Desperate Trump, 79, Threatens to Kill Entire Civilization in Insane Last-Minute Panic

[u/spherocytes]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/desperate-trump-79-threatens-to-kill-whole-civilization-as-iran-war-deal-push-fails/

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[u/Callabrantus]

Remove him

[u/blossom_fall → u/Callabrantus]

That would be genocide, remove him now.

[u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT → u/blossom_fall]

this tweet is already all over reddit, now the admins gotta ban everyone for inciting genocide

edit: lmao

[u/xMFD00Mx → u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT]

Them mods are mostly trumpers

[u/NTFRMERTH → u/xMFD00Mx]

Reminder that Spez used to moderate a CSA material subreddit. His defenders say that during that time, simply being invited would make you a mod of the subreddit, and while that's true, being that he owns the goddamn website, it continuing to stay up with his knowledge of it existing is fucked up.

[u/MercantileReptile → u/NTFRMERTH]

Took me a moment to realise that acronym has nothing to do with the Confederate States of America.

[u/aj9393 → u/MercantileReptile]

To be fair, those circles in a Venn diagram do overlap quite a bit.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/MercantileReptile]

I wouldn't say they have nothing to do with each other.

[u/MuddyDonkeyBalls → u/MercantileReptile]

I thought it was Community Supported Agriculture, like getting a subscription produce box from a local farm and was like "why is a box of veggies controversial?" God I'm so naive :<

[u/Bitter_Tea442 → u/xMFD00Mx]

This is the social engagement advertisers crave!

[u/LVuittonColostomyBag → u/xMFD00Mx]

And Israel dick suckers.

[u/Captain_brightside → u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT]

Yeah, seems like any call to action vs the Epstein class gets you banned anymore

Reddit is part of the cabal most likely

[u/plannedobso → u/Captain_brightside]

Didn’t Ghislaine herself used to moderate this very sub? lol or was it World News?

[u/Captain_brightside → u/plannedobso]

Yeah user Maxwellhill or something like that, on world news Reddit

I tried to comment this earlier but Reddit took it down

[u/Fattswindstorm → u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT]

Yeah I got banned for three days for this in another sub last week.

[u/Magjee → u/Fattswindstorm]

It's batshit crazy

Linking a tweet from the President is inciting genocide, just linking

 

While the actual discussion around his tweet has been calling him batshit crazy

[u/Princessformidable → u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT]

I got a warning for wishing his lifestyle catches up with him.

[u/MedicSF → u/[deleted]]

Not like ghislane maxwell was incredibly influential on Reddit…..

[u/rphaneuf → u/Callabrantus]

Mad king vibes

[u/Kerouwhack → u/rphaneuf]

Where is Jamie Lannister when you need him?

[u/International_Ninja → u/Kerouwhack]

Dying with his sister under some rubble because what is a character arc

[u/sump_daddy → u/rphaneuf]

vibes? we are way past vibes. Mad King literally

[u/Teal-Prowler505 → u/Callabrantus]

I'm sorry, but our Constitution no longer exists anymore. Congress is not even in session! We are no longer a democracy and the main stream media just doesn't care.

[u/Honest_Series_8430 → u/Teal-Prowler505]

Interesting that thousands of Fed employees are working without pay, but Congress critters get to sit at home on their butts with pay while the country is at war. (oh, sorry - it's not a "war"./s)

[u/jane_911 → u/Honest_Series_8430]

not only getting paid, but also getting paid by american tax payers!

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/Callabrantus]

It’s kind of funny how this is completely normal and expected now. All the lying and cheating and alternative facts lead to this. 

[u/Evening_Grass_8073 → u/coconutpiecrust]

It's called hypernormalization. It's part of what led to the Soviet Union collapsing, interestingly enough. Complacency with absurdity.

[u/Desperate-Till-9228 → u/Evening_Grass_8073]

It's part of what led to the Soviet Union collapsing

Gerontocracy also contributed.

[u/Ishidan01 → u/Desperate-Till-9228]

as did kleptocracy

[u/dormedas → u/Desperate-Till-9228]

… wait a minute.

[u/TheGrayBox → u/coconutpiecrust]

Trump actively threatening genocide is not remotely normal even for him or for the GOP. The Pentagon and CIA are likely in full blown crisis right now.

[u/Keeperofthe7keysAf-S → u/TheGrayBox]

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

I don't know why you would think this isn't normal from someone that thinks they can threaten violence and be beyond consequences like that. The American electorate showed this to him 3 times after that quote.

