• Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    “low iq shit,” is a term Republicans like to use. Well this, this claiming the moon shit, it’s genuinly, “low iq shit.”

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    He’s surpassed Idi Amin in his cheap self-aggrandizement.

    I’m surprised he hasn’t proclaimed himself king of Scotland yet.

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    “Something very wrong” describes literally every single fathomable thing that’s come out of this administration.

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    Its sad that it takes such ludicrous displays before people acknowledge that “there is something wrong with Trump”. And then large chunks of them will in the next breath continue to support him.

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    Onlookers fear ‘something very wrong’ with Trump

    This is their threshold?

    There has been something obviously “very wrong” with him for years. Decades, even.

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      He was never all right. Even when he was a kid people said that he had massive ego problems. When he was in high school playing poorly in sports people found the fact that he never admitted to losing or playing poorly to be intensely irritating.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      In the 1980s, Trump always made Spy magazine’s “Top 10 Worst People, Places or Things” list. His one “mitigating factor” was always “at least he’s not in politics”.

    • TehWorld@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      It’s RawStory. Effectively Newsmax for the left wing. Feel-good stories that hold essentially nothing binding them to reality. Best avoided.

    • MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world
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      A useful idiot still needs to be able to do things for you, win over the right people, set the tone of the room, be the distraction. If the useful idiot goes off of the rails, stops being taken seriously at all, you’re left with just an idiot. They’re worried they lost the useful part

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        The Republicans never really had control of him. I think they fear him dying on them and them not been able to hold MAGA together without his unique brand of genuine crazy.

        Maybe next time they pick a puppet president they go with someone who knows the score, and isn’t under the delusion they’re in change.

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          That is the gamble with useful idiots though, sometimes they can surprise you.

          I think the Republican party is getting increasingly concerned that what little control and manipulation they had on him is fading fast.

          I also think they need to have someone who thinks they’re in charge so they can project bravado and power to the undereducated base that is MAGA. No “strongman”, no MAGA

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            The GOP are like dogs feeding on scraps dropped from a picnic table. They don’t really care who actually organized the picnic, as long as they get a few bites.

  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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    Is he aware that the decades of solar radiation on the moon has bleached the flag the Apollo astronauts left?

    It’s white. Indistinguishable from a flag of surrender.

    Not to mention, the US is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty, recognizing space as neutral ground and subject to the same legal precedent as maritime law governing international waters.

    Fucking lunatic should have been removed already.

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      the US is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty

      Oh, look, another treaty he’s ignoring.

    • DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca
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      Never should have made it through the first term.

      Republican party bent the knee so god damned fast…

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      Except Trump had made it abundantly clear that: A) American agreements are signed in pencil B) The American people are OK with A).

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        American treaties have a long history of being ignored. Treatment of the native peoples, for example.

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      the US’s agreement on something is worth basically nothing, and will be for a very long time

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      I would assume the cloth on the flag has broken down by now. It’s been getting blasted by unfiltered solar radiation for almost 60 years. I’m not sure what it was made of, but I wouldn’t expect thin cotton or polyester lasting in that environment for 60 years.

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        On the other hand, it is not subject to air or wind which means there’s no mechanical stress apart from its own weight (which is 1/6 of what it would weigh on Earth), and there’s no oxygen to attack the fibers either. I don’t know for sure but I feel like it is currently still there, but will extremely fragile and would disintegrate on the slightest touch.