At this point, is this news ? Though it highlights Trump’s politics.

  • @FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    Public lie, spread by a public figure, with an intention to mislead the public, should be a criminal offence.

    • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      Even if it was, presidents are now immune from criminal charges, and he is set to begin his next term in just a couple weeks, so not likely that anything could stop him from continuing to do this without sweeping reform of the office of president.

      • @protist@mander.xyz
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        You just have to think Republicans in Congress would much rather have a president JD Vance. Most of them hate Trump with a passion

        • Avid Amoeba
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          Now they have prez Elon to deal with who’s threatening them financially.

          • @protist@mander.xyz
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            72 months ago

            JD Vance is Elon’s boy. Elon would totally want him in charge too. Vance has had direct connections to tech billionaires for a long time

        • @Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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          I low key wonder if they’ll use the 25th on him to get that to happen. He’s Thiel’s boy, and I have wondered if that was the plan from the get go.

    • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      Nope, best I can do is “falsely suggested” and a sense of legitimacy imbued by constant media coverage of his self-serving asshole behavior

      • Snot Flickerman
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        As evidenced by US citizens unwillingness to describe themselves as immigrants, instead using the moniker “expatriate” even though they’re immigrating to another country.

        Immigrant has always been a racial slur.

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          I think technically Ex-pat means they intend to go back to their home country, immigrant they intend to stay in the new country.

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            if that’s the case, why are white rich british people retiring in the french countryside called expats, but temporary foreign workers aren’t?

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              Technically that’s what I’ve heard it means. But yes we all know that it’s white people that use the term because they don’t want to call themselves immigrants.

              • Chloé 🥕
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                oh, the people retiring and the workers aren’t the same people! i’m sorry for the confusion, my wording wasn’t clear… 😅

          • @havocpants@lemm.ee
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            They are expats to the people in the country they left, and immigrants in the country they went to. I don’t know why people think the word expat is some kind of racism-lite.

            • BarqsHasBite
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              The term is often used by white people to refer to themselves when they immigrate to a new country. “I’m an expat” they say as they permanently settle into a new country.

  • Talaraine
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    If we don’t keep calling it out as evil it will become standard. Never be silent.

  • irotsoma
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    152 months ago

    To Trump and most of his followers, anyone with a non-Western-European name or isn’t Christian is an “immigrant”. Doesn’t matter if their families have been in the country for a hundred years.

  • Phoenixz
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    When % of lies crosses 25% a president should automatically be fired.

    If the % of lies crosses 50%, a criminal investigation should be warranted

  • @Soup@lemmy.world
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    Yes, it is news. We’re tired of hearing about his lying but, unlike when he was given a huge platform in 2016, now that he’s holding office we don’t get to ignore it. I’m Canadian but even here the power he is wielding and the way it influences our conservatives means even I have to keep up with this bullshit.

    He’s going to lie anyway and there will be people who hear him do it so everyone else needs to know ahead of dealing with those idiots that he’s definitely lying.