US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’

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’Actually, maybe I shouldn’t give it to charity. Maybe I should keep the money’

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You know, as much as it’s possible for me to, I get him. But what the fuck is wrong with these people clapping and cheering for a man seriously suggesting he’s going to just “give himself” a billion dollars from their tax dollars? How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is, because it ain’t conservative.

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How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is

It’s a cult.

And 40+ years of blatant political propaganda served via private “news” organizations (Fox) created specifically to be a propaganda machine after political fallout (Watergate) from actual news media.

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It’s mental illness. MAGA is a mentally ill death cult, and conservatives are the most susceptible.

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Trump is a compulsive braggart. He not only wants to do wrong, he has to publicly gloat about it too.

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More Italian plumbers needed!

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Yeah, but the Americans aren’t the French.

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Yeah, you’re right. We just damn people into unaffordable healthcare with no universal insurance while simultaneously raiding immigrant housing with a police force comprised of the people who chanted that the “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, raided the Capitol on J6, or both. We’re in a pit lower than the French.

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“We” aren’t. Republicans are

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Don’t compare the French with Americans. At least the French have dignity and courage.

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Yeah, they’re cowards.

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Americans live in relative comfort compared to most of the world. They’re not desperate enough to consider a french solution, in order to give that up. They’re the very definition of the placated masses.

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How’s that fuckin’ 2A working out for y’all? Keeping y’all free of tyranny, I hope??

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And the worst part is, nothing is going to be done about it

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Once he controls the fed he’ll just print money and hand it to himself.

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