cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26592059
Summary
Donald Trump is upset after King Charles warmly welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Sandringham, making Trump’s own state visit invitation seem “less special.”
Trump’s allies allegedly asked the British government to intervene, but officials stated the king makes his own decisions.
Relations may also be strained by Trump’s criticism of Canada, where Charles remains head of state.
The U.K. government denied tensions, reaffirming strong U.S.-U.K. ties.
Reminds me of when Eric Cartman’s Mom has to get him presents on Kyle’s birthday so he doesn’t throw a tantrum.
I am honestly impressed at Trump’s unending ability to find new and impressive ways to inform the entire world of just how much of a tiny little bitch he is, day after day.
It blows my mind that so many Americans saw this petulant, orange manchild and thought yes, this man should lead us.
Even after knowing he bankrupted his casinos and knowing he is a TV show host/actor. He bankrupted his casino, was he voted to bankrupt USA?
Easy:
They saw themselfs in him: a grown up child
I’m at the point where I don’t want to be cynical, and I don’t have any proof, but…would anyone put him past rigging the election? That’s where my head is at right now. It makes sense. I don’t know how he rigged the election. I don’t know how TO rig an election.
But seeing him, and being told he won the popular vote…my brain can’t process the core concept of trump being popular. But if you say he rigged it, my brain can follow that concept without having smoke come out my ears.
Get out and talk to people. It’s 100% believable he won the popular vote, let alone the election.
The election apparatus in the US is extremely hard to rig. It’s run by local officials, so in order to fix the counting of voters you need to get to thousands of individual county/city/town election boards, all at once. Those boards have members of all parties generally present on them so there is a fair amount of local oversight to overcome, too.
There was a bit of time in the early 2000’s where the voting machines themselves were suspect but some good work by independant researchers shined some daylight on that. Now most votes in the US are either done purely by paper ballots (counted by machines) or on machines that generate verifiable paper trails, and are very hard to just casually alter the count without being found out.
Republicans rig the vote by manipulating their media. Roger Ailes was one of Nixon’s media advisors during Watergate. The lesson he took away was that if the media didn’t hold Nixon to account, he would have never had to resign. Ailes went on to run Fox News in the mid-90s, and the rest is history.
They relate to him. They feel put upon by the burdens of a world that left them behind. They’re struggling financially while those “liberal elites” laugh at their misfortune. They grind 40 or 60 hours for a pittance that barely keeps food on the table these days. They watch TV and are bombarded by a culture that embraces sexual deviancy and vices that demonstrate the rot at the heart of their once fine upstanding country.
From their perspective, of course. Forged by propaganda and misinformation that they are too furious to examine. This idiot man-baby we see? They see a fucking savior. A man who like them knows how things ought to be. A man with the willpower and knowhow to “save America.”
Where we see petulance, they see righteousness, and they sympathize. These people are furious. He’s got them completely weaponized.
Finally, someone gets it.
It’s like that child who pouts because he doesn’t get presents on his brother’s birthday.
The Venn diagram of c/theonion and c/not the onion is just a blurry circle now.
I much prefer him privately fuming rather than publicly fuming.
I’d much prefer him dead.
alas, I’m a coward.
They can have a place reserved for tiny hands Donnie in a special needs class. That should do the trick.
Oh no, poor Donnie! You want Elon to come and suck your toes? (I heard it’s something the cishets do, they’re weird like that)
