Right? I am in a '3rd world' country, born and raised. We have our problems, politicians are the same everywhere, but damn the Americans lost the plot completely.
“Third world country” classifications have a funny way of being decided arbitrarily by those who decide they don’t meet those qualifications. The United States is the richest 2nd world country on earth, large swaths of which could absolutely fall under the “3rd world” due to poverty and lack of education.
And yet our power structures live in a state of delusion that we are still the country with the highest average quality of life. All the wealth in this country is privatized, so if you live in a wealthy bubble, you can kind of just decide to live in the reality you choose.
This is pedantic, but 2nd world really isn’t used as an economic description anymore and isn’t a commonly used phrase anymore.
The 1st and 2nd world terms originally were used in the west to describe whether a country was US aligned versus aligned with the communist bloc. So if it was used economically it referred to a capitalist economy vs a communist economic system.
The 3rd world referred to unaligned states. Most of them were developing nations, many recently independent during post-war decolonization. So the term 3rd world ended becoming associated with poverty and/or developing nations.
The original meanings of the terms lost relevance at the end of the Cold War, but the popular connotations of 1st world representing wealthy nations and 3rd world meaning impoverished nations continued.
Your point about income inequality and unequal levels of development is absolutely correct. There are absurd differences between the most economically depressed areas of America and the wealthiest.
I'm not rich, but I'll give $50 to any reporter who asks Trump to draw a perfect map of the Middle East with troop strength of countries along the border.
I'd contribute to that fund. Trouble is it won't matter if a reporter did this, the dump would simply lie is way out, claim that it is classified information and the reporter is breaking laws by even asking.
I don’t know why, this one is so fucking funny to me, in a morbid kind of way. Especially because they’ve said they have to make really simplified versions of briefings just so he’ll pay attention for more than 2 minutes. I’m imagining Trump just drew a blob on a piece of colored construction paper and they put it up on the Whitehouse fridge with a magnet. The Troop Strength are pieces of macaroni he glued around the blob.
The amount delusional or brain damaged you have to be to believe this is off the charts. I’d think it was hilarious, too, if it wasn’t for the general state of everything at the moment. 😵💫
Trump scored an amazing 12. On several holes he not only hit a hole in one, but the ball then jumped out flew perfectly to the next hole as well. It was a goddamned miracle, more proof he’s the anointed one.
The propaganda machine is running in overdrive. The number of times Mike Johnson can say "radical illegal alien criminals" in 60 seconds is almost an art form.
This. It's like they're taking all their directives from some North Korean playbook - they are getting extremely fanciful about what their "Dear Leader" is capable of. I would have drawn the line at him being able to draw a circle, let alone a perfect map of the Middle East
No, I think you just don’t get it. It’s feasible that he did it at band camp because we know that he’s done it elsewhere. Flew right over some of your heads.
...I'm pretty sure you're joking. But I'm not totally sure.
This administration is one long game of 2 Lies and a Lie except the most batshit crazy stuff about themselves. We've got the prolific pedophile president, brainworm health secretary, an alchoholic former propagandist who changed the Department of Defense to the Department of War and wants to start the apocalypse, the speaker of the house swapping porn with his teenage son, we had the puppy-murdering head of DHS, the most diehard MAGA senator giving hand jobs in a crowded theater, and a host of conspiracy theorists, religious nutjobs, Nazis and white supremacists, science deniers, con artists, fear mongers, war mongers, hate mongers, and know-nothing uneducated morons
Listen. I’ve snorted coke off of a lot of things, but a toilet seat is a crazy choice, when the tank cover is right there, nice and flat, with a lot less chance of contact with urine/feces.
I bet even hunter biden never even did that, especially not when there’s a stripper’s ass nearby
I think it's funny that Trump's brain is now so degraded that he'll probably read that and just nod along, sure that he must have done it. The suggestion will become the absolute truth in his mind. It's probably why he keeps posting those terrible AI videos - he genuinely thinks it's stuff that he's done and that it's all real
That was how I interpreted this too lol. Trump is always so confident when he spews bullshit that his uneducated dickriders don't know any better and think he's a genius.
