He looks like Hercule Poirot’s dumber, evil brother.
Why do they always look the same?
He’s gross looking. The Epstein class looking exactly how they should look. Ugly inside and out.
It’s really astonishing that this particular scam is the one stirring up US citizens, even though the matter is absolutely negligible compared to all the unbelievable corruption of this regime. Well, apparently they need something concrete—symbols, in other words—that offend their national pride in order to grasp just how criminal their government is.
Because they need to see it have a physical result. They’re that fucking stupid.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
“Trump overpays donor to do subpar job on major national monument, ruining it” is a simple quid pro quo with visible (and ironically metaphorical) results.
It’s a little harder to talk about all his insider trading schemes, Melania movie $40M kickback, etc. Because those have more plausible deniability and the results don’t have immediate and observable effects - often just pay for play schemes benefitting corporations which are less concrete.
I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.
Or because they don’t matter. It’s millions while the war is costing billions.
Well that’s a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money, which is bad, but that isn’t corruption. That’s just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.
All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn’t the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn’t necessary, but that’d just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.
Both things matter, they are not the same type of thing though.
Right. However if newspapers would start investigating the war expenses, don’t you think they would find billions wasted in corruption?
I think they are investigating that though, right? It’s just a different sort of story, requiring more reporting investment and more specialized reporters. I’ve seen lots of reporting on the war over the past months (humanitarian, economic, military, etc. etc.)
Obviously though most of that reporting is institutionalist, serves western interests, etc. I just don’t expect different from the corporate press
You thinking maybe we don’t trust the military-industrial complex? I Ike the way you think.
so like, remember how every time the military gets audited they fail the audit? if a company in the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) fails their audit, they get kicked out of the MIC and can’t do business with the gubmint but the military itself misplaces billions of dollars every year (mostly bribes being paid and not being properly accounted for. just write them down, military dudes) and whoopsie poopsie, failed audit whatcha gonna do we got nukes.
100% right… which do you think average people will latch onto?
this one:
or this one:
Is it stirring us up?
Or just making better memes than the war crimes, fascism and child rape?
It’s a nice change to mock him for something that is only a huge waste of time and money but doesn’t destroy all America’s credibility and world standing, hasn’t even irreparably harmed a natural habitat, and hasn’t killed anyone.
You can even listen to the Trump supporters on this topic because although they sound stupid they don’t horrify you.
What makes you think this wouldn’t undermine the credibility of the U.S.? It’s just as undignified as a cage fight in front of the White House. But hey, I can put your mind at ease—there’s no credibility left to undermine anyway, since the U.S. has already lost it all.
To the rest of the world, however, this has more to do with the fact that U.S. citizens are unable to remove from office a president who is not only incredibly corrupt but who also uses the state apparatus to make the unspeakable crimes he and his billionaire friends commit possible in the first place.
U.S. citizens may be willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes. The rest of the world will not put up with it.
In the long run, this will lead to the downfall of the U.S. If you need an example of this, just look at what has become of Russia after the oligarchs took complete control - btw, this was made possible with the support of the U.S. (Clinton had even sent campaign experts at the time to help Yeltsin stay in power).
The citizens of the remaining democratic nations do not want this, and that is why they particularly despise the U.S. citizens for the fact that they stand by and just watch even in the face of these inconceivable atrocities.
It shows all too clearly that even functioning democracies are not immune to the concentrated monstrosity that the U.S. represents with its inhumane capitalism.
This is what this regime has achieved, and one almost has to be grateful to it for that: It has exposed the U.S. for what this country has been for decades.
The rest of the world will not put up with it.
really? put up or shut up. get over here and fix it then
I haven’t bought a single U.S. product since early 2025, and I no longer use any U.S. services as long as possible—which required me to go to great lengths to make many changes.
That’s probably more than most Americans have done to oppose their government.
No one but themselves can change it. But they don’t, precisely because of that attitude.
US citizens aren’t doing enough, but we aren’t entirely just watching, thousands of people have been imprisoned for things like lighting a trashcan on fire during a protest, or charged with terrorism for breaking some windows, numerous well known activists have been killed or went missing since 2020. For it’s entire history the US government and vigilantes with their backing have been murdering political opponents and subverting and co-opting political organizations, and our media landscape and political knowledge for many people has been completely distorted by propaganda. There are many despicable and racist people in the US, but many of us are doing the best we know how, and most don’t have the opportunity to stand up and pushback in a sincere way without losing our job, and therefore healthcare and home.
