• sandbox
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    They might think this is edgy but it’s actually very damaging to the US. Not only will no other country ever take this administration seriously, but if the government breaks their own laws, then other countries will also feel comfortable breaking laws

  • RejZoR
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    Imagine official government account tweeting shit like edgy teenager. How can any country of the world take America seriously?

    Also they themselves admitted it was a mistake and now thry are furiously claiming he was achtually a drug warlord and he’s not coming back to USA. They aren’t fucking serious.

  • ssillyssadass
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    I imagine Nazi Germany would have made very similar Tweets if Twitter was around back then.

        • @werty@sh.itjust.works
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          I will watch it on tikkyok for the lolz, through some kind of non tikytoky interface that protects me from elon musk or google or whoever owns the stream. Maybe eztv.

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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    The most heavily armed country in the world is run by someone with the emotional intelligence of a rhubarb and a cohort of sycophants. This is gonna bode well.

  • @Bosht@lemmy.world
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    The fact an official gov channel is posting this kind of childish shit is abhorrent and embarrassing. If I pulled shit like this at my job I’d be thrown out. Fucking slime.

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        It’s… dystopian…

        We’ve already used up our big words in February. Supercynical “I have no words” in March.

        Now, the horror getting worse every day has become the new normal coming out of the US, every day, steady as a slow machine gun.

        Had I known how much worse it’s going to get I’d have saved up some words during the first months.

      • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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        Nah in Dystopias the megacorps and evil governments tend to be intelligent and refined with armored limousines and some sense of style, even the glutenous autocrat steriotype tends to have a kind of weird refinement or at least be intelligent enough to not be ridiulous in public, or at least in the presence of a large number of guys with guns who can look meaningfully at anyone who might laugh.

        What this is, is some weird idiocracy shit only without any of the redeeming characteristics of the people in that film.

        • @huppakee@lemm.ee
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          Actually, dystopia is basically a ‘bad’ (dys-) ‘place’ (-topia). So the common view of what a dystopia looks like is not the only way it can look. Being ruled by dumb toddlers that break everything in their way is a very different dystopia than one with evil megacorps but it is still quite dystopian to me.

        • Rhaedas
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          Thank you for using Idiocracy in the correct context. I hate always seeing it used as-is without any caveats.

    • @SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know how to express this feeling I have properly so bear with me. I kinda hate the reference of political office as a job. It’s not really a job. It’s a position of societal power. One that should come with, frankly, deadly consequences when people in that position of power start talking like this. This is a branch of the government saying fuck the courts and their decision. There should be blood over that. Equating it to a job just rubs me wrong. Not to shit on you, I have no problem with what you said, I agree with it even. Just expressing general thoughts

      • @Infinite@lemmy.zip
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        113 days ago

        Yeah, a duty to hundreds of millions of people and the future, that one has to volunteer for and convince a plurality of their fitness for… not just a job that you should be able to neglect, let alone subvert.

      • @Liberteez@lemm.ee
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        Comments like this get deleted off reddit and the user flagged by the admins.

        Btw I’m new here

      • @hector@sh.itjust.works
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        That’s actually how democracy is understood in France ! The office you hold is a privilege and a responsibility : executive power delegated to you by the will of the people, underpinned by the rule of law.

        You know your country political idea/marketplace of idea is turning to shit when the majority yearn for a providential man that will fix all their problem with the magic wand of repression and prejudice.

    • @dryfter@lemm.ee
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      I didn’t notice who posted it on X until I read your comment and I just…I’m shocked I am shocked by this because I feel like I’ve been getting numb to the stupidity of the last ~4 months

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    Are all Republicans this childish and petty?

    Edit: And this is the official White House account as well.

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      This is what they want. See, Trump is utterly destroying America’s economy and nucleus of global hegemony. The people are in for increasingly tough circumstances as China just stops trading with America, and all previous allies start to shun the country. Trump is trying to grow the US military to start his fascist wars of conquest both south and north. This will also put the people in increasingly dire circumstances, both with the massive amount of death involved in such a conflict and in the mass reallocation of resources towards war efforts. He can’t talk about those things openly to the people because he’d have to admit their lives are going to get significantly worse. So, what can he do instead?

      He can do the same thing he’s been doing the entire time. Build a fervore for ethnic cleansing and eugencist racialist politics. The people are trained to lap it up without even thinking, and they get genuinely itchy for their next fix. Who’s the minority we’re hating today? Who’s the person of color we’re going to commit vile acts of cruelty on today? Where do I direct my homicidal rage at the threat to my inherent superiority today? This is how they are. Every single day, Fox News, Twitter, and the White House all come together to deliver. They fill the bowl, and the bigots heads are down gorging themselves on it while their own lives are horrifically torn apart around them.