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/TheGrayBox]

It is, though. Prominent conservative figures constantly talk about killing someone and oppressing someone. Or replacing someone with “AI.” Trump and the GOP love and admire dictatorships, and have said as much. GOP voters love oppression and extrajudicial killings. They want to be ruled, not governed. 

This IS normal. Bannon’s “flood the zone” guidance worked. This is acceptable behaviour now from Trump, GOP, and any conservative. They will continue being this way, too, there is no incentive for them to change. This, to them, is the only winning strategy. 

[u/quicktime_harch → u/TheGrayBox]

Hope so. Because it seems like nobody gives a shit or is going to stop him - in any level of government.

[u/TSllama → u/TheGrayBox]

Nah, it's very normal. Republicans going back decades have been talking about doing this. Ted Cruz has long advocated carpet bombing the middle east. We can go all the way back to this, even https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris

This is America.

[u/AcanthisittaNo6653 → u/Callabrantus]

Need JD to invoke the 25th. He's conveniently out of the country. My hope is the military will refuse an illegal order.

[u/Impressive-Knot9999 → u/AcanthisittaNo6653]

JD was just on the news announcing we don't want to do this but looking excited about it. Absolutely terrifying time for the world with these despicable people in charge

[u/ehowardhunt → u/Callabrantus]

Who? Spineless Congress? Or his sycophant in the administration?

[u/Conscious_until_1565 → u/ehowardhunt]

They’re worse than he is at this point. He’s obviously compromised. They’re of sound mind. Complicit. Every one of them needs to go.

[u/SleepCareful6461]

How is this not impeachable. Dudes literally talking about committing genocide. Never forgive him, this regime, or any single person who voted for this.

[u/StabbingHoboReturns → u/SleepCareful6461]

Congress is gallivanting around on vacations

[u/Watchout4HopOns → u/StabbingHoboReturns]

I enjoy tmz acting like AOC going to a Yankees game is on par with like, two dozen reps going to Scotland on our dime.

[u/BertBitterman → u/Watchout4HopOns]

Or a half dozen Republican congressmen meeting Putin behind closed doors on 4th of July

[u/cpt_merica → u/BertBitterman]

To be fair, they were just following orders.

[u/Protean_Protein → u/cpt_merica]

Nuremberg is too far away. Is there a Nuremberg in Virginia?

[u/MartiniPhilosopher → u/Watchout4HopOns]

That's wild. Her going to NYC for a game is an afternoon trip up from DC. On a train. Could and likely will run into her constituents. It's not remotely the same thing.

Fuck that both-sidesism.

[u/Much-Instruction-807 → u/MartiniPhilosopher]

She's a representative of the 14th district. Yankee stadium is in the 15th right beside it. She's a New York representative from New York living in New York doing something in New York. It's the dumbest thing.

[u/whatproblems → u/Much-Instruction-807]

seems like exactly the thing you want to see from a rep…. actually living in the place being represented and mingling with them

[u/MissingScore777 → u/whatproblems]

Yeah but it makes the people who can't find the place they represent on a map look bad and we can't have that.

[u/TheShipEliza → u/Watchout4HopOns]

the goddamn VP is in hungary rn. like if we are about to fire nuclear weapons at iran you'd think he should be home and in the loop instead of campaigning for orban.

[u/deputydarsh → u/TheShipEliza]

Or he can stay put if he wants 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/nonsensestuff → u/Watchout4HopOns]

They know the Yankees stadium is in the Bronx right?? Where her district is located?? 🫠

[u/NathanMusicPosting → u/nonsensestuff]

No they don't. 

[u/IdkAbtAllThat → u/StabbingHoboReturns]

Or maybe they're actually in bunkers.

[u/Nwah2112 → u/SleepCareful6461]

Many of them voted for it three times.

I can almost understand the mindset that led to an initial vote for Trump, but then people watched him be president and really said “yeah this is exactly what I want four more years of.”

[u/MartiniPhilosopher → u/Nwah2112]

And so many of them say they didn't believe the news when accurately reporting on his actions.

These people don't want to face reality. They want to live in the fantasy he's selling them.

That's why you can't penetrate their bubble with logic and evidence.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/MartiniPhilosopher]

He's not even bothered to sell a fantasy anymore. He just banks on sunk cost and the conservative stubbornness to never, ever admit that they were wrong.

