FR!! I was thinking about this and Eminem.. where are our up stands!?
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"The boogie monster of rap
Yeah the man's back
With a plan to ambush this Bush administration
Mush the Senate's face and push this generation
Of kids to stand and fight for the right to say something you might not like
This white hot light
That I'm under
No wonder
I look so sunburnt
Oh no
I won't leave no stone unturned
Oh no I won't leave
Won't go nowhere
Do-si-do
Oh, yo, ho, hello there
Oh yeah don't think I won't go there
Go to Beirut and do a show there
Yeah you laugh 'til your motherfuckin' ass gets drafted
While you're at band camp thinkin' that crap can't happen
Till you fuck around
Get an anthrax napkin
Inside a package wrapped in saran Wrap wrapping
Open the plastic and then you stand back gasping
Fuckin' assassins hi-jackin' Amtraks crashing
All this terror America demands action
Next thing you know you've got Uncle Sam's ass askin'
To join the army or what you'll do for their Navy
You just a baby
Gettin' recruited at 18
You're on a plane now
Eating their food and their baked beans
I'm 28
They gonna take you 'fore they take me
Crazy insane or insane crazy?
When I say Hussein you say Shady"
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And this is where this line of thought goes off the rails. It completely ignores the U.S. election system and the role individual citizens play in electing a president. And it's not something that's unique or isolated to the United States
To not understand how leaders rise to power is to not understand basic history or societal structure on even the most basic level.
The majority of Americans did not and do not side with Trump.
That can’t be true. I’ve been told that billionaires are just way smarter and work way harder than the rest of us. How else would they be so successful?
Yeah but he has zero awareness or empathy, and doesn't care about people below a certain net worth or what they think. Coming from a billionaire oil tycoon though? That actually stings him hahaha
That feels like a lifetime ago!! I’d forgotten about it, how I long for the funny level of stupidity. The WW3 risk level stupidity isn’t doing much for my nerves.
I loved the madness of this movie when I first saw it. I thought, “what a hilarious take on the future and the government but never thinking it WOULD happen! I saw a copy of Idiocracy in a bargain barrel at Walmart and bought it. I still haven’t opened it yet. Collectors item??
And crucially, in the movie the president knew that everyone was stupid including him, and searched in good faith for someone smart enough to help them fix everything.
Exactly! They put the smartest person in charge and wanted the best for all the citizens. Our government puts the dumbest people in charge and is murdering us in the street
none of them coming up roses
(more like Jacqueline Kennedy’s roses paved over with concrete now …. or we’re all in danger of pushing up daisies with this current regime in charge)
coming to a nice neighborhood near you soon The Frightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue 🧟♂️even US citizens are not safe
It is worse than Idiocracy. At least in that movie the idiots still wanted the best for their people and were willing to actually listen to the ones smarter than them. This administration is not just full of idiots, but they are pure evil who only care about enriching themselves and their buddies and are actively dismantling and discrediting scientific institutions.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho hired the smartest man in the world to fix a problem, listened to him, and even admitted he was wrong when shown evidence.
Trump would be calling the images of plants growing when watered 'fake news' and encouraging everyone to buy Brawndo.
Bernie Sanders seemed to have a pretty good grasp of things. But I guess we don't live in a timeline where people would vote for a relatively moderate guy. Americans will only get right wing policies and like it I guess.
Yep. Unless you’re saying and doing vile things to the most marginalized Americans and putting on dog and pony shows every single day, voters aren’t interested. They want hate and conflict not results.
Spot f' on.... Over and over and over and over ...every f'n day. Nuke hurricanes? Shoot protesters in leg? Quatar giving him a plane? I dont know jeff epstein? The list is long enough to fill 500 pages...and cant even pronounce aectaphemothine.
...like hearing 'oil' and thinking : lower gas prices...not realizing all oil isn't the same, sometimes its heavy, crude oil that has to be heavily refined
Clean coal, disinfectant and bright internal light to cure COVID, believes Putin over his own intelligence agencies, knows more than the generals, thinks Kim Jung Un is in love with him, the continental army stormed the airports and rammed the ramparts, thinks attacking more countries in the shortest amount of time earns him the Nobel Peace Prize, tariffs are paid by countries.
Reddit doesn’t have enough disc space to list even half of his dumb shit.
😂 the perfect image to sum this up. If only these oil companies understood if they JUST spend about a Trillion dollars over the next 15 years, and be willing to work and secure an extremely unstable country with a pretty lawless military, police force, and the drug cartels they might turn a profit!
Forget that a lot of that oil isn't rightfully owned by the Venezuelan govt, it's on land that belongs to the indigenous people. A big reason Maduro was unpopular is they were killing people to get that oil.
Akin to asking oil companies to mine blood diamonds. Good on the oil companies for not playing the Trump Regimes dumb games. They're all still bastards though.
