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[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

i'm not much for pageantry or intentional image management techniques, but this would work on me.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago
[–] whatup@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely don’t get why chuds are so infatuated with him. Literally everyone has at least one of these guys in their families. Mine has been attempting to learn guitar for the past twenty years while avoiding paying child support.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Because he’s the president’s son. I can’t think of anyone who can get away with crack and gun charges unless they’re rich and connected. Of course they’re hypocrites because Trump is basically Hunter but older and so are his children, but the anger is justified albeit for the wrong reasons

Liberals are also obsessed with defending him instead of just saying “yeah he’s a nepo baby failson.” They’ve gaslit themselves into believing that he’s actually qualified to manage a foreign oil company in a country he doesn’t speak the language of lol. And they’re trying to convince us of the same thing when it’s mentioned

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

The ultimate failson, truly aspirational

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tell me of these exploits of Trump's Hunter-esque failsons?

They were kinda silly but they didn't do anything criminal as far as I recall?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

could you clarify your question as I am kind of confused what you are asking

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump's personal failsons... did they do anything criminal?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

other than DJT Jr.'s obvious penchant for cocaine I can't recall any criminal allegations against the failsons offhand... on pure vibes I think his son-in-law Jared is involved in some corrupt shit with the Saudis

[–] shipwreck@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because the Republicans needed to assassinate Hunter Biden’s character to sever the corruption that the Democrats are blatantly doing in Ukraine, which the Democrats have built an entire network of money laundering operations in (think how AIPAC works) and where Hunter is a key figure on that front.

The Republicans cannot compete with the Democrats to funnel money to their donors, so they have to destroy the Bidens’ images in hopes to stop this money laundering scheme from prying away their donors.

See that $61 billion just passed for Ukraine? Where do you think those money are going? They are coming back to the Democrat politicians and their proxies one way or another.

This is how the circular flow of how the spending works:

US corporate donors (and AIPAC) lobby the Biden administration -> Biden pushes for spending bill on Ukraine and Israel -> billions of dollars poured into recipient accounts in Ukraine and Israel -> Ukraine and Israel buy stuff from the US and European companies -> Europeans then use the dollars to purchase American fossil fuel in dollars -> all of the dollars eventually come back to the US corporations and the additional surpluses are then taxed and destroyed in the Federal Reserve -> US corporate donors (and AIPAC) spend some of that to lobby the Biden administration (the loop is now complete)

The Republicans do not have anything remotely similar in scale of what the Democrats have in Ukraine, which they are using the excuse of a war to funnel billions and billions of government spending there and profit from the spending.

Imagine you’re a Republican donor, and you see the Democrats are getting all that easy money, while you are left out in the cold, you’d be upset too. You’d want to jump ship to the Democrat side to get the easy money, and in response, the Republican politicians want to stop the Democrats through tarnishing the image of the Bidens so they don’t get to do this blatantly.

The Republicans have been stalling the spending bill for months in the House and Senate. Biden wanted to give money to both Israel and Ukraine at the same time, but the Republicans only wanted to give money to Israel.

So what did Biden do? Provoke a war with Iran. Iranian strikes on Israel angered the Zionist donors, who then pushed the Republicans to yield to Biden’s demand to also give money to Ukraine. The Democrats won. $61 billion is now on the way to Ukraine.

[–] whatup@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, wasn’t expecting this tbh. I just assumed the republicans obsession with Hunter was solely about the size of his schlong in the leaked pics.

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 19 points 1 year ago

A real patriot would have done smoke tricks at the very least

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

real journalism hours

[–] Evilbunbun@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Oof, older he gets the more hes looking like Joe

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

So now he's dressing just like his father?

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

He's fallen off already.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Deeply unpresidential. Unelectable, even.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

is it? it looks right side up. am I missing something

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago