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by slater 244 days ago
i'd say go tell the felon(s) in the white house, but they're currently busy having a gold-encrusted ball room built
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ryandrake 244 days ago
He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself. Man's got to have priorities.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_post...

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sph 243 days ago
Not even Idiocracy could imagine such immense stupidity. Pure brainrot. The USA are not a serious country anymore.
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anonymousiam 244 days ago
Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts.

To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS has nothing to sign.

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hypeatei 244 days ago
The President typically has a lot of influence over party members in normal times, the Republican sychopants who are in Congress now will do whatever he says. A bipartisan border bill was killed before Trump even got re-elected[0] simply because he didn't want it passed.

0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-b...

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anonymousiam 243 days ago
Face it: The lobbyists own congress. This shutdown exists because one group of lobbyists is unhappy about the gravy train drying up.
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hypeatei 244 days ago
And scheduling a call between Indonesia's President and Eric Trump[0].

> In a private exchange picked up by microphones, the Indonesian leader asked to meet Eric Trump, to which the president answered, “I’ll have Eric call you,”

> We’re building a great hotel, and that’s going to start very soon. And I never met the president, and I used to go over there quite a bit. And obviously we manage teams over there, and it’s pretty amazing that he knew who I was. And, you know, it’s obviously — I don’t get involved in politics in Indonesia — but when I heard that, I started laughing. ‘Can I please meet Eric?’ He must know the projects very well.

0: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-indonesi...

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