• @eran_morad
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    Donald trump should drop dead

    • @[email protected]
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      I prefer that he gets locked in syndrome for a few years. A taste of hell before he goes to the real one.

      • @[email protected]
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        336 months ago

        Personally, I’m hoping we can strip the family of enough wealth that they’re all left destitute. Anything less will just encourage copy-cats.

        • @xantoxis
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          106 months ago

          Copy cats? Trump is the copy cat. The original was born in 1889 in Austria.

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          Nah, let them keep an income of $80k/yr each. Make a reality show out of old money trying to live modestly as middle class. I’d subscribe to HBO Max for that.

          Also make sure there’s an accountant with some charisma to explain their bank account balance in every episode. Need to make sure they aren’t getting other sources of income. Ideally, make the accountant a black woman. Not like a skinny pretty one like you’d find hosting the news…no, one with some meat and attitude. She’ll be the host too.

      • Hegar
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        46 months ago

        Nothing but his own internal monologue and no interaction with the rest of the world? That’s basically a campaign rally for him. He’d love it.

        • Billiam
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          No he wouldn’t. There would be no one to give him external validation, which extreme narcissists crave.

          Ranting and raving in his own mind, with no one to tell him he’s a good boy or the yugest, bigliest smartest man to ram the ramparts, would be the worst kind of hell he could suffer.

    • Asherah
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      246 months ago

      Saying this on Reddit would literally get you a ban. Wild. I love Lemmy.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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        Shortly before I left completely, I had gotten a permaban for saying “I concur” on a post of a woman in a shirt that said “punching Nazis is not a crime.” Neither the post itself nor its poster were removed or banned. I appealed like 20 times before it was reversed but it made the decision to leave altogether so much easier seeing first hand ADMINS, not just moderators, defending Nazis.

        • @barsquid
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          76 months ago

          Reddit admins love Nazis. Spez is a far-right psycho prepper.

          • Asherah
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            26 months ago

            Really does seem that way, huh? They’re speed running killing their website.

      • @[email protected]
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        86 months ago

        I’ve seen comments removed for saying this here on lemmy. I think it depends on the context and the mod.

        • @nutsack
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          36 months ago

          I’ve seen less getting removed/banned it’s entirely dependent on the mod

          • GladiusB
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            16 months ago

            Well you can report anything. Saying someone dropping dead is obviously sarcasm or a joke if you will. Saying specifics changes the tone. And then there is the whole text to human aspect where one person can read it totally different than another person.

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        36 months ago

        There are some lemmy communities/instances that are very pearl clutching / boot licking. There’ll be a story about like a billionaire eating live puppies or a cop murdering someone and getting away with it, and anything along the lines of “maybe someone should forcibly stop them” is removed.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        Sometimes you have to get creative. I once suggested the idea of doing an impression of Lyudmila Pavlichenko and nobody said anything.

        • Asherah
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          26 months ago

          Ha! That’s amazing

    • @Dkarma
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      46 months ago

      Or glitch like mitch

    • @RizzRustbolt
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      Personally, I’m hoping he shits himself to death on live television at the convention.

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    I mean, duh.

    He should have dropped out when he was found to have raped someone.

    Hell, he should have dropped out when the “grab them by the pussy” tape came out. How did that work out?

    Go vote for Biden if you can, is my point here.

    • @[email protected]
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      Morally should he drop out? Yes

      Politically should he drop out? Honestly, not sure. I genuinely believe that him being found guilty will not negatively affect his supporters. Somehow I reckon it might even get him more if he can spin it right - talk about it being some sort of conspiracy directly from Biden to suppress right wing voters or some shit. He’s such an effective figurehead that I don’t think other republican candidates could compete with his pull.

      • @[email protected]
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        him being found guilty will not negatively affect his supporters

        Yes, but they were going to vote for him anyways. Trump needs to win more moderates/alt leftists. His betting odds (which are generally much more reliable than polls) dropped 3% after his verdict landed: https://electionbettingodds.com/

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          I mean it makes sense. There are bets for everything. But the political betting odds website SENT me. Do you have anything to back up that they are more reliable than polls? I’m genuinely curious.

