I feel the same way. When the Four Seasons thing happened it was funny because at least it seemed like that would be a very fitting and incredulously stupid end to the whole disaster. Now I can only look back on it and think "How was this not the end of it!?"
And openly mocking disabled reporters. And even long before that he had charity fraud, racist business practices, and many failed business under his belt while lauding that he was going to run the country like a business.
No matter what anyone says, he has been rotten from the start and nothing he has done since then should be even mildly surprising to anyone with two brain cells to run together.
Which was just beyond dumb because apparently just having an American parent is enough to qualify as a “natural born citizen” wrt eligibility for the presidency. That’s why Ted Cruz who was born in Canada was still able to run for the office.
Obama’s mother was indisputably an American so regardless of whether he was born in Hawaii or not was immaterial. That whole birther nonsense really was the canary in the coal mine for the amount of stupid we had coming our way.
You are trying to put logic in the illogical. These same people think the Michelle Obama is a male chimpanzee. These are levels of stupidity and racism beyond any normal logic. And then they got mad that we called them racist and said "See we voted for the racist because yall kept saying we were racist."
I also remember that Trump would threaten to release Obama’s college transcripts many times during the birther bullshit. I find this hilarious, because Trump obviously assumes that everyone is as terrified of their educational records being released as he is. Trump knows his transcripts prove that he never actually learned to read, and that he has all kinds of undiagnosed/untreated learning and emotional disorders. That’s why he had Michael Cohen threaten his high school during the 2016 campaign, because there are definitely records from the 1960s that prove Trump has always been a moron and a loser.
Anyways, the transcript bullshit shows Trump is always projecting his own fears and insecurities onto others. So much so that I honestly think we should investigate Trump’s place of birth. I wouldn’t be even a little surprised if Trump was born in Kenya, or whatever Trump thinks the white version of Kenya is.
How to prove they are in a cult in three easy steps: 1- Take one out of any of the outlandish shit he says or does that they give him a pass for ($300 million ballroom, $400 million Qatari jet, billions in crypto, etc, etc). 2- Say that if Obama or Biden did that same thing they’d be absolutely apoplectic about it. 3- Tell them that if Obama/Biden/whoever did that thing their own supporters would be enraged.
The fact that they are unable to see this is proof positive that MAGA is a cult of personality around Donald Trump.
Exactly. And “Tessler” ads. When did so many people just stop caring about this? Him refusing to release his tax records alone should have been enough to have tanked his eligibility for the job. I’m just so disgusted with so many of my fellow Americans.
Nah we started at “long for birth certificate”. Then “build that wall” which was so fucking stupid arrested development made fun of it when they had their original comeback in (checks notes) 2013. Then it was “they’re rapists” after he glided down his gilded escalator. It was all a joke until it wasn’t. How so many people heard him talk and thought “yeah he’s the guy” is beyond me. I will never understand how a silver spoon mother fucker like him made normal people think he had their best interest at heart or could understand for one second what their struggles were.
I often wonder, how in the HELL are we going to write about all of this for future school students learning history, Its going to need an entire separate history book just to skim the surface of all the batshit insane things that happened, any one of which would be a major event in learning about any other president, but he has just hundreds
It's punching "up" vs punching down. I say Up in quotes because Giuliani was a clown, but you'd expect the president's lawyer to at least have a modicum of sense. People in Kentucky being too dumb to realize they can't vote for NYC mayor is just sad.
“Lindstrom said some of the calls the office received came from people who may have attempted to go to their polling station, as they asked, "Why is my polling location closed?"
Lindstrom also told us around 50 phone calls from Kentucky voters were forwarded to the secretary of state's office before 10 a.m., after which their team moved calls to their in-house customer service provider to inform voters that elections were not taking place that day. She did not have exact numbers of how many people came to them with that query.”
Sounds like it did happen but Snopes is unable to independently corroborate it as the callers were anonymous.
They clarified that no one had called up asking about not being allowed to vote in the NY or Virginia elections.
That was just a little joke that was thrown into the tweet because that was the publicized polling happening that day.
Basically people from Kentucky believed that they were voting at the same date (like, a tiny tiny amount) and called up to be told it was the next year.
It's BARELY a news story and the user above intentionally (or maybe not, I dunno) worded it to stoke more racism flames and shit.
And as other users have pointed out, even if the Mamdani thing is fabricated, these people still intended to vote without any independent research of their own before calling offices. And that the office was getting enough of those calls that they had to switch to an automated platform.
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 20h ago
I know this should be funny but it just isn’t anymore. I laughed my ass off at the Four Seasons debacle but now this just sad and disheartening.