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I wonder of the desperation will cost more than the money can help.
I'd like to walk up to Trump while he's asleep at one of his trials, pull his collar a bit (so none misses), and just vomit down his back.
Jesus Christ, that fat fuck is trying to fuck the entire future of our country over just to stay out of prison. I can’t wait for him to die and I hope it’s really painful.
~~country~~ world
I say this from the bottom of my heart… fuck Trump.
Naked corruption
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Of the greedy, by the greedy, for the greedy 🇺🇸
Oh no.. I haven't reread it since the film came out... I thought we were doing Idiocracy but you might be on to something
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Despite the oil industry’s complaints about Biden’s policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has, pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year.
The U.S. accounted for 14.7% of crude oil production worldwide in 2022, compared to 13.1% for Saudi Arabia and 12.7% for Russia.
Let's remember the immortal words of the great wordsmith, the sublime epithets of the magnificent poet Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., who, in a perfect moment of genius, rightly said of Mr. Trump: "he a ho".
Words so true that Truth itself looks like a lie compared to them.
Which Truth?
The platonic ideal. You wouldn't know her. She goes to another school.
Trump would gladly burn his own mother alive to benefit himself and look like a "winner". Fucking loser, dude is a fucking loser. He has a loser syndrome. He must've gone through a lot of shit as a child.
The best description I heard was that he was a man born with the greatest privilege of all - to have never once been disturbed by the stirring of a conscience.
I read Mary Trump’s book, and yeah Fred Christ did a number on every one of the kids, and the wife. So definitely damaged, but not that far away from a lot of other people.
I think you have to add that, 70 years, cocaine and adderall, and dementia to get the grotesque Antichrist who’s taken over the GQP.
It’s just so sad to watch the corporate news pantomime all these stories like he’s even remotely ‘normal’.
By a lot of shit you mean a hoard of domestic employees that he definitely thought of as his slaves then yeah he went through a lot. He's never been meaningfully told, "no you can't have your way" by anyone
I'm thinking he was abused as a child or something. Dude is not normal.
Being served all the time is a form of child abuse in my books.
Spoiled kids are abused kids who often become abusers.
Spoiled means less likely to be a healthy adult.
Sounds about right.
I thought with Trump his Dad schooled him to behave the way he did, always pitting the sons against each other, never accept a loss etc. It'd be easier to pity him under that view if he wasn't trying to wreck the world.
Oh and him not realizing this even being an old man at this point. At some point people need to learn some self reflection but when you have access to as much money as Trump (not as much as he claims) there's not much reason to.
Putin's Sock Puppets wants to turn the USA into f'n polluted Russia or China.
Is not it like super illegal?
Democracies hate this one simple trick...
When lawmakers want to take a bribe, all they have to do is legalize it. Or, skip all that and go for the goal - convince executives and the courts it's legal, because you did bribery with extra steps. It's a totally new thing I just made up
Campaign donation loophole
Hasn't stopped him before.
The courts legalized bribery years back.
No it's an "official presidential act"
“illegal” is something we made up for the poors, ducky! That’s not for us!
Yep yep yep!
If you already have a lot of money, no.
Remember, when money = speech, we all lose.
He repealed 112 climate regulations in his first term, setting us back over a decade of progress.
This is his move. He puts capitalism into overdrive while making a ton of noise in the news as a smokescreen.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html
I’m tired of all the losing
Well, fuck that