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Betelbuddy • today at 1:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Ah yes, the timeline where the US president is a convicted sex offender, 34 times convicted felon, tried to overtake a democratically elected president, stored top secret nuclear secrets in his toilet, orchestrated a cover up of the biggest pedophile ring in history, is an active russian agent, and all we talk about is ...his tantrums....


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Sharlin • today at 8:05 PM

Well, this thread is about a temper tantrum specifically.

Most of those things are internal US politics anyway and while certainly unpleasant to observe as an EU citizen, they just aren't salient on this side of the pond the same way that his international diplomatic efforts are.

I can believe that the head of state of a powerful industrial nation is a massive crook, criminal, terrible human being, what have you. But a toddler who shits his pants with liquid excrement and thinks it's an assertion of dominance? That's beyond my suspension of disbelief.

GolfPopper • today at 2:22 PM

It's been one of the biggest ways the media has helped him since the beginning. (Including outlets supposedly on the "left".) They spend so much time on how he's a terrible human being that it helps obscure that he is grossly incompetent and unfit to lead anything, much less a country.

Even now, it seems like more time is spent on his looks or his health or his pettiness than on his crimes and his destruction.

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