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[–] [email protected] 110 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wish one of his tantrums would trigger a fatal heart attack.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

i would prefer he have a massive, pants-shitting stroke, on stage at a rally and in front of everyone, mid-rant... but i'll take what i can get.

[–] cosmicrookie 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

At this point I don't think pant shitting would scare enough away from him. It would just translate into extreme passion or enthusiasm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait for other magas trying to replicate it to show their support

[–] hydrospanner 10 points 10 months ago

I could 100% imagine DeSantis going down that road.

[–] CobblerScholar 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Seeeeee? Glorious leader DOES have a butthole!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that's NOT where or how you do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

[–] EvilBit 10 points 10 months ago

But it’s understandable you might mistake it for his mouth.

[–] SpaceNoodle 14 points 10 months ago

He already shits his pants. That's what the odor is.

[–] reddig33 7 points 10 months ago

That didn’t seem to stop Mitch McConnell.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 6 points 10 months ago

The way the dude stutters and slurs have the time, I'm pretty sure he had some serious health problems.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The split contest has generated plenty of controversy, with former state party chair Amy Tarkanian last year calling it “a nightmare” and “a debacle.”

It is so weird to see a full-blown "let's imprison our enemies and I can kill my opponents if I want to" fascist in the race, and party officials still calmly operating the same orderly processes that gave us Jimmy Carter.

If this is a nightmare, I don't know what words you could use to describe what Trump will do if he wins.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

The words

If Trump wins, you’ll never have to vote for the president ever again.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

WE JUST WON NEVADA

Has not taken place yet.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's even better than that. They are "competing" in two separate systems in Nevada. Because she isn't in the one he's in, he wins that one by default, and she "loses" by not competing. What a goddamn moron.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

But the caucus, which he is in, will be awarded delegates while the primary, which Haley is in, will not.

[–] PilferJynx 4 points 10 months ago

He knows his supporters are a bunch of dummies that don't educate even if the book hits them in the head. He isn't targeting people who tend to have 2nd thoughts.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Member when she ejected all semblance of seriousness or common sense by accepting the UN position from Trump and sycophantically parroted all his demented word-salad “talking points” for years?

Member that? That’s good karma. Karma moved on her like a bitch.

Everyone who throws their lot in with Trump gets shit on. No Exceptions

[–] hydrospanner 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right?

Like... When she was governor, I didn't necessarily like her, but I felt like she...was not as bad as the average Republican, at least. Which is honestly high praise for a Republican.

When she got the UN job I thought that was a great pick by the Trump transition team, that she'd at least be a bit of outwardly facing sanity to the world, to hide the shit that was going to no doubt hit the fan domestically.

2017 me had no idea how naive I was about how eagerly the entire GOP would drink from the Trump punch bowl.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

have we learned a lesson about 'good' republicans?

[–] blazeknave 3 points 10 months ago

Fucking Gilead nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Misogynist attacks woman competing for the same job, news at eleven ....

[–] renrenPDX 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’ll be over once she goes for vp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You think he will go from Mike Pence to Nikki Haley?

[–] jaybone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hang Haley is a nice alliteration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But then we might not know if he means Haley or Pelosi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lol that's not how fascists work. He won't choose her as VP after she decided not to capitulate and fall in line. No shot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All caps is just the norm for him, isn't it? Is it really a freakout?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Depends on whether there’s MASSIVE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT BY CROOKED JOE AND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AGAINST HIS POLITICAL OPPONENT or not:

Actually mostly looks like uncaptioned links to far-right websites and friggin’ Newsweek.

Sheesh, Truth makes Twitter look wonderful & bot free (no idea if they’re real posters or not, but all the replies are like this).

PS: he topped at 30k likes in the past day. The pre-X-Twitter ban did the world some good I guess?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

the twits is ded. bots can only do so much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

last picture: what do fascists have against him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Trump knows people don't like the word fascist, so he calls people he doesn't like fascists.

[–] quinkin 2 points 10 months ago

Plagiarism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe he's not fascist enough?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

also I guess antifa and fascists are on the same side now? why is Clinton still relevant and why does she care about Trump?

[–] Quetzalcutlass 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I was going to say. It's been a few years since his dumb tweets would make national news every day, but this seems par for the course from what I remember. Misspelled, all-caps, grammatically incorrect word salad has been his thing since long before he was president.