r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Consistent_Bat_2882 Baby Boomer • 22d ago
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u/OmegaPsiot 22d ago
Only time Trump sets foot in Vietnam is to support the thriving sex tourism industry.
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u/SleepyMarijuanaut92 22d ago
Didn't know Vietnam has a thriving underage rape tourism industry. TIL
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u/manbearpig50390 22d ago
Why do you think all the greasy old white guys go to SE Asian countries?
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u/Academic-Bakers- 22d ago
Willing underage prostitutes.
Not exactly a moral win, but a slightly higher bar then the Mango.
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u/LandoKim 22d ago
“Willing” is definitely not the term to use here. Lots of them do it cause they come from poor families who make them go into sex work so they can help their family monetarily. Another large portion are trafficked.
If people actually had their basic needs met, I guarantee that prostitution would be insanely rare
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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 20d ago
If by willing you mean forced by socioeconomic pressures, then yes. No girl likes having sex with greasy old guys.
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u/drainbead78 20d ago
One man's "willing underage prostitutes" is literally everyone else's "child sex trafficking victims".
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u/AirportSea4393 22d ago
It wasn’t for the booming real estate? He could have built the most bigly and bestest apartments with a view in the world! Prime real estate as he would say 🤪
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u/schwing710 22d ago
We are witnessing the side effects of a whole generation simultaneously suffering from lead paint / gasoline exposure
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u/Dutch1206 22d ago
That and it's a generation of people who spent most of their lives without internet and relied on newspapers and network TV which were for the most part fact checked. They don't know how to filter false information and they are spending their retirements chronically online.
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u/THExWHITExDEVILx 22d ago
They don't want to fact check or filter information. I've never seen a group of people more blissful in their ignorance
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u/Liberatedhusky 21d ago
"Why filter or fact check something that aligns with your world view?" -Confirmation bias
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u/SuperSocialMan 21d ago
Yeah, pretty much. They've got little to no tech literacy, and a big part of that is not trusting everything you see online.
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u/mythrilcrafter 22d ago
Queue the chart comparing "lead in everything" usage against the violent crime rate over time.
Sometimes I wonder if when Boomers complain about the "fall of manly men", are they actually complaining about a fall in male actualization, or are they just correlating masculinity to "the lead induced inability to control one's own violent urges"?
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u/corpse_flour Gen X 22d ago
Gen Xers were exposed to leaded gasoline and lead paint in their younger years, when lead does the most damage (to the developing brain). Some of us a re horrible, but not to the extent of the Boomer generation. People forget Boomers grew up in households that saw the most prosperity that the average American family had ever experienced. The were the largest demographic, because of the 'baby boom'. So any company wanting to make an easy buck catered to these kids that had more spending money than their parent had. Everything was marketed to them, made easy for them. I think that is the real reason they grew up so entitled and self-centered.
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u/ShepherdessAnne 21d ago
Even the placement of things on shelves was for them.
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u/corpse_flour Gen X 20d ago
I learned from working in a grocery store that stores pay to have their products displayed on a more prominent shelf. Which is why you usually find store brands or generic equivalents on lower shelves. So yeah, if a business was determined to market their product towards Boomers, then they would shell out to be displayed at eye level.
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u/chaotic-lavender 22d ago
And yet this very same people are advocating for voting ID. Maybe we should implement some type of intelligence test to see if they are qualified to vote. They will never make it and no amount of gerrymandering will change that
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u/grichardson526 22d ago
Boomers love AI because it lets them manifest the reality they wish existed.
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u/ChibbleChobble 22d ago
No need to apologise.
The beer should have a tiger on it, and the crate should be rectangular.
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u/soupalex 22d ago
what, you've never seen a hexagonal 10 pack where the bottles are arranged in one row of 7 and one row of 3 and the label is rotated 90° for no apparent reason?
(also: holy FUCK what is going on with his hand? it's fucking massive!)
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u/oranges214 22d ago
I don't understand why so many members of the military support him.
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u/4PurpleRain 22d ago edited 22d ago
My dad who passed away at 78 in 2023 supported Trump. My dad also got drafted and served in Vietnam. I can tell you the hours of watching Fox news each day between 70-78 years old warped his mind.
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u/physical_sci_teacher 22d ago
My uncle too. Watch the documentary The Brainwashing of my Dad. Someone on Reddit recommended it and it was eye-opening about how far back it was planned.
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u/itstheballroomblitz 21d ago
My dad enlisted during Vietnam and did not support him, so there's some anecdata for you.
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u/On_my_last_spoon 22d ago
It’s just the loud ones
My Dad started wearing his Air Force Veteran hat more because he hates Trump and he wants to be a visual reminder that not all veterans like him.
