• @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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    21624 hours ago

    Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.

    It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.

    • @CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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      35 hours ago

      We need to change this rhetoric. Trump isn’t going to be hurt by this. It’s more apt that he’s taking a machine gun to all of our feet. He hasn’t been held accountable for anything he’s made us suffer through.

    • spirinolas
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      21 hours ago

      Trump isn’t stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he’s shooting Uncle Sam’s foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He’s a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again, while pretending he’s not doing it on purpose so he can keep doing it.

      When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he’s doing a good job. Until people realize this he’ll keep sabotaging the US.

      • @Fluke@lemm.ee
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        1311 hours ago

        See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia’s economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.

        It would appear that he’s just a brat who’s never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It’s all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he’s right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.

      • Comtief
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        311 hours ago

        I don’t think he works for Putin (or well, who knows), but I think he admires fascism and fascists put ideology above economy, so that tracks.

        • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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          511 hours ago

          I don’t think he even knows what’s on half the shit he signs.

          He just grabs his oversized marker pen, puts that goofy-ass signature on them, holds it up for the camera like he’s still hosting The Apprentice, and goes back to playing golf.

          The idea of global supply chains more complex than “cotton -> cloth -> Trump branded tat” would blow his mind.

        • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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          16 hours ago

          He’s evidently working to destroy the USA and its alliances, which serves Russia’s interests. But it’s hard to know whether he’s doing so deliberately or unwittingly.

          • @Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
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            25 hours ago

            I’m pretty sure Putin played his narcissistic ass like a fiddle in the attempt to destabilize the US in order to win in Ukraine, and it’s paid off so much more than he ever dreamed.

        • thermal_shock
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          715 hours ago

          It’s not even about stupidity, he literally can’t admit he made a mistake and work to fix it. Triple down if you have to, never show “weakness”. What a fucking putz.

      • @ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        He can be both: working for Putin and a complete moron.

        You don’t threaten to sue the school you attended if your grades are released unless you know they are nothing to be proud of. Also, that professor or teacher that said Trump was the dumbest student he had to teach in all his years.

      • Lit
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        1220 hours ago

        Good point. He bankrupted several of his casinos as practice, and now he is bankrupting the US.

    • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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      1721 hours ago

      Putin continues to finance trump and has bailed him out of bankruptcy in the past. None of this is foot shooting, its all trashing the US from top to bottom as Putin planned. Every day Putin wins and people scratch their heads wondering why trump would do such stupid things.

    • @seven_phone@lemmy.world
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      1423 hours ago

      It is all building to him putting the gun to his head with the promise it will make him stronger than ever. He will retaliate to these retaliations because it is all he understands. All his life he has just ignored or run head first at problems planning to solve them in the moment with his superior mind and it has never worked, and he never learns. More than that he never sees it as failed, and that is what so much of the US voted for and the world saw it.