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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nobody should ever fall for "I have the solution, but I won't tell you, and must be me that does it, or else I'm not gonna do it at all."

It's pathetic school yard stuff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Republicans are mentally defective degenerates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Other countries => liars & criminals.

Must spend much time in jail, I bet that they feel right @ home.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How about we don't use Nazi speak.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I am from the EU,

This English is NOT Nazi speak.

Jews where the most killed, minorities, gays, mentally degraded where also killed by Nazis

(and my country has a Worldfamous HOLOCAUST museum)

Please STFU about stuff you are clueless about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm German with several years of historical education about the Third Reich.

mentally defective degenerates.

Is Nazi speak by the book. This quote was how they justified eradicating people.

Please STFU about stuff you are clueless about.

Pretty much the advice I'd give you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's worked on republicans time and time again from trump. From healthcare to wars, he has a plan for everything that no one knows anything about and he never enacts yet republicans don't know any of that because conservative propaganda doesn't tell them. trump's obvious lies are good enough for them.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, these best plans I guess? Genious plans? But invisible plans except if trump gets elected? Sure...

Shut up Orban, your russian boot licking is so obvious, we're not falling for it lol.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everyone knows it'll be just ceding to Russia and calling it "peace" while Ukrainians get slaughtered. Also because the EU hasn't taken Russia seriously in a decade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

True. We (the EU) also need to step up like right now. We are, but so damning slowly IMO.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

Trumps detailed plans:

  1. Immediately give Ukraine to putin.
  2. Bow to putin.
  3. Plan complete.
[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

His solution will be to surrender (pull all American support), pull out of NATO, and do anything else Putin tells him.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is he planning to reveal that plan before or after his 2017 health care reform?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Just after releasing his tax records

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

For sure right after infrastructure week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Just give him two weeks.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Letting Russia occupy (parts of) Ukraine isn't peace.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Capitulation isn't a plan. Nice try Orbán, ya fascist fuck.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

trump also promised peace in the Middle East and later claimed that he had achieved it.

I don't pay much attention to the news, so I'll just assume that everything in the Middle East is all cupcakes and simultaneous orgasms now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am from the EU, Orbán is here known as a dictator, his "opinions" can be bought for billions (in a newspaper). So his statement on Trump deserves a BAG of salt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No kidding?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Still waiting on his replacement for Obamacare.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In a way I don't fancy giving guys like Trump and Orbán any platform, considering that we all know what they stand for, and what they have been doing. On the otherhand, we still need to deal with the consequences of their actions. So, here we are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sorry for posting this for a 3rd time, but I can add some details.

I am from the EU, Orbán is here known as a dictator, his "opinions" can be bought for billions (in a newspaper). So his statement on Trump deserves a BAG of salt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Oh i bet! Kinda like his “you got to finish the problem” solution for Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am from the EU, Orbán is here known as a dictator, his "opinions" can be bought for billions (in a newspaper). So his statement on Trump deserves a BAG of salt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well even without knowing the person who said the quote, I know it's completely bullshit. trump never has any fucking plans he says he has. Just straight up bullshit lying like he normally does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, in this instance, I have to rally to Trump's defense for once: I bet his plan is "Give Putin whatever he wants" and that would actually cause Putin to cease his illegal invasion of Ukraine. As soon as Putin then knows that he can have whatever country he asks for if he threatens violence, they'll share the world among their cronies to suck dry and then leave in the rain.

It may not be peace, but it's "Order" and that's what the "Law (=whatever Trump says the law is) and Order (=no resistance to him and his cadre fleecing everybody and stripping everything that's not nailed down for parts)" crowd are after.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Viktor Orbán has claimed that Donald Trump has “detailed and well-founded” plans for peace between Russia and Ukraine in a letter to a top EU body that is likely to inflame tensions about the Hungarian prime minister’s diplomatic freelancing.

Orbán, who met Trump at his Palm Beach compound last week, said in his letter to the president of the European Council, who organises meetings of the bloc’s 27 national leaders, that the Republican presidential nominee was ready to act as peace broker “immediately” after his election.

The “likely outcome” of a Trump victory meant that the EU should reopen “direct lines of diplomatic communication” with Russia and “high-level political talks” with China, Orbán wrote in the letter addressed to the council’s president, Charles Michel, which was first reported by the Financial Times.

“I made this clear even prior to your visit to Moscow and this was subsequently reiterated by High Representative [Josep] Borrell,” Michel wrote, referring to the EU’s top diplomat.

Responding to the leaked letter on X, the Hungarian prime minister’s political director, Balázs Orbán (who is unrelated), doubled down on the message bound to provoke Hungary’s EU partners.

Separately, he offered congratulations to JD Vance, the hard-right Ohio senator who was selected as Trump’s running mate on Tuesday and is a leading opponent of aid to Ukraine.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Trump had a detailed and well founded plan to end the ADA and build a wall on america's southern border.

Im sure Trump also has a detailled and well founded plan to run a casino as well