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            Betting odds tend to be the best prediction method for 2 reasons; the first is there is no other good prediction method, and the second is that people who spend time doing analysis will bet on one side if that side’s odds are better than the market is giving it credit for. As an example, my stats professor in 2016 bet 1000$ on Trump, not because he wanted Trump to win, but because he saw the betting market was only giving Trump like 30% odds, whereas my prof estimated it was closer to 35 (or something). For the record, the polls had Trump at like 2% during this time.

            • @[email protected]
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              Haha that’s so interesting that your stats prof can make some extra dollars on the side through analysis. That’s a huge discrepancy between the betting odds and the polls

    • @expatriado
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      566 months ago

      alternative title: career criminal should have integrity

    • Rentlar
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      Believe me👐, the best campaign managers have told me, everybody’s saying it👆, they’re, saying, “Donald, drop out of the race”. 🖐That would be an absolutely beautiful election move. 🤚Just terrific. 👋It’s true! ✊️Nobody could drop out of a race better than I could☝️

      • @aseriesoftubes
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        156 months ago

        Not bad Trumpspeak, but you’ve got one glaring error in there. Any time he quotes someone, that totally-not-made-up person calls him “sir.” Nobody would dare refer to the god-king by his first name!

        • Billiam
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          36 months ago

          Also he needs to add some slurs.

          The “bad dentures” kind or the “racist bigot” kind, dealer’s choice.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      56 months ago

      I wasted electrons with your mom last night.

      (I had no business trying to beat her at Mario Kart)

    • @satanmat
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      No he won’t.

      The irony of which is that; if he did, and Hailey ran instead, she likely would win over Biden. IMHO

      But crazy gonna crazy. So here we are.

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        46 months ago

        I think there’s a nontrivial number of voters with the opinion “anyone but these two” so if either side put up a fresh candidate, they’d probably win. They won’t, but you know.

  • @jordanlundM
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    He’s now barred from owning a gun, but people want to give him the nuclear football? 🤔

    • @kromem
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      No, they are depending on him just passing it along to Putin.

      • @jordanlundM
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        116 months ago

        You can’t own a gun if you’re a convicted felon.

        • GladiusB
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          You can’t legally. Let’s face it, there are still ways if they want to. No thanks to lax laws and enforcement of those laws.

  • @disguy_ovahea
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    556 months ago

    We’d like that. Something tells me that both people who read Washington Monthly aren’t going to inform his followers.

  • @aodhsishaj
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    426 months ago

    Yes, the sky is blue and water is wet

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    He won’t. His goal at that point is to avoid the consequences of his actions and abusing presidential powers is the best chance he has for that.

    If you think that the last election was a mess, wait to see the next one. Trump has nothing to lose anymore and will reach new lows in hopes to save his own selfish ass. He has demonstrated again and again already that he lacks the moral capacity to do otherwise.

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      I’m waiting for the whole “Our founding fathers were criminals, and we elected them to represent us, so what’s wrong with me” type of argument.

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      I’m kinda hoping that with an actual American in the White House this time any and all rioters that attempt to enter the Capitol building this coming January are met with volley fire and bayonets.

  • @Maggoty
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    286 months ago

    LMAO. That’s not going to happen. I would love it but there’s a better chance of snow in August.

  • @RampantParanoia2365
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    286 months ago

    Downvoted not because I disagree, because this might be the most pointless set of words ever written.

    • @[email protected]
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      Al Frankens political career got fully William Wallaced in public view for nothing while Donny Two Scoops raised millions after becoming a convicted felon.

      I hate this country most of the time these days.

        • @CharlesDarwin
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          96 months ago

          Was he accused of anything other than a silly prank photo where he was pretending to grope a woman?

          • @Phegan
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            If I remember correctly, he was also accused of kissing her on her lips without her consent.

      • ArxCyberwolf
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        Remember when just making a weird scream during a rally was enough to end your entire presidential candidacy?

    • @RampantParanoia2365
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      Sometimes I think about how different this country would be if he was never forced out. I wonder if he would have run for president in 2016.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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    146 months ago

    And money should grow off trees! And monkeys should fly!

  • Jaysyn
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    He can’t. It’s his only chance of staying out of prison.

  • @Tronn4
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    Grifter gonna grift. He’ll use this to his money making advantage till he is forced out.