Its like I enjoyed wwf as a kid early 2000, stopped believing in the show, got to grow up and struggle with becoming an adult hold on tight, then all the sudden adult life and government and holy hell im watching the wwf all over again and I know it's all gibberish
It's not impossible to believe if you're form the South like me. The people who voted for him are white, racist, and mean. They think loving America means hating minorities and loving war. And when Biden ousted him, his worshippers despised it and wanted revenge. In the end, the one word that got him into office is "racism."
I believe that the worst truth is that he is just your typical rich dude who got rich from the effort of others. We just think he is particularly terrible because of how public a figure he is.
There's a lot of others like him dictating how we live.
You're not wrong. But they're not being particularly terrible AS president. I agree, rich fuck-nuts are out there like him and they dictate how we live, true. And he is typical as a Rich who takes wealth from Poors. True too. But it IS particularly terrible, HE IS particularly terrible because of how he inspires TO BE the public figure that he is. As President. A person we should hold to exceptional standards. The worst truth, imo, is the atrocious falling standard Trump represents in voters.
Twice a week he was doing things that would have made anyone with decency quietly close up their campaign and retreat into the woods forever. Still doing them now but it's considered normal.
i know trump voters who grumble "garbage in, garbage out" about how someone like trump gains political power. like bro you told me you voted for him and now you gripe about the lamentable state of things because of him? you're one of the anti-experts, what are you talking about. george carlin wouldn't think you're clever, grandpa.
He likely means it doesn’t matter anyway so pick the guy who is more entertaining. If democrats had a reality TV candidate I think democrats would have seriously fared better in the suburbs.
one of them said they voted for trump because they couldn't understand what harris was talking about. but then, they also couldn't tell me what trump was talking about from incoherent speech to incoherent speech. when pressed on this, they were like "well, if gas prices go down, i'll be proven right." some of these people can hold otherwise intelligent conversations, but are just selectively, deliberately smooth-brained about certain things. decades of propaganda exposure probably didn't help.
One thing I learned from the pandemic is America is a me me me culture. If gas prices lower for them then that’s all that really matters. Everyone else be damned.
willful ignorance, self-reinforcing brainwashing, and the promise of gloating at someone who gets crushed before you, are going into setting up some of these 10-ton dominoes i'm sure. voting against your own self-interests seems a frustratingly dumb way to promoting your own… self-interests. imo. "lol i skimmed atlas shrugged decades ago and now mostly read picture books about war" fits a disturbingly high number of profiles of people i've been regretfully roped into political talks with.
As someone who is not American but has been exposed to "Americana" and it's ugly face around the world I can't help but feel that this is exactly who and what is America. "Ugly American" is a term the rest of the world knows all too well and this is what it looks like. Of course there are some exceptions, but since the US is a liberal democratic country it would seem he represents the will and vision of the majority of Americans, that is 50% plus 1 of votes.
He did not receive the votes of 51% of America and he won by a thin margin. My gripe is with the people who who voted third party and worse yet those who didn’t bother to vote. I’m willing to bet there are people in your country that are as evil, idiotic, and obnoxious as he is.
It's a stereotype. It does apply to a large swath of the American public, but there's plenty more that aren't like this. It's just the scum ugly deplorables are very loud... and they're backed by a complicit far-right media machine.
I mean, as of the last election, he represented about 34% of Americans wo can vote, Kamala representing about 32%. A lot of people... well they didn't vote at all. Then there's all the people who can't vote, many felons, children, and undocumented folk that are still major parts of our communities.
I get your point. It's similar to what often occurs here in Canada and the provinces. Mr Trudeau hung on for 3 parliaments and at no time did he even come close to 50% of the vote. I suppose another way would be to look at how the seats or voting blocks are allocated across the country.
The liberal Americans who aren’t this way and who get along with the rest of the world isolate themselves in large liberal cities making their voting power weaker.
I'm sure the motivation for Melania is obvious but there is not enough money in the world that would force me to tolerate being around this whiney, racist, unknowable POS shit human.
We in America used to laugh a lot at Trump. Even in this last election... the crap moments he had on stage at his rallies... so laughable. No way he could be voted in.
Well, it happened. And we're not only terrified, we're mad as hell. Disinformation won the day. AGAIN. This cannot stand. And now? Zuckerberg has demolished any moderation, so lies can flow like wine. It's insidious. Something needs to be done about it. Republicans won't. They love the chaos.
I heard they complained about the water shortage in California during the fires. Then a follow up that during the drought a few years ago they both used hundreds of gallons over the limits set by water authority and paid enormous fines. Despicable.
Yeah. I'm trying to avoid him as much as possible. We're committed. I sounded as much warning as I could, I'm pretty much done talking about it, but sometimes it slips out. I've committed to just calling him "the felon." After the 20th I may refer to him as the Felon in Chief or FIC.
