Former President Donald Trump heaped praise on authoritarian Chinese President Xi Jinping during a lengthy interview Friday with the podcaster Joe Rogan.

“We’re dealing with the smartest people,” Trump said, referring to the leaders of U.S. adversaries, about an hour and a half into their conversation.

“They hate when I say, you know, when the press — when I called President Xi, [the press] said, ‘Well, he called President Xi brilliant.’ Well, he’s a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he’s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not. And they go crazy.”

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    And the tankies will lie to your face and say they really truly just support Jill Stein for no other reason than her stellar campaigning skills. Lmao.

    What a fucking joke half this platform is 🤣

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    I bet the superior Yi Ping Ping Pong doesn’t rape minors in China. That doesn’t mean I want his ass telling me what to do. Fuck that Winnie the Pooh wannabe bitch. But it means, he’s not Trump. But to be fair, Pooh probably orders lots of people’s executions per month. Trump orders McDonald’s. So there’s that difference too.

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    Remember when Romney saying “45% of Americans don’t matter, now watch me look for a wine menu at McDonald’s!” was enough to lose the presidency?

    Pepper Ridge Farm remembers.

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        Yeah Mormons don’t drink if other Mormons would find out. He’s drinking wine at home not in public.

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    Trump is pulling the invader zim " I will rule you all with an iron fist" and people are cool with it. I feel like half the country went to “Skool”

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      Not trying to be a dick (though I guess it kind of happened anyway), but maybe part of the issue here is that people are referencing cartoons instead of actual would history, when talking about the imminent threat of an autocratic ruler.

      Just saying…

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      This the fucking world my dad wants us to live in. He begged me tonight to please vote Trump he going save us.

      Wonder what my dad would think about this? He hates China says Trump hates China and will make them pay with tariffs. I tried to explain that we pay those not China but it wss like talking to a brike wall.

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        My dad’s the same way, he hasn’t pleaded with me about my vote but that may only be because I don’t talk to him.
        Have you seen “The Brainwashing of My Dad”? I think that’s what it’s called, a friend recommended it to me and I need to make some time for it, sounds like it covers the impact of garbage like fox news on old men

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    This has been up for two hours, I wonder where the propagandists hollering about genocide are.

    Edit, four hours now: It must be acceptable to genocide Uyghurs, I guess.

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      I suspect that most of them don’t really care about genocide or the welfare of others in general. It’s a self-righteous bandwagon for them to jump on.

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        At this point, I’m just posting this graphic

        Anytime I run into the “Don’t Vote Harris, that will stop Genocide!” camp

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          And the democrats are at least working towards a cease fire. Trump would let Bibi turn his enemies lands to glass because Trump only cares about Trump.

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        They don’t need to be paid to be ignorant. A lot of people don’t understand nuance or how the American political system works and it shows in those threads.

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        I’m honestly still skeptical of that, It seems to me like Lemmy would be too small to be an efficient use of a paid shill’s time, vs having them go to a mainstream social media platform. I think they’re either genuine in intent but have twisted themselves into a completely counterproductive idea of what to do out of anger at how things in the world have gone, or in some cases are people trolling for a position they don’t support, but who are doing it for free to advance their own position rather than for a paycheck.

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      We all knew that. Just like it is acceptable to jail citizens for writing mean things about the government on the internet.

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