Board calls Trump ‘a chilling choice against this national moment’ days before Republican national convention
  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    5 months ago

    Remember, people. Donald Trump couldn’t run a casino.

    A casino. A business that exists so people can just walk in and give you lots of money all for the hopes of maybe walking out with somewhat less money. And he failed. Six fucking times. He literally had thousands of people handing him money for nothing every single day and he still fucking failed.

    That is a level of fail I did not think was achievable by a functioning human being allowed to go outside without adult supervision. But there are somehow 80 million people in this fucking country that know that and are still saying “Yep, that’s our guy!”

      • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30·
        5 months ago

        It’s already been proven that if Trump had simply done nothing but let the inheritance he got from his father collect interest, he would be significantly more wealthy than he is now.

        Which means all he had to do was nothing. Nothing. And somehow, he failed at that. The man failed at doing nothing.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
      62·
      5 months ago

      Benefit of the doubt here, weren’t the casinos some criminal conspiracy to dodge taxes or sg?

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        311·
        5 months ago

        I take this as a sign that the swell of derision about their fawning attempts to shit on Biden with every minute of every working day has entered the mainstream and impinged on their consciousness

        And, like a bunch of transparent dishonest hacks, they’re making the world’s most transparently dishonest hacky attempt to solve the problem

        Great job guys, you’re gonna fool em with this one I think

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    493·
    5 months ago

    Oh shit we forget to both sides this, quick put out a editorial.

    now back to bashing Biden.

    • retrospectology@lemmy.world
      177·
      5 months ago

      It’s a pointless thing to talk about because Trump’s support is locked in and there’s nothing anyone can do to push Trump out. His being unfit to lead is a feature to his supporters, not a bug.

      There is, however, a slim chance that Biden may be able to be pressured out before august, so that’s really the only thing people should be focusing on until the convention is behind us.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 months ago

    oh, gee, didn’t their editor just say that advocating for or defending democracy was a partisan act, and that he wouldn’t do it?

    what’s all this, then?

  • anticolonialist@lemmy.world
    1610·
    5 months ago

    I’m gonna bet the up vote/down vote ratio between this story and the other from NYT calling for Biden to step down will be wildly different

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Saluting Republicans that it said “pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems”, such as Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney, the Times board went on to say that “too many Republicans set aside their concerns about Mr Trump because of his positions on immigration, trade and taxes.

    Trump was convicted on 34 criminal charges concerning hush-money payments to a porn star that a jury agreed were designed to interfere with the 2016 election.

    Trump was impeached a second time for inciting an insurrection but Republican senators acquitted him, leaving him free to run for office.

    Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him.

    It added that while Democrats “are rightly engaged in their own debate about whether President Biden is the right person to carry the party’s nomination into the election, given widespread concerns among voters about his age-related fitness”, the importance of that debate was down to “legitimate concerns that Mr Trump may present a danger to the country, its strength, security and national character – and that a compelling Democratic alternative is the only thing that would prevent his return to power.

    It said it was a “national tragedy that the Republicans have failed to … [set] aside their longstanding values” and ignoring what former Trump officials “have described as his systematic dishonesty, corruption, cruelty and incompetence”, and urged American voters to “perform a simple act of civic duty in an election year: listen to what Mr Trump is saying, pay attention to what he did as president and allow yourself to truly inhabit what he has promised to do if returned to office”.

    The original article contains 779 words, the summary contains 308 words. Saved 60%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    42·
    5 months ago

    They also declared Biden unfit to run. Which translates as imploring the high-minded liberal centrists they envisage their audience to be to stay home and sit this one out. Meanwhile, the MAGAts will be voting.

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
    330·
    5 months ago

    Name one thing that Trump has ever done that would deem him unfit to lead? I bet it would be hard to name one.

      • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
        189·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, and he’s the only presidential candidate in this election, or ANY election for that matter, who has put even the slightest thought into my safety when it comes to electric boats vs. sharks. You can’t say that about Bernie, Hillary, Biden, Obama, or even James “Boatman Jim” Garfield.

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
          7·
          5 months ago

          Dude

          You need to have some sort of award for this 😃

          Ignore the haters, you’re doing the lord’s work son

          • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
            7·
            5 months ago

            It’s on account of how smart Trump’s genes are. Did you know his uncle went to MIT? Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if he were a liberal, if, like, OK, if he ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say he’s one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why he always starts off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know he has to give his like credentials all the time, because he’s a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers him — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; his uncle explained that to him many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, he would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

            • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7·
              5 months ago

              OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know,

              Wharton must really hate the fact that Donald Trump keeps sullying their reputation by reminding people that he graduated from there.

        • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
          2·
          5 months ago

          Yeah, and he’s the only presidential candidate in this election, or ANY election for that matter, who has put even the slightest thought into my safety when it comes to electric boats vs. sharks.

          When nobody else got me, I know Electroboom got me.

    • Thteven@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      1. He tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

      2. Rampant corruption in his administration

      3. Russian financial interests/Putin has him by the balls.

      4. Sexual assault (sad this is so far down the list especially since we all knew before he was running)

      5. Fascist talking points at his rallys.

      6. IQ score is definitely sub 80s judging by his speeches.

      7. He wears lifts in his shoes and diapers in his pants. Anyone that needs that much support for his ego and bowels has no place in the white house.

      I could go on but I’m busy and I’m sure you won’t care either way.

        • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 months ago

          His failure to meaningfully divest from his business interests coupled with the numerous times he used his office to funnel money to himself such as forcing the Secret Service to stay at Trump properties as he traveled.

          There, one.

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      5 months ago

      He’s bankrupted something like 20+ different companies. Some of them were casinos for fuck sake. He failed to lead a business where people literally hand over money for entertainment.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      He was recently convicted of 34 felonies. Shit that’s 34 things! You’re right, this is impossible.

    • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      The Trump Fake Electors Plot:

      "After the results of the 2020 United States presidential election determined U.S. president Donald Trump had lost, a scheme was devised by him, his associates and Republican Party officials in seven states to subvert the election by creating and submitting fraudulent certificates of ascertainment to falsely claim Trump had won the electoral college vote in those states.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
      3·
      5 months ago

      Openly bragged about assaulting women? Mocked a person at a rally for physical disabilities? Disparaged a gold star family? Bankrupted a casino? Advocated (by taking out pages in newspapers) for the incarceration of 5 black teenagers without due process? General racist remarks and behaviors? Credible sexual assault allegations from many women, including at least one of his wives? Cheated on his 3rd wife with a pornstar while she was pregnant?

      Thats all before he was President, and off the top of my head, without any references or searching.

      Would you like the list of shit he did while/after being President?

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      42·
      5 months ago

      He’s a convicted felon. He also told people during COVID to ingest disinfectants. There’s a start.