Seeing the conservative reaction to this was my first realization that we were truly fucked.
TRUMP
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KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 2 days ago
degen@midwest.social 2 days ago
Initially: Thank god we can finally stop pretending Trump is a real candidate
Moments later: Oh, oh no
Ten years later: What what what oh shit oh fuck
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your initial reaction was the only sane path history could have gone down.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 days ago
I have repeated this story numerous times.
After that tape came out, a conservative woman went on The View TV show to defend Trump.
One of the panelists kept using the phrase ‘pussy.’
The conservative woman asked her to please stop using that offensive term.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Shoulda called her a cunt
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
“i’m… offended by him saying that too…”
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As a PoC we kinda just go with the flow. Got a few scattered family members that support him for his regressive values but its very fee and far between. For white people j can only imagine, entire families must have had a schism put through them.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Since 2016.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What does even “conservative” mean for Americans? For Europeans it means you try to conserve things, or apparently being a moron.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 15 hours ago
In North America, it means (traditionalist, nationalist) right-wing whereas liberal means left-leaning. Similar to European definitions
Conservatism: Originally inspired by natural law and formed by the upper-class, conservative parties today are middle-class organisations that seek to preserve established traditions and the current status quo of a society. They normally advocate traditional values as authority, nation, religion, family, stability and continuity. Over the time they incorporated some liberal values, especially on economic issues (free market policies).
From wikipedia
Conservatism in the United States is one of two major political ideologies in the United States, with the other being modern liberalism. Traditional American conservatism is characterized by a belief in individualism, traditionalism, capitalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states, although 21st century developments have shifted it towards right-wing populist themes.
In the US, liberal–conservative is synonymous with left–right
American political ideologies conventionally align with the left–right political spectrum, with most Americans identifying as conservative, liberal, or moderate.
Americans’ ideological identification was steady in 2024, with an average of 37% describing their political views as “very conservative” or “conservative,” 34% as “moderate,” and 25% as “very liberal” or “liberal.”
However, much of lemmy seems to deny that conventional alignment exists: I don’t know if that’s basic ignorance or tankie disinfo/stupidity.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
in america, “conservatives” will tell you that they want a return to “traditional values” even though that’s just barely the case in reality.
what maga really wants:
be racist/bigoted with complete impunity
mandatory jesus
own slaves again
failing that, resegregation
tradwifei’m definitely leaving things out, but you get the idea–pretty much the fantasy is to return to the 1950s
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 15 hours ago
That image of text that breaks accessibility, searchability, & fault tolerance for no compelling reason while making the web less usable would have been far better as proper text.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 53 minutes ago
ppl don’t engage with text posts as much
Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
To be fair something can be said about allowing formatting. For this the added value is little though, and it would’ve been better if an alt text was provided
buttnugget@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Totally agree with you. The web was literally designed to share text easily and here we are sharing images of text in 2025. What’s the fault tolerance aspect though?
KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Remember when Christians called for Clinton to resign because he was unfit to be president because he got a BJ from an intern? Those same Christians voted for Trump.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hypocrisy is dead under the republicans.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That’s because they can’t spell it
Tinidril@midwest.social 1 day ago
Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.
Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.
This isn’t a Republican problem, it’s a wealthy elites problem.
falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Or is it the other way around?
Hypocrisy among republicans is the highest it ever been.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
All of it is about control, it has nothing to do with logic. If you understand this, fighting these idiots becomes much easier. You’re not dealing with reasonable adults, you’re dealing with a bunch of giant upset babies that don’t want to get sent to their room.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Y’all are just taking it out of context. Like that Fox News host that said kill the homeless.
degen@midwest.social 2 days ago
Trying to remember the sound of the recording because I’ll never get over how “I moved on her like a bitch” does not read the way he intended
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
friendly reminder that they ended Howard Dean’s presidential campaign because he got a bit impassioned in one of his speeches and said “Hyah!” a bit awkwardly. that was too weird for a presidential candidate.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Yep, we live in a rape culture. Why else would a rapist president be promoting a rapist holiday?
ayyo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Here’s the original conversation if anyone is interested. Reading all the “that is just what men do” comments makes me wanna barf.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s just locker room talk man. Perfectly acceptable.
