• @[email protected]
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    1174 months ago

    You have to be a really special kind of stupid to ever have believed that a billionaire conman is “for” anyone but himself.

    • themeatbridge
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      Not to be pedantic, but he really isn’t a carpetbagger. I mean, he’s absolutely the type, but “carpetbagger” specifically refers to a politician who moves into a geographical area to run for office. The carpetbag was a type of cheap suitcase, meant to conjure the image of a hurried relocation for personal gain. In that sense, a carpetbagger is an opportunist and egocentric, which definitely describes Trump. And he did move from New York to Florida, but he never ran for local office as a Floridian. He was elected President, and is running for that office again. He’s always been from the United States. He could just as easily run for president out of New York or New Jersey or New Mexico. His political identity isn’t related to where he lives.

      • @Chocrates
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        174 months ago

        I thought carpetbagging explicitly meant what you said, but moving to reconstruction south from one of the union states.

        • themeatbridge
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          34 months ago

          Yes, that’s how it originated, and it was further used to describe any opportunistic politician moving to another geographic region to win elections there.

      • @barsquid
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        24 months ago

        Yeah, for a better example of carpetbagging (and juicing some guy’s beetle in public) we have Lauren Bobo.

    • @profdc9
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      14 months ago

      Why is the New York Times just waking up to that? They’re supposed to be a news organization.

      • @takeda
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        144 months ago

        People remember gas prices when there was covid and no one was driving. The cost per oil barrel was at one point negative.

        • Jesus
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          To be fair, the did get pretty high when everyone started driving and the oil industry has to spin back up after that pandemic lull. Demand outpaced supply.

          And then there was OPEC fucking around, and Russia invading a nation. Even though the US produces more than it needs, the oil market prices were high as fuck.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          74 months ago

          Tankers were literally paying people to buy oil because you can’t just stop the pipelines and people forget that lol

      • Jesus
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        64 months ago

        Which, now that Biden has started to think outside the box and use the strategic oil reserves in creative ways, are the most stable they’ve been in a long time.

  • @Chocrates
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    314 months ago

    Soooo… His base is like 10 billionaires now? That’s a winning ticket.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      204 months ago

      And a whole lot of serfs that just love their master, while saying they do it for freedom.

      • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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        34 months ago

        Based on the number of flags, yard signs, car decals and dipshits wearing shirts/hats I still see on a daily bases, his base may be getting smaller, but it’s still full of devoted cultists

  • @2piradians
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    294 months ago

    He doesn’t pretend to have anyone’s best interest in mind but his own. Why people don’t see that, or worse support those aims, is beyond me.

  • Jesus
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    134 months ago

    Counter argument.

    Trump did a press conference next to some breakfast sausages yesterday, and he promised to give me cheaper sausages.

  • @Unlocalhost
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    64 months ago

    Watch for what he does and ask why? Notice he’s also trying to make a case for stealing the election. Connect the dots…