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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 7 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

We are a country ran by and profited off of by used car salesmen.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 hour ago

Dude looks like a ghost you'd see in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 1 hour ago

He may look sleazy as fuck, but he makes the greenest water. He's the best in the business.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

Sleezist used rug salesman ever

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Hey old men, when your freaking eyebrows are "salt and pepper" lay off the shoe polish hair job, it looks fucking ridiculous.

And what in the fuck is that part?

i just want to justify my beard because like, this is how i am going, like my hair is turning white from the tip of my chin on up to the top of my head. if i had any hair on my head, like grumpa did i'm so jealous i look like him except bald i'm gonna be a silver fox in five years, it would be dark dark brown on top and silver on the beard. the last time i dyed was in high school and we all dyed our hair gold and our bodies blue and i called my doubles partner princess and he called me muffin and we wore short shorts, shorter than the running team, because we were going to win the tennis match by weirding out the other team, not being good at tennis. it worked on one opponent in four years. not winning a match, not winning a set, winning a game. we were sooooo bad but we had so much fun.

this fat shit needs to get the rudy out of his skull.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a dye job? I thought might be a terrible toupee. I assumed the chin strap is hidden under his jowels

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm still not sure either, it's late in the evening and I can't process this combover/toupée whatever.

But that this guy has the confidence to be with women at all is mind-boggling to me.

[–] jfrnz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is Nathan Lane with a fake cigar and mustache you can’t fool me

[–] M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Mos def, Nathan Lane. There is no other explanation.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 140 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

I literally can't tell if this is parody or reality at this point.

[–] sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Four Seasons Total Landscaping

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago

Homie looks like he’s spent time at Arkham.

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It is the penguin from the batman universe

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was more thinking Gomez Addams, but lacking in class.

dude i'm a gomez fan. those were fighting words without "lacking in class" gomez is the epitome of class. now dance with me

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 69 points 9 hours ago

when a country votes for the "grab'em by the pussy" candidate TWICE, then reality is a parody of itself now . we've come full circle.

it doesn't make anything better if you consider the "they obviously cheated" angle, because literally no one did literally anything to stop it

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Oh it's real. I just wonder if they did it this way with the sole purpose of confusing people or just general corruption.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 6 points 7 hours ago

Trump has been doing this fraud-in-plain-sight thing forever.

I've read comments that say it works because the defense is that it's so obvious it can't be deceitful. As in: if you wanted to hand $15m to a donor you'd find a secretive way to do it.

I personally believe it's just learned ineptitude. He's just deceitful at every turn and he's never encountered any consequences so why would he change?

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 18 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I am just having a hard time accepting this. Like if you read this was fiction we would reject it as so cliche and exaggerated as to be unrealistic. Especially that photo. It's almost cartoonish villainy.

[–] Bohne93@feddit.org 5 points 6 hours ago

Fiction has this stupid flaw where it needs to adhere to rules, reality does not.

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 27 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

That's a mail order bride if I ever saw one.

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 43 points 6 hours ago

The guy looks like a 1950's comic book depiction of a greasy corporate crook.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

She is literally a Real Housewife of Orange County 😅

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 103 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

"pictured here with a young women who agreed to accompany him after he twirled his moustache and threatened to tie her to the railroad tracks"

[–] Pinkie_Toe@lemmy.world 48 points 10 hours ago

Dude definitely has a cartoon villain vibe.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 39 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.

You aren't wrong, Rude. But it's a feature of all people, not just Statesians. If there isn't something to unite them (usually a symbol, a cause, an enemy, whatever) they can't get anything done. And the entire world (specifically Russia, China, India, the EU, and the Murdochs so technically the British Commonwealth) have been working in intelligence and propaganda to drive deep, practicably insurmountable divisions in the US populace. Like what the fuck was all that tan suit bullshit other than retrenching racism? Shit like that.

i get kind of fed up with the whole "burn down the entire government" bullshit that comes out because the current government is using structures with the potential to do a lot of good to do a lot of harm. like the us army corp of engineers can and has been used as a rapid response unit for natural disasters like floods and fires. put up a usable (not great or terribly long term, but usable) bridge and road in an afternoon to evacuate a stranded community. shit like that what never gets advertised or in the press, but when pops was in the army, that's what he did. if we're going to decimate the gubmint, prune out the bad shit but leave the good, right? keep the grant programs what give money to the soup kitchens at least.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 38 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (6 children)

I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they're easy for people to grasp.

"Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it" is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.

It's a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, crypto rugpulls, campaign finance violations, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don't have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes between him & corporations which are less concrete.

People can either delude themselves into thinking it's legitimate because they don't understand financial stuff/how things typically worked before being massively corrupt, or because it's initially just Trump making money (usually illegally) which is something they expect him to do and the illegality is difficult to explain or not very hard-hitting.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Just Googled the guy. Yup, he does in fact look like a Gotham city villain.

[–] Ladokaka@piefed.social 4 points 7 hours ago
[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

similarities to cartoons strictly accidental

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