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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 months ago (3 children)

VP guyliner says that the US administration is now facing the question of how to help Russia and Ukraine "find some middle ground here"

It's that "middle ground" where Russia gets half of Ukraine's territory and the US gets all of their mineral rights?

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

It’s that “middle ground” where Russia gets half of Ukraine’s territory and the US gets all of their mineral rights?

Molotov and Ribbentrop nod in approval.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

That quote could've ended seven words earlier and been just as accurate.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I still don't get why the media is covering this guy and his questionable statements. I'm starting to think the media is somewhat complicit in shaping the new world order dystopia.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago
[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

They hacked about until they stumbled upon the major vulnerabilities of open societies, rule of law, democracy, 24-hour newscycles and social media.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

He's the US VP.

I'd love if this was a joke.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Day one.

-Trump

PS fuck you fascists

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 months ago

He obviously meant day one of his 2028 presidency

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 months ago

Yet we're going to just take half of their resources anyway? Sounds fair.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah,

Because Putin still has Trump bent over because he has incriminating shit on him, and he also lets Trump think he has a seat at the grown-up's table

Trump wants to be Putin. Putin will always have Trump in his pocket so long as Trump worships him, which he will always do.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's really weird that people think Trump is being blackmailed rather than he's just an autocrat who supports other dictators.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Trump wants to hurt people

He hates anyone who isn't white, and he's enthusiastic about "cleaning up the streets"

His racism is well documented and goes back a long way

Oh, and he wants to fuck his daughter

At least, the one whose name he has managed to remember...

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everyone thinks that the kompromat Putin has is something like Trump getting fisted or a golden shower party.

I like to think it's Trump weeping about how his daddy never loved him, or something else that no one but a psychopath would be ashamed of.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah

Putin has a hold on him because Trump wants to be "manly" like him

Nothing more

He is a bully, and the only thing that inspires a bully is a bigger bully

It's lost on him that Putin holds him in the same contempt that he himself holds those who he has bullied into submission

Because he's fucking stupid.

He is probably the most stupid person in politics at a global scale, but he is useful to those who actually tug on the strings of power, and he appeals to enough stupid yanks (and there's no shortage of stupidity in 'Murica...) with his hate and bluster to be effective

I hope that he gets a taste of the harm he has done throughout his life

All of it.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's an old cartoon that sums up Trump in my mind. Man is being lead to the gallows. Dozens of cops are holding back the crowd that wants to tear him apart. "Oh, all right. I'll apologize."

No matter what happens to him, he'll never admit that he did anything wrong.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 months ago

He can't

Because he's a malignant narcissist

In his mind, he has never done a single thing wrong

Anything that has gone awry is the fault of someone else

He's a toddler in the body of a sad, fat old rapist

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because Putin still has Trump bent over because he has incriminating shit on him, and he also lets Trump think he has a seat at the grown-up’s table

Stop. Giving. Trump. So. Much. Credit.

I'm not saying Putin doesn't have kompromat on Trump. Hell, he probably does! But it doesn't fucking matter because Trump is so inherently irredeemably evil all on his own that he'd be doing exactly the same shit anyway!

By suggesting that Trump was coerced you are whitewashing Trump's evil. Stop it!

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 months ago

Oh, he was demonstrably horrible long ago

The "Central Park Five" should have disqualified him, but Americans are stupid and hateful as a society, so there is probably no depth to which they will not sink

collapsed inline media

This should have ended it

But 'Murica has no lower depth. There is nothing too disgraceful, too awful, too hateful

There is no bottom. There is no low to which you will not sink, and then go deeper

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, he doesn't need to blackmail HitlerPig, he just needs to pay him. HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for a million bucks. Imagine what he would do if Putin offered him a billion dollars? Putin could easily do that, and it would be the best billion dollars Russia ever spent.

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[–] zero@feddit.xyz 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell us something we don’t know.

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[–] credo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump is simply proof of how stupid people are.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago

James Donald Bowman is a disgrace of a human being

And I will deadname him in every thread there is.

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Vance also states, "It hasn't been 24 hours yet. I mean, the President is a busy guy. He only works on this a minute here, a minute there." /s

Edit: forgot the /s

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

What a visionary

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This war could have been ended a few years ago had Europe/US the balls, but unfortunately.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The “Oracle of America” has spoken.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sometimes the only way to fuck a couch is to give half the couch away to somebody else to fuck, sometimes it is a long road to getting to fuck your couch.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Only time Vance is right.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's hard to get two sides to come to an agreement on something when one side is totally irrational.

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why does his face look so weird in this photo?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because he's weird and ugly, and that shows through physically

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Why does his face look so weird ~~in this photo~~?

FTFY

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

It looks that way because of the way it is.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

That's his face, I don't recall last time I've seen a non edited version of it.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

Did we forget to say thank you or something.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, damn. He's going against Trump's statements here, so Trump is certainly asking someone to google how he can fire the VP.

Could lead for some funny interactions soon

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh my god he admit it.