
Clarification:
The Pee Pee Tape purportedly shows Trump directing two underage prostitutes to pee on the bed that Barack and Michelle Obama had slept on when they visited Moscow during his presidency. This amused him greatly. What went on beyond that with the underage prostitutes is unknown, but we already know that's his type. Now we know the kinds of activities that he finds amusing.
That sounds like the kind of stuff his base would not only enthusiastically forgive, but even celebrate for triggering the libs.
His advisors likely knows this, so when crawl around on all four to obey Putin, it's not because his forced to but because he wants to.
Painting over a pedophile's mistakes is going to be the theme in America for an entire generation.
Good taste vs. tasteless.
trinity broadcasting network aesthetic.
Also, this isn't the epstein files.
Tacky af. Almost as tacky as a gold toilet. And just as useful. A fine place to take a shit.
Only thing he's missing now is the golden shower.
Clearly he still has plenty support, otherwise he would've been dethroned already. Let's not pretend that he doesn't have any support anymore.
Gaudy septuagenarian trash ordered by a racist whose flesh is rebelling against its host body
Gaudy
Looks really byzantine, kinda something some russian tzar would have done if they were re-decorating
I'm GLAD we Gutted my VA Benefits to be Able to afford THAT!
Dude has a gold fetish. Your president, america. Choke on it.
https://youtube.com/shorts/A68EDhERPlQ
Tacky & classless, what a complete arsehole...
No class.
Fuckin put the screen back on the fire place you dumb-shits! Even with that atrocity of a log stack, you don't fuck around with fire.
I mean they probably want a reichstag fire so they can proceed to the enabling act
I prefer they burn that shit down.
His polling is wild and all over the place. He's underwater, but so are the dems.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/
The Gilded Age is back, boys! This time with a predesigned recession that's totally not gonna ramp up into a depression!
Is that what MAGA is talking about making America great again?
The great depression?
"I PROMISE IM NOT A TASTELESS FASCIST, GUTTING SOCIAL SERVICES AND SELLING INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER AS A MEANS OF EXTRACTING VALUE FROM THE WORK OTHERS PUT INTO BUILDING THIS NATION, AND FUNNELING IT TO THE ULTRA-WEALTHY FOR MY OWN PERSONAL BENIFIT!"
This photo doesn't do it justice. I recently saw a wide, pan shot of the Oval Office when Tim Apple was slobbering on HitlerPig's fat ass, and he he has filled every empty space with those ugly gold doodads.
They should use them as kindling when he gets burned at the stake on the White House lawn.
Trump: Democrats have wasted all our money. I want to make our country more efficient.
Also Trump: Please gild everything within my eyesight.
From milk toast to trashy spray paint gold "On our next episode of Flip this Government"
Milquetoast?
looks like something Gaddafi would design
Eww. Just eww.
It’s like Catholic Church vs Protestant Church. 😭
Thanks for inspiring this meme.
there's something to be said for the various differences in color saturation and lighting.
I’m surprised the logs in the fireplace aren’t gold.
★☆☆☆☆ – third rate Austin Powers cosplay
Mans tacky
Donny 2 Dolls, The King of Kitsch....
*What is the meaning of the word kitsch?
I mean we know he has a thing for piss...
Bling bling era.
I don't think gold is allowed in hell.
Hell doesn't exist
Looked better without that fat orange man in it.
Why did they delete the grass? :(
exactly, they are hinting and what they want to do
Oh god, what are all those things on the mantel? They look like random wine glasses that were covered in some melted gold, some... scales(?) the same way, and then some random ceramic goblets with spray paint?
I don't even want to start thinking about what the busts.
It's all trophies he bought himself for being such an awesome guy
One for each child he raped and threatened into silence.....
That looks like it has to be photoshopped... but damn, it's not.
The chairs and walls should be the same colours. I think the WB is off on the second one. Probably still looks like shit if corrected.
Oh nice, is that the Kremlin?
Kremlin has style, Trump does not.
Kremlin looks very different kind of weird https://repost.uz/pokaji-kabinet
It'd be funny if you (as in, Americans) hadn't elected the guy twice.
Now it's just apropos and depressing and I don't want to see it.
“Oh, and don’t forget the two gold Nazi eagles on each side of the fireplace.”
I love goooooooooold Mr. Powers
I don't know, it kinda looks more soviet now, doesn't it?
Looking like the Moscow metro?
The interior will change but on the right side you’re always gonna get a smelly, senile dude talking shit, live with it
Did anyone else From Melbourne immediately think of Franco Cozzo?
Grand Sale!
Kind of looks like putin's "secret" house
Mildlyinfuriating
Lmao looks like absolute shit. What a waste of money...
Disgusting..
Ewwww
He treats the Whitehouse like hos own personal house. Is that normal for presidents?
Not uncommon. Several presidents added to the decorations or 'renovated' parts.
Did they even make the chairs an ugly yellow? It's so ugly on top of everything else. Probably fake gold and someone is pocketing the difference. Trump wouldn't know the difference.
Fucking disgusting. The room too.
I mean, it's not far off that, why add to it.
