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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How can you possibly think you are on the right side of things as you call in a bomb threat on a school?

I just don't understand how these people can think their tactics are morally justified.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They don't think that. They don't have morals.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago
[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 5 days ago (6 children)

USA politics are truly something to behold.

It's too hard to accurately put into words how it looks from the outside.

The closest would be that it's an absolute joke and the whole world laughs at you.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know anyone laughing though. I do know a lot of people that look at it and worry. The blatant lying, the calls to violence, the open fascism, cult like following... If this tips the wrong way, the children of the future will be learning about jan6 and what is to come like we learn about the night of the long knifes.

The example Trump is teaching the whole world is that there are no consequences if you just double down and keep saying insane shit while throwing your weight around. And even federal judges will bend for you à

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's like watching a drunk gorilla in a weird dress stumbling around, doing ridiculous things while acting tough.
It would be funny, except you're stuck inside the room with it, it's holding a rocket launcher, and half the people in the room with you are imitating its moves.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

If I had to pick one word I'd go with deranged.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's not funny from where I'm sitting. (On a toilet in New York)

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[–] paf0@lemmy.world 134 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He should be sued for slander

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 112 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He should be imprisoned for terrorism.

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 25 points 5 days ago

Amen to that. Where the hell is homeland security when shits like this (Drumpf & Fox) are spreading lies & slander that bring agitated unrest & death?

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago

If he was a normal ass person he already would have been with all the Jan 6er scum

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

problem is you could never prove beyond all reasonable doubt he didn't believe it himself

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's because he really does believe it. If you listen to him say he heard it on TV it is the most genuine statement he has ever made. It's like a child telling you exactly what they saw on TV.

If you're looking for someone to sue it would have to be the "sources" Trump heard the information from. Unfortunately I'm confident those people understand the ruse. They know to say allegedly. They know how to utilize weasel words.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oh man. "I saw it on TV!". Exact same intonation my 4yo used when he saw a "trailer" for Mario Movie 2 when actually it was just some junk a highschool kid threw together in iMovie. Totally belief and innocent ignorance.

It's at that moment I realized that Trump isn't just a useful idiot. He's the perfect useful idiot.

Like a part of me thinks that Trump might actually believe in Santa and that he looks an awful lot like that guy in the power tool show and sounds an awful lot like Buzz Lightyear.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

problem is you could never prove beyond all reasonable doubt he didn't believe it himself

Sounds like a candidate for a proper psych evaluation, then.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

His niece, Mary Trump, knows him well and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She’s spoken and written extensively on his mental disorders (normally a psychologist won’t do that publicly, but she’s said he’s such a danger to the nation, she feels she has no choice).

She’s well worth reading and listening to.

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[–] paf0@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

He has the best brain. The greatest brain. One time, for some unknown reason, he took a cognitive test meant for dementia patients. He supposedly passed but he claimed it was hard for him. Such a stable genius.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 89 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Very good people" indeed, ya orange turd.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 13 points 5 days ago (13 children)

I wish more of them would try to build bombs and find out it’s not so easy. ☠️

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"innocent people are having their pets eaten! I'm going to help by threatening to bomb the innocent people!"

[–] Magnergy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, people make up bs, other people spread it, old guy embarrasses himself saying it on tv, bomb threats. I have to be missing a step here.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 85 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad our Government is Dealing with these Domestic Terrorist Threats so Seriously to ensure no Schools or Children are DESTROYED by these Right Wing Terrorists!

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago (4 children)

TBH it's odd that MAGA has not been classified as a terrorist group at this point.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's too big. It's like how Christianity is not classified as a cult.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

That's a very valid point.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Those who burn crosses...

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Honestly if you're going to be a terrorist why is no one bombing MaraLago. Seems like it'd be more productive

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[–] duckduckohno@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be great if people in US reject this divisive asshole and were no longer agitated by random bs they here from people on tv?

Unfortunately, it's really down to the residents of like 7 states. Residents of the other 43, functionally don't have a vote.

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 days ago

L A W. A N D. O R D E R.

[–] finley@lemm.ee 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I wish I could blame this one on Trump, but neo-Nazi crazies have been stoking this fire for a long time. And, honestly, good ol’ racism has been doing its work on this one from the beginning.

Trump only latched onto it recently, thanks to that Nazi vampire Laura Loomer

Edit: I apologize for being unclear— Trump is a monster and obviously responsible for the spreading of this lie. I was merely trying to speak to the rumor’s provenance and was very clumsy in my speech. I’m sorry.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Were the Republican nazis calling in bomb threats to Springfield before trump broadcast his fake news on air?

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[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was talking to my 90 year old grandfather recently if the political climate has ever been this bad. He responded. "No, its never been this bad. Trump is an incendiary."

Trump absolutely takes a lot of blame in this. He heard something he thought would benefit him and repeated it tot the masses like it was fact.

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No name racists on the internet vs former (and potential future) POTUS... Yeah you're right, it's tough to tell who is more responsible for spreading this particular bit of misinformation.

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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago

Trump is to blame. When someone who half of the country blindly follows starts spewing slanderous venom, his followers will do the same. He's been doing it for years on other random issues. They follow every time. And he knows it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Don't you think he at least shares the blame?

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[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

but neo-Nazi crazies have been stoking this fire for a long time.

Acting like Trump didn't come in with a leaf blower and start blowing embers everywhere is just crazy to me.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

This could be our future - VOTE.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump is nothing, he was never the problem. These cunts are.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of like saying the lit fuse isn't the problem, it's the dynamite.

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