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[–] 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's the biggest baby in history. Someone else getting anything makes him angry, so he steals it. He's the ultimate child who blows out someone else's birthday candles.

    His cult worships a petulant child and it's all projection.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago

    Wait. This is not the onion?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    Complete. Fucking. Embarrassment.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The uber (edit: eldritch?) baby boomer steals his literal participation trophy, to make everything all about him, while angrily rejecting all criticism and calls for accountability for his many crimes.

    He really is the perfect boomer.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mar-a-lago is on track to become the next Versailles. When he hoards enough, the people will go in and reclaim it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It already basically IS the next Versailles. Versailles was built as a huge, ostentatious show of wealth and power over the aristocracy, so Louis XIV could show that he held all the power. By making all these fancy nobles drag their asses out to the middle of nowhere (at the time - the city effectively grew up to support the palace) and stay there for weeks or months at a time, often without proper accommodations (quite literally you would set up camp in the gardens or wherever you thought you could get away with it - if you stayed in the palace proper, you were quite high in status), you flexed serious power over them, especially when they felt they NEEDED to attend all these balls and galas and symposiums and concerts that were constantly happening there so you could stay in the King's favor.

    Any of this sounding familiar?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    https://www.cadtm.org/The-evolution-of-wealth-inequalities-over-the-last-two-centuries

    http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/equality/pdf/F4.pdf

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-1s-share-of-u-s-wealth-over-time-1989-2024/

    Wealth held by top 1%:

    Pre-Revolutionary France; ~60%

    Current Day USA; ~31%

    Wealth held by bottom 50%:

    Pre-Revolutionary France; ~3%

    Current Day USA; ~2%

    ...

    Now you may notice that modern day US doesn't seem as bad as Versaille, the ratio isn't as bad, right?

    Well...

    A lot of that bottom 50% has negative net wealth. They are 'underwater' on not their house, but their entire life.

    https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2023/demo/p70br-183.pdf

    https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/thirteen-million-us-households-have-negative-net-worth-will-they-ever-move-from-debt-to-wealth/

    From the 2021 Census, that's estimated at about 10%, or 1/5 of that bottom 50%.

    So that means the bottom 10% have negative net wealth, the next 40% have some positive number (zero is a postive number rofl), and all that amalgamates to just a bit over 2%.

    ... and uh, now the entire economy is crashing so hard that net wealth, overall, broadly, is falling.

    (ignore the editorializing, just sourcing the data)

    https://www.investopedia.com/us-household-wealth-fell-for-the-first-time-in-2-years-here-s-why-it-s-not-a-big-deal-11757054

    Oh right, and every now has to pay back their student loans, and food stamps are getting cut to the bone, and no more medicare, and massive cuts to Section 8.

    So basically, that bottom 10%?

    Homeless, dead, extremely literal debt slave of some kind, or imprisoned for crimes due to trying to not die while also having no money, something like that.

    Its possible by the end of this year, end of next year, that 50% bottom overall wealth figure for the US could be around or under 1%... from the poor accumulating cost and debts, and the wealthy seeing their stock portfolios 'melt up', as the dollar falls against other currencies further than the ~10% its already fallen halfway through 2025.

    Then we have the Versaille ratio.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Stole himself a participation trophy

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    If you read it he didn't steal it, apparently FIFA gave it to him for a bribe and the FIFA president shafted the players with a replica

    With how corrupt the FIFA organization is, I could see them doing this

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It clearly doesn't make sense that the FIFA would spend a small fortune on creating a trophy, only to give the winner a replica. It is concerning to me that you still take Trump's word at face value, no matter how obvious and self-serving the lie.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you have any idea how insanely corrupt and nonsensical FIFA is?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    I have no doubt that FIFA bribes everyone, including Trump. It's just in this particular instance that, if it was their intent to bribe Trump with a trophy, they would have created a second one with real gold instead of giving Chelsea a replica. It seems much more likely that Trump just stole it and FIFA didn't raise a stink about it in order to preserve relations.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is this another thing he did to distract from the Epstein files?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trump: "I love goooooooooold!"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    A real class act.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago
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    Daily Beast in world news....

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had no idea the company that made 24 identical video games interacted with presidents

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This person thinks the FIFA organization operates a video game development studio.

    The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.

    FIFA is a defunct football simulation video game franchise developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and published by EA Sports.

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