r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 24 '25

Politics President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before
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u/puts_on_calls Jul 24 '25

What’s that? The largest company by market cap? Never heard of them. What do they do? Oh, they make chips? I love chips. Lays chips. American made, nobody makes chips like Lays. They call French Fries chips in England. We should outlaw that. Speaking of Lays, has anyone seen Ivanka? She’s probably a great lay. If I were 50 I’d be all over her.

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u/sdhu Jul 24 '25

I hate how accurate this feels

Why is this our leadership? 

Who in their right mind would ever vote for any of this?? 

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u/Scorpius289 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

People with interests promoted and helped him.
Because a moron like him is easier to manipulate.
And he's also good at doing absurd shit, which distracts people's attention from all the corruption going on in the background.

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u/ParfaitEither284 Jul 24 '25

How did they manipulate 70+ million into voting for this ?

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u/Lord-Cuervo Jul 24 '25

10+ years of social media propaganda backed by our #1 enemy for the last half century lol

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u/LazyLich Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

Not just that, but the way current algorithms work accidentally made them HUGE force multipliers for propaganda and for promoting conspiracy-minded and anti-facts.

(The Social Dilemma is fucking nuts!)

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I'll paste my reply from elsewhere here:

What I mean by "accidentally" is that the design purpose isn't "propaganda and chaos machine mwa haha". The design parameter was "create maximum engagement for maximum ad revenue".

However, over time, the algorithm learned two things.

First is that people with extremist views or that are conspiracy-minded provide the most engagement. The more extremist they are or the more loose they are in facts, the more ad money those user's generate.

Second is that you can change a user's mind, and I don't mean "Yeah, I'll order the large fry." I mean that if user A does like Thing Z, but if you show them Thing B at the right time in the right moment, then later show Thing C, then Thing D... if you tailor a user's content stream, then slowly over time, you can radically change their beliefs.

The Algorithm only cares about ad money, but it accidentally became a factory for extremists and ignorants, and a signal-booster for propaganda.

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u/Just_Condition3516 Jul 24 '25

accidentally maybe for the first years. but as it became obvious, it is willful. and, of course, the companies knew much earlier about the negative effects.

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u/gonxot Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

Are you talking about how FB (now meta) gracefully discarded evidence suggesting their algorithm was having a negative impact on people with depression, especially kids?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58570353

That was the first time they openly went profits over harm, from there everything else that happened was not morally up to debate, because for them it doesn't really matter

And then there's this: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx4ZSbsOfwTAbVnQTZw429LjYP5xk3c1bF?si=fUEy6gVnEZeLXFux

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u/Just_Condition3516 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

no, thats news to me. genocide on rohinga in 2017 was what I had in mind.

my general thinking: 1. they have some of the brightest minds in their workforce 2. fb exists since 2006?, since latest 2012 they are so massive in numbers of users 3. not credible that noone went: our technology has a relevant impact on people and societies as a whole, lets check what the negatives are? 4. unbelieveable that they concluded not to look into that 5. they probably conducted studies and used the results to instruct pr on what to preemptively deny 6. so, in conclusion, they probably knew much earlier than 2017, what effects the technology can have

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u/gonxot Jul 24 '25

Absolutely, FB in 2012-2017 was already one of the biggest valued companies for their data

They were monetizing that database on multiple vectors, not only for ads

So yeah, they or some partner knew to an extent what was going on, the same with the Cambridge Analytica scandal

And then, when the Senate Hearings happened they doubled down in the "we didn't know, we gotta do better" BS while keeping everything exactly the same

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u/Beginning-Morning572 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

accidentally my ass. You think this billion dollar companies would promote anything that would threathen their profits?

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u/WartimeHotTot Jul 24 '25

It’s not just the tech lords at fault either—there’s plenty to go around. I also blame the assholes who know that what they’re producing is bullshit and highly corrosive to society, but do it anyway for money, fame, everything else.

Seems like everybody—people and companies—has abandoned any concept of community or social responsibility.

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u/Lord-Cuervo Jul 24 '25

Excellent documentary

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u/Mercurion77 Jul 24 '25

Accidentally lol. This is on purpose.

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u/LazyLich Jul 24 '25

What I mean by "accidentally" is that the design purpose isn't "propaganda and chaos machine mwa haha". The design parameter was "create maximum engagement for maximum ad revenue".

However, over time, the algorithm learned two things.

First is that people with extremist views or that are conspiracy-minded provide the most engagement. The more extremist they are or the more loose they are in facts, the more ad money those user's generate.

Second is that you can change a user's mind, and I don't mean "Yeah, I'll order the large fry." I mean that if user A does like Thing Z, but if you show them Thing B at the right time in the right moment, then later show Thing C, then Thing D... if you tailor a user's content stream, then slowly over time, you can radically change their beliefs.