Glorifying the man rather than the office... Is a Hallmark of a King. Not a President
all that gold is disgusting in every way possible. that gold/money and the work that was put into putting it there could have help in child cancer research, or helping the poor and less fortunate around the USA and the world. Trump is not what America stands for and him defacing the white house like he is, is prof of that.
Let them eat cake.
Mild indeed
What a loser
Didn't realize we had a new Prime Minister
I cant wait in fifty years all the MAGA dipshits are dead from preventable diseases and advanced medicine that they can't use from defunded research grants, so that society can collectively tear down and completely destroy this entire family's fecal legacy they have shit into our society.
I hope we gather up the entire Trump genetic line and do exactly what the Russians did to the entire family of the Czars, so that the earth can never allow Trumps or Trump-adjacent lineage to ever return.
Some of us are quite well armed and practice regularly. :)
Some is nowhere near enough. ALL of MAGA own guns, like a ratio of 10-1. Every single Republican I have met owns a gun, less than half of all the Democrat voters I know think all guns are unimportant or should be banned.
Pandora's Box is opened when it comes to guns, just like nuclear weapons: you either join the nations that own them, or become Ukraine and are too late to have agency and have to hope unreliable neighbors will help you fight powerful bullies.
What a dumb as fuck hope to to cling to. Buy a gun yesterday. Stop voting to take your own rights away, because MAGA doesn't care if you banned all guns in California - they can have thousands of rounds of ammunition delivered to their front door overnight if they wanted, and in fact are strengthening their armories and resolved to end LGBTQ culture mandated by their fascist religion and leaders.
Taken as a whole, blacks, women and LGBT have been the largest gun purchasing demographic since Trump 1.0. Some of these suburban white boys didn't get the memo. "But you will DIE fighting!" I can't believe how often that is the response. Yeah, I fucking know, better than on my knees, taking a fucking train.
I will not advocate for just anyone to get armed. Anyone who wants to? There's a learning curve, and it's steep. You have to practice, LOTS. As you said, start yesterday. Fuck me, get a Hi-Point 9mm if you're broke. They're heavy and hell to dissemble, but they fucking work, every time. I want this one next!
I'm kind of a dumbass in that I have too many guns to be proficient with all of them. But the guns I own for self defense? Just a few, but I practice with at least one on every trip to camp.
My perfect trifecta? 12-gauge Mossberg pump, Colt .45 and an AR-15. No, not the finest guns on the planet, but they work for me and I can work them.
EDIT: I should add a note. Every house on this block has a gun. Little old black lady across the street? Yep. Young lib guys? Yep. There was a thing couple of weeks ago where the cops might have been hassling a young black friend of mine. They weren't, and were actually very polite given the circumstances.
But fuck me, I saw men and women, no uniforms, rolling up and hopping out of civilian cars with guns. Nah, I'm watching. Had a pistol on my belt, standing in the street watching. And guess what? The old black guys across the street from him had weapons on hand, watching.
Can you imagine if these fascists knew they could kick down any door, free of personal danger?! It would be like if a government agency ran hog-wild over the rights of citizens in Los Angeles! The mind boggles.
Do you think there will be a USA in 2075 ?
There won't be a me in 2075, unless I make it to 104. :) But I can fight well enough at the moment.
Now they're here to strip away the rights and freedoms of trans people, women's reproductive rights, online freedoms, and soon coming for LGBT people or more
All because you idiots are afraid of guns, deterrence and aggressive rhetoric to properly counter their own rhetoric.Watch this prediction! In a couple of years the GOP will start advocating for more and more restrictive gun rights. They'll roll slowly, but they'll frame it as keeping guns away from "radicals".
Open carry is already dead in the water in Florida, a mostly red state that could pass the bill in a second flat. Ask yourself why. I'll give you three guesses, but you already know the answer.
Probably Melanias design sense. There are houses in the Balkans decked out like that.
A king's gotta king.
Donald Trump is a gross human being. I feel he would be best positioned as vomit when looking up the definition on Wikipedia.
Are those trophies gifts from his good friend Epstein?
Participation trophies for child rape......
Complete disregard to fire safety.
Looks like someone's got a gilt complex.
[email protected]
Damn.
Gaudy. What did you expect from conman on chief?
So fucking tacky.
Great value macys.
Not representing the US anymore, not even 1%.
Bullshit. Those fascists will kill anyone opposed to them. There are tons of white LGBTQ people, too, and people with disabilities that would be murdered as well. And then there is the simple White anti-fascist folk who simply fucking hate the regime and need to regroup elsewhere.
If you have nothing to fear from racism, then being a refugee means that you are clearly NOT a fascist.
I kind of understand where you're coming from, but you are delusional if you think Canadians and Europeans don't already have extreme right groups growing within their borders. We don't need to allow Americans in to have their propaganda spread through different countries. It does via cultural hegemony.
At one point my very Québecois friend was listening to Joe Rogan podcasts and parroting his anti woke crap. When I go see my family in the countryside, I often feel like I'm talking to deep south rednecks. They say they hate Trump but they hate the person, not the politics, because it's the same anti immigration and anti woke rhetoric.
And I'm not an expert about Europe as a whole but I know a bit about Germany and AFAIK, the AfD is making gains there. Is it because of americans and/or latinos going there?