I genuinely thought this was going to be a post about a costume (or cosplay) from the picture.
Wait, is that really the guy? My fucking god he couldn’t be more cartoonishly villainous even if he tried…
He looks like he is a mob boss goon batman fights. That obviously died hair and hair piece isn’t doing him any favors. Yikes.
He looks like his role models are Hitler and Penguin
i legit thought it’s a fucked up penguin cosplay
It took me until this comment to realize that this is in fact a real person and not as I assumed, a cosplay.
These people even look like real life villains.
Dude looks like fucking Paul Bearer
I saw that pic and my first reaction was “is that Paul Bearer??”
Wtf is this Michael Keaton’s batman?
Trump is a NY real estate dude from at least the 70s, owned a casino, and trafficked/raped young children. This guy looks more mob than trump even does. Check his hard drives pronto.
I literally can’t tell if this is parody or reality at this point.
when a country votes for the “grab’em by the pussy” candidate TWICE, then reality is a parody of itself now . we’ve come full circle.
it doesn’t make anything better if you consider the “they obviously cheated” angle, because literally no one did literally anything to stop it
Homie looks like he’s spent time at Arkham.
It is the penguin from the batman universe
I was more thinking Gomez Addams, but lacking in class.
dude i’m a gomez fan. those were fighting words without “lacking in class” gomez is the epitome of class. now dance with me
Oh it’s real. I just wonder if they did it this way with the sole purpose of confusing people or just general corruption.
I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It’s almost cartoonish villainy.
Comedians all over the world have been complaining that Trump and his posse are stealing their jobs.
so this is the one rule of fraud. make people smile or feel good while you’re picking their pocket and they won’t complain. that’s why they don’t complain about trump. why they like him.
Fiction has this stupid flaw where it needs to adhere to rules, reality does not.
Trump has been doing this fraud-in-plain-sight thing forever.
I’ve read comments that say it works because the defense is that it’s so obvious it can’t be deceitful. As in: if you wanted to hand $15m to a donor you’d find a secretive way to do it.
I personally believe it’s just learned ineptitude. He’s just deceitful at every turn and he’s never encountered any consequences so why would he change?
I keep coming back to his 2016 quote about “the swamp” which is featured in Hypernormalisation:
“If I ask’em, if I need’em - you know most of the people on this stage I have given to, just so you know, a lot of money - I will tell you that our system is broken. I give to many people, before this, before [???] was a businessman, I give to everybody. When they call I give, and you know what? When I need something from them, 2 years later, 3 years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that’s a broken system.”
Needless boasting aside, he’s calling out corruption by admitting that he and his cronies are corrupt. That’s confusing. And when I watched Hypernormalisation during Trump1.0 it was already apparent that he continues acting in the way he himself criticized, so that was more confusing.
As the narrator says, nothing was fixed, constantly changing, no relation to reality - Trump defeated journalism by making revealing the truth irrelevant.
By the way, at the beginning he says “this now started happening also in the West”, refering to what Vladislav Surkov did in Russia: “man who attempted to turn a superpower into a stage play.” Worth researching (easily done by watching the whole of Hypernormalisation).
The video clip above ends thusly:
“But the stories politicians told their people about the world had stopped making sense. And in the face of that, you could play with reality. Constantly shifting and changing, and in the process further undermine and weaken the old forms of power.”
Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Does he run car engines backwards before selling them at inflated prices?
He does remind me of what I imagine matildas dad to be while reading the book
We are a country ran by and profited off of by used car salesmen.
In 1968, Ralph Williams from Bayshore Chrysler-Plymouth, created a rather honest used car commercial. Look it up on YouTube.
😂…yep, that’s the one.
Holy shit…what’s the background on that commercial?
Give some links for the dreaded lazy people, pretty please.
Hey, whats the hate towards used cars salesmen? They actually do keep cars circulating between owners rather than being dumped in the swamps of Florida. The admin however should be dumped in the swamps of Florida
Decent point. I would just point out that new car dealers are completely shitty. But now I feel like used car dealers are the scapegoat.
“pictured here with a young woman who agreed to accompany him after he twirled his moustache and threatened to tie her to the railroad tracks”
woman*
Why do so many people have such a hard time with this? Woman is singular, women is plural. That’s it, how is that hard comprehend?
It autocorrected and I didn’t catch it lol sorry I personally offended you 🤷♂️
Dude definitely has a cartoon villain vibe.
also f’uped eyebrows too.
He forgot to dye them like his hair and mustache. Whoever does the dye was smart enough not to point out that he forgot to ask.
i thought he had shaved parmesan on his eyebrows, or some wierd skin condition.
I’m pretty sure if I looked up the word “sleezball” in the dictionary it would be this exact picture. Just spot on “gross untrustworthy business guy”
Is this MyPillow’s cousin?
It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
“Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it” is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.
It’s a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, crypto rugpulls, campaign finance violations, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don’t have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes between him & corporations which are less concrete.
People can either delude themselves into thinking it’s legitimate because they don’t understand financial stuff/how things typically worked before being massively corrupt, or because it’s initially just Trump making money (usually illegally) which is something they expect him to do and the illegality is difficult to explain or not very hard-hitting.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
Or because they don’t matter. It’s millions while the war is costing billions.
Well that’s a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money and innocent lives, which is bad, but that isn’t corruption. That’s just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.
All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn’t the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn’t necessary, but that’d just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.
Both things matter, and obviously the war matters more as it has cost innocent lives, they are not the same type of thing though.
Right. However if newspapers would start investigating the war expenses, don’t you think they would find billions wasted in corruption?
