• bearboiblake@pawb.social
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    Now the “President of the Free World” is sharing gore to distract from his absolute failure of an illegal unjustifiable war of aggression in support of a genocidal state (which is ethnically cleansing Lebanon as we speak) and the Epstein files.

    If you had this shit on your bingo card, you’re a time traveller, please take me out of this timeline

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      23 hours ago

      “President of the Free World”

      Side note: as a non-American member of the ‘free world’, I’ve always fucking hated that expression.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, me too, I used the phrase ironically. A nation without universal healthcare has no business calling itself free to begin with, not to mention the entire prison industrial complex, abortion bans, and so on

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          I got that, but historically, it’s been used anything but ironically by the news media, and it’s always irked me.

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        I’m a USian living outside the US. I’m a lot freer than I ever was Stateside.

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      I’ve recently listened to a podcast from late 2024, wherein the invited expert predicted the attack on Iran, because a) Republican presidents use wars to distract from their shit policies, and b) Iran was the weakest of available options.

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        I saw the Iran war coming, and even the defeat, but I assumed Trump would just declare victory anyways and all of his base would just believe him and lap it up. I wasn’t expecting him to crash out like this. I never would have foreseen him praising Allah on the timeline on Easter that’s for damn sure!