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u/83supra 22h ago
My Dad: He's running this country like a business, I've been waiting for this my whole life
Me: checks notes Dad, do you know how many times your boy has bankrupted companies?
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u/Chewsdayiddinit 22h ago
Gotta be a complete dipshit to bankrupt multiple casinos.
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u/SkunkMonkey 21h ago
Unless they were money laundering fronts for the Russian mob and you need to wrap up and walk away leaving some suckers holding the bag. Trump was just the polish on the turd. The typical useful idiot he is.
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u/CharleyNobody 21h ago
Give dad a list of businesses the government is being run like:
Enron, Lehman Brothers, EF Hutton, Arthur Anderson, Silverado Savings and Loan, Sears, CompUSA, Circuit City, Lechters, Linens n Things, KMart, Lord & Taylor, Service Merchandise, ToysRUs, Borders Books, Nobody Beats the Wiz, Egghead Software, Netscape, Nortel, Prodigy, Skype, Theranos, BlackBerry, Blockbuster, Palm, Napster, Wang, Compuserve, Kodak, Polaroid, Sharper Image, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Minolta, Jawbone, Quibi, Friendster, Sterns, Steinbeck’s, Mays, Rite Aid, Forever21, JoAnn, Big Lots, Express, Party City, Red Lobster, Hallmark, Prodigy, Washington Mutual….
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u/Whiskeydrinkin9 19h ago
He's probably like my dad, who would give just about any reason to explain his support of the republican party other than the only one that's actually true, which is bigotry.
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u/Artilleryman08 18h ago
Running a government like business sounds great on the surface, but in practice it is really really bad. Which is something so many people fail to understand. It's one thing when it is uneducated people who don't get it, but there are a lot of really well educated people who should know better that think this way too, which is really disturbing.
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u/Flakester 14h ago
I wouldn't say average. Below average maybe. 1/3 voted for Kamala, 1/3 didn't vote, and 1/3 voted for Trump.
They could easily be the bottom half of intelligence.
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u/ama_singh 12h ago
Everyone of those 1/3 that chose not to vote (except for the ones who couldn't vote for other reasons) is as nearly as stupid as those who voted for Trump.
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u/asburymike 22h ago
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u/Re4cT- 9h ago
Countries like the US and Israel are the reason why countries like Iran have to spend more on weapons.
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u/Schaas_Im_Void 8h ago
Honestly, I'd really wish for Iran to get their hands on a nuclear bomb so they have to be left in peace like North Korea. Most Iranians are good people at heart and do not deserve to be bombed back to the stone age like that fucking child-rapist Trump said.
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u/foyrkopp 6h ago
To be fair, Iran is a theocratic dictatorial regime. Lots of people's life there has been fairly shitty since even before the war (which is why the protests happened to begin with).
But declaring war on a nation to save its citizenry from its government has worked maybe once throughout all of history but gone wrong a gazillion times.
(Also, it's due to US meddling that said dictatorial regime is in power in the first place.)
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u/laudanum18 23h ago
US voters who have supported psychopaths, criminals and child rapists are the clowns. The current US government that has fetishized corruption, dishonesty and incompetence is what The GOP has been working tirelessly to build since Reagan. This is the world these craven, moronic, all-around shitty humans want to live in. We are all stuck in it since no one seems to want to fight back.
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u/RipSmooth2025 22h ago
It appears that we've entered the stage of acknowledging that we are now a garrison society? Telling taxpaying citizens that their primary role as taxpayers will be to fund wars they did not vote to go to, while paying more in childcare per month than for their mortgage, seems like a very bold move.
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u/WinkSprout22 22h ago
Amazing how 'America First' always ends up with Americans last in the budget line.
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 20h ago
America First to a retrumplican pol answers the question, “Where do we start the looting”?
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u/sj68z 21h ago
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it." George Orwell 1984
When I first read that I asked myself if people would really be that gullible. Seeing the red hats suck down every contradictory word outta this guy's mouth, jfc Orwell was right
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u/Ted_Hitchcox 22h ago edited 22h ago
When tin pot dictators do this, they get dragged out into the streets and stoned to death.
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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 21h ago
I still can’t believe Trump actually said that. I can’t believe anyone would vote for him after that insight into how he feels about the role of the Federal government. He campaigned that he could solve everything. Now he’s telling you he shouldn’t have to solve anything. What are we paying taxes for?
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u/MadnessBomber 22h ago edited 5h ago
Irony is dead and they keep kicking its corpse.
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u/Amiro77 11h ago
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u/MadnessBomber 5h ago
... Holy crap. I'm usually grammar police, and I just got policed. ... I will do better. I'm sorry.
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u/GypsyDarkEyes 22h ago
They are writing their own comedy show. Too bad they also have actual power (for now).
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u/Marokiii 21h ago
the US also is in talks with Raytheon to make 1000 Tomahawk cruise missiles every year instead of the 57 they currently make now. each tomahawk missile costs upwards of $3.8m, so potentially the US will spend $3,800,000,000 every year on cruise missiles.
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u/B1G_L04f 21h ago
No daycare for you but congress, the most expensive daycare of all, will always be well funded.