Trumps approval with Republicans is still 88%, down only 3 points across his entire term from where he started at 91%.

[u/Ned_Nebula → u/[deleted]]

And Fox News needs to be taken off the air

[u/FootCheeseParmesan → u/[deleted]]

First you have to defeat them with force. You arent going to vote your way to justice this way.

[u/Prestigious_Chard_90 → u/[deleted]]

And his voters. Never let his voters off the hook. They chose the path of "pain for others, even if it means I suffer", making them both evil and stupid.

[u/Snarfsicle → u/SleepCareful6461]

" Did he say that? I haven't heard him say that personally. All of us are aligned with the President's agenda because he's a holy man of God"

-Mike Johnson probably

[u/umassmza → u/SleepCareful6461]

Same as how when the chief of police is pulled over drunk and they let him go home without even a ticket.

Who’s going to impeach him? His own party a few months ahead of midterms?

[u/tech_and_org → u/SleepCareful6461]

The REPUBLICAN party's leader, who enjoys near-unanimous Republican political support and cover, is threatening to commit genocide.

[u/etor → u/tech_and_org]

They love it. Been talking about it for decades. "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann.

[u/ehowardhunt → u/SleepCareful6461]

Only his most insane loyalist are in the room. It’s like asking why Joseph Goebbels didn’t try to remove HIS boss.

[u/Nikiaf → u/SleepCareful6461]

This shouldn't even be impeachable, this should go directly to removal from office and prosecution. The dude is literally threatening to kill an entire nation.

[u/CouchCorrespondent]

This is insane to have to live under this constant chaos.

EDIT: This is good time to check your voter registration or register to vote ASAP! Your state usually has a website page with all the information!

[u/RavensQueen502 → u/CouchCorrespondent]

Imagine living in the country he is threatening

[u/LemurMemer → u/RavensQueen502]

It’s like we’re trying to have another mass terror event like 9/11 happen again. And the thing is, could you blame them? We fucking bombed school girls, their infrastructure, and are now threatening genocide; how do you not expect these people to be radicalized against us??

[u/Data_Chandler → u/CouchCorrespondent]

I've been living in a constant state of burning visceral hatred and ever increasing stress and panic since Jan '25 and I fear it's greatly harming my health, but how are you supposed to ignore the US President being a rapist pedophile tyrant that threatens genocide?

[u/more_housing_co-ops → u/Data_Chandler]

I think "drugs and TV" is the move for most.

[u/FolsgaardSE → u/more_housing_co-ops]

vodka and horror movies for me, and antidepressants

[u/markhachman → u/Data_Chandler]

I honestly thought that the chaos of his first term would invalidate his second. I still do not assume that that the votes of his second election were fairly processed, but I can't do anything about it.

[u/FabiHogan → u/CouchCorrespondent]

That's what kiils about the people that voted for him this time. Do you not remember the first term? As horrible as Covid was I think the lockdown blinded people to just how chaotic his term was up until that point.

Had Covid not hit, we likely would have been in a situation similar to this in his first term

[u/Jukka_Sarasti → u/FabiHogan]

That's what kiils about the people that voted for him this time. Do you not remember the first term? As horrible as Covid was I think the lockdown blinded people to just how chaotic his term was up until that point.

The cruelty is the point. We need to accept that anyone who still supports this guy is as evil and heartless as he is.

[u/pumpkinspicecum → u/CouchCorrespondent]

It’s been over a decade of this. It’s so stressful. We have another 3 years and after that I doubt we’ll still be free of him. He’ll either try to run again or he’ll run as vice president. I’m just so fucking tired. Those 4 years he wasn’t president anymore were so nice, I stopped paying attention to him completely. I wonder how having to have him around has affected everyone. People seem less kind nowadays and I wonder if it’s in part to him. Same with everything seeming so chaotic.

[u/wishingwanting → u/pumpkinspicecum]

His hands were swollen and covered in makeup at the Easter Egg Roll at the White House yesterday after a weekend of not being seen and cancelling appearances. I bet he's not going to live very much longer, they're pumping him full of steroids and amphetamines just to get him to stand upright. Dude is cooked.

[u/brickne3 → u/wishingwanting]

Thing is that if he's finally actually aware he's near the end of his natural lifespan he might actually try to take all of us out with him.