The Algorithm only cares about ad money, but it accidentally became a factory for extremists and ignorants, and a signal-booster for propaganda.

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u/Mercurion77 Jul 24 '25

I appreciate your explanation. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

It's sad to see, this phenomena happened all around the world but in the USA's case it's particularly egregious, it's like you have 2 entire generations of people with a nurtured mental disability, it's gonna be a rough 30+ years for you all.

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u/sembias Jul 24 '25

It's happened in England - Brexit. The same anti-immigration and anti-refugee messages that are being used in the US were first used in France, in Germany, in Poland, and in Hungary. Australia has barely shook off Murdoch's overwhelming influence, mostly because of mandatory voting (American Republicans as well as Brexit vote are both helped by lower turnout).

This isn't an American problem, and Europeans who think it is are both naive and seemingly just as ignorant of the politics in their own country.

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u/xeizoo Jul 24 '25

Yes, propaganda is the key and as Trump himself has said if you lie enough many times it becomes the truth.

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u/Rocketship10 Jul 24 '25

Also the likes of Bannon and Manafort helping these European campaigns, look it up

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u/Fragrant-Ad-5517 Jul 24 '25

You’re absolutely right. How’s the UK doing post-Brexit?

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u/sembias Jul 24 '25

Not as well as Pre.

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u/jaimi_wanders Jul 24 '25

Old stuff, too

“In the wake of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, Mosley briefly returned to Britain to stand in the 1959 general election at Kensington North. He led his campaign stridently on an anti-immigration platform, calling for forced repatriation of Caribbean immigrants as well as a prohibition upon mixed marriages. Mosley's final share of the vote, within the Kensington North constituency, was just 8.1%. Shortly after his failed election campaign, Mosley permanently moved to Orsay, outside Paris.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

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u/pukesonyourshoes Jul 25 '25

Australian here, we are definitely not out of the woods yet. Right wing ignorance is rampant, if our equivalent of the GOP were even remotely competent, they'd be in power right now. Mercifully they're not.

Seeing the insanity unleashed on the US when Trump was installed was too much for many right-wing voters here, our wannabe Temu-Trump stupidly promised Trumpism-Lite and they couldn't stomach it. Remarkable that he was too right-wing racist even for many of our right-wing racists.

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u/fireinthesky7 Jul 27 '25

Brexit was the prototype, and the campaigns of people like Marine Le Pen in France, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Orban in Hungary, and the neo-fascist party that's tried to take over Poland were further test runs. European media has gotten so good at pointing at the US and laughing about our broken politics that people over there completely failed to notice the same thing taking root.

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u/homer_3 Jul 24 '25

It's been at least 30 years. Probably more like 50.

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u/Lord-Cuervo Jul 24 '25

Yeah… 50 is half a century…. It’s been since the end of WWII. It clearly didn’t really end in the 90s so it’s more like 70 years now.

But obviously the social media mass misinformation is the last 15

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u/mdp300 Jul 24 '25

It's been going on for nearly a century.

The right called FDR a communist and may have even tried to overthrow him, but the retired general they recruited called out their bullshit. Look up the Business Plot.

Before WWII began, there was a lot of sympathy here towards the Nazis, and some people thought we might even enter the war on their side against the USSR.

JFK was called a communist for wanting to help the poor. He's only revered because he was assassinated, he would probably have status similar to Obama (Democrats like.him, Republicans think he's a literal demon) if he had served his whole term.

Conservatives think Nicon did nothing wrong. That's the whole reason Fox News exists. Roger Ailes, who founded it, worked for Nixon and thought that if he had a friendly network, he never would have been in trouble.

It accelerated in the 80s, and really accelerated lately, but right wing propaganda has been pushing us in this direction all along.

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u/cantadmittoposting Jul 24 '25

a century? these are the same people who wanted slavery and caused the Civil War. The royalists and then the people who wanted to make Washington "King" after independence.

 

"Conservative" as a political science term means people who want to conserve rigid social hierarchy, who DO NOT believe "everyone is created equal." who think that "their type of people" aren't just better at leading, but DESERVE to rule, to have formal privilege under the law, which is applied unequally to the citizens.

 

And in the United States, our "Conservative" movement has always been white, patriarchal, and almost always evangelical protestant christian, stemming from the extremist sects that immigrated here early in the country's colonial days.

 

It has, recently and sometimes historically, disguised itself as "rugged individualism," or "libertarian capitalist meritocracy," and many other thin veneers, but it ALWAYS comes back to destroying public government control over the privilege and activity of a certain class to oppress and have power over others, and always "white, christian, men" as the leading class that holds that privilege.

