• snooggums@lemmy.world
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      Also leftists who refused to vote at all because Harris didn’t solve the Middle East conflicts from the Vice President’s desk.

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        Wait wait wait… So you’re saying the vice president isn’t the same as the queen and can’t just do whatever she wants?

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        I voted for Harris, because I believe in trying to be practical and try to reduce harm, but I also won’t even think of speaking ill of those who refused to endorse genocide just because the other guy might do genocide without the pathetic finger-wagging the Biden administration did as they handed over more and more and more bombs. It was a hard choice, and I chose pragmatics and harm reduction, but I also know that some fucking dweeb in the DNC is going to read that number as an endorsement signal for the platform of “genocide is okay as long as we tut at them while we hand them bombs”.

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        talk about a revisionist take. the ask was to promise to enforce american laws regarding arm sales to isreal. but you do you mate. enjoy your trump presidency you certainly earned it.

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      The economy was predicted to do worse under Trump, as was/is inflation and housing prices.

      What absolute fucking dumbasses voted for this guy for economic reasons?

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      Hey, tbh, I’m fine with him focusing on things like this and trying to buy Greenland. It’s much rather he spend his time on theater than on actually hurting people

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        He’s trying to get things like this and Greenland in the headlines so that he can do the actually harmful things without too much notice.

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          No, he has no idea what the real agenda is. He actually thinks this bullshit matters. That’s exactly why he was installed in the position of president.

          The guy is like, literally borderline retarded. Quit giving that asshole credit.

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            You are both right. Trump is the distraction and incapable of working on an agenda. He needs the people in the background. But he is capable of understanding what he is doing. And he likes it.

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        This is what Trump does day to day, spouting random made up shit on a whim. My guess is that it was ad libbed and there is no legislation, the whole renaming thing is probably news to his speech writer/diaper changer/whatever they call the person that tries to get him to talk about something specific.

        The horrible shit is orchestrated by all the malicious fucks around him who can focus on one topic for more than 5 minutes.

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      Love how these commenters are all offended by a thing that will never get off the ground, or be heard again.

      Y’all were around for the first time, right?

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    But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. “We’re drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.”

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    Damn. Boomer politicians scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard now we’re stealing from China’s playbook? “It’s not Cuba, it’s American Taipei.”

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    Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf… hello… he’s bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power…

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      Well, you see. We let those willfully ignorant fucks in the bible belt vote for some reason.

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          I low key wonder if that’s the Republican plan. Just 25th amendment him and let Vance takeover. Vance pardons Trump who goes on Fox News weekly to yell about Mexicans or whatever.

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      They’ll 25th amendment him throw Vance in and we’ll be a fascist oligarchy before March Madness.

      Not that we’re miles away now.

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      You are radicalizing your former allies and neighbors, that is what you are doing.

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          You said we, this is a normal response that isn’t super accusatory or aggressive. It just sounds it because you’re interpreting it as directed towards you the individual, but it’s for “you all,” which is the standard way to respond to a comment in the first person plural

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            In my original comment, I specify. He’s bonkers is referring to Trump, the actor of those referred to actions.

            In your reply, you state ‘YOU’, as if the people against this / and? the people pushing it are responsible for that radicalization, and I take no responsibility for that shitstain’s actions against our allies.

            You could have easily been more clear by stating ‘conservatives’ or Trump supporters or - if you meant a blanket indictment - you idiots who didn’t punish the insurrection / pay taxes to a corrupt system of governing etc., hence my dismissal of your reply.

            Vague aspersions cast without insight generally get that response.

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              Thanks for taking the time to re-reply, even after your initial zinger got modded away just to demonstrate to the people that even when the average American says WE, they just mean… ME.

              Not much I can do to make my point more clearly than that.

              chefs kiss

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                life’s full of fun ironies, if we can find ways to appreciate them. a hard lift sometimes.

                best of luck!

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    Let’s not forget, conservatives, CEOs and all that bunch operate with methods of a parlor magician. The louder they jingle the keys in one hand, the more we should be paying attention to what they are doing with the other.

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    What an utter fucking buffoon. This man shouldn’t be trusted to use a fork without protective eyewear let alone run a god damn country.

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    Can we pleast waste the next 4 years renaming things and get nothing practical done? That sounds like perfectly good mud to spin the tires in.

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    President Musk will be livid that his suggestion to call it ‘Gulf of X’ was shot down.

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    Why not Gulf Of Trump? Gulf of MAGA? Gulf of Sharpie?

    Idiot.

    EDIT: And yes, he’s just trying to distract from his court cases… again.

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    Holy Lilith it’s gonna be so awkward when the Europeans have to make invasion plans together with the Chinese because Trump is Blitzkrieg-ing through America.

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    Fine. I’m calling it Gulf of the Americas and reminding everyone that the Americas are the continents, not the country.
    A visionary and inclusive move!

    the increasingly loud hum of cognitive dissonance in the face of a nonsensical reality grows slightly higher pitched