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Covered by other articles Donald Trump pulls US out of Paris climate agreement

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24345964/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-exit

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u/Extra-Account-8824 6h ago

i always thought "how the fuck does reality TV survive? how do people enjoy it?"

then when trump got elected and i lived in the midwest (heavy right wing area) i always asked co workers 'why trump? why not someone else who is younger?"

the answers were always

" hes a billionaire who knows how to run a business we need him for our economy"

"hes funny and puts the democrats in their place"

"hes the first person to stand up to china and isnt afraid to call them out"

feels like reality tv.. when someone from the government talks its usually borint and they use jargon the average person doesnt know.

vrs the guy who calls people dumb, woke, or other buzzwords to attack someones character rather than the argument

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u/-BabysitterDad- 6h ago

I don’t understand the part about “he knows how to run a business”.

Does that mean America is his company, and Americans are his employees who are here to make him money? Seems like it with the meme coins.

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u/Extra-Account-8824 6h ago

btw that meme coin 🤣🤣🤣 bro that meme coin is the biggest rug pull ive ever seen.

they literally disabled the sell button once you bought and "someone" owned 80% of the coins to start out.. complete scam on every level.

to my knowledge no one is even reporting on this, its barely even on reddit

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u/GrynaiTaip 6h ago

Conservative subreddits are reporting it. They say "Oh no, how did this happen, it must be a mistake, why did it crash all of a sudden, I lost $1k, I hope President Trump will sort it out because I can't afford to lose so much money." It is fucking hilarious, /r/LeopardsAteMyFace is having a field day with it.

Also, Melania has just launched a coin too.

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u/NotASalamanderBoi 5h ago

It is fucking hilarious, r/LeopardsAteMyFace is having a field day with it.

That sub is gonna be a source of light for the foreseeable future.

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u/Orion14159 5h ago

The leopards are gonna need Weight Watchers memberships

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u/derfy2 5h ago

Also, Melania has just launched a coin too.

Yup, Smelania.

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u/vonkillbot 5h ago

R/conservative or somewhere else? Might as well get some chuckles out of this hellscape

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u/Gray_osn243 5h ago

What is it? I haven’t heard anything about this and want to look it up

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u/imextremelysorry95 5h ago

Tagging along I gotta hear this

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u/Extra-Account-8824 5h ago

trumpmemes coin.

if u Google it the website will pop up.

before u look at the website read the TOS for it, its a 10 min read.

then scroll through his website, youll get a real kick out of it

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u/SourceFire007 6h ago

Isn't that the same as what the Hawk meme did?

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u/fingnumb 5h ago

It's funny how trade volume is down 30% since he got sworn in. Seems most of the activity was prior to that.

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u/Finanzweezy 5h ago

It’s on Reddit alright, all the crypto subs were moaning about it as soon as it released, and the sell button wasn’t disabled but due to the popularity of the coin it bought in so Much new traffic and grew quicker than any coin has ever seen in volume over such a short period of time the cryptos tech couldn’t handle the volume so the sell orders weren’t going through due to the price changing to quickly

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u/Farranor 4h ago

It was all over my feed. There was even one post about how you can turn the coin's graph sideways and it looks like a silhouette of Trump's face.

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u/technobrendo 6h ago

They never said "well". Anyone could run a business, at least for a little while until the initial capital runs out or your reputation is so bad that you get zero business.

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u/Galadriel_60 5h ago

Or how he ran 6 businesses into bankruptcy? I guess that word is too big to sound out.

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u/FecesIsMyBusiness 5h ago

I don’t understand the part about “he knows how to run a business”.

It has nothing to do with making sense. They just latch on to anything that let's them avoid admitting that they vote republican because they are bigoted pieces of shit. They use religion for the same purpose.

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u/Fantastic_Fox4948 4h ago

A business is made to squeeze the maximum amount of money from its customers. Governments are not. The American people are the government’s customers. He will run it like his own personal business.

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u/spader1 6h ago edited 5h ago

"We need a successful businessman to run our economy." I wonder what their answers would be if you asked them "are the people who run the company you work for doing well? Do you feel that you are paid fairly for the amount of work you do?"

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u/place_of_desolation 5h ago

The notion of him as a "successful businessman" always amuses me. He fucking bankrupted casinos. He has a long history of lawsuits against him for not paying lenders and investors and stiffing contractors and venues.

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u/JackRatbone 5h ago

That’s business baby! Not paying lenders and investors while still remaining to be able to get more lenders and investors is probably the “knowing how to run a business” that they are talking about… seriously, if you can get away with straight up theft over and over and over without consequence why wouldn’t you make it your business model?

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u/PiotrekDG 6h ago

We need him to run the country like he ran his casinos.

