Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When I described him in 2016 as a “wannabe Lex Luthor comic-book villain”, someone said I was exaggerating. The truth is that at the time I was somewhat exaggerating. That person made a fair assessment of what was an emotionally-charged reaction to the election results.

    I dislike how accurate the description ended up being.

    Like, who even says this shit for real? And who laughs at it? What even? I can’t understand it at all; and it sort of scares me to know that I might one day randomly encounter someone in power who laughed when he said it.

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      IMO no Lex Luthor comic book villain would ridicule a handicap man, say “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded” about a badly disable vet, rape a woman, or brag that he can “Grab them by the pussy”, among a hundred other examples. I’ve never seen or met anyone in my entire life who is as disgusting, obscenely cruel a human being as Trump.

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        Go meet a couple more ‘business men’ and ‘CEOs’ you’ll come to find these psychopaths are fairly standard issue capitalists

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        Honestly, when I said it, I had a specific image in mind. It seemed just as absurd as the whole situation, and my comparison was more a reflection of that than Luthor’s character.

        Lex Luthor took 40 cakes

        Image description: Entry for the word ‘forty’ from an old Superman-themed children’s illustrated dictionary that uses both the word and numerals. Lex Luthor is running while wearing a hot pink and green super-villain costume of questionable taste. Behind him he pulls a rope attached to a simple yellow four-tier cart of what looks like full 12 inch pies, complete with crusts. The image has a light pink background.
        Text content: Forty. When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That’s as many as four tens. And that’s terrible.