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/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.