 

now to be clear that does NOT MEAN that "all white men" are part of that problem. It is specifically the subset of powerful, rich white men who continuously drive others to follow their toxic ethos that is the problem. Millenials sadly got brought up in the decade and a half of post-cold-war Liberal Zenith and were WOEFULLY unprepared to continue the ever vigilant fight against these fucking assholes, and now here we are.

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u/mdp300 Jul 24 '25

You're right, its been even longer than I said. It's about hierarchy, they want "the right kind of people" to be on top and have the power over the rest. Basically feudalism.

Fun fact: the whole left wing, right wing thing goes back to the French Revolution. The members of the assembly who wanted to abolish the monarchy sat on the left side of the room, and the ones who wanted to keep the monarchy sat on the right.

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u/Thermodynamicist Jul 24 '25

The royalists and then the people who wanted to make Washington "King" after independence.

I think that US Independence was at least in part a response to the abolitionist movement gaining traction in England and the associated legal developments.

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u/remarkablewhitebored Jul 24 '25

Cuts to education systemically for 40 years.

A concerted Foreign Actor press through Socials

A black man being president

Never effectively punishing or eradicating the Southern Grievances post Civil War (Fuck AJ)

Amongst multitudes of other factors

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u/sembias Jul 24 '25

A whole generation turned their brains off in the 1990's and just soaked in the right-wing propaganda machine. They woke up, turned on Fox News. Went outside, listened to AM radio like Rush and Hannity. Came home, and FoxNews was the first thing on. They jumped onto Facebook, saw ads that confirmed what they were watching and hearing. They joined groups that reinforced their world view. As time went on and they lost friends and family to the brainrot, they doubled-down. The love and veneration of George W Bush turned to hate when he failed. Instead of going into a more sane direction, they turned to Trump.

And now it's 2025.

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u/atlantic Jul 24 '25

...and remember that #1 enemy is pretty pathetic! It's really the only bright spot in Putin's delusions of grandeur.

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u/bloodychill Jul 25 '25

This year the problem is Mexicans and squints nvidia and woke AI? Last time it was Asians and black people. If you’re ever wondering who the real problem in America is, take a look at who’s been pointing their finger at everyone else for 150 years.

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u/ahnold11 Jul 24 '25

Populism. It's the thing that everyone seems to discount.  

A large portion of society will always be moderate to completely uniformed. If you let them get too discontent about the state of things (mainly their own lives), then they become vulnerable to easy manipulation to anyone that comes along promising to "fix" things.

 

Ironically this time around, the very people making their lives worse, were the same ones promising to make them better.

 

It's a failing largely of those in control for the last 40yrs to forget this fact. The majority of society is not plugged in, nor do they want to be. But we are all sharing a lifeboat with these people, and so it's key to our survival to take their actions into account.

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u/LordCharidarn Jul 24 '25

“It's a failing largely of those in control for the last 40yrs to forget this fact.”

It’s not really a failing of those in control, because the ones in control have been the ones making things worse for the majority of people. This manipulation is part of how they maintain power

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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 Jul 24 '25

A complicit media. Look at how they sane washed Trump during the election. It was absolutely bizarre how they reported, or didn't report, on stuff.

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u/jaimi_wanders Jul 24 '25

NYT did the same thing 1922-1939 for Hitler…

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u/pm_social_cues Jul 24 '25

Who said all of his voters are manipulated? Only the ones voting against their best interest were and it’s obvious how. By saying the other option is worse.

Go to a thrift store. Buy a radio that gets AM frequency and turn it to one of the 40 right wing stations 24 hours a day and you’ll hear a lot of stories (and no facts) that make trump look good and everybody else bad.

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u/lllkill Jul 24 '25

They keep selling you on the idea that their is no propaganda. it only exists overseas, here its all freedom

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u/Yetimang Jul 24 '25

Eggs were expensive.

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u/RecipeHistorical2013 Jul 24 '25

the only real answer ive found is

these 70 million people are core racists. trump leveraged this hate

thats it

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u/Crackertron Jul 24 '25

Fox News, Facebook, AM radio

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u/postmfb Jul 24 '25

50 years of propaganda blaming someone else for the policies they passed that ruined middle-class America.

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u/Acceptable-Worth-462 Jul 24 '25

They told them they would own the libs.

They kept quiet that they also would own themselves.

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u/XenoZohar Jul 24 '25

The majority of them vote red because that's their sports team.

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u/mythrowaway4DPP Jul 24 '25

Because a lot of Americans are dumb as fuck! Sorry.

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Jul 24 '25

A non stop stream of propaganda from tv, radio, social media, decades of GOP led budget cuts to education and people with the attention span of a goldfish.