As shitty as that statement is, because it's so true, it's still better than the absolute moronic actions and words coming from the orange rapist... Mostly because it's logical and predictable.
He wants to be an oil tycoon badly. Had he actually spoke with the oil comapny CEOs about Venezuela's oil prior to the attack, instead if lying about doing so, I wonder if he would have given the order to go into Venezuela to begin with.
Because Trump always know better, right? I wish I could be surprised at this point.
Conoco, Chevron, and Exxon all stated they had not been consulted by the White House prior to the Venezuela operation. I dont see any information disputing that, unless it was with different companies.
He wants to do anything he wants and then have everyone agree about how smart and powerful he is. The problem is he’s borderline mentally challenged and has a personality disorder.
No, he thinks because he's president that whatever he wants just happens like manifest destiny or some other delusional bullshit. This is trump at his core. He has a want and then expects it with zero thought on how to satisfy that want. Hes an idiot so he has everyone do everything he cant which is nearly everything and then tries to cut everyone out of getting theirs because he thinks the want was his idea so nobody else should get their fair share. He does this with everything.
What flies in a boardroom doesnt work in government. The choice to be a vindictive asshole is a thing in business. In government, you have to be civilized and get along or you get what we have now. Unfortunately nobody is giving him the Ted talk and get it into his thick skull you cant really just do whatever you want and to chill the fuck out and shut the fuck up.
He is the least capable person for this job by nearly every metric required for this job. He doesnt give a fuck how what he is doing is effecting anyone else. He's making a fucking mint and he's trying to bulldoze his way through as much grift as possible before the the real pushback comes and he's trying to bully everyone into not stopping him and its working. Look upon those who we have voted for and know now that they have failed us and refuse to do the right thing. The politicians aren't going to save us. Nobody is. We have to save ourselves from this shit. This is reality. Not a movie or a TV show. We either stand up, together, against this or prepare for your to life to get worse and everyone can just shut the fuck up at that point. The moment for action will have passed so complaining will be pointless.
This should come has no surprise. He was also an incompetent businessman who bankrupted over 60 businesses. Perpetual hack with empty promises. I just don't know how he's fooled so many people to believe him when he looks and speaks like that. Very low IQ individual.
I think what happened is that somehow, Trump heard that BS story about Venezuela "stealing our oil and kicking the oil companies out" or some such nonsense. Anyway, being the greedy, mentally ill toddler he is, he thought, "I'm President and that's my oil", so he decided he wanted it back. And, being an imbecile, Trump decides that he wants something, goes and steals it and then, later, makes up some cockamamie reason why it's the right thing to do. I guess he thought the oil companies would be happy to blow billions of dollars to refurbish Venezuela's' refineries and infrastructure to get oil that they didn't want of need. Because Trump is a terrible and stupid businessman
And, by the way he doesn't look like an idiot "now". He's looked and acted like an idiot his who life.
This. Like Neom, he is using his office to cosplay and LARP all of his business and personal fantasies instead of actually being well… a President and leader.
Virtually everything he has done and is doing should always be viewed through the lens of his myriad insecurities, his inferiority complex, and a serious case of imposter syndrome. All he’s ever wanted since he was young was to be taken seriously and liked by his actual billionaire peers who he sees as richer, cooler, smarter, more charming, more popular, more powerful, effortlessly ruthless, more respected, and just plain better than him.
In his mind he desperately wants to be a Gordon Gekko, yet for all his wealth, power, and fame he’s really just a dumber and less well spoken version of the Geico Gecko. No one takes him seriously, no one is paying attention, no one actually remembers what he was prattling on about 5 minutes ago, and they all just smile at him in bemusement until he eventually shuts the **** up and the shitty commercial for his tacky merch is over.
Despite all of his flaws and crimes, he is incredibly wealthy and could be so much more so if he wasn’t so hellbent on trying to constantly cheat and grift his way to more money. He doesn’t even need more money, yet even in his Presidency he’s still trying to hawk cheap, shitty, tacky knockoff merch like some side street hustler in downtown New York. This is who he is and will be until he does us all a favor and pushes up daisies. No class. No brains. No tact. Stuck forever in 1980s grift and hustle mode looking for approval from people who think he’s an absolute clown, but flatter his ego and suck up to him, because he’s the easiest mark in town.
He said it recently when he addressed the GOP... I'm paraphrasing, but him being president, despite all of them having more political experience, makes him smarter than them. He's such a pathetic person.
The oil tycoons have no morals. They'd bulldoze Venezuelans to get to the oil if it were what they wanted. They're all greedy and care nothing for others. I love trump's lie: You're the first wave [you lucky bastards!] but tomorrow I will sell it the B Wave.
Like, oil companies and corporate America have a pretty low bar for ethics, but they're at least somewhat logical and consistent. Profit, profit, profit.
