It “certainly looks a lot like quid pro quo."
  • penquin@lemm.ee
    46·
    7 months ago

    Trump would gladly burn his own mother alive to benefit himself and look like a “winner”. Fucking loser, dude is a fucking loser. He has a loser syndrome. He must’ve gone through a lot of shit as a child.

    • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
      30·
      7 months ago

      By a lot of shit you mean a hoard of domestic employees that he definitely thought of as his slaves then yeah he went through a lot. He’s never been meaningfully told, “no you can’t have your way” by anyone

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        72·
        7 months ago

        I’m thinking he was abused as a child or something. Dude is not normal.

        • orbitz
          19·
          7 months ago

          I thought with Trump his Dad schooled him to behave the way he did, always pitting the sons against each other, never accept a loss etc. It’d be easier to pity him under that view if he wasn’t trying to wreck the world.

          Oh and him not realizing this even being an old man at this point. At some point people need to learn some self reflection but when you have access to as much money as Trump (not as much as he claims) there’s not much reason to.

        • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
          131·
          7 months ago

          Being served all the time is a form of child abuse in my books.

          Spoiled kids are abused kids who often become abusers.

          Spoiled means less likely to be a healthy adult.

    • Hegar@kbin.social
      21·
      7 months ago

      The best description I heard was that he was a man born with the greatest privilege of all - to have never once been disturbed by the stirring of a conscience.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 months ago

      I read Mary Trump’s book, and yeah Fred Christ did a number on every one of the kids, and the wife. So definitely damaged, but not that far away from a lot of other people.

      I think you have to add that, 70 years, cocaine and adderall, and dementia to get the grotesque Antichrist who’s taken over the GQP.

      It’s just so sad to watch the corporate news pantomime all these stories like he’s even remotely ‘normal’.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    391·
    7 months ago

    Despite the oil industry’s complaints about Biden’s policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has, pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year.

    The U.S. accounted for 14.7% of crude oil production worldwide in 2022, compared to 13.1% for Saudi Arabia and 12.7% for Russia.

    • Morcyphr@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I’ve always hated the phrase “bad actors.” It’s a meaningless descriptor.

      The two sides do not operate the same, necessarily, or hold the same views. But both are oppressive and corrupt in their own ways. It’s not even debatable.

      I’m firmly in the D liberal camp, but I don’t lie to myself that those Ds in power actually give a shit about me or people like me. Their interests are in securing their own money/power structure. Sure, sometimes that trickles down to help us common folk, but it’s just an accidental side effect.

      I’ll definitely vote like lives depend on it, but, unfortunately, how folks vote depend on who’s lives they find important to save; that’s not as straightforward as it should be.

  • drolex@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    7 months ago

    Let’s remember the immortal words of the great wordsmith, the sublime epithets of the magnificent poet Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., who, in a perfect moment of genius, rightly said of Mr. Trump: “he a ho”.

    Words so true that Truth itself looks like a lie compared to them.