“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.

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[–] 196 points 5 months ago (18 children)

At this point the problem isn't him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He's a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.

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  • [–] 90 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I've been saying for a while until we get rid of Peter Thiel and the other Epstein class members things won't get better. Trump is a symptom not the problem. It'll be cathartic setting him gone but it won't fix things.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You won’t get rid of those people under the current system. You will need a revolution before the capitalist owner class is touchable.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    When this is over, we have to purge MAGA from our government and our society, and reconfigure our country so that the wealthy understand that they keep their fortunes at the pleasure of the Citizens, and that fortune is required to serve the Citizens. The moment their priority shifts to increasing profit at the expense of the Citizens, their entire fortune is confiscated, their corporations nationalized, and they are imprisoned.

    We do not work for them, they work for us.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    The whole system needs an overhaul. There's no way to trust the system anymore

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I mean when he still has 44% approval ratings, half of America or more is to blame.

    It's just insane.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    NYT has his aggregate approval/disapproval is 38%/59%. CNN has him at 35%/63%.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago*

    Exactly. Find the person in the chain that wants to live. Flip them. Then seriously, about 5-15k people need to be executed for treason. Were beyond the 'lEtS m00vE fOWrd' phase.

    Let's have justice. Let us practice justice. Let us execute justice, or there will never be peace

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The people in power are also all the voters who see this behaviour, who see the obvious lies(even for them in their echo chambers it’s hard to miss some of this), and who continue to support not only him, but conservatism in general. It has never worked, yet they keep saying “ok, so once again it is conservatism that has produced this loser but he’s not a real conservative so I’m gunna keep supporting the POS factory.”

    We can argue about the racism, the sexism, the classism, and all that for a real long time but ultimately a few evil people won’t last against a population that actually cares and a few caring people won’t last against a population that allows themselves to be duped by obvious racism, sexism, etc.

    The GOP, for all their evil and election fraud, still would not win a single election if the people of the US said “no.”

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  • [–] [S] 57 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Malignant narcissists don't give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he's a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he's happy as a clam.

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    "He's just trolling the media, he actually deeply cares about me."

    • MAGA cultists
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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago*

    The only thing he has EVER cared about is getting his own rocks off. Be it raping children or robbing people blind, if you have EVER thought he gives even a fraction of a shit about you, you're the idiot.

    To extend this thinking, he doesn't give a shit about his country either, clearly. It's just about what's in it for him. He is the worst president we have ever had by an order of magnitude. Eventually others will figure this out.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    MAGA doesn't care. Trump phrases things to sound like "you're not a REAL American unless you believe what I tell you."

    So now, "not letting Iran have a nuclear weapon" is it. If you aren't "smart" enough to know that's more important than anything else, you're a loser and a traitor.

    They will never turn on Trump. Never. Gas could be $7.00 a gallon. They will just regurgitate whatever they are told, and the blame will be put on whoever they're trying to discriminate against.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Then the strategy is identify and eliminate. Gas leaks kill thousands every year. Even a small amount of drain cleaner comprised of hydraulic acid can be placed discretely but have catastrophic impacts

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Trump only cares about Trump. The only possible exception to that is his complete and abject servility to Putin.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Point I always make to people who do not believe this: it does not matter if he officially works for him or not..

    Result is the exact same. He's just not getting paid for it by Putin. Soooo.. bad deal.... :-)

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    This was obvious since at least the 1980s.

    For anyone even paying the slightest bit of attention.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    We already knew that. At least dementia donnie can't hold back the truth any longer.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    and now you know why I'm "racist" against m/billionaires.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    And yet the morons keep worshipping him.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    The response from MAGA: "LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU!! TOO BUSY OWNING THE LIBS LA LA LA LA LA!!!"

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    We noticed a long while ago.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Lmao, I'll be sure to use this line when I'm near maga cunts.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    And his base still believes he cares and will fight each other to change his diaper.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The mask/pretense is slipping off...
    Until someone else shoves it back in position when the midterms get closer....

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Always duplicitous. On one side he says he’ll lower gas prices, on the other he just DGAF about people.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Rare honesty

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    These are gift-wrapped, made-for-midterm-attack-ad comments, and the political sphere reacted as such.

    No, because MAGA sees Iranians as brown, so it's fine to bomb them.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Say the fucking line, conservatives: god uses imperfect tools and his ways are higher than ours, hallelujah amen 😖

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Sure; he’s got his, fuck everyone else.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The pocketbooks of all his dumb progeny always seem to factor into his decision making so he lies again, he does care!

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    Hope his burns

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    This is the correct thing to say, no matter what he might actually think. The less that he appears to be concerned about the cost of the war, the stronger his negotiating position against Iran is.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    oh man. Do you really think Iran is strategising their negotiations around things Trump says to the media?

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I presume they are evaluating all his actions in order to estimate how much domestic disapproval he's willing to tolerate. They're won't be convinced that he will tolerate a lot simply by him saying so (since that's what he would always say if he was rational) but if he were saying that he was very worried about prices going up, that could be significant to them (which is why he shouldn't do it).

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Thats not how Trump works though. He just says whatever dumb thing has been on his mind in the last 15 minutes.

    Yesterday he was saying fuel prices have come down.

    Every other day hes been declaring the Strait open.

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    [–] [S] 31 points 5 months ago

    Malignant narcissists don’t give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he’s a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he’s happy as a clam.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's amazing how he talks about his supporters compared to how he talks to them, but what really blows my mind is how they just keep taking it.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    No fucking shit. It's like saying lions care about the animals they eat

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    It’s true the US government cannot control gasoline prices in a global market, unless you take military actions that directly impact the global supply chain of petroleum.

    Amazing stuff

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    And if democrats hadn't spent the last half of 2024 pretending that everything was fine while people couldn't afford groceries, they might have some solid ground from which to criticize this.

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