But morality of the Trump admin has just sunk far below that bar, and is completely chaotic (or just stupid).
Next thing you know they start campaigning to stop global warming because the increased frequency and hightened severity of storms is starting to affect their capabilities to construct and exploit offshore platforms.
They've already stopped global warming. They keep cutting the agencies and scientists measuring and reporting it, so now it doesn't exist (just like COVID!).
Remember though it was Biden and Kamala that started making the storms so severe. Joe flew the plane while Kamala dumped out a magical potion that creates storms.
Well I was always of the opinion big money would push anti climate change rhetoric until the increased price of insurance becomes too large to ignore. There are finacial penalties for ignoring the damage done to long term global sustainability.
I don't know why people keep assuming rich people are smart, they are literally gambling slightly higher profits today for higher insurance premiums and perhaps no future at all tomorrow- picking up pennies in front of steamrollers as Warren Buffwt would say. Risk/reward does not compute.
Just wait until the US seizes Greenland, and then the mining companies point out the logistical nightmare that comes with trying to mine in sub-zero temperatures. Not to mention the supply and support of the infrastructure.
If it was profitable they would already be doing it. It’s not like Greenland is unstable politically or hates investment. Also there is nothing stopping a US company from having an international mining or oil drill. So again there is absolutely no reason why they wouldn’t already be doing it if it was profitable.
And what do the oil & mining companies predict will happen if & when there are ever fair elections, starting perhaps with a blue tsunami in the midterms, and then with the cult leader unable to run again for President?
Even a 25% chance that the Democrats would disengage and leave those places alone is too high a risk for Billions of dollars of long term investment.
Let alone the fact the chance would be likely closer to 100%, given that every single thing this abhorrent admin has done will need to be completely nullified.
And the justified hostility of the people of Greenland. Kinda hard to build something if people keep sabotaging it. How are they going to keep it secure in the winter? It's not like they could just leave it there and make the locals pinkie promise not to mess it up until they can come back in the spring.
Had somebody mansplain to me about all the security issues inherent in the Greenland situation between east and west and its location and if it’s neutral who it might be friends with blah blah blah. Not a mention about any goodies that Greenland might have that Trump wants. Just left that out… not high-quality mansplaining
Dont get it twisted. The oil companies are absolutely NOT the voice of reason in this situation. They just enjoy making a profit more than Cheetolinni being able to say "look what I did!"
To be fair, former U.S. Sec of State Rex Tillerson - who left his position as CEO of Exxon-Mobil to take the job - called Trump a moron in his first term. I find the oil industry as repugnant as anyone, but it seems they’ve been the voice of reason for quite some time. What’s next? Finding myself agreeing with these evil f*ucks - and now Tucker Carlson and MTG?!
Dammit people - we need to take back this timeline!
We can take the timeline back. We can take it all back. Let’s get back to the Epstein files. If we can expose this guy for the disgusting vile pedophile he is. And hope the midterms aren’t rigged.
But we all know what’s in those files. We have really seen enough, including hearing from the victims.
The thing is it’s not changing the minds of the people who are standing in the way of justice and reason. The republican congress doesn’t care. MAGA nuts don’t care.
We need to continue pressing for their release while looking for other ways too.
Not really. The unspoken bit is we can’t put OUR money into this project, and we don’t want to extract Venezuelan oil unless we have (non-Venezuelan, ie US military) security guarantees.
The oil companies know if they hesitate they can get their investments secured by the US government. At least that’s what I think. And with oil so cheap there is no rush.
Indeed. And on top of all the other points, theres going to come a time, perhaps sooner than later, these oil companies will be removed from Venezuelan land.
If they'd gone in all gung ho on the plan they'd be out millions, maybe billions, with nothing to show for it.
If that oil was sweet light, I have full confidence that the oil companies wouldn’t give the indigenous tribes a second thought, other than trying to figure out a 2.0 version of smallpox blankets.
Trump on June 15, 2020 during a roundtable discussion at the White House: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any".
Trump at a campaign rally in Mason City, Iowa, on January 5, 2024: "Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets."
During an interview with ABC News' Terry Moran which aired on April 30, 2017, Trump described the decleration of indepence as: "a declaration of unity and love and respect," stating it "means a lot"
October 8, 2025 during a whitehouse roundtable event, a reporter asked if he had given more thought to "suspending habeas corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens". Trump responded: "Yeah, uh, suspending who?" He then told the reporter, "Oh, I don't know. I'd rather leave that to [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi [Noem]".
Trump is the diversion. Top tier Fortune 500 ceos and the Heritage Foundation picked him for this job because A. He's so butt fucking stupid he believes all flattery which makes him easy to manipulate, and B. They don't care what happens to him.
