Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, drew a wave of online ridicule after complaining that Democrats want to make Ohio a state.
Trump Jr. made the remark Monday while actually in the Buckeye State to campaign for Republican candidates.
“They want to, what is it? Save democracy by destroying democracy,” Trump Jr. said of Democrats. “They wanna pack the Supreme Court. They wanna make Ohio a state, make D.C. a state, have permanent one-party rule.”
“Someone said something dumb. Read our article about how Twitter reacts!”
I can’t wait until this form of “journalism” is dead.
It’ll just be Claude outputs in the future :(
You think it isn’t already?
Does he think Puerto Rico is in Ohio?
Thats not the ohio flag. It’s tapered with tails. Wish i didnt know this.
it looks like someone gave a 15 year old photoshop and the American flag and said, “Remix that shit. Make it hard.”
TIL
Ain’t no shot he knows the flags of Ohio or Puerto Rico
Is there any other connection? I mean, Ohio is like the opposite of PR.
I honestly think he just remembered he was in Ohio and said “Ohio.”
I want off this ride now
It’s possible making Ohio a state was a mistake, but a bit too late to question it now.
Ohio was definitely a mistake.
But is it, tho?!?
As an Ohioan, I’m OK with giving our territory over to Pennsylvania.
And what about giving it back to the Cahokia? Asking for an undead friend, with a mound fetish.
Best I can do is Almond Joy.
Looks outside at everything
Yeah, independent lich territory also works fine.
Keep Ohio Skibidi!
Not as bad as allowing Missouri into the union.
Eh. Hilarious, but obviously just a “mental typo”. Everyone makes them. I’m all for poking a little fun, but also giving people room to make mistakes like this without it being a huge deal.
edit: Jesus, I didn’t realize I had to explain things. Obama said something about 53 states. Also a mental typo. These things happen. Waste your time on these, sure, but we all have limited energy. I’d rather spend my time usefully fighting fascism rather than wasting it on things like this that don’t actually matter. But y’know, you do you. All it does is distract you from the important things, but it’s your right to waste your time if you want. And sure, have a litle laugh about it. Whatever.
“Potatoe”
“Slick willie”
“Enthusiastic scream”
“Swiftboating”
“Thanks Obama”
“Biden gaffe machine”
“But her emails”
“But her laugh”
…But when a nazi scumbag has an awkward moment, suddenly the calls for decency and measured reactions. Fuck that times infinity. Any and every low blow is absolute fair game at this point.
Was the person you replied to ever inconsistent with their stance about “clemency for small political/social gaffes”?
You’re making it seem like they’re soapboxing for Don Jr. when they could just be consistently against making fun of people.
“Potatoe” was Dan Qualye, Republican, though, right? Who was famously then immortalised as the lowest possible ranking in the Civilization game series.
You’re right, I was just tossing out as many things as I could think of. Pardon my gish gallop, my main point is just that showing respect to nazis is not going to earn it from them so why bother.
They hung Gary Johnson for asking “what’s Aleppo?”
But I dont think he was getting much of the vote anyway.
Hang them all for who they are and what they’ve done, not their brain farts.
Stating an unpopular moral highground against popular humor and satisfaction is difficult, I see you.
Hang them all for who they are and what they’ve done, not their brain farts.
Yes. That is the point exactly.
against popular humor
Not against humour, it’s jsut a waste of time and energy to make a big deal about this. Energy better spent actually fighting fascism.
That said, it’s fine to laugh. But people are spending a lot of energy on this, and there’s only so much energy we have.
“They want to, what is it? Save democracy by destroying democracy,” Trump Jr. said of Democrats. “They wanna pack the Supreme Court. They wanna make Ohio a state, make D.C. a state, have permanent one-party rule.”
Every single accusation is an admission. The Grand Old Pedophiles are terrified of the majority and the return of the rule of law.
Saw a sign at a country pumpkin patch that referred to the GOP as “guardians of pedophiles”
Greedy Old Pedophiles
Group of pedos too
Every single accusation is an admission.
You mean they really DO want Ohio as a state??? 🤔
;-)
With the headline I assumed he fumbled a line about making Ohio a competitive state, but nope, it’s about actual statehood. And the territory that would fit there, Puerto Rico, is nothing like Ohio.
People can jumble terms in the same category, but it’s still a pretty laughable mistake. Probably should use a teleprompter if you’re not well practiced at public speaking.
His pedophile father still fumbles with a teleprompter and then blames the entire country in which the teleprompter is setup, even though HIS own handlers set it up and control it. So, it runs in the family…
Remember when he had to like walk up stairs and he got mad because hes a fat POS, and so then he blamed Europe as a unit for it but it was actually his own team that disabled the escalators.
I never thought I would agree with Don Jr about something. Ohio was a mistake
The Republicans have never been this scared of the Democrats before. What do they know that we don’t? Did the Democrats develop a spine or something?
Eh, Republicans always fearmonger about what Democrats are supposedly going to do. Like “socialism” (or “communism”) or whatever. They’re gonna take your guns, they’re gonna raise your taxes, etc etc etc.
Could be that Trump is gone gone and the election looks really fucking bad for them but I’m not holding my breath for it.
It is so wild to think that because of idiotic Americans going by Worthington’s Law that we even know who this asshole is. Same goes for his father.
Both are total idiot failsons, but because they have money, morons feel their opinions are worthwhile.
They have money because morons made them rich. America is a weird place.
TIL about worthingtons law - thanks!
Trump Jr.’s list named the court and D.C. too, but put Ohio where theirs had Puerto Rico.
Ah yes, the Caribbean island of Puohio Rico. Well done Don Jr.
The idiot apple doesn’t fall far from the stupid tree, does it.
Poohio? Yeah that’s about right
Puohio Rico. Well done Don Jr.
There is a certain irony here… lol. Well done, @ThePowerOfGeek. ;-)
I wonder if this might be a sort of subset of Muphry’s¹ Law.
¹ notably not a typo
“If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you,” Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter in September 2016, Reuters reported. “Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.” The maker of Skittles objected to the post, the news agency reported.
So trump is making an argument against 100% of immigrants, not just those from Syria. That stands in direct conflict with his policy of increased white South African refugees. Musk, as white South African immigrant, is projected to be responsible for over 14 million deaths by 2030 because of his work in DOGE destroying USAID. That’s one shitty Skittle, but I see trump doing nothing about it.
Something something broken clock.