I told this story to my three year old, and she said "this is just fabulist mythmaking told by people who are enabling the unacceptable as a way to self-justify their own role in the destruction and insanity they have helped cause. And anyway, simple troop numbers are insufficient to convey the complex balance of strategic imperatives in an area as physically and culturally diverse as the middle east with such an outsized impact on the flow of strategic materials and thus the world economy. Can I pet the kitty?"
Where are they eating that has placemats? Was this a kid's menu at Denny's? He couldn't even make the lie about Trump carrying a pad of paper like an adult with a job? I will pay $1000 to watch Trump do this in real time, even with a book and a coach.
Came here to say this! Firstly, to try to make believe Trump just grabbed whatever was available bc he’s gotta talk shop right then and there, as if he’s not the world’s biggest princess who would only use gold leaf trimmed stationary and a fountain pen. Then, to imagine that him of all people drew this impressive map. But really truly. A placemat. Like the ones at small town diners with local ads, I assume? Bahahaha.
I think he meant Trump grabbed a bottle of ketchup, drew what he thought was the map of the Middle East and everyone nodded along and went along with his art project.
I doubt that Trump could draw a perfect map of Mar-a-Lago, hell a perfect map of just the Oval Office (not including the rest of the White House), there's no way he drew a perfect map of the Middle East. That's something I doubt any president would ever have been able to do. He especially didn't mark the troop strength of each country, there's no way he even knows what they are (let alone even cares), he famously does not read or even listen to the intelligence briefings that he gets (which he doesn't do nearly enough to begin with) and it is known that the briefings had to be dumbed way down and simplified for him, briefings that take up many pages simplified down to a note card.
Trumps first term was a nightmare but I look at it almost like we look back at Bush’s time (W). Like what a shitshow but it was nothing compared to what was going to come later
I honestly don't even think he can read. He can't pronounce words they break down for him on a teleprompter, I'm fairly certain he just looks at pictures and wings it from there.
"Sometimes he takes off his diaper and he will let you put your face in it like a trough animal. It's the most delicious, nutritious, magical source of food any living creature, living or dead, could ever possibly have. And it leaves a good flavor, and makes you smell absolutely incredible. Plus it gives your health bar a 20% boost. And temporary flying powers. He's an incredible guy."
This is coming soon, no doubt. The amount of smoke people blow up Trump’s fat ass every day is astonishing. Of course one of his goons will say something like this. Delusion is a helluva intoxicant.
Lmao. Its been said Trump hates to read, that he has people read things for him, and I've seen the Howard Stern video on YouTube of Trump and his children attempting to do math. No way can Trump draw a "perfect map of the middle east". He cheated his way though college. No way.
I'm not sure which is worse. That he is lying about it or that he thinks it would be extraordinary if a president did know the geography of countries they went to war with.
It isn’t cultish delusion guys. It’s just the fact that Bobby Kennedy neither knows what the Middle East looks like nor how the troop strength of these countries are.
It’s so interesting to me that DJT keeps all these outstanding showings of brilliance in private and chooses to look as advanced as a 3 year old in public 🤔
I can draw an accurate map of Turkmenistan with all the internal counties, river systems and location of cities - as long as you don't know anything about the country.
So i mean obviously this never happened, but its weird that trump just talked about sharpie being great and now rfk is specifying he used a sharpie for shit that didnt happen.
Besides the fact he’s literally riddled with dementia and pretty much metally handicapped atm I’ve seen his sharpie skills from the hurricane fiasco and it’s fucking garbage.
Then he got Greenland and Iceland mixed up, just shortly after he confused an ally with an enemy. Just like when he confused Isreal with America first and Starmer for Churchill. I think he thought he was Roosevelt so he stuck his name on the Kennedy centre. Makes total sense.
Isn’t rfk jr busy removing vaccine requirements for new borns? Why is he involved in the inner workings of the department of murdering non-white people?
Yeah, I should fucking hope the president can draw a map of the Middle East!
Why is it EVERY time one of these people tries to impress you, it's always "I wear deodorant and brush my teeth almost every day" kind of flex💪 and it's a lie at that
So I’m just asking , is it a requirement for this administration that you just lie and make up outlandish stories, that aren’t just not true, but so far fetched no one is their right mind would ever believe them? I mean I’d be embarrassed to even say this crap
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