• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    113
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    Trump saying something extremely irresponsible and stupid isn’t newsworthy anymore.

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      56
      ·
      4 months ago

      It should be. What purpose would this serve? No concern for life or process. It speaks directly to how Trump sees those he considers less than him. If he were president again, how long until he threatens to bomb an American state passing laws he doesn’t like?

      It’s all fine and dandy when it’s brown people, but what about working class people protesting for unions and workers rights? What about women standing united for the right to bodily autonomy? When the lgbtq community throws bricks again for getting arrested for existing in public? When women’s suffrage is in question and people start taking hammers to windows and chaining themselves to railings?

      Every single thing he says should be considered prelude to the worst impulses of an unhinged and irresponsible mad man with more power than most people on earth could possibly dream of.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        29
        ·
        4 months ago

        Agreed. Trump, the personality, should not be “newsworthy” anymore. Trump, the character in our shit-stirring forecasting, shouldn’t be “newsworthy” anymore.

        Trump said a crazy thing that threatens millions of people and everyone needs to know what a threat he is? That’s absolutely is still newsworthy.

        Quit speculating on whether Trump is joking, if Trump believes what he says, if he’ll be nicer, or whatever other tea leaves that the media keeps claiming to be able to read. Just report on what the greatest individual immediate threat to this country is saying and doing.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      I’d like to think that if he actually ordered the military to bomb Mexico, the upper echelon would realize this would be a war crime and they’d be tried at the next Nuremberg if they followed such an order, which might result in someone who isn’t an angsty 20 year old kid, but maybe someone who actually knows how to use a rifle, decide to be a true patriot who swore to stop threats both foreign and domestic.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        That started off sounding like you were saying “someone will refuse orders and not bomb Mexico” and ended up sounding like you were saying “someone should turn their weapons against the man telling them to bomb Mexico”

    • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      Don-Old Trump also suggested drinking bleach to cure Covid and using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes.

      He’s so irresponsibly weird— and also clinically insane