You know what I would do if I was president?
Curl up under the desk in the oval office and cry because I have no idea how to run a country.
You'd be doing better than some past presidents at least
Wasn't there one that died, like, a week into office because he was too cool to see a doctor or something dumb like that?
Nah, he saw a doctor, but because it was 1841 the treatment for his flu/pneumonia/septic shock from the White House having tainted water was: bloodletting, forced vomiting, opium, laudanum, and brandy.
If I was President I’d be taking so much anxiety medication and sobbing regularly over how difficult it is to do it ethically and to create lasting improvements to the country while everyone demands my soul in exchange for their vote in favor of necessary changes to our society, especially of the environmental sort.
Absolutely everyone believes him. The people that say that he means something other than what he's saying believe him but don't want to be stuck with the image that they're okay with it.
Imagine having to even respond to that....
"Yeah he means it and I'm voting for all that shit!"
Or
"He doesn't mean that, he just lies to us to get our votes and I'm voting for him!"
Either way you're a fucking moron... Those dumb fucking people are going to set us back so much further than we already have been...
That's very not true. And it's honestly scarier. I work about ten minutes from Trump's first assassination attempt.
My boss is a good Christian who didn't know that fascism is a far right ideology.
They're in their own echo chamber, just like we are. They just don't understand that their echo chamber leads to a Hitler 2.0.
And to clarify to you specifically and the three-ish people that upvoted me, on a weekly basis he helps a 40 year old dude with multiple sclerosis do history homework, and they were covering the second world war. He read the Wikipedia of fascism, and he literally said that he had no idea it was a right wing ideology.
What can I glean from that? I have no fucking clue. Fuck Nazis, fuck republicans. I can only hope that there is a large group of people voting conservative who dont understand the consequence of this next election. Because if you're right than like 40% of the country are bigots, and even if the Democrats win, we're *still fast tracking to collapse
You can always take solace that you weren't down voted.
When you're talking about a set as large as 40 to 50% of the US there will always be exceptions. This exceptions will be numerous yet statistically and significant.
When someone says absolutely every one of the US is X, it's almost always going to be a representation of the truth rather than the actual truth.
Image of the print edition: https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113381009092507755
The New York Times downplayed his racist, sexist and violent rhetoric and doing "both sides" shit for the last 8 years (the best word I have heard to describe this is "sanewashing")... and now they are coming out with this?
Fuck the New York Times.
Let's be honest. There is litterally no situation where you should ever believe a thing trump says.
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I find this very funny. Can we get an Obama awarding himself meme in here?
Especially with the context from the wiki saying the opposite lol
Well thats confusingly transparant.
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