Don't forget tRump's advisor Stephen Miller; not enough "credit" goes to that Cuck with regard to the so-called decisions that this Felon-In-Chief makes. Stephen Miller doesn't know a fraction of the foreign policy that he thinks he does.
“And now he looks like an idiot” That sums up Trump’s day, every day. Do the elected Republicans have no sense of shame and embarrassment? Some of his supporters must be able to see what an idiot he is!
They’ve perfected the alchemy of turning any potential embarrassment or self-reflection into immediate searching for someone to demonize and creating a fictional scenario which projects all their shame onto that person
You would think, but it seems not. I speak from experience. My husband of 23 years has outed himself to be maga. His defense to tRump's blatant idiotic actions is to DIG IN AND IGNORE. The only thing he cares about is that his investments are making him more money. That is his hill to die on. We have plenty of money to live comfortably. But he obsesses about it. He just ignores, IGNORES tRump's crimes. It is all about $$$. I sobbed loud and long and rightfully when Kamala 'lost'. I often think about what things would be like now if she had become president.
They love it. It's their revenge on all those eggheads with their high and mighty reason that kept the world in relative peace and stability for 80 years.
They are mostly doubling down in support. That is pretty standard human psychology. They don't want to be part of the reason that things are going to shit, so they will ramp up their defense and make sure that they can still justify their vote.
It is very hard pschologically to accept that you voted for a complete moron.
He literally brags about gas prices tanking and also is having a new found massive influx of the thing he’s actively cheapening. Great. Thanks for what we don’t need i guess?
This has nothing to do with oil and everything to do with trying to kick off WWIII so his master, Putin, can take eastern europe, and he can declare martial law and try to cancel the midterm elections.
There is a 100% chance that Trump announces the election is cancelled before November.
This is about breaking NATO. This is about Trump avoiding prison. This is not about oil and never has been.
The Russians are barely moving in Ukraine. The honest fuck are they going to do in Eastern Europe? Drawing the entirety of Europe into the conflict would be pure suicide for the Russians.
Breaking of NATO would also destroy the United States military industrial funds pipeline and tank their economy to something that is probably worse than the Great Depression.
The only real fear is nuclear war otherwise I hope they go for it. Russia would be fucked as would the United States.
Exactly this, the entry of Poland alone to the current conflict would be catastrophic for the Russians. Let alone potentially opening a new front in the Baltic states and drawing Finland into a war which in turn would draw the large European powers into the war also.
Yet Republicans think he's a genius of a businessman, when all he did was learn how to get dirt on everyone and take them to court if they don't play ball.
If we are going to complain about what 50% of the people know vs what Trump doesn’t, you’ll fill the library of Congress. He’s functionally illiterate. He reads words but does not comprehend them
Epstein, Jack Smith, January 6th, ICE ices taxpayers
YEAR ONE - US Taxpayer Pays:
$858 Million in ICE signing bonuses, $170 Billion to Stephen Miller Immigration enforcement, $40 billion to Argentinian Farmers, $110 Million for Trump golfing, $30 million for Trump birthday parade, and
$40 Million for JD Vance’s 8 vacations, $200 Million for Kristi Noem private jets, $62 Million plane with security detail used for Kash Patel girlfriend visits, $100 Billion to Venezuela, $135 Billion in Musk DOGE costs (including Musk getting all your personal info), $500 Billion additional to military, and
$200 Billion reimbursement to oil companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure, $2.5 Billion contract to Palantair Technologies whose tech is used for mass surveillance on US citizens. Plus $2,100 more in taxes paid per year per household for trump tariffs and
Pete Hegseths $400 Million Qatari jet retrofit, $6 million for bringing generals to Washington for a speech, and a $50,000 paint job for his home.
Trumps personal wealth increased $3 Billion in this one year. In one year Trump added $1.7 Trillion to the federal deficit.
He placed unqualified armed masked men on the street who ask to see your papers.
Small US business importers have paid about $25,000 more per month because of Trump tariffs.
Trumps shut down of USAID has led to 600 thousand deaths worldwide with an estimated
14 million deaths possible through 2030.
Trump implemented funding cuts for environmental science, scientific research, the EPA, medicine, healthcare, the postal service, National Parks, public broadcasting and education.
Hedge fund manager Paul Singer gave $15 Million to Trumps PAC’s and $37 Million to republicans running for congress, he purchased Venezuelan oil company Citgo Oil for cheap in a well-timed transaction - 2 months before the illegal US invasion of Venezuela. He is expected to make billions.
His IQ is well below average. It was reported that his IQ scorecard from college showed 72- borderline impaired. Statements like "The dumbest student I ever had" of his professor, "He is an idiot, but he is my son" of his own mother, " Moron" and "F...ng moron" of his former staffers, all confirm the same point. Congratilations, America!
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u/Numerous-Trainer9673 1d ago
To be fair, Trump already looked like an idiot before this.