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I still can’t get over that his policies are the result of what he watches on TV. I’m not talking about his watching the Sunday morning political shows. I’m talking fictional movies in prime time that result in new US policies.
At 9pm on Saturday WLRN aired “Escape from Alcatraz”. On Sunday another Trump policy was announced: he was re-opening Alcatraz prison.
This is at least the second time that people have figured out what Trump was watching on TV to cause him to issue a new crazy edict.
I…I did not know this has been a thing twice now. Jesus we are so fucked…
St. Upid
I was born and raised as a Catholic, did my time in Catholic school until I graduated high school. Too many years later (more than I care to admit) and several different beliefs later I still automatically don’t see the abbreviation and see the “Saint” instead. It was ingrained in my damn DNA.
I was like… Saint Upid? huh? Then it hit me and I almost busted a gut laughing so hard.
I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:
We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.
It’s just so incredibly wrong and stupid.
This but the hands displaying “how big it was”
I like how he resembles both Trump and Putin
I’m a bit rusty on the rules but before becoming a saint, don’t you first have to die?
In that case I’m all for Trump being sainted.
Sooner rather than later would be nice.
I wouldn’t mind Trump becoming a saint tomorrow.
Everything has an opposite in religion. God and the devil, angels and demons, etc. What is the opposite of a saint? That is what Trump is. He is a miraculous disaster. He ruins what others can’t.
What is the opposite of a saint?
Sinner, broadly speaking. A heretic or demoniac or, in extreme cases, an antichrist would maybe qualify.
But the church doesn’t make a big ceremony of cataloging and cannonizing the bad guys. You don’t have priests running around looking for whatever the inverse of a miracle is in order to verify this or that individual was supernaturally evil. The closest might be the documentation of the subjects of exorcisms.
He ruins what others can’t.
The dogged insistence that Trump is a uniquely bad person (much less president) heavily neglects the long history of shit political leadership in this country’s history. If anything, one could argue that Trump isn’t an anomaly. The Post-FDR Era has been the anomaly. We’ve had an unusually good (relatively speaking) run of Presidents and now we’re drifting back to the 19th century Tyler / Pierce / Buchanan / Johnson / Cleveland mean.
Americans had an unusually good run of luck following the Great Depression. And it propelled us into the Superpower sphere of influence. Now our luck has run out and we’re plummeting back down to the baseline. Trump’s a symptom and a vehicle of that decline. But he’s got tens of thousands of fellow-travelers who have rallied behind him to drag the country down. We have an entire economic orthodoxy centered around the theory that Americans have had it too good for too long and they need to start living like their poverty-wracked Latin America / East Asia / Central Africa peers.
*Textbook economic collapse.
Literally exactly what all economic textbooks say would happen if you did what he did.
Which is why I think it was all on purpose. They are driving the market up and down predictably. Stocks keep surging every time there is a “leaked” rumor that he will pause tariffs.
literally pump-and-dumping the stock market
the grift that keeps on grifting…
a small number of wealthy Americans riled up a large number of poor Americans, using single-issue voter tactics that prey on irrational fears, and gained control of more wealth and decision-making power than they know what to do with.
I can’t fathom what the point is, other than some doomsday scheme, where they plot to outlive us poors with hoarded resources, and the remaining bootlicker class as slaves.
I think Trump himself just likes to be in the spotlight and also evade prison.
As for his backers, they want the collapse of the US (and nation states in general) to found company town-esque technocratic city states.
The hands are too big.
St. Upid’s three miracles were creating tariffs, eliminating tariffs, and begging China to relieve him of the consequences of his tariffs.
Saint Donald - Patron Saint of fraud, con artists, village idiots, and golden showers.
*And business failures that see their leadership miraculously failing upward.
Yes, but you’ve forgotten far worse things such as:
The selling of documents to hostile countries.
The alleged ‘wink wink’ Epstein island kiddie fiddling.
And the adjudicated rape stuff.Though, in your defense, there’s so many abhorrent things he’s done that it’s easy to forget most of them!!
Right, I thought it best to keep with things he can standout as the face of. Like, there are stronger contenders for the patron of pedophilia, and some of them are already ordained.
This is his name, for me, from now on.