And we voted him into the highest office in the world. Where he can do the most damage.
I still can't grok this. My brain still doubles back thinking either that I missed something and it isn't real, or that my country is filled with some of the cruelest, meanest, most ignorant people. I *have* done my homework; I have some clue as to the reasoning of fearful or false entitled people.
And yet, this is still unfathomable and almost impossible to reconcile. Only one thing to do: RESIST.
Who's this "we"? I didn't vote for this scum! Don't put me and the voters who voted Democrat with the idiots who actually believed he was going to lower prices and the slackers who could bother to do the bare minimum and get off their fat asses to go vote!
To be honest, I’m a little shocked that I dislike Trump
If 20 years ago, in middle of the W Bush years you told me that there would be a TV star that sleeps with porn stars, golfs every weekend no matter what, has no filter when he speaks, is not part of the political establishment, and will create a Space Force branch of the Military
Oh man, oh man, I would be so excited about voting for this guy
And yet… here we are. Instead of fixing DC, he is making the swamp worse
That's what did it. Some say it wouldn't matter if that report came out before the election, because people had already made up their minds based on lies they'd chosen to believe. But I think it would've made a difference.
He totally sold his soul to the Devil. A long time ago. The way he lives and acts, he should have died from a heart attack, homeless or in jail, alone a long time ago.
Yet he still lives amongst us, wealthy, escaping punishment by a hair every time, and has half the country hanging on his every non sequitur word.
Absolutely! I remember watching the protests and dissenters in American streets when he first took office. I remember those protests starting to fizzle out but the embers never went cold. I knew much less of Trump then so didn't fully understand those who resisted, to use your words. Knowing what I think I know now about Trump and his followers then yes, you should continue to show your dissent but you must also persevere. Good luck.
Those same people will then blame anyone but Trump and his freaks for their troubles. 'Well maybe Biden should lowered the price of eggs if he and Kamala wanted my vote!'
"Kamala and Biden don't have a good policy about Israel! I'm not voting for them!" ...you really think Trump is gonna have a better stance on this? Fucking idiots
2 inches to the right... just two measly inches and the whole 'movement' would have taken a serious hit. I don't think Vance or anyone else could have matched the same... energy.
Perhaps it would have. It might have only been worse for Americans. Perhaps in the resulting chaos and confusion domestically, you guys would have been too busy self immolating to keep fucking around with Canada.
That's true. Recent polling has that number in the very low teens. Even fewer people like Trump than those who like Trudeau. Canada prefers its bigots to have nice hair and a touch of Laurentian accent.
jwillywill
HiccupsAreReverseThrowUps
Its like I enjoyed wwf as a kid early 2000, stopped believing in the show, got to grow up and struggle with becoming an adult hold on tight, then all the sudden adult life and government and holy hell im watching the wwf all over again and I know it's all gibberish
Lassannn
It's not impossible to believe if you're form the South like me. The people who voted for him are white, racist, and mean. They think loving America means hating minorities and loving war. And when Biden ousted him, his worshippers despised it and wanted revenge. In the end, the one word that got him into office is "racism."
hackller
and sold it in mcdonalds
fedmoney
How dare you insult old hot dog skin like that.
Velisity
What I don’t like is how no one or anything is trying to stop him..
JustATemp123
I believe that the worst truth is that he is just your typical rich dude who got rich from the effort of others. We just think he is particularly terrible because of how public a figure he is.
There's a lot of others like him dictating how we live.
BadArtByBuni
You're not wrong. But they're not being particularly terrible AS president. I agree, rich fuck-nuts are out there like him and they dictate how we live, true. And he is typical as a Rich who takes wealth from Poors. True too. But it IS particularly terrible, HE IS particularly terrible because of how he inspires TO BE the public figure that he is. As President. A person we should hold to exceptional standards. The worst truth, imo, is the atrocious falling standard Trump represents in voters.
powwerbottom
I don't think we've seen another figure successfully pull this many people into the alternate reality he's living in.
JustATemp123
Elon Musk
hetjr
Donald Trump is, in fact, the pink slime of humanity.
CoarseAndSalty
It's not accidental. Trump the politician strategically appeals to the worst in our nature. He created a personal of evil dumbness.
davemUnderscoreOr
And yet a plurality of Americans wanted him.
Djones06236
Because they're ignorant dumb fucks.
davemUnderscoreOr
The dumber fucks are those that didn't vote at all.
BenntheNinja
Dear USA, you're country is screwed, love from the rest of the world. P.S. Your country is screwed.
ConnectToReality
I think Trump is a true Randian hero. Which is more of a condemnation of Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy than a credit to Trump.
