r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 8d ago
Paywall Trump, 79, Seems Utterly Perplexed About Where Alaska Is - The president made multiple comments suggesting he doesn’t know Alaska is part of the United States.
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u/FreedomBread 8d ago
“We’ll see what happens, if it’s bad, if it’s something I don’t see a future in, I’m gone, I’ll leave,” Trump added. “I’ll go back to the United States.”
“It’s going to be a big thing,” Trump said at a White House Press conference on Monday. “We’re going to Russia, it’s going to be a big deal.”
In a third instance, later in the same press conference, Trump said “You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday.”
This is a fucking humiliation to the United States of America. Even before the meeting giving POO-tihn the optics of hanging around with his old pal Donold.
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u/ExZowieAgent Texas 8d ago
My guess is Putin keeps telling him Alaska belongs to Russia and Trump, being the idiot he is, believes him since he believes the last thing he was told.
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u/Dodge542-02 8d ago
Easier for him to sell it back to Russia
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u/MississippiJoel America 8d ago
Or better yet, to cut Putin a trillion dollar check on the promise of "I'll leave all this land, as far as you can see, to you, right here, right now."
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u/Vivid_Pianist4270 8d ago
Nah, we can see Alaska from the tip of of Haida Gwii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) so they can probably see us. Canada says no too! 🇨🇦
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u/MississippiJoel America 8d ago
I think Sara Palin already tried to sell that one.
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u/throwawayinthe818 8d ago
Did you catch Putin talking about many Russian- built churches and place names there are there? He’s laying out the historical justification for it as historically Russian.
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u/bastetlives 8d ago
I noticed that too. Same framing. He started his public address with it, as the lead, and it wasn’t short. He also made a big point about how we share a border (phased as a relatively unknown fact eg “people aren’t saying, yet”) and how it was so “easy to transport tanks across” during WW2.
This is exactly how he talked about the current war, and those before it. Long historical discussions to educate about the former empire .. then the war action is a one liner “thus, of course this”.
Americans are not just uneducated but resistant to education (I’m American!). Many don’t leave their town, or state, let alone travel to other countries, or learn the history, and the history of propaganda.
The statement was propaganda of course. But it was not only ignored but not even parsed to determine the flavor of propaganda and the intent, and the intended audience.
It was too much acknowledgement of the locale for the occasion to be for the host alone. Plus over our heads. It was for the Russian media: look where we are. It used to be ours. So so close. We could go here next.? Whatcha think? Can you believe they are just letting me say this here?
Planting domestic seeds. Flaunting political global power. Kind of a big deal. We should be outraged. There should have been big Native American displays of ancient heritage integrated into American unity to preempt this kind of thing, and some witty jokes written about the price tag to rebuff their comparatively short legacy claims in a polite but dismissive way.
We got none of that, sadly. Plus, planes? Whatever. A sophisticated drone swarm airshow would have been much more pointed.
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u/GatorNator83 8d ago
Trump mixed past tense to future tense. Putin told him Alaska will be a part of Russia, and Trump thought he meant like yesterday.
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u/jupitaur9 8d ago
“Did you hear Johnson’s warehouse burned diwn? Total loss. Thank god he had insurance!”
“Charlie! Shhh! That’s next week!”
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u/CMDR_KingErvin 8d ago
He may be an idiot, but he’s also an evil corrupt piece of shit and a Russian asset. This could easily be him laying the groundwork for literally trying to sell off a US state.
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u/robertson4379 8d ago
Hey - you are talking about the president of the US. The convicted felon/rapist/pedophile/racist/xenophobic/narcissistic president of the US. Give him the respect he deserves.
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Missouri 8d ago
In his first term his people were leaking to the press that he repeats the last thing he is told. that is classic dementia behavior.
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u/book1245 8d ago
At the press briefing earlier this week it was all "President Trump seemed to mistakenly say he was going to Russia, any comment on that?"
"The President is going to Alaska but we'll see what plans are in the future, next question."