I think they are investigating that though, right? It’s just a different sort of story, requiring more reporting investment and more specialized reporters. I’ve seen lots of reporting on the war over the past months (humanitarian, economic, military, etc. etc.)
Obviously though most of that reporting is institutionalist, serves western interests, etc. I just don’t expect different from the corporate press
so like, remember how every time the military gets audited they fail the audit? if a company in the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) fails their audit, they get kicked out of the MIC and can’t do business with the gubmint but the military itself misplaces billions of dollars every year (mostly bribes being paid and not being properly accounted for. just write them down, military dudes) and whoopsie poopsie, failed audit whatcha gonna do we got nukes.
You thinking maybe we don’t trust the military-industrial complex? I Ike the way you think.
MSMs arnt talking about the actual things like insider trading because most of them are owned trump lvoing conservatives.
100% right… which do you think average people will latch onto?
this one:
or this one:
Is it stirring us up?
Or just making better memes than the war crimes, fascism and child rape?
It’s a nice change to mock him for something that is only a huge waste of time and money but doesn’t destroy all America’s credibility and world standing, hasn’t even irreparably harmed a natural habitat, and hasn’t killed anyone.
You can even listen to the Trump supporters on this topic because although they sound stupid they don’t horrify you.
What makes you think this wouldn’t undermine the credibility of the U.S.? It’s just as undignified as a cage fight in front of the White House. But hey, I can put your mind at ease—there’s no credibility left to undermine anyway, since the U.S. has already lost it all.
To the rest of the world, however, this has more to do with the fact that U.S. citizens are unable to remove from office a president who is not only incredibly corrupt but who also uses the state apparatus to make the unspeakable crimes he and his billionaire friends commit possible in the first place.
U.S. citizens may be willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes. The rest of the world will not put up with it.
In the long run, this will lead to the downfall of the U.S. If you need an example of this, just look at what has become of Russia after the oligarchs took complete control - btw, this was made possible with the support of the U.S. (Clinton had even sent campaign experts at the time to help Yeltsin stay in power).
The citizens of the remaining democratic nations do not want this, and that is why they particularly despise the U.S. citizens for the fact that they stand by and just watch even in the face of these inconceivable atrocities.
It shows all too clearly that even functioning democracies are not immune to the concentrated monstrosity that the U.S. represents with its inhumane capitalism.
This is what this regime has achieved, and one almost has to be grateful to it for that: It has exposed the U.S. for what this country has been for decades.
US citizens aren’t doing enough, but we aren’t entirely just watching, thousands of people have been imprisoned for things like lighting a trashcan on fire during a protest, or charged with terrorism for breaking some windows, numerous well known activists have been killed or went missing since 2020. For it’s entire history the US government and vigilantes with their backing have been murdering political opponents and subverting and co-opting political organizations, and our media landscape and political knowledge for many people has been completely distorted by propaganda. There are many despicable and racist people in the US, but many of us are doing the best we know how, and most don’t have the opportunity to stand up and pushback in a sincere way without losing our job, and therefore healthcare and home.
It certainly deserves ridicule but it’s a different level of credibility from defaulting on promised funding for vital projects around the world. It’s also Trump-specific.
Unlike later democracies, the US Constitution has no provision for deposing a President by the public, only impeachment by Congress. And it enshrines gerrymandering, which is how we got a Republican majority in Congress. Which is (with extra evil shenanigans) how we got hard-right maggots as 6/9 of the Supreme Court. So you are correct, we citizens who oppose him and them cannot get rid of him unless we wrest the majority in Congress. Which ain’t gonna be easy, see gerrymandering above. Surprisingly, the few who have tried assassination have been disappointed he wasn’t as far right as they wanted. It doesn’t mean everyone is “willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes.” If you’re advocating that I purchase a weapon, abandon my responsibilities here, travel 3,000 miles and attempt to assassinate him, may I point out that there’s nothing to that method which requires citizenship and you are equally likely to succeed as I?
I argue that U.S. citizens should paralyze the country with a general strike until the regime steps down and major reforms are implemented. Otherwise, nothing at all will change.
But yes, I’ve heard all this so many times before. Including the excuses as to why a general strike supposedly isn’t possible.
The rest of the world will not put up with it.
really? put up or shut up. get over here and fix it then
I haven’t bought a single U.S. product since early 2025, and I no longer use any U.S. services as long as possible—which required me to go to great lengths to make many changes.
That’s probably more than most Americans have done to oppose their government.
No one but themselves can change it. But they don’t, precisely because of that attitude.
you’re importing all your food?
You aren’t wrong, Rude. But it’s a feature of all people, not just Statesians. If there isn’t something to unite them (usually a symbol, a cause, an enemy, whatever) they can’t get anything done. And the entire world (specifically Russia, China, India, the EU, and the Murdochs so technically the British Commonwealth) have been working in intelligence and propaganda to drive deep, practicably insurmountable divisions in the US populace. Like what the fuck was all that tan suit bullshit other than retrenching racism? Shit like that.
i get kind of fed up with the whole “burn down the entire government” bullshit that comes out because the current government is using structures with the potential to do a lot of good to do a lot of harm. like the us army corp of engineers can and has been used as a rapid response unit for natural disasters like floods and fires. put up a usable (not great or terribly long term, but usable) bridge and road in an afternoon to evacuate a stranded community. shit like that what never gets advertised or in the press, but when pops was in the army, that’s what he did. if we’re going to decimate the gubmint, prune out the bad shit but leave the good, right? keep the grant programs what give money to the soup kitchens at least.
He looks like Hercule Poirot’s dumber, evil brother.
This is the type of man who will fuck a llama and call it in the morning.