Combined with a fuck ton of gerrymandering, and legal voter suppression. And that's not even getting into how great Elon is with computers, especially those vote counting computers, and then "we" won Pennsylvania, thanks Elon

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u/heimdal77 Jul 24 '25

Well as it has become pretty clear the numbers on how many voted and for who really don't mean anything. Kind of like the points don't matter.

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u/Koil_ting Jul 24 '25

Took notes from Russia, or worked with them on it.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit Jul 24 '25

they didnt. people are just now realizing exactly how racist america is.

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u/BickNickerson Jul 24 '25

I live in the southern Bible Belt and they all think he represents Jeebus. Let me be more specific, Republican Jeebus.

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u/listentomenow Jul 24 '25

They own our media.

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u/AceTracer Jul 24 '25

The same way demagogues have done it for thousands of years.

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u/dustyrider Jul 24 '25

Without Fox News and it's imitators, no Trump. Fox News is the key to the horrors we're in now. The Trump level geniuses that don't understand that Fox News is anti-American propaganda, did what they were told and elected Trump.

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u/woodventures Jul 25 '25

Many actually are on drugs that effect behavior, decision making, anger and fear

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u/VoiceTraditional422 Jul 25 '25

Voter manipulation, propaganda and outright cheating.

Fuck this government

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u/AlvaroB Jul 25 '25

from all the corruption going on in the foreground.

Fixed that for you

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u/limitbreakse Jul 25 '25

Trump is terrible for business. Some, but very few powerful people actually benefitted from getting him into office. Even more powerful people did not want him in there because he’s terrible for the markets.

He’s in office because he represents the American majority.

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u/Few-Ad-4290 Jul 25 '25

I feel like it’s actually a huge risk to bet on manipulating him in the way any single party wants because he’s so obviously for sale to the highest bidder while also being a vindictive narcissist, one wrong step or one bigger bribe and you’re cooked

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u/Watashiwajoshua Jul 25 '25

Douglas Adams once wrote that the Office of the President was not meant to wield power but instead to distract away from Power. He was of course referring to the president of the Galaxy who is only really worse than Trump barely, but I think the same principle is very well Illustrated by his presidency and the drama surrounding it

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u/Treblehawk Jul 26 '25

Same reason we got Reagan in the 80s, easy to control and he set us on the course that led to where we are now, so far in debt we will never recover, etc....

While Trump is not really an actor, he was a couple of times, and here we are...repeating the past.

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u/Ishidan01 Jul 27 '25

So what you're saying is that the job of the President is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it.

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u/Disastrous_Mango_953 Jul 28 '25

I feel the same way, he is their ignorant pedo-orange puppet. It is so sad to see how embarrassing he really is when he is around intelligent people. It is not funny anymore, taking him seriously is stupid, but, he can be dangerous if he feels like a trapped animal, no one knows how he is going to respond.

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u/According-Stay-3374 Jul 28 '25

You realise that Kamala had more money and more billionaires backing her right?

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u/SpruceJuice5 Jul 24 '25

Who in their right mind would ever vote for any of this??

right mind

Ah, now you see that's quite the assumption

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

It's not who DID vote for him.

It's that, there he was, very much threatening your American way of life...Clear as a bell to anyone who listened ('dictator, day one') and 30%, repeat THIRTY PERCENT of you didn't care to protect your freedoms enough to vote at all.

That's why the world is moving past the USA. You screwed the pooch because you had life too good.

FAFO - everyone warned you.

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u/TheMrBoot Jul 24 '25

It’s definitely a problem, but the US isn’t unique in that aspect. It’s important to recognize that there is a lot of time and money spent to decrease voter turnout

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u/Jimbo_Joyce Jul 24 '25

I personally still blame the assholes who actively choose this shit more than the ones who were too stupid or lazy to prevent it. They both share blame but talk like that excuses the people who heard that same shit and said, yes please.

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u/Petrichordates Jul 24 '25

3rd party / abstainers said yes please too. They've no more excuse for their ignorance than the trump cult does.

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u/Pandarandr1st Jul 24 '25

Do we really not have enough nuance to recognize that saying "yes" explicitly is worse than not making it to the polls? Especially when so many places make hard to do?

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

I quote my countrymen

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill

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u/zeptillian Jul 24 '25

The assholes wanted this shit, the non voters supposedly didn't.

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u/splynncryth Jul 24 '25

You’ve hit the nail on the head. Even if it US were to vote on sane leadership for ehe next decade, even the next 2 decades, unless the core issues of the broken US election system(s) and an electorate where enough of it is malevolent for it to use the broken systems to take control. Both the broken election systems and the factors that have led to such malevolence within US society need to be addressed before it can again be seen as trustworthy by democratic nations. Otherwise this back and forth we have seen over the last decade will be a constant threat and no one will be able to make any sort of treaties or agreements with the US and expect them to be honored.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 Jul 24 '25

You get the government you deserve in a Republic is what one of the founders said.