The point of the question swept aside.
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u/Ralph--Hinkley 8d ago
When does the media start calling him old? They were calling Biden old in '19.
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u/LouDog0187 8d ago
Just imagine if it were Biden saying these things. Or any non-republican, really. The right would be screaming about the 25th Amendment so hard that it'd probably result in his resignation. Age-wise, Trump's the same age Biden was when he(Biden) was in his 2nd year as POTUS.
So, the mental faculties/cognitive abilities questions should be thrown around like hot potatoes at this point. Calling a red state like Alaska a part of Russia 3 different times should be either deeply worrying or deeply insulting to MAGA. The double standard is so blatantly obvious. But unless someone like Jesse Watters or Gutfeld points that kind of thing out them, the base won't see it.
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u/MillionMilesPerHour 8d ago
Just imagine if it were Biden saying these things. Or any non-republican, really. The right would be screaming about the 25th Amendment so hard that it'd probably result in his resignation. Age-wise, Trump's the same age Biden was when he(Biden) was in his 2nd year as POTUS.
Not only the right, but the corporate media would as well. They harped on Biden’s age as if he was 40 years older than Trump.
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u/spezSucksDonkeyFarts 8d ago
I hope they are happy. Turned out they were right and Biden really was too old for 4 more years. But even a comatose Biden would've been better than what we have right now.
And no, I don't believe that a younger candidate would have trounced Trump had Joe not ran. All because the media outlets entertained Trump as a serious candidate. The fact that even a single person considers Trump a serious statesman is a disaster for journalism. How could they have failed so spectacularly?
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u/jedberg California 8d ago
Calling a red state like Alaska a part of Russia 3 different times should be either deeply worrying or deeply insulting to MAGA.
Remember when they wore merch that said "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat"?
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago
This is a fucking humiliation to the United States of America
Good. The people of the United States should realise they brought this upon themselves. Unfortunately, they also brought it upon others - fellow citizens and foreign citizens alike - who didn’t vote for him, and saw the importance of stopping this madman.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 8d ago
Unfortunately, Trump's base is far too stupid to have any kind of realization.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago
I’ll settle for them suffering.
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u/rabblerabble2000 8d ago
They will, but so will the rest of us. They’re too dense to realize why they’re suffering or how they brought it upon themselves though, so the rest of us suffer through their stupid decisions and then they make them all over again every chance they get.
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u/MillionMilesPerHour 8d ago
I love to see them suffer.
I then love to see them scream about it affecting them.
I voted for you three times….
I didn’t vote for this….
This is going to make me lose my job. Please save my job.”
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago
The my job needs more emphasis. They all considered themselves exempt. They didn’t care about anyone else’s.
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u/Schrodingers_Fist Canada 8d ago
Yeah but as someone who lives in Vancouver, if that moron was going to sell it to anybody we should jump on it and get that shit for our sake.
See what that idiot "business man" has got and make it a province as the Inuit already have Nunavut as a territory (not that those aren't kind of testy)
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u/Initial-Toe-9512 8d ago edited 8d ago
And no one was surprised. There’s a lot of things that seem to utterly perplex Trump - the game of golf, the female orgasm, how to legally run a business, the age of consent, democracy, diplomacy, reading…
Edit: lol, ya’ll are too dead on with some of the things you are mentioning below, I should have added way more to this list, but ya’ll need credit below. Hilarious…if he wasn’t the president
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u/Johnny-Caliente 8d ago
Age of consent…
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u/Initial-Toe-9512 8d ago
Probably could have just said “consent” and left it at that.
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u/bdh2067 8d ago
“Rape is rape,” as Epstein and Trump probly joked
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u/495orange 8d ago
Trump doesn’t think it is rape if someone is doing it to an underage boy because all guys want sex all the time.
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u/PotaToss 8d ago
I think he's like my toddler, and after he gets through the numbers he knows how to count up to, the numbers are all meaningless to him.
