“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.

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    At this point the problem isn’t him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He’s a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.

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      The people in power are also all the voters who see this behaviour, who see the obvious lies(even for them in their echo chambers it’s hard to miss some of this), and who continue to support not only him, but conservatism in general. It has never worked, yet they keep saying “ok, so once again it is conservatism that has produced this loser but he’s not a real conservative so I’m gunna keep supporting the POS factory.”

      We can argue about the racism, the sexism, the classism, and all that for a real long time but ultimately a few evil people won’t last against a population that actually cares and a few caring people won’t last against a population that allows themselves to be duped by obvious racism, sexism, etc.

      The GOP, for all their evil and election fraud, still would not win a single election if the people of the US said “no.”

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      Exactly, he’s a symptom of the disease. There’s always gonna be some crazy old man yelling racist sexist things, that’s never gonna change, dementia will keep producing that. The choice is whether we make that person POTUS or not

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      Exactly. Find the person in the chain that wants to live. Flip them. Then seriously, about 5-15k people need to be executed for treason. Were beyond the ‘lEtS m00vE fOWrd’ phase.

      Let’s have justice. Let us practice justice. Let us execute justice, or there will never be peace

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    Malignant narcissists don’t give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he’s a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he’s happy as a clam.

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    “He’s just trolling the media, he actually deeply cares about me.”

    • MAGA cultists
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    The only thing he has EVER cared about is getting his own rocks off. Be it raping children or robbing people blind, if you have EVER thought he gives even a fraction of a shit about you, you’re the idiot.

    To extend this thinking, he doesn’t give a shit about his country either, clearly. It’s just about what’s in it for him. He is the worst president we have ever had by an order of magnitude. Eventually others will figure this out.

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    The mask/pretense is slipping off…
    Until someone else shoves it back in position when the midterms get closer…

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      Because everyone has the ability to just expatriate to another country whenever they like. Jobs and family and community and travel are all just instantaneously sorted.