• Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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    Why the fuck has the president been allowed to own a publicly traded propaganda outlet?

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    I interact with all kinds of people and I have never encountered a single person who (admits to?) using Truth Social.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    Pussolini doesn’t give a shit. He already made his money in the initial IPO, selling high then crashing.

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    It’s almost impressive to lose 61% of your stock value while your founder is literally president. Apparently even running the country isn’t enough to make a social network profitable when its entire business model is one man shouting into a room full of people who already agree with him.

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      Most of it’s value was as a bribery tool for the president.

      Well, access to him just dropped in value now that he had an antibody House and Senate that dramatically reduces his ability to do whatever he is being paid to want.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      I suspect a lot of those people are media and folks like me dropping in to fact check. Kinda like their rallies this go round, plenty of media and few true believers.

      FFS, when even I’d go to a Vance rally just to get the story first hand. These fuckers can’t even drive basic human curiosity.

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      I suppose it’s the difference between “running the country“ and “running the country into the ground“

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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    Where’s the rant from our God Emperor? I am lost and directionless in this sea of thieves without the lighthouse of his incoherent ramblings to guide my way.

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      I honestly don’t think it’s set in for him how bad of an ass whooping it was.

      If the dems play their cards right the electoral college is under threat.

    • MelodiousFunk@lemmy.zip
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      I am shocked at the lack of cheating allegations. Makes me wonder if they pulled some shit in a few districts in dem’s favor just to have something to point at.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        I expected cries of cheating, didn’t expect such a solid ass whoopin’.

        It’s one thing to cry about getting popped in the jaw after the guy walks off. It’s quite another to cry cheating after he ruptures your guts.

        Every story and quote I’ve read so far sounds properly conciliatory. Except for Trump of course! Paraphrasing, “Wasn’t my fault. It was the war we had to do, and that drove prices up a litte, very temporarily.”

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        You misunderstand the true narcissist. Trump didn’t take a loss here. That is most literally impossible to his brain. He can’t be wrong, so it was some other factor.

        Only known one person with diagnosed NPD, my mom, and she wasn’t 1/10th the narcissist Trump is. Nearly impossible for normal brains to wrap around.

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          I’ve had one lie to my face and the person next to me about what they said to us less than a minute prior.

          It’s understandably difficult for people who haven’t experienced it to understand or believe it.

        • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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          NPD is so rarely diagnosed because people affected are disinclined to seek help for it, and covert narcissists are hard to spot

        • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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          This isn’t the dude who picked a bar fight and got punched twice before the bouncer broker it up. This is Anthony Joshua controlling the entire fight up to breaking jake paul’s jaw.

    • LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works
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      Last night saw his party and his ego massacred bigly. Let the man grieve, alright? He deserves it, along with everything that’s coming to him now.

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        A narcissist at Trump’s level cannot have his ego damaged, cannot be wrong. This wasn’t his fault, no way it could be. He’s already made such noise.

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          True. He has already started the fingerpointing, blaming the candidates and thus offloading his responsibility for these results to them.

          But where before he would have been met with pure, cultish sycophancy, this time around, he’ll face resistance, and fingers pointing back at him. Republicans have seen now that being aligned or just associated with Trump is absolutely toxic and will inevitably lose them seats. Thus, the closer we get to 2028, they will increasingly shun, undermine or even openly oppose him, which will hurt his ego bigly. I’ll be there for that, schadenfreude cranked up to 11, gleefully watching on as he goes through his own, personal, well-deserved hell.

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        He was in Fox News as the results were dropping saying how it wasn’t his fault anyways, those candidates sucked.

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          Trump Lost His Party These Midterms

          Both indirectly (war, tariffs, ICE killings) and directly, by recruiting:

          • Ken Paxton (TX) over the opposition of the entire Republican Party apparatus
          • Darline Graham (SC), for no actual reason (he doesn’t seem to have liked Lindsey all that much? And any Republican in this seat would have been just as acquiescent as Graham promised to be?)
          • Michael Whatley (NC) out of spite for Thom Tillis
          • And assuming Ohio was safe enough to leave open in order to have JD as his VP
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      Probably taking meetings (that he sleeps through) about how to nullify the elections so the new congress doesnt get seated.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        Only shot there was Johnson talking the Clerk of Congress, one of the rare positions that carries over, into not seating people. Too fucking late. Johnson stated he won’t even run for Minority Leader now.

        The 121st Congress will be seated as elected. Only fight I’m seeing is Mississippi where the Democrat was ahead by 34 points this morning. 1,138 ahead now! And MS has no automatic recount, even on such slim margins!

        Honestly, where I the GOP candidate, I’d call for a recount. He’s not making such noise ATM. There’s also a question of 15,000 provisional ballots in play. When it shakes out, I think our boy wins.

        Fuck me, Mississippi out liberalled us Floridians. :(

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    He doesn’t care if it makes money. He cares that no one can ban him.

    Stop calling it a social network. It’s basically a personal Tumblr, complete with trainwreck Dashcons

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    Gee, the state regime ran platform that was, from the beginning, 95% bots, is collapsing after their defeat? Who would a thought? /s

    Let that mother fucker burn