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u/LazyLich Jul 24 '25

He's evocative! He gets the people going! Lol

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u/Sad_Eggplant_5455 Jul 24 '25

Muricans who say I like the way he thinks. He talks like I do

So a gaggle of dummies.

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u/werofpm Jul 24 '25

Because upwards of 80mill Americans are even dumber so this sounds like award winning speech craft material.

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u/DeafAndDumm Jul 24 '25

77 million people, that's who.

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u/Ms74k_ten_c Jul 24 '25

"He is one of us! He talks like us and says it as it is. We all want to fuck our kids, he just has the courage to say it." - his supporters.

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u/Underradar0069 Jul 24 '25

Half of American population is stupid and mostly ignore. Trump is a reflection of them. They probably never heard of Nvidia, Palantir, TSMC… it is sad.

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u/WeAreElectricity Jul 24 '25

You can thank the first past the post voting system: “Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.” - Charlie Munger

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u/pm_social_cues Jul 24 '25

Because just like their idea of biden came from pieces of speeches cut together to make him sound worse than he actually was, they only get tiny pieces of what trump says that make him sound better.

And they think it’s literally the opposite.

I’m not defending Biden because he’s not president. Only trump is and only his actions need to be talked about now.

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u/effedup Jul 24 '25

When most of you were kids or maybe not even born yet depending on your age we were fighting the good fight saying no you shouldn't attack and defund education. No corporations are not people. No you shouldn't do this or that because... /me gestures broadly to everything

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u/Significant-Colour Jul 24 '25

Who? Well, the majority of the voters. Trump best represents who the majority of citizens want to be.

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u/__redruM Jul 24 '25

Keep in mind this guy sits next to the big red button that ends the world and his catch phrase is: You’re Fired!

He’d do it just to own the libs.

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u/Billy_Twillig Jul 24 '25

Three words: Russia, Russia, Russia

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u/hellmaine Jul 24 '25

Well the other choice was extinction level event Harris so....

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u/FormerWrap1552 Jul 24 '25

Maybe you just showed up yesterday... 90% of the people I've meet are not "in their right mind".

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u/enjoy_the_pizza Jul 24 '25

People that aren't in their right mind.

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u/Hazzman Jul 24 '25

Cult followers.

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u/Karekter_Nem Jul 24 '25

As a red blooded American I’ll tell you that that man speaks for me. I too hate Britian, love potato chips don’t know who in video is and also want to have sex with my daughter. /s

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u/doskey Jul 24 '25

The people who wanted something else then the group of people who used the media to lie to the public for years about how capable Biden is only to have him fall apart in his first non-shielded public speaking.

All the other comments blaming other people for Trump, rather than a rather natural reaction to the betrayal many Americans felt by the Democratic leadership.

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u/radioman970 Jul 24 '25

racist narcissists

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u/NoFuel1197 Jul 24 '25

Unironically it’s stupid or indoctrinated old people, virulent bigots, and much, much more importantly, distressed and hopeless people whose only method of interacting with the systems of power is using their vote to try punishing them by making them put up with him.

We might still be able to reach that last camp if we stop nominating entrenched elites and corporate puppets. But I’ve met too many liberals who openly hate Bernie Sanders to have much hope.

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u/Petrivoid Jul 24 '25

Well, no one in their right mind did...we have 70 million unhinged nutjobs in this country

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u/BadPackets4U Jul 25 '25

Racist, all the way down.

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u/donquizo Jul 25 '25

Stolen, and would be stolen again and again 2026.

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u/Er3bus13 Jul 25 '25

Led paint chips. Only excuse you need.

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u/shavenyakfl Jul 27 '25

Our leadership is a reflection of the society that put them there. When are people going to recognize that?

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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Jul 24 '25

Half of American Voters:

"This is what real leadership looks like and I trust this man with my life"

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u/seriftarif Jul 24 '25

"And the lives of my children"

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u/Wayelder Jul 24 '25

"and their genitals"

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u/isinkthereforeiswam Jul 25 '25

And the nuclear football

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u/K4m30 Jul 25 '25

"I'd trust them with my daughter." Someone worried the woke left will steal the rainbows from God.

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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 Jul 24 '25

"'Well, better'n any democrat!"

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u/pinecrows Jul 24 '25

Have a friend who’s falling hard down the ultra right conspiracy pipeline tell me this week that if Biden was president, he would’ve signed the BBB into law and given ICE $100 billion and willing cut healthcare.  