Twelve? Eighteen? Prices down hundreds of percent? 🤷♀️
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u/elwookie 8d ago
The word "groceries".
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u/matticans7pointO California 8d ago
How to pronounce Yosemite
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u/dikicker 8d ago edited 7d ago
I think that's just how he says hello to netanyahu
E: thank you for the award but moving forward please don't give Reddit any money. They make enough from the He Gets Us ads purporting fake kindness and supporting fascism. I do appreciate you liked my joke though 😊
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u/MarkEsmiths 8d ago
Nobody was talking about that word before him. Such a simple word. Then he started talking about it. Hey what were we talking about?
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u/WeCameAsMuffins 8d ago
Who pays the “tariffs”.
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u/Nekowulf Wyoming 8d ago
He knows that one. He just lies because his supporters don't understand it.
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u/jerryleebee American Expat 8d ago
His wife's name...
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u/MarkEsmiths 8d ago
His wife's name...
I would love to hear him pronounce Melania's name like he said Tesla.
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u/Quirky_Parfait3864 8d ago
To be fair never having seen a female orgasm it’s not surprising he’s unfamiliar with it
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u/Hot-Sexy-THICCPAWG69 8d ago
Age of consent…. And never forget Trump could literally release the Epstein files right this second. But he won’t because he is deeply intertwined with Epstein and all of his escapades throughout them. And he lied to every idiot who voted for him.
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u/teamocil2 8d ago
That’s one of the crazy things about Trump. There’s literally nothing he can say that would be all that surprising. The “Tyson Zone” from an old Bill Simmons article.
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u/m1j2p3 8d ago
He also sucks as a businessman and has a child like understanding of the economy. Trump is nothing more than a fraud and a coward.
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u/Lostsailor73 8d ago
This is not surprising. It is very common for people with remarkably low intelligence not to know very basic things. When you add dementia and aging on top of low intelligence, it is a devastating cocktail of misfortune. Unfortunately, our conservative brethren in the United States have forced this situation upon all of us.
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u/BoldThrow 8d ago
It’s absolutely unbelievable that we face this situation. The downfall of the republic lead by the dumbest person possible.
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u/Virindi Texas 8d ago
The downfall of the republic lead by the dumbest person possible.
Trump is not a leader, he's a puppet led by:
- Putin. See: constant pandering and attempts to "give-away" Ukraine.
- The Oligarchy. See: tax breaks, gutting of social systems to give them leverage over workers.
- The Heritage Foundation. See: Project 2025.
These are the most obvious, though I think Trump will entertain anyone with enough money; he's here to benefit himself (collecting an estimated 3 billion this year alone) and will absolutely sell you and the rest of the country into slavery if he personally benefits.
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u/Xytak Illinois 8d ago
He might not be versed on policy… or even basic geography… but he absolutely knows how to work a crowd. And he has some very smart people working on some very detailed plans behind the scenes. Unfortunately, those plans won’t be for the good of the people.
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u/Lostsailor73 8d ago
He can work a crowd of fools. Put him in a room of people who arent ignorqnt, selfish, malignant narcissists, and he can't do anything.
He can only connect with those that have pent-up grievance against other people. The decent find his message, repugnant and repulsive.
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u/Xytak Illinois 8d ago
And statistics back this up. Non-college-educated voters are like “he’s a funny guy! He tells it like it is!”
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u/ferrarinobrakes 8d ago
I know plenty of working professionals who also worship the guy and says how he’s funny and he tells it like it is
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u/OldBayOnEverything Maryland 8d ago
He doesn't even work the crowd of fools very well. In person, the crowds are often bored and confused. They like the sanitized version of him spoon fed to them by their social media algorithms. They elected a president based on memes and short Facebook clips and quotes.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 8d ago
Alaska didn’t become a state until this old fool was already 13 years old. It’s quite possible he couldn’t be bothered to learn new information
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u/liquidlen America 8d ago
yeah but did you hear how she laughs
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u/public_enemy_obi_wan Texas 8d ago
I'll never fkn understand how "laughing Kamala" was any type of insult or disqualifier, but here we are.....