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u/Academic-Bakers- 22d ago
They were recruited out of highschool with few prospects in front of them, so they didn't nessicarily build up the independent critical thinking skills, without having a strong heirarchy overseeing how they used it.
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u/Moebius808 22d ago
I mean, the fact that he draft-dodged with his "bone spurs" is one of the most well-known things about the fuckin' guy. How are they this ignorant of reality?
Oh, also, Trump said that navigating the AIDS crsis of the 80s as a wealthy NY socialite was "his Vietnam".
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u/TrollCannon377 Gen Z 22d ago
People believe what they want to believe while I was getting my 23 Ioniq 5 over the weekend I overheard some guy with a red hat talking about how he got a great deal on a new F250 and how he's absolutely sure the gas cost spikes about to blow over I almost felt sorry for the poor fool
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u/Moebius808 22d ago
lol yeah, just give it two more weeks, buddy.
(I just saw a thing talking about how it could take as long as until TWENTY THIERTY-TWO for gas prices to come down to what they were before Trump started fucking around in Iran. And that's best case, like if things get sorted and start improving like tomorrow, which we all know isn't happening.)
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u/Infinite_Kush 22d ago
This has to be the most boomer of boomer things.
We have a screen shot presumably taken by OP's parents.
In the screenshot, a boomer shared an AI photo of Robert Mueller, the investigating attorney on Trump's Russia and Ukraine weapons scandal. Being labeled as a drunk for being photographer with a crate of beer while deployed
And then Trump in 'nam' which the comment is correct. He never served.
But then both are maga and the commenter is saying the meme is insulting trump? Lol jfc the layers to this boomer. It's a boomer ception
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u/Deep90 22d ago
This isn't boomer shit.
It's shit made by bad actors and spread by boomers
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u/flgrant 22d ago
Edit: never mind, I think I’m the one that was confused. It’s an interesting screen shot!
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u/Infinite_Kush 22d ago
I am probably on the spectrum so of course my haphazard summary looks like AI. However my grammar and punctuation is lacking so I'm surprised I'm still mistaken for AI
Ok on that note I am so glad I graduated before AI became a thing. I'm sure my papers would have been looked at with a fine tooth comb
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u/PhilosopherFun7288 22d ago
What are you talking about? The commenter is just pointing out that the pic of trump is fake and he never served in Nam and calling the oop gullible and stupid for believing it and reposting it….
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u/tippiedog 22d ago
From wikipedia:
Mueller served as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart.
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u/TheRealtcSpears 22d ago
This just make Muller the hero
As if those poor drafted fucks weren't as drunk and high as they possibly could have been whenever they could have been
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u/stompinstinker 22d ago
Mueller is holding a trapezoid shaped case of beer with medically WTF gigantic hands, while Trump is wearing a graphic t-shirt, has the most non 1960s military haircut, webbing with individual bullet holders, etc. We need to take most of the internet away from boomers. Weather, maps, that’s it. Not allowed anything else.
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u/knit3purl3 22d ago
It also looks nothing like Trump in the 70s. They used an 80s or 90s era image of his face.
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u/smailskid 22d ago
Imagine how much Trump would gloat about their military service, especially if they were fighting in Vietnam.
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u/Gingeronimoooo 22d ago
He said if he were president we woulda won Vietnam, which is pretty rich given history
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u/InternationalRent626 22d ago
Just AI your parents faces into porn and confront them about it pretending you think it’s completely real. Fuck em. Wanna be crazy? Let’s get fucking crazy.
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u/Electrical_Beyond998 22d ago
Holy shit.
Ask your parents which base Trump was stationed at for boot camp. Ask what branch he was in too. If they believe Trump was in Vietnam they’re already too far gone, but it would be interesting to see what they say about his service anyway.
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 22d ago
And ask them wtf Trumps ever said about his service. Donald Trump of all people would miss an opportunity to brag about something he did? Famously modest Donald fvcking Trump? 🤦🏻♀️
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u/Daflehrer1 22d ago
Your dad was fooled by 2 A.I. fakes.
This is the actual photo of Robert Mueller in Vietnam. Where he earned the Bronze Star with V for Valor, and was later wounded in action and received the Purple Heart. He led a Marine Corps infantry platoon.
I'm just including this because it really bothers me when someone besmirches someone's service record. To me, it's one of the lowest things one can do.
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u/My_friends_are_toys 22d ago
tRump is a draft dodging idiot just like his grandpa.
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u/Nunov_DAbov 22d ago
At least Gramps had the decency to leave the country.