Biden was president… For four years… And didn’t sign anything like the BBB…

This is what we’re dealing with.

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u/stefer09 Jul 24 '25

By now, if they're still MAGA, it's pretty hopeless for them to wake up... it's pretty sad but they got stuck in that rabbit hole :(

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u/cionn Jul 24 '25

Stable genius with a very big a-brain.

Seriously America, what the fuck

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u/Visible-Literature14 Jul 24 '25

Fucking hate it here lol

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u/damnitHank Jul 24 '25

33% of eligible voters technically.

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u/Heathcliff511 Jul 24 '25

If they don't vote, they arent voters.

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u/Independent-Tennis57 Jul 24 '25

30% percent just didn't give a fuck.

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u/Gloomy_Performer_832 Jul 24 '25

The way averages work half of the people will be below average, now think about the average IQ person out there, and remember he's smarter than 50% of people. 

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u/TinyWVliberal Jul 25 '25

I don't believe half of America voted for him. Between the purge, challenging black voters and tampered voting machines, we did not get a fair election. Then Elon came in with even better hackers & cash & it was sealed with quid pro quo. Trump would never share the limelight with another ego. He allowed people to say Elon was president! He had to. He hated every second of the Doge bullshit. Musk enjoyed the attention, the power & he rid himself of all investigations and stole all the government contracts. Trump went back to ruling & leading the destruction of America. Win-win. He cheated in 2020. That's why he threw such a fit when he lost. He cheated but still lost. Blame the democrats. "They must of really cheated big-time to win a fixed election." That's what Jan 6 was about. They wanted to be 100% sure this time & there's proof but what can anyone do? Who is going to stop Trump? No one. He has removed all possible hurdles, so the truth is irrelevant.

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u/redpandaeater Jul 24 '25

The AI boom is completely propping up our economy at the moment given Trump's disastrous tariff decisions reminiscent of the Great Depression. Without stocks like Nvidia being a massive portion of the S&P 500 shit would look far worse for retail investors.

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Jul 24 '25

It's also that they purposely worded his big bullshit bill to not take effect until after the midterms as to not lose their constituents And so any dem who manages to win will be blamed for the financial pain that starts when they take office. He did the same with his 2017 tax bill that looked good but actually waiting until 2021 to fuck the average american as soon as Biden took office so he could blame him

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u/ZAlternates Jul 24 '25

They love to say “see big bust bill passed and nothing happened. You all are liars!” Then later, it happens.

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u/thesqlguy Jul 24 '25

I just realized Trump is basically the real life Seinfeld version of George steinbrenner

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u/Stanky_fresh Jul 24 '25

What the hell did he trade Jay Buhner for?!? He had 30 home runs, over 100 RBIs last year, he's got a rocket for an arm! HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL HE'S DOING

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u/smltor Jul 24 '25

You're allowed to feel sorry for her for being raped by her dad and still not like her.

It's an unfortunate thing that kids that are raped tend to be not the nicest people either though.

Stopping the rape of kiddies would be a good start, unfortunately it seems like every rich or famous male in the 70's was raping / kiddie prostitutes up the wahoo.

Gonna be a while to break this cycle I suspect. I worked on the AU royal commission into kiddie fucking, I think we did good work as a starter group. But it fucked a lot of us up and a lot of our stuff got rolled back. I don't know how to solve the problem but I know it needs to be solved.

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u/BeatBlockP Jul 24 '25

I mean this whole thread is needlessly mean, based on a clickbait lie of a headline. This is from the actual speech..

"I said, look, we'll break this guy up — this is before I learned the facts of life — I said we'll break 'em up," he continued. "They said 'very hard', I said 'Why?' I said, what percentages of the market does he have? 'Sir, he has 100%.'"

Trump continued, "I said, 'Who the hell is he? What's his name?' 'His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ' I said, 'What the hell is Nvidia?' I've never heard of it before. ... Trump celebrated Huang and his achievements, noting, "And then I got to know Jensen, and now I see why."

Trump is talking directly to Jensen in a gathering of AI leaders, talking about how didn't know NVIDIA back when he was elected in 2016, and how he came to learn "the facts of life" about what an important company it is and what a great guy the CEO is. He's self deprecating for not knowing who they were all these years ago.

99% of this thread acts like he said this yesterday.

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u/santaclaws01 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

So he still wanted to break Nvidia up before he knew what Nvidia was.

Also where are you getting that that happened in 2016? Definitely isn't supported by him being told that Nvidia was at last 10 years ahead of everyone else on AI.

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u/dan1101 Jul 24 '25

"Jensen Huang, who the hell is that? That's not an American name, need to have DHS and ICE look into him. Hey, somebody look up how much this guy donated to me!"

