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    Imagine being Zelenskyy, your soldiers dying on the battlefield, children abducted and your cities bombed. Daily.

    Now here you are, having to pretend being interested in some narcissists fascist cap collection

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      I hope Zelensky goes back to comedy after his political career. So much source material!

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      Must take every fiber of his being not to just beat Cheeto chimp into a quivering pile of piss & shit.

      Imagine how powerful Z would appear by doing that?

      Yes, I believe Z would still make it back to Ukraine.

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      I honestly don’t know why he even takes these meetings with trump. I don’t want to sound like an asshole, but damn, it really makes me wonder about his intelligence and really, just his awareness in general. Its so fucking obvious he’s going to get nothing from these meetings even before they happen. Just seems like an extreme waste of time for a man that has much MUCH bigger things to deal with.

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      Kid, I literally could not care less about your Pokémon card collection.

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        Everything is new-in-the-box, not to be played with. DON’T TOUCH THAT!

        All the theoretically coolest stuff (well, not in this case), but in the most joyless, unfun context possible.

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      Not to diminish what the soldiers at the front have to go through, but having to play nice with such a shit person as Trump, only for your country to still get less support than under sleepy Joe, must be painful beyond belief. I wouldn’t even last a day having to kiss Trumps feet.

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        sleepy Joe

        Can we not use MAGAt language? Call him other names, except anything that legitimizes their rhetoric.

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            I am not. But Biden was a walking corpse for half of his term. We were robbed of Bernie, I am not going show any respect to a man and a system that did everything in their power to block Bernie.

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              Using the term “sleepy Joe” doesn’t look good on anyone. No, he was not a “corpse”.

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          Nah, dude was like 78 years old and mentally gone. That rhetoric is legitimate. The last thing we should be doing is pretending that he was an acceptable candidate and the Democrats did nothing wrong.

          And by the way, Trump is 79 years old and also mentally gone, as you can see in the OP photo.

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            The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Come up with something clever, I don’t care what you call him. Don’t legitimize MAGA. That’s it.

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              Yeah but trying to police what terms they use to criticize him in a way this specific is weird man.

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                Bruh, policing? I’m not enforcing anything, I’m asking.

                Can you do two things for me:

                • Stop putting words in my mouth
                • pay attention to what I’m saying

                Much appreciated.

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                Sure. I’m only saying don’t legitimize MAGA’s rhetoric. I don’t know why people think I’m saying anything more than that.

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            Oh, fuck that shit, no, the reason we’re in this mess to begin with is because rich douchebags won’t get their fucking dicks out of politics because woe is them someone might actually take their ill-begotten gains to benefit everyone, so they propped up a fucking fascist and then bought all the media to make idiots like you blame Biden for it.

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              So we agree, rich douchebags took over our democracy while Sleepy Joe sat back and did NOTHING to stop it. Jan 6th? Trump sees no consequences. Numerous other indictments for Trump? No need to rush. Musk buying votes in PA? Seems fine.

              All the while Joe sits around insisting he’s strapped in and ready for another term. He got elected on the premise that he would be a 1 term president then decided he was comfy, in spite of incredibly clear polling numbers showing that his policy was remarkably unpopular. Then Kamala picked up the mantle and when she asked what she would do differently? No notes.

              Policy-wise Joe was better than most but politically he gave away the country to the fascists.

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                No, we don’t agree. You’re a MAGA trying to blame Joe Biden for the evils of other people, or even the inactions of other people. Biden isn’t a prosecutor, nor is he a judge.

                Nice name by the way, rather gives you away.

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    This guy is just so fucking cringe I’m getting third-hand embarrassment through my phone.

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      MOFO is recording a reality show 24/7. Everything he does seems one of those cringy episodes from E! or MTV shows from the 2000-2010s.

      If I’m not mistaken, the first time he met with Zelensky he was caught saying “this will make good television” or something like that. Now, what is the exact goal with this? I don’t know… Seems conservative low IQ people like to consume their politics as entertainment programs and that keeps them hooked?

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    I would say this is embarrassing if he wasn’t doing things so much worse, like crashing the economy, alienating allies, trampling civil rights, punishing minorities, and abandoning those invaded and starving.

    "Trump is a weak man’s idea of a strong man, a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man.”

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        There are sadly, a lot of men in power who are also rapists the same way normal people eat breakfast.

        If we don’t take collective action and start caring about our communities and linking arms with people we don’t agree with on everything, we are going back to a time when little girls are property of the state and have no future past “fleshlight for fat old fucks” or “baby machine.”

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          International sex trafficking rings have been Hollywood fodder for movies like Taken, for as long as there have been movies. As a human population, we all believe that something like this goes on somewhere.

          Now we find out that it was going on for real, and people like Trump, Epstein, Casablanca, Brunel, and others were operating it. Instead of demanding that all of them be rounded up and prosecuted, MAGAs just dismiss the whole thing, even though it was this child sex trafficking ring that inspired their involvement in the first place.

          It’s like they got to the bottom of the rabbit hole, and decided “Eh, fuck it, I’m cool with it. Carry on.”

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            It’s like they got to the bottom of the rabbit hole, and decided “Eh, fuck it, I’m cool with it. Carry on.”

            Oh you’re right, it was never about protecting children, it was about feeling special for figuring out a secret “they” don’t want you to know. When “They” come out in the open and just admit to it and show exactly who is doing it and how far it goes without secrecy, it loses interest for the obsessives and people missing things from their lives.

            It was about the hunt, not the outcome. And this is an attitude that a LOT of people have about far more things than just Q-anon conspiracy, most liberals and leftists also have their own cars they chase without a plan for what to do when they catch it. Everyone has some storyline they’re engaged with and feel connected to.

            And these storylines are deliberately being both seeded and capitalized on to keep a leash around the population and to keep people from unifying.

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    Zelenskys expression is like when your kid shows you his rocks and sticks collection.

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      Rocks and sticks are cute. This is more like your kid showing you his roadkill collection.

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      God I can’t imagine what it must be like for him, desperately fighting an existential war every day for years, then having to politely listen to this infantile hitler-wannabe. I’d donate every penny I have to watch Zelenksky knock one of those trashy hats right off his head and call him out for being such a cowardly bitch.

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    The only thing I hate more than seeing a standard “MAGA” merch is seeing “TRUMP 2028” merch. It’s disturbing how many of those I’ve seen around since the last US election.

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      The hats aren’t even of good quality. Most rip apart easily. Chinese-made hats are better than that.

      Also overpriced. I saw them for $15… seriously? In my country I can get better quality ones for €5.

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        Where do you think Trump makes his hats? Also China can make good quality stuff but you have to pay for it. If you cheap out you get what you pay for.

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          Oh, they know how to sell full price crap.

          To get quality you must have water proof deal on paper and constant vigilant quality control at your end.

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            Or just buy brands popular with Chinese. It just takes research that no one is willing to do, then they complain that thing they ordered off AliExpress is crap.

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              Bingo. I work with clothing and people like to complain about the generics, but if you get something above the absolute cheapest shirt we offer (go figure, it’s what most people go for), you’ll end up with something pretty nice.

              MAGA doesn’t care about quality. Like, at all. All of the customers I’ve gotten that are clearly on that side of the fence all want it cheap and fast. Who cares if it looks or feels good as long as you tick the box. They wouldn’t know taste if it threw up in their mouth.

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      It’s equal parts disgusting and terrifying that Trump has those hats. He’s already proving through his actions that he doesn’t give a shit about our democracy - but having a hat that basically says “fuck you, I’m a dictator” is just so brazen.

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      Why not? There are other Trumps who are eligible. If Junior runs, they don’t even need to change the banners or the hats much. They dont even need to hide it, they can have big “Donald Trump jr for President” banners still. Dad can go campaigning, and they can make perfectly clear who will make the decisions.

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        I hate that you’ve given me one more plausible concern… this is all predicated on us even having elections in 2028

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          There will be elections. There have to be, in order for the new Congress to be seated.

          The only question is how ratfucked they will be…

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    Uh, there “Trump 2028” caps at the top left of the photo.

    He’s casually showing world leaders his shitty hats and that he plans to run for a third term despite it being entirely unconstitutional.

    I can’t tell if it’s complete bravado or sheer incompetence.

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    It’s like a Wimmelbilder of deeply troubling / embarrassing / weird shit. It feels like there should be extra special finds hidden in the details, like a copy of Mein Kampf or a gold statue of Trump holding a smaller gold statue of Trump.

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      I was gonna say the 2028 one is deeply disturbing, but in reality, all of them are

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          Yep. Way too many people are treating it like a joke

          He already attempted to overturn an election he lost. He’s repeatedly stated he wants a 3rd term. He has consilidated his oower and put loyalists in nearly every position of power

          What more could he do to make it clear he plans to stay in power?

          Edit: Forgot, He’s taken over DC law enforcement. You know, the people that stopped his mob from overthrowing the government in 2020?

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            Yeah, we’ve seen this over and over, where he says something heinous, and all the MAGAs claim that he was only joking, and then we find out our later than he was 100% serious.

            He’s 100% serious about this. Everybody thinks those cases about Jan6 and the stolen documents are over, but they aren’t, they’re just waiting for him to not be president again. He knows that once he is out of office, there is about a 100% chance he goes to prison for life. Before 2024, he had a shot at at house arrest, now he’ll be lucky if he doesn’t get the death penalty. Life in prison would be a gift, one that he doesn’t deserve.

            So he will do ANYTHING it takes to stay in office, because he has to. Martial Law, suspend elections, election fraud, flat out refusing to abide by the the election or the Constitution, etc. He will choose one, or all of them, and MAGA will back him all the way, and fight for him to stay in power.

            We will probably have to kill him, and anyone who defends him, before we can get our nation back, and I’m fine with that.

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        i hope this time the democratic party parades dick cheney himself to get the huge “moderate republican” voting bloc