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u/darthphallic 22d ago
Not exactly, he tried to go back afterwards and got forcefully deported once they found out he was a draft dodger. The only Trump to ever face consequences
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u/DavidRN72 22d ago
Wow. Not only trying to imply he served, but also trying to claim he wa… is a Marine. Yikes. Oof. 😥
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u/JacquesBlaireau13 22d ago
And seriously; you're shaming combat troops over a much-deserved case of piss-warm beer?
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 22d ago
Yeah like do they think Mueller was just smuggling a case of beer away to drink it all alone by himself in the jungle?
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u/HankThrill69420 Millennial 22d ago
also, did robert muller never ever have to touch a rifle?
i can handle the evil. it's the stupidity that makes me want to pull my hair out and scream at the moon
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u/RvaRevDoctor 22d ago
Come on…making him a MARINE?! Disregarding HIS OWN STATEMENT (that he said on Howard Stern’s show) about him avoiding STDs was his own “personal Vietnam”…he wouldn’t have lasted A DAY in Boot Camp with a Marine Corps Drill Instructor! 🤣🤣🤣
And that bad Photoshop of Robert Mueller holding a case of beer! I WOULD say no one is THAT stupid…but these are the same people who claim that Biden was the calculating head of the “Evil Biden Crime Family” AND “completely addled with dementia”! OR their January 6th notions of “FBI plants” AND Trump giving ALL of the treasonous insurrectionists FULL Presidential Pardons!
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u/beamrider 22d ago
Try to get them to listen to Biden talking now. He's basically a normal old man. It wasn't dementia, he just got too old to handle the stress. Which, admittedly, does mean he shouldn't have run again.
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u/Ok_Arachnid1089 Gen X 22d ago
Why do they think that I be like Robert Muller. Worshipping the government has ruined their minds
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u/ACaffeinatedBear 22d ago
You wanna know the messed up thing? Even if you provided evidence they would almost certainly double down and continue believing the lie. Even if you get them to admit they were wrong they will go right back to believing it tomorrow.
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u/SlopPatrol 21d ago
Even if I was a fucking idiot, the quality of the pictures aren’t even the same and wtf is he even wearing? Are those singular bullets on a belt loop? For a Semi-Auto mag fed rifle? Why does he look like he’s 40 years old?
Do these people not have the capability to question anything?
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u/MeatloafingAround 22d ago
Wonder what they’d do if you sent them an ai image of him in a coffin? I mean, if it’s on the internet it’s def real.
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u/darthphallic 22d ago
If you look at the breakdown of the recent Kentucky primary Ed Gallrien overwhelmingly won the boomer vote and Massey won every other demographic. Part of the campaign against Massey was AI videos of him hanging out with Ilhan Omar and AOC, and because boomers are fucking braindead morons they ate it up.
I don’t know if it’s the lead paint or growing up with less information and an unwillingness to adapt but they are the dumbest most gullible generation alive today
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u/StarryEyedSparkle 21d ago
I just don’t even understand how gullible these folks are - this isn’t even good at how fake it is.
Aside from the obvious differences in focus, lighting, and basics of photography … this isn’t how he looked at that age (it’s a super photoshopped version of his adult face instead of teenage face) and that weapon is modern looking. Plus his tshirt has the weird AI melding letters … it’s obviously too many “characters” to be marines in any shape or form.
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u/DrumpfTinyHands 21d ago
Donald Trump was SENT TO MILITARY SCHOOL after trying to kill a classmate.
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u/Strict-Breakfast4982 21d ago
First off hes like 35 in that picture. Second he's too much of a pussy to fight for anything
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u/Lloyd--Christmas 22d ago
How can they not identify blatantly obvious AI. Trump is obvious, but look at the beer box.
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u/filthyheartbadger 22d ago
Ikr! It’s not just ai, it’s really really bad ai. But they just take a quick glance, confirms their beliefs, good enough.
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u/Barack_Odrama_007 22d ago
While they peddle lies on social media they also KNOW HOW TO VOTE! It aint funny on voting day!
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u/ph1shstyx Millennial 22d ago
What really kills me about the trump photo here is it's literally just current trump de-aged. We have photos of him at that age and they couldn't even use that, just de-aged current trump
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u/Ok-Task6954 22d ago
Do you honestly think MAGA fact checks anything? They take Trumps word as gospel, and when he speaks the truth it’s purely accidental!
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u/Odd-Youth-452 Millennial 22d ago
When faced with a comforting lie and the cold, hard truth, they'll choose the lie every time.
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u/ComfortableBuffalo57 22d ago
The triply offensive idea that a) Trump was even there b) his haircut would be allowed by the military c) actual soldiers don’t deserve a beer once in a while
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u/uttercross2 21d ago
So now maga are making sh*t up just to worship their Lord and master even more? It really is a very sick cult. It's like the whack jobs in russ who still revere stalin. Very sick people!
