If you vote for this man, you are a garbage person.
There's also a 1:1 probability that you're a sociopath, mentally unstable, brainwashed, legitimately stupid, or willfully ignorant.
Why not all 5?
No. You're underestimating the legitimate ignorance of the electorate. Give this comment a read.
Thats a great read, and echoes what ive been seeing at my own workplace. Those who even remotely follow news (outside of Faux News) are all voting biden. Those who dont, hear that bidens old, that hes out of touch, and want trump to win out of spite for how much they hate the political climate.
That whole, "vote for trump or abstain to stick it to the man" thing is trending like nothing else. Even here on Lemmy, but esp on reddit.
TALK TO THE PPL IN UR LIFE, NOW!
Or just a plain hateful sadist.
Not to mention a wannabe Russian asset
I just want to never have to hear about this cunt again. Is that why people like him?
I mean, there’s a solution. Feel free to help us all out. I’ll donate to your go fund me defense fund.
I hear you, but I'm just not sure how spitting into his McDonald's hamberders keeps him from becoming President.
Real people will die if he becomes POTUS again and yet America minces words about what kind of ideology he represents. He better hope the mob doesn't ever get their hands on him.
Mussolini knows
ugh the leftist in me is salivating at the thought.
I don't know if by "mob" you mean organized crime or dipshit Jan 6 traitors, but either way, he's leading it.
That's arguably treason.
The man organized an insurrection and it was televised. He won’t be held accountable for this either.
You must be referring to the peaceful tour in which people were bludgeoned, trespassed, and shot in an attempt to stop the certification of a democratic election. Please don't exaggerate!! (:
He's running under the banner of the people who did this:
So yeah.
Anyone wondering why the rest of the world has begun taking the US less and less seriously and has begun distancing themselves from any decisions we make, you can thank this incompetent orange retard for the ludicrous amount of damage he did to the US's soft power.
Not just did, is still doing too.
This literally sounds like a mob guy coming into a store and "suggesting" that you need to pay "protection money" or else something bad may happen...
That's explicitly what it is.
The only time in the history of NATO that article 5 was invoked was on September 12, 2001.
NATO countries sent soldiers to Afghanistan in support of the US. A two decades long war. I'm personally from a NATO country and have two family members that have PTSD because my country honored the agreement and supported the US after it was attacked.
The US has never engaged in a war to support any NATO members. NATO members have engaged in a war to support the US.
Recruitment numbers are down in my country in large part because of how the war in Afghanistan turned out. That was in large part due to the US going on a little side adventure into Iraq. Because of this, even though my country is purchasing equipment from the US defense Industrial complex (which if we're being real, is what the goal is) we don't have enough military personnel to operate that equipment.
So with all that, shitheads in the US complain about my countries "not pulling their weight". We've been sending our people to fight in a US war for two fucking decades because that's what allies do, but then shitheads in the US don't care about that, they only care about how much money is coming from NATO to the US defense industrial complex? It's craven.
And Russia propaganda and election interference is happening in every NATO country. For the same reason that there are many in the US don't think the US should support Ukraine, there's many people in other NATO countries that think the same because of the same Russian propaganda effort. Instead of being hyper-focused on the revenues of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, maybe think a little more about who the real enemy.
Sometimes I like to imagine that trump is actually an elaborate honey pot, and any day now all of his supporters are going to be rounded up for being treasonous idiots too dangerous to leave unattended. But no, people really are that awful.
The guy's fool and a security threat. He should be in a cell, not on television.
I'm not entirely convinced that Trump isn't set up and supported by the Bush family so W didn't go down in history as the worst modern president ever.
He and his co-conspirators are what gitmo was built for and where they belong. Traitor's and terrorists the lot of them.
Quick reminder: NATO's collective defense clause, also known as Article 5, has only been triggered once. It was invoked in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
Reminder that Trump was happy about those attacks that day because they made his property value go up
He said that on the day.
A few hours after the towers collapsed, he decided to call into a radio station and brag. No one asked him, he just did it. And he said:
“Well, it was an amazing phone call,” Mr Trump told WWOR. “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.”
And, like most things Trump says, it wasn't even true. It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.
So, on 9/11, while first responders were digging through the rubble and pulling out corpses, Trump called up the biggest radio station in New York to lie about how tall his building was.
Completely normal behaviour. For a narcissist sociopath.
Russia attacking NATO would give a significant chunk of the globe the green light to obliterate Putin.
This is likely the route to ending the war on Ukraine with the lowest loss of human life.
So... Go on Putin, try it.
That would actually be 4d chess. Encourage Russia to invade and let Poland crush it
Stable genius.
Had he just said that NATO countries are failing their duty as a member as they're not paying the agreed amount of money for the alliance he would actually sound sane. Most Europeans agree to that. The governments have been slacking for years, and now there is a war. Again.
Instead he talks like a lunatic. Fuck that guy.
It's not even that simple, because paying can be done with money, but you can also send troops, or have troops ready to protect other countries, send equipment, etc.
So it's not that black and white who pays what.
Also I think the biggest think Trump did to NATO for the EU, is that for the first time people actually realized the US isn't always the allie we thought. It really depends on who's president, something before Trump most people never thought about. It also really pushed the point of having an European army and other changes like that.
Feeding his base. Republicans only platform is to trigger libs. They’re like monkeys throwing shit at their fellow citizens.
I might 'encourage' someone to kick Trump square in the toad-from-mario-shaped microdicklette.
I'm sure Russia that can't even conquer Ukraine is more than capable of going to war against rest of NATO /s
This is really laughable. Trump is bitching about not paying bills? Trump? They guy who's lawyers need to sue him to force him to pay his bills? The guy who robbed money from his charities for himself? That dude?
He means that Europe got complacent with Russia, which it did, but he's not some genius for seeing that. It was a known issue and let's say that Europe has learned it's lesson. He just was typically dumpass trump and threatened his allies over small issues, instead of using diplomacy.
Now saying that he'll encourage Putin to attack Europe (good luck with that one, btw) is again stabbing his allies. He doesn't understand that America is worth shit without those allies, because of course he doesn't because he's trump. Be proud of being dumb.
And conservatives all over the world still want to install Trump as POTUS, let alone the American ones.
Ew. Look at those horrific tiny claws.
My only hope with a second Trump term is that when he inevitably drags the US out of NATO, the other member states invest more heavily into their military budgets, rally to support each other and make it a true defensive pact.
NATO would definitely feel the hit of losing US support, but I don't think this will tip the scales in Ukraine. If the other states chip in, I think they'll hold out.
It's more hilarious that the Republican Party have managed to dupe their own stereotypically patriotic supporters into allowing them to sell out to Russia. Aren't they forgetting the decades of anti-Commie propaganda being fed to them?
Russia isn't communist anymore. They are a white ethno state with strong laws against the gays.
I'm over the insane sewage that spews from his mouth and not clicking on any trump articles (ragebait) ... fuck the news they are salivating at the money if he is president again.
So if anyone is feeling generous I'm a little OLL could you explain what these like dumbass ok hands are??? Is he about to do the batman hand mask?
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