/s
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
just locker room talk
for me that was maybe the most infuriating response to this whole thing. from women no less.
i’ve been in many locker rooms, with other dudes, and have never once talked about sexually assaulting women, joking or otherwise
Huschke@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The good thing is that in hindsight we can be pretty sure that it was mostly bots. The sad part is that it worked.
falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nope, pretty certain everyone who voted for that fucker do believe that it’s perfectly okay what he did.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Was this an excerpt from his Nobel Peace Prize award speech?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
I mean there could be no good people in society if there were no bad people … the comparison is what makes you stand out, so you could also be glad that assholes exist
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
[sniff] That’s so beautiful, it should be embroidered on a pillow.
1984@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
If I wanted to protest in the US, I would put that quote on tshirts and have everyone buy it. It would make for quite a tv presence…
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Why do dumb people think it’s “all of the sudden”?
SoloCritical@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Supposably
dick_fineman@discuss.online 2 days ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lunatics will have insane ideas, that’s a given. It gets dangerous when lunatics get other people on board however.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The U.S.A’s Age of Grace and Class. /s
buttnugget@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I didn’t hear or remember the first part. Was he talking about a specific woman with the breast implants? Wtf
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Did he actually say that? Lol
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes. It’s outrageous.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
There is an audio recording of it. He was talking to Billy Bush.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yep. This came out during his first election and they still voted for him
Huschke@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, when you guys chose to elect that guy, I knew it was over. I knew stuff was only gonna get worse and worse.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It could be an antonym for Terrible Republicans Utilizing Monarchy Power.
slampisko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do you mean a backronym?
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wasn’t aware of backronyms, so I fixed it.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Honestly, this should’ve been the end of it. No sane country would elect someone that said this as their president
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We are fundamentally broken. It doesn’t matter. It’s been a facade the whole time.
He is america. A racist misogynist bully.
I’m going to blame reconstruction failing. We never corrected the hypocrisy at our core and this is the result.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Who is “we”? You had some big part in this? Stop blaming yourself and please stop blaming me. The nationalist “we” is garbage.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Amen. Trump is showing the world what America truly is. The rest of the world sees this. Many Americans do not.
And to throw an olive branch, many countries are a Trump away from the same realization.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As well as when he made fun of the journalist who was in a wheelchair. I remember seeing that and I thought it was completely over for him, but no.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day ago
The amount of times it should be over for him, you could fill a library
sundray@lemmus.org 2 days ago
A significant portion of American voters: “Heh, NICE! I wish I was famous.”
Heikki2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That significant portion dont realize they are closer to 0 than they are a 100k-inair
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day ago
Wow i just need to be famouse and i can sexually assult people? Man this really is the land of the free. You got my vote.
the_q@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Sane you say?
EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The Onion, if they were writing this (instead of it being actual) would have made it better reading, less disgusting.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It really should have been. The “conservatives” are not religious or conservative, they are disgusting. The “conservative” republican party is way WAY too liberal for my tastes. We should start calling republicans the “libs”, because they are.
jafra@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
You sound like someone who still believes a party what doesn’t blab about it’s cruelties, wrongdoing and stupidity is a party that is innocent and good. Haha, good one. Who has been the opponent of trump the first time around in 2016, Hillary Clinton, right? Personally I always welcomed trumps presidency. Thanks to him the whole world can see what a farce our democracies are (and it’s not only the MAGAs I talk about). And as Europeans it enabled us to distance ourselves more easily from the forced western dependency/decadency. I just don’t know what’s better: being a US colony as before or the recent stupidity, having a straight-from-BlackRock-lobbyist as a chancellor… Darn, and that’s one of the reason why people become more and more aggressive while becoming decreasingly tolerant to differing world views…