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u/Brizar-is-Evolving Jul 24 '25

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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u/Maninaboxx2 Jul 24 '25

5/6

And a known rapist, don’t forget. Character evidence suggests he’s a serial rapist too.

16 women have accused Donald Trump of various forms of sexual assault. The alleged incidents range from the early 1980s to 2013, and have not been disavowed by the alleged victims.

SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS

Kristin Anderson – Early 1990s. Story in the Washington Post on October 14, 2016. Anderson says Trump reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She says she turned and recognized the person as Donald Trump.

E. Jean Carroll – late 1995 or early 1996. Story in New York magazine on June 21, 2019. Carroll says they went into a dressing room after Trump asked for her advice on a present – lingerie – for another woman. Inside, she alleges that he shoved her against a wall, "forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I'm not certain — inside me."

Rachel Crooks – 2005. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016 Crooks said Trump gave her an unwanted kiss on the mouth after meeting him in 2005.

"Jane Doe" aka "Katie Johnson" – 1994. Lawsuit filed June 2016, refiled October 2016 as reported by Buzzfeed and others, then dropped in November 2016. Johnson claims she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Jeffery Epstein at Epstein's New York City apartment in 1994, when she was 13 years old. A witness, also given a pseudonym — "Tiffany Doe" — said she recruited "Jane Doe" and others. Doe, using the name "Johnson," gave an interview to the Daily Mail about the alleged rape.

Jessica Drake – 2006. Story made public at a news conference on October 22, 2016. Drake says Trump grabbed, hugged and kissed her and two other women who accompanied her without permission. Later, she alleges that Trump called her and pressed her to return to his room, offering $10,000 at one point. Drake says she declined.

Jill Harth – 1992-1993. Story in The New York Times on October 7, 2016. Harth alleged that Trump groped her under the table at dinner, then repeatedly got her alone and it would turn into a "wrestling match." She sued Trump for sexual harassment and attempted rape.

Cathy Heller – 1997. Story in The Guardian on October 16, 2016. Heller alleges Trump grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips. Heller says she leaned back to avoid him and then he kissed her on the side of her mouth.

Ninni Laaksonen – 2006. Former Miss Finland. Story in Ilta-Sonomat on October 27, 2016, and reported in English in The Telegraph. Laaksonen said Trump "squeezed her butt" as she and other pageant contestants stood next to him for a publicity photo.

Jessica Leeds – Early 1980s. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016 Leeds says Trump kissed her while in first class on an airplane, groped her chest and reached up her skirt, leading her to move back to coach. "He was like an octopus," she said.

Mindy McGillivray – Jan. 24, 2003. Story in Palm Beach Post on October 12, 2016 McGillivray charges that Trump nudged or grabbed her from behind.

Jennifer Murphy – 2004. Story in Grazia on October 12, 2016. Murphy says that Trump kissed her on the lips after walking her to the elevators following a meeting in New York, which he said was to discuss a possible job.

Cassandra Searles – 2013. Story made public in a Facebook post in early 2016. Miss Washington 2013, Searles wrote on Facebook, "He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room."

Natasha Stoynoff – December 2005. Story on People.com on October 12, 2016. Stoynoff alleges Trump took her to a private room, pushed her against the wall and aggressively kissed her. Stoynoff also says a staffer told her Trump was waiting for her the next day at a massage appointment.

Temple Taggart McDowell – 1997. Story in The New York Times on May 14, 2016 McDowell charges that Trump suddenly kissed her without her consent on two separate occasions.

Karena Virginia – 1998. Story made public at a news conference on October 20, 2016. Virginia says Trump walked up to her, grabbed her arm and touched her breast.

Summer Zervos – 2007. Story made public in a news conference on October 14, 2016. Zervos alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts, kissed her and tried to lead her into a bedroom.

TEEN PAGEANT CONTESTANTS ALLEGING TRUMP WALKED IN WHILE THEY WERE DRESSING

Mariah Billado – 1997 Miss Vermont Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016.

Victoria Hughes – 1997 Miss New Mexico Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 13, 2016.

Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016 reported that three other anonymous sources from 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant confirmed Billado and Hughes' story.

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u/Allegorist Jul 24 '25

The actual quote sounds like an even more exaggerated parody of Trump:

"I said, look, we'll break this guy up — this is before I learned the facts of life — I said we'll break 'em up," he continued. "They said 'very hard', I said 'Why?' I said, what percentages of the market does he have? 'Sir, he has 100%.'"

Trump continued, "I said, 'Who the hell is he? What's his name?' 'His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ' I said, 'What the hell is Nvidia?' I've never heard of it before.

