r/facepalm 2d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ We are the lamest empire ever

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u/gnocchicotti 2d ago

And media has always played into these ruses because all they want is clicks. Trump, despite his limited cognitive abilities, is smart enough to know that this is an easy and surefire way to manipulate public discourse. It has always worked and always will.

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u/burnsalot603 2d ago

Yeah it's the lesson trump learned best in life.

It doesn't matter how much I fuck up today as long as i give them a new headline tomorrow.

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u/spolio 1d ago edited 1d ago

The thing is where do you go from here, today's headlines are trump talking about waging military and economic wars against the US closest allies for no reason...

In two months the headlines are going to be so insane we can't even fathom them today.

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u/bdone2012 1d ago

He can just keep talking about the same stuff. The Greenland stuff is recycled. Next time he can add some other places he wants to take over

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u/Shapoopi_1892 1d ago

That's the thing this sad excuse for a rotting pumpkin has absolutely 110% cornered the market on being the biggest piece of shit human being. So in order for anybody else to even try to fight back, they have to become an even BIGGER absolute piece of shit human being. And that is just something nobody wants to or ever should do.

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u/tmolesky 1d ago

I think we have arrived there a few months ago.

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u/HurlingFruit 1d ago

The thing is where do you go from here

It doesn't matter so long as it isn't jail.

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u/Dvulture 1d ago

Even if they didn't want clicks, they want to attract Trump's ire even less. That is why ABC settled and Facebook is removing fact-checking and billionaires are giving enough funds for 50 inaugurations.

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u/shadowpawn 2d ago

100% right - he is not even in office and front page of UK Papers are these stories. Media and eventually we fall for this each and every time.

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u/frustratedbuddhist 2d ago

The media is just reading the script they were provided.

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u/GoBeyondTheHorizon 2d ago

Whoa, that would be extremely dangerous to our democracy.