BigRobbo
Im sorry but that is an insult to an old hotdog skin
abtei
i personally like the tweet from Kumail

bexxMaker
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
“I’m mad at you for not fixing my life, so I’m gonna stab myself! That’ll show you!”- Every asshole that voted for Trump
DaisyfromDownunder
... and pretended to shoot it - twice.
Schtaan
WHY didn't he end after this?? In europe he would have been dead in politics 2 hours after it!
PerthAussieMike
Same here in Australia.
CaptainSkyhawk
Twice a week he was doing things that would have made anyone with decency quietly close up their campaign and retreat into the woods forever. Still doing them now but it's considered normal.
Mercenarity
i know trump voters who grumble "garbage in, garbage out" about how someone like trump gains political power. like bro you told me you voted for him and now you gripe about the lamentable state of things because of him? you're one of the anti-experts, what are you talking about. george carlin wouldn't think you're clever, grandpa.
boognish115
He likely means it doesn’t matter anyway so pick the guy who is more entertaining. If democrats had a reality TV candidate I think democrats would have seriously fared better in the suburbs.
Mercenarity
one of them said they voted for trump because they couldn't understand what harris was talking about. but then, they also couldn't tell me what trump was talking about from incoherent speech to incoherent speech. when pressed on this, they were like "well, if gas prices go down, i'll be proven right." some of these people can hold otherwise intelligent conversations, but are just selectively, deliberately smooth-brained about certain things. decades of propaganda exposure probably didn't help.
boognish115
One thing I learned from the pandemic is America is a me me me culture. If gas prices lower for them then that’s all that really matters. Everyone else be damned.
Mercenarity
willful ignorance, self-reinforcing brainwashing, and the promise of gloating at someone who gets crushed before you, are going into setting up some of these 10-ton dominoes i'm sure. voting against your own self-interests seems a frustratingly dumb way to promoting your own… self-interests. imo. "lol i skimmed atlas shrugged decades ago and now mostly read picture books about war" fits a disturbingly high number of profiles of people i've been regretfully roped into political talks with.
aviselafin211
As someone who is not American but has been exposed to "Americana" and it's ugly face around the world I can't help but feel that this is exactly who and what is America. "Ugly American" is a term the rest of the world knows all too well and this is what it looks like. Of course there are some exceptions, but since the US is a liberal democratic country it would seem he represents the will and vision of the majority of Americans, that is 50% plus 1 of votes.
scout27302
He did not receive the votes of 51% of America and he won by a thin margin. My gripe is with the people who who voted third party and worse yet those who didn’t bother to vote.
I’m willing to bet there are people in your country that are as evil, idiotic, and obnoxious as he is.
cytherians
It's a stereotype. It does apply to a large swath of the American public, but there's plenty more that aren't like this. It's just the scum ugly deplorables are very loud... and they're backed by a complicit far-right media machine.
GarmBlack
I mean, as of the last election, he represented about 34% of Americans wo can vote, Kamala representing about 32%. A lot of people... well they didn't vote at all. Then there's all the people who can't vote, many felons, children, and undocumented folk that are still major parts of our communities.
aviselafin211
I get your point. It's similar to what often occurs here in Canada and the provinces. Mr Trudeau hung on for 3 parliaments and at no time did he even come close to 50% of the vote. I suppose another way would be to look at how the seats or voting blocks are allocated across the country.
boognish115
The liberal Americans who aren’t this way and who get along with the rest of the world isolate themselves in large liberal cities making their voting power weaker.
DesdemonaMoor
I'm sure the motivation for Melania is obvious but there is not enough money in the world that would force me to tolerate being around this whiney, racist, unknowable POS shit human.
Timesarrows
the corporations continued to fund the GOP even immediately after the Jan 6 Terrorist Attack. the few corporations that stopped funding GOP only lasted a short time. what we all see is 100% done/created by US and Foreign corporations. Corporations have given over $100 million to the Sedition Caucus https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/corporations-have-given-over-100-million-to-the-sedition-caucus/
thedudeman519
I don't know what's worse, that 1/3 of the country voted for this shitgibbon or that a large percentage of voters couldn't even be arsed to show up
svga
and then democratically won the electoral college and popular vote; you need to make some adjustments if we keep thinking he is the only problem
PerthAussieMike
He is the RESULT of the problems
MrNobodyLivesHere
Half the world is laughing at America and the other half is terrified of it.
cytherians
We in America used to laugh a lot at Trump. Even in this last election... the crap moments he had on stage at his rallies... so laughable. No way he could be voted in.
Well, it happened. And we're not only terrified, we're mad as hell. Disinformation won the day. AGAIN. This cannot stand. And now? Zuckerberg has demolished any moderation, so lies can flow like wine. It's insidious. Something needs to be done about it. Republicans won't. They love the chaos.
boognish115
Been that way for a long time. Decades. Before trump.
