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[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 68 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this before or after she gives everyone health care?

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

After, just like all the first world nations who had universal healthcare followed by famine.

Can't avoid it.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Today I had to queue only five hours for my bowl of government issue gruel. Today was a good day. This is just how things are here in Europe.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hi, speaking from southern Europe. I am taking the train to see family. There are no classes. We all shovel coal into furnace. Healthy exercise ! I have to get back to it. I spent all 16kb of data plan sending this optimistic message to poor american population

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hey! This fancy pants is getting gruel while the rest of us eat bark! Which is totally fine thanks to inexpensive modern healthcare, but it's still shit to eat!

[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Believe it or not, still famine.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, the Nordic countries famously always place low on World Happiness rankings^[1]

[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Before or after we stop literally burning food because we have too much of it?

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Guy needs a psych eval stat.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

He's playing to his base: Conspiracy-minded fundamentalist Christians who are driven by fear, and have already ingrained associating the word famine with the book of Revelations.

There is a not insignificant number of his most hardcore cultists who literally believe that Trump is a messianic figure: not literally Jesus, but a man chosen by God to do his will, and all of his failures and troubles are caused by people who are literally possessed by demons.

The rest of his rhetoric is ... these days, standard conservative demagoguery = anything I don't like or agree with is communism.

He's the angry fascist hype man for supply side Jesus.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure God would have chosen such an asswipe.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not a Christian, but iirc, that’s a thing with several prophets: they argue they’re bad vessels for god’s message because they gamble or something and god proves to them that he chose them and they’ll do it.

I did always assume they at least disavowed their former sinning ways though.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What he needs is something I can't say out loud if I don't want to get banned.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t care what he needs. We need justice.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Well, separating his [REDACTED] from his [REDACTED] using the famous French invention called [REDACTED] would definitely be justice

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Guy needs an overdose of ketamine stat.

[–] firebyte@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's kind of already happened. Three hundred and fifty-odd free evaluations!

I wish we had that level of care. /s

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mental-state-impeachment-psychiatrist-petition-congress-a9232386.html

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Forestial@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Famine! Pestilence! Locusts for sure!

What an idiot.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

They already had killing of the babies.. it's just biblical plagues at this point.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Next he will be claiming a plague of locusts and rivers turning to blood are on their way. By november it will be "paint your door frame with blood or the kamabala will kill your firstborn child"

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the idiot finally flipped the page on his word-a-day calendar?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

No no no, he got to that page a while ago, he just now figured out how to sound it out

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

[Photo of empty trump era grocery shelf]

"YOU'RE THE THING THAT I AM!!!!" -Republicans

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

No hamberders and no morning covfefe.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago

“Amusingly” he may be right… for the completely wrong reasons. I read an article yesterday that said climate change may be happening much faster than anticipated. Scientists will need time to determine if this accelerated change is going to be permanent, or if it was a temporary “blip”.

If it’s a permanent change, I could easily see massive crop failures happening during her term.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He's pandering to his hard-right base who will actually believe this bullshit. The problem for him is that by doing this he's driving everyone else away.

As Sun Tzu said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

"she's had 3 and a half years to do the things she's campaigning on!" swings both ways

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In his mind he thinks it's communism, and that communism brings famine.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Well under biden mcdonalds has been losing money. or maybe thats just the one near the white house.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Can he say it again while fox news runs record breaking stock indexes under him?

I know the indexes don't mean much but it was still god damn funny.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, for a moment i thought that Putin, Trump and Xi Jinping were 3 of the 4 horsemen so this kind of makes sense. If a 4th would have surfaced I would have been scared. (NK's Kim is irrelevant)

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

You provide no benefit that I could not determine myself.

[–] BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Would be cool it the links could be in a lower tree and collapsible. Or just not show at all