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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 305 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Donald trump should drop dead

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 80 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I prefer that he gets locked in syndrome for a few years. A taste of hell before he goes to the real one.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Personally, I'm hoping we can strip the family of enough wealth that they're all left destitute. Anything less will just encourage copy-cats.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Copy cats? Trump is the copy cat. The original was born in 1889 in Austria.

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[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd happily settle for a massive stroke with aphasia and a droopy face.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago

How would we know?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago

Like what happened to that dude from Metallica's "One"

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nothing but his own internal monologue and no interaction with the rest of the world? That's basically a campaign rally for him. He'd love it.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

No he wouldn't. There would be no one to give him external validation, which extreme narcissists crave.

Ranting and raving in his own mind, with no one to tell him he's a good boy or the yugest, bigliest smartest man to ram the ramparts, would be the worst kind of hell he could suffer.

[–] AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Saying this on Reddit would literally get you a ban. Wild. I love Lemmy.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Shortly before I left completely, I had gotten a permaban for saying "I concur" on a post of a woman in a shirt that said "punching Nazis is not a crime." Neither the post itself nor its poster were removed or banned. I appealed like 20 times before it was reversed but it made the decision to leave altogether so much easier seeing first hand ADMINS, not just moderators, defending Nazis.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Reddit admins love Nazis. Spez is a far-right psycho prepper.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’ve seen comments removed for saying this here on lemmy. I think it depends on the context and the mod.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 121 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

I mean, duh.

He should have dropped out when he was found to have raped someone.

Hell, he should have dropped out when the "grab them by the pussy" tape came out. How did that work out?

Go vote for Biden if you can, is my point here.

[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Walking into dressing rooms because they "just let you"

[–] SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago

... of children.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 114 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yes, but he’s not going to.

This article is a waste of electrons.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

alternative title: career criminal should have integrity

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Believe me👐, the best campaign managers have told me, everybody's saying it👆, they're, saying, "Donald, drop out of the race". 🖐That would be an absolutely beautiful election move. 🤚Just terrific. 👋It's true! ✊️Nobody could drop out of a race better than I could☝️

[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not bad Trumpspeak, but you’ve got one glaring error in there. Any time he quotes someone, that totally-not-made-up person calls him “sir.” Nobody would dare refer to the god-king by his first name!

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I wasted electrons with your mom last night.

(I had no business trying to beat her at Mario Kart)

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He's now barred from owning a gun, but people want to give him the nuclear football? 🤔

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

No, they are depending on him just passing it along to Putin.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Barred from owning a gun ? Because he was convicted ?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can't own a gun if you're a convicted felon.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago

We’d like that. Something tells me that both people who read Washington Monthly aren’t going to inform his followers.

[–] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the sky is blue and water is wet

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He won't. His goal at that point is to avoid the consequences of his actions and abusing presidential powers is the best chance he has for that.

If you think that the last election was a mess, wait to see the next one. Trump has nothing to lose anymore and will reach new lows in hopes to save his own selfish ass. He has demonstrated again and again already that he lacks the moral capacity to do otherwise.

[–] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 months ago

I'm waiting for the whole "Our founding fathers were criminals, and we elected them to represent us, so what's wrong with me" type of argument.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

LMAO. That's not going to happen. I would love it but there's a better chance of snow in August.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Downvoted not because I disagree, because this might be the most pointless set of words ever written.

[–] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Anyone remember Al Franken?

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 37 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Al Frankens political career got fully William Wallaced in public view for nothing while Donny Two Scoops raised millions after becoming a convicted felon.

I hate this country most of the time these days.

[–] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yup. And Franken stepped down for merely being accused of something.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was he accused of anything other than a silly prank photo where he was pretending to grope a woman?

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I call that, integrity.

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Does anybody remember the 1980's being the "Al Franken decade"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoaOZW7rTo

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Donald Trump has never once in his life put anyone else's needs ahead of his own greed.

He cut his own nephew off from medical care.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-cut-medical-benefits-his-nephews-infant-child/

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

And money should grow off trees! And monkeys should fly!

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 14 points 3 months ago

He can't. It's his only chance of staying out of prison.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Grifter gonna grift. He'll use this to his money making advantage till he is forced out.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He should have dropped out 8 years ago. He didn't then and he won't now.

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

It would be hilarious if he does get elected from prison. All of his meetings with foreign leaders would need to be by Zoom or equivalent, and that's if he's able to get special privileges to do so. If not, he'd have to do it all in a 15 minute phone call once a week like the rest of the prisoners. And he might have to eat Nutraloaf lol.

At least the cost of running Air Force One would go down to zero.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 7 points 3 months ago

Why would he? His followers keep throwing money at him. He got richer because of the conviction.

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