thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip
on 20 Jan 2026 13:22
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I wouldn’t use the word ‘troll’, maybe ‘mask off’.
Edit: u/shittydwarf had “Threatens”, definitely a better word.
comrade_twisty@feddit.org
on 20 Jan 2026 13:33
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Yeah troll is something that does not apply to a US president, even if they are mentally challenged and have the brainpower of a 8 year old spoiled child.
ms_lane@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 13:27
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trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works
on 20 Jan 2026 14:48
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As if that mattered.
He has established a dictatorship where he clearly is above any law and all other scrutiny. Whether he stuck his dick some place forbidden or not won’t undo him.
Depressingly, the minds that matter in this case are those of the portion of the US electorate who voted for him.
I promise that voting block is more likely to be appalled by verified sexually abuse of minors, than they would be of military/colonial activities.
Doing what he is doing keeps the MAGA faithful focused on their fondness for violent nationalistic xenophobia and distracted from their pearl clutching puritanical offense at sexual offenses.
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works
on 20 Jan 2026 21:13
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The people who voted for him will believe anything he says. They are stupid enough to have voted for that deranged idiot. If he tells them it’s all fake news, they’ll believe it. Also, by the way things are going, they won’t get to vote again anyway.
jacksilver@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 17:49
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I mean, trying to start WWIII is probably a bigger deal than anything we could find in the Epstein files. I’m not sure commiting even worse acts counts as a distraction.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 20 Jan 2026 13:47
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Hitler trolls European Leaders with German Map showing Austria, Sudetenland, and Danzig as German territories.
He wants to own everything he can see and it still won’t be enough to fill the empty husk of a man he is.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 14:01
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What a loser
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 20 Jan 2026 14:02
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Can’t even change the colors on a pre-existing map without AI… These fucking chodes
Edit: oh never mind, the photo itself is AI. Still chodes though.
shittydwarf@piefed.social
on 20 Jan 2026 14:02
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Threatens
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
on 20 Jan 2026 14:11
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He’s not doing this. Someone’s feeding it to him.
Congress and Senate is virtually silent on the issues. This isn’t just Trump; this is representative of the USA.
bonenode@piefed.social
on 20 Jan 2026 14:43
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That is what concerns me the most. There should be so much opposition to crap like this. Like he shouldn’t even be able to just show that, this goes through so many people beforehand.
Edit: sorry, just realised he posted it on Truth Social so he probably did this himself and maybe didn’t show anyone, but who are we kidding, he probably bragged about it in several meetings beforehand.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
on 20 Jan 2026 17:44
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There’s no way he’s opening photoshop and layering the US flag over those countries himself. Maybe he asked someone to do it or he was feed the photo and he passed it by.
If only, miller himself is a puppet. There are very rich people behind all of what the party is doing. This is all a half century long game, pioneered in it’s first iteration in the business roundtable in like 1971.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 20 Jan 2026 14:11
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That’s a troll? It seems a lot more like an open provocation from the least stable mind on the planet.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 14:32
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This is what the puppet-masters behind them are trying to do - the Technate of America
TrickDacy@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 14:34
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Every day he draws breath is a day the world gets worse.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 14:55
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“Trolls”? Fuck off, seriously. He’s going to invade and bomb Greenland and what, are the headlines just going to read “Trump trolls Nuuk citizens”?
Is Trump going to invade and bomb Canada and we’ll get to see headlines the next day saying “Epic troll, Trump just flattened Ottawa”? Sorry, I guess “we” as in the rest of the world will see those headlines because I’d be dead
Fuck
one_step_behind@quokk.au
on 20 Jan 2026 15:00
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It’s the media continuing to sane wash Trump rather than do actual journalism.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 15:06
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Yeah, I’m generally used to American media doing that by now but this headline is just so absurdly dismissive of non-American lives that it’s infuriating
PunnyName@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 15:17
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It’s what happens when conservatives buy up the remaining newspapers.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 17:43
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I watched a movie from the 90s yesterday about civil war breaking out in America. There’s a scene where one newsanchor calmly tries to report on other news and the other newsanchor has an absolute meltdown telling him “fuck off, there is no other news”. I wanna see a reporter melt down like on air in real life. I wanna see the insanity be properly acknowledged
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
on 20 Jan 2026 18:38
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Turns out that the movie Don’t Look Up may have been intended to satirize our response to climate change, but the portrayal of the media response is evergreen.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 19:37
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The movie I’m talking about is called Second Civil War
Tikiporch@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 15:32
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Was really hoping to find a picture of Epstein hidden in there somewhere.
