• cm0002@lemmy.world
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    Remember the running joke in Futurama where whenever President Nixon of Earth does a speech he does an advertisement?

    That was supposed to be a joke, not a manual.

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    If anyone hasn’t noticed, his job now is to sign things and shill for whoever pays him the most at the moment. He doesn’t need votes anymore because he’s either unable to run again or will simply refuse to leave or have a hamburger speed things up. He doesn’t care… He just says anything to anyone for his sponsors.

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      You think he would not get votes again? Mate, many of the people he fires are STILL supporting him.

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        I didn’t say he wouldn’t get votes, he doesn’t need elections anymore to keep his ass in the chair. It’s done, he is in his 2nd term. Americans aren’t of any concern to him as long as a line of millionaires and billionaires keep kissing his ring. Nothing he passes will be for anyone, just against stuff his donors don’t agree with.

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          But what about his 3rd term? He’s going to need to put the work in to make that happen. Not in gathering many votes granted, but to ensure the election falls in his favour when the time comes.

          Thankfully for him, as you say, he has a close symbiotic partnership with the rich, and they along with the government staff he is putting into position (and purging those who aren’t loyal to him) are the ones who control the voting process. So, with a little hard work, mostly done by other people, he’ll win the next election.

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            If he bends things enough to break an amendment, why would he even bother with keeping it based on voting?

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    Crazy… one would think it would be illegal to use the presidency to push cars on people.

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          It absolutely does, but every single Republican is guilty and complicit.

          And if you’re trying some “ummmm ackchtually that’s not impeachment it’s conviction” you can fuck right off because you’re part of the problem.

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            Trump was impeached before. It didn’t mean shit and it wouldn’t mean shit if even if he was impeached again. Your country is broken.

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      idk if you realised but trump is above the law

      he would’ve been imprisoned for long if he wasn’t a rich asshole

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    Assuming symtandard sheet size, his prepared text is in 20pt font size.

    Just pointing that out to anyone curious about his eye sight and/or literacy.

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      I don’t think that really tells anything. For public speaking, having good readable notes is essential. Honestly, I’m surprised it’s not all 100pt sharpie.

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      Yeah it’s been known for years he can’t see shit. But he is too vain to wear glasses in public. He does wear them in private, there are some pics out there. Which is pretty normal for someone his age.

      This is part of why his speeches are always so weird and fucked up. He misreads because he needs his glasses and then makes shit up to try and cover for it. The speech prepared is usually evil and fucked up in different ways, but at least coherent. Then when Trump tries to read them a lot of nonsense comes out.

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      I think that’s pretty standard for public speaking. I’ve been printing stuff that large since highschool with decent eyesight. You just print as large as you can while keeping it all on one sheet

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        Honestly, Tesla’s quality is far less than most vehicles.
        Apple has a lot of fair criticisms leveled against it, but their products are at least built as well as their competition. Unless I’m woefully out of the loop. That’s also possible.

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          I can’t speak for Apple quality. But they aren’t environmentally friendly. Batteries can’t be swapped out in newer laptops, and they tend to try and force their customers to always be upgrading. Their updates that intentionally slowed older devices for example.

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            I’ve had my current iPhone for 4 years, not bought a single replacement cord or anything for it. Apple hasn’t done anything on my device to make me want to upgrade, I’m not sure what you’re referring to.

            Of my buddies with comparably priced android devices I think they’ve all gone through 2 or 3 phones in that time frame. Multiple Pixel devices.

            The updates that “slowed” the older devices was for battery performance and was made toggleable. Android devices do similar things.

            The iPhone XR, from 2018, still receives iOS updates and older phones still get security updates.

            My son is using my iPhone 11 Pro, from 2019. The batter is still fine and I can get it easily replaced if I need to. The phone works, gets updates and nothing is pushing him to upgrade.

            You’re not actually right with your criticism here, you’re just biased.

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      Even Rivian is a better option if you still want “luxury”. Priced slightly lower and the quality is much better.

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    They are just rubbing our noses in the corruption now. Problem is, Republicans like it, the like the smell of it, they like trumps hand on their neck as he smears the corruption across their faces. “Yes daddy trump, pwease wub more of uncle ewons shit on our faces”

    Dude, were so fucked, the wh press sec talks to journalists like a mad dominatrix. We used to run the world, now the world wants our head, personally I say we it to em

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    So now he’s turning his back on the oil and gas industry, also the gas/diesel vehicle industry so that he can shill for crybaby Musk. You have to laugh to keep from crying at all the insanity going on in Washington right now

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      Well when the president asks you to do a car commercial for him do you turn him down? He might find someone else to scowl behind a desk.

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        It does look weirdly ai though. I’m not saying it’s fake, because frankly, I don’t think there’s an ai yet that can create that much sensible text, and the details on his hand and arm are true to life (based on that thumbnail, he should probably take a multivitamin).

        Anyone know what’s so off-looking about the handwriting though? I figure it’s a weird angle and that’s why the text fades towards the right side of the page, but it’s a very strange picture all around. Maybe things just get funky when you take pictures at that level of zoom.

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          it looks like they adjusted the light levels so the hand written note is easier to read

          doing so made the right side fade because of glare?

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      That yellowed thumbnail.

      From WebMD - “Yellow Nails: One of the most common causes of yellow nails is a fungal infection. As the infection worsens, the nail bed may retract, and nails may thicken and crumble. In rare cases, yellow nails can indicate a more serious condition such as severe thyroid disease, lung disease, diabetes or psoriasis.”

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        He also manually applies that fucking bronze concealer. Maybe he doesn’t wash properly… Which, given his reported smell, we already know.

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    Make some more witty comeback comments on X instead of going out onto the streets. That will surely show them and puts an end to this.

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    This is one of the only ways to make used car sales people look ok, WTG trump you are failure of such a degree that you made the people that everyone hated sleep just a bit better tonight.