      It doesn’t matter what else he’s doing. He’s fighting DEI. He’s putting black people and women in their place. He’s making immigrants, muslims, jews, and the queers afraid again. His support base is unyielding. We know they will never yield because fascists never do. Even decades after the end of World War 2, many former SS and former Nazi supporters STILL thought Hitler was sent from God and that everything he did was right. Even as Soviet bombs were falling on their heads. The ardent supporters of fascism will support it literally until they die. They loved that Hitler was committing genocide. They loved that he was cruel and inhuman. They admired how the image he portrayed so neatly fit with their patriarchal worldview. Its why they supported him to begin with. Economy this, nationalism that, but down to the line it was all about cruelty.

      Are the people who support these kinds of tweets petty and childish? Absolutely they are. This isn’t even about pettiness though. This is what they voted for. They voted for people of color to suffer. They voted for immigrants to suffer. If it came out tomorrow that he died in that hellhole they’d all cheer.

    • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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      Remember when you have been 16 and you fell for every single rage bait there is on the internet, wasting your next 2-3 years on defending gaming and your virginity from SJWs and radical feminism?

      Imagine you never grew out of that. That’s your modern day republican.

    • @Absaroka@lemmy.world
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      Childish and petty? Or “winning”?

      I feel like a corner piece of the puzzle of MAGA is feeling like some how sending a brown Maryland father to El Salvador makes them feel better about their shitty lives. It’s a superiority thing.

      And some how Trump and Fox News have convinced them that they share in the victories of guys like Mush and Trump enriching themselves.

      My mom said something completely asinine (and factually false) once.

      “I’m way too successful to be a Democrat.”

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        If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

        • Lyndon Johnson
    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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      They’re actually not.

      A lot of them are, and definitely the ones online 24/7.

      But trump having the actual official White House communicate like this does add up and will hurt Republican votes.

      trump isoving to fast and it’s what’s gonna end up stopping it. It’s why I hate when people act like trump is the problem, if he died today Vance takes over and they do the same evil shit, just smarter about it

      • osaerisxero
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        While not the problem, Trump is still a problem. Vance doesn’t command the loyalty of the cult in the same way that Trump does. His closest successor in that regard is Musk.

        • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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          If trump dies in office he doesn’t have to have cult backing.

          But he is more conservative than HW, and HW got the win after Reagan.

          Vance was groomed to lead this movement he even got set up with his wife by the “Tiger Mom” at Yale and then she got the wife SC clerkships.

          People are underestimating Vance just like they did trump

          Hillary pushed him to run because she thought he’d be the worst, and it backfired spectacularly. Don’t assume Vance can’t grab the reigns when crazier shit is literally happening as I type this.

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            Vance was groomed to lead this movement

            If you want some fun tin-foil conspiracy thing, there’s one I heard that I both find entirely plausible AND actually believe.

            Basically, when (not an if) Trump dies or is otherwise removed, Vance will come out as the ‘We’ve had a hard time, what with our last president being a batshit insane rot brained moron. I’m going to undo the worst of his decisions, and get MAGA back on Track’.

            And presto, we now have moved to the competent dear leader part of this whole play, and everyone from creepy neocons to the bleeding heart-ist liberals will applaud and say what a lovely thing this is, and all this change is good!

            Except it’s the same shit, just sane washed, because it’s not hard to be LESS insane than the Tangerine.

  • @LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    Omg. I just realized this is really from The white house???!!??

    I thought this was some stupid meme… Omg

    I just can’t even…omg

  • FLeX
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    The MAGA-sect comments are really frightening. Big resemblance to the Waffen-SS supporters like back in the day.

  • @humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    They had their chance to show MS 13 gang membership in court, and failed. Screaming it over from podiums/media doesn’t make it true, or a basis for jail/death camps.

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    I think this is going to hurt the White House in the long run. By smearing these people individually, they are highlighting the fact that they are actual humans with life stories, rather than a swarm invading the country.

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    So…

    When he does come back, how fucking weak and stupid is Trump going to look?

    He seems to think this is some liberal bullshit, he doesn’t even realize that he’s crossed the line

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      I’m remembering his full-page ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.

      Garcia and his family have slam-dunk civil cases against Trump in both his personal and professional capacities.

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          Even if the courts are all in, you need someone in law enforcement willing to act against him.

          Jack Smith is out of office.

          • @Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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            FYI, Federal Justices can hire special prosecutors & deputize citizens as federal marshals, they don’t actually need the DoJ to administer justice.

            The Presidental pardon is the only issue here, but kidnapping is also a state crime.

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              They would have to declare him illegitimate and thus intelligible to grant pardon. Which he is under the 14th amendment.

              They would also need to ignore the supreme court, but if we ever get that far, it goes without saying.

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                The president cannot pardon a state crime. Kidnapping is both a state and a federal crime. If convicted in state court, the president is powerless to pardon.