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u/ZiphortheBear 8d ago
It's misogyny. They can't directly say its cus she's a woman, so they do personal attacks that relate to being a woman.
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u/SubMikeD Florida 8d ago
It's misogyny
It's really frustrating how true this is, but no one wants to discuss the role misogyny played in Trump winning....both times.
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u/keelhaulrose 8d ago
Something like 16% of people admit they won't vote for a woman as president because they're uncomfortable with the concept.
The number is probably much higher than that because you have to own your misogyny to admit it, and there are a lot of people who claim they're not misogynistic, they just couldn't vote for one because of her laugh or whatever.
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u/BackpackofAlpacas 8d ago
There was actually a paper in the science sub today that found 7% of Democrats, 15% of independents, and 26% of Republicans express discomfort with a female president. That's more than enough of a disparity to prevent any woman from succeeding in the near future and to explain the past two attempts.
and that's just the people who will admit it to themselves and say it out loud
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u/1st_hylian Iowa 8d ago
We don't actually know if he won the second time, someone (musk and his cronies) tampered with the voting machines.
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u/USCanuck 8d ago
And as a dad with daughters, it makes me incredibly sad that I think it would be irresponsible to nominate a woman in 2028. The world can't risk another presidency that follows this blueprint.
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u/Tower-Junkie 8d ago
I felt so disgusted that my immediate reaction to Kamala being nominated was that trump would be re-elected. I didn’t think that because it’s what I wanted, but because I knew that’s how America would react. The small sexist interactions I still experience all the time is enough to tell me we aren’t there as a nation and it makes me sick. But what can I do? I’m just a silly woman with crazy thoughts in my head.
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u/terremoto25 California 8d ago
Stop, you are being hysterical!
As a 65-year-old, white, cis-het guy who voted for both Hillary and Kamala, I felt the same. I really struggle with understanding the mindset that could allow someone to vote for a deranged, old, criminal rapist instead of a woman.
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u/Poison_the_Phil 8d ago
Never forget that the “back the blue” crowd literally had a choice between a career prosecutor and a convicted felon, and they chose the felon.
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 8d ago
“Back the blue” only ever meant “fuck BLM”. It’s the same reason they put those stupid “thin blue line” flags on their trucks. They don’t actually give a shit about law enforcement, they just see it as a middle finger to black people.
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u/Ohnoherewego13 North Carolina 8d ago
You and me both. Who doesn't laugh weird...? Oh right, their Orange Messiah who never laughs, but has that weird shit eating grin.
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u/MissionReasonable327 Maryland 8d ago
He laughed exactly one time: when he and Epstein were checking out cheerleaders.
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u/quadfromf3 8d ago
Doesn’t laugh, cuz not smart enough to get the joke. Sure causes a lot of laughter though. U.N. speeches….
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u/fross370 8d ago
The media sanewashing trump rhetoric won him the election. If both kamala and trump had been held to the same standards, it would have been a blowout.
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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 8d ago
There is a double standard and feminine role expectations for women.
Not Very Likeable: Here Is How Bias Is Affecting Women Leaders
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u/chronomagnus Ohio 8d ago
Trump doesn't laugh, at most he smirks when he or someone else makes some cruel or bigoted comment.
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u/OhSixTJ 8d ago
we should ask the many democrats who chose not to vote for her. I'm thinking it was a race/gender thing for them which is...ironic.
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u/Orangecuppa Ohio 8d ago
I know a girl who said she didn't vote for Kamala because of her stance on Gaza.
Like... seriously. You'd think TRUMP would do better? She didn't vote for Trump either, she just didn't vote so it's the same as voting for Trump imo.
I'm sure many many people out there are similar. It's crazy how this Gaza issue really fucked over Kamala and the US in general.
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u/NonlocalA 8d ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a huge psy-op.
