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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago

Compared to Trump, Taylor Swift has a lot more star power. I think he's realized that she could easily grab him by the pussy.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Anyone wanna tell him that the only reason she endorsed anyone in the first place is because Trump couldn't keep his big mouth shut? Had he not made a bunch of posts implying that Swift endorsed him, she probably would have stayed out of it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Wasn't he just posting memes of her two weeks ago? lol. He's jilted.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I hate Mondays --Garfield

I hate hate --Reagan Youth

We hate Donald Trump --Millions of American voters

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I hate America - Ronald Reagan

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I just realized that there was a Phantom Space Man. It was Red Death!

He just didn't stay on the space station...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Grampa Ranty is having a rough morning

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Big Mad"? are they trying to dumb it down for the trump crowd or just the rolling stone readers in general?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing here, but sounds like a play on his "bigly" wording. He has the best words, his English professor friends all tell him!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

When slang sounds like someone dropped out at the 3rd grade, then we've made that Mark Twain choice.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

he tweets it, others reblog it. are you seeing how this works for him, yet? won't matter. the dopamine hit in getting upvotes for the monster who throws the dead cat on the table outweigh any logical argument on how mockery is precisely what trump and vance want, it takes energy, energy which would otherwise go to praising harris and waltz. he knows he can push them below the fold at any point, including coming off a decisive loss during the debate, and swifts endorsement, all anyone's talked about for 4 days are hatiians in springfield ohio, and that is how internet mockery helps him. this is not new news. yet people can't stop. and trump depends on that. it's all he has.

he posts hateful incendiary fabricated bullshit, and all the ants dance, holding him above the fold, the first story on the nightly news

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anybody holding foldable media is already a lost cause. We need 20 somethings to vote like their Zyns depend on it. If this is what political engagement looks like in 2024, then so be it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fyi - “Below the fold” is a phrase borrowed from print media, which for digital content simply means anything below the current screen viewport that requires scrolling to access.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah, seems like too few words for an actual rant. Smoke bomb to distract from his ridiculous debate and to get that out of the news cycle

[–] [email protected] 177 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Remember folks: if we do our job right, this traitor asshole will die in prison.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Even if he lose, he will never see inside of a prison, that's unfortunately not how the "justice" works.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i consider exile in Russia to be a type of prison

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Especially self-imposed exile!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If other people do their jobs right he will.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hell, I'm still holding out for his heart to explode during one of his Klan rallies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to.

Either. Both!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You misspelled firing squad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Firing squads have some guns that are loaded as blanks so nobody is really sure who fired the fatal shot, and in the case of Trump I think this is unfair to the people firing the guns.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

A formal declaration of war, and the battle with the Swifties has been engaged.

edit: another epic rant may be starting:

Unrealized tax on capital gains? That wording would mean the tax on capital gains is unrealized, not a Tax on Unrealized capital gains you stable business genius

Reverse Deportation? So you want to stop deportation and/or import people? JFC

If they are failing, seems like they would becoming less of/not a threat?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

"The ~~boy~~ chonky fascist who cried wolf"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Someone should show Trump Nextdoor. He’d fucking love that app.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

He is that app

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey, he's reversing the deportations!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Breaking: Trump Encourages Illegal Immigration! As seen on the internet!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Trump discourages legal migration! Said on TV!

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