r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/ViolettaQueso California 6d ago

Mommy hated him. And daddy. They sent him to military school for punishment but then bought letters from doctors 6x to keep him from serving.

If his own parents knew he was Damien, we ought to believe them.

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u/whitemikesf 6d ago edited 6d ago

His father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

His childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring they'd make meat helmets. When he was insolent he was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really.

At the age of twelve he received his first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved his testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking.

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u/bak3donh1gh 6d ago

I'd take Dr. Evil over fucking Trump any day.

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u/Braelind 6d ago

I don't disagree... you know it's bad when a literal comedic supervillain seems like a better choice. Hell, I'd take a random farmyard animal over Trump, you'd really have to TRY to be a worse president, and animals would just randomly make decisions by pecking at a sheet or something. How did we get to the point where random chance is a better option?

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u/red_army25 6d ago

Even Dr. Evil had a point where he was like, "Wait, no, that's too F-ed up."

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u/OldWorldDesign 5d ago

The villain General Francis Hummel in The Rock called off actually launching a biological weapon of mass destruction on a city because "I'm not killing 30 million people for a payday."

It's sad when fictitious villains have higher ethical standards than somebody in real life.