I mean, to be fair, Italy isn’t much of a military opponent. Did you see how they performed in WWII? People make fun of France (and rightfully so), but Italy is equally useless in war.

Maybe trump sees Italy as a country he can easily bully around. That’s his whole thing. Just bullying.

Or maybe I’m giving him too much credit. Maybe he doesn’t even HAVE a plan. Does he even have concepts of a plan? I mean after all, this is the same guy who just stumbles upwards, without consequence, for his whole life. He’s never known what it’s like to need a plan. He just says things, and does things, without a thought in his head or a care in the world. He has no idea how the world, or the economy works. He just does things, and expects everyone else around him to bow to him.

And is he wrong? People DO keep bowing to him. Him being elected president TWICE is proof of that. Him getting his full way with our government is proof of that.

I’m not defending him, nor his actions. I’m saying that he acts entitled, because we treat him as entitled. He says things like “Women let you use them as objects when you’re a celebrity. They let you grab them by the pussy”.

And is he wrong? I mean, morally, obviously he’s wrong. But if everyone around him, regardless of gender, allows him to grab them by the pussy, is he wrong for thinking he can?

He’s grabbed our government by the pussy, and our government is letting him do it. He’s never faced any serious resistance. He may have the odd lawsuit here and there, but he’s never had a fall. And I mean a true fall.

Look at alex jones. That motherfucker finally fell. Look at the pillow guy. He finally fell. Trump? He’s been a blight on society for 40 years, and yet nothing hurts him.

Where’s the resistance???

(Ok, I admit, this went from a genuine reply into full on rant mode. I’m sorry. I got sidetracked, and then pissed off. However, in my defense, I feel like the ONLY healthy reaction in 2025 IS to be pissed off. Because if you’re seeing what’s going on, and you’re not pissed off, you lack empathy).

It’s times like this we need the return of Celebrity Deathmatch.

Well, he IS black…

(and I can’t believe I have to spell this out, but yes, this is absurdist humor. I’m not legitimately blaming Obama for trumps actions, over the color of his skin. I’m making absurdist observational humor pointing out republican voters logic)

Male here. Hillary was probably the worst female option who’s ever ran for president.

Kamala wasn’t much better, and felt like a rush job to prevent Biden being an easy sweep.

Not that I’m advocating for trump in either case. I’m just saying its like the old south park joke of douche vs turd sandwich.

Only difference is that AOC is actually a good choice. Whereas Hillary and Kamala were never good choices.

I would fully support an AOC run. I would vote FOR AOC. Whereas with Hillary and Kamala it felt like it was voting against trump by selecting “whoever the opposition is”.

Which for the record, isn’t a gender thing. Biden was also “not trump” on the ballots in 2020. You didn’t vote FOR Biden. You voted AGAINST trump.

I’m not saying you’re lying, or wrong, but could you provide examples?

Oh, he went bad years ago.

No. Wile E Coyote still had dignity and little flashes of empathy. I remember one episode where we saw road runners wife, raising 3 road runner babies. He had put a falling boulder to crush them, thinking it was just the road runner.

Once he realized it was a mother and her children, he ran over, pushed them out of the way, and then got crushed by the boulder that he dropped. Just as the road runner ran by, kissed his 3 kids and wife and ran off.

If that were trump, he’d have had ICE seperate the mother from the children, deport the mother, and send the children to a camp.

Wile E Coyote came from a time of decency and respect towards women and children. Something trump lacks.

You need more upvotes. You’re aggressive, harsh, and direct with your words.

But also correct. More people need to be harsh towards this type of behavior. Why are societies kid gloves still on?

God dammit. Why couldn’t THIS headline have been from the onion???

…can I walk your dog?

Sanders isn’t one to brag. He does rock a mean pair of wool mittens though!

I don’t understand the downvotes. You’re absolutely right.

“It’s just another lie”

Well…yeah. That was known the second you knew it was a thing that trump said. He would rather climb a tree to tell a lie, than get a blowjob and tell the truth.

Um…guys? Are we going to talk about this? Because…seriously. He’s trying to shut down, silence, and censor media. That’s literally a fascist move. That’s straight from the fascist playbook. The nazi’s LITERALLY did this. So instead, Radio London would broadcast in french. They’d open and close each broadcast with a series of nonsensical phrases they called “personal messages”. What was otherwise disguised as the station listeners calling the station with messages like “Pierre dit bonjour” or “Pierre says hello”. Just seemingly innocent phrases that listeners would call in, so other listeners could hear them. Personal messages. And on one random night, a night that could have been any other night, a very special personal message went out.