Meh, americans still trust the controlled opposition to stop them. It’s hopeless.
Steve@startrek.website
on 20 Jan 2026 17:17
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I wish my kids would grow out of this bad behavior
Bazell@lemmy.zip
on 20 Jan 2026 18:42
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Jokes aside, but what have Greenland and Canada even done to him so that he wants to invade them? I got the Venezuela reasons, but is this really again because of the oil reserves?
Binturong@lemmy.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 20:39
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Your first mistake is thinking someone has to do something for him to act the way he does. Even the rationalization for the illegal actions against Venezuela was contrived as a fig leaf to cover him just doing what he wants to for his own profit. The reason is there’s profit to extort for him and his oligarchy buddies, but they’ll come up with 20 justifications after the fact just to make you feel consoled.
Then, his actions are no better than actions of any invasive leader. Madlad is actively dumping the country down the slope. I am really amazed how there were no new attempts to kill him.
Binturong@lemmy.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 20:53
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Correct. Unfortunately the groups that typically would invest real assets in assassination are the ones with all the money, and one thing he’s not doing is threatening their power and profits in a meaningful way. He desperately wants to be one of the gangster oligarchs, and would never cross them cause he is cucked to their opulence (see: Putin). People talk about blackmail material controlling his actions, and I’m sure there is that too, but I’m just as sure they don’t need it. No, real preemptive assassination attempts tend to target socialists and equalists and those who stand a real chance at elevating the disenfranchised and bridging the gap in the class war. Can’t have that. Mind you, assassination after the damage has already been inflicted is not unheard of, like Mussolini, but that’s more of a vengeful act and pyrrhic victory cause it’s too damn late. Anyway, happy Tuesday!
redwattlebird@lemmings.world
on 20 Jan 2026 22:08
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I’m inclined to believe that it’s because you can simply bribe him to change his mind. He’s a convenient idiot puppet with power and you can tug on any string to get him to do things you want him to. It’s probably why TACO. There’s probably a bribery match going on in the background.
It he was a zealot of his beliefs, rigid in his thinking, I believe he would be put down. But he’s so malleable, so it’s more useful to people that have the option to assassinate to bribe instead.
Hypnotoad_@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Jan 2026 02:06
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Mineral rights
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
on 20 Jan 2026 18:53
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Save us, Rand al’Thor
Binturong@lemmy.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 20:37
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This media can’t differentiate between trolling and threats. Just like tRump ‘floating’ wildly illegal actions to test popularity and desensitize the public before just doing them regardless. I haven’t decided whether this is intentional misrepresentation and journalistic malpractice, or ignorance and incompetence (a different kind of malpractice), but I do know the outcome is the same either way.
What makes you think that this media is ignorant or incompetent? These are strong words, which IMHO need to be proven. Otherwise it is a simple rant related to frustration.
They sure are, and I don’t owe you a thesis statement on how I concluded this, opinions don’t need proving to being with and I know that I’ve been exposed to, and critical of all political perspectives in US media for years. I did not ask for your “humble opinion” which is far from humble when presented as more valid than mine since it’s assumed your rejection of my opinion doesn’t require evidence of any sort, and I have no interest in entertaining your ignorance. If you would care to objectively assess the state of legacy media in the US under constant threat from tRump and his crony led FCC, I invite you to do so, and then perhaps we could have a serious discussion. Until then, and because you only seem able to criticize the terminology I use while ignoring the point, I’m going to ignore you because I think your only goal in responding to me is distraction and suppression.
What do you then mean by „this media”? The singular form tells me you are thinking of a particular media like Lemmy. May be we have a misunderstanding here, because what concerns Trump and his entourage, I suppose we share the same thoughts as almost all users here.
You have to be more careful when presuming. The singular form is medium, media IS the pluralistic form. I say the US media as a blanket term that includes both legacy corporate news, credible journalism groups like AP and Reuters, and independent US based outlets. I am aware of my ‘leftist’ bias in so far as partisan labels have any use, but I believe politics is more nuanced than that, and put critical thinking and historical education above partisanship when I can. I don’t know what thoughts we share, but I’m sure there was some sort of miscommunication.
I appreciate that, and I think you’re right to be skeptical, and I value your critical lens because a LOT of outlets get by on people’s assumption of good faith and veracity. I think that’s what makes it very important to check multiple sources and always consider the potential biases. Some decent credible outlets do end up linked here on lemmy too, so it’s not completely useless for information gathering; the reality is we live in a downright hostile, post-truth media landscape unfortunately.