It certainly deserves ridicule but it’s a different level of credibility from defaulting on promised funding for vital projects around the world. It’s also Trump-specific.
Unlike later democracies, the US Constitution has no provision for deposing a President by the public, only impeachment by Congress. And it enshrines gerrymandering, which is how we got a Republican majority in Congress. Which is (with extra evil shenanigans) how we got hard-right maggots as 6/9 of the Supreme Court. So you are correct, we citizens who oppose him and them cannot get rid of him unless we wrest the majority in Congress. Which ain’t gonna be easy, see gerrymandering above. Surprisingly, the few who have tried assassination have been disappointed he wasn’t as far right as they wanted. It doesn’t mean everyone is “willing to accept it when their leaders rape children and commit the most horrific war crimes.” If you’re advocating that I purchase a weapon, abandon my responsibilities here, travel 3,000 miles and attempts to assassinate him, may I point out that there’s nothing to that method which requires citizenship and you are equally likely to succeed as I?
I argue that U.S. citizens should paralyze the country with a general strike until the regime steps down and major reforms are implemented. Otherwise, nothing at all will change.
But yes, I’ve heard all this so many times before. Including the excuses as to why a general strike supposedly isn’t possible.
You aren’t wrong, Rude. But it’s a feature of all people, not just Statesians. If there isn’t something to unite them (usually a symbol, a cause, an enemy, whatever) they can’t get anything done. And the entire world (specifically Russia, China, India, the EU, and the Murdochs so technically the British Commonwealth) have been working in intelligence and propaganda to drive deep, practicably insurmountable divisions in the US populace. Like what the fuck was all that tan suit bullshit other than retrenching racism? Shit like that.
i get kind of fed up with the whole “burn down the entire government” bullshit that comes out because the current government is using structures with the potential to do a lot of good to do a lot of harm. like the us army corp of engineers can and has been used as a rapid response unit for natural disasters like floods and fires. put up a usable (not great or terribly long term, but usable) bridge and road in an afternoon to evacuate a stranded community. shit like that what never gets advertised or in the press, but when pops was in the army, that’s what he did. if we’re going to decimate the gubmint, prune out the bad shit but leave the good, right? keep the grant programs what give money to the soup kitchens at least.
I’m pretty sure if I looked up the word “sleezball” in the dictionary it would be this exact picture. Just spot on “gross untrustworthy business guy”
Wtf is this Michael Keaton’s batman?
Cara Mia!
Love how their water is literally green. They should probably change the name.
COVFEFE!
This is the type of man who will fuck a llama and call it in the morning.
Wait, is that really the guy? My fucking god he couldn’t be more cartoonishly villainous even if he tried…
He looks like he is a mob boss goon batman fights. That obviously died hair and hair piece isn’t doing him any favors. Yikes.
He looks like if the Penguin and Hitler had a bastard child
i legit thought it’s a fucked up penguin cosplay
It took me until this comment to realize that this is in fact a real person and not as I assumed, a cosplay.
Hey old men, when your freaking eyebrows are “salt and pepper” lay off the shoe polish hair job, it looks fucking ridiculous.
And what in the fuck is that part?
Is it a dye job? I thought might be a terrible toupee. I assumed the chin strap is hidden under his jowels
I’m still not sure either, it’s late in the evening and I can’t process this combover/toupée whatever.
But that this guy has the confidence to be with women at all is mind-boggling to me.
i just want to justify my beard because like, this is how i am going, like my hair is turning white from the tip of my chin on up to the top of my head. if i had any hair on my head, like grumpa did i’m so jealous i look like him except bald i’m gonna be a silver fox in five years, it would be dark dark brown on top and silver on the beard. the last time i dyed was in high school and we all dyed our hair gold and our bodies blue and i called my doubles partner princess and he called me muffin and we wore short shorts, shorter than the running team, because we were going to win the tennis match by weirding out the other team, not being good at tennis. it worked on one opponent in four years. not winning a match, not winning a set, winning a game. we were sooooo bad but we had so much fun.
this fat shit needs to get the rudy out of his skull.
That looks to me like classic comb over. Grown really long on the one side so it can go over the top of the head. That’s why the part looks so weird
Which one?
This is Nathan Lane with a fake cigar and mustache you can’t fool me
Mos def, Nathan Lane. There is no other explanation.
Pretty sure Roy had more integrity.
