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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 117 points 1 month ago (3 children)

T: "Hello my friend, I need your advice."

P: "For you my dear friend, I will give it gladly!"

T: "Should I sell weapons to your enemies?"

P: "No, it is not a good idea, I strongly advice against that."

T: "Thank you for your clear and unbiased answer, that is all I needed to hear"

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wonder if T has a functioning neuron in his brain

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Functioning is contained in malfunctioning.
So only if that counts.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shares the orange braincell with the cats?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's unfair to cats. They actually have the capacity to love.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And to share. But in trump’s case they choose not to.

Edit: I wouldn’t share either.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder if that was before or after this supposed interaction:

T: I said to Putin, ‘Don’t do it, Vladimir.’ And I told him things that what I would do. And he said, ‘No way.’ And I said, ‘Way.’ It’s the last time we had the conversation.

Yes that's an actual quote from his Musk interview.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did he play air guitar after that?

T: I said Putin, don't do it, be excellent to each other. And he told me, he has tears in his eyes, he says, Mr. Trump, you traveled through time and brought So-crates here to help me pass my book report, I will not harm Ukraine. And he didn't. The end.

[–] baru@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

T: "Thank you for your clear and unbiased answer, that is all I needed to hear"

More like:

T: how much is that worth to you?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago

That was not "asking for advice", that was "receiving orders from the handler".

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He asked Putin for help while campaigning, so zero surprise here

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First read this as camping, and pictured him in shorts and a tshirt with a Maga hat drinking a Schlitz in a folding chair by a camp fire, asking Putin on the phone how to make a smore.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

I want that AI art done in the style of Mad Magazine covers like this.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah it's the "help me I'll help you" scenario, again.

How is this legal in the US?

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

i think it's about time americans learned some anarchist theory

It's not, but it's not enforced.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 51 points 1 month ago

Don Jr. boasted of using Russian money long before the election. Trump has been a useful idiot for them since the 1980s.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Gotta please the boss.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Putin is the worst person you could ask.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cops ask robbers if they should protect banks.

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago

Cops aren't a good allegory for Turnip

[–] baru@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not if you are a grifter and have leverage on the other person.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Of course he did.