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Video deleted by White House breaks through numbness barrier and raises further questions about fitness for office

It is a singular if highly dubious distinction of Donald Trump’s pungent contribution to the political discourse to have essentially bankrupted the English language’s capacity for outrage.

So unremitting and extreme have been the avalanche of affronts since Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 to declare his presidential candidacy that even his most ardent critics have become desensitized, leading to a level of shock fatigue.

Yet Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes broke through the numbness barrier to register on the political Richter scale at a level few of his many previous insults ever achieved.

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 32 points 1 month ago

LOL, numbness barrier my ass.

Everyone knows he had deep ties to a paedophile ring and is heavily implicated in many crimes including rape, murder, and trafficking. No hyperbole required.

Yet there's no consequences for any of it.

This monkey video is just today's episode of awful, awful behaviour from the worst human ever conceived elected by the worst among us to be the most powerful man in the world.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its all OK. Americans voted for this so no need to be upset.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Many Americans didn't. But unfortunately too many did. In centuries to come there will be lots of studies about how millions of people could do gleefully self-sabotage. Is it due to some sort of environmental poisoning (lead, plastics, pollution, etc)? Or plain old brainwashing? Maybe be both, maybe sometime else entirely. Either way, it will become a massive cautionary tale.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many Americans didn’t.

70 million did and 90 million didn't vote, which is support of Fascism.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The majority didnt do the thing majorities do to protect the country. Thats illustrative about how much the country means to these shmucks. Bystander effect on a national scale.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are a lot of thing done by people in charge that made it possible.

  • deregulation of media in US (see Telecommunication act of 1996)

  • constant cuts to education because uneducated people are easier to fool

  • mainstream media houses owned by rich people or large corporations

  • dividing the population so they vote against each other instead of for public good (republicans vs democrats, "immigrants are stealing your jobs", nazis vs jews, "Unions are stealing your wages", etc)

More modern examples are Must buying Twitter to get more misonformation there and Trump ordering buying of Tiktok "to protect children" and thus censoring all epstein speak there.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

Really? Anyone still surprised or outraged is late to the fucking party.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the over/under on Trump using the N-word on live TV by June?

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can probably bet on it in Kalshi

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The natural question should be: what new immoral bullshit is he distracting the media and the public from with this video?

The video is horrible. But there's always something worse coming that he's trying to draw our attention away from.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Apparently US might invade Iran. Not sure that's even in the top five, though.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 3 points 1 month ago

That fronto-temporal lobe is just fucking gone, it's a matter of weeks before he admits stuff live on TV

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Now Trump cultists can't avoid he is racist in real time but will still double down anyway. They need to be socially exiled from society.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Where's the video?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Watching donnie dumbass trying to talk about this video was wild.

He seemed to be butthurt that people weren't talking more about the bullshit "stolen election" narrative it was trying to push.