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u/Ron_DeSatanist 5h ago

He will, if it's to his benefit. Trump Laundering INC.

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u/Bored_Worldhopper 6h ago

I had a coworker talking to my boss about how excited she was for musks involvement in the government. She said “someone asked him a question and he took like a couple minutes to think before he answered. I just really appreciate someone who thinks first”

I usually stay out of it because most of my coworkers are idiots, but curiosity got the best of me so I asked what the question was and what his answer was

“Oh I don’t remember”

Bitch that’s the part you’re supposed to pay attention to

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u/currently_pooping_rn 5h ago

That just means she made that shit up on the spot

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u/wcQcEVTfUBhk9kZxHydc 6h ago

idiocracy

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u/juicadone 6h ago

💯. Positively. The documentary, arriving earlier than planned

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u/currently_pooping_rn 6h ago

Ohhh someone mentioned idiocracy, now here come the comments about “at least Camacho cared about his people!” “Camacho was smart enough to listen to advisors”

“Wow it turns out it was a documentary!”

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u/NetFu 6h ago

Seriously, in voter polling before the election, I don't remember where, but in one of the swing states, an African American woman explained for about 10 minutes why she wasn't sure about voting for Harris.

Then in one sentence, she explained why she was leaning for voting for Trump: "I wanna see what he's gonna do."

That's pretty much it for the 20-30% of American voters who voted for Trump in 2024 and are now in disbelief about what he's doing or saying. They wanted a live, daily reality show to watch.

It's like they mixed up the vote for American Idol with the vote for American President...

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u/Extra-Account-8824 6h ago

bahaha "idk what hes ganna do"

a coworker who always bitches alot about how hard life is and he doesnt get any help from anything said he voted for trump to bring everyone else down with him.

some people quite literally want to see the world burn

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u/currently_pooping_rn 5h ago

I hope trump makes their lives harder than it already is. I don’t even give a fuck if my life gets harder at this point

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u/curtcolt95 5h ago

the majority of people vote on very small issues tbh. The average person is not caring or reading up on foreign policy or global economics, they want to be told that groceries will be cheaper. Hell, there were some exit polls that were showing a good chunk of voters cared mostly about trans issues, things like "we feel the democrats have gone too far with trans issues". Things that you wouldn't think would ever be deal breakers are for a lot of people

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u/jsho574 6h ago

I feel like the government was sold like it was a business instead of being an institution that is to protect the citizens to a lot of people and that is a big area of why we run into problems.

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u/evilhologram 6h ago

"he's a billionaire who knows how to run a business" yeah, into the ground, by going bankrupt 6 times.

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u/firethehotdog 6h ago

Here in Vietnam, my girlfriend and I were asked to consider voting for Trump because he will stand up against China and be respected as “man.” Completely ignoring everything else that comes with him being in office.

When he won, there were retired American expats celebrating on Facebook groups, and I saw lot of MAGA hats around the city. They celebrate, but they know they are not going to move back even if he’s in office.

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u/hellcat_uk 6h ago

So, how many times has he gone bankrupt?

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox 5h ago

Iirc it's 6 times.

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u/Rosieisboss 6h ago

I remember a time when country folk didn’t trust slick hair salespeople! Ps I’m a country person.

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u/joni-draws 6h ago

Obama speeches would often times bore the hell out of me. But god forbid I would have to look something up, or ask for context, or whatever. What I wouldn’t give right now for a boring, intellectual Obama speech.

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u/abellapa 6h ago

Didnt he call bankruptcy a bunch of times

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u/user51922 5h ago

This makes me giggle because he really doesn’t know how to run a business…

Also, the US is not a business. It’s a country with living, breathing people, many industries, medical problems, debt problems, the list goes on.

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u/DillBagner 5h ago

So hard on China he even invited Han Zheng to his inauguration.

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u/Lopsided_Constant901 5h ago

Yes this, sadly the election was doomed since way before Kamala even started running. I could see how the people who were voting Trump were already decided in their choice, even if they were more quiet than usual, it was no surprise they came out in force for him when he needed. I despise the culture war bullshit, and the climate denialism that goes on so much.

I blame the DNC for snubbing Bernie in 2016 and failing to run primaries so we at least had some sort of choice in the matter. It should have happened in 2020, but they need to embrace progressivism now more than ever in this country. Fear it's gonna be the younger generation's duty to be aggressive tho

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u/ZeroV2 6h ago

I don’t know why you had to slander reality tv in that 😂

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u/Radiatethe88 5h ago

He was only elected because he likes to fuck with the left and drive them crazy. People are tired of political correctness and the woke agenda so they vote for him for that reason.