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Hey old men, when your freaking eyebrows are “salt and pepper” lay off the shoe polish hair job, it looks fucking ridiculous.
And what in the fuck is that part?
This is Nathan Lane with a fake cigar and mustache you can’t fool me
Mos def, Nathan Lane. There is no other explanation.
That’s a mail order bride if I ever saw one.
The guy looks like a 1950’s comic book depiction of a greasy corporate crook.
She is literally a Real Housewife of Orange County 😅
I literally can’t tell if this is parody or reality at this point.
Homie looks like he’s spent time at Arkham.
It is the penguin from the batman universe
I was more thinking Gomez Addams, but lacking in class.
when a country votes for the “grab’em by the pussy” candidate TWICE, then reality is a parody of itself now . we’ve come full circle.
it doesn’t make anything better if you consider the “they obviously cheated” angle, because literally no one did literally anything to stop it
Oh it’s real. I just wonder if they did it this way with the sole purpose of confusing people or just general corruption.
Trump has been doing this fraud-in-plain-sight thing forever.
I’ve read comments that say it works because the defense is that it’s so obvious it can’t be deceitful. As in: if you wanted to hand $15m to a donor you’d find a secretive way to do it.
I personally believe it’s just learned ineptitude. He’s just deceitful at every turn and he’s never encountered any consequences so why would he change?
I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It’s almost cartoonish villainy.
Fiction has this stupid flaw where it needs to adhere to rules, reality does not.
Comedians all over the world have been complaining that Trump and his posse are stealing their jobs.
Was about to say. Source? I’ve gotten so jaded at this point.
“pictured here with a young women who agreed to accompany him after he twirled his moustache and threatened to tie her to the railroad tracks”
Dude definitely has a cartoon villain vibe.
It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
“Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it” is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.
It’s a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, crypto rugpulls, campaign finance violations, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don’t have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes between him & corporations which are less concrete.
People can either delude themselves into thinking it’s legitimate because they don’t understand financial stuff/how things typically worked before being massively corrupt, or because it’s initially just Trump making money (usually illegally) which is something they expect him to do and the illegality is difficult to explain or not very hard-hitting.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
Or because they don’t matter. It’s millions while the war is costing billions.
Well that’s a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money, which is bad, but that isn’t corruption. That’s just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.
All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn’t the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn’t necessary, but that’d just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.
Both things matter, and obviously the war matters more as it has cost innocent lives, they are not the same type of thing though.
Right. However if newspapers would start investigating the war expenses, don’t you think they would find billions wasted in corruption?
You thinking maybe we don’t trust the military-industrial complex? I Ike the way you think.
I think they are investigating that though, right? It’s just a different sort of story, requiring more reporting investment and more specialized reporters. I’ve seen lots of reporting on the war over the past months (humanitarian, economic, military, etc. etc.)
Obviously though most of that reporting is institutionalist, serves western interests, etc. I just don’t expect different from the corporate press
Is it stirring us up?
Or just making better memes than the war crimes, fascism and child rape?
It’s a nice change to mock him for something that is only a huge waste of time and money but doesn’t destroy all America’s credibility and world standing, hasn’t even irreparably harmed a natural habitat, and hasn’t killed anyone.
You can even listen to the Trump supporters on this topic because although they sound stupid they don’t horrify you.
What makes you think this wouldn’t undermine the credibility of the U.S.? It’s just as undignified as a cage fight in front of the White House. But hey, I can put your mind at ease—there’s no credibility left to undermine anyway, since the U.S. has already lost it all.
To the rest of the world, however, this has more to do with the fact that U.S. citizens are unable to remove from office a president who is not only incredibly corrupt but who also uses the state apparatus to make the unspeakable crimes he and his billionaire friends commit possible in the first place.
U.S. citizens may be willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes. The rest of the world will not put up with it.
In the long run, this will lead to the downfall of the U.S. If you need an example of this, just look at what has become of Russia after the oligarchs took complete control - btw, this was made possible with the support of the U.S. (Clinton had even sent campaign experts at the time to help Yeltsin stay in power).
The citizens of the remaining democratic nations do not want this, and that is why they particularly despise the U.S. citizens for the fact that they stand by and just watch even in the face of these inconceivable atrocities.
It shows all too clearly that even functioning democracies are not immune to the concentrated monstrosity that the U.S. represents with its inhumane capitalism.
This is what this regime has achieved, and one almost has to be grateful to it for that: It has exposed the U.S. for what this country has been for decades.
US citizens aren’t doing enough, but we aren’t entirely just watching, thousands of people have been imprisoned for things like lighting a trashcan on fire during a protest, or charged with terrorism for breaking some windows, numerous well known activists have been killed or went missing since 2020. For it’s entire history the US government and vigilantes with their backing have been murdering political opponents and subverting and co-opting political organizations, and our media landscape and political knowledge for many people has been completely distorted by propaganda. There are many despicable and racist people in the US, but many of us are doing the best we know how, and most don’t have the opportunity to stand up and pushback in a sincere way without losing our job, and therefore healthcare and home.
It certainly deserves ridicule but it’s a different level of credibility from defaulting on promised funding for vital projects around the world. It’s also Trump-specific.
Unlike later democracies, the US Constitution has no provision for deposing a President by the public, only impeachment by Congress. And it enshrines gerrymandering, which is how we got a Republican majority in Congress. Which is (with extra evil shenanigans) how we got hard-right maggots as 6/9 of the Supreme Court. So you are correct, we citizens who oppose him and them cannot get rid of him unless we wrest the majority in Congress. Which ain’t gonna be easy, see gerrymandering above. Surprisingly, the few who have tried assassination have been disappointed he wasn’t as far right as they wanted. It doesn’t mean everyone is “willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes.” If you’re advocating that I purchase a weapon, abandon my responsibilities here, travel 3,000 miles and attempts to assassinate him, may I point out that there’s nothing to that method which requires citizenship and you are equally likely to succeed as I?
100% right… which do you think average people will latch onto?
this one:
or this one:
COVFEFE!
Just Googled the guy. Yup, he does in fact look like a Gotham city villain.
So this is what they mean by the American dream?
Yep. Rich people are living the American dream while servers and bartenders get paid 2$ an hour.
“I have a hemorrhoid. It’s like an infected blood vessel on your ass. I’m nine years old, and I have a hemorrhoid, Stan. I have a hemorrhoid, and, Cartman has his own theme park.”
Fantastic ep. Cartman got what he deserved, unlike the magats (at least thus far)
[double take on picture]
Oh this guy was a regular on the island. No doubt.
similarities to cartoons strictly accidental
Is that even a real face? wtf
first thought: whats wrong with his eyebrows
then i realised, he forgot to dye them like his top hair andm mustache
Homie looks like an IRL penguin from batman