Jimbel@lemmy.world
on 20 Jan 2026 20:43
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What is the us-american opposition doing about this? Trump is literally threatening ww3 and if not stopped he will start it.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
on 20 Jan 2026 21:00
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Stop. Trade.
Freeze him out.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world
on 22 Jan 2026 01:44
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I wouldn’t use the word ‘troll’, maybe ‘mask off’.
Edit: u/shittydwarf had “Threatens”, definitely a better word.
Yeah troll is something that does not apply to a US president, even if they are mentally challenged and have the brainpower of a 8 year old spoiled child.
It’s what Elon’s grandaddy would have wanted.
He’s getting better at distracting us from the Epstein Files.
Wtf I had actually forgotten
As if that mattered.
He has established a dictatorship where he clearly is above any law and all other scrutiny. Whether he stuck his dick some place forbidden or not won’t undo him.
Depressingly, the minds that matter in this case are those of the portion of the US electorate who voted for him.
I promise that voting block is more likely to be appalled by verified sexually abuse of minors, than they would be of military/colonial activities.
Doing what he is doing keeps the MAGA faithful focused on their fondness for violent nationalistic xenophobia and distracted from their pearl clutching puritanical offense at sexual offenses.
The people who voted for him will believe anything he says. They are stupid enough to have voted for that deranged idiot. If he tells them it’s all fake news, they’ll believe it. Also, by the way things are going, they won’t get to vote again anyway.
I mean, trying to start WWIII is probably a bigger deal than anything we could find in the Epstein files. I’m not sure commiting even worse acts counts as a distraction.
Hitler trolls European Leaders with German Map showing Austria, Sudetenland, and Danzig as German territories.
That Hitler guy is such a rascal!
What shenanigans will he get up to this week?
The usual hijinks!
Maybe we should let him have some of that land, then he will chill out.
Let him have some Poland, too, as a treat.
He wants to own Greenland, but moreso he wants to “own the libs”.
He wants to own everything he can see and it still won’t be enough to fill the empty husk of a man he is.
What a loser
Can’t even change the colors on a pre-existing map without AI… These fucking chodes
Edit: oh never mind, the photo itself is AI. Still chodes though.
Threatens
He’s not doing this. Someone’s feeding it to him.
Congress and Senate is virtually silent on the issues. This isn’t just Trump; this is representative of the USA.
That is what concerns me the most. There should be so much opposition to crap like this. Like he shouldn’t even be able to just show that, this goes through so many people beforehand.
Edit: sorry, just realised he posted it on Truth Social so he probably did this himself and maybe didn’t show anyone, but who are we kidding, he probably bragged about it in several meetings beforehand.
There’s no way he’s opening photoshop and layering the US flag over those countries himself. Maybe he asked someone to do it or he was feed the photo and he passed it by.
Are people forgetting there are GenAI tools for this now? He could sure as well have done this by prompting Grok or whatever.
That picture dosen’t look edited by AI, but that just my opinion.
The entire Republican party are Nazis, and many thousands of 0.01% donors like Musk, Thiel, etc.
If only, miller himself is a puppet. There are very rich people behind all of what the party is doing. This is all a half century long game, pioneered in it’s first iteration in the business roundtable in like 1971.
That’s a troll? It seems a lot more like an open provocation from the least stable mind on the planet.
This is what the puppet-masters behind them are trying to do - the Technate of America
…brooklynrail.org/…/3b4ad0b8-cb97-40aa-b122-720e4…
Every day he draws breath is a day the world gets worse.
“Trolls”? Fuck off, seriously. He’s going to invade and bomb Greenland and what, are the headlines just going to read “Trump trolls Nuuk citizens”?
Is Trump going to invade and bomb Canada and we’ll get to see headlines the next day saying “Epic troll, Trump just flattened Ottawa”? Sorry, I guess “we” as in the rest of the world will see those headlines because I’d be dead
Fuck
It’s the media continuing to sane wash Trump rather than do actual journalism.
Yeah, I’m generally used to American media doing that by now but this headline is just so absurdly dismissive of non-American lives that it’s infuriating
It’s what happens when conservatives buy up the remaining newspapers.
I watched a movie from the 90s yesterday about civil war breaking out in America. There’s a scene where one newsanchor calmly tries to report on other news and the other newsanchor has an absolute meltdown telling him “fuck off, there is no other news”. I wanna see a reporter melt down like on air in real life. I wanna see the insanity be properly acknowledged
Turns out that the movie Don’t Look Up may have been intended to satirize our response to climate change, but the portrayal of the media response is evergreen.
The movie I’m talking about is called Second Civil War
Was really hoping to find a picture of Epstein hidden in there somewhere.