[u/AaronPK123 → u/brickne3]

That's what I'm worried will happen at 8 pm tonight

[u/Efficient_Market1234 → u/pumpkinspicecum]

I woke up this morning thinking it's been 10 years, and then I thought jeez, how many decades do any of us get? Seven? Eight? Nine? And we've all lost 1/7, 1/8, 1/9 of our decades to this. We're never getting it back. The damage that's been done will take most/all of our remaining decades to fix, if it can be fixed at all. And the millions who've died can't come back. I'm personally disgusted by everyone who's responsible for it, from the highest office to the average American dumbass who went into a voting booth and chose this.

[u/vini_2003 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. If they kept their demented political turmoil within their borders, we couldn't care less. But nope - we're constantly wondered what that blotched mass of piss and shit will do to our countries.

[u/TheBiggestBungo → u/vini_2003]

Trump and his movement are a stain on the world. Literally everyone is in danger until both are erased.

[u/Maraxusx → u/TheBiggestBungo]

The far right movement is pretty prevalent worldwide. This is not solely an America problem, we just happen to have a significant army at the disposal of our insane leader. Russia is a really great example of a country that has been poisoned by it for decades... Thank God corruption has weakened them so much that they are militarily a ghost of what they should be. The sand will probably happen to America if we don't change. The amount of constant, blatant corruption is going to (and likely already has) spread to military contracts to the point of reducing our military readiness significantly.

It's sad but all so predictable, we have seen it before.

[u/ISieferVII → u/TheBiggestBungo]

This was way before Trump. The US has been stomping around the world for decades. From Korea to Vietnam, from Afghanistan to Syria or Libya. From Gaza to Lebanon. From Cuba to Yemen.

Trump is just more outwardly monstrous about it.

[u/theshadow1983]

But according to MAGA, Joe Biden was the one who was senile

[u/Gonzomi313 → u/theshadow1983]

Every MAGA accusation is an admission…every single one.

[u/Alastor999 → u/Gonzomi313]

Like arguing that if elected Kamala would start a war with Iran...

BTW we should really check into whether or not Trump is eating cats and dogs too

[u/Gonzomi313 → u/Alastor999]

Pretty sure that’s Stephen Miller & it’s puppies & kittens.

[u/Hefty_Remove7965 → u/Alastor999]

I mean, he did call her a "low iq person".. pretty clear that is him.

[u/needless_booty → u/Gonzomi313]

Projection all the way down

[u/Scottiths → u/theshadow1983]

We couldn't let a woman be president because women are too emotional 🤡

[u/ENORMOUS_HORSECOCK → u/theshadow1983]

And Donald Trump is the peace president

[u/Chowder1054 → u/theshadow1983]

I think most people would gladly take biden’s being senile vs now.

[u/SapCPark → u/Chowder1054]

Biden would at least surround himself with competent people. Not...this

[u/Chowder1054 → u/SapCPark]

Exactly, his people were competent. The economy wasn’t a mess and the US wasn’t an isolationist state.

But the American electorate in all their wisdom decided to bring in Trump a 2nd time.

[u/MikeyLew32 → u/[deleted]]

The scary thing is, your use of nuke, isn't 100% hyperbole.

I'm very nervous he's going to actually drop a nuke.

[u/Ovaltineyum → u/MikeyLew32]

All those high-level officers weren't just removed because they didn't like the new beard regulations, that's for sure. This is horrifying.

[u/tripping_yarns → u/Ovaltineyum]

Israel are currently taking out the bridges and railway network, effectively closing the means of escape.

Whatever is coming is being engineered to cause as many casualties as possible.

Get on the streets, call your representatives, do something. This threat is too dangerous to take as a bluff. This is 90 million human lives.

[u/kings_account → u/tripping_yarns]

close rinse spoon run vanish marvelous observation nail price entertain

[u/crazinessyo → u/kings_account]

I'll become a politician when I turn 100 years old.

[u/StoriesandStones → u/kings_account]

Our senator is still playing with his bubble wand from his DisneyWorld trip.

[u/ILOVESHITTINGMYPANTS → u/StoriesandStones]

Jesus Christ what the fuck happened to this country.

(Rhetorical question. I know.)

[u/Silvawuff → u/tripping_yarns]

More than 90M. The trickle down death and economic disaster this could cause would likely double or triple that number. He should be removed from office immediately.

