• ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      If only Trump’s core supporting demographic were educated enough to both get the reference and the joke…

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    3 months ago

    American taxpayers funding a parade for a felon rapist traitor who’s destroying our economy and nuking the middle class.

    What a wonderful country we have.

    Home of the brave my fucking ass.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Clear out the parking lot around The Ellipse and have them drive around that. Make sure he is facing away from the center so he cant see them circle around, and just keep going until he is tuckered out and gets tucked into bed.

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    3 months ago

    They’re going to try to scramble it together last minute so newspapers can’t blast out the several hundred million dollar price tag before it goes down.

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      3 months ago

      There is a standing army. Where do the costs come from? Like flyovers, it will be an exercise.

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        Last time they refused to release the cost breakdown, but quoted 93 million (but that one sounded smaller).

        So other than expenses faced by any parade, I don’t know details. Transporting the vehicles, road prep and repair (city cost seemed like a big part of it), they might all get paid for anything not routine.

        Either way, captain bonespurs can run a parade up his own ass

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    Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

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      Anyone who hasn’t watched Charlie Chaplin’s The Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and was trying to impress him at every occasion.

      This is totally what is Trump is trying to do with Putin right now.

      • buwho@lemmy.ml
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        is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

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          https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

          Yes.

          Literally Hitler.

          ‘My New Order’, a collection of Hitler’s speeches up through 1939.

          Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

          Did people not know about this or forget this?

          Trump literally routinely read Hitler’s speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

          Lefties who were politically active during Trump’s 2015 campaign were… fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed ‘You’re just calling him a fascist because everything you don’t like is fascist’ at us.

          Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn’t know this?

          Or are you just younger and/or weren’t so politically involved a decade ago?

        • Tiger@sh.itjust.works
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          I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.

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            My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.

            He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.

            He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.

            I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.

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                Pretty much the exact same except that Hitler was a hardened war veteran, and Trump has been a conman all his life. Most of Trump’s cons were stupid and failed, but never quite hard enough for him to ever see consequences.

                Hitler also went to prison for his coup attempt. It was a daycare style prison, but he still went.

                Other than that, the similarities are striking. Likely because the only book that Trump in known to have read, is a copy of all of Hitler’s speeches.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          i mean. i guess. it’s titled “my daddy never hugged me and kept me away from my mom, whom he may or may not have effectively purchased on account of how incredibly impoverished she was”

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          Yeah there’s a bunch of history books. My mom had a collection of history books on the second world war with accounts of what happened and the atrocities committed.

          You just have to take notes in a notebook and call it Project 2025.

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          there’s a playbook, for sure. it’s not officially published, but every d-bag like this gets a copy

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        Just for the historical record, here’s Mussolini’s last public appearance:

        Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

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    someone on lemmy mentioned that Trump’s economic policies are north korea’s juche and it is all shaping up that was

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      Yeah, the famously lavish North Korean standard of living. “Gonna feast on rat.”

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    hope he rides in that ol 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible “X-100”

    ik the cia prolly still has one in storage.

    edit:1*961

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    The USA is extremely lucky that Trump is 79 years old. Imagine if he were 40. By the time he turned 79, they would be living in a totalitarian dictatorship. The luck is that they will suffer for another 6-7 years. Yes, Trump will have a third term, in three years there will be no free media or independent judiciary. The public administration will be turned into mindless voters. All critics will suffer the fate of the oppositionists in Russia and will become “allergic to windows”. Forget about democracy. Land of the bigots and the home of the bully.

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      He can (and has) done plenty of permanent damage. I don’t think age is doing us as many favors as you think. He can put us in the exact same position in 4 years a younger dictator would.

      The only difference is whether or not the US can recover some actual semblance of the democracy it once was. The world is already turning away from us and I sincerely doubt we’ll be welcomed back should trump no longer be president. They forgave us his first term, but the second term with him openly threatening other countries is a line that cannot be uncrossed. With us being held at arm’s length it will be all but impossible to recover our position in the world as well as mend our democracy.

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        And In the end it’s not really on him alone, there are far too many of us who WANT to be isolated and aggressive because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking were untouchable, despite the fact that “America’s become weak thanks to all the gays and feelings” and “kids these days never worked a real job”. The double think is insanity

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        The reputation that America lost is gone for good. It will take a colossal effort and time, and these people who caused the problems are not going anywhere. They will continue to cause problems and oppose any solution no matter what.

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        My hope is, if we can win and put the maga cult out of its misery, we can change this country significantly so nothing like this happens again. Then, and only then, can we begin to rebuild some trust.

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      Trump has been called a super ager by some people. That means despite a highly unhealthy lifestyle he has managed to remain active and functional despite all else.

      Don’t think he could just drop dead tomorrow. While I am sure millions of people would like it if he died suddenly of a heart attack or stroke, that probably isn’t going to happen. Kissenger lived to be 100 despite not being much of a healthy looking guy for decades, and his slurring speech patterns were widely mocked as early as the 90s. I am not sure if anyone who wrote his Freakazoid appearance in the 90s ever thought he would live as long as he did.

      What I am ultimately saying is that he might make it to 90 and still keep going.

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        Please, this isn’t the kind of information I wanted today. I eat one mcdouble and feel cardiac arrest behind me and this guy can eat them on the daily

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          I am very sorry about that, and it fucking sucks. Although one thing I find funny (in a bitter manner) is how Alex Jones once said that the elites of the world don’t eat the same food as we do on a fundamental level. He was invoking a Stalinesque form of paranoia (Stalin really did have special farms for him personally that were staffed entirely by NKVD members), but what Trump is doing should have fundamentally laid that to rest. He is a garbage eater but still survives. Inactive, and with a foul temper that would have raised anyone’s blood pressure levels to dangerous levels but he still just lives.