• misterdoctor@lemmy.world
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    It sounds dumb but I wish this was as awful as Trump got. Like he was just a dumb idiot who didn’t want to visit a crash site because it crashed in the river, not realizing he would obviously visit a suitably close site on land. That isn’t evil, just super dumb and embarrassing. Still not a guy who should be in charge of anything but not overtly bigoted and evil.

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      No, I don’t disagree with you. I think it’s just illustrative that not only is he a monster, he’s also completely uncaring about his fellow citizens.

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        100%. I wake up every day fearing what he has done while I foolishly slept and took my eye off the ball (as if I can do anything to stop him). But how sweet would it be to just worry that he said something idiotic to give fuel to Stephen Colbert’s writing staff.

        Instead, we got a man capable of multitudes. He can be stupid, ignorant, uncaring, hateful, racist, misogynistic and so much more, all at the same time!

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    Biden and Obama should go visit it and give a press conferences just to piss him off and make him look weak

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    You know, I’ve never thought about this, but since he brought it up… does Trump not know how to swim?

    Thinking back through, I don’t remember ever seeing him anywhere near water deep enough to swim/drown in.

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      Just one more thing Obama is better at than Trump

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        That’s a 10 second Photoshop away from biblical Obama. If Dems were playing to win, this should have been like a Che poster 15 years ago, Obama walking on water. Maybe would have done better in the south!

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      He probably has never been in a body of water that has not been owned by one of his family’s real estate ventures.

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          This is such an unrealistic and unfair depiction of this. Trump would never ask someone for permission to continue golfing.

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    Haha, we now know his weakness, he is apparently related to the Wicked Witch of the West and cant get water on them… Or he is a bunch of gremlins in a trench coat.

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    Fuck trump and all that, but reasonably, going to the site of any incident is just for photo ops. Fuck all the trash that does that. It’s just as stupid as sending reporters out into a hurricane wind so they can say, “The wind is really starting to pick up, Dave-in-the-comfy-news-room-700-miles-away, and we can hear the waves pounding louder now.”

    Can you imagine how things would go down if you did get donny on a boat and it capsizes in cold, flowing water?

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      It’s not like he has to fly across the country. This is literally down the road. Bill Clinton jogged further than that. Just standing on the riverbank would be enough to show people he gave the tiniest shit.

      But he doesn’t.

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        This is pretty much it. They are numbers and a crisis that he’s tried to twist to benefit from. He cares not.

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      Can you imagine how things would go down if you did get donny on a boat and it capsizes in cold, flowing water?

      Better than how things are going down now.

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      Hmm ya I see what ya mean

      I might be okay with a photo op as a part of a larger aid framework. I took a moment to consider my house burning down. And how I might feel if a politician I respected showed up and surveyed the damage and said, “Oh no. It is sad that this house burned down.” The right words from the right person at the right time with reliable follow up could be all right.

      In a normal world at least :)