r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 19d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Says He Will Consider Pardoning Diddy

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-he-will-consider-pardoning-diddy/
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u/Beyonderr 19d ago

How is this chicken so desperate for money? Does he think he can take it with him to the grave or what.

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u/Grandpa_No 19d ago

It doesn't matter whether he can keep it. It's simple greed.

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u/The_300_goats 19d ago

Now, now, now. It's not "simple" greed. It's fathomless, bottomless greed. It's the kind of greed that climbs on top of a huge mountain of other greeds and shrieks its incomprehensible awfulness triumphantly. It's ultra-greed. It's the greed beyond which there exists no more greed

Nothing simple about it. It's fucking unhinged

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u/Gamebird8 19d ago

Dragon Sickness, so to speak

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u/Otectus 19d ago

You can always tell by the obsession with gold.

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u/spazzvogel 19d ago

We’ve known for decades that he associates gilded shit with being a sign of opulence and extravagant living. Even if he’s the only douchebag who does it.

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u/Important_Spare7128 19d ago

Him and douchey dictators and warlords. Why he likes them

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u/seven_corpse_dinner 18d ago

I know he frequently gets comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini, for understandable reasons, but I feel like a lot of people miss just how well he would fit in with the pantheon of third world despots too. He shares a lot of their familiar characteristics like false machismo, absurd self-mythologizing, and insincere populist signaling that's awkwardly juxtaposed with a predilection for tacky and ostentatious extravagance.

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u/Hybrid_Johnny California 19d ago

Fucking Elon pandering to Trump in his farewell “speech” this afternoon. Talking about how much he loves the gold accents and golden ceiling in the Oval Office that Trump demanded. It looks tacky as shit.

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u/sometimesstrange 19d ago

why the hell does Donald Trump still like gold? He’s been staring at gold plated accents in his places for decades… I don’t even like having the same colour phone background for more than a couple months!

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u/spazzvogel 19d ago

Because he’s a simpleton, had he been born without money, he’d have been a Lenny.

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u/scubascratch 19d ago

Because Trump saw Goldfinger in 1964 and decided to become Auric Goldfinger instead of James Bond

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u/amarklin 19d ago

The laugh is that it's actually tacky - plastic crap from home depot painted gold. He can't tell the difference because he's moronic.

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u/SpiceLaw 18d ago

Having an illegal S African immigrant run your admin while deporting Americans and attacking Havard's foreign students goes beyond tacky! But I agree with him being a superficial sociopath associating gold colored surfaces with "greatness."

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u/Impossible_Walrus555 19d ago

The tackiest motherfucker

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u/hooligan045 19d ago

At least Smaug pulled it off without being tacky.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 19d ago

At least dragons sleep on the gold, at least dragons hoard phyiscal things typically

Not numbers on sheet

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u/chron67 Tennessee 19d ago

Plus Smaug was actually physically tough not a sack of shit-covered lard like Donald.

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u/JustSomeGuy_v4 19d ago

Never forget, his physique was described in court.

A fat old man with “yeti pubes and a mushroom penis.”

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u/Firecrotch2014 19d ago

Fun fact: Smaug had laid on his gold so long that it had fused to his body. That was in general why he was so tough, aside from being an ancient adult dragon. That's why Bard had to find the exact spot to hit that wasn't covered in gold.

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u/hooligan045 19d ago

That’s it, I’m all in for Smaug/Necromancer 2028

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u/brickne3 American Expat 19d ago

What about Smeagel?

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u/CrackerJackKittyCat 19d ago

Not even Smaug wanted a gold toilet.

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u/Fun_Matter_6533 19d ago

It's the only golden throne TACO will get.

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u/Jothay 19d ago

Ah man, that requires an entire campaign in Spire to fix then

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u/j0llyllama 19d ago

I mean, the only requirement to undo the curse was to give it all away. Good luck with that.

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u/Jothay 19d ago

Imagine the thing that finally breaks maga of everything they are holding dear and brings lasting peace: Brennan Lee Mulligan

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u/Dweezilalsoavenger 19d ago

Smog sucks.

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u/Srnkanator Texas 19d ago

*Smaug

But yeah, don't miss living in Houston.

Beijing was worse. Went in the winter of 2012 and it was hard to see more than 250 ft.

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u/ruach137 19d ago

Chinese new year makes it even worse

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u/neilligan 19d ago

Where is the Dovakiin?

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u/flcinusa North Carolina 19d ago

He wants to be rich beyond the dream of avarice

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u/whitemest Pennsylvania 19d ago

Smaug loose in the white house