Because guess what the fuck happened to the protests after Kamala lost? Sure, there's some die hards left, and some terrorist actions. But now that Gaza is literally a smoking crater, there's hardly a peep in the states. Just a whole bunch of surprised pikachu faces.
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It was a psy-op. The CCP controls what content is trending on Tik Tok, so in the months leading up to the 2024 election, they flooded Tik Tok with videos of Israeli violence against Palestinians and videos of people implicating the Democratic Party in said violence. They wanted Trump to win because they knew that would destabilize the US and allow China to become the world’s #1 superpower.
IMO, it was a pretty transparent psy-op and it’s shameful that we fell for it. Long before the 2024 election, it was clear that Tik Tok was being used as a psychological weapon, as evidenced by the fact that the Chinese version of the app promotes educational content while the American version promotes idiocy. Many of the videos on Tik Tok were also from past Israeli attacks on Gaza but were presented as footage from the current one. It’s bizarre that they would lie about events in Gaza when the truth is horrifying enough, but they did, and we failed to grasp the implications.
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u/heroic_cat 8d ago
You do not speak in racist/misogynist code. Actual terrible people knew what that meant, it was a petty stupid jab calling attention to her looks.
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u/CheezeLoueez08 Canada 8d ago
I legit don’t understand how that’s supposed to be an insult. Do they seriously think there’s something wrong with someone having a good time? Letting a bit loose for a moment? These people are so damn miserable. My nephew, here in Canada, even made fun of her about that. I didn’t even know how to respond.
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u/HandrewJobert 8d ago
They don't understand laughter that isn't at someone else's expense.
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u/CheezeLoueez08 Canada 8d ago
Oh true. Pathetic
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u/polaris6849 Kentucky 8d ago
And they don't like the idea of a black woman expressing joy
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u/wack_overflow Colorado 8d ago
They've decided that dems are bad. So no matter what they do, it's a bad thing. It's one feature of how cults work
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u/ZiphortheBear 8d ago
It's just misogyny / racism. They can't say the insult they want to, so they use personal attacks that get really close to it.
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u/Luscious_Decision 8d ago
Cause they had nothing else to attack her for bc she's actually a good person. And they really really wanted to attack her.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 8d ago
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”
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u/anderskants 8d ago
Uk here, if you think that's ridiculous wait till I tell you about the PM that got torn apart by the press and his image ruined because he ate a bacon roll "weirdly" 😆
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u/SGT_Wheatstone 8d ago
on the flipside - have you ever heard trump laugh at anything? he as, but he will typically only laugh at creulty...
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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 8d ago
I've seen him laugh in pictures and video with Epstein.
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u/Justneedtacos 8d ago
It was never an actual reason. It was just an excuse. A smokescreen to hide their racism and/or misogyny.
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u/Virindi Texas 8d ago
yeah but did you hear how she laughs
A happy woman makes them angry, probably because women are never happy around them.
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u/Longgrain54 8d ago
They booted another leading presidential candidate to the curb just because he yelled with glee following a primary victory.
They defend and reelect this one to office even after 5 felony grand juries with hard evidence and daily displays of incompetence and unfitness for high office.
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u/bmack24 8d ago
Alaska is off the coast of California right next to Hawaii, everyone knows that
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u/friendofelephants 8d ago
Yes, and like Hawaii, it always has a box around it!
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u/miscfiles United Kingdom 8d ago
They built a box and they made Mexico pay for it.
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u/FeedMeYourGoodies 8d ago
I was getting a haircut a few months back and one of the women that worked in the barbershop had to be in her 40's. She said she had just recently learned that you could drive to Alaska. She thought it was in the ocean because the maps always show it separated from the other 48 states, just like Hawaii. How the fuck can people like that get through their daily lives?
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u/MillhouseNickSon 8d ago
Because too many arrogant and ignorant people have the misconception that not knowing something is “bad” instead of just the first step to learning something. If you are excited about learning something, someone else is likely to berate you for “being a nerd”. If you try to tell someone something that they don’t know, you’re likely a “know-it-all”. Constructive criticism isn’t something the average American understands, they just see it as “making me look dumb”.
