• ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
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      Every time I flew back into the country and saw his stupid picture in the airport it made me cringe and say “oh fuck, that’s right, somehow Biff Tannen, from Back To The Future 2, is our President”

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      To be fair, he lost the popular vote twice. It was only because of the electoral college he won. The people of the USA did not, as a majority, vote for him. The people who are supposed to represent our votes voted for him.

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        Yes, that’s true and a big reason I don’t paint a Americans with the same brush (in addition to this being generally intellectually lazy).

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      I live in New York City. Donnie was desperate to get famous since the 1980s. Back in the day, Wife #1, Ivana, was the star of the show and Donnie was the guy who carried her bags. He did everything to get his name in the local news every day, and was considered a joke by just about everyone. He lost his home town by 90% of the vote.

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        Growing up, I knew of him as a desperate for attention blowhard as well. You didn’t need to be from NYC to know that but it says a lot when you guys did that (no votes) because you know him best.

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          There’s an old political term in the USA. ‘Favorite son candidate.’ It means that anyone, of any Party, can usually count on winning their home district. As an example, Republicans in Georgia voted for Jimmy Carter. Also, New Yorkers are a contentious lot who seldom agree 90% on anything.

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      He’s the embodiment of the American stereotype if you ask me. It makes complete sense.

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        The American stereotype? Definitely an American stereotype (monopoly guy shithead), but there’s also broke ass honky, California dude, and cowboy goat fuckers.

        It’s a big place.

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          It’s a big place and yet the loud, fat American with more money than braincells is indeed the stereotype lol.

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            A long time ago I had a job cooking at a hotel in Switzerland (am Canadian). As a more junior person I’d get stuck working buffet stations and lots of Americans assumed the staff didn’t understand English. Anyway, my favorite thing was how the Americans would freak out because menu prices were not in US dollars. Lol. Harmless but indicative of a certain worldview.

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      And they are lining up to do it again. It’s absolutely baffling to me but at least it’s gotten a lot easier to identify idiots from a distance.