Former President Donald Trump heaped praise on authoritarian Chinese President Xi Jinping during a lengthy interview Friday with the podcaster Joe Rogan.
“We’re dealing with the smartest people,” Trump said, referring to the leaders of U.S. adversaries, about an hour and a half into their conversation.
“They hate when I say, you know, when the press — when I called President Xi, [the press] said, ‘Well, he called President Xi brilliant.’ Well, he’s a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he’s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not. And they go crazy.”
This is the 100% the “how did the other Germans, who weren’t nazis, just let it all happen?” period. Gives you a bit more empathy for just how helpless those people must have felt and how complex those developing emotions must have been.
Trump is pulling the invader zim " I will rule you all with an iron fist" and people are cool with it. I feel like half the country went to “Skool”
Not trying to be a dick (though I guess it kind of happened anyway), but maybe part of the issue here is that people are referencing cartoons instead of actual would history, when talking about the imminent threat of an autocratic ruler.
Just saying…
Yea I can’t believe no one ever compared trump with Hitler yet
This has been up for two hours, I wonder where the propagandists hollering about genocide are.
Edit, four hours now: It must be acceptable to genocide Uyghurs, I guess.
I suspect that most of them don’t really care about genocide or the welfare of others in general. It’s a self-righteous bandwagon for them to jump on.
At this point, I’m just posting this graphic
Anytime I run into the “Don’t Vote Harris, that will stop Genocide!” camp
And the democrats are at least working towards a cease fire. Trump would let Bibi turn his enemies lands to glass because Trump only cares about Trump.
Those are in the Kamala threads doing what they’re paid to do
Remember when Romney saying “45% of Americans don’t matter, now watch me look for a wine menu at McDonald’s!” was enough to lose the presidency?
Pepper Ridge Farm remembers.
Tbf, as a Mormon, Romney does not drink alcohol so he wouldn’t ever be looking for a wine list…
Yeah Mormons don’t drink if other Mormons would find out. He’s drinking wine at home not in public.
His voterbase does not care.
This the fucking world my dad wants us to live in. He begged me tonight to please vote Trump he going save us.
Wonder what my dad would think about this? He hates China says Trump hates China and will make them pay with tariffs. I tried to explain that we pay those not China but it wss like talking to a brike wall.
My dad’s the same way, he hasn’t pleaded with me about my vote but that may only be because I don’t talk to him.
Have you seen “The Brainwashing of My Dad”? I think that’s what it’s called, a friend recommended it to me and I need to make some time for it, sounds like it covers the impact of garbage like fox news on old menNo where do I see that?
JustWatch has some choices, I’d be partial to Pluto unless you wanna rent/buy it
I’ve actually heard using parental to controls to block Fox News magically turns right wingers into decent human beings/otherkin forced to live as human beings.
Note that you may have to deal with symptoms similar to addicts coming off their high, because that’s exactly what it is.