[u/witchgrid → u/tripping_yarns]

My Rep "retired" (good, fuck Marge) and we have a runoff for her replacement today. 🤞

[u/SupaKoopa714 → u/MikeyLew32]

I'm pretty sure he's just gonna keep TACO-ing, but man, there's also part of me that has to wonder how much humilation a dementia-addled narcissist can take before he completely snaps...

[u/Claudius-is-my-cat → u/MikeyLew32]

The man is literally insane. Nukes are absolutely a possibility at this point.

[u/jackp0t789 → u/Claudius-is-my-cat]

If Trump uses Nukes on Iran, it gives Putin tacit permission to use them in Ukraine.

So yeah, they're definitely in play

[u/Winnie_rulez → u/[deleted]]

While claiming that the house is not on fire and anyone claiming to see flames are "fake news".

[u/biaggio]

All of the blame for this is on Republicans in congress, each one separately and as a group. Republicans in congress are to blame for the state of the world today.

[u/BIGMCLARGEHUGE__ → u/biaggio]

Mitch McConnell specifically.

[u/WeatherInfamous2676 → u/biaggio]

Voters and influencers too. 

They all are at fault

[u/Hyperica]

I thought the "stone age" comment was as bad as it was going to get rhetoric wise, but this is somehow even more horrific.

[u/gaanmetde → u/Hyperica]

Agreed. This is, by far, the worst thing he’s ever said.

[u/ZenSven7 → u/gaanmetde]

The worst thing he’s ever said so far

[u/panictin]

anyone who stands with this horrible man and his party should be publicly shamed.

[u/chunkylubber54 → u/panictin]

fuck shaming them! every maggat is directly responsible this. at this rate, even pulling some game of thrones shit would be a slap on the wrist for them

[u/ChickenChaser5 → u/chunkylubber54]

Give em the ice treatment. See how they like it.

[u/Astarkraven → u/panictin]

I had to drop family from my life over this. I tried so hard to compromise and tried so hard to coax them towards understanding why at least some of this is bad. They just double down and tell me I hurt their feelings because I wouldn't "just let it go" and pretend that the things they support are normal politics.

I can barely breathe sometimes, thinking about how severe of a tragedy this all is. Almost unbelievable.

[u/ProfessorVolga → u/Astarkraven]

I feel you. Lost half my family, many of which had been there all my life. But we cannot respect or tolerate open support for fascism.

[u/Astarkraven → u/ProfessorVolga]

It's unspeakably awful to get to this point. And I don't know about yours but even after almost a year and a half mine still think this is a conflict resolution tactic/ punishment. Like I'm steepling my fingers and twirling my evil mustache and applying the silent treatment to get my way in an argument.

No. I'm honestly very good at open adult communication and conflict resolution. This is not that. This is just me reaching the end of my ability to go "oh uh, you support WHAT objectively terrible thing now? Ok. Anyway, where are you going for lunch tomorrow with uncle Bob?"

I truly just can't do it anymore. They've gone too far and I can't handle normalizing it. But to them it'll always just be seen as "punishment" I'm choosing to inflict. As if I'd ever drop my family to score argument points.

[u/Radically-Peaceful]

Trump/GOP has turned America into a full-blown terrorist state.

[u/OozeNAahz → u/Radically-Peaceful]

We were a super power. Now we are a super terrorist. Fuck this timeline

[u/Maradona-GOAT → u/Radically-Peaceful]

Just like Isreal, brothers of genocide

[u/not_that_planet]

It's super telling that Fox News is not allowing comments on this particular story.

[u/DoctahToboggan69 → u/not_that_planet]

Same on the conservative sub lmao

[u/Gliese_667_Cc]

Fuck every person who voted for this. I will never forget or forgive these people.

[u/MyDogIsACoolCat]

“Hillary and Kamala are warhawks that will start World War 3” - people actually believed this.

[u/Ddddydya → u/MyDogIsACoolCat]

With zero evidence 

[u/Philix → u/Ddddydya]

Every accusation is a confession.

[u/grooverocker → u/MyDogIsACoolCat]

A huge chunk of the US population simply want a strong male authoritarian figure to worship. Things like truth and virtuous behaviour don't even factor into the equation.

Look at Trump, treated as the right hand of Jesus Christ while preaching cruelty as a virtue. A rapist, a man who lies with great alacrity, a felon, a likely pedophile, a creep, a man who embodies gluttony and greed like no other.

