- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 68•4 months ago
Here’s another.
GOP in 2016 = We need Trump because the rest of the world is laughing at America.
GOP today = Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?
- PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ) 63•4 months ago
As a non american, the world started laughing the second the orange man baby became your president.
it was sort of a mix of funny and nervous laughter though.
wasnt pleasent
- Chefdano3 ( @Chefdano3@lemm.ee ) English14•4 months ago
I thought the laughing stared with George W.
- Trailblazing Braille Taser ( @0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•4 months ago
It probably started with Reagan, our first actor-turned-president.
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 3•4 months ago
Meanwhile another actor-turned-president successfully not looses war. They are not same.
- InternetUser2012 ( @InternetUser2012@midwest.social ) 7•4 months ago
My favorite all time GW moments, “It looks like a hurricane came through there”, and when he pulls on the door you need to push, the dumbfounded look on his face.
It’s crazy to think how bad he was and he was great compared to tRump.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English4•4 months ago
I remember reading an article (must have been during the Obama years) saying that for the GOP to get its act together they had to recognize what a trainwreck Bush Junior was. Yeah…
- InternetUser2012 ( @InternetUser2012@midwest.social ) 2•4 months ago
I think they did realize it. They also realized they’re getting old and the younger generations aren’t buying into the “trickle down” bullshit because they can’t buy a house if they wanted to. Gone are the days of the man working at a factory and supporting a family with a house and two new cars. I think the current GOP is going for broke, they know if they don’t win now, they are absolutely fucked. The more boomers die off, the more boomers go into nursing homes, the more fucked it all gets. The planet is in deep shit, they know it, they don’t care because they’ll be long gone before it effects them. Younger people and even older are beginning to realize that religion is a sham, and that too hurts the GOP. This is pretty much it for them with what they’ve been working on since Reagan. My hope is the brainwashed suckers snap out of it and we can actually get some republicans in office that will work with the democrats and start working on making lives better for everyone, not just the rich as fuck.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English1•4 months ago
The Chicago school of economics runs deep.
- PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ( @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ) 2•4 months ago
sort of a chuckle for gwb
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 2•4 months ago
- LillyPip ( @LillyPip@lemmy.ca ) 34•4 months ago
Fascism’s major hallmark is fervent hypocrisy. That’s how people could live within half a mile of death camps and just casually brush the ash of burnt people from their hair, then smile like they’re going on a picnic as they’re led into the death camps at the end of their street, then ten minutes later, after seeing actual corpses stacked like cordwood, they’re vomiting and swearing they had no idea.
We can’t let the uneducated masses lead us into that kind of horror again, We need to educate them of what they’re advocating for and why that’s so horrifically dangerous. We need to stop hedging and beating round the bush, and lay out in detail what they’re actually enabling. People die when this kind of nationalistic ignorance is allowed to proliferate. We need to stop this ignorance before it kills people.
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 31•4 months ago
Then: “Facts don’t care for feelings.”
Now: “Feelings don’t care for facts.”
- Emtity_13 ( @Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org ) 22•4 months ago
Woundful word from an old book I read discribes the way these people think well.
double-think
- Colonel Panic ( @Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
Thought crime!!!
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 1•4 months ago
Stealing Thought Property
- stebo02 ( @stebo02@sopuli.xyz ) 1•4 months ago
that implies they think twice? where in reality they don’t think about anything
- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English12•4 months ago
3 downvotes on this, but no maga comments. Odd, usually the magas are the loudest assholes in the room. 🤔
- InternetUser2012 ( @InternetUser2012@midwest.social ) 11•4 months ago
They been a little quiet since the 34 felony convictions and his off the rails rant.
- KevonLooney ( @KevonLooney@lemm.ee ) 8•4 months ago
That’s the benefit of trump seeing actual punishment for his crimes. His supporters won’t vote for Biden, but they might feel dejected and stay home without voting. That’s what trump supporters and Russian trolls are trying to do with Gaza.
- kent_eh ( @kent_eh@lemmy.ca ) English3•4 months ago
They been a little quiet since the 34 felony convictions
Some of them have.
Others have doubled down on both the volume and the insanity levels of their noise.
- InternetUser2012 ( @InternetUser2012@midwest.social ) 2•4 months ago
Those ones are the bots and paid trolls
- kent_eh ( @kent_eh@lemmy.ca ) English2•4 months ago
A lot of them probably are, but there are still a lot of deluded “true believers” who will actually vote.
Let’s not get complacent and lull people into not voting against the orange turd.
- DoucheBagMcSwag ( @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•4 months ago
I like it how the oxygen sucking maggot gets fatter every year
- ouRKaoS ( @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ) 2•4 months ago
Didn’t wear a mask in 2020, either
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 1•4 months ago
Except 2016-2017
- cron ( @cron@feddit.de ) 8•4 months ago
They advocate for ‘law and order’ until it impacts someone from their own circle.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English9•4 months ago
The core conservative belief is that there are two groups: those the law protects but does not bind, and those the law binds but does not protect. Everything else flows from there.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
Rules for thee, not for me?
- Mastengwe ( @Mastengwe@lemm.ee ) 4•4 months ago
Yep. Sums it up well I think.
- Emmie ( @Emmie@lemm.ee ) 3•4 months ago
The moral isn’t “don’t be a hypocrite”
The moral is: be sexy and good looking