The US (and the western world as well) has an anti-intellectualism problem.
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u/chicken101 8d ago
I think it's also because people genuinely have no desire to understand things. She saw a map with Alaska represented next to Hawaii and just accepted it.
She never thought to ask how Alaska could be cold af next to a tropical island lol
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u/Xytak Illinois 8d ago
To be fair, sometimes it’s in a little corner of the Atlantic. It really just depends.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 8d ago
Time for him to take a cognitive test, on camera.
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u/TheJonasVenture 8d ago
One of the things I just loved about that was that he was so clearly just naming 5 things around him. They don't use related words like that in those tests.
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u/Bromodrosis 8d ago
He never done anything that isn't rigged towards him. He sure isn't going to start now.
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u/kezow 8d ago
To be fair, Alaska wasn't a state until Trump was 13. Which happens to be the same age as some of the girls who were Epstein's-one of Trump's oldest friends-victims.
Release the Epstein files.
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u/Carpenterdon 8d ago
Well to be fair....He's going to give Alaska to Russia so it won't be a part of the US much longer....
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u/DFu4ever 8d ago
I’m going to guess his handlers had to convince him to not just make the knee jerk decision to give Alaska to Putin.
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u/PatrioticRebel4 8d ago
The good thing about trump is he's too greedy to just give something away without anything in return. And its a good thing for America that Putin doesnt have any Nobel prizes.
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u/Endarkens 8d ago
Trump Tower in Moscow for the return of federation property (Alaska). Made the greatest deal for America right there!
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u/SnarkyGenXQueen 8d ago
You know, sad thing, he really is going to try and give Alaska to his bro Putin. He thinks they are one and the same.
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u/Ichewthecereal 8d ago
Trump raped children
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u/belisario262 8d ago
that is very true. wait, do you mean Trump the one that had a trafficking ring with his pal Epstein??
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u/BirdButt88 8d ago
Yeah, Donald J. Trump, the guy who bragged about getting away with sexual assault and walking in on naked teens
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u/it-was-justathought 8d ago
Narcs tell you what they are going to do. He is considering making a deal with Putin that involves part or all of Alaska.
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u/masterofn0n3 8d ago
Because Putin keeps telling him its Russias and what Daddy Putin says must be true
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u/LittleLarryY 8d ago
It’s weird because his grandfather made his initial fortune with a whorehouse during the Klondike gold rush.
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u/End3rWi99in Massachusetts 8d ago
Does anyone remember that time he was doing arts and crafts at an elementary school during his first term? The kids were making their own American flags, and he was clearly using Russian colors to make the stripes?
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u/Peachy33 Pennsylvania 8d ago
Headline writers are just fucking with us when they list his age after his name.
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u/Luscious_Decision 8d ago
It's what I imagine waiting for a shitty relative to die for an inheritance is like.
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u/No_Balls_01 8d ago
What’s the deal with that? It’s been a frequent thing for the last little while.
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u/RanchBaganch Massachusetts 8d ago
It’s the Daily Beast, so they’re just doing what the MSM did every time they wrote an article about Biden.
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u/Capt_Unbrauchbar 8d ago
You know, a president who doesn't know all the states of the country he is president of, is kind of unsuitable for the job. Just thinking how terrifyingly ridiculous the US have become.
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u/JdFalcon04 Pennsylvania 8d ago
That’s not fair. He also doesn’t know Puerto Rico is a US territory!
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u/OrganicCoffeeBean Connecticut 8d ago
alaska needs a ballroom
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u/Dry-Pop-8109 8d ago
I was surprised when I didn't see shitty gold all over their stage.
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u/Tioopuh 8d ago
Imagine him is paving the way of giving Alaska back to Russia, this is the worst president of all time
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u/merikariu Texas 8d ago
H didn't know where Puerto Rico was, that it is a part of the USA, what a U.S. territory was, and why people speak Spanish there if it's a part of the USA. He is, in fact, a moron.
