• obvs@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Enjoy your 105ºF heat and your two hour speech starting at 9:00 at night.

    Sounds like a great idea for your 80-year-old ass.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, after his (s)election, he sent out Spicey in a suit it looked like his mom put him in to scream at the press about how it was “fake news” to talk about Donvict’s flaccid crowd size:

      “Diaper Daddy tells me his crowd size needs to be measured from the taint!!!1111 Any other measurement is FAYYYYK NOOOZ!!!111”

      – Sean Spicer, probably

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    22 hours ago

    hey, who remembers the crowds at the inauguration…?? remember how well that went over??

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    1 day ago

    Other countries…geoblock those who went. They’re either too dumb to be allowed to travel (think containment) or just evil (like resident evil).

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    1 day ago

    They’re going to simultaneously blame it on the heat and say it was packed to the brim. MAGA will accept the excuse no matter what.

    Who do they trust? Their lying eyes, or Trump?

  • Granbo's Holy Hotrod@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    About 200$in gas for me. More than a 1k night stay if you can even get close or a decent place. 20-30$ for fair food…per person…per meal. We wanted to make a DC trip for vacation this year. Decided on other locations until its not a hostile environment.

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      20 hours ago

      DC is nice, but I’d go in the shoulder seasons, it can be hot and humid, and if I’m gonna be somewhere hot and humid in summer, I’m going to need water nearby to jump into.

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    1 day ago

    Trump later wrote on Truth Social that the crowd had been “packed to the brim” with “at least 45,000 people.”

    The fact that anyone believes such an obvious pathological liar continues to shock me to my core.

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      19 hours ago

      I avoided a really cool pubic concert on the National mall because there were 750k people. Even at 45k, that is not by any means packed.

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      23 hours ago

      It’s not that they believe him, it’s that they’ve decided to abandon reality just like him. They believe whatever makes them feel better in that way.

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      1 day ago

      I used to think Orwell was being a bit hyperbolic about the party holding up 4 fingers and demanding people seeing 5.

      But Republicans and conservatives do this without even being tortured.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah. I hadn’t read the book since my early twenties and decided now (at 50) I wanted to take another read through because of all the crap going on, and it’s honestly terrifying how press releases and especially Karoline Leavitt sounds straight up newspeak and rewriting the narrative whenever possible.

        It’s only a matter of time before they get a department going whose sole job is to go back into historical documents to re-write old news articles to show that they’ve always been right.

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        24 hours ago

        Hitler called it “the Big Lie”, with the idea being that you tell a lie that’s so outrageous that people will find it easier to believe the lie than that you’d have the audacity to tell a lie that outrageous