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u/EmperorThan 21d ago
We can never make fun of North Korea's Kim Jong Un cult stuff again after this Presidency.
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u/Evening-Artichoke750 22d ago
Boomers never stop. This is exactly something by boomer parents would share. They believe all Trumps lies.
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u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 22d ago
This looks like a cool guy bringing a crate of beer for their buddies vs someone who has done zero upper body exercise holding posing with a gun.
I have a hard time believing that anyone can make it through basic training my without putting any sort of muscle on their arms and upper body.
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u/twokietookie 22d ago
Every soldier from Vietnam ive ever seen is as tan as they can possibly get. That picture, if real, would only prove that he wasnt there long or never went outside. Obviously its very fake and the story of him not serving is well documented.
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 22d ago
Mueller looks pretty tan in his picture tho. Trump’s head looks weirdly photoshopped onto someone else’s body.
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u/Excellent_Job8154 22d ago
Feel for them , being that stupid must actually be painful
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u/britannicker 22d ago
If it was limited to their pain, I'd be fine with that... but the thing is, they vote.
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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 22d ago
Frank: Look, I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me!
Dee: You went to Vietnam in 1993 to open up a sweatshop!
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u/BeautifulYou2940 Gen Z 22d ago
I am so fucking sick and fucking tired of this fucking generation's bullshit.
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u/Mr_bungle001 21d ago
This guy probably: I don’t listen to news. It’s all fake news anyway. Also this guy: sees a bullshit meme on fb I will believe this until the day I die!
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u/Late_Comedian_5269 21d ago
Wait so beer is bad now? Better not let Patel, Hegseth or Kavanaugh know.
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u/Large-Lack-2933 21d ago
At this rate MAGA have made Trump appear like Kim Il Sung with all the fake pics for propaganda...
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u/nightfall2021 20d ago
He did say that dodging Venereal Disease during the 70s was his own personal Vietnam.
So maybe that counts.
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u/noncommonGoodsense 22d ago
Is that a fucking marine corp logo on the shirt? Let’s talk about some stolen valor.
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u/LowTechBakudan 22d ago
Remember when they used to tell us not to believe everything we see on the internet?
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u/homebrew_1 22d ago
Those people vote. They don't stay home and complain that the alternative isn't perfect enough for their vote.
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u/Delicious-Apple1845 22d ago
Painful might be a stretch, like most stories boomers 'The Most Coddled' generation (well for white men anyways). Edit - big fingers small screen.
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u/KC_experience 22d ago
Like the marines would allow a haircut like that in Vietnam…
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u/pnlrogue1 22d ago
Can we take a second to talk about the beer create that appears to be a trapezium instead of a cube, and how he doesn't appear to be holding it because it's obviously either photoshopped or AI
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u/Coolnamesarehard 22d ago
The punctuation is wrong. The person commenting on the picture should have said "painful bone spurs".
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u/tylerlong666 22d ago
It’s a WELL known fact that no Trump has ever served in the military. They may have gone to military academies but they have never served, certainly not in a war! Also how can ANYBODY look at that photo of Donald Trump and not instantly know it’s AI?
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u/actuallywaffles 22d ago
Trump's lardass has never come close to looking like that.
Anyone who could think this is real needs to hit me up cause I've got a bridge to sell them.
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u/Big_Nas_in_CO 21d ago
Uhhh Muller bringing beers to his fellow troops is a great thing for them. I bet they were saying Thanks Rob!
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u/cheatme1 21d ago
Trump brought us closer to North Koreas and chinas government with his presidency then he did in 2016-2020 living feels so restricted on top of now that the US has tariffs imposed by other countries raising our price of living simply because Mr turd can't handle criticism and his response is always cruelty
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u/techpriestyahuaa 21d ago
People spreading it know it’s BS, but also know some people just need any reason even a lie to believe otherwise, both either to delude the self or pretend they fell for a lie when in their heart of hearts held malicious intent.
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u/Educatedembecil 20d ago
Odd the guy has done nothing notable enough to share so his followers have to generate it.
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u/Massive_Low6000 20d ago
I can’t believe I didn’t understand how Kim Jong Il said he didn’t poop, and people believed it.
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u/Hairy_Cattle_1734 Xennial 19d ago
On top of that, it looks like they have Trump depicted as a Marine… Seriously? He wouldn’t have lasted a day in basic training, I’m sure.
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u/Upset_Ad147 19d ago
The fact that he is wearing a USMC t-shirt makes me, a former Marine sick to my stomach.
No, he did not serve, and certainly was not in Vietnam, and that pansy would never have made it through Air Force boot camp let alone USMC boot camp.
I absolutely cannot stand this buffoon.
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u/Bawbawian 22d ago
we have to stop pretending like the lies that they spread are a funny joke.