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u/bchamper 8d ago
If you still haven’t figured out that Trump is genuinely stupid, that says everything about you.
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u/BANGImportant2825 8d ago
It didn't become a state until 1959. He was already 13 years old and was done learning by that point.
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u/asmusedtarmac 8d ago
This this this this this!
He is still stuck in the 1950s: lifestyle, civics, world affairs, etc.
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u/According-Mention334 8d ago
He has dementia. Balance and gait issues. Obvious memory problems, speech difficulties, confabulation, tangential thought patterns.
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u/TheFeshy 8d ago
You are all overlooking how good this news is. Trump not knowing Alaska is part of the US is likely the only reason he didn't offer it to Russia.
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u/beardeddragon0113 8d ago
Until trump tells him "sure you can harvest all the natural resources in Alaska, since its already part of Russia go ahead!"
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u/gogoluke 8d ago
Putin will have been playing mind games with Trumps Dementia riddled brain and saying Alaska was once Russian so now that seed is in Trumps head as that is what he last heard. Putin will also have said how Russia sold it so it can be sold again. This puts another seed in Trumps head. Now he's thinking how he can sell "his" land back to Russia for a profit. Putin will have also said Russia sold it for $7.2m so trump will add a bit more for profit say up to $10m then double it $20m thinking he has a huge profile. Putin will also say he will put missiles on the Canadian border to pressure Canada and secure it... "We point missile right toward the Canada so they fall in line with you and me. You can have the Canada as a token of our friendship"
All Putin has to do is constantly remind Trump that selling it is winning and Trump will absolutely fixate on it no matter the cost.
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u/DramaticWesley 8d ago
Is this why he was perhaps going to give away mining rights to parts of it?
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u/Underdogs4513 8d ago
This is Trump. He does not give one single fuck about the United States or its people. He uses the presidency as a tool to further his own personal wealth and interests. He uses fear mongering tactics to influence stupid people, which make up the majority of this country. This is why he doesn’t know anything about the country, the history of the country, the Bible he claims to support, etc. It’s quite embarrassing how easily he was able to do this all.
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u/Capital-Delivery8001 8d ago
And isn’t Alaska right wing? His supporters must be happy he doesn’t know they exist
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u/BrutusRat 8d ago
Thats because someone is whispering in his ear and telling him Alaska is part of Russia.
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u/IlustriousCoffee 8d ago
he’s doing this on purpose. why can’t anyone see how obvious it is? he obviously knows Alaska is part of the US, but right now he wants it to belong to Russia, which is what his friend Putin wants
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u/brick20 8d ago
People are constantly giving Trump WAY too much credit for being some evil mastermind. He’s not. He’s just a stupid and selfish old man with dementia. This is the same guy that wanted to fire a nuke at a hurricane and suggested injecting bleach to cure Covid. He’s a fucking moron, plain and simple.
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u/Sabiancym 8d ago edited 8d ago
Exactly. Trump is a useful idiot in someone else's master plan. He's not even capable of functioning on his own, let alone masterminding complex geopolitical maneuvers. There are actual former white house staffers on record questioning Trump's literacy. There's even more about how intelligence briefings had to be significantly dumbed down when Trump took office.
He's an idiot who other idiots think is competent.
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u/teenagesadist 8d ago
To be fair, Alaska wasn't a state until trump was 12, and he stopped learning new things long before then.
The media really got away with making Biden seem ancient compared to trump. They're both old as fuck
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u/sector16 8d ago
Dementia is only just trickling in now…wait a year, see what dumb shit he does, and how the GOP excuse it.
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u/Truthisnotallowed 8d ago
In fairness Putin told Trump Alaska was part of Russia so you can understand Trump's confusion.
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u/AntonioLovesHippos 8d ago
No Kings.
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd." Thomas Paine
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