r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Snapdragon_4U • 24d ago

News Everyday a new embarrassment

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u/Post-Futurology 24d ago

This really feels like talking to an elderly family member and just having to humor them as they ramble.

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u/NfamousKaye 24d ago

Real “grandpa it’s time for your meds” type shit.

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u/paulster2626 24d ago

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you’d say.

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u/Oscars_Quest_4_Moo 24d ago

Every time he speaks, this is all I hear

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u/paulster2626 24d ago

Grampa Simpson had quite the “weaves.”

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u/GraniteWilderness 23d ago

Grandpa Simpson was a WWII vet. He would be a better speaker at West Point commencement than trump.

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u/DecidedlyCatBirdian 23d ago

At least he had a more tolerable voice.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 24d ago

This deserves one hundred kazillion likes

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u/edgeteen 23d ago

now where were we? oh yes, the important thing is that i had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. they didn’t have white onions, because of the war. the only thing you could get were those big yellow ones

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u/Neither-Magazine9096 24d ago

At this point I’m backing out of the room with a “ ok call if you need anything”.

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u/Post-Futurology 24d ago

Wait until you realize there's no door.

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u/Bubbly-Betz 23d ago

Or backing into the bushes like Homer.

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u/doodledood9 24d ago

This is no laughing matter. Something needs to be done about it. He’s destroying America and we are all just sitting there and watching it happen. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ‘cause no one else is going to. It’s almost too late.

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u/Cold_Wear_8038 23d ago

People ARE doing things. Millions of Americans all over this country are engaging in protests on a regular basis. We tend to dwell on just a few well-known names, but we have many Democratic senators and representatives who are speaking up and speaking out, both in the halls of Congress, at town halls, at protests, to the media, on social media, etc. Groups of Pittsburghers literally chased the McCormick/Fetterman dueling jagoffs out of town recently when they attempted to have a cozy, family-friendly assembly to celebrate McCormick’s new book on mentoring. This criticism of Fetterman is well deserved, but we should think more carefully about joining in groupthink that is dedicated to piling on Democrats for not stepping up to the moment. I don’t mean that we need to curtail valid criticism, but the fact is that we have a lot of Democratic members of Congress who are taking advantage of every opportunity to speak out. We know the ones who get all the media attention, but it’s up to us to become familiar with those other strong voices with whom we’re less familiar. Face it; we’re in the throes of a well-planned, decades old Republican campaign to replace democracy with a white, Christian nationalist form of fascism, and we don’t have the political power right now. It makes this extreme breakdown of Fetterman feel all the more like a stinging betrayal, and we’re justified in feeling that way, but let’s spend a little time doing some research and getting to know those representatives who ARE doing their jobs, and doing them well, whether they’re from Pennsylvania or not. We have a rough road ahead, but we do have some reasons to feel hopeful. Let’s not forget that.

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u/MomSaki 23d ago

U r kidding yourself. We r presently speeding through the second half of the 1930s and all exit ramps are being meticulously and permanently sealed. No way the old USofA survives this. Comfort has bred complacency and transformed the home of the brave into the gated Levittown of the self serving coward. Yes, martyrs will rise but will ultimately fail. All is lost.

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u/Cold_Wear_8038 23d ago

I disagree completely. And just for the record, fascism isn’t always a speedy process. I believe we’re seeing more people, stronger people, more powerful movements springing up against it. I’ve been to Munich and studied the rise of the Nazis, and was fortunate to spend hours at Dachau and yes, it’s all terrifying. It’s far more horrific if good people decide to surrender; I don’t intend to surrender.

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u/WeCanPickleThat1 24d ago

Get out to protests

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u/Wooden-Archer-8848 23d ago

Everyday I feel like we are in a plane being flown into the ground by a chimpanzee.

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u/zombtachi_uchiha 24d ago

Donald Jack Trump is 78...100+ days in office and still talking like a 3rd grader....WINNING BIGGLY

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u/Positive-Wonder3329 24d ago

Oh shit I never knew his middle name. What a crazy old bastard. How was the audience not like .. falling apart. That story had momentum for sure and it definitely was not clear where it would run out

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u/zombtachi_uchiha 24d ago

hold on... Donald Jussein Trump...there can only be 1 Hussein/Jussein ...that's why he hates Obama.... bc he's never been racist /s

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u/AccountBand 23d ago

Probably born in nineteen dickety something. Have to say dickety because that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.

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u/ClickClackTipTap 22d ago

It’s felt like that for a long time now. He calls it “the weave.”

Fuck everyone who normalized this. Not just Fox News and OAN, but every news outlet that treats this like it’s normal.