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[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 120 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I can't believe the US voted this complete idiot in as president. Just wow.

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[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Every time I flew back into the country and saw his stupid picture in the airport it made me cringe and say “oh fuck, that’s right, somehow Biff Tannen, from Back To The Future 2, is our President”

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[–] dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You have the president's face in airports?

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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I assume they meant on TVs or something; I was a bit confused, too.

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[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

Nope, not on TV. In JFK there was a picture of his stupid orange face and his shit eating grin up on the wall.

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[–] Benj1B@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

We truly live in the stupidest timeline.

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And they're on track to do it again.

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[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

70 million brain dead Fox manure fed Americans will vote the pustulating bloated shit bag back into office.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

doubt

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[–] nocturne213@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

To be fair, he lost the popular vote twice. It was only because of the electoral college he won. The people of the USA did not, as a majority, vote for him. The people who are supposed to represent our votes voted for him.

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[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's true and a big reason I don't paint a Americans with the same brush (in addition to this being generally intellectually lazy).

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I live in New York City. Donnie was desperate to get famous since the 1980s. Back in the day, Wife #1, Ivana, was the star of the show and Donnie was the guy who carried her bags. He did everything to get his name in the local news every day, and was considered a joke by just about everyone. He lost his home town by 90% of the vote.

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[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Growing up, I knew of him as a desperate for attention blowhard as well. You didn't need to be from NYC to know that but it says a lot when you guys did that (no votes) because you know him best.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There's an old political term in the USA. 'Favorite son candidate.' It means that anyone, of any Party, can usually count on winning their home district. As an example, Republicans in Georgia voted for Jimmy Carter. Also, New Yorkers are a contentious lot who seldom agree 90% on anything.

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[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I love NYC. For the first 48 hours. :)

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[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

He's the embodiment of the American stereotype if you ask me. It makes complete sense.

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The American stereotype? Definitely an American stereotype (monopoly guy shithead), but there’s also broke ass honky, California dude, and cowboy goat fuckers.

It’s a big place.

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[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's a big place and yet the loud, fat American with more money than braincells is indeed the stereotype lol.

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[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A long time ago I had a job cooking at a hotel in Switzerland (am Canadian). As a more junior person I'd get stuck working buffet stations and lots of Americans assumed the staff didn't understand English. Anyway, my favorite thing was how the Americans would freak out because menu prices were not in US dollars. Lol. Harmless but indicative of a certain worldview.

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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

And they are lining up to do it again. It's absolutely baffling to me but at least it's gotten a lot easier to identify idiots from a distance.

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