Meh, americans still trust the controlled opposition to stop them. It’s hopeless.
I wish my kids would grow out of this bad behavior
Jokes aside, but what have Greenland and Canada even done to him so that he wants to invade them? I got the Venezuela reasons, but is this really again because of the oil reserves?
Your first mistake is thinking someone has to do something for him to act the way he does. Even the rationalization for the illegal actions against Venezuela was contrived as a fig leaf to cover him just doing what he wants to for his own profit. The reason is there’s profit to extort for him and his oligarchy buddies, but they’ll come up with 20 justifications after the fact just to make you feel consoled.
Then, his actions are no better than actions of any invasive leader. Madlad is actively dumping the country down the slope. I am really amazed how there were no new attempts to kill him.
Correct. Unfortunately the groups that typically would invest real assets in assassination are the ones with all the money, and one thing he’s not doing is threatening their power and profits in a meaningful way. He desperately wants to be one of the gangster oligarchs, and would never cross them cause he is cucked to their opulence (see: Putin). People talk about blackmail material controlling his actions, and I’m sure there is that too, but I’m just as sure they don’t need it. No, real preemptive assassination attempts tend to target socialists and equalists and those who stand a real chance at elevating the disenfranchised and bridging the gap in the class war. Can’t have that. Mind you, assassination after the damage has already been inflicted is not unheard of, like Mussolini, but that’s more of a vengeful act and pyrrhic victory cause it’s too damn late. Anyway, happy Tuesday!
I’m inclined to believe that it’s because you can simply bribe him to change his mind. He’s a convenient idiot puppet with power and you can tug on any string to get him to do things you want him to. It’s probably why TACO. There’s probably a bribery match going on in the background.
It he was a zealot of his beliefs, rigid in his thinking, I believe he would be put down. But he’s so malleable, so it’s more useful to people that have the option to assassinate to bribe instead.
Mineral rights
Save us, Rand al’Thor
This media can’t differentiate between trolling and threats. Just like tRump ‘floating’ wildly illegal actions to test popularity and desensitize the public before just doing them regardless. I haven’t decided whether this is intentional misrepresentation and journalistic malpractice, or ignorance and incompetence (a different kind of malpractice), but I do know the outcome is the same either way.
Do you expect professionalism from the US under Orange man?
What about my comment makes you think I would?
What makes you think that this media is ignorant or incompetent? These are strong words, which IMHO need to be proven. Otherwise it is a simple rant related to frustration.
They sure are, and I don’t owe you a thesis statement on how I concluded this, opinions don’t need proving to being with and I know that I’ve been exposed to, and critical of all political perspectives in US media for years. I did not ask for your “humble opinion” which is far from humble when presented as more valid than mine since it’s assumed your rejection of my opinion doesn’t require evidence of any sort, and I have no interest in entertaining your ignorance. If you would care to objectively assess the state of legacy media in the US under constant threat from tRump and his crony led FCC, I invite you to do so, and then perhaps we could have a serious discussion. Until then, and because you only seem able to criticize the terminology I use while ignoring the point, I’m going to ignore you because I think your only goal in responding to me is distraction and suppression.
What do you then mean by „this media”? The singular form tells me you are thinking of a particular media like Lemmy. May be we have a misunderstanding here, because what concerns Trump and his entourage, I suppose we share the same thoughts as almost all users here.
You have to be more careful when presuming. The singular form is medium, media IS the pluralistic form. I say the US media as a blanket term that includes both legacy corporate news, credible journalism groups like AP and Reuters, and independent US based outlets. I am aware of my ‘leftist’ bias in so far as partisan labels have any use, but I believe politics is more nuanced than that, and put critical thinking and historical education above partisanship when I can. I don’t know what thoughts we share, but I’m sure there was some sort of miscommunication.
Absolutely my bed. Yes, media is plural and I thought it was singular. Therefore, I assumed you were talking about Lemmy. Sorry.
I have doubts that there exists a really credible journalism. I believe that all have a certain type of agenda - some may be less and others more.
I appreciate that, and I think you’re right to be skeptical, and I value your critical lens because a LOT of outlets get by on people’s assumption of good faith and veracity. I think that’s what makes it very important to check multiple sources and always consider the potential biases. Some decent credible outlets do end up linked here on lemmy too, so it’s not completely useless for information gathering; the reality is we live in a downright hostile, post-truth media landscape unfortunately.
What is the us-american opposition doing about this? Trump is literally threatening ww3 and if not stopped he will start it.
Stop. Trade.
Freeze him out.
It’s YUUUUUUUUGEE