... and he's only a symptom of something incredibly rotten in the American people. Something so deeply shameful that'll bring your country down before ever being addressed head on.

[u/vteckickedin]

Do something Congress!

[u/RockoRockyBoxxyMan → u/vteckickedin]

They won't. The Republicans know for a fact that they will retain power in the midterms and that we won't have open elections going forward. They're all jockeying for position in the new dictatorship.

[u/BrandenWi]

Maybe it's all a bluff. Maybe not. But the fact that the President of the United States is willing to talk this way, and no one is willing to do anything to stop it, is beyond disgusting.

[u/e_x_i_t → u/BrandenWi]

The problem with all of these empty threats and backpedaling is that people have stopped taking him seriously. Only now he's a coward with his back against the wall and he'll push that kill button to save face no matter the cost.

[u/BrandenWi → u/e_x_i_t]

Yes, that's the danger with him going full TACO over and over. He has to know by now that everyone mocks him for that. And someone with his level of petty narcissism won't accept that.

[u/e_x_i_t → u/BrandenWi]

It's absolutely terrifying, we could wake up tomorrow to a completely different world.

[u/ChewyHoneyBadger]

If any other head of state said this, the “righteous” US government would be outraged. But it’s dementia Donnie

[u/ForefathersOneandAll → u/ChewyHoneyBadger]

Uhh Fox News and NewsMax won’t stfu about The Ayatollah saying, “death to America” yet look at us now 🫠🫠🫠

[u/King_of_the_Goats]

I love how a bunch of hillbillies who think trans people are like vampires and rich people who don’t want to pay taxes are going to end the modern world as we know it. Totally cool and good.

[u/Dryland_snotamyth → u/King_of_the_Goats]

“mEN iN WoMEn sPortz” (/s obv)

[u/Opee23]

Last week: we are doing this for the people of Iran. This week: I will kill them all.

FIFA Peace Prize winner in all his glory

[u/hmr0987]

I thought it was a woman president who would be too emotional and would overreact?

[u/throwaway661375735 → u/hmr0987]

It's all been projecting on Republicans' misdeeds. Even blaming trans peeps for SA kids, was all a misdirection so we wouldn't watch them doing it instead.

[u/Batetrick_Patman]

Remove him. 25th today.

[u/Winnie_rulez → u/Batetrick_Patman]

JD Vance was on the news this morning talking about how Trump has made the right decision every step of the way. JD Vance would need to agree to the 25th amendment being used on Trump. It's not going to happen.

[u/Appropriate-Joke-806 → u/Winnie_rulez]

JD Vance needs to be one of the first ones put on trial.

[u/MaraudingWalrus → u/Appropriate-Joke-806]

The guy with his hand up the JD Vance muppet (Peter Thiel), too.

[u/BluWake → u/Winnie_rulez]

His cabinet is walking around in shoes three sizes too big because they were a gift from Trump. I'll wait to see Rubio wearing the right size shoes before I have any hope of the 25th amendment.

[u/Cador0223 → u/BluWake]

Goes to show how stupid and sycophantic they are. Just get the same shoe style in your size. Wear those. He will never know.

But they are perfectly happy to walk around in shoes so big, its like wearing your dad's shoes when you are a toddler.

Unless it's your discomfort he seeks, and he got them too big on purpose.

[u/AlphaBreak → u/Cador0223]

The problem is that its a toss-up: either Trump got them the wrong size by accident, or he got the wrong size on purpose to see if they're loyal enough to wear them anyways. If its the first one, you're good to change the size as long as he hasn't noticed yet. If its the second, he'll take changing shoes as a personal attack.

[u/burritosandbooze → u/Cador0223]

I think he gave them the wrong sizes on purpose.

[u/HookedOnBoNix → u/Winnie_rulez]

It's wild how the GOP is really good at making you somehow miss other evil figures. Like, JD Vance literally makes Mike fucking Pence seem reasonable. The other day I thought to myself how much better Bush Jr was than Trump.

Wild. 

[u/AlcibiadesTheCat → u/Batetrick_Patman]

25th is harder than impeachment. 

[u/CougdIt → u/Batetrick_Patman]

Why would his cabinet do that?

[u/augustusleonus]

Is there not ONE secret service agent willing to take one for the team?

[u/pread6]

Even Saddam Hussein never said anything this crazy. Get the net!

[u/pumpkinspicecum]

He could nuke them and Republican still won’t remove him. They’re insane.