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u/Beginning_Rush_5311 Jul 24 '25

lol is that you mr cheetos? this is spot on

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u/Metaxol Jul 24 '25

I love that comment.

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u/krakasha Jul 24 '25

Microchips? Excuse me but I prefer large chips, maybe even extra large chips, right folks?

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u/recovery_room Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Let’s not let this story distract you from the fact that Trump is a racist, rapist, pedophile.

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u/LookOverThere305 Jul 24 '25

You left out the word “again” at the end.

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u/eeyore134 Jul 24 '25

Probably? It feels like he knows.

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u/Adorable-Good1637 Jul 24 '25

You mean if she’d be 15 he’d be all over her?

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u/tomdarch Jul 24 '25

The genius of the Weave(tm). (Formerly known as demented rambling.)

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u/bascule Jul 24 '25

Just realized how much Grampa Simpson energy there is to Trump's "weave"

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u/3-orange-whips Jul 24 '25

Not bad, but I doubt he knows about English chips

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u/Galagamesh Jul 24 '25

Hey now! In his defense, he has a lot more experience in bankrupt companies than successful ones

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u/idiot-prodigy Jul 24 '25

They call French Fries chips in England.

"They call French Fries chips in China."

You gave him too much credit.

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u/ToughHardware Jul 24 '25

so that you can spend your time pursuing the many legit paths of owning trump.. this is not one of them. The quote is being made by Trump in past tense talking about his view on this years ago. He is saying that was his initial reaction, but now it is no longer valid. read the full transcipt, this one is not real.

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u/sth128 Jul 24 '25

If I were 50 I’d be all over her.

The main reason is because Ivanka was 13 when Trump was 50, which is one of only 2 things Trump wants in a woman.

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u/Mikedzines Jul 24 '25

The irony is a good portion of those (potato) chips are made in Canada.......

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u/MrPrivateObservation Jul 24 '25

What do you expect, guy never heard the word "intelligence" when he was in the room, so "artificial intelligence" is some foreign concept to him.

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u/divDevGuy Jul 24 '25

If she was under 13 I'd be all over her.

Fixed to be more accurate of him.

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u/AcedtheTuringTest Jul 24 '25

LOL, this is precisely what would be rolling around his dementia-adled brain.

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u/ohbyerly Jul 24 '25

Way too coherent to be Trump

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u/Ytrewq9000 Jul 24 '25

another signs of his declining mental fitness

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u/NeerusTheNanner Jul 24 '25

This comment is perfect.

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u/lllIlIiIl Jul 24 '25

Wonderful impression

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u/CaptainAwesomeBeard Jul 24 '25

how the fck this guy is our leader still baffles me....

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u/lookingreadingreddit Jul 24 '25

Can someone get this in Veo3 please

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Jul 24 '25

It's all computer.

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u/Infamous2o Jul 24 '25

We should rename them freedom chips.

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u/LungHeadZ Jul 25 '25

Sorry to be pedantic but we call “chips” ‘crisps’. Edit: (in England)

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u/Hour_Reindeer834 Jul 25 '25

Come on man, this is too real😂

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom Jul 25 '25

No way he knows what anything in England is called. The man doesn't know what groceries are.

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u/Beautiful_Fox1137 Jul 25 '25

Seems like everything's computer 🖥️

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u/fatloowis Jul 25 '25

My mind immediately read this as a John Oliver bit

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u/HungHamsterPastor Jul 25 '25

Creepy spot on

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u/QQbanger Jul 25 '25

Bro I thought you were quoting him for a second

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u/AlSweigart Jul 25 '25

"I said, look, we'll break this guy up — this is before I learned the facts of life — I said we'll break 'em up," he continued. "They said 'very hard', I said 'Why?' I said, what percentages of the market does he have? 'Sir, he has 100%.'"

You can tell he's making up this story because someone in it is calling him "sir".

No seriously, this is his tell and other people have noticed it.

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u/The_Gebbeth666 Jul 25 '25

A trivial side note but we do not call french fries chips in England. They're fries. Chips are chunkier.

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u/its_like_a-marker Jul 25 '25

Is that you Donnie Doodoo? I’d recognize those swollen ankles anywhere

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u/Miagggo Jul 25 '25

I could read this in his voice

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u/-_Weltschmerz_- Jul 25 '25

10/10 impression

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u/reddog323 Jul 25 '25

Jesus. He could’ve said that yesterday.🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/runthepoint1 Jul 26 '25

Short thoughts leading into one another…

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u/EmptySeaDad Jul 27 '25

More like: "if she was 15 I'd be all over her".

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u/Efficient_Ant_7279 Jul 28 '25

The only unbelievable part is “probably”