Bunnies007
"If Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump." - Nate White
BaconAlmighty
I could live the rest of my life in peace and comfort if I could go without hearing about him or the Kardashians EVERY FUCKING DAY
MKUltraMega
Please give the Kardashians double time. Triple even. I am so not ready for 4 more years of "what the fuck"
johnxbear
I actually don't hear about the Kardashians much anymore. I think people are finally getting bored of them
scout27302
I heard they complained about the water shortage in California during the fires. Then a follow up that during the drought a few years ago they both used hundreds of gallons over the limits set by water authority and paid enormous fines. Despicable.
Neurisko
Yeah. I'm trying to avoid him as much as possible. We're committed. I sounded as much warning as I could, I'm pretty much done talking about it, but sometimes it slips out. I've committed to just calling him "the felon." After the 20th I may refer to him as the Felon in Chief or FIC.
AllTheBlueMarbles
And we voted him into the highest office in the world. Where he can do the most damage.
I still can't grok this. My brain still doubles back thinking either that I missed something and it isn't real, or that my country is filled with some of the cruelest, meanest, most ignorant people. I *have* done my homework; I have some clue as to the reasoning of fearful or false entitled people.
And yet, this is still unfathomable and almost impossible to reconcile. Only one thing to do: RESIST.
nonottelling
Highest office in the world? Nah.
In the US? Sure. But not the world. There’s more people outside the US than in it…
PeaceBaby
I'm still stunned.
deweydecibel
We deserve it. We value celebrities and reality TV stars over scientists and artists. This is our culture now. It’s so gross…
LogicalLimes
It hurts seeing our country doing this. On so many levels.
Every time I visit my mom, I’m still greeted by her two large TRUMP/VANCE signs in her front yard. 😔
ISayShenanigans
Who's this "we"? I didn't vote for this scum! Don't put me and the voters who voted Democrat with the idiots who actually believed he was going to lower prices and the slackers who could bother to do the bare minimum and get off their fat asses to go vote!
seehemewe
To be honest, I’m a little shocked that I dislike Trump
If 20 years ago, in middle of the W Bush years you told me that there would be a TV star that sleeps with porn stars, golfs every weekend no matter what, has no filter when he speaks, is not part of the political establishment, and will create a Space Force branch of the Military
Oh man, oh man, I would be so excited about voting for this guy
And yet… here we are. Instead of fixing DC, he is making the swamp worse
thedudeman519
The US has a fair amount of cruel, mean and ignorant people. But worse than that? We have a fair percentage that just don't care.
MoveAlongNothingtoSeeHere
Twice
cytherians
Disinformation tsunami.
That's what did it. Some say it wouldn't matter if that report came out before the election, because people had already made up their minds based on lies they'd chosen to believe. But I think it would've made a difference.
Scout4truth
I’ve concluded he made a deal with Satan. No other legit reason for this train wreck.
ISayShenanigans
He totally sold his soul to the Devil. A long time ago. The way he lives and acts, he should have died from a heart attack, homeless or in jail, alone a long time ago.
Yet he still lives amongst us, wealthy, escaping punishment by a hair every time, and has half the country hanging on his every non sequitur word.
SilverHornet
Russia, so, close enough
aviselafin211
Absolutely! I remember watching the protests and dissenters in American streets when he first took office. I remember those protests starting to fizzle out but the embers never went cold. I knew much less of Trump then so didn't fully understand those who resisted, to use your words. Knowing what I think I know now about Trump and his followers then yes, you should continue to show your dissent but you must also persevere. Good luck.
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
It's not that he got voted in, it's just that shitcrusts decided to sit it out and decided it is not worth their effort to vote.
SilverHornet
There is a pretty high chance of Russia tipping it, but yeah, too many people stayed home, assuming -those- numbers are correct.
TrueLegateDamar
Those same people will then blame anyone but Trump and his freaks for their troubles. 'Well maybe Biden should lowered the price of eggs if he and Kamala wanted my vote!'
JayCrossing
"Kamala and Biden don't have a good policy about Israel! I'm not voting for them!" ...you really think Trump is gonna have a better stance on this? Fucking idiots
OriginalAndWitty
2 inches to the right... just two measly inches and the whole 'movement' would have taken a serious hit. I don't think Vance or anyone else could have matched the same... energy.
Schtaan
seen any ear scar??
Neurisko
The martyr movement and backlash might have been even worse.
aviselafin211
Perhaps it would have. It might have only been worse for Americans. Perhaps in the resulting chaos and confusion domestically, you guys would have been too busy self immolating to keep fucking around with Canada.
Neurisko
Canada's got its own problems with bigotry. They even have fans of the Felon.
aviselafin211
That's true. Recent polling has that number in the very low teens. Even fewer people like Trump than those who like Trudeau. Canada prefers its bigots to have nice hair and a touch of Laurentian accent.