“Blessent mon coeur d’une langueur monotone”

Which if you didn’t know it’s meaning, would seem harmless enough, if not a bit random. However, those in the french resistance knew it well. It was their signal to grab arms and join the fight. Because this random night just happened to be June 5th 1944. A night now famous among those who know their history. However you may also know it by another name. D-Day.

I bring all this up to mention the fact that all of that was necessary to do on Radio London, because all radio stations in France, were now occupied and ruled my the nazi’s at that time. The nazi’s shut down and censored any actual French media.

Which is what trump is doing right now. Shutting down and censoring media, while being the president of a nation that has for literal centuries prided itself on being the home of free speech. I just want you to consider the irony here, and take in the full scale of what’s happening right now. We are actively taking more and more steps each day to becoming a full on fascist state. Does anyone not see this? Is everybody forgetting history? I feel like it’s obvious. It’s on full display. They’re not attempting to hide it. They’re just going through with it.

It’s reminding me of that scene with heath ledger as joker saying if you execute a plan, and somebody unexpectly dies, everybody loses their mind. But if you state a plan is intended to have a few deaths, then nobody panics when people die.

I feel like that’s what’s going on right now. In 2024 we learned about project 2025. Details leaked. And now that people are used to the ideas, they accept them more easily, despite knowing the actual plans are terrible plans that shouldn’t be plans. But they ARE plans. So everybody is just going along with it.

Real life. He was mayor, like 10 years ago. This was an actual thing people were mad at him for.

And as many times as I reconfirm this was real, I still get vibes of this being Micheal Scott as mayor.

I might have tacos…

I would make a joke like “Wow! I should use mass media to convince people to buy my shitty products, but convince them that they need it. Then overcharge!”

Except the basis of that joke being a joke would rely on the core concept NOT happening for real. Which it is. So that would just make me a part of the problem…

I don’t know how to feel about this. Because, he’s not wrong. From Germanys perspective, trump controling the usa is basically putin controling the usa.

So I can see why that is the thought process here.

But I don’t want that to be the thought process. I don’t want to alienate all our allies. I want life to make sense. What we got instead is a clear indication that the united states is going to attack itself, and is already attacking itself.

Germany is just trying to stay out of the crossfire, and I get that. So, I can’t just say “Good! Let them be our advasary so they don’t get caught up in this”. I can’t say that because it has long term reprocussions that I feel we may have already crossed.

Mostly, I just want all this bullshit in the usa to boil over. Lets get this civil war out of the way. Lets forge our path that nazi lives don’t matter.

And to all other nations out there, I’m sorry. I’m embarassed to be an American right now. When even Canada is getting stern with you, you know you fucked up. And we did. We fucked up bad. We’re going to keep fucking up presumably for at least the next 4 years. After that, I have no idea. But right now, saying you’re American is like shitting your pants in an elevator.

And to all other countries out there, I’m sorry for existing.

Even before musk bought it, it was a house of cards. At no point in it’s history since it’s creation has it EVER made money. It was ALWAYS a money loser. That’s why they were trying to sell it in the first place. It had value, but nothing close to 43 BILLION dollars.

It was assumed to sell for a few hundred million before musk ran his mouth, and joked that he’d do it for 43 billion. Then he took the joke as far as signing legal paperwork, then bitched that he HAD to now buy it for his joke price of 43 billion.

And now you read daily how much money it’s losing. Firstly because even if he paid a fair price for it, AND ran it perfectly, it would still be losing money. But he bought it for 43 BILLION dollars, and from day one publically harassed advertisers saying he doesn’t need them.

Well, even under perfect conditions, the advertisers were the only thing keeping twitters losses pre-musk at a minimum. They were losing about 13 million a year since 2008. And now it was adding up.

But now you got advertisers to go fuck themself. And they leave. Then he alienates twitters at the time core leftist by…well existing. And now you got all these people leaving twitter in droves. So now, even for the advertisers that remain, twitters reach loses 40% of it’s value. Which means advertisers aren’t willing to pay old rates. Which means less revenue.

And all these other companies, before musk bought it, looked at an unprofitable social media site, then remembered how MySpace went, and thought “…no.”

You don’t think you could live in a $70,000 house, that’s fully paid off, with $1,500 a month?