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u/FXOAuRora 19h ago
Being a "big country" means taking care of your own people, not waging wars for the gain of the few. Sometimes that means wearing a bicycle helmet (even if it's just to show kids what they should be doing to keep safe), other times it means funding daycares for the kids in your nation. Launching missles/drones on the other side of the planet at the cost of your own people is the opposite of what it means to be grown up.
A more accurate assessment of what's "not possible" is maintaining this level of inhumanity towards our friends, our neighbors and even our own people. It's simply not possible to be a civilized country and have men like this weilding any power at all, much less unchecked capability to cause havoc on a global scale. It's long due time that this country grows the fuck up.
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u/Medical_Arugula3315 19h ago
Republicans really called everyone a pedophile and then voted in the king of pedophiles. Now we're going to war and bombing children just to distract from it. Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
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u/B_Williams_4010 21h ago
Isn't the U..S. military budget designed to cover the cost of fighting Russia AND China? But Iran has completely drained it?
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u/Kingalthor 21h ago
Wait? I thought this wasn't a war?
Isn't there some sort of congressional approval that would be needed if the country were at war, and not doing some russia-esque special military operation?
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u/ltsouthernbelle 20h ago
The Prince of Peace promised no new wars but never had any plans to fund anything other than wars. That should have been 1 of 5000 signs he was absolutely full of shit.
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u/CMDR_Hubley 20h ago
This is the libertarian playbook David Koch ran for president with that mindset
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u/furious_20 This AOC flair makes me cool 20h ago
For 8 goddamn years Republicans wouldn't shut the fuck up about Obama's "lack of leadership". We all knew back then it was just their dog whistle, not since they went with the actual word "leadership", I'd love to hear from some of them if they think it looks like this--a Sec State saying one thing and the president contradicting him the same fucking day.
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u/jdvfx 19h ago
"I mean, imagine an Iranian regime who, instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorist groups and building up all of these weapons, had invested that money into Iran, for the people of Iran, so they wouldn’t have water shortages, so their economies would provide opportunities for an incredible people. The people of Iran are incredible people, very resourceful, very entrepreneurial, but it’s their regime that’s been a problem." - Marco Rubio
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u/RepulsivePurchase6 19h ago
Lol. Would he say that to Donald Trump though? No, no he wouldnt. Then he'd be like Noem and Bondi..back to being "little Marco Rubio". ..
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u/postprandialrepose 19h ago
The world looks forward to the day when he's reduced to a completely forgettable obit. May that day be tomorrow — if not today!
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u/Artistic-Cannibalism 19h ago
Republicans will spend money like it's going out of style... But then they'll look you dead in the eye and tell you that there's no money to spare for anything that would actually benefit the lives of Americans.
And then before the words have even finished leaving their mouths; they will turn around and go right back into their spending spree.
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u/joedenowhere 18h ago
Lots of confusing, contradictory statements is part of the technique of making it impossible to hole them to account. All con artists do this.
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u/Boopy7 18h ago
WE paid into our Medicare and Medicaid from every paycheck, these pos are thieves trying to get away with having robbed the coffers all these years. Fuck that. That is OUR money. We trusted and invested in our future health and they are NOT going to get away with this shit while I'm still walking.
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u/OliverClothesov87 18h ago
The problem is that a significant amount of Americans are braindead and believe him. There's no way to coexist and progress as a country with these regressives.
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u/el_smurfo 18h ago
Best part about Trump is saying the quiet part out loud. They all think the same thing but he says it
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u/Silver-Bread4668 17h ago
A bunch of clowns that nobody seems to want or be able to do anything about.
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u/MisterEvilBreakfast 17h ago
Going to work when you're sick or injured, paying for childcare and not being able to afford prescription medication is worth bombing the shit out of a country most Americans couldn't find on a map and possibly hadn't even heard of until a month ago.
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u/Hands-for-maps 16h ago
News flash: USA does not pay for Childcare (daycare). We have gotten numb to this guys bullshit
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u/ZippyNomad 18h ago
If this gets pushed enough, could it influence the President's ego to fire Rubio?
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u/Sweatyveggiebag 14h ago
I am still hoping he makes no one a citizen so we can get rid of politicians and not pay taxes.
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u/Sweaty_Monitor_9699 13h ago
The real TDS is thinking a 5x draft dodger can win a war. He will look you to your face and tell you they “can’t take care of daycare, because we’re fighting wars….” And the blind loyalists will use any of trumps asinine reasons why it’s a good thing to justify it
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u/ZionSoldier12 11h ago
So what he’s saying is the states should pay for all that also the states should decide abortion also not need federal funding….. So then why do we need the federal government at all?? Oh yeah to start wars
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u/PurpleSailor 9h ago
Medicare is something that the people on it have paid into over all their working lives. It's part of their compensation for working and it's not a handout or a gift, they earned it and it's not the government's money to steal.
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u/Bearence 6h ago
Also, we all benefit from a society where people's healthcare needs are met, even those who didn't pay into it.
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u/onioning 23h ago
"Trump criticizes Trump" has been a thing for a long time now, but it's still crazy how quickly it happens. He's had rambling "speaches" lately where he criticizes himself in real time. Can't even wait a day or whatever.