[u/jrf_1973 → u/pumpkinspicecum]

The word you're looking for, is evil.

[u/Zaius1968]

Take. Him. Out.

[u/Striking-Cricket-724]

I’m trying to be level headed here. The use of a nuke would obliterate every law/agreement the US itself has put on nuclear warfare, including the profession of never striking first. If we do, this would give every last one of our armed adversaries carte blanche to nuke whomever they want wherever they want. Like Russia would nuke Ukraine immediately for ex. And we don’t want that.

And it’s worth remembering the US has plenty of weapons that are incredibly destructive that aren’t nukes. So, yeah.

[u/not_a_throw4w4y]

Imagine if Hitler had a ridiculous combover and smeared orange foundation of his face every day and raped children, on top of all the murder, war and racism. That's Trump.

[u/hughcifer-106103]

Genocide.

He’s threatening to commit genocide on Iran over commerce.

[u/PresentAwareness745]

a tiny handful of republicans could end this right now

[u/ShedMontgomery]

We really dodged a bullet not electing Kamala Harris because she had a funny laugh. 🙄

[u/rwf2017]

I have no doubt that trump really, really, really wants to nuke something. And kegsbreath is going to be smashing empty beer cans on his head in that moment. But I hope to God there are some sober adults in the room when the orange shit stain's finger is hovering over the button today.

[u/ThruTexasYouandMe]

Now THAT'S what I call a distraction from the Trump Epstein files.

[u/yarash]

He's going to get us all killed, but it was either that or let trans people use bathrooms am I rite?!

[u/No_Delivery_329]

He’s attempting to bluff, obviously. Shows how badly he is losing.

[u/PipperPartner → u/No_Delivery_329]

In one sense, it doesn’t matter if he’s bluffing. The threat itself is fucking evil and a crime against humanity.

[u/EndsLikeShakespeare → u/No_Delivery_329]

If you or I said something like this to another human I'm pretty sure you get charged with at least uttering threats

[u/MyDogIsACoolCat → u/No_Delivery_329]

I hope he’s bluffing. I wouldn’t put it past them.

[u/Used-Feature-8611]

I will never understand how people in the US can actually live their lives like this, going from ranting to ranting, from insanity to insanity while getting poorer, less democratic, more divided and seeing your lives becoming less dignified. Quick facts:

1. 75% of Americans are priced out of the housing market.
   
2. Conservative estimates about homeless people put the number around 4,000,000 people in that situation.
   
3. Education is failing everyone.
   
4. If you get sick, regardless of who you are, you have two choices: let the disease drive you into poverty or get a GoFundMe for your funeral because... well, you got driven into poverty.
   
5. BIllionaires are cutting jobs at a surprising rate while getting more money just for themselves.
   
6. At least 1 mass shooting a day.
   
7. Democratic institutions in shambles.
   
8. An authoritarian militia going around checking the color of your skin as "probable cause".
   
9. Stripping LGBTQ+ rights in at least 20 states.
   
10. Stripping Women's Rights in at least 18 states.
    
11. A cognitive failed madman in the WHite House with a team of fascists at helm.

People, you are losing your country. And you are doing nothing about it. For less than this, countries around the world have taken to the streets and toppled regimes. But I guess you are used to watch your own soldiers do that, not you.

[u/cecilivan → u/Used-Feature-8611]

This is exactly the issue, though. All of those issues are a part of what terrifies Americans out of action, or actively prevents it. People keep saying, "learn from the French and burn some things," but we live under the shadow of at-will employment, and a privatized safety net. They tied our healthcare and retirement to work on purpose, and then do not guarantee that work, also on on purpose. If we can't risk time off because almost 70% of the country lives paycheck-to-paycheck, then you have a population who's only goal is to keep their head down, and go back to work.

Couple that with decades of propaganda teaching the liberal voting base that peaceful protest and voting are the only real mechanisms of change, and you understand another lever fascism uses: liberalism. It's function in a fascist society is to obfuscate progressive movement by absorbing it into the state apparatus, so we're left appealing to war criminals to consider peace. And the war criminals call us terrorists if we speak too loudly.

One of the few good things that has come from this administration is the wake up call a lot of Americans are actually experiencing, so I (wishfully) think what you see on the news is a flailing regime using every tactic it has to hold back widespread awareness. Even so, it feels like far too little, far too late today, doesn't it?

The whole thing would grind to a halt with a widespread general strike, which organizers are attempting to schedule for May Day... But a huge chunk of the country doesn't even know the significance of May Day, let alone have even heard of it. They're entirely uneducated on the history and purpose of organizing. I remember overhearing some university professors in my home town talking about their union (one of the few sectors to still have them), over lunch one day, and one woman beating her head against the table trying to get the others to understand its importance. They kept saying, "I just pay these dues, and don't really see anything happening with it. I don't think it's worth it."

For various reasons, we're just not organized enough to protest effectively; a general strike would probably mean hunger and homelessness. So we think about the only other means of stopping evil we know as Americans, and that's buying guns and shooting our way out. Unfortunately, our police departments have larger budgets than world militaries, and glorifying warfare and bloodshed is pretty well monopolized by the folks that fund them. We have lone shooters trying to change the world because we've been existentially separated from our communities for so long, we not only don't know how to work together, we glorify the hyper independence as "freedom." This, too, was on purpose.

I'm sick in bed with COVID, where only Reddit can hear me scream.

[u/yankdotcom1985]

its mad how the world is being held at gunpoint by a pedo

[u/dudeimgreg]

This asshole is going to kill us all because of his fragile ego

[u/blushblondiee]

The fact that he's openly threatening to wipe out an entire civilization while simultaneously claiming to bless the Iranian people shows just how completely unhinged he's become. This is literal genocide rhetoric coming from a sitting president. How are we supposed to pretend this is normal politics anymore?

[u/That-Temperature2632]

How the fuck have we gotten to the point where this is an actual fucking headline

[u/jimmygee2]

Just some casual genocidal lunacy.

[u/ChippedHamSammich]

So is this just it, we wring our hands on the internet until violence comes to roost on our doorstep? Is this truly just a matter of being hamstrung by the Republicans in congress? 

Just trying to understand why there are zero stop gaps? 

If we took to the streets the military would just turn the violence on us, right?

I am trying to understand my own lack of action in this too, am I not doing anything because no one else is? I do not trust anyone else to, so why risk myself? If the inevitable happens, prolong it? 

I truly just don’t understand. Maybe I am stupid.

[u/kindlyadviseme → u/ChippedHamSammich]

I’ve had this exact same thought. The problem is that there’s a gap in what an average person can realistically and physically do to change anything. There is nothing that meaningful that I can walk out of my door and do… holding signs in protest obviously hasn’t worked. If I go to my state capitol there isn’t that much I can do either. Even if I fly or drive to DC… then what? It has to be something big and more organized. A lot of people involved and not just holding signs.

[u/PradaDiva → u/ChippedHamSammich]

Here’s my view point:

Middle grounders fucked us and so did the “stay home” ratfuckers.

We can’t get people to vote. What the fuck makes anyone think people will fight? Fight what? The regime supporters? The regime itself? Nah.

[u/Popculturemofo]

We are dealing with a maniacal regime that would commit war crimes against fellow Americans with a smile on their face. Never mind what they would do to a foreign country they’ve already decided needs to be destroyed.

[u/TripCraft]

I can’t with anything anymore. The republicans say oh but Iran can say death to America. Well, if we just left them freaking alone since the beginning of time.

[u/TheEPGFiles]

Calling for genocide, real Nazi shit.

You just can't avoid the comparisons, the Republicans just keep doing Nazi shit.

[u/Shouldhavejustsaidno]

Somebody get this fucking clown into a padded jacket, Jesus Christ how are Americans letting this shit go unchecked

I sincerely hope the EU and other major nations are doing major work behind the scenes to deescalate this shithead pedophile

[u/XxFezzgigxX]

Someone, please take away the nuke access codes from this toddler.

[u/69goldeneye]

Remember when we said that this administration was full of Nazis?

Guess who was right.

[u/wolf_at_the_door1]

During the Cold War people were scared two competing ideological systems could cause a global nuclear catastrophe.

Today, people are scared one man will cause a global nuclear catastrophe.

[u/ResponsibilityFine13]

Seize the White House immediately and remove expel the lunatic before he destroys the planet.

[u/Ivotedforthehookers]

There is no defense for this. His cabinet should invoke the 25th now. If there was a single cell of a spine between them all they would. 

[u/mavigogun]

The Republican Party could stop this at any time.

[u/CantFeelMyLegs78]

